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alsjeblieft-zeg · 2 years

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224 of 2022

Have you had any beer this week?

No, but this question makes me want some Lindemans right now.

Are you happy with life?

Yes and no, somewhere in between. Still, more happy than not.

Could you cry right now?

No. I think my tear ducts are not functional anymore.

Are you a jealous person?

No, I’m not.

What were you doing this morning at 7am?

Waking up.

Where have you lived throughout your life?

Westende, Belgium. Then some time in another country for work, then back to Westende, then Knokke-Heist, then Bruges.

Where was your default picture taken?

Somewhere in Poland. It’s been taken by me.

Is there anything silver near you?

*looks around* my chain necklace.

Do you wear contacts?

No, they freak me out. I wear glasses.

Song playing right now?

Stuntman by ‘t Hof Van Commerce.

Where were you last Friday night?

In my bed.

Do you wear the seat belt in the car?

Is there anyone who doesn’t?

Has anyone ever mistaken you for someone else?

Yeah, but just once.

Next vacation you’re going on?

I have no idea and no plans.

What’s the closest blue object to you?

My headphones.

Do you like the color orange?

It’s a Dutch thing, but I’m not a big fan of it.

Sometimes, do you wish you were someone else?

Nah. Sometimes I just don’t think about myself.

What is the weather like today?

Grey and rainy.

Was your last kiss sober?

Very much so.

Where will you be in a hour?

Probably here.

Have you ever kissed someone whose name started with a J?

Yes, my first boyfriend’s name was Jason.

Whose bed did you sleep in last night?

This bed brlongs to me and my husband.

Have you held hands with anyone in the past week?

No, I don’t like holding hands.

When was the last time you talked to one of your siblings?

Around my birthday, she texted me with best wishes.

Do you want any piercings?

Not really, I already have much enough.

What is one hot beverage that you like?

Coffee.

Do you have any relatives who are expecting a baby really soon?

No, not at the moment.

Chapstick or lipgloss?

Neither. I’m not really into effeminate guys either, not like it really matters when I start liking someone.

Do you ever get a headache after you have just cried really hard?

I don’t cry, but I have migraines from epilepsy, so.

Who is the fifth person on your missed calls list?

Probably my husband.

Have you ever had sex at a beach? Is it all that great?

No, I haven’t.

Where do you live?

Belgium.

How many grams of carbs, approximately, have you had today?

I’m not counting that, but not much for sure.

Do you sleep in socks?

Never.

What’s your mouse pad look like?

It’s green, from ACV.

Is the person you’re interested in, interested in you?

Let’s see. My husband is. This first guy I like is most likely just nice to me. This second guy I like is confusing me, looks like he is, but I might be wrong (and most likely I am). My *celebrity crush*, well, he doesn’t even know I exist XD except that he liked one of my comments on YouTube.

Do you find your job rewarding?

In a way. I feel I’m doing something useful.

What kind of cake did you have for your last birthday?

I don’t have cakes. I see no point, it’s a day like any other day.

Have you watched TV today?

There’s TV in the background.

Are you shorter than 5'5"?

No, I’m 5′11.

Do you smoke cigarettes?

No, they stink.

Is your birthday in a winter month?

No, in spring.

Do you have siblings over the age of 21?

Yes, my sister is 27.

How many bracelets do you have on your wrists right now?

None, I don’t wear bracelets.

Are you embarrassed by your school yearbook photos?

What is school yearbook? We don’t have these.

Do you know anyone who acts like a know-it-all?

Yeah, I do, and nobody likes her. Don’t tell me how to do my job, bitch. Especially if you have absolutely no experience and you’ve been working there for just a week and you don’t even know how crimping machine looks like.

Is there a band you like that many others dislike? Which?

Not even dislike, but I like bands and artists not so many people know of.

To you, which is better: English muffins or bagels?

Never tried either.

Have you ever skipped school just because you were tired?

Yeah. My parents were not happy.

What is the last non-alcoholic beverage you had?

Cherry coke.

Your honest opinion: high school, best or worst years of your life?

Neither worst nor best, but they were good.

Do you actually care about the way you dress, or do you not give a fuck?

I dress in whatever I want, and if you have a problem with it, just don’t look at me.

Be honest; name of the last person to text you?

Again the same question?

Do you currently have any hickeys?

Yeah, on my neck. But just one.

#survey #random survey #q&a survey

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ljandersen · 3 years

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Sideways Part 3

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Chapter 6:

Dinner and a Movie

Fandom: Mass Effect Trilogy, post-war

Pairing: Femshep/Kaidan Alenko

Rating: Mature

Available: AO3 (beginning, new chapter)

Summary: She is a peaceful politician who loves her family. The other’s a hated renegade at the center of war. Trapped in the others’ timeline, it’s a race to find the impossible before getting locked in place forever. Is the way home worth the ultimate sacrifice?

Shepard faced him. “So. For the record, you did like it?”

“It was good, except for the ending. Somersaulting to the side and hooking the executioner’s legs? Come on. Who writes this stuff?”

“Funny,” Shepard grinned, “last person I watched this with said the same thing. But you know what? A little real-world simulation shows it’s completely possible.”

“Seems a little Hollywood.”

“Get up.” Shepard popped to her feet.

“I changed my mind about the slap fight. I’m too tired.”

“Just do it.”

Kaidan stood, rolling his shoulders and stretching his back. Shepard put her back to him and dropped to her knees.

She looked over her shoulder. “Now put a gun to the back of my head.”

“Have to prove you’re right, huh?” He snatched the TV remote off the coffee table. He stepped in behind her and pressed it to the back of her head. “Hope you like spitting bullets, Maxim. Your last meal’s going to be two 45’s and some teeth. BOOM. There you’re--”

Shepard fell over sideways, hooked him behind the calf with her legs, and twisted with a sharp jerk. The TV remote flew out of his hand. Her biotics cushioned him before his head hit the floor. She rolled over him onto his chest. He stared up at her like an owl.

She pointed the TV remote at his forehead. “Not tonight, Black Dagger.”

“Maxim didn’t have biotics.”

“Maxim didn’t care if Black Dagger got a migraine. Be glad I’m not Maxim.”

“I am.” He smiled hesitantly. His cheeks glowed.

Blood flushed her face, too, but it wasn’t just the stuntman antics. She was still straddling his chest.

“See.” She rolled off his chest quickly and offered him a hand up. “You fall over on your side. That way the shot goes into the floor in front of you. Use the surprise. Hook with your legs and jerk forward. Next shot goes into the ceiling.”

“Fine. You’re right.” He took her hand and was pulled to his feet. “That’s your favorite thing to hear, right?”

“That and ‘I’ll do dishes tonight.’”

#fShenko #Shenko #mass effect fanfiction #Kaidan Alenko #femshep #femshep x kaidan #F!Shepard x Kaidan Alenko #mass effect #fanfic #fanfiction #F!Shenko #Sideways #lj writes #one of my favorite chapters!

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caddyxjellyby · 2 years

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Commentary from stuntman, Michael Rodgers: “I was in the episode about the bathtub. And I didn’t even know I had any lines. I said, ‘What lines? I’m a stunt man.’ So, I quickly went over them before the scene. While everyone was in line to use the bathtub, I was supposed to come back and say, ‘Thanks for saving my place in line’ to another guy. Well, we shot it, and I kind of blew my line. David Odgen Stiers made a point of kind of saying, ‘One more time for the stuntman.’ I really wished he hadn’t said it. I felt so bad. He was poking fun, but was the professional actor. The set was very friendly, and it was one day’s work. I ended up coordinating the fight.”

- TV’s M*A*S*H: The Ultimate Guide Book by Ed Solomonson and Mark O’Neill

#tv: mash #michael rodgers #mic rodgers #that's his name on his imdb page #he did mel gibson's stunts on lethal weapon and braveheart and more #david ogden stiers #m*a*s*h #mash 4077 #mash cast

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bitter69uk · 3 years

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Recently re-visited: 3 Women by Robert Altman (1977). This movie used to crop-up on TV when I was a teenager in Canada, and I remember being entranced by it. Then 3 Women fell off the radar for decades (happily, in recent years 3 Women has been hailed as a masterpiece and been given a deluxe digitally remastered Criterion DVD / Blu-ray reissue). For me, the eerie 3 Women represents the artistic zenith of seventies American “New Hollywood” cinema.

