#thank you colin firth and andrew davies

[regency-monster-love]

Think of all the Wet White Shirt scenes in period dramas. Now imagine that instead of a man in a wet white shirt, it's an Orc. The wet fabric is practically see-through now, making all the lines of his green muscles and his thick black body hair visible to you. Maybe you can even see that his nipples are pierced. It's scandalous, but you can't help but stare, nor can you help getting a bit aroused. And the orc smells it—suddenly he's not so embarrassed to be seen so improperly attired.

[pop-pop-pop-popculture]

Who, in your opinion, are ✨Legendary, Talented Actors and Actresses✨ (deceased, alive and "legend in the making")?

Nice question!!!!  Like the word “versatile”, I feel that when referring to an actor or actress, “legendary” is thrown around too often without actually understanding what that word means and how it correlates to an actor or actress. That being said, I hope I do this right...

Alive: - Daniel Craig - Winona Ryder - Christian Bale - Julianne Moore - Jim Carrey - Meryl Streep - James McAvoy - Julia Roberts - Willem Dafoe - Susan Sarandon - Ewan McGregor - Charlize Theron - Johnny Depp (like him or not) - Nicole Kidman - Tom Hanks - Kate Winslet - Edward Norton - Morgan Freeman - Robert Downey Jr. - Leonardo DiCaprio - Allison Janney - Christopher Walken - Will Smith - Michael Caine - Brad Pitt - Dakota Fanning - Denzel Washington - Viola Davis - Gary Oldman - Bryce Dallas Howard - Idris Elba - Helena Bonham Carter - Tom Cruise (like him or not, and I, personally, absolutely despise him) - Jessica Chastain - Al Pacino - Cate Blanchett - Steve Carell (his career took off after he landed his iconic role as Michael Scott in The Office, but since his last episode in 2011, he's come a long way and has even branched out into a variety of genres as well as role types) - Angelina Jolie - Michael Keaton - Michelle Pfeiffer - Daniel Day-Lewis - Sandra Bullock - Robert De Niro - Renée Zellweger - Colin Farrell - Patricia Arquette - Colin Firth - Joaquin Phoenix - Keanu Reeves - Matthew McConaughey - Brendan Fraser - Harrison Ford - Jack Nicholson - Stanley Tucci

**There are tons of actors and actresses from the 30s-60s that were in-demand and could definitely be considered a legend, but I chose to leave them off because I didn’t want this list to be long and I wanted to focus on only the ones I grew up with as well as heard of**

Gone, but NEVER Forgotten - Heath Ledger - Carrie Fisher - Robin Williams - Brittany Murphy - River Phoenix - Chadwick Boseman - Chris Farley - Patrick Swayze

Legend in the Making: - Anya Taylor-Joy - Robert Pattinson - Margot Robbie - Julia Garner (I can just feel it...!) - Finn Wolfhard - Melissa McCarthy - Andrew Garfield - Sadie Sink (I can just feel it...!) - Cillian Murphy - Kate McKinnon - Saoirse Ronan - Anne Hathaway - Amy Adams - Lin-Manuel Miranda - Kristen Stewart (like her or not)

Honorable Mentions: Emma Thompson, Natalie Portman, Elle Fanning, Halle Berry, Chris Evans, Ryan Gosling, Ryan Reynolds, Zoë Saldaña, Emma Stone, Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler

Unsure:

Hugh Jackman - click here

Matthew Modine - A true artist at heart who was quite versatile with his roles and genres in the 80s (and so fine 😍), but he isn't super well-known nor popular like, for example, Tom Hanks; however, the role of 'Papa' on Stranger Things won him tons of new fans as well as awoke his fans that grew up with him

Jason Bateman - He's been around since the 80s, but aside from Ozark, he only really stars in crude R-rated films, so I'm on the fence about whether he'd be considered one or not

Amy Poehler

Adam Driver

Tina Fey

Jake Gyllenhaal

Chris Rock

Florence Pugh

Bill Skarsgård

Tom Holland

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There are definitely tons--I mean tons of more actors and actresses I could write out for each category, but I'll end the lists here. Thank for the ask, this was fun to think about! If any of you have suggestions, then send me an ask.

