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I hope he's having a very happy and calm day with his siblings and daughters. All my best wishes to him and his career , all the hard work and effort he is putting lately in all of his projects I know will pay off.
Now , because of this day I want to make a top 6 of my favorite characters of his.
6 ) Roman Godfrey - HEMLOCK GROVE
( he did what he could with the script that was given to him)
5 ) The Marquis d Gramont - JOHN WICK 4
( annoying AF , cartoonish accent, I hated him I was relieved he died so 10 /10 good service)
4) Mickey - VILLAINS
( he showed to a lot of us that he has good comedy timing, and also mickey was the sweetest)
3) Simon - SIMPLE SIMON
( This is one of my comfort movies, that's all )
2) The kid - CASTLE ROCK
( he showed commitment and talent better performance than Pennywise imo, with no make up and a fragile look he managed to scare me and also intrigue me )
1) Willard Russel - THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME
( the scene where he met Charlotte and they share a cigarette 🥺🥺 that is acting , the body language and the voice ugh ... He has talent. Also that small scene is the closest thing we have to a romcom with him as the main character)
Anyway do you feel like dancing? here :
the Clark credits scene but with Jailhouse rock in Spanish ( El rock de la cárcel) have you ever heard it ? No?
el rock de la cárcel is classic song (cover) in spanish rock by the legend Enrique Guzmán, released in 1960.
I feel like he would be the type of man to follow his wife EVERYWHERE. because like, he’s a big man? he feels the need to protect his dainty little woman in any way possible. Part of me also thinks that he would love to teach his wife things that he likes to do (that obviously aren’t too masculine or won’t put her in harm since it’s the 50’s you know)
But he’s a domestic life lover and i LOVE that about him…Will my beloved…🤭🤭
I can totally imagine Willard teaching his love how to split wood without hurting her back and how to load a gun in case she ever has to use it. He hammers about how she'll never need to use it because she's got him. Willard would also probably love watching her cook and offer his help when she's making cookies. He just watches over her like a hawk because he's so in love and intrigued by the little lady in his life.
I want to personally thank all the gif makers out there, working long hours to give us a few seconds of joy. I’m going to pick some of my fav gifs but that’s not necessarily all the gif makers. I don’t want to name them and forget anyone so I’ll use the gif button down by the photo button…
Please comment, reblog or tag (or all of the above) if you make GIFs or know of some so people can find and appreciate these wonderful contributors to the community!
Yandere TDATT characters being in love with you would include...
ft. arvin, preston, lee, willard, lenora
a/n: pls don't kill me for the preston part, i mean some of you simp for joker who is much worse, btw y/n and Lenora are 18
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⤷ Arvin Eugene Russell
-Arvin would probably first met you at school when he was waiting for Lenora. He saw you standing up for Lenora to her bullies which immediately made him curious about you.
-So he would ask Lenora about you, he'd also told her to befriend you so you can help her in school, definitely not to know more about you.
-POSSESSIVE
-He would stalk you, sometimes he'd be in his car, driving behind your walking figure on the street, or he would sneak to your house at night watching you sleep or shower or do literally anything.
-He will protect you more than he does Lenora. If anyone even look at you the wrong way, they will end up with several broken bones. And if someone tries to touch you without your permission or make you slightly uncomfortable, the person will end up dead.
-After some time he will approach you. Starting a conversation about how glad he is that Lenora has you, that he cannot be around her to protect her all the time.
-He would never hurt you. Maybe if you find out that he killed someone for you, he would try to manipulate you, but he would never punch your or something similar.
-He would kidnap you soon, just to make sure that you are safe with him. He would also take a good care of you, will give you some freedom when he trusts you enough that you won't run away.
-He would want to spend every minute with you and he won't ever let you go, he loves you so much.
⤷ Preston Teagardin
-Preston would meet you in church after your grandma took you there. You didn't believe in god (you were atheist) and just lived normal life but that was to your grandma a sin. Your grandpa didn't really care because he was atheist as well so you often made jokes about your granny's faith.
-When Preston saw you he knew that he wants you. Your beaty was unbelievable. Which made him curious about you. He saw in your eyes that you don't believe in god and that's what attracted him.
-Your grandma told him how sinful you are and asked him if he could talk to you, which he gladly accepted.
-He would manipulate your grandma to think that he needs more time with you, alone. So she will make you go to the church more often, than he could be alone with you.
-Possessive and obsessive, will also stalk you a lot. Probably in his car at night looking into your window at you.
-He wouldn't even try to convince you to believe in god because he himself doesn't believe in him. He is also atheist he's just doing it for the money and power.
