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mariocki · 1 year

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ScreenPlay: Road (BBC, 1987)

"Everyone's worried sick for you, you know. You can't just do this!"

"Why not?"

"Oh, come on. We all feel like this some time. But life must go on."

"Why?"

#screenplay #road #alan clarke #jim cartwright #single play #1987 #neil dudgeon #jane horrocks #andrew wilde #william armstrong #willy ross #mossie smith #barbara keogh #moya brady #alan david #david thewlis #lesley sharp #susan brown #tim dantay #i throw around the word masterpiece a little too liberally i suspect‚ and have used it several times to describe works by Clarke; but it's #inescapable here. a seminal moment in british television‚ and one of the single greatest play adaptations ever screened‚ simultaneously #fiercely loyal to its stage origins without being tied down or encumbered by them. Cartwright speaks glowingly of Clarke as a collaborator #and it's not hard to see why: his restlessly prowling steadicam moving from derelict house to derelict house allows Road to fulfil its #destiny as wandering theatre‚ something the stage could never quite achieve. a fierce polemic on thatcherite britain and the aching poverty #and waste of a ruined generation. not that this is pure naturalism: a few minutes in Andrew Wilde‚ having tormented his sister‚ turns to #the camera and screams and suddenly you know you're not watching just any old kitchen sink drama‚ this is something different‚ this is some #kind of primal howl. two sinister young men dress in sharp suits ready for a night out; two young girls argue with their respective family #members; an older man reminisces hopelessly about times past; a young man is starving himself to death in a condemned house. and in the #dead centre‚ Lesley Sharp delivers one of the most devastating‚ affecting monologues ever written‚ as she stalks the desolate streets and #tries to keep herself from going mad with the grief and the horror and the pointlessness of it all. tv was a medium created for such scenes

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juliuz-quazar · 4 months

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So I've been going to cragside and looking at all of the stuff, Sir William George Armstrong did with hydro-electricity and how he had the first privately owned electric home and how people saw that and went, that's brilliant let's do it but WORSE, and instead of taking his work as an inspiration for how to power the country, THEY USED FUCKING COAL AND OIL! Oh my god, I want to MURDER those fucking idiots!

#electricity #the national grid #lightbulbs #William Armstrong #did awsome things #and hydro-electricity is the best #i will fight anyone who disagrees #we could have had a perfect hydro based society #instead we have THIS #AAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH

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roscoe-me-and-this-fuckin-kid · 8 months

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redo of this one i did 2 yrs ago

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jtownraindancer · 8 months

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No thoughts, only Toby Stephens giggling. 😌💕

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pb-s-corner · 5 months

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Buddy, rando, and brad going to the fnaf movie.

SPOILERS

(Yesterday I finally saw the movie. It was good, my favorite part where the missing children)

#spoilers #my art #lisa the painful #lisa rpg #lisa the joyful #brad armstrong #buddy armstrong #lisa rando #fnaf movie #fnaf #william afton

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gothsugarbunnidisco · 2 months

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people from bands as pillow pets

pete wentz:

trent reznor:

joe trohman:

william beckett:

gidget gein:

mikey way:

billie joe armstrong:

ryan ross:

marilyn manson:

hayley williams:

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qualitystart · 4 days

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What's in the box?

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designatedfandomblog · 1 month

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So, since there have been many star trek actors who either played a huge amount of roles or who became important directors, I was wondering:

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trickster-archangel · 8 months

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Random thoughts about Hawaii Five-0 rewatch: part 1/?

So, as someone of my mutuals already knows, I'm currently undergoing the exhausting task of checking all the fucking 61 DVDs from the H50 box set before the 30-days guarantee expires, because it's physically impossible to watch them all completely in that time, even if I took 1 month leave. So I'm simply skipping back and forth and leaving the regular rewatch for when my life will be less of a living hell...so, supposedly around 2038...

I have one complaint, which is the subtitles are not completely matching all dialogues, but since my brain only needs them until it's switched to English-mode and I can start understanding it again, I guess it's alright. Second complaint: they're fucking HUGE and OVERLAPPING THE SCENES SO RANDOMLY IT HURTS.

