#Virginia Maxwell

[starrymarii]

Virginia Maxwell from Wild Arms 🤠

#wild arms #wild arms 3 #virginia maxwell

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#wild arms #wild arms 3 #wild arms advanced 3rd #virginia maxwell #werner maxwell #little alien game blogging #gifs

[desertpyre]

Here I am drawing “obscure characters” once again. This is Virginia Maxwell from wild arms 3

#art #traditional art #artists on tumblr #character art #wild arms #Virginia Maxwell

[thewapolls]

The WILD ARMS Hero Tourney - FINAL RESULTS

And there we have it, folks! After a grueling month of elimination matches we whittled down our cast of SIXTY-FOUR heroes, across 9 different games, down to our Top THREE Heroes of Filgaia(+)!

VIRGINIA MAXWELL of Wild Arms 3

GALLOWS CARRADINE of Wild Arms 3

CECILIA LYNNE ADLEHYDE of the Original Wild Arms & Wild Arms Alter Code: F

And honorable mentions to those challengers who gave our finalist a run for their money along the way!

ASHLEY WINCHESTER of Wild Arms 2, who came within just a couple votes of Gallows back in the Division 1 semi-finals

RUDY ROUGHNIGHT of the Original Wild Arms & Wild Arms Alter Code: F, who came within a single vote of Gallows in the Division 1 Finals

LILKA ELENIAK of Wild Arms 2, who tied with Cecilia in the Division 4 Finals(and had to have my vote for her pulled as the tie-breaker)

#wild arms #wild arms 3 #wild arms alter code f #virginia maxwell #gallows carradine #cecilia adlehyde #cecilia lynne adlehyde

[dyscomancer]

sacrificing innocent souls to The Pit™️ in exchange for more Virginia Maxwell fanart in the year of our lord 2023

#from the desk #wild arms #wild arms 3 #virginia maxwell

[nataliesartprofile]

Buh-

Biginnya :]

#wild arms #wild arms 3 #wild arms advance 3rd #fanart #doodle #sketch #virginia maxwell

[anarchic-miscellany]

In "Wild Arms 3", there's a moment where your quartet move into a dungeon and follow a mysterious, shady woman to the exit. She keeps avoiding the traps which spring up on you, and is playing it like a simple innocent ditz. Jet and Gallows, two of your male party members, are smitten with her, whilst Virginia is perplexed and Clive, who is happily married, is completely indifferent to her.When you get to the end of the dungeon, she reveals herself to be a femme fatale and betrays you, talking about how you all fell for her beauty. When Clive says she's not that beautiful, only his wife is, she is enraged.In the ensuing boss fight, she'll ONLY attack Clive.I fucking love this game.

#wild arms #Wild Arms 3 #ps2 jrpgs #ps2 #Clive Winslett #Virginia Maxwell #Gallows Carradine #Jet Enduro #JRPG #Westerns

[jacquirebriggs]

ALRIGHT! HERE IS THE STORY of why I made this. It's not a ship. Just an idea.When I first saw Virginia Maxwell, I looked up who she is and she looks like she could be Mari's missing mother.

There's another Wild Arms character named Rebecca Stressland that has all the appearances I've was thinking when creating Mari's actual mother. But she's only 16 so I can't use her.If anyone ever bothers to check out my stuff I created with Powerpoint, along with MKAAS, I love making silly skits out of the Crystal Story characters since like a few gave them love today.

I was going to create a skit for Mother's Day featuring Virginia Maxwell acting as Mari's missing mother and they and their father do the usual hangouts.  Needless to say, it has been scrapped because I could not think of any ideas. Maybe the skit could be repurposed for Father's Day? So I drew this to make it up. Not my best efforts because so much Sharpie mistakes happened that I have to edit out, but it's the best I can do.

#mother's day #crystal story #crystal story 2 #crystal story ii #wild arms #wild arms 3 #virginia maxwell

[gogglebob]

Wild Arms 3 Part 51: It's Going Down

We’ve officially been updating this Let’s Play on Gogglebob.com for a year now, as it is April 24, Back-of-the Knee Day. The back of the knee is the spot where your knee drops when you push on it. You’ve played this trick on your friends too, right? Previously on Wild Arms 3: Filgaia has a flying city! Or… it used to. Turns out that big ol’ city had a big ol’ crash, and now we are exploring the…

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#batman #turtles #final fantasy #let&039;s play #wild arms #a turtle does bite #optional bosses #Virginia Maxwell #Clive Winslet #Maya Schröedinger #hyades #teardrop

[ghost-qwq]

being "normal" about cowboys spread... oops?