-You two will be alone in the church or after some time in his house. He would be over the moon because he can have you all to himself. BUT he wouldn't do anything without your verbal consent, because he would never hurt you in any way.
-Your relationship will be a secret from the start, just few glances and his death stares at anyone who's talking to you.
-But after some time he wouldn't be able to control himself anymore. He just has to have you, all the time. He can't get enough of you.
-He will kidnap you unless you go voluntarily. If yes than you two will run away and live somewhere in countryside where no one will bother you. You will have freedom around the house and on the yard, but he's the one who will go for grocery OR he will go with you, just to make sure no one will talk nor touch his precious angel.
⤷ Lee Bodecker
-Lee will stop you while he was working because you drove too fast. When he pull you over he was too stunned to speak. You were beautiful and he saw fire in your eyes.
-He shook his head and flirt with you, but enough not to make it weird nor make you uncomfortable. At the end of the day he didn't give you the speed ticket and let you go under one condition, which was to give him your name and phone number.
-After that he will make excuses to talk to you, so he would either stop you at the driveway or call you or knock on your door for a talk (because he will found out where you live by stalking you or looking into your file at the police station)
-He is also a stalker but not that much like Arvin, Preston or Willard. He will call it 'looking out for you just in case some men will make you uncomfortable' because he's a policeman, after all it's his job ;)
-He will offer you his help to stay close to you, doesn't matter if you need help with grocery or drop you somewhere in his police car.
-If anyone touches you, make you uncomfortable OR dare to flirt with you, he will arrest them for a long time and make sure they will leave you alone.
-He won't be rude to you or harsh but he will be dominant (like every other characters except Lenora) because he is policeman, you will have to have some respect for him.
-He will kidnap you sooner rather than later, just in case no man will hurt you, this city is cruel...and he can have you for himself.
⤷ Willard Russell
-Willard couldn't take his eyes off of you, when he saw you at that bar. He will talk to you as long as possible and he will flirt with you. After your shift he will take you home to make sure you are fine, definitely not to find out where you live ;)
-He will come to that bar more often to see you and talk to you, will also protect you like that, because no man would even try to talk to you when they saw that Willard is near you.
-At night he will sneak into your house and sat next to your bed, watching you sleep for few hours, you now again just in case.
-He is the most possessive of them all, also the biggest stalker. If anyone will try to talk to you, he will wait on them somewhere in private so no one could see what he will do to that man, because i'm telling you the man that talked to you won't survive or he will have a REALLY hard time.
-He will kidnap you after just two months, this world is too dangerous for someone so beautiful and precious like you.
-He also wouldn't hurt you but he will manipulate you if you won't listen to him. He is also the most dominant, he is veteran so he has some discipline and will 'teach' you how to listen to him.
-Won't let you out of the house but otherwise you have freedom and if you need anything from the shop, he will either go with you or buy anything you need. Most of the time you will stay home tho.
⤷ Lenora Laftery
-Lenora will meet you at school, you were her new classmate. She is the purest of them all but don't let her innocence fool you. She might be pure and innocent but she's not dumb, she can use it.
-From the start she will pray to god every night so he make her emotions for you vanish. But she will get use to them after some time.
-She will make herself a victim more than she already is to make you protect her from her bullies.
-She is more like your worshiper. Let's say you will became her new 'god' more like goddess, she will worship the ground you walk on, will pray every night for you and your love.
-She will also be a bit confused how much emotions she feels towards you, unhealthy emotions like lust, obsession, desire,... which she finds sinful and horrible but she cannot help herself.
-She won't stalk you... lot, but will kind of spend as much time with you as possible, which means sleepover or study dates (like she likes to call it, even tho they aren't)
-She also won't kidnap you made she will make herself look like a victim even more so you will stay by her side, if you talk to other guys she will act hurt and will say that the guys has been bullying her so you will eventually stop talking to him. She loves you and won't let you leave her side.
I'm in a writing mood and I promise I'm gonna start actually posting some of the A-Z lists that some of you have requested XD I'm also opening up imagine/oneshot prompts with the following characters/people;
Bill Skarsgard
Roman Godfrey (Hemlock Grove)
Henry Pearl (Battlecreek)
Mickey (Villains)
Mark (Assassination Nation)
Clark Olofsson (Netflix version, just to be clear)
Zeitgeist/Axel Cluney (Deadpool 2)
Willard Russel (The Devil all The Time)
Dane (Naked Singularity)
Or if you could give me a prompt, I might even be able to come up with my own character to use in the A-Z list or story. Please DM your suggestions and I'll do the best I can to knuckle down and finish some other ones. Since I started on Tumblr I've done frick all and I'd like to change that now that I have a bit of time.
