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perfettamentechic · 11 months
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2022: Robert Morse, Robert Alan Morse, attore e cantante statunitense. Morse è molto noto per le sue apparizioni teatrali in musical e spettacoli di Broadway. Il suo ruolo più conosciuto è quello del giovane imprenditore J. Pierre-Point Finch nella commedia teatrale How to Succeed in Business Without Really Try, in scena a Broadway dal 1961 al 1965, e nell’omonima riduzione cinematografica, Come…
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aboutoriginality · 1 year
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Remembering, the late Alfred Hawthorne Hill & his great alterego Benny Hill, today & everyday. While, Alfred was a shy and misunderstooded guy, who keeps his things to himself there was this guy who everyone knows as naughty & others. He was Benny. (P.s.: In today's standards Alfred was propably asexual & a lot of Benny's sketches would be described as sexist & others, you know.) 💖
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Jan - Jun 2023 Reading List:
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Dear Ijeawele, or, A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. We Should All Be Feminists. New York: Vintage Books, 2014.
Bartky, Sandra Lee. Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression. New York: Routledge, 1990.
Bittel, Carla. Mary Putnam Jacobi & The Politics of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Bolen, Jean Shinoda. Goddesses in Everywoman: A New Psychology of Women. Perennial Library, n.d.
Brownmiller, Susan. Femininity. New York: Open Road Media, 2013.
Chesler, Phyllis. Women and Madness. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2018.
Christ, Carol P., and Judith Plaskow. Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1979.
Daly, Mary. The Church and the Second Sex. New York: Harper Colophon Books, 1975.
Davis, Elizabeth Gould. The First Sex. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971.
Doyle, Sady. Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers. Brooklyn: Melville House Publishing, 2019.
Dworkin, Andrea. Intercourse. New York: Basic Books, 2007.
Ehrenreich, Barbara, and Deirdre English. For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts’ Advice to Women. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press, 1978.
Firestone, Shulamith. The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1970.
Gowrinathan, Nimmi. Radicalizing Her: Why Women Choose Violence. Boston: Beacon Press, 2021.
Hawthorne, Susan. In Defence of Separatism. Mission Beach: Spinifex Press, 2019.
Jeffreys, Sheila. Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution. Spinifex Press, 1990.
Jeffreys, Sheila. The Spinster and Her Enemies. Chicago: Spinifex Press, 1997.
Johnson, Sonia. Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation. Freedom: Crossing Press, 1987.
Johnson, Sonia. Wildfire Igniting the She/volution. Albuquerque: Wildfire Books, 1989.
Lerner, Gerda. The Creation of Patriarchy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Love Your Enemy? The Debate between Heterosexual Feminism and Political Lesbianism. London: Onlywomen Press, Ltd., 1981.
Miles, Rosalind. Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2001.
Reed, Evelyn. Woman’s Evolution: From Matriarchal Clan to Patriarchal Family. New York: Pathfinder Press, 1975.
Sjöö, Monica, and Barbara Mor. The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering The Religion of the Earth. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2013.
Smith, Joan. Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists. London: Riverrun, 2019.
Solanas, Valerie. SCUM Manifesto: With an Introduction by Vivian Gornick. London: Olympia Press, 1971.
Spender, Dale. Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them. London: Ark Paperbacks, 1983.
Srinivasan, Amia. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Stone, Merlin. When God Was a Woman. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.
Ussher, Jane. Women’s Madness: Misogyny or Mental Illness? Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992.
West, Lindy. The Witches are Coming. New York: Hachette Books, 2019.
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fumblingmusings · 1 year
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*Kicks door down* Okay so the reason Arthur needs... has to have a property out Glastonbury way is because it's just absolutely dripping with old folklore in a manner that the Home Counties like Essex or Kent around London just plain aren't. Those are Saxon and Anglo and Norman. He needs to reject Norman every once in a while. He goes North for Cumbrian lakes and West for Somerset wassailing and even more West to sit at the bottom of a Cornish tin mine when those moods take him.