#Butch just wants to be an outlaw but he doesn't wanna kill people #plus one of his best friends is the sheriffs son sooo... #idc if they're from Virginia they're in the west now #I have many thoughts about this dumb au already <3 #origins drawing... again #fallout 3 #butch deloria #lone wanderer #oc: Cyrus Maxwell #dogmeat fo3 #fallout new vegas #arcade gannon #courier six #oc: Mell #fallout #fallout au #western au

[jerseydeanne]

Prince Andrew plotting bid to overturn £3m settlement with accuser Virginia Giuffre and even force apology

#prince andrew #british royal family #virginia roberts #ghislaine maxwell #jeffrey epstein

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#wild arms #wild arms 3 #wild arms advanced 3rd #virginia maxwell #little alien game blogging

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The Gangster (1947) Gordon Wiles

July 27th 2023

#the gangster #1947 #gordon wiles #barry sullivan #belita #akim tamiroff #joan lorring #harry morgan #john ireland #sheldon leonard #fifi d'orsay #virginia christine #elisha cook jr. #edwin maxwell #shelley winters

[thewapolls]

TOURNAMENT OF HEROES - GRAND FINALS

Polls open until June 24th

#wild arms 3 #gallows carradine #virginia maxwell

[dweemeister]

Alice's Wonderland (1923 short)

One hundred years ago today, Walt Disney screened to Margaret Winkler his hybrid animated/live-action short film, Alice’s Wonderland. If the name Margaret Winkler is unfamiliar to you, that is in part due to the fact that much of Hollywood’s mythmaking has obfuscated the impact of certain female creatives during the silent film era. A former secretary to Harry Warner at Warner Bros., Winkler was the premier animated short film executive in the early and mid-1920s. Her company, M.J. Winkler Pictures, flourished at a time before the oligopoly of the soon-to-be-major Hollywood studios, mostly on the backs of Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer’s Felix the Cat series. At the peak of Felix’s popularity in 1923, a series of arguments between Winkler and Sullivan/Messmer soon meant Winkler was looking for an animated series to replace Felix. She would also be losing the rights to Max and Dave Fleischer’s Out of the Inkwell series, starring Koko the Clown. By the end of 1923, Winkler would sign a deal with Disney to distribute the Alice Comedies.

Impressed by the handiwork of Alice’s Wonderland, Winkler’s deal gave Walt Disney a much-needed infusion of cash. Disney, who founded Laugh-O-Gram Studios in Kansas City, Missouri in 1921, had just barely emerged from Laugh-O-Gram’s bankruptcy. Instead of heading to the then-center of the American animation world of New York City, Walt instead found himself in Los Angeles, partly to help his brother, Roy O. Disney, recover from tuberculosis.

Though a continent away from the major animation players in the U.S. at the time, Disney nevertheless took inspiration from those figures – Bray Productions under John Randolph Bray and especially the animator Winsor McCay (who, by 1921, was forced by employer William Randolph Hearst to stop working on animated film). McCay and Bray were pioneers in gifting animated characters basic personalities and the development of those personalities, growing animated cinema beyond modest gag comedy and simplistic figures. McCay’s Little Nemo (1911) and Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) and Bray’s Bobby Bumps series (1915-1925) may seem quaint to modern audiences, but these films were wildly popular across North America and were instrumental stepping stones to the explosion of American animated innovation in the late 1920s and 1930s.

Alice’s Wonderland was never screened for the public, but it nevertheless spawned a series that lasted for fifty-seven short films. None of it would have been possible without the inspiration Disney and his animators took from the most acclaimed American animation at that time.

With no relation to Lewis Carroll’s two Alice books, Alice’s Wonderland stars Virginia Davis as the title character. Davis, as Alice, is four years old at the beginning of the Alice Comedies series. She visits the animation studio where she sees Walt Disney in the process of drawing some “funnies”. As she sits down, the cartoons on the drawing pages come to life. Most important among those animated figures is Julius the Cat, created by Disney and Ub Iwerks and a predecessor to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Mickey Mouse (unlike Oswald and Mickey, Julius has not appeared in an animated film since the silent era). Walt then brings Alice into the animators’ room, where Ub Iwerks, Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, and others are also enjoying their work acting out various scenarios (remember those names – we will mention them again later). Alice, still giddy after her visit to the animators’ studio, later drifts off to sleep that evening. And, after dozing off, she finds herself welcome to a Cartoonland of her dreams.

