#vera drake

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Vera Drake (2004) | dir. Mike Leigh

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Mike Leigh - Vera Drake (2004)

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SUBLIME CINEMA #619 - VERA DRAKE

Mike Leigh is the UK’s greatest living director, and this film is one of his (many) masterpieces. The story is dark and difficult - and more relevant than ever - about a kindly pensioner who performs illegal abortions, and all of the private suffering that her work entails. It is the most realistic depiction of the subject I’ve seen in a film. 

Leigh is so brilliant with actors, and his technique of slowly coaxing out a shooting script along with his ensembles, over many months of rehearsals, is one of the core keys of his style. Vera Drake is so full of warm characters, that we almost forget there is a plot - until things start to quickly piece together more than halfway through the film. Imelda Staunton’s eyes do most of the work. They are deep and soulful, and her scenes are miraculous.  

I was struck when rewatching the film how gorgeous it is. Leigh is not often seen as a cinematographer’s director, but his films are very subtle and meticulously composed, down to the design of the wallpapers, the way bikes are racked or car doors open, all in beautifully textured 16mm. Film is a format I miss more and more as the years of digital and fake grain continue, and I’m beginning to think that perhaps the height of real cinematic art is behind us. 

[thecrownnet]

Deadline EXCLUSIVE: 

The Crown’s Imelda Staunton  will still star as matchmaker Dolly Levi in musical Hello, Dolly! in London’s West End, but fans will have to wait until the summer of 2024.

The actress will make her her first appearance as Queen Elizabeth II in Netflix drama The Crown on November 9.

She signed on to play Dolly in Jerry Herman’s famous show back in 2019. Originally planned to open in 2020, it was delayed by both the pandemic and the star’s workload on Season 5 of The Crown. 

👑 She’s currently filming The Crown season 6 for a 2023 release date.

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Happy Birthday to the queen...

Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton

January 9, 1956

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Vera Drake (2004) Mike Leigh.

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Nate Drake

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My Jason/Red Hood Headcanons

Warring! I've only read about him in fanfics and researching info. I've never read a comic on this man in my live yet but he is bb to me.

JASON

He is a mother hen friend. [says a mother hen friend, i know the signs of one bitch]

He is the big brother you go to if anything bad happened to you, because whoever hurt you will no longer exist.

He is also the brother you go to to hide a body, most questions not asked.

He was [and still is] a theater kid 1000%.

He secretly drinks tea like a 1700s/1800s lady.

He would take the role of "housewife" in the relationship.

His love language is cooking; if he cooks for you, you are loved.

Stress cleaning. due to living on the streets, Jason likes his space(s) to be clean and tidy, he did it to control his environment. Which means he stress cleans, fortunately and unfortunately. Fortunately because his safe houses are always clean but unfortunately because he will clean whatever room he is in [e.g. one of the bedrooms in the manor, bruce's offices, meeting rooms, other peoples safe houses, you get it what I'm saying]

When Jason is anxious or panicked he cooks and he cooks a lot when that happens.

He is always carrying at least five knives and two guns on a good day, eight knives and four guns on a bad day.

How many knives and guns he carries depends solely on his paranoia level for that day.

Jason when dealing with a horrid mental health day(s) or week(s) and knows he can not bring himself to cook anything, will text or call Alfred; his grandfather Bruce Wayne's butler will stop by the next day with a fresh batch of his famous cookies and three to seven tupperwares of his cooking for his grandson, Jason to heat up when needed.

as RED HOOD

He 1000% mother hens the Alley Kids, they've just learned to accept it [and the Alley Kids 1000% do not fear red hood and sass/mock/tease him to no end].

Red is like a BAMF Mama Bear TM.

To help ease Tim after the "TTA" whenever they are together [and not in harms way] he dismantles his guns and removes his knives from his person to show vulnerability .

all safe houses have at least two books in them even in the other bat's+bird's safe house. Most of them are Jane Austen books.

All food cooked when anxious/panicked he gives out to the homeless and the alley kids, sometimes the working girls too depending on how much he makes.

Jason as a HUGE knife collection.

With the knife collection he hands them out like candy to the Alley kids and working girls.

He gives them [the Alley kids and working girls] self defense classes every Tuesdays and Thursdays where he teaches them ways to get away and/or detain men two to three times their own size.

Also gives classes in properly handle a knife, and use it to your advantage in a fight; and normal day to day survival [for Alley kids], and how to conceal carry with few clothing on and still be easily accessible [for the working girls].

If any of the bat clan need shelter because of a storm or to hide after a fight they will crash in one of Hood's many safe houses.

Due to this, all Hood safe houses are stocked with change of clothes for each bat member.

[incorrigiblebatfam]

bruce: i'm sorry, kids, all i wanted to do was something special with you guys. that one thing you'd remember doing with me for the rest of your lives, but i failed. another failure in a long string of failures

steph: are you kidding, b? this has been the most exciting day ever

bruce: it has?

duke: yeah! we left the house three days ago to rent a movie and now we're in the middle of the woods in the midwest and might get murdered by government guys. like, what is this?

dick: yeah, we never know what you're gonna do. it's usually weird or dangerous, but it's also kind of awesome

tim: remember when he was shrunken down to the size of a barbie for like three weeks?

cass: or when he brought home that horse

dick: or that tiger

damian: or that python

babs: lot of illegal animals

steph: or when that crazy woman injected you with a buggy mind-control chip and it made you cut the hand off of that ACE chemicals' chairman at that party

vera: every few years he fights a giant alien threat and destroys a city

jason: no one's named a good thing yet

cass: you had a blimp with your face on it

bruce: alfred put me on pills after i bought that

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Rewatching The Order and Alyssa is so fucking dumb I forgot about that😭

Also I will never forgive netflix for cancelling after they gave us the best cliffhangers and revealing pieces of Vera’s past without further explanation COME ON I want to know more 😭

[thesimpletype]

I’m honestly STILL so upset that they canceled The Order on Netflix! I fucking love that show. It was so good 🥺 it had so much potential!!!!! We were left on a HUGE cliffhanger. Like at least give us one more season to get closure 😩

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I have loved The Order for over a month now and I’m still not over it

the knights are a fun group, want to be their friends, especially with Randall Carpio

want to be an acolyte, besides the switching sides thing I’d study magic hard like Alyssa Drake

don’t know how Vera Stone holds multiple jobs: queen I mean Chancellor of Belgrave University, Grand Magus, the actual voice of reason in the Council, someone with a value system other than privilege, babysitter, teacher, wife to Hamish ofc they’re endgame, fashionista we love business bondage

vermish has my whole heart

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Watching the order... Finished season one and I'm pissed.

I thought, oh they worked together to defeat the big bad. How nice of them to get along. Interesting that Vera is okay with Jack being in both groups

But then!! They said just kidding! Dusted all of them and then stole all their shit?! Alyssa dusted Jack so hard he doesn't even remember his name?

I'm really starting to hate these blue Rose bitches, I hope the werewolves are somehow immune to the dust and they rip them apart as revenge.

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♚ Imelda Staunton | Netflix