On second thought: Keep the Lights on (dir. Ira Sachs, 2012)
When I saw this film a decade ago, it fucked me up. I saw connections between the story of addiction and my recent relationship with a guy who used to be addicted to. It was shortly before I started therapy and still not so long after I entered another longer relationship with someone that I saw this film with for the first time. Seeing it recently, I was mesmerized at how physically similar Booth's character now seemed to my second ex, which I somehow never thought of while watching this film with his face next to mine. Not only that, Booth is great here at performing the sudden pangs of frosty detachment that his character does when not wanting to engage with his partner's needs. In the midst of all that, there's Lindhardt's protagonist, Sachs's alter ego that I kept trying to distance myself from, probably every time I saw this film. It's a painful story of emotional growth, of being vulnerable enough to embrace the prospect of being in a long-term relationship with someone who is hurtful and lacks empathy. That's one layer. Another one, of which I forget only occasionally, when feeling suffocated by the rawness of the on-screen relationship, is a fascinatingly rich entry into a queer archive of New York's art scene (punctuated, extradiegetically, with Russell's beautiful score), as well as a story of the laborious beginnings of one's budding film career. My only complaint about this film is that it tries to do so much within a scarce running time: while Sachs is a skilled storyteller, the relational poignancy that his protagonist experiences may have needed more minutes to reverberate more fully. But anyway, it's one of the most important films in my life.
Into the Ring is a depiction of the Nieuport 28s of Lt Willard Hill and Lt James Meissner, both of 94 Sq USAS. On May 24, 1918, Hill and Meissner dove on a pair of Pfalz DIIIs. Meissner dove his Nieuport too steeply, and as a result suffered the loss of the fabric from his upper wing and was forced to land near Flirey. In a separate engagement later that day Hill would claim a Pfalz out-of-control, which unfortunately would be unconfirmed.Unlike other Nieuport 28s which carried the standard black "footprint" on a light green field on the upper starboard wing, Willard Hill's Nieuport aslo carried unusual dark patch on the upper right wing. The color of that patch is uncertain, but comparison to the black 'footprint" next to it indicates that it too may have been black.
I’ve been so stressed lately and all I want is for Willard to hold me and tell me everything will be okay. He would be so kind and gentle.
Getting wrapped up in those monster arms would be the end of all stress. Sitting on his lap would cure me of every mental ailment for the rest of time.
If anybody deserved the title of “Renaissance man” it would be Carl Davis, who has died aged 86 following a brain haemorrhage. A formidably gifted composer and conductor, in a career spanning seven decades he wrote scores for a string of successful films and a long list of some of the best remembered programmes on British television, including the 1995 BBC production of Pride and Prejudice.
Davis won a Bafta and an Ivor Novello award for his score for Karel Reisz’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981), scripted by Harold Pinter and starring the Oscar-nominated Meryl Streep, and worked on many other prominent films, including Scandal (1989), starring Ian McKellen and Joanne Whalley, Ken Russell’s The Rainbow (1989) and The Great Gatsby (2000). His theme music for the 1984 horse-racing drama Champions, starring John Hurt as the Grand National winner Bob Champion, was subsequently used by the BBC for its Grand National coverage.
A fascination for the era of silent movies prompted Davis to create new scores to accompany numerous classics from cinema’s early years, including his composition for Abel Gance’s sprawling 1927 epic, Napoleon. His work helped trigger an international revival of presentations of silent films with a live orchestra.
He achieved another career highlight when he collaborated with Sir Paul McCartney on his Liverpool Oratorio, an eight-movement piece based on McCartney’s experiences of growing up in Liverpool. The piece was recorded in Liverpool Cathedral in 1991, featuring the classical soloists Kiri Te Kanawa and Willard White.
Despite his relentless schedule and prolific output, Davis enjoyed a reputation as an expansive and witty conversationalist who could always make time for friends or interviewers. When conducting at occasions such as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic’s Summer Pops concerts or the BBC’s Proms in the Park, he would gently subvert notions of classical seriousness by conducting in a union jack outfit or a gold lamé coat.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Carl was the son of Sara (nee Perlmutter), a teacher, and Isadore Davis, a post office worker. His Jewish family had ancestry in Poland and Russia. Encouraged by his mother, he displayed precocious musical ability. He started playing piano at the age of two, and soon became an adept sight-reader. He recalled how from an early age he would listen to the Metropolitan Opera’s live radio broadcasts on Saturday afternoons, and he would obsessively study musical scores of operas and orchestral pieces obtained from Brooklyn’s public libraries.