A naïve hillbilly with the unlikely name of Pinkie Rose (Sissy Spacek) materializes in the resort town of Desert Springs in Southern California and begins work as a care worker at a spa for senior citizens. On her first day, Pinkie is awe-struck by what she perceives as the sophistication and confidence of her colleague Millie Lammoreaux (Shelley Duvall) and immediately attaches herself to her. As luck would have it, Millie needs a new roommate and Pinkie moves in with her at the Purple Sage apartment complex. Nearby is Dodge City, a Country & Western dive bar. The middle-aged married couple who run the bar also own the apartment building. Lecherous, boozy gun nut Edgar Hart used to be a stuntman in Westerns. His silent, inscrutable and warily observant pregnant wife Willie (Janice Rule) is the “third woman” of the title. Willie obsessively paints giant disturbing murals of androgynous sea creatures engaged in violence that seem to portend something awful is about to happen …

As Millie shows Pinkie around the apartment, Pinkie declares, “You’re the most perfect person I’ve ever met.” (Everyone else – both at work at the senior centre and the neighbours at The Purple Sage – regards the gauche Millie with disdain). This admiration soon grows sinister. There are moments of black comedy (Millie continuously driving around with her skirt slammed in the car door never stops being funny) but 3 Women’s tone gradually turns increasingly nerve-jangling, almost veering into horror movie territory. As the story unfolds, it raises questions about identity and interdependence. Who are these women? The silly, vain and constantly preening Millie has entirely pieced herself together from tips out of women’s magazines, while childlike mooncalf Pinkie has seemingly emerged from nowhere. Confusingly, Pinkie at one point declares her real name is Mildred, but that she hates it. Offended, Millie asks Pinkie what she think “Millie” is short for. From there, the women’s identities begin merging and blurring. (3 Women anticipates David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive). Millie realizes she knows nothing about Pinkie. Is Pinkie more malevolent than she first appears?

The career-best performances of Duvall and Spacek are astonishing. 3 Women is a genuinely dream-like, unsettling and mysterious film. The closing minutes, in particular, are deeply enigmatic and open to all kinds of interpretation. My boyfriend Pal had never seen it before and said, “Google this film and tell me what it means!” All these years later, 3 Women still confounds.

#robert altman #shelley duvall #sissy spacek #3 women #three women #avant garde #art cinema #new hollywood #seventies cinema #lobotomy room

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inthememetime · 3 years

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I'm thinking about writing a Bagginshield fic where Thorin and Bilbo are actors in a soap opera, and maybe a made for TV Hallmark movie or 5. This is my (very rough) idea, and I'm just using placeholder names. They're in a few long running shows, so they meet the rest of the cast and become family.

Thorin plays Derek, rich guy with a mandatory evil twin, Donovan. He plays both because reasons. In any other show or movie, he's typecast as Standard Evil Villain or Tragic Gruff Man with Heart of Gold.

Bilbo plays Michael, the mandatory tragic (and sometimes evil) love interest who keeps getting killed...and coming back in two episodes. He aims for one-off terrible movies because they're fun, and ended up playing the lead role in a movie series about alligators in hurricanes. He doesn't know why it's successful either.

Kilí starts off playing baby Derek & Donovan in flashbacks, but then they just decide to keep him, and he alternates between the secret love child (from Donovan or Derek- who knows?) and a clone from a secret government agency.

Filí starts off with small roles- he's the kid someone follows, the random child witness, and then becomes The Weapons Guy. If a character is definitely about to die- suddenly Filí is there. He's also a stuntman, so they make wildly innacurate theories of what The Weapons Guy does on screen, when in reality they know he hot clocked in the face because he forgot his cue to duck. He also tends to be typecast as cruel/cold and vicious, which is the opposite of his actual personality.

Balin plays Santa Claus and a variety of wise old men characters. He doesn't know why he's still there; he signed on for one (1) Christmas Special, and his contract wasn't renewed but he's still getting paid. He hasn't been given a script in years, and at this point he's in too deep to ask for one, so he just ad libs.

Dwalin plays both Evan, good guy biker, and Jim, evil biker. His costumes don't change and neither does his acting. He phoned it in on the first season thinking he'd get replaced, but it turns out audiences liked it so now he's stuck. He's also typecast as Reluctant Gruff Action Hero.

Dori has never received a script in his life. He dropped of his real life sons, Nori and Ori, for auditions, and was basically pulled away from everyone else and told he'd gotten the part. What part? The mom, they said, and told him it would be for three episodes tops. It's been 14 seasons. This is the only thing he acts in, but he has published 15 children's books. Fans have called him Mama Dori so often that he signs autographs like that.

Nori wasn't actually there to audition; he'd gotten a lead on one of the producers hiding a ton of irl cash on site. As a thief, he wanted absolutely nothing to do with this. He plays one of the main characters and hates it, but feels it's too late to back out now- everyone knows his face. He's definitely the one who taught Kili and Fili how to pick locks and throw knives.

Ori was the only one to get the role he wanted- a relatively minor character. He accidentally became famous during their third Halloween special, and now he's been lead characters in dozens of major movies. The directors think he's great at acting terrified. There's no acting involved.

Bifur literally just came to auditions to support his boyfriend, Ori. He did not expect that they'd give a deaf, physically disabled gay Marine vet a lead role. He barely auditioned. He's constantly using his relative fame to further rights for disabled people, especially veterans.

Bofur was stoned out his mind and walked in during auditions in a scene where Thorin was supposed to be yelling at his brother. He cried and argued back so convincingly that he got the part. He doesn't even remember auditioning. This used to massively piss off Thorin, who had to pull every string he had to even get into auditions.

Bombur wasn't in the soap opera. He is, however a top of the line chef with 2 cooking shows and guest appearances in other shows. They had 1 cooking competition episode, and fans loved it so much he comes back at least once per season even though it doesn't pay as well as his cooking shows or restaurants.

Gloin is constantly playing a divorced or meaning well but distant dad. They hired him to be the main antagonist, but he ended up talking about his real wife and son so often, sometimes it ends up in final cuts. Instead of firing him, they liked it so much that they made him have a 4- season long redemption arc even though they didn't bring his wife and son on.

Additional headcannons: Dís plays Kilí and Filí's mom. They're actual brothers, but she isn't related to either of them. She met their actual dad, Vilí, started dating him, and married him. This was an actual 15 step plan of Kilí abs Filí's, and they are beyond happy it worked.

Gandalf is one of the producers, and everyone calls him a wizard because he managed to take a shoe string budget, a bunch of acting students, complete novices, and washed-up actors and make it a show that a lot of famous actors and actresses got their starts on.

#fic ideas #the hobbit #bagginshield #what do you think?

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watching-pictures-move · 2 years

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Movie Review | True Game of Death (Chen, 1978)

True Game of Death is considered possibly the worst example of the Bruceploitation genre, so of course I decided to check it out. To give a bit more context, I'm currently going through These Fists Break Bricks by Grady Hendrix and Chris Poggiali, about the martial arts movie craze in America, which is proving to be a fascinating and highly entertaining read. (Having followed Hendrix's Kaiju Shakedown column when it was still going and enjoyed his featurettes for the Criterion Collection, this was no surprise.) The book includes a fairly in-depth look at Bruceploitation, a genre defined by its shamelessness. Having enjoyed a few examples of the genre in the past (Game of Death II, The Dragon Lives Again, Challenge of the Tiger, The Chinese Stuntman), I immediately perked up when I saw this movie described as "a real freakshow". If a movie where Bruce Lee fights Dracula, the Godfather, James Bond and others in the afterlife wasn't considered shameless enough, what would a real absence of artistic ambition look like? Every once in a while, I like a challenge.

From my understanding, the most notable scene in this movie is a reenactment of Lee's death, wherein the hero screams and writhes around in pain while in the throes of passion with his girlfriend while "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" blares on the soundtrack. Unfortunately, the copy I watched on Youtube (less than pristine and in the wrong aspect ratio, but not unwatchable in the grand scheme of things) was truncated and seemed to have excised the bulk of this sequence. We do get some "Bruce Lee" screaming and writhing to dramatic music, but the effect is like watching the TV edit of Scarface. You can still have some fun, but it's not the same. (I actually suspect this was a TV edit as well, as the movie would cut to black at regular intervals, as if it were stopping for commercial breaks.)

The book points out that the plots and dialogue of many of these movies would be vague and underdeveloped, and this is no exception. The hero here is actually not meant to be Bruce Lee, but another character, although the movie equates the two with liberal use of actual Lee footage, including a press conference, the funeral footage that seems to be a genre trope, and fight and training scenes from The Way of the Dragon. (A scene where "Lee" begins to make love to his girlfriend cuts to the scenes from the Chuck Norris fight in Way, with Lee repeatedly punching and kicking in the direction of the viewer. What this implies about their lovemaking I'd rather not speculate.) The movie implies that the real Lee was poisoned by some evil gang who intends to do the same to the Lee analogue here. This is roughly the plot of Game of Death, but if you tore out half the pages of the script and threw any concept of narrative coherence to the wind.