Glastonbury is weird and old and filled with things that just don't make sense at first glance, never mind the music festival next door (which I am sure Arthur attends off his face for the entire time). Half of it is a manufactured neo paganism of course but it only springs up here because of these old stories. And I think it makes Arthur all the stronger for it.
And it's Celtic, not Norman, not German, not even Roman... it's like the core part of Arthur from when he was a baby. It's his connection to his mother and his siblings. If he ever feels truly like a black sheep, all he needs do is return here and remember. Like even Bath, as wonderful and beautiful and important as it is - is still Roman.
Okay, just to rattle of odd things about the town and why I think it's kind of important when thinking and conceiving of Arthur as a character. It's a microcosm of his history and culture and what's been done to him.
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Glastonbury is built at the foot of a hill. The hill stands out like a sore thumb from the surrounding area as everything else is flat. The church fell during an earthquake in the 1200s (we just... don't have earthquakes strong enough to do that) but we kept the tower. A hollow beacon.
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Glastonbury has several iron age lake villages nearby and the Somerset Levels were once upon a time underwater and so all you had was the Tor, poking out as an island amongst the fens, something it does even now in the fog:
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And it was the Normans who drained it and made the island join the mainland but that island is probably possibly potentially where King Arthur is buried. We think. Obviously this is contentious.🤭
So it's maybe. Probably. Most likely. Avalon itself. Isle of Apples. England's national fruit. Glastonbury has the apple festival plus the orchards in the parish and considering it was after all an island once...
Glastonbury Abbey, long before it was a ruin, argued they had his bones. Arthur's. The reformation lost them and the abbot was hung drawn and quartered by Henry VIII. How convenient. Glastonbury Abbey by some counts pre-dates the Roman attempts to enforce Christianity. So it's old as heck. Older than any Anglo-Saxon invader.
It had an English Hawthorn (aka - I shit you not - a Mayflower [cough cough Alfred cough]) tree that bloomed twice a year in the dead of winter and no-one could understand why (stories about the holy grail feature and pop up in other places in Glastonbury). Parliamentarians burned it during the Civil War (Godless and pagan as it was and as spiteful and superstitious as they were) but they used to take cuttings from the tree to send to the Royal Family each Christmas because of its winter flowers. Other cuttings were made and descendants of the tree survive in other places. There's a butt ton of folklore for Hawthorns which I don't have time for but essentially they're fairy houses and borders and don't bring the flowers into your house or you will die. It smells of rotting animals but tastes of bread and cheese. It's a fucked up plant essentially. And it had pretty flowers that we wear on May Day celebrations. Dichotomy. That's... that's Arthur.
And then there's the springs. The Chalice Well and the White Spring. One runs red. One runs white (no it runs clear but it does have chalk in it). They pop out literally across the road from each other despite having completely different sources. They've never dried up in 2,000 years.
One is blood (the Holy Grail returns) and one is milk (I think it's supposed to be the goddess Brighid's milk but I may be misremembering - it's someone's breast milk) so the spring's path and pools runs the most fantastic iron red and clear...
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So. Not to be like... insane. But Arthur needs to have a home here. He needs to be able to come back to a place which is his connection with his mother that isn't just the standing stones and tombs of Avebury and Stonehenge and West Kennet. A place which is alive and lived in and used.
A place where the Romans couldn't touch it where the Saxons fought battles to get it where the Normans changed the landscape beyond recognition where Henry VIII sold it and hung drawn and quartered it where the Parliamentarians purged it where his namesake rests. A place where he can drink milk and blood (ooft that's a bit metal eh) and remember. It's a big bundle of changes and trauma and yet it remains all his.
And then he takes too much acid and kind of looses it during the music festival and comes back to five days later with two STIs and desperately needing a bath. #WorthIt
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Look at this nonsense. You just know Arthur is passed out in a hedge after listening to something like Marina Diamandis' Savages on stage and having an panic attack of how close it hits home.
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BENNY HILL
El 20 de abril de 1992 en Teddington, Inglaterra, moría un humorista universal, con una chispa simple de gags a montones y una cara con un millón de gestos, fue el único cómico que Charles Chaplin