[anghraine]

1/2 Good morning. Hope you’re warm and safe this week. I’ve got a question about Austen fannish hx that I was hoping you could help with. Like many, I fell in love with Austen over Firth’s wet linen-clad chest. I went on from there to read her books and seek out scholarly meta. I know there’s an undercurrent of “those started the dark times” with Firth’s dip in the lake, but I don’t know the reasons behind it. Is it just that the ‘95 adaptation got so big it steamrollered over other favs?

2/2 Or did the mini-series lead to Austen’s characters getting misrepresented in later adaptations? Thanks for taking the time. I always enjoy your blog.

Thanks! I’m quite cozy these days. 

As far as I understand, you’re asking if my dislike of the fanon interpretations that sprang out of the 1995 comes from a) it being so popular that it overshadowed other interpretations in other adaptations, or b) it being so popular that its interpretations were repeated in other adaptations. I’d say … both, really.

First of all: I’ve never hidden that I dislike the 1995 P&P as an adaptation (it’s good TV, but I don’t really care) and I specifically dislike that scene. My reasons are varied but certainly subjective, so I don’t want anyone to think they’re wrong to like it, or that it’s the author of all P&P-related sins. 

Also, this is more than a little rambling.

Disclaimers aside, I think there are two major factors in how certain ideas got spread by the 1995 P&P. Firstly, there were pre-existing ideas about P&P that the 1995 used; in those cases, the 1995 isn’t uniquely responsible for them, but rather, amplified them. Then there were elements that the 1995 either exaggerated or invented outright.

In both cases, it was not just the immense popularity of the adaptation that spread ideas I consider mistaken (the other P&P adaptations have also been very popular and made highly questionable decisions). Rather, the sway of the 1995′s interpretations and inventions was the result of the widespread belief/insistence that it was The One True Adaptation in which Austen’s vision was precisely translated to cinematic form. That is, the 1995 largely supplanted the novel in popular consciousness because it was seen as the novel (an interpretation very much pushed by many of its fans), in addition to being extremely popular in its own right.

So. The wet shirt scene is a pretty good example, in that it a) differs quite significantly from the book, b) is now overpoweringly associated with the characters in the book, because of c) the narrative of the 1995 == Austen. It bothers me the most (well, almost the most—there’s one I hate more, lol) because it’s become the iconic image of Austen’s Darcy despite being highly uncharacteristic for him, IMO, and overshadowing the character dynamics of the original scene.

The scene sometimes gets directly carried over into other adaptations, and sometimes not, but I think we see something of the dynamic in where the 2005 goes with it. In a lot of ways, the 2005 overtly resists the 1995′s narrative, but ultimately adopts/continues/reflects what the 1995 did, and that’s present here. While the Darcy/Elizabeth meeting in the 2005 doesn’t involve the pond, it relies on the same underlying assumption that Darcy and Elizabeth’s encounter doesn’t carry sufficient dramatic weight unless something is added. It adopts the logic of the 1995 while merely differing in particulars.

There’s also stuff like the idea that Elizabeth is radically set on only marrying for love (the deepest love!!), which gets repeated in adaptations over and over and over again despite never appearing in the novel. It’s a … possible interpretation, but the phrasing and setting are so exactly replicated from adaptation to adaptation that it’s pretty clearly a direct result of the 1995′s popularity and displacement of the novel.

OTOH, I think a lot of what it did with Darcy reflected a broader sense that Austen’s Darcy doesn’t quite work, that he’s underwritten as a romantic lead and needed to be ~improved. I mean, iirc Andrew Davies said so outright (and it’s obvious in any case). That’s also very much present in the 1940, though taken in another direction. It’s there in the 2005, of course; Colin Firth said he was playing Darcy as shy, but Matthew Macfadyen played him as very much more so. There are stage versions going back to the early twentieth century with complaints about Darcy. Austen criticism has constantly struggled with The Problem of Darcy, going back to the very beginning.