Of course, as a Game of Death ripoff, this restages some of the action scenes from that movie. These are arguably provide the highlights of this one, although that might erroneously imply that they're actually good. We get a lower rent, entirely boring remake of the motorcycle warehouse fight, although the movie does get a chuckle from a shot of children's toys which fell out of one of the boxes knocked over during the carnage. The climax restages the three-step pagoda scene from the original, one of the few sequences of actual Lee footage in that one (and easily the best part as a result). I'm a sucker for the video game boss battle concept of this sequence that I found even a bargain basement take on it mildly diverting. Most novel about this movie's take is that it actually gets less exciting as it goes along, starting with a stick-wielding Dan Inosanto knock-off, then moving to a pair of slow moving sumo wrestlers, and finally landing on a guy with a cape who does limp-looking boxing moves but briefly throws his cape over the hero. Folks, I laughed.

So yes, this is very, very bad, but if you think you're sufficiently desensitized to the moral and artistic bankruptcy of this genre, it might be of some interest. Not recommended unless your brain has been sufficiently fried to a crisp.

#movie review #true game of death #chen tien-tai #film

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fightscenefilmschool · 2 years

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If you're learning how to be a successful stuntman or stuntwoman, you need to learn more than how to merely take a punch, you need to learn how to THROW a screen punch with ballbusting intensity. How come you can watch a fight scene between two untrained actors and the MAN looks like he learned how to throw a punch in movies and the woman looks like even a high school catfight involves too much skill for her to handle? There are a lot of things that can give away the fact that you're not the real woman MMA fighter your character is, but once a closer look is taken there's ONE stage combat mistake that I see again and again. Lucky for you it's also the easiest mistake to remedy. Time to take a look at a piece of the action and give some fight scene autopsy classes. #fightscenebreakdown Fight scenes in movies & TV shows require a sense of realism, right? It's not enough to have girls pulling each others hair like a movie catfight when it's supposed to be an epic battle scene movie. Any top stunt coordinator or ballbusting stuntwoman will tell you that the fight choreography doesn't bring itSELF to life. It takes dedicated actors who are willing to learn martial arts and train the fundamentals of how to make a fight scene look real. Let's look at Rosa Salazar training for Robert Rodriguez's Alita Battle Angel. In the end she was throwing the perfect movie punches, but when she first started her training for the role she had what I call kitten paws. Not to be overly ballbusting, but kitten paws are these awkwardly bent wrists that take you from looking like a film rioting, epic fighter to looking like a lucky cat pawing at the air. These bent wrists are like giant glowing beacons to the audience. Your actors atrocious technique guides the viewers attention away from the fight choreography, detracting from the stage combat. But someone filming a Thai stunt girl test fight knows that they only need their knuckles pointing at the target at the moment of impact. With their wrists straight their knuckles are going to be in the right spot at the end of their punches - when they "hit" the stuntman or stuntwoman. So WHY does Rosa Salazar from Alita Battle Angel have her wrists bent like she's trying to touch her own elbow? She's not at the point where she can do fights or film riot scenes yet - her brain is still too focused on getting her fists in the right spots. But by the end of her martial arts training Rosa Salazar was able to play Alita Battle Angel with the high level of screen fighting / stage combat technique needed to bring the panzer kunst style to life. But what if you've already learned how to be a stuntman or stuntwoman in Hollywood and you CAN punch? How do you look like you DON'T know how to throw a fake punch for film and TV shows? Girl fights are a unique beast. If you're wondering why most of my examples involve women performing the fight choreography, it's because the kitten paws issue is far more prevalent in female fight scenes. Not because it takes women longer to learn how to punch, but because women tend to have more flexibility in their legs and hips, so they're expected to learning punches AND kicks, whereas men are typically only expected to learn punches for stage combat and screen fights. If a studio needs to film riot scenes they schedule the actors to have rehearsal time with the stunt team. If two actors spend the same number of hours training to fake fight in movies, but one has twice as much to learn, naturally their techniques are going to be around half as good. Now that you can watch stunt choreography like a movie insider, keep an eye out for those times when actors guide your attention to their bent wrists. That's not a perfect movie punch, and now you know why. Ever think you're about to watch one of the best female fight scenes in movie history, only to break out in laughter when the first punch is thrown? I don't mean some high school catfight, I mean a multimillion dollar Hollywood movie with professional fight choreography, directing, and editing. Not to be a ball busting negative Nancy, but how the hell does that even happen? Why do women suck at fight scenes in movies?

#gal gadot #alita battle angel fight #battle angel alita movie #rosa salazar training #red notice fight #fight choreography #martial arts choreography #how to film a fight scene #how to choreograph a fight scene #catfight #cat fight #ballbusting fight scene #stage combat lesson #filmmaking tips

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companionjones · 4 years

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The Stuntman And The Singer

Pairing: Cliff Booth x Fem!Reader

Fandom: Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood

Summary: This story follows you in your many interactions with Cliff Booth. When you meet him, you’re not in the best situation. However, you’re you. I’m sure you’ll end up living your wildest dreams.

Warnings: Cursing, references to sex

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“Do you need a ride, sweetheart?” a man pulled up to you on the side of the road.

Not looking up from your engine, you answered, “No, I’m fine.” Just then, you burned your finger, and you quickly started sucking on it to take the pain away.

He smirked, “You don’t look like you’re fine.”

Aggravated, you sarcastically asked him, “What are you going to do about it?”

The man turned his car off and got out. He had a bottle of water in his hand, and he poured it into something under your hood. He had the sliest grin you’d ever seen on his face as he asked you to try turning your car back on.

“Thanks,” you mumbled, embarrassed the solution had been so simple.

He smirked, “Anytime. Cliff Booth,” he introduced. “Now, are you gonna tell me your name, or are you gonna keep giving me that little attitude of yours?”

“Y/n,” you grumbled out your first name while shaking his hand.

“Oh,” Cliff nodded, “so we’re going for both the name and the attitude.”

You didn’t say anything, just cocked your eyebrow at him.

“Alright.” Cliff got back in his car. “Welcome to Hollywood, Y/n.”

The next time you saw him, Cliff picked you up while you were hitch-hiking.

He mockingly wondered, “What happened to that car I so graciously helped you with?”

“I sold it,” you curtly answered, keeping your eyes out the window.

Cliff pushed, “Why’d you do that? And what are you doing out here in the first place? You look like the kinda girl who should be out on a farm, not out here in Hollywood. What’s up with that? Does your family know you’re out here--?”

“No, they don’t, alright?” you suddenly exclaimed. “Is that what you wanted to hear? I’m just like every other nineteen year old run away in this town who thought they could make it, but actually have no real business being here.”

Cliff didn’t respond. The car went quiet.

“This is fine. Just let me out here,” you ordered soon after. You got out of the car, but you leaned back down to thank Booth before walking away.

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“Hey there, sweetheart.” There was his voice again.

Squinting at the brightness of the neon lights at night, you opened your eyes.

It had been a month since you saw him last.

Cliff urged, “Get in the car. I’m taking you somewhere to eat.”

You didn’t move.

He pressed, “Come on, who knows the last time you had something in your stomach.”

Groaning, you got up. “I had a burger the other day, thank you very much...Granted, it was from a dumpster...”

Cliff took you to a pizzeria. You had your first slice down in under a minute, and you had finished half the pie.

Booth commented while you worked on your fifth slice, “You look like shit.”

You barely looked up at him.

He continued, “Your skin’s the same color as a ghost.”

“You can stop now.” You rolled your eyes.

Cliff looked you over for a second longer before “Stay with me tonight.”

Dropping the pizza you were holding out of surprise, you then pointed an accusatory finger at him. “If you think for a second that I would suck your dick in exchange for--”

Booth cut in, “No, nothing like that. I just want to make sure you have a place to sleep tonight.”

You didn’t respond right away, but sure enough, you were in Cliff Booth’s trailer an hour later.

“Aw, hello gorgeous,” you greeted Cliff’s dog by kneeling down and petting her. “Aren’t you the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen.”

Cliff chuckled, “Wow, sweetheart. I had no idea you could be so...”

“Sweet?” you finished for him. “I usually save it all for the animals.” You gave Brandy one final scratch behind her ear before getting back on your feet. “So Booth, tell me your story.”

He chuckled, “My story?”

You nodded. “I figure you know a lot about me, and here I am in your home...it’s only fair.”

Cliff finished giving Brandy her dinner. “Huh...I guess it is fair...Well, I do stunt work, nowadays I mainly work for my friend Rick Dalton.”