Anyway, I've by now processed only s1-s5, and dude....some things I caught in the deleted scenes (which I've watched entirely) AND in some parts of the commentaries I specifically sought because curiosity won, and which I've never seen giffed or captioned....man, I was so angry and disappointed at times. So I thought I'd be randomly processing them here, no pics sorry, only thoughts.

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Thought #1: Alex and Scott goofing around.

Trust me. The gag reels are so much better than you'd expect. At times I was genuinely laughing to tears and god knows how rare it is.

What I loved most was to watch that scene where Alex and Scott start cussing in Italian, and I bet no one who's not Italian could understand a fuck about what they're yelling. Best part, though, were the subtitles, captioning ALEX AND SCOTT: SWEARING IN ITALIAN 😂 Just to make sure what language exactly they were using.

Thought #2: missed chance to make Amber's character less of a plastic doll, or: Why did you fucking cut those 57 seconds?!?!

While watching s5 deleted scenes, I stumbled upon two real jewels from the 24th episode. I'm still trying to understand why they couldn't include them in the canon episode, since both of them combined are less than a minute and surely there were other moments that could've been cut. My only explanation, sadly, is that it would've painted Amber in quite a different light, making her a stronger, rounder character, and giving her an agency we rarely saw in her, except when confronting her ex husband. They could've followed that route, but we cannot have a beautiful woman who's also her own person, a self-confident person, and not just a plastic Barbie doll, right?! God forbid a woman can have agency and call out men on their bullshit, it would threat masculine privilege too much....

So, what exactly happened that bothered me so deeply? (Be aware I'm quoting by heart and not literally, as I didn't take screenshots and anyway I can't make gifs. Also, the following meta is just my interpretation of the implications running through subtext).

The first scene is very short, just six or seven seconds long, but it's a jewel in subtext and non-verbal communication. It takes place presumably after or around the moment Rachel tells Danny about Charlie: we see them from afar, clearly in a street-taken point of view, from an external observer. They are agitated and distressed, Rachel more than Danny, who's tensely spread on the bench with his arms looped behind the backrest, angling far from Rachel's compact and almost self-hugging frame.

They're distressed, not happy, not even remotely connecting to each other, so it's clear it's not a scene which could be envisioned as romantic. It's only a couple of seconds long, and then we see whose this external point of view belongs to: Amber. Amber who's not an idiotic, mellow, shallow doll. Amber who's been so clearly upset by Danny's lie about the texts, that she decided to follow him to the place Rachel had indicated. Amber who's been manipulated and controlled and abused long enough to become suspicious and self-preserving when someone she loves, and who knows her vulnerability, tries to play her around. Amber who looks at them, and clearly isn't angry nor jealous, because those few moments the actress uses to convey all of Amber's inner distress, are some of her best ones (giving that the actress, alas, is not very expressive to begin with), and we understand that she doesn't see any romance in the air. She's disappointed. She's hurt. Betrayed. Again.

Amber's face, in a handful of seconds, perfectly displays the devastating feeling of someone who finally felt safe and respected and secure, only to discover that it's yet another kind of control and manipulation, less cruel, less brutal, but not less humiliating and even worrying.

This is something she's learnt at her expense, and now that she knows the red flags, she cannot trust a man who can't be honest with her, not with this kind of problems, not with something which is clearly affecting his life to a deep level. He wants Amber to be a part of his life, but only if he can control the terms, limits, boundaries and times of their relationship. And Amber has been through it all before, and can't trust that history won’t repeat itself.

She then drives away, hurt and disappointment written all over her face.

The second deleted scene is even more important plotwise, because it explains Amber's absence as Danny’s plus one at Kono's wedding, after all the talk he did in the car about bringing some Amber's friend as Steve's date, and it casts a new light over Danny's reaction to Steve's resolve to ask Cath to marry him, or his tension about Lynn, or Amber's condistent absence for the whole first part of s6, or even Danny's and Amber's fight during their Valentine's dinner.

The scene is longer, about fifty seconds, and it supposedly takes place right at the end of the episode, after Danny pulls up at the hospital's parking lot, after Steve's affectionate text. He takes his phone out of his pocket again because he's received a voice-mail message.

A message from Amber (sorry, I noticed just now I'm still going with Amber instead of Melissa).