I do not remotely agree with this perception, I’m sure to the surprise of no one; I think Darcy is a difficult character for many people because he doesn’t actually fit the archetypes he’s reduced to (e.g., he’s not a subpar Byronic hero, he’s just not a Byronic hero). He doesn’t live up to this idea of a satisfactory brooding romantic lead—as argued by Andrew Davies, but also many others—because he wasn’t written as a somber exemplar of masculinity in the first place. Also, people often project their feelings about his (supposed) general type (which varies) onto him; I read an article awhile back about how he’s the sort of person who would steal handicapped parking, and, um, what. 

(It’s worth nothing that there’s an alternate narrative alongside this one. Critics aside, Darcy has always been a very popular character—comments about him as one of the novel’s main attractions go back to 1813 itself, and Austen seems to have thought that the novel’s appeal rested on both Elizabeth and Darcy, to go by one of her remarks to Cassandra.)

Anyway, the deliberate ‘correction’ of Austen’s Darcy in the 1995 reflected a reasonably common perception of him, rather than some unique misreading by Davies et al. Their particular correction dominates over the other ones because the 1995 dominates over the other ones (esp in its portrayal of Elizabeth and Darcy), but the subsequent versions probably would have tried to correct Austen regardless. 

In conclusion: 

- Its towering influence has operated on both vectors,

- It’s fine if that works for you, but

- I will hate it forever.

[bbclesmis]

Daily Mail: Sad, saucy and seductive, the Beeb’s non-Musical take on Les Mis is a hit

Gloomy French genius Victor Hugo’s grand masterpiece isn’t called Les Happychaps for a good reason.

Les Miserables (BBC1) opened with an aerial shot of the carnage after the Battle of Waterloo, as ravens pecked the flesh of corpses and the thief Thenardier (Adeel Akhtar) dodged about stealing purses and gold teeth.

Akhtar played it for laughs – and for the next hour, that blood-soaked battlefield was about as light-hearted as things got.

 Video playing bottom right...Click here to expand to full page  'You are the love of my life': Fantine and Felix cuddle in bed      

The classic novel, set in France 200 years ago, is sprawling in scope and bleak in outlook.

The characters are beaten, flogged, crushed by rockfalls, shot, ridden with diseases, betrayed, cheated, starved, deceived, hounded, robbed and deprived of everything they love.

No spoilers, but Les Mis doesn’t have an upbeat ending.

Yet for 30 years the stage version has been a global feelgood success – one that has wonderful music and lyrical moments to make the heart soar.

Nor was it unexpected that Lily Collins played lovestruck Fantine, above, in petticoats and faded dresses, looking every inch the impoverished Parisian seamstress – except for her eyebrows, which were bushy 21st century caterpillars

The challenge for the Beeb is to give us an incentive to watch this despairing six-part non-musical version, starring Dominic West as the ex-convict Jean Valjean.

David Oyelowo plays Valjean’s nemesis, Javert, who becomes obsessed with the jailbird after seeing him drop his trousers.

There’s nothing like a homoerotic subtext for saucing up a 19th century novel – and Andrew Davies, who adapted the book for TV, has plenty of form when it comes to injecting sex into the texts.

It was Davies in 1995 who imagined Colin Firth as Mr Darcy in Pride And Prejudice, wading out of a lake in clinging wet shirt and strides, thus turning Jane Austen’s prim comedy of manners into a steamy fantasy.

And it was Davies who, 20 years later, had the caddish Dolohov ravish naughty aristocratic Helene on the dining room table in War And Peace – a scene the original author Leo Tolstoy somehow forgot to write.

So when Javert summoned Valjean into his office to watch him undress, it was hardly a surprise.

Nor was it unexpected that Lily Collins played lovestruck Fantine in petticoats and faded dresses, looking every inch the impoverished Parisian seamstress – except for her eyebrows, which were bushy 21st century caterpillars.    

Les Mis is probably the best-known novel in all French literature, thanks to the epic West End musical that was turned into a Hollywood blockbuster in 2012

In a decade or so, we will be able to identify any costume drama from the twenty-teens, simply by looking at the luxuriant eyebrows.

Les Mis is probably the best-known novel in all French literature, thanks to the epic West End musical that was turned into a Hollywood blockbuster in 2012.

The stage show revolves around the stories of Valjean and Fantine, now familiar to millions – though fewer people realise that Herbert Kretzmer, who wrote the lyrics, was also the Daily Mail’s TV critic.