“You’re friends with Rick Dalton?” You expressed, “I used to watch his show all the time back home!”

Cliff smiled, “Yeah. I did all his stunts on Bounty Law.”

“Wow, I had no idea how much you were holding out on me, Booth,” you smirked.

He chuckled, “If I knew it was gonna get you to stop looking at me like I was the devil himself, I woulda told ya sooner.”

“Shut the hell up, Booth.”

“Annnd, she’s back.”

Some time passed, and you and Cliff settled down to watch TV. You practically forced him to take the only chair he had while you sat on the floor. It was nice. It didn’t take long for you to start dozing off.

“Come on, time to go to sleep,” Cliff nudged you awake. “You take the bed. I got the chair.”

“No,” you mumbled, “You take the bed. It’s your house.”

He shook his head. “Nope. Up you go.” Cliff picked you up and carried you to his bedroom.

“You’re a jackass.” You wanted to fight him more, but it had been so long since you had been on an actual bed.

Cliff smiled, “I don’t know. From where I’m standing, I’m the savior here.”

“Shut up...”

He smirked, “Never...Goodnight, sweetheart.” You didn’t see how soft his eyes were as he covered you with the blankets.

“Goodnight, jackass...” you smirked right back, and then you were out like a light.

The next day, you were awake before Cliff was, and you wouldn’t have said a word if he hadn’t caught you sneaking out.

“You know, you could stay longer, if you want,” he offered from his door as he watched you walk away.

Turning around, you remarked, “If I’m going to be staying somewhere for more than one night, I’d rather be paying for it.”

Cliff teased, “Who said you couldn’t pay me?”

“I’ll see you around...Booth.” You half waved before continuing out on your own.

“See you around, sweetheart,” the stuntman bid under his breath.

***

“Mr. Dalton, Mr. Booth, I’d like you to meet a good friend of mind, Miss L/n.” Dalton’s most recent co-star introduced while she, Dalton and Booth were hanging out in Dalton’s movie trailer one day, a year after Cliff had last seen you. “She has an album coming out next month. I think she’s going to be the next Aretha Franklin.”

The group of four continued to talk in the trailer for a while...Well, Rick and his co-star talked. Neither movie star seemed to notice that the stuntman and the singer were mostly quiet, or that their eyes never really left each other.

“So, the next Aretha Franklin, huh?” Cliff finally noted when Rick and his co-star had been called away for a scene.

“That is definitely not true,” you denied with a laugh.

Cliff continued to compliment, “But an album next month. And a star like that talking you up? Sounds like you’re pretty big to little old me.”

“Little old you, huh?” You looked him up and down. “Yeah, right. I’m just happy I can pay my rent...and have a rent,” you realized and chuckled.

Cliff saw the humor, too. He smiled at you, but then he commented sincerely, “I’m proud of you, sweetheart.”

There was a pregnant pause between the two of you.

“It’s been a long time, Cliff,” you pointed out, as if you were worried something might’ve changed.

He just tucked a strand of your hair behind your ear. “Bah,” he shook his head, “It hasn’t been that long.” Cliff leaned in and kissed you.

*******

Author’s Note: Thank you so much for reading! Fill up that heart and reblog if you liked it. I would also really appreciate a comment, if you have the time. If you would like to read more, I have more stories over on my page. You should check it out. Also, REQUESTS ARE OPEN. I take requests for preferences, headcannons, drabbles, and one-shots. No smut requests, please. If you’re wondering if I write for a specific fandom, feel free to ask me. Have a nice day, night, or whatever time it is for you! <3 <3 <3

#once upon a time...in hollywood #once upon a time in hollywood #cliff booth #cliff booth x reader #brad pitt #the stuntman and the singer #companion jones #i had to rewrite this like three times

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Of course, Onward owes at least some of its success (I’d estimate 34.7%) to its star Tom Holland – who you might remember from a little franchise called the Marvel Cinematic Universe where he plays some guy called Spider-Man – and we were lucky enough to speak to Tom when he popped over to London earlier this year.

We had six whole minutes with Holland and we could have asked him anything; what it’s like to be in a Pixar film, what the hell is going on with Chaos Walking, or what Robert Downey Jr. smells like (I’m thinking sandalwood). Instead of asking any of those questions, though, we wasted his time by subjecting him to some questions we literally had to convince Disney were appropriate to ask the star of a kid’s film (sorry Disney).

You know the drill: this is The Ten…

1) You’ve got a time machine, you can go anywhere in time and space, where’s the first place you’re going?

Tom Holland: Oh, anywhere in time and space? Well, I wouldn’t go anywhere in space because we don’t know what’s up there and I don’t want to waste the trip.

UNILAD: But you could find out what’s up there?

Tom Holland: Yeah but I don’t really want to know…

UNILAD: Oh okay?

Tom Holland: … because it’ll just be disappointing.

UNILAD: So I take it you don’t believe in aliens then or anything like that?

Tom Holland: No, I do believe but we don’t know where they are so I wouldn’t know where to find them.

UNILAD: That’s an excellent point.

Tom Holland: If I could visit anywhere in history though I would go back to the Roman period, so I could get a Roman, bring them back [to the present] and blow their mind. The first thing I’d show them? A car.

UNILAD: [laughing] Why?

Tom Holland: Well, everything with them is about travel, they were about building this globe-spanning empire and circumnavigating the globe, but they only had horses, and they’d go crazy if they saw a car.

UNILAD: I think I’d watch this movie.

Tom Holland: [laughs] Let’s make it happen. Downey Jr. could play the Roman!

UNILAD: Disney, you’re sat in the room with us, this is a solid pitch.

2) What’s the most famous-person thing you’ve ever done?

Tom Holland: Ooh! I sometimes ring restaurants and pretend to be my own assistant to get a table. So I ring like [switches to an American accent] ‘Hey, this is Tom Holland’s assistant and we’d love to come in to dinner for 12 people tonight’, and they go, ‘Oh yeah sure, of course, we’ll get that sorted right away!’

UNILAD: Amazing.

Tom Holland: I actually did it today for my family. We’re going to a nice restaurant and I know we wouldn’t have got a table if I didn’t drop my own name.

UNILAD: You’re super famous though, why not just call and be you?

Tom Holland: No, because you never want to start with that, because if you get to the point where they’re like, ‘No you can’t have a table we’re fully booked’, you then don’t want to be in the situation when you’re like, ‘Yeah but I’m Tom Holland’ because then they’re thinking, ‘Yeah, and you’re also a prick’.

3) If you weren’t an actor, what do you think you’d be doing with your life?

Tom Holland: If I wasn’t an actor? Well, I would never have known that I wanted to do this if I hadn’t got into acting, but a stuntman. If I’d never gone into acting or entertainment though I’d liked to have been a school teacher.

UNILAD: That seems to be quite a common answer we get.

Tom Holland: Really? Interesting, I wonder if it’s because teachers come into contact with loads of different people and actors pretend to be lots of different people?

UNILAD: That’s a super well-thought-out answer.

Tom Holland: Thank you, and that’s coming from someone who didn’t go to university… UNI-lad.

UNILAD: You know it doesn’t stand for university?

Tom Holland: What does it stand for?

UNILAD: I don’t know anymore.

4) You have one wish and it has to be selfish, what do you wish for? No world peace.

Tom Holland: I would wish for a teleportation machine, because if I have to watch another in-flight safety video I’m going to do something really bad.

UNILAD: Going to do some damage to some planes?

Tom Holland: Yeah, I’m going to break that TV screen. I’m actually flying tomorrow morning and I’m going to put on a face mask and some headphones – I know where the exits are. If you can’t find the exits on a plane, then don’t fly on an aeroplane! They’re that way [points one way] or that way [points another way]!

5) Whose career do you most admire?

Tom Holland: At the moment? I really admire Tyson Fury, from where he’s come from with his mental health and his physical transformation. You know, there are some things in the past that I don’t agree with, but I think he’s grown as a person and realised that what he said was pretty foolish.

I think what Fury did this morning [beating Deontay Wilder by technical knockout in the 7th round] and when you look at where he’s come from, it’s a real lesson in never giving up. Also I think what he’s doing for mental health is really admirable and I also think he’s pretty funny.

Also he destroyed Wilder this morning! I’m so jet lagged, I didn’t get to bed until the early hours of the morning because I was busy reading scripts, but I still got up at 5am to watch the fight with all my buddies. So the fact I’m still here and awake is pretty impressive!

6) What is your strongest-held opinion?

Tom Holland: Oh god. That’s a big question: tea is better than coffee.

7) What’s something you’ve never admitted publicly but you’ll tell me now?

