#year four cast

[nicolos]

A message from the set of The Old Guard.

[chalamet-chalamet]

Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan and director James Mangold on the set of ‘A Complete Unknown’ on March 17, 2024. ✨✨✨

Twitter credit to cravemedia_

[foryoupeko]

Sdr2 cast’s favorite mangas but it’s only the manga I like

100% for sure

Hajime - Case Closed (Detective Conan) or My Hero Academia

Teruteru - Food Wars

Nekomaru - Golden Kamuy or Sakamoto Days

Kazuichi - Fairy Tail or Dr. Stone

Twogami - Death Note

Sonia - Dandadan

Ibuki - Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure

Iffy choices

Chiaki - One Piece

Nagito - Chainsaw Man or Hunter x Hunter

Gundham - Demon Slayers

Mahiru - Fruit Basket

Hiyoko - Spy x Family or Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Akane - Kuroko no Basket or Inuyasha

Mikan - Neon Genesis Evangelion

There’s no way these characters read manga so I’m just giving them what I think is funny

Fuyuhiko - Full Metal Alchemist

Peko - Bleach

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Shout out to Stef Coburn who in his quest to make it hard to watch An Unearthly Child outside of DVDs and sailing the high seas, ended up getting his racism against the fifteenth doctor dug up by people who found how holy shit he's acting.

[katnissdoesnotfollowback]

How could you translate Katniss' internal thoughts to screen?

If you become the screenwriter for the new adaptation, what would you do?

Are there any movies or tv series which have good example of this type of narration?

Thank you 😊

@curiousnonny

Oh tough question @curiousnonny. I've literally been sitting on this one for at least a year because I've been trying to figure out how the heck I would translate more of her internal thoughts to the screen. I will say this...

I have such mixed feelings about what Gary Ross and company decided to do for the films. I get why they did it, but man did it suck at times. What I mean by that is, they turned Katniss and Peeta into The Watson character. By that, I mean that in the original Sherlock Holmes stories, Watson's role was primarily to ask questions and doubt Sherlock's theories in order to give Sherlock a chance to explain what happened and show off his so called "genius."

Haymitch has to explain certain things about the Games to Katniss and Peeta that, in the books, THEY ALREADY KNOW because they live in this world and are not idiots. And the thing is, the movies showed that the film makers DID grasp the concept of how to show us a little and trust the audience to figure out the rest. Gale's thirty second rant in the woods about "What if everyone just stopped watching... It's sick. You root for your favorites and cry when they die" (paraphrase). Movie!Gale tells us something about the Games that we get from Katniss's internal thoughts in the books. And that is that while the districts hate the Games...they partake in them. Katniss tells us about how people in 12 ENGAGE in the betting. It's become a cultural thing so that even though there are people who know the tributes, even though it might one day be you or your sweetheart or your child in the arena, the Games are STILL treated as a form of entertainment on some level...even in the districts. And Katniss knows this, which the movie shows when she tells Gale "That'll never happen" (another paraphrase).

There's also the odds board that we see very briefly in the Capitol. Now we the audience know, just from those handful of seconds, that there's wagering on the Games, without Katniss telling us. More brief scenes like that would help with the world building.

Which leads me to... it works better as a tv series. It's written by a television writer and the story is blocked and paced like a tv series. And I cannot believe that I am saying this, knowing that it winds up being so hated by so many of the fans by the final season, but Game of Thrones the tv series, at least in the first season, did a phenomenal job of translating an entire book to screen. I've only read one book and watched two seasons, so I cannot speak to later seasons/books, but wow. Just... do THAT with The Hunger Games. The added length of a tv series gives you the advantage of more scenes and less of the book being cut out. You have the luxury of included so many of the characters that got cut from the movies, which all of that will naturally bring more of Katniss's thoughts and feelings, and understanding of her world, to the forefront.

But you can't stop there, you need an actress who, at a rather young age, can tell an entire story in just a few facial expressions to play Katniss. Not to bash Jennifer Lawrence because there were some parts of her portrayal of Katniss that were excellent, but I felt like her acting was hit or miss sometimes, and at others her portrayal suffered because of both the script and the editing. Sorry not sorry. So casting is key to bringing her internal thoughts to life through acting.

From there, I hate to say it, but at some point, you do have to trust your audience to be able to pick up on things. I think you do need to include a few flashbacks, but you can slow roll them. Show us Peeta giving her the bread in flashback then cut back to Katniss on stage looking slightly horrified and confused. Peeta's trying to talk to her on the train, return to the flashback and show his mother hitting him. Let current Katniss show just a flicker of guilt followed by slight annoyance and determination. You can even keep the flashback silent, if you want. Peeta's helping clean up drunk, vomit covered Haymitch and tells Katniss that he doesn't need her help and doesn't want the Capitol attendants. In her train compartment, Katniss shows us the whole thing, starting with her Mom being nonresponsive, an emaciated Prim, a picture of her father on the mantle with the black ribbon over it and a picture of the whole family next to it. Ah yes. Audience can now deduce that Katniss's father is gone and Mom's a wreck, the family is falling apart. Then give us the sound. Katniss pawing through the trash, Mrs. Mellark screaming at her, and the gift of the bread. Your audience is smart enough to take it from there.