She says she's sorry to be doing this by voice-mail because she'd prefer to do it in person, but given their situation it's probably for the best if she spares them both the trouble to be forced to find shallow excuses. She says he's an amazing man, and that she likes what they have and that she thinks it might be real, and that she hopes he feels the same. She's understanding that his job comes first and it's terribly demanding, as she's also aware of how hard his life and his backstory is, with Grace and Rachel. This all considered, she thinks it's best if they stop and take a pause, so that he can reflect and decide if he wants to keep this thing going, but as for now, she can't keep seeing him on these terms.

Amber decided to stop seeing Danny until he decided what to do with their relationship and be honest with her, and started thinking seriously if he was just using her, as she probably felt.

Why?? Why did they cut this whole plotline? It's pivotal for Danny's arc, for his strained and angry attitude towards everyone, for his constant distress, for his even worsening negativity, for the way he's overcompensating with excessive euphoria to Steve's announcement about Cath, for how he meddles with them and confronts Cath about being honest, for how he's not thrilled about Lynn's insertion inside Steve's life.

Because he's alone, at that time. Call it temporary breakup or period of reflection or a break, but he was single and thinking, again, about everything he was doing wrong with his life and his relationships, and falling again into his old black hole of depression and self-sabotage, and seeing Steve going on with his life even at the cost of pretending he was happy with this woman he had supposedly no trouble cheating on, during their "couple retreat", making him wonder if either what he had with Lynn wasn't serious, or if his obvious charade about his threesome with Alyssa and her friend had a second meaning.

Also, they were probably both single again, or at least testing the waters, when they were at the retreat. And Danny definitely was when Cath left Steve once again abandoned, betrayed, and never-chosen in face of anything else.

Quite a lot of subtext to think about, for just 57 seconds which were, prudently, cut.

#h50 #mcdanno #steve mcgarrett #danny williams #h50 5x24 #danny/melissa unhealthy relationship #rachel edwards #h50 meta #h50 rewatch #h50 deleted scenes #h50 gag reels #long post #amber vitale #melissa armstrong #alex o'loughlin #scott caan

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st4-bby · 5 months

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buddies, bacon, boom!

the show that was one of the driving factors of me loving bacon the way I did

#robot and monster #robot & monster #nickelodeon #nickelodeon fanart #robot and monster fanart #dave pressler #joshua sternin #jennifer ventimilia #curtis armstrong #harland williams #cartoon fanart

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bumblingbee1 · 3 months

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Look at all these lesbians!! (It's just a headcanon of mine dw)

Here is a collage of my top faves in Tekken, King Of Fighters and Dead Or Alive

"Where is ___?" I couldn't fit them all lmao

#bee babbles #asuka kazama #nina williams #chizuru kagura #kolin #sf kolin #street fighter kolin #tina armstrong #kof vice #king of fighters vice

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lascitasdelashoras · 1 month

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Louis Armstrong por William Gottlieb

#louis armstrong #william gottlieb #musica #jazztrompeta

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uwmspeccoll · 6 months

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Publishers' Binding Thursday

This week's Publishers' Binding Thursday books are the two-volume set Astoria, or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains by Washington Irving (1783-1859). Irving was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, and historian, best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle." Astoria was commissioned by fur magnate John Jacob Astor as a history of his company's exhibition to Oregon. Irving's vision was to have it be a story not just of Astor's company and its history and adventures, but a sketch of the country beyond the Rocky Mountains, with tales and descriptions of the people and places therein.

This edition was published in New York by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1897. The cover design is by renowned publishers' binding designer Margaret Armstrong and is signed with her overlapping M.A. stamp. The title page decoration and the decorations on each page surrounding the text were also designed by Armstrong. They include design elements like fish, arrows, guns, acorns, beaver pelts, and more. Two of the four designs are featured in this post. The book features engravings by various artists and images based on photographs of the Columbia River and its environs.

There is also the bookplate of Arthur H. Anger (1871-1948), who was treasurer of Milwaukee's William Steinmeyer Company, which was a large retail grocery store. The Steinmeyer Building still stands on Old World Third Street/Dr. Martin Luther King Drive in downtown Milwaukee and currently houses the Wisconsin Cheese Mart.

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

#Publishers' Binding Thursday #publishers' bindings #Margaret Armstrong #G.P. Putnam's Sons #Arthur H. Anger #William Steinmeyer Company #Steinmeyer Building #Astoria #Washington Irving

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snoopyaday · 2 years

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