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FAN CASTING: STANTZ EXTENDED FAMILY
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Jean Stantz (Ray's Sister): Karen Allen
Linet Harker (Ray's Niece): Amelia Shankley
#ray stantz#fan casting#my wallpapers#karen allen#amelia shankley#ghostbusters#ghostbusters 1984#ghostbusters the supernatural spectacular#richard mueller
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#red riding hood#amelia shankley#isabella rossellini#craig t. nelson#rocco sisto#helen glazary#adam brooks#1989
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My girls as little Victorians
#game of thrones#asoiaf#victorian au?#margaery tyrell#ygritte#arya stark#daenerys targaryen#myrcella baratheon#sansa stark#jeyne poole#missandei#millie bobby brown#amybeth mcnulty#holly gibbs#eliza bennett#cara jenkins#sarah charles lewis#amelia shankley#lauren julien-box
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When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in--that's stronger.
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#amelia shankley#dreamchild#1980s#80s#cinema#cult cinema#alice in wonderland#lewis carroll#ian holm#oc inspiration
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A Little Princess(1986) Episode 01
I stuck ‘em up on Youtube. In decent quality. Possibly the best and most faithful adaptation of the book ever made, certainly the best I’ve ever seen. Of interest to a very select few - one of the writers, Jeremy Burnham, went to school with Edward Hardwicke.
#a little princess#a little princess 1986#no subtitles#sorry#i don't know how to do them#nigel havers#david yelland#meera syal#amelia shankley#maureen lipman#miriam margolyes#annette badland#natalie abbot#katrina heath#joanna dukes#gerald sim#annie lambert#tariq alibai#john bird
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Dreamchild is a 1985 British drama film written by Dennis Potter, directed by Gavin Millar and produced by Rick McCallum and Kenith Trodd. It stars Coral Browne, Ian Holm, Peter Gallagher, Nicola Cowper and Amelia Shankley and is a fictionalised account of Alice Liddell, the child who inspired Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell (the book's inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by the characters she was once so amused by. As she thinks back on it, she starts to see her relationship with the shy author/professor in a new way and realizes the vast change between the young Alice and the old. Jane Asher as Mrs. Liddell.
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The story is told from the point of view of the elderly Alice (now the widowed Mrs Hargreaves) as she travels to the United States from England to receive an honorary degree from Columbia University celebrating the centenary of Lewis Carroll's birth.
The film evolves from the factual to the hallucinatory as Alice revisits her memories of the Reverend Charles Dodgson (Holm), in Victorian-era Oxford to her immediate present in Depression-era New York.
Accompanied by a shy young orphan named Lucy (Cowper), old Alice must make her way through the modern world of tabloid journalism and commercial exploitation while attempting to come to peace with her conflicted childhood with the Oxford don.
Photo) Lady Jane group at yahoo!
#Jane Asher#Dreamchild#1985#1980s#acting#acting career#film#movie#Ian Holm#Amelia Shankley#Imogen Boorman#screen caps#screen shots#screen captures
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Well, I’m Sure He Is What We Have In Mind
As we’ve said so many times before, there really is nothing like a nineties Kitchen. So, how about a little to brighten your Monday? 😘
This is from when he played David Herbert, Vicky Lovejoy’s sugar daddy, in Lovejoy, “Kids” (1992).
Don’t we wish?!
#michael kitchen#lovejoy kids#ian mcshane#amelia shankley#precious nineties kitchen face-acting#the man can SIT!#😉#90s kitchen to brighten your monday fandom!
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More unexpected but cute foot focus for a classic fairytale movie, no more than a couple of minutes after the last bit (in this post).
I'm starting to wonder if the director of this movie was deliberately showing off Amelia Shankley's cute feet...and if there happen to be any more scenes later on, ones that I didn't even notice?