You'd have to give us the dandelion part later on, too, but I actually think you could work that in somehow during the arena. Have Katniss find some dandelions after the girl from 8 dies. She can stare at them, cut to the flashback of the day after the bread. K&P share a look and then end it. She sees the dandelion. Prim can mention the bread, causing Katniss to look away from the dandelion, maybe ask how Katniss got it, and then Katniss goes into the woods to gather dandelions for her family to eat. Cut back to Katniss in the arena, confusion playing on her face until she remembers she's on camera and drops the mask back down. There is so much that can be done with one second of emotion that quickly changes to something else in this situation, and while they did manage some of that with Jennifer Lawrence, I don't think they used the technique to its full advantage.

The problem is that the movies were inconsistent with how they handled this problem of translating what Katniss tells us/says to us onto the screen. At times, they spoon fed us too much and did it in the form of spoon feeding information to Katniss and Peeta that they would've already known, making our protagonists look like idiots. At other times, like with the bread flashback, they didn't give us enough, so we don't understand the stakes and the significance of that moment. Fix the inconsistencies, and I actually think they were kind of on the right track with the movies, they just didn't follow through completely or effectively.

[drewlyyours]

THE CAPTIVE CURSE FANCAST

ND #24

Karl Weschler - Jack Black

Anja Mittelmeier - Florence Pugh

Lukas Mittelmeier - Iain Armitage

Renate Stoller - Jessica Lange

the worst monsters are self-made

MHM, TRT, FIN, SSH, DOG, CAR, DDI, SHA, CUR, CLK, TRN, DAN, CRE, ICE, CRY, VEN, HAU, WAC, TOT, SAW

[tj-crochets]

Two more beanies for the donation beanie pile!

[mariocki]

An uncredited Jacqueline Hill appears as an unnamed Irish barmaid in The Vise: Death Pays No Dividends (1.5, ABC, 1954); in the UK, this episode wasn't seen until 1960 as part of ITV anthology The Crooked Path

[calenhads]

THE INNER CIRCLE

give me a fight i can't resist give me something to break with my fists take me to war oh, honey, i dare you

[x]

[nosfelixculpa]

that is MY emotional support dysfunctional core dracula family

YOUNG DRACULA (2006-2014)

[annabelle--cane]

uh oh gang I miss musicals

[lohstandfound]

i think acting in a show again would fix me

[lavenderprose]

Joke’s on me because I have a plot doc with like ten different Gentlebeard plots and all my brain can do is try to formulate ways to jam Izzy in there. I’ve turned into a real Doctor Frankenstein over here.

[alphinias]

Same S3 premier anon as before: Mo was 100% there and Odessa, saw both of them and there’s pics of them both on the carpet I think?

Elaine is really close with the Pates and lots of the crew (which she is part of so…!) and was definitely hanging with them. Herself and the producers assistant who she tagged on insta were talking lots too. Her, Rudy, Drew, Madelyn and Odessa chatted lots as well.

Rudy spent time with JDs dad and some other crew & cast from what I saw. But Madison stuck with Mo and some cast (Austin and chase mostly) for the bulk of the night - barely interacted with crew etc.

Sorry, I wasn’t trying to say that the other partners weren’t there/on the carpet at all. Everyone saw the pics of them there. What I was getting at was the people who I know who were there didn’t even notice them because of the way they blended into the crowd in comparison to Rudy and Elaine, who according to them were totally attached. You took away something, they took away the opposite, so I was just trying to say that povs being that different at the same event clearly means there are some inaccuracies/just not knowing everything on either or both ends and there were some conclusions jumped to in your ask based on something I’ve had directly contradicted. I guess to put it bluntly, I was giving some evidence as to why I still don’t agree with your conclusions about Maddie and Mo being the worse end of the problem. I think they have definitely contributed, don’t get me wrong. I think my thing is at the end of the day I couldn’t care less what goes on behind the scenes or who hangs out with who, but Madison was the more professional one when I wanted her to be around S3 promotion. And that to me says what I need to know and I’m going to stand up for her a little based on that alone.

Also wasn’t trying to say that partners shouldn’t be invited. Obviously that’s normal that they were there and it does make sense if Elaine is friends with the crew. I was just commenting on the difference in Rudy/Elaine or maddie/mo behavior compared to the others which you brought up.