The Davies adaptation, stretching across six hours, has more time to let us get to know other characters from the book, such as Felix, the aristocratic playboy who seduces young Fantine and leaves her with a baby.

Johnny Flynn, who played Felix, was last seen as good old dependable Major Dobbin in Vanity Fair – to watch him casually ruin a girl seemed doubly shocking.

Kindly Bishop Myriel, who has only a few lines in the musical, was given a full run-out by Derek Jacobi.

He had time to develop the character into something more than a cardboard Christian, so that we believed in his innocent heart when he repaid Valjean for robbing him, by handing over his last two silver candlesticks as well.    

The challenge for the Beeb is to give us an incentive to watch this despairing six-part non-musical version, starring Dominic West as the ex-convict Jean Valjean

But though this is a more faithful reflection of Hugo’s vast imagination (Davies has crammed in more than 100 characters), what we really want to see is Valjean, Javert and Fantine.

In the film, they were played by Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway, which is an unbeatable trinity of star names.

The Beeb is taking a much bigger risk. West is a television A-lister, but Lily Collins is still most famous for being the daughter of Genesis singer Phil – and Oyelowo, though a respected stage actor, is little known to British audiences.

All three were ready for some melodrama, and West in particular was rolling his eyes and gnashing his teeth like a silent movie pirate.    

Les Miserables (BBC1) opened with an aerial shot of the carnage after the Battle of Waterloo, as ravens pecked the flesh of corpses and the thief Thenardier (Adeel Akhtar) dodged about stealing purses and gold teeth

He was probably worried that, under an inch of make-up and a beard that had escaped from a ZZ Top video, we might not be able to see he was acting.

Without a cast of instantly recognisable faces, and with unfamiliar storylines woven around the well-worn central plot, the BBC is trusting us to put some work in.

If you flopped on to the sofa at 9pm with a bottle of beaujolais and a big grin, ready to hum along to I Dreamed A Dream, this was not the production you were expecting.

But after the saccharine excesses of the Christmas season, a bit of harsh austerity is just what we need. Think of Les Mis as an antidote to all that schmaltz, a detox for the telly muscles.

[ladysusanknowsstuff]

Andrew Davies I have to thank you for giving us Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy. Whenever you wish to do it again we are for it.

Fitzwilliam Darcy (1995) / Mark Darcy (2001)

[poirott]

Now that Death in the Nile is confirmed, do you have any actors in mind that you want to see play the characters? I️ personally want to see Tom Hiddleston in one of these movies (he’s close friends with Kenneth Branagh) but that’s just me

Hello! Ken does like casting people he’s worked with before,so I get you there. :D I think Tom would be a good choice! Which role did you have in mind for him for Death on the Nile? That of Simon Doyle who was played by JJ Feild in the Suchet version? Or the James Ferguson character? Or maybe a more unexpected casting, forPoirot’s friend, Colonel Race himself? He’s the “Hastings” character and has a similar role to that of Bouc (Tom Bateman) from Murder on the Orient Express. (I’ve also been speculating whether Ken would cast Captain Hastings instead of Colonel Race. It would go heavily against canon though!)

Tom may be too young to play Colonel Race but there are several other possible roles for him, or for young actors of his caliber. We don’t know about the age range of the casting or how close the characters will be to canon. Same with their nationalities and races and whether Ken will use all the suspects or combine certain names. It’s why It’s hard to do this fancast and why I’m only listing a few of the characters. :) I’d need an extra week or two to really think about them all.

For Linnet Ridgeway I’d like to see someone like Rosamund Pike or Hayley Atwell. Brie Larson? It’s a tough one. Others suggested Jennifer Lawrence and Margot Robbie.In the Suchet version they cast Emily Blunt. <3

I think a lot of actors could play Simon Doyle, it’s Linnet that is trickier for me to decide on. Maybe Chris Pine for Simon? Oscar Isaac? Dan Stevens? Perhaps someone you wouldn’t think of first. Tom Hardy? A newcomer?

Jacqueline De Bellefort could be Saoirse Ronan, Bryce Dallas Howard, Felicity Jones, Carey Mulligan, Lily James.

Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Julie Andrews, Meryl Streep as Mrs.Van Schuyler.