Tom Holland: [smirking] Clever question bro, you’ve got me. I don’t know?

UNILAD: Well Richard E. Grant once told us he’d commissioned a statue of Barbra Streisand’s face. I think that was my first-ever scoop.

Tom Holland: Sorry, I really don’t know.

UNILAD: Are you sure?

Tom Holland: Sorry, I unfortunately am. Sorry mate.

A Brief Aside:

At this point we’d normally have two more questions, but unfortunately, because I’m a bad negotiator, when I secured an interview with Tom I rather confidently believed I could get through all the questions in six minutes. This confidence turned out to be misplaced.

So while I’d love to get Tom to answer numbers eight (What day would you happily relive?) and nine (Have you ever believed a fake news story about yourself?) we didn’t have time to get through them.

I invite you now to close your eyes, imagine what Tom Holland might have said to these wonderfully-written questions and smirk as you think, ‘Christ, this journalist gets some incisive answers from Holland, he should get his own TV show’.

We now return to our regular questions…

10) If you had to remove one colour from the world forever, which would it be and why?

Tom Holland: Woah! I want to say turquoise, but you’re wearing a turquoise jumper.

UNILAD: Any reason why?

Tom Holland: Because I don’t trust people in turquoise.

Makes sense why he wouldn’t tell us a secret now, I suppose.

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Baby (Cliff Booth)

Requested by: @sergeant-donny-donowitz (you should give her a follow if you haven't already, she's an outstanding writer!) I apologize it took me so damn long, I've been really busy lately.

Summary: The affection between Cliff and you is more than obvious but both of you are too stubborn to confess. All you 'need' is to involuntarily meet your ex hippie boyfriend so Cliff could save you and finally realize his feelings.

Author's Note: Hope you enjoy! Requests are open!

"Hello my Hollywood star!" your voice echoed through Rick's hall as you walked in the living room with two six packs of beer in each hand. "Hey B-baby!" your actor friend got up from the coach to hug you tight. You held him probably a little bit longer than you should but you just missed him so much and haven't seen him and Cliff for such a long time because of the new job as an actor you got.

"C'mon, have a s-seat, Baby!" he laughed and put his hand around your shoulder. You smiled happily at the random memory that just appeared in your head.

•••

"Can you stop it, Rick?" you frowned at him and started to walk away because the way he just embarrassed you in front of so many people was way behind the line. He just laughed at your behaviour and ran after you, "Jesus Y/N, don't be such a baby. I-it was just a fun."

"Yeah, maybe for you, Mr Dalton." you didn't even look at him when you said that.

"Now y-you're calling me by m-my surname? That's very m-mature."

"Can you just shut up?"

"Okay, f-fine. I'll stop it."

"Finally."

"Baby."

"I'm so done with you, Rick fucking Dalton."

"Ohhh, you l-love me!"

At that point, you couldn't stay angry at Rick anymore. And ever since, he'd been calling you Baby. Only in serious conversations he'd call you by your real name.

•••

"Cliff is on his way, don't w-worry." Rick said all of a sudden while making margaritas in the kitchen. "I didn't say anything." you tried to cover the sudden nervousness behind a smile.

"Then why the fuck y-you're blushing so damn hard?" he laughed loudly and turned to face you, "now tell me what has been g-going on with you two."

You didn't even tried to stop the way this conversation was slowly going. Rick obviously knew about your feelings towards Cliff, it wasn't really hard to guess that because your red cheeks gave you away every single time. Even Cliff had to know...

"I've never seen him that h-happy when he's with you, Y/N." Rick broke the silence between you two and your heart dropped a little when you heard those words.

"What are you talking about?"

"Don't tell me you d-don't see it! Every time he just gets to talk to y-you, his eyes sparkle and he can't help it but smile like a freaking idiot a-all the time."

And once again, your cheeks were turning into the light tone of red. "And then you're blushing so h-hard when he talks with you and this just c-completes the whole l-love story."

"Geez, shut up and drink." you laughed but deep down you were wishing for Rick's words to be true.

•••

You were lying on the coach with Rick watching nothing else but Bounty Law when there was this specific knock on the front door you'd recognize any time. You jumped on your feet maybe too happily and ran over to open the door.

"Try not to be r-red like a fucking tomato, Baby!"

Damn it, Rick! Can you shout a bit louder so Cliff could hear you?!

Causal dark blue jeans, plain black T-shirt, mokasins, nothing special but it was probably the most beautiful thing you'd seen in the past week.

"I freakin' missed ya so much." Cliff mumbled and immediately wrapped his strong arms around your body. This was rather unusual gesture of Cliff because he wasn't the sentimental type of guy so you enjoyed this little moment as much as you could, his hand was gently rubbing your back and you felt genuinely safe. "I missed you too, Cliff." you whispered and pulled him even closer to you even though there wasn't any space left between you two.

•••

"We forgot the fucking h-hippie sucker Tex!" Rick shouted all of sudden. "Oh yeah, this idiot. I hate him." Cliff nodded and took a drag from his cigarette as he rolled his eyes at the little memory.

Cliff knew you weren't lucky when it comes to picking boyfriends and you probably knew it as well but were just too stubborn to admit it. Exactly this was eating the stuntman alive. All he ever wanted was you to be truly happy, even if it wasn't with him. And seeing you so broken from all the bad relationships, it hurt him like hell. He wanted to hug you tight, stroke your hair and kiss your forehead and tell you it'll be all fine. He wanted to fall asleep next to you as well as wake up. He wanted to walk Brandy with you. He just simply wanted you. There hadn't been anyone in his life that made him feel the way you did.

•••

"Hey, I left something in my car, I'm gonna go get it. I'll be right back." you informed your friends, got up from the TV and quickly left the house.

There was this nice summer breeze in the air that made you shiver a bit but you didn't mind it at all.

You didn't leave anything in the car. It was just too much for you to be in the same room as Cliff. You cursed under your breath for allowing yourself to have this kind of feeling towards him. It was impossible for you to be with him. You knew you'd probably break his heart in the end because it may not work out and you didn't want to destroy something so beautiful.

•••

"Well, well, well. Look who we have here?"

You slowly turned around and you had to blink a few times just to make sure you're not dreaming. "Hi Tex." you breathed out and took a small step back. "What? You afraid of me, little princess? C'mon, we'll just have some fun together." he winked at you and roughly grabbed your wrist.

You were pretty scared at this moment - your heart was racing inside your chest so fast, your hands were trembling.

"Just leave me alone. We're done." you tried to sound cold and tough but when he laughed contemptuously, you knew you failed at it. However, his smile disappeared as fast as it formed on his lips and in the next second you felt his hand slap your cheek so hard you fell on the ground and bruised your palms.

"What the fuck is goin' on here?!" Cliff shouted and was standing right next to you in a matter of one second. He looked at you with so much love and concern, you almost forgot about the burning pain.

"You're Tex, right?" Cliff growled when he turned to the guy and clenched his fists, "listen to me, if you ever show your fucking ass here again or even lay your eyes on her, I swear I'm gonna beat the shit out of you with a can of dog food and then I'll make you eat it, understood?"

All Tex could do was nod.

"Great, now get the fuck out of here!" Cliff raised his voice and that made your ex boyfriend turn around and run away as fast as possible.

"Come here, Y/N." Cliff almost whispered and stroked your hurt cheek. You smiled at him, "Thank you for saving me."

"We should do that for the people we love."

You froze in the moment. He froze right after you when he realised what he just said. There was a small silence between you two. You saw how Cliff was trying to get some words out: "Look, I don't even know why I-" You cut him off with a small innocent kiss, something you wanted to do for some time now. Your cheek didn't hurt anymore or your palms and all you could perceive on was his lips on yours and his hands around your waist.

Well, until Rick came out of the house with a flamethrower in his hands, "Where's the fucking hippie, guys"?

#cliff booth imagine #cliff booth #once upon a time in hollywood imagines #once upon a time #once upon a time in hollywood #once upon in hollywood #rick dalton imagines #rick dalton #brad pitt #brad pitt imagines #leonardo dicaprio imagines #leonardo dicaprio #quentin tarantino #love #love story #romance

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Lucifer 5x03 - ¡Diablo! - Spoilers & Speculation

Warning! There is always a possibility that certain scenes might have been mixed up under their non-respective episodes.

Written By: Mike Kosta

Directed By: Claudia Yarm

Mike Costa has written/co-written the episodes:

1x10 - Pops

2x09 - Homewrecker

2x15 - Deceptive Little Parasite

3x07/2x21 - Off the Record

3x13 - Til Death Do Us Part

4x05 - Expire Erect

5x03 - ¡Diablo!