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A Little Princess 1986 Miniseries
I am not interested in reviewing the 1939 and 1995 film adaptations of A Little Princess. I can still remember my disappointment when I watched the 1995 one as a 9-year-old after reading the book, it wasn’t like the book at all with its perfect joyous Sara, children’s movie antics and perfect happy ending. And the 1939 one does seem to be its precursor as the originator of its changes to the story and does seem to be even a worse adaptation (Shirley Temple is Sara, enough said). So I am not going to be watching and reviewing the 1939 and 1995 adaptations. The anime looks good but I couldn’t find all episodes and it is too long.
So, the only adaptations I am interested in are the 1986 miniseries and the 1997 Russian movie.
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This adaptation has far exceeded my expectations. It is an amazing adaptation of the novel.
It is very faithful to the book but isn’t afraid to make some changes. For example the events of the story take place over about a year instead of six years as in the book. This is probably for the best since the timeline and the ages in the book is very confused with the side characters like Lottie never growing up or changing. Another difference is that the series opens with Carrisford and Crewe discussing the diamond mines and the diamond mine and the seminary plot lines occur side by side in the first episode. In the book the diamond mine concept was introduced more as a random subplot and Sara losing everything truly came off as a shock to me as a child reader which is perhaps the best part of the book, but I understand why they felt the need of fleshing out the India plot line and the character of Captain Crewe more. It also serves to make the earlier scenes of Sara being a “princess” less excessively sweet since we know that she is heading for a downfall.
Amelia Shankley’s performance as Sara is one of the best performances by a child actor that I have ever seen. She is not the book’s Sara to be sure. She is not the stoic, sometimes creepy and always “odd” Sara of the book. She has her book counterpart’s intelligence and imagination but not her excessive pride, stoicism or air of superiority. She has a warmth to her that Burnett’s Sara never had. She is older, more cheerful and charming. Her friends are actually her friends rather than her followers. She is not a snob like the book’s Sara undoubtedly is. Her pretending to be a princess is merely nostalgic playacting; for the book’s Sara it was a deep conviction of superiority that she must hold onto to survive, it was what dictated her life hence the book’s title. In many ways she is actually less flawed than the book’s Sara, she is certainly much less annoying than her. She is more sarcastic, book’s Sara was much more self-serious. For example Shankley’s Sara says the “You are not kind, and this is not a home” line with a knowing, sarcastic air. This is how it was in the book:
“Sara made two or three steps toward her. Her thin little chest heaved up and down, and she spoke in a strange un-childishly fierce way.
"You are not kind," she said. "You are NOT kind, and it is NOT a home." And she had turned and run out of the room before Miss Minchin could stop her or do anything but stare after her with stony anger.
No sarcasm here.
But Shankley’s Sara is also more human in other ways. She is less idealized. She compromises. A day after this she has to thank Minchin for example. And she is naive in other ways, she is surprised that Mariette doesn’t care about her after she becomes poor for example.
Shankley’s Sara isn’t as original a child character as Burnett’s Sara is. But she is a far more likable and enjoyable main character. Burnett’s Sara always felt to me as a much more idealized version of myself, you know if I were good, rich, imaginative and much more intelligent than I am. Shankley’s Sara is more like a friend that I would look up to.
Characters other than Sara are also all amazing. They feel more like people with their own lives and concerns rather than satellites of Sara. In the book it felt like everything revolved around Sara, which makes sense since she is the main character. But in the miniseries the side characters felt like they were more than just tools to praise Sara. We see Maria and Amelia Minchin bicker and it seems like Maria Minchin’s motive really is mostly money whereas in the book she was more spiteful, we see Amelia Minchin actually standing up to Maria multiple times on Becky’s behalf and she resigns at the end, we see the Large Family opening their Christmas presents and joking around without mentioning how amazing Sara is, we see the cook with her boyfriend, we see the mother of the Large Family having a dominant personality, we see Donald being naughty, we see Ermengarde getting bullied, we see Lottie leaving with her family for Christmas, we see Captain Crewe apologizing to Sara’s Ayah, we see a Christmas plot line added where all the characters celebrate it. All the side characters are more fleshed out and humanized, they have lives beyond Sara.