He took lessons with the composers Hugo Kauder and Paul Nordoff (later the co-founder of the Nordoff-Robbins music therapy programme), then with the Danish modernist composer Per Nørgård in Copenhagen. He studied at Queens College, New York, and the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, and as an 18-year-old served as an accompanist to the Robert Shaw Chorale. He then attended Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson in upstate New York, which has had a remarkable roll-call of actors, writers, film-makers and musicians pass through its portals. He graduated from Bard as a composer, having already begun to compose music for theatrical productions.
In 1958 he became an assistant conductor at the New York City Opera, and then won an off-Broadway Emmy award as co-composer of the 1959 revue Diversions. This was staged at the Edinburgh festival in 1961 and subsequently transferred to the Arts theatre in London, retitled Twists. It caught the eye of Ned Sherrin, then working in production at the BBC. He commissioned Davis, who had moved to London and was living in decrepit lodgings in Notting Hill, to write music for the satirical TV show That Was the Week That Was.
It was the start of his prolific and varied career in the UK. The Davis touch added lustre to the television movies The Snow Goose (BBC, 1971) and The Naked Civil Servant (Thames Television, 1975); the adaptation of the Anita Brookner novel Hotel Du Lac (BBC, 1986); and the miniseries A Year in Provence (BBC, 1993) and A Dance to the Music of Time (Channel 4, 1997) among many others.
A notable milestone was his ominous and unsettling score for Thames’s The World at War (1973), which was produced by Jeremy Isaacs. It was through Isaacs that Davis became involved in the Thames TV series Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film, based on the book The Parade’s Gone By … by the film historian Kevin Brownlow.
Davis was tasked with tracking down musicians who had worked on films during the silent era, and the series set him off on a decades-long crusade to revive silent films with newly created scores. He enjoyed the challenge of conducting the music live as the film played. “You have to keep going,” he told the Arts Desk’s Graham Rickson in 2021. “Some conductors use click tracks and headphones. I’m old-fashioned and don’t like being tied to machinery – I try to conduct these things with as little apparatus as possible.”
The most dramatic expression of this was his work on Napoleon, and in 1980 Davis conducted a performance of it with an orchestra and audience at the Empire, Leicester Square. “That first screening wasn’t flawless, but it was electrifying,” he recalled. He subsequently conducted performances around the world, and the score let to him being appointed chevalier of France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1983.
He went on to compose music for more than 50 silent films featuring stars such as Greta Garbo and Rudolph Valentino, for comedies by Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton, and for classics such as Ben-Hur (1925), the Douglas Fairbanks swashbuckler The Thief of Bagdad (1924) and DW Griffith’s Intolerance (1916).
Another genre which Davis excelled at composing for was dance. “The relationship between film and ballet is striking, and I find myself composing more and more ballet scores now, something which the film work has made me much better at,” he told Rickson. For Northern Ballet theatre, he worked with the choreographer Gillian Lynne on A Simple Man (1987) and Lipizzaner (1989). For Scottish Ballet, he collaborated with Robert Cohan, a fellow New Yorker, on A Christmas Carol (1992) and Aladdin (2000). And for English National Ballet’s Alice in Wonderland (1995), Davis (commissioned by ENB’s artistic director Derek Deane) drew on themes by Tchaikovsky.
It was also through Deane’s influence that Davis was commissioned by the National Ballet of Croatia to write Lady of the Camellias (2008), which gave him the opportunity to revisit Alexandre Dumas’s original novel and Verdi’s operatic version of it, La Traviata. The opera had been a favourite of Davis’s since his childhood days of listening to Met broadcasts, and he had also worked on a production of it for New York City Opera. The resulting piece gave the story a contemporary twist, so “the action could flow without pause and indeed the production did effectively utilise projections and film”, as Davis wrote in the recording’s sleeve notes.
He received a Bafta special lifetime achievement award in 2003, and in 2005 he was made CBE.
In 1970 he married the actor Jean Boht, who starred in Carla Lane’s sitcom Bread. She survives him, along with their daughters, Hannah and Jessie.
🔔 Carl Davis, composer and conductor, born 28 October 1936; died 3 August 2023
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TITLE: I Wanna Dance with Somebody Chapter 5
PAIRING: Willard/OC
RATING: T
CHAPTER: 5/?
SUMMARY: Molly has just moved to Bomont with her older brother Ren after the death of their mother. Where Ren gets into trouble, Molly tries to remain invisible. That is until an awkward country boy tries to befriend her. Can Willard help her regain the confidence she lost? And more importantly, will he help her to dance again?
Molly had a bad feeling about this.
Chuck Cranston, Ariel’s boyfriend, had summoned Ren to his father’s racetrack.