Cast: Tom Ellis as Lucifer, Lauren German as Chloe, DB Woodside as Amenadiel, Lesley-Ann Brandt as Maze, Kevin Alejandro as Dan, Scarlett Estevez as Trixie, Rachael Harris as Linda Martin and Aimee Garcia as Ella.

Season 4 Recurring Characters: None Officially Announced Guest Cast:

Dan Andreiu...Skeezy Motel Tenant

Jacob Chattman...Detective Doofus

Ernesto Chaverri...Police officer

Brianne Davis...Detective Dancer

Genevieve Gauss...Officer Cacuzza

Alex Quijano...Diablo

Behind The Scenes Videos:

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Locations

Chloe’s Apartment - Maze & Trixie (There is all a Trixe-Lucifer scene)

Precinct - Dan, Lucifer and Ella. -Before the bracelets-

Pink Motel - Not a murder scene but I believe they question the owner as he is listed in the cast.

Warner Brothers Stars Hallow Set Area - Open Stages:

1) The Murder Scene - Dan, Ella, Lucifer & Chloe

2) Stage III - The room with the clowns. Prior to Halloween WB had built a clown maze for tourists and its workers although they didn’t the usual annual Halloween attraction but it was not the same one. However, I believe it may have been used for this episode nonetheless.

3) Stage Set - Hell set used as a Tv Series Prop although it acts as our actual Hell as well.

When an episode is shot at the lot it means it costs less money to be made still what it saved them on money it cost them on 1-2 days.

This episode is called from us “Diablo: The Tv Series Episode” and we call it that because that’s what it is. There is no AU here but something like 3x02 where you see our leads investigating a case which is related to a show. Now that show is VERY similar to Lucifer. Extremely so but we will talk about that in a bit.

First of all the main themes of this episode is Lucifer’s ongoing instability but also a problem that seems to tie him eventually to Dan. Dan’s issue in my opinion started either in the first episode but is gradually getting worse so in 5x03 Lucifer provides a temporary solution. But is that him or Amenadiel? As we know Chloe and Amenadiel work together for a bit in this episode.

As always in order to unravel this episode we will rely on the case of the week. Where does the murder takes place? At the WB lot actually, so be prepared to see it again like you did back in 3x26 yet that is a different area.

^Aimee on the left

They also shot at night at Stars Hallow Set.

We have some photos from Josh with Aimee and Kevin where you can clearly see that Dan does not wear the bracelet yet. Same goes with Lucifer’s bracelet at the beginning of the episode neither of them wears it and that makes sense.

Let’s talk now about the victim and the theme of the episode again. For some reason the murder is connected to a television show called ‘Diablo’. We know that because there are several hints and downright spoilers about that like the social media posts of some people which will not be posted for obvious reasons.

Diablo as a show has EVERYTHING Lucifer’s life has. Scratch that everything Lucifer as a show had in its first season down right to the… same poster. Yep!

So when I say everything what do I mean? I mean that there are the following characters who take the place of our main leads:

Lucifer = Diablo

Chloe Dacker = Detective Dancer

Maze = Blaze (male)

Dan Espinoza aka Det. Douche = Det. Dooffus

We do not know who else is featured but I would expect Linda, perhaps Trixie and Amenadiel to have their own counterparts.

^ Dancer was originally Chloe’s surname in the Kapinos Pilot do not be surprised is you see Linda being played by a Kim...

Yet who would do that? Who would make a Tv Show that resembles so much Lucifer’s life? My first thought was Ella but then I found a BTS about an Alex Lopez and I assumed he was one of her brothers taking advantage of her workalike stories. Although that may be true then how could anyone know how the actual Hell looks like?

One day I got a glimpse of a woman which I think was Inbar on set. Additionally, at that time, Inbar Lavi posted a few S4 photos which seemed a bit peculiar. Therefore if Inbar was on set and is the person who made the tv series Diablo we are in for a hoot!

If that happens it means that Eve has found her way and she might eventually find her way back to Maze’s life in P2. Of course, that’s a speculation but we can always hope!

The next question is why would our writers do that to Lucifer? Why would they put him through an experience that shows him his work and partnership so obviously to him through a series like Diablo? As we know Lucifer is a bit thick sometimes so for all the characters it would be nice to acknowledge certain dynamics as seen from a show that is, of course, a caricature of the actual actors.

I mean Diablo has frozen tips, Det. Doofus looks downright clueless and Blaze… Blaze is the equivalent of Maze but big… Congrats Eve! If that was you, of course, you made Maze looking butch!

So in that episode, Lucifer needs to come face to face with the facade of his life in Hell but also on Earth and I believe it’s time for him for another breakthrough. The same goes for the rest of the leads.

I stand by the opinion I posted on Twitter that 5x03 as far as I see it is a wake-up call that no matter for how long you keep a costume & a mask on that's not who you are. It's also a point where Lucifer's work & partnership may finally be unveiled for what they truly are. All that while they search for a solution. Yet for what solution do I talk about?

Something is wrong with Dan perhaps even Lucifer but I do believe the origin of the problem is Dan due to Lucifer’s actions back in 5x01. If I had to guess I would say that they need a way to make sure Dan is kept alive that a life source is sustained and that requires a link which I suppose is the bracelet. But that it’s just a temporary solution, the permanent one will come in 5x08 and will have its own consequences!

In any case we do have Lucifer and Chloe going to the Pink Motel for some questioning but then… then it seems like Lucifer disappears for a bit. If my speculation is correct during his recovery the events of 5x04 will happen but that will be explored in the next S&S!

The Pink Hotel is considered a landmark btw.

Let’s say now that half of the episode is almost gone perhaps less, 15 min? And we have Lucifer out of commission or perhaps they search with Dan for what they need. That leads to two different groups working and I do not mean that it will be necessary on the case.

^LUX as Hell it even has poles...

*cough* priest collard male strippers*

On one hand, you have Lucifer and Dan. When Kelly Clarkson visited the penthouse aside from several cool parts of that episode like LUX that is now called HELL in the Diablo series we also had a glimpse of a book…

A book? Again? You may lament like Mum at the end of 2x17. Well yes, a book… an ancient book which it may or may not be related to this episode although I will speculate that it is. For me, that book reminded me the Book of Destiny…

In order to understand what that means I have put some strips from the comics here for you. Lucifer and that book or to put it right Destiny, one of the Endless have had a disagreement about that book before but it didn’t work out that well…

The Book of Destiny as Sandman’s and Lucifer’s comics inform us:

“It contains your life. Every detail of your life. Everything that has happened to you. Everything that will happen one day. The things you have forgotten (ALERT on that one). The things you do not believe.”

Yet the writers have never used a source from the comics without altering it so beware of that. It may be something that is based on that book or carries certain attributes of it.

So let’s assume that that book helps them create the bracelets and thus Dan remains alive for the time being. Also, does that mean that Dan will be exposed to the Devilish truth? If this speculation is correct I do not see how he can avoid it. At the same time learning all about Mom and most importantly Charlotte will do him A LOT of good. Yes, he has been healing in his own terms but whoever has lost someone knows that the pain never goes away it always nags you so I think it will make that pain a bit duller.

^Do not forget that Dan’s office area is full of motivation quotes... Do not be surprised if he is in therapy again in s5...

While Lucifer and Dan are preoccupied we have Chloe and Amenadiel working together I believe somewhat on the case or trying to help Dan. Who knows it might even be Eve - again IF she appears in that episode - who will give the temporary solution they need.

What intrigues me in DB’s photo from that episode is the official one that was released at ET where he is in front of a clown. It looks like a weird scary place, a theme park perhaps or even a set…

We do know that there were two crews and that scenes of the Diablo episode were requiring two crews, I mean would you let an actor near your 40K camera? Nope!

So the circus/clown scene is what interests me most as I have no idea what is going on there… What I do know is that it corresponds with Ella’s shirt. Ella’s shirt has a clown on and it says ‘Big Clown’ and something other underneath yet on the murder scene she wears a light blue shirt.

Additional Info

We have a Scene at the Penthouse which may be connected with the scene of Maze and Trixie at the Decker Household. However! Scarlett almost always shoots more than one episode so it is possible that it might be connected to 5x04. Still we take it as if it is for 5x03.

There is a fight scene with Maze and Lucifer against some people. Still, Ellis’ stuntman also filled in for a different role this time so that might have been for the Diablo show.

Finally, we did have Linda on set and there was a photo from within her house. Scenes from Linda’s house or her office during her sessions with Lucifer are rare so most of the time we do not know they are happening.