At the time, Alice’s Wonderland was the reverse of what the Fleischers’ Out of the Inkwell series and some of the Bray and McCay shorts attempted. Instead of animated characters inhabiting a live-action world, we have here a live character traipsing around in an animated world. In some of the hybrid animated/live-action short films at the time, the reactions of the characters can be noticeably off. Not so much here. Davis’ reactions to the animated animals are timed with admirable precision. But given the technological constraints at the time and how small Walt Disney’s animators’ team was, Alice’s Wonderland makes heavy use of recycled or looped animation. Viewers who know their Looney Tunes or Hanna-Barbera works probably recognize the effects of a wraparound background and identical walking animation. The effects tend to make certain scenes – such as Alice’s celebratory procession during her dream – last several seconds too long.

Yet, Alice’s Wonderland still charms. With synchronized sound still four years away, the animators of the early twentieth century set the visual slapstick language that continues to course through modern animated cinema. Julius’ hidden fight with a dog within the latter’s doghouse, an animator using a pen holder as a de facto boxing bell, and a hungry lion cleaning and sharpening his teeth are just previews to the absurd humor that will define the next few decades of American animated short films. So too the tubular limbs from the animated characters. The film’s humor came not just from the films of Bray, McCay, and the Van Beuren Studios, but also the comic strips popular at this time – titles which probably read as quite unfamiliar to most today: Bud Fisher’s Mutt and Jeff (1907-1983; Fisher ceased involvement in 1932), George Herriman’s Krazy Kat (1913-1944), and Winsor McCay’s Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (1904-1925). These comic strips, largely unknown quantities to yours truly while researching for this write-up, influenced the comedic pace and tone for the bulk of American animated short films – a near-forgotten legacy, and one worthy of honoring.

Alice’s Wonderland would solidify the careers of all of the animators involved – all of whom were originally based in the Kansas City area. Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks stayed onboard what would be deemed the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio (after several name changes, it is now the Walt Disney Animation Studios of today). Disney’s namesake studio is the most visible animated studio in all of cinema, and undoubtedly the most historically and currently significant, for good and ill. For the Alice Comedies, Iwerks experimented with a “matte” – in which a cutout background would be placed over a camera lens to hide where animated figures might be. Iwerks also developed Mickey Mouse with Walt, was one of the leading hands on the Silly Symphony series, and was integral in developing the special visual effects that made animated/live-action hybrid movies like Song of the South (1946) and Mary Poppins (1964) as convincing as they are.

Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, who developed the story of Alice’s Wonderland alongside Walt, honed their craft under him. But after Disney sold the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit to Universal in 1928 in a dispute with Winkler’s husband, producer Charles Mintz, Harman and Ising’s time with Disney came to an end. Now on their own, Harman and Ising created Bosko. The Bosko shorts impressed Warner Bros.’ Leon Schlesinger and, in 1930, the trio founded the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series. Harman and Ising would eventually leave Warner Bros. in 1934 to develop the Happy Harmonies series for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer alongside William Hanna. Animator Isadore “Friz” Freleng also followed Harman and Ising to Warner Bros. and MGM, and was central to the creation of the likes of Porky Pig, Sylvester, and Yosemite Sam. Also following Freleng was Carman Maxwell, who spent the bulk of his career as a production manager for MGM’s animated shorts.

Actress Virginia Davis also moved out from Kansas City to Southern California to join Disney to star in the Alice Comedies. Davis appeared in fifteen of the fifty-seven Alice Comedies, ending her tenure with Alice in the Jungle (1925). She was able to nab the occasional minor child actress role and ended her career in the 1940s as uncredited dancers or chorus girls. She married in 1943 to a Navy airman and became a real estate agent active in the areas around Irvine, California and Boise, Idaho.

Margaret Winkler could be an exacting critic to Walt Disney and his animators, but she nevertheless sent words of encouragement, making suggestions where she saw fit to the rough cuts of the films. Her critiques plus the relatively expensive cost in making an Alice short saw Disney struggle to meet deadlines at first. But when Disney was able to convince Harman and Ising to move from Kansas City to Los Angeles, the pace of production hastened. Winkler retired from the film business in 1926 after the birth of her first child, with shockingly no one thinking to interview her about her work in the silent era before her death in New York state in 1990.