Another factor in their humanization and them being more fleshed out is undoubtedly the absence of the narrative voice and the presence of actual people acting the roles. Without the narrative voice constantly reminding us of how “stupid and dull” she is Ermengarde comes off as a cute and normal girl and a true friend of Sara. Without the narrative voice trying to present her as inferior and reminding us that she is older than she looks Becky comes off as an intelligent young girl of Sara’s age. Without the narrative voice constantly reminding us of how spiteful she is with an inferiority complex, Maria Minchin is even a more realistic and subtle (for a children’s show) villain. Without the narrative voice calling Amelia Minchin weak-willed we can actually see it for ourselves. Without the narrative voice telling us how bratty she is and with an actual child acting the part Lottie’s reactions are much more understandable. Without the narrative voice telling us how naive and indulgent he is Captain Crewe is a more likable father. Without the narrative voice telling us how abnormally and inhumanly sickly he looks Carrisford comes off as a normal troubled young man. Without the narrative voice calling him a “swift moving Oriental” or something like that, Ram Dass comes off as an actual, sarcastic, rather charismatic man rather than a magical racist plot device. You get the idea.
The show is much, much less racist than the book, being made 81 years after it was published. It sugarcoats colonialism more than the book does though. In the show when Ram Dass calls her a “Missee Sahib” Sara tearfully reminisces about her Ayah and says “Oh Anna, how you would see me now”. Here is what Ram Dass’s treatment of her reminds her in the book:
“When he had gone Sara stood in the middle of her attic and thought of many things his face and his manner had brought back to her. The sight of his native costume and the profound reverence of his manner stirred all her past memories. It seemed a strange thing to remember that she—the drudge whom the cook had said insulting things to an hour ago—had only a few years ago been surrounded by people who all treated her as Ram Dass had treated her; who salaamed when she went by, whose foreheads almost touched the ground when she spoke to them, who were her servants and her slaves. It was like a sort of dream.”
Yes, no sugarcoating here. The book is never shy about its racism and classism, which actually makes it so that it lies less than a show made in 1986.
All in all, this was an amazing adaptation of the novel. I recommend it to everyone. I am not going to say that it was better than the book because I don’t think that an adaptation can be better than the original in being that thing, but it was certainly more enjoyable than the book which is saying something since the book is not boring either. It is a great adaptation of a childhood favorite that never talks down to its audience and has wonderful acting and it will certainly be a comfort watch for me on days when I feel particularly depressed in the future.
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Cannon Movie Tales: Red Riding Hood (1989)
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So, this was the last title released in the Cannon Movie Tales Series. Originally the team of Golan and Globus had planed to release sixteen titles, but ended up releasing only nine, presumably for falling of audiences.
In this adaptation, the title character is named Linet, a young, curious and adventurous girl who enjoys going out in the woods to search for fairies and elves, sometimes losting a shoe and terring her dress in the proccess. While she was raised learning to love the simple life of the peasants, Linet has noble blood: her father, Percival (Craig T. Nelson), is the twin brother of Godfrey (also obviously played by Craig T. Nelson), the local lord, and has been out fighting for seven years in a war for King, God and Country. Because of that, Godfrey has been rulling with a tiranical iron hand, going so far as to torture subjects if they don’t pay him taxes.
The person who secretly heals the tortured subjects is Linet’s grandmother, Bess (Helen Glazary), who has great knowledge of the uses for herbs and of fairy magic.
Godfrey wants to marry Lady Jean (Isabella Rosselini), Linet’s mother, but, brave and faithfull to Percival, she rejects his advances. So he constantly sends spies to watch her house. His favourite spy is Dagger (Rocco Sisto), a wolfman that he camed to posess by selling his heart and sould to vague Dark Arts. And Dagger’s next mission will be both to discover who is healing the subjects Godfrey tortures, and to get rid of Linet, whom Godfrey considers a nuissance...