“Hey now, darlin’. I ain’t gonna let nothin’ happen to you or your brother. You know that right?” Willard grabbed her wrist and pulled it away from her mouth.
Molly nodded, looking up into his brown eyes.
“Hey! Twinkle Toes. Watching you the other night, that was real entertaining. We thought we’d invite you out here. Maybe you could put on a show for us,” Chuck said.
“Chuck, didn’t you hear? He’s real into gymnastics,” one of Chuck’s cronies said.
“Gymnastics.” Chuck jumped down from his truck. “Well…I thought only fags were into gymnastics.”
“I thought only assholes still used the word fag,” Ren said.
Chuck laughed. “Touché. Why don’t you try dancing with this?” Chuck climbed up on a tractor and drove it across the racetrack.
There were four buses parked on the racetrack.
“Now…we race these buses every weekend at the Derby Mash-up. We race them in a figure eight, just like this.” He drew an 8 in the dirt. “Two things you gotta worry about. Your corners and your intersection. You fall behind, you’re gonna get hit by the leader. You pull ahead, you just might get slammed by the guy in last place. What do you say, city boy? Ready to race?”
Ren chose the bus with the stuffed animals on it.
Molly waited for Willard and Woody to walk away. “Please be careful. I can’t lose you.”
Ren smiled. “You’ll never lose me, Mols.”
Molly hugged her brother’s neck and kissed his cheek before she went to go wait with the others.
“How do, all you pissants? Welcome to the Cranston Motor Speedway! We got one practice lap before the green flag drops, folks. It’s a three-lap race to the finish line or the last man standing. Gentlemen, start your engines!”
Everyone started their engines and made their way onto the track.
“We’ve got hometown hero Chuck Cranston in Burn in Hell. On the outside, we’ve got the new kid racing in the Fun Zone, Ren MacCormack.”
“Go Fun Zone!” Willard yelled.
“Caroline and Russell are in the back of the pack, ya’ll. Now we’re coming into turn four and getting ready for the green flag.”
Ariel pulled off her shirt and waved it around.
“Green flag, green flag, green flag! And go!”
They all cheered for Ren as the race started.
“They’re coming around turn number one. Fun Zone is loose around the corner. Hang in there! Hang in there! Chuck Cranston takes the lead, with Russell on his ass. Caroline and MacCormack are door to door, they’re battling for third place!”
Caroline rammed her bus into Ren’s.
Molly gasped and grabbed Willard’s hand. Willard looked down seeing her tiny hand in his.
Molly didn’t realize it because she was chewing on the cuff of her hoodie and watching the race with fear in her eyes.
“She is tearing him up! They’re coming out of turn four. Here they come, headed straight for the intersection! Somebody better stop! Somebody better do something!”
Ren slammed on the breaks, but Caroline kept going and smashed into some barrels.
“Caroline is into the wall! Russell and MacCormack are duking it out for second place.”
Russell rammed Ren with his bus and Ren rammed back into him, sending Russell careening into a pole.
Ren ran over the live wires.
“We got fireworks! God bless America!”
Molly broke free of Willard and started running down towards the racetrack.
“Molly!” Willard yelled, running after her.
“Shit,” Woody cursed.
Willard grabbed her around the waist.
“Chuck Cranston holds the lead with one lap to go!”
Ren and Chuck were headed straight for each other.
“Oh, we’ve got us a regular Mexican standoff, folks.”
Molly struggled against Willard’s grip. “Ren!” she screamed.
Willard froze, hearing her voice for the first time. Willard hated that it was filled with fear and terror.
“Who’s gonna back down? Who’s gonna back down? Somebody’s gotta back down.”
Ren gunned it and slammed into the side of Chuck’s bus, which flipped onto its side.
“Chuck is down! MacCormack takes the lead!”
“Fire! He’s on fire!” Woody’s girlfriend yelled.
Woody grabbed a fire extinguisher and climbed onto the bus to try to put out the fire.
The bus was headed for Chuck’s again.
Woody and Ren jumped out of the bus before it crashed into Chuck’s and completely exploded.
Willard let go of Molly and she went running for her brother.
Ren stood up only for Molly to roughly shove him.
Tears were falling from her eyes as he tried to wrap his arms around her.
She fought him and hit his chest with her small fists.
“Hey, hey. It’s okay. I’m okay.”
Molly finally broke down in her brother’s arms and loud sobs left her mouth. She was so close to losing him. She didn’t know if she could take losing another person she loved.
Ren put his cheek on her head as he stroked her hair.
As Willard watched the pair of siblings, he could only hope that one day he heard Molly’s voice the way it was intended to be.