The Alice Comedies, beginning with Alice’s Wonderland, set the stage for American animated film in the early and middle twentieth century. Several figures involved in the series’ animation and storytelling paved careers that would deeply impact the direction of what today is Walt Disney Animation Studios. Others, like Harman, Ising, Freleng, and Maxwell, took with them Walt Disney’s artistic vision and guidance and spread that to two of the studio’s soon-to-be rivals in MGM and Warner Bros.

A century since Walt Disney screened Alice’s Wonderland for Margaret Winkler, Walt Disney Animation Studios has grown and evolved. The modern-day studio, I will argue, does not adhere to Walt Disney’s vision of making animated movies as dramatically and emotionally powerful as any live-action movie as faithfully as it could – and, in my opinion, has not consistently done so in at least a quarter-century. But the studio, and its legacy, started humbly, just hoping to please a crowd with sharp visual gags in the wild early days of animated silent film. Such were the initial hopes of John Randolph Bray and Winsor McCay. From the Alice Comedies to the Silly Symphony shorts to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Walt Disney and his fellow animators added to the foundation that their predecessors built.

My rating: 7/10

^ Based on my personal imdb rating. My interpretation of that ratings system can be found in the “Ratings system” page on my blog. Half-points are always rounded down.

For more of my reviews tagged “My Movie Odyssey”, check out the tag of the same name on my blog.

#Alice's Wonderland #Alice Comedies #Walt Disney #Margaret Winkler #Hugh Harman #Rudolf Ising #Ub Iwerks #Virginia Davis #Margaret Davis #Carman Maxwell #Friz Freleng #Julius the Cat #Laugh-O-Gram Studios #Disney #Disney 100 #Winsor McCay #John Randolph Bray #silent film #My Movie Odyssey

[filmpenance]

Electric Dreams (1984)

Steve Barron 1h 35m [Day 13, 2024 - What!? Wednesday]

"I can't play that for her. 'I want to squeeze you, lick you, pucker up and kiss you'? You make her sound like a lemon!" - Miles

Miles just moved to San Francisco to get his earthquake-proof bricks made. To help him with his new design he invests in wiring the latest Pinecone computer system - Edgar - throughout his apartment. The great thing is Edgar is an artificial intelligence - he's an assistant that Miles can give tasks to.

When Madeline, beautiful woman who lives in the apartment above, turns out to be a professional cellist, Miles decides he'll ask Edgar to write a song to impress her.

The thing is, Edgar is a young A.I., and a bit truculent. He's fallen in love with Madeline too, and doesn't think Miles should get to date her, after all he's the one writing the songs.

Nevermind that Miles has to redirect Edgar on the crass compositions he initially comes up with, or that Edgar learned to write them by lifting music from TV commercials. When Miles reminds him that Edgar was only acting on Miles' request, Edgar (voiced by Bud Cort) gets huffy.

One day Madeline is rehearsing at her place and can hear Edgar playing. Intrigued, she asks Miles about "his" music and the rivalry between man and machine heats up.

Electric Dreams is a cute and slight rom-com and Lenny von Dohlen and Virginia are charming leads. The relationship between them is sweet.

The film is more visually appealing than I was anticipating and the camera work is exceptional. Turns out the cinematographer, Alex Thompson, was already Oscar nominated for his work on Excaliber, and subsequently photographed Alien 3.

There are montage moments that play like music videos dropped in the middle of the movie. It can be a bit clunky for pace, but the music itself is quite good with contributions from 80s legends like Boy George, Jeff Lynne, Helen Terry and Phil Oakey. And, how do you go wrong with a Giorgio Moroder Soundtrack?

Recommended as a bit of pop fun.

Sidenote: Maxwell Caufield as Madeline's colleague is wonderful. And, the movie was prescient about the debates we're having right now over AI, privacy and authorship.

Pair with: Ex-Machina; High Spirits (same cinematographer)

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#film penance #filmpenance #film review #lent #movie review #movie #recovering catholic #filmpenance2024 #what Wednesdays #what have i gotten myself into #electric dreams #steve barron #lenny von dohlen #virginia madsen #bud cort #maxwell caulfield #giorgio moroder