A background extra who played a police officer in this episode made it to an actor with lines. Of course now we know that she will have that role up to 5x08 yet we do not know if she will survive the serial killer ordeal of the last two episodes of S5 Part 1…

Additional bts of that episode including the Kelly Clarkson photos etc.

^Did you see Marcus’ honourary tablet?

^And of course the mermaid is back at her rightful place. It was there also in S4 but appeared only at a bts with Inbar. :)

#lucifer spoilers #lucifer speculation #Sanoiro S&S #lucifer 5x03 #Lucifer 5x03 ¡Diablo!#Lucifer Season 5 #Lucifer Season 5 Part 1

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The Not-So-Amazing Mary Jane Part 3: The Birth of Mysterio

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Before we dive into specifics of Amazing Mary Jane, there is a large chunk of context we need to establish about Mysterio’s history. Specifically who he is and some of the crimes he’s committed over the years. I will generally be emphasising stuff that Mary Jane would likely or definitely be aware of; or at least could easily learn about with a little research. This is important to bear in mind when we look at MJ’s attitude to Beck in AMJ.

For starters, let’s consider how and why Beck ventured into a life of crime in the first place.

Life before Mysterio

Quentin Beck before he became a criminal had a college education to some extent and had major technical and chemical skills at his disposal. He became an accomplished special effects artists and stuntman and had regular employment. Long story short, he got bored and after failing to transition into acting (though he obviously had some acting talent) he was inspired to get involved with costume villainy.

Due to retcons in BND, it was established that he went back to work in Hollywood. However, he later got blacklisted when one of his effects injured someone. As originally presented and intended though, he basically turned to villainy out of boredom and frustration.

After being blacklisted Beck undertook his first major campaign against Spider-Man, whom (due to other retcons) he resented for foiling some of his crimes during his first foray into villainy.

Whether you look at him as originally presented or in the wake of all these retcons it’s clear that Beck didn’t get pushed into crime. It was a pure ego trip for him. Even with the retcon in mind realistically his skills and intelligence would garner him legitimate work elsewhere. In fact in the ‘Guardian Devil’ arc of Daredevil it’s established he was instrumental in developing certain technologies and processes that made advances in film making possible.

In short Quentin Beck became a criminal because he LIKED it. He is 100% not a tragic figure like the Lizard. He is not someone who’s environment made it difficult for him to be anything but a criminal, as is often the case for people in poverty stricken parts of the world. He wasn’t even someone like Doc Ock or Norman Osborn whose minds were (arguably) inadvertently affected by some kind of extenuating circumstance. Nor is he someone diagnosed with some kind of anti-social personality disorder like Cletus Kasady or Eddie Brock.

Regardless of whether you feel such mental conditions mitigate those villains, my point is Beck DEFINIETLY cannot be excused for his choice of becoming a criminal.

Virtually every crime he ever committed were the actions of a sane, rationale and intelligent person who happened to also be selfish, egotistical, greedy and often nasty. Maybe not nasty the way Carnage or the Green Goblin are, but nasty nevertheless.

I’m saying he’s not just ‘a villain’ but also an outright bad person.

And he’s been a bad person since basically the start of Spider-Man’s superhero career. That’s anywhere from 10-25 years, depending upon whose math you want to use.

The 1960s: Making an Entrance

Were we to take retcons into account, Mysterio’s first crime was his involvement with the Tinkerer way back in ASM #2, circa 1964! This was literally the fifth ever Spider-Man story to be created.

However, retcons not withstanding Mysterio’s first major crime was impersonating and framing Spider-Man, back in ASM #13.

He then went on to bill himself as a hero and defeated Spider-Man.

These events were a huge news story at the time and thus it’s not unbelievable that MJ would know about them via osmosis. Granted, there is leeway on that because MJ was not living in NYC at this time but she was making sporadic trips there and had taken a casual interest in Spider-Man’s adventures; this was partially because she knew Peter was Spider-Man.

However, one would imagine that it’d likely come up in conversation with Peter over the years given how this was his first (known) encounter with Mysterio and MJ was present for several consequent ones. It’d also be believable given that it’s just common sense for Peter to inform MJ of any enemies who could possibly impersonate him. Forewarned is forearmed (as arguably Gwen’s death proved) so knowing about Mysterio could help MJ ensure the safety of herself and her loved ones; for example MJ’s Aunt Anna and cousin Kristy.

Furthermore it is important to note that Mysterio’s very first major solo effort was a form of identity theft (there is probably a more accurate descriptor but I don’t know of one). The crime was intentionally designed so that he could build up his own reputation off the back of someone else’s. Does this perhaps remind you of another time Mysterio might’ve tried to selfishly benefit at the expense of another person’s reputation, not caring if he damaged it along the way? Like for example any female-led comic books released in 2019 for example?

The next time Mysterio duelled Spidey he used highly convincing robot duplicates of the (3 of the original 5) X-Men.

So, Mysterio is an expert in robotics and can create loyal and dangerous robotic servants. These robots can also trick people into thinking they are a real person, including Mysterio himself. Thus it’s very possible for Beck to convince someone he’s in one place when he’s actually in another, or alternatively get his robots to do something on his behalf when he’s otherwise indisposed.

Mary Jane 100% knows about these robot duplicates because versions of them (plus Iceman and Jean Grey) appear in Amazing Mary Jane #1.

It would suuuuuuuuure be illogical for MJ to just presume Mysterio would definitely NEVER misuse such robots for any nefarious schemes, or use them to slip under the noses of the press monitoring the movie. Or if he or his crew maybe used them to violate/evade justice somehow…

Also, just for the record, Mysterio was potentially risking damaging the reputation of the X-Men/mutants in general by creating duplicates of them. Yet another example of Mysterio is selfishly cavalier with someone else’s reputation.

Arguably (because I’m not an X-Men expert) this was especially awful because of how the general public already hated and feared mutants, who were of course chiefly allegorical to African Americans back in the 1960s. In this sense Mysterio could be viewed as exploiting societal bigotry or at least caring so little about it he doesn’t realise he’s potentially going to make it far worse. *

Mysterio’s third major encounter with Spidey was in a lot of ways one of his most twisted efforts.

His plan was to learn Spider-Man’s identity by convincing him that he was mentally ill…yeah…

Posing as psychiatrist Doctor Ludwig Rinehart, he convinced Jameson to publish an article claiming Spider-Man was heading for a major mental breakdown.

To make this more convincing he used his illusions to make Spider-Man believe he was seeing things that weren’t really there. His efforts bore fruit as Peter genuinely began to doubt his own sanity.

Beck’s endgame was for Spider-Man to seek out treatment from ‘Rinehart’ and in his vulnerable state divulge his secret identity. It was only through Jameson’s inadvertent intervention that Peter’s secret (and loved ones) remained safe.

I’m not suggesting Mary Jane necessarily knows about this incident; though it’s possible Peter told her. It’s more relevant because it illustrates what a twisted person Mysterio is to try and get to Spider-Man in such a way. It also illustrates the distress his illusionary skills can cause to people, both mentally and emotionally. This is a fact that Mary Jane need not have studied psychology to grasp; it’s just common sense. She knows Mysterio’s M.O. is tricking people into believing things that aren’t real and she’d know how believing something uncomfortable or frightening (even if it isn’t real) can be a dangerous and unhealthy thing. Her friend Harry Osborn had mental health problems that caused him to believe things that weren’t true and (for a time anyway) it destroyed him and harmed his family.

If you still think this is a concept MJ wouldn’t have grasped, then Mysterio’s next exploit would’ve likely convinced her.

During the course of Webspinners: Tales of Spider-Man #1-2 Mysterio intentionally attacked the mind of MJ’s acquaintance J. Jonah Jameson. He did this by tricking Jonah into believing he’d been killed and gone to Hell. Simultaneously he also framed Spidey for Jameson’s alleged murder.

Events from this story formed part of the screenplay for Mysterio’s biopic. Proof of this can be found in ASM v5 #29 wherein Peter and MJ are rehearsing Mysterio’s script and the dialogue is almost verbatim from the Webspinners story in question.

As such it is very possible that MJ would know about what Beck did to Jameson. One would imagine Peter would at least tell her about that in the course of rehearsing with her.

We are skipping ahead a bit, but another instance of Mysterio using his illusions to cause terror can be found in ASM #66. In the issue he hijacks TV airwaves and essentially delivers a terrorist message to the city at large. He depicts scenes of New York decimated and threatens to make them a reality unless Spidey confronts him. The incident upsets Aunt May (a woman with an underlying heart condition) and realistically would’ve distressed other people too. This might’ve included MJ’s Aunt Anna who was living with May at the time.