For the fun role of Mrs. Salome Otterbourne, maybe the same actresses as mentioned above for Mrs. Van Schuyler? Also Susan Sarandon and Jane Fonda. Or Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchett, depending on the age range they’re going with.

Tilda Swinton, Catherine Tate, Jessica Chastain for Miss Bowers.

John Rhys-Davies, James Nesbittfor Colonel Race. I’m still thinking of more names. Ken could end up casting someone very unexpected. It’s one of the roles I’m most curious about. Colin Firth?

For Dr. Bessner, Colin Firth (again, surprise casting), Hugo Weaving, Rowan Atkinson, Sam Neill, Jason Isaacs.

Rooney Mara, Felicity Jones (again), Christina Ricci for Louise Bourget.

So many names! I’ve no idea what my ideal casting would be, tbh. In a week the list could be completely different. I might post a tighter one in the future.

Sorry I couldn’t be more specific and thank you for the great ask! :)

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The Fermi Paradox — Where Are All The Aliens? (1/2)

The universe is unbelievably big – trillions of stars and even more planets. Soo… there just has to be life out there, right? But where is it? Why don’t we see any aliens? Where are they? And more importantly, what does this tell us about our own fate in this gigantic and scary universe?

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The Fermi Paradox — Where Are All The Aliens? (1/2)

The universe is unbelievably big – trillions of stars and even more planets. Soo… there just has to be life out there, right? But where is it? Why don’t we see any aliens? Where are they? And more importantly, what does this tell us about our own fate in this gigantic and scary universe?

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Mary Poppins Returns spoilers

So I got out of Mary Poppins Returns about an hour ago and it was fucking amazing.

I couldn’t stop crying, and then I couldn’t stop smiling. The whole feel of it was the perfect blend of old-timey Broadway and modern music (and yes, Lin got to Hamilton). Because the pacing and even some of the scenes were very similar to the original, it was at risk of seeming like a remake, but they pulled it off brilliantly--it felt much more of a respectful homage to the 1964 classic than a copy.

Like I said before, the big Broadway numbers had an amazing throwback feel with a modern twist. Each song was fresh and original, but I could immediately tell what 1964 song it was a nod to. My favorite was definitely the leery song (obviously inspired by “Step in Time”), followed by “A Cover is not the Book” (“Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”) in the animated sequences--I’ll get to that later. Will the songs become as iconic and unforgettable as “A Spoonful of Sugar” or “Let’s Go Fly a Kite”? Of course not. Nowhere close. But they are fun and upbeat, and even if you aren’t humming any of the songs on your way out of the theater, I dare you to keep your feet still during the film.

Let’s get to the casting choices (practically perfect in every way). Emily Blunt played the impeccably posh nanny to a T, but let’s talk about her voice. Don’t get me wrong: she has a beautiful, full, rich sound. But the songwriters took her deep alto and tried to stuff it into Julie Andrews’s soprano range. She was brilliant during the musical numbers, but something was lacking. If they had only taken her songs and dropped them three or four keys, she would have been able to utilize her gorgeous deep voice instead of having to lighten it in order to sing in the mezzo-soprano range she was given. (They lowered it a little, I’ll give them that. And I’m a songwriter myself: I know how important it is that a piece be performed in the perfect key. But give me a fucking break. They were trying to make her into a carbon copy of Julie Andrews and they know it.) Apart from the music, she took the iconic character and made her completely her own. But there was no doubt in my mind: that was most assuredly Mary Poppins on the IMAX screen in front of me.

Now we get to gush over Lin-Manuel Miranda as Jack. I really don’t have very much to say about the most perfect human being on the planet: he speaks for himself. His singing and rapping were impeccable, as always, and the 1930s costuming and heavy stubble? I wanna ride that like a pogo stick. But I digress. I was hoping for a nod to Dick van Dyke’s over-the-top Cockney accent, but I was afraid it might become cartoonish. It didn’t. It was overdone and exaggerated, but only as much as it needed to be as a tribute to Bert and didn’t go overboard. Jack is the little boy that never quite grew up, who kept that childish belief in his heart and refused to let go.