Here are the things i liked about the movie: Amelia Shankley, who previously had given a great performance as Alice Liddell in the cult classic Dreamchild, is very energetic and likable as Linet. I need to ad that her dark short hair always have been the looks i enjoy imagining for Little Red Riding Hood. Isabella Rosselini also exibits an interesting quiet strenght as Lady Jean, breaking away from the usual mother portrayals by being the person who encourages her daughter to be brave, but still carefull, in the face of adversity, while also showing a vulnerable side in her longing for her husband. Helen Glazary’s Bess is the grandmother that everyone dreams of having, being both a good storyteller, a wise counsellour and a surprising badass who will help save you from danger. And Rocco Sisto’s wolfman spy Dagger is a delight, showing so much fun in playing a villain in a kids movie. My favorite scene is the song duet that he sings along with Linet, Never Talk to Strangers, where, once again making a refreshing take in an adaptation of the fairy tale, is the wolf character who says to Red Riding Hood to not talk with strangers, while Linet (Red Riding Hood) presents her point of view that: “If i don’t talk to strangers, how will i make friends”?
So they modernize a bit the moral to “Don’t ever talk to strangers” to “Be curious and brave, but take care with whom you will thrust”
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Now, here is the thing i don’t like: see, the Cannon Movie Tales could have some trouble making the shortest fairy tales into one hour long movies, creating some slow padding filler in the proccess, and this feels as a problem here.
Specially because their soluction to stretch the time was to make the movie have two plots: the Red Riding Hood tale itself, and the “Robin Hood meets The Odissey” original plot of a woman who resists harassment of an opressive aristocrat while waiting her husband return from war to lead the people in a revolt. And that original plot is actually the A plot, while the actual Red Riding Hood plot receives B Plot treatment, starting way later! Wich is sad, because they made pretty good versions of the characters from the original tale.
I feel that they camed with the love triangle plot first to cast in the rising popularity of Isabella Rosselini first, and then camed up with “Oh hey, there are still those fairy tale musicals we are making, what is the next one? Red Riding Hood? Oh well, slap those two together and write a movie”!
My conclusion is: if you want to see a nice kids movie with good performances by Amelia Shankley, Isabella Rosselini, Helen Glazary and Rocco Sisto that happens to have some elements of in it, check this flick out.
But if you want to see an actual Little Red Riding Hood focused movie, i recomend that you go watch The Company of Wolves and Hoodwinked instead.
#cannon movie tales#fantasy#fairy tales#red riding hood#little red riding hood#amelia shankley#isabella rossellini#musicals#1987#1989
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UPDATED: Top 20 Alices of Wonderland.
We now have a week till the 4th of July. Now, in America, the 4th of July is Independence Day...but what lots of people either forget or don't realize is that it's also, internationally, Alice in Wonderland Day. It was on July 4th, in 1862, that Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) first told the story of Alice's Adventures Underground, which later he wrote down and published as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
I decided this year to do something special for the occasion: more countdowns! (Isn't that new. :P ) For each day between now and July 4th, I will release countdowns of some of my favorite characters from the Wonderland stories; the interpretations I like the most. Much like the ones I've done for Dr. Watson, Professor Moriarty, and Johnny Depp, these will be Top 20s, and they will be descriptionless: a preamble, some pictures, credits, and nothing more. The types of media this covers will include novels, comics, anime/manga, video games, stage shows, movies, and TV productions. (Sorry, radio fans; there are no versions of Wonderland for radio/audio that I really adore, even though there are some good ones out there.)
Having said that, let's start with the main character herself: Alice. Alice in the books is interesting because, while she's not a total blank slate, she's also meant to be our anchor; she is effectively our guide through the wild shenanigans of Wonderland, the more or less normal person wrapped up in a crazy environment. Strict adaptations usually keep this, while reimaginings often find ways to give Alice a bit more agency of some kind: Alice in the books is stronger-willed than most realize, so it's not surprising she's often shown as a fighter and a leader. Other interpretations have her journey through Wonderland become an adventure of the soul; Alice has to find herself before she can find her way home. Many mix these various elements together.
There are a LOT of really fun Alices out there, and choosing just twenty was very tough. Still, a judgment call was needed, and a judgment call has been made. Here are what I feel are My Top 20 Favorite Alices of Wonderland!