Given the public nature of this broadcast and the distress it caused Aunt Anna’s roommate, the chances are MJ would be aware of it. Even if she failed to catch it initially she’d have heard about it via sheer osmosis.

Even if you disagree, it’s yet another example of Mysterio selfishly and callously causing distress to people for his own ends. If one buys into Marvel’s sliding timescale these events also pack more of a punch since they would've happened post 9/11.

The 1970s: Scamming Seniors

We’re skipping ahead again all the way into the 1970s.

In ASM #141 Betty Brant and Ned Leeds inform Peter that Mysterio died a year earlier in prison. This horrifies Peter because he fought Mysterio earlier that very night.

This was public knowledge meaning there is a chance MJ would’ve heard about it in the news. But even if it wasn’t widely reported or if she just missed it, she’d have still likely heard about it. After all she was dating Peter at the time and was also very friendly with Betty (even serving as her Maid of Honour not too long after this). This is important to remember for the next section.

As it turns out he actually battled a new Mysterio, Danny Berkhart. Berkhart believed himself Beck’s friend and inherited some of his equipment after the latter’s death. He decided to take down Spider-Man out of respect for Beck.**

Much later it was revealed that Beck hadn’t really died, he’d merely used Berkhart to fake his own death. In the guise of Doctor Reinhardt he took over a nursing home. Consequently he swindled vulnerable elderly people out of their life savings, amassing almost $8 million. According to this inflation calculator, in 2019 that’d be about $40,780,313.20.

My, what a sympathetic individual…

This scheme snowballed into Beck faking Aunt May’s death on behalf of the burglar who killed Uncle Ben.

To be fair to him, The Burglar was threatening his life. However given Mysterio’s technology and intelligence it’s highly unbelievable that he couldn’t have taken the Burglar down if he wanted to. He does exactly this in ASM #198 once he’s learned the Burglar was after a fortune hidden in Aunt May’s old home, opting to seek out the fortune himself (see above).

It goes without saying how devastating it was for Peter and May’s friends (chiefly Aunt Anna) to believe she’d passed away.

It beguiles belief that, between MJ’s closeness to Peter, their mutual friends (like Harry and Flash), Aunt May and Aunt Anna, that MJ wouldn’t at some point have learned about May’s ‘death’. By extension she would’ve learned of the circumstances of it being faked and surely have been at least miffed about it! Thus she’d have deduced that Beck had faked his death, as she’d likely have heard about his alleged death in prison.

Even if MJ didn’t hear about any of this during the incident itself, considering that this was all a matter of public record and would’ve been reflected in May’s medical history MJ realistically would have learned about this at some point. This would especially be the case because May’s death was faked a further two times; and that was when MJ married to Peter.

After all, if it was public record that May’s death had been faked before then her consequent ‘death’ (it was actually an imposter) in ASM #400 would require a degree of verification that’d go beyond most patients.*** And it’s highly unlikely that Peter and MJ wouldn’t have been informed about this process. ; or that they themselves didn’t inform the doctors that they should triple check given May’s history. This is literally the reason the actress impersonating her in ASM #400 was specified as being ‘genetically altered’ so her DNA would read as Aunt May’s.

All this means that there is simply NO WAY MJ wouldn’t know Mysterio caused this kind of harm to two of the people she loved most in the world (Peter and May).

The 1980s: Old Tricks

We skip ahead again all the way into the 2010s, albeit an untold tale set circa the 1980s. In Symbiote Spider-Man #1 Mysterio’s attempts to rob a bank inadvertently led to an innocent woman (with kids no less) being shot and killed.

Now to be fair, this wasn’t intentional and he felt bad about it. But it wouldn’t have happened if he hadn’t committed a crime in the first place. He also wasn’t exactly turning himself in due to remorse or giving up a life of crime. MJ might not have known about this but it’s the first time (to my recollection) Beck was involved with someone actually dying. So you know, he’s definitely a killer and is unwilling to face the consequences of his crime. Real sympathetic right?

I will admit this is something of a contentious example as this series doesn’t exactly fit into continuity and so could be arguably discounted. Nevertheless it definitely offers food for thought. An insight into how Mysterio likely would act under these circumstances.

Jumping back to the 1980s proper, in a much later encounter with Spidey Mysterio once again attacked Peter’s mind. This time he tricked him into believing that an innocent person had died on his watch.

MJ again definitely knew about this because a guilt-ridden Peter talked to her about it before he learned the truth. Later she tried to talk him out of his guilt ridden state.

I think I will leave it there for now. We’ll continue our look at Mysterio in the next post as we enter the 21st century.

*I’ve got no place for this in future instalments so I’ll just say put it here as an aside.

MJ to my recollection has no experience with the X-Men (sans Wolverine), but she is definitely no anti-mutant bigot. Wouldn’t it be logical for her to be wary or at least conscious about how Beck is playing with the optics of the X-Men/mutants in general in his vanity project?

Not to mention their inclusion I’d imagine would be in reference to ASM Annual #1 where he tried to use them to kill her boyfriend. She has no qualms about the guy responsible for that recreating that event on film in an effort to glorify him self?

On the other hand we don’t know exactly how they are being used in the movie so I’ll let that slide.

**Berkhart isn’t all that relevant at the moment but he will be in the next instalment, so bear him in mind.

***Alternatively one would imagine in a world where the fantastical is a matter of fact, death would be checked to a greater degree than practiced in real life.

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You tease us about your life and put it in the tags but I would read a whole book about it. Your dad is a professional stunt man? And they have to hire them to fall down stairs?? Did he ever teach you any secrets?

Shush!! That was in the tags!!

Yeah my dad was a professional stuntman. It’s pretty dangerous so he doesn’t really do the whole “falling down stairs” and “getting hit by cars” thing now, but he’ll still be on sets once in a while as a stunt coordinator or a precision driver. (Precision driving is just any driving that takes place on a movie set - anything short of stunt driving, which is where you skid and jump over stuff and hit things)

I imagine when you say “secrets” you mean do i know how to fall or stage a fight and the answer is no. I think he didnt really want to encourage us to follow in his footsteps? And i wasnt exactly an athletic kid anyways. He is the one who taught me how to drive, though, which doesnt so much mean i’m a good driver as that i am a confident driver. But credit where credit is due, even though we bickered about driving he did make sure i practiced anything i wasn’t comfortable with until it was muscle memory.

Which isn’t to say i didn’t learn some secrets!! He knows the tricks of the trade, so he will point out little details in movies. Sometimes he was there! “In this scene, they had the glass hooked up to a system that would shatter it perfectly, but one of them didn’t work, so if you watch the left side, the whole panel just falls out.” Sometimes he wasn’t there, but recognizes the techniques used. “Oh, her hair is covering her face in that shot, so it’s probably a stunt double there.” And every once in a while, he will accidentally spoil a movie he’s never seen before as we’re watching it, because he’ll recognize some guy he knows who’s playing an extra and be like “hey! That’s Tony. He does ratchet pulls a lot. Watch, there’s about to be an explosion or something and he’ll go flying,” and sure enough within five minutes the guy is getting launched across the screen. I am not kidding. He did this when we were watching one of the Jurassic Park sequels.

I havent seen a lot of the movie’s he’s in, partly because they’re older and less well known, partly because i was too young for them when we would have watched them together, and partly because even when you can see his face it’s like... that’s my dad, who i love, getting punched and stuff. It’s fun to point him out when you see him for two seconds in the background of a peaceful scene though, or when a robot or something walks by and you’re like “that’s him in there!! That’s my dad!!”

Oh, the other secret I guess is that sometimes he will tell me a little bit about a movie set he’s on, and i might get to see the costume he’s in, but it’s not like i get to have the pictures because you can actually get in a bunch of trouble with the producers if you share behind the scenes stuff before the movie is out. People are secretive about their movies.

I remember once in high school i mentioned that my dad was in movies and someone in class was like “wow! Does that mean you’re, like, famous?” I think maybe if you have to ask someone if theyre famous, then the answer is probably no. But what do i know, i’m just an out of touch celebrity

I’m totally kidding. We really do not live a glamorous life. We watch the SAG awards in addition to the Oscars on TV and that’s about it. Oh, and six degrees of separation is really fun. If you know me, and i know my dad, and he has worked with Samuel L Jackson once, congrats youre like two degrees from Sam. I have not met these celebrities personally. Im just one degree away from ‘em. And thats about how i like it.

#who else? uhhhhhh. keanu reeves #um. whos that guy. ja rule #uhh. brent spiner i think #and dustin hoffman was at my first birthday party sooo you’re all only one degree from him #long post #my hollywood life i guess #thanks for asking!#if you have more questions about stunt men ask away #or feel free to dm me if u wanna chat about it

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