On to Emily Mortimer as Jane Banks all grown up. A career woman during the Great Depression, she is following in her mother’s footsteps, working as a labor activist and humanitarian heading up her local soup kitchen. She has her own flat and makes it quite clear to Jack as their romance is budding that she can hold her own quite nicely, thank you very much.

Ben Whishaw is one of my favorite actors, and he absolutely nailed grown-up Michael. I just wanted to cuddle him and tell him it was going to be okay. He played a sad, broken, lonely man just barely holding it together for his children better than almost anyone I have ever seen (and let’s be real--sad, broken, lonely man just barely holding it together for his children is a pretty common character). He recaptures the wonders of childhood as soon as he feels the balloon in his hand, showing just how much of a scared little boy he truly was inside.

I also want to talk about the relationship between Jane and Michael. Those of you who know me well know that I love seeing healthy, loving sibling relationships portrayed on screen. Even in the 1964, there was a gender role reversal (naturally coming from Jane being older, of course) that continues into the sequel. Jane remains the big sister and supports Michael so much and has become a sort of surrogate mother to his children in the wake of his wife’s death. And they’re just so affectionate. Little touches, hugs, kisses--I absolutely love this healthy, supportive relationship being shown unquestioned.

We need to talk about the kids. Nathanael Saleh (John), Pixie Davies (Annabelle), and Joel Dawson (Georgie) were all amazing little actors, and fucking adorable to boot. Their singing was impeccable, their dancing flawless. They are all destined for great roles in the future.

Now that I’ve discussed the main cast, I can get on the most important cast members, the ones who make you gasp and chuckle and go “Oh, them!” We had the bird lady. If you don’t the story behind the most-skipped scene of my childhood, google it. (I would add a link but Tumblr hates everything and everybody right now so I’m not gonna bother.) There was just a blip of her on the church steps, but she’s unmistakable. Karen Dotrice, who played the original Jane Banks, had a fun little cameo (if you didn’t notice it, go back and rewatch it; snitches get stitches). Angela Lansbury had a small role as the balloon lady from the books, and Admiral Boom is keeping time as always. Jane and Michael’s original toys can be seen in the corner of the attic, the mirror is just as cheeky, the umbrella won’t shut up, and the banister is as good an escalator as ever.

And of course, Dick van Dyke is brilliant as Dawes, Jr., the son of one of his 1964 characters (although he may have needed a little less makeup this time around). The man is fucking 93, but he might as well be 33. His dancing is as lively as ever, and no one could ever match the insane way he slipped completely back into character after 54 years.

Although some have criticized the plot as being a cheap rip-off of the original, I think it held its own as a beautiful tribute to one of the most beloved films of all time. It stayed just close enough to the classic to bring viewers back to the time they first watched it as children but strayed far enough to feel fresh and updated for the now-adult fans. I only have one major complaint about content, and that was during one of the last scenes, where Dawes, Jr. is firing his nephew (played by Colin Firth). Fans remember vividly the scene in the original when upon being fired, George Banks’s carnation is ripped to pieces, his collar torn off, and his hat punched through. I was looking forward to it as soon as it became apparent the nephew would be fired. And it? Just? Didn’t happen? But that was my only major concern. (My friend is pissed that Mary came in on the kite instead of her umbrella, but Jesus man, pick your battles.)

The animation scene was an absolute triumph. Instead of using a modern 3D animation style, they reverted to the old hand-drawn animations (think Robin Hood 1973). The penguins are back with a bang, no kazoos this time, unfortunately, but they finally have their own show under the big top. The costuming was brilliant: the clothes were not animated, but unlike the 1964 costumes, it appears that layers and texture had been drawn on the clothes to make them appear animated. The scene is meant to show the children how much they fear losing their home, and the animated wolf, badger, and weasel reflect the chairman of FFB and his lawyers. The children have quite the adventure, including a kidnapping, only to wake up and discover that it had all been a nightmare. But how could three different children possibly have the same dream at the same time? Mary Poppins will never tell

This film was for those who grew up with the original. At its core, it is about being able to recapture the childlike wonder and perspective on life that it is so easy to forget as we become more and more jaded towards humanity and the world. It is about forgetting, for just a moment, the everyday grind of existence, and once again believing in something magical and trying to change the world.