[measureyourlifeincake]

Im just finishing Roguemaker and the whole time you just felt like My People (TM) which was definitely heightened by the bloopers and then you made a homestuck reference in the science episode and I damn near lost my mind

You didn't mention your tumblr but I figured there was a 99.5% chance you had one and luckily you included your twitch handle in the post you made about rereading homestuck and tumblr graciously placed it in the search results for me xD

ok I have a few things to say to this:

1. lol. lmao, even 2. this reminds me of the time that homestuck was mentioned on skyjacks and it knocked the wind out of me, so I'm glad I could provide that experience to someone else lol 3. well that's one point for the tumblr search function, I guess. for those keeping score at home, the tumblr search function now has one (1) point. 4.It's been a while since we recorded that so I had to go back into the transcripts to remember what I said and I can't believe I didn't figure it anyway since yes sir we are literally under siege by planet fucking jupiter continues to live in my head rent free to this day 5. in re: Your People(TM) yeah, Emma hasn't read homestuck but we're all extremely online fandom nerds, basically (ok, well not all of us. I think some of the cast members are like. normal.) I mean, Emma and I met in college at an (unchartered) Steven Universe screenings club that she ran, so yeah. I was going to say that this tells you basically everything you need to know about us, but then I remembered the particular reputation that the su fandom has gained over the last few years so uh. your view on what this means about what we are like as people may or may not be accurate. (In terms of me specifically, though, I've been on tumblr since I was 13 and spent a majority of my adolescence being really into homestuck and you can basically extrapolate everything about what I am like today based off of that)

[jacquelinemerritt]

Dragon Ball Z: Abridged Episode 37 Review

Originally posted January 24th, 2016

Without Goku, Team Four Star focuses on their interesting characters.

Last week I spent a paragraph (justifiably) complaining about Toriyama’s decision to take Goku out of the fight with a bullshit plot contrivance, yet I praised Team Four Star for doing their best to tie the contrivance to character driven humor. I still stand by what I said, of course, but “Catch Me If You Can-droid” has shown me that my complaints may only need to be applied to the plot of the source material, as even without Goku, Team Four Star1 is more comfortable telling their story than ever.

Now, perhaps you could chalk this up to “Can-droid” finally providing the payoff for the androids being ridiculously underpowered, and while that’s certainly a part of it, as all of the tension in the episode comes from whether or not Gero can get away from our protagonists or not, with it immediately fizzling when he is discovered by Gohan, I’d argue that it’s also the result of Team Four Star being relieved at not having to deal with their most uninteresting character and all his associated plot contrivances.

That’s an odd thing to say in an episode that intentionally destroys all of its tension for its other characters, but that lack of tension is earned, as it’s been slowly established over the past few episodes that the androids they’ve been fighting haven’t been nearly the threat Trunks made them out to be.

Goku’s presence, on the other hand, automatically removes any semblance of tension, as the show has now proven twice that he’s guaranteed victory, even in circumstances where by all account he should be dead (see: Muffin Button).2 Not having Goku around means that they’re free to focus on the characters who have to work to achieve the power they do; they’re free to focus on humans instead of a demigod.

And since they’re focusing on humans, Trunks’ arrival and declaration that they’ve been fighting the wrong androids is a gut punch, as the last two episodes have let our protagonists (and us by extension) feel deservedly overpowered only to discover that they didn’t “over train for this,” as they’ve yet to encounter the enemies that are an actual threat. The stakes are immediately reestablished, and it’s at this perfect moment that Gero shows his power is due to his cleverness, as he takes this perfect opportunity to escape and potentially kill Bulma, Yajirobe, and Baby Trunks. Now that Goku is out of the way, shit can finally get real.

Rating: 4.5/5

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Stray Observations

1It’s feels odd to call Team Four Star a singular entity, especially as we get further into the series, as I know that Scott “KaiserNeko” Frerichs is responsible for more of the writing, recording, and editing workload than anyone else (I feel decently comfortable saying he’s their equivalent to a showrunner from season 3 onward), but there aren’t any particular credits listed on the episodes, so I can’t really give credit where it’s specifically due.

2Again, not criticizing Team Four Star here, especially since as I mentioned before, they managed to actually imbue tension in Goku’s fight with Freeza. I’m criticizing Toriyama for writing a completely unbeatable character whose victories come by ancient prophecy and plot contrivance, rather than actual developed effort. I am also aware of the end of the Cell Saga, and yes, Toriyama deserves credit for ending it the way he did.

Vegeta: “When a goddamn Super Saiyan asks you for a Senzu you say ‘How many?’”

Vegeta: “Energy sensing is bullshit.”

Vegeta: “Get out here and fight me blindly like a man!”

Piccolo: “Call me the can opener, because I’m about to bust open your metal ass.” Vegeta: “Yeah, how about we leave the one liners to me?”

Domo Arigato is the song playing over the radio in Bulma’s car. I am pleased.

Bulma: “Did you know I never even saw Freeza? Not even once?” Yajirobe: “I’m pretty sure no one ever complained about not meeting Hitler.”

Yajirobe: “Have you ever seen what an all Senzu bean diet does to a man?” Bulma: “What?” Yajirobe: “Korin likes it.”

Piccolo: “That’s the android.” Trunks: “No, it’s not.” Gero: “Yes, I am.”