20. Brooke Shields, from The Muppet Show. (I say she counts!)
19. Deborah Watling, from the Wednesday Play’s “Alice” (1965).
18. Rachael Wooding, from the UK Tour of “Wonderland.”
17. Gillian Barber, from the Hallmark Hall of Fame Production (1955).
16. Charlotte Henry, from the 1933 Paramount Film.
15. The Version from Warehouse 13. (Played by Niamh Wilson (pictured) and Stephanie Barrett.)
14. Kabuto Miya, from Grimms Notes: The Animation.
13. Lauren Cuthbertson, from the Royal Ballet Production (2011).
12. Mia Wasikowska, from the Tim Burton Movies.
11. Janet Dacal, from Wonderland.
10. Caterina Scorsone, from SyFy’s “alice.”
9. Natalie Gregory, from the 1985 CBS Miniseries.
8. Sophie Lowe, from Once Upon a Time in Wonderland.
7. Alice the B. Rabbit, from Pandora Hearts.
6. Alyss Heart, from The Looking-Glass Wars.
5. Elisabeth Harnois, from Adventures in Wonderland. (Check it out on Disney+ now!)
4. Tina Majorino, from the 1999 Hallmark TV Film.
3. The Disney Version. (Originally voiced by Kathryn Beaumont.)
2. Fiona Fullerton, from the 1972 Film.
1. Amelia Shankley & Coral Browne, from Dreamchild.
#alice's adventures in wonderland#alice in wonderland#july special countdowns#alice#wonderland#top 20#favorites#best#list#movies#tv#video games#literature#theatre#dance#anime#manga#animation#lewis carroll
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Post Ep Ponderings July 5th
It’s likely because I really don’t like Megan, but all in all, with Tracy telling her about Frank and Charity, I feel the most for Charity. She’s clearly going through a rough patch and having Debbie walk in just during the hair pulling slap fest looks bad, especially after their second heart to heart in as many days. I’m sure Debbie now thinks that Charity isn’t trying to change at all, when this time, she actually didn’t set things off.
Surprise, surprise, it doesn’t seem as though Tim is a bad guy after all. Of course it comes down to Larry trying to keep his family together, which doesn’t sound so bad, except that he went really far to do so. Not that it comes as a shock that Lawrence is selfish and ruthless. I wonder how long it will be before this comes out. I wonder how much Chrissie will freak out. I wouldn’t blame Ronnie for leaving him either. He’s actually got some morals and until recently, I thought he might be having a good affect on Larry, but maybe not, or at least not as much as I had thought.
Every time Emma manipulates Arthur I think, she can’t actually be that scared of going to Hell because she keeps doing things that would get her sent there, or at least she would believe that.
One question here. Usually the show lines up roughly with real time, so how is Arthur still in school? Does the school year go all year in England?
Show of hands, who else loves that Amelia is better at couples therapy than Bernice? Poor Bernice, she really has a rough go of it sometimes.
#emmerdale#are you pondering what I'm pondering?#megan macey#frank#tracy shankley#charity dingle#debbie dingle#lawrence white#chrissie white#ronnie hale#emma barton#arthur thomas#bernice blackstock#amelia spencer
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Check out this listing I just found on Poshmark: VTG A Little Princess 3-tape VHS box set 1990.
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RIPPER STREET - TEEN VERSION
And I bring you yet another fancast no one asked for! Some of the Ripper Street characters as they would have looked as children/teens
Feel free to disagree and make your suggestions... also, please notice some of them are yet to blossom into the beautiful adults we know and love
(Top row, left to right)
Homer Jackson/Matthew Judge - Logan Bartholomew
Bennet Drake - Jamie Bells
Edmund Reid - James D’arcy
(Middle row, Left to right)
Jane Cobden - Alexis Bledel
Rose Erskine - Jo Woodcock (it’s hella hard to find a good younger Charlene)
Susan Hart/Caitlin Swift - AnnaSophia Robb
(Bottom row, left to right)
Hermione Morton - Amelia Shankley
Fred Best - Louis Hynes
Jedediah Shine - Ezra Miller
Sorry if I missed your favorites... I might eventually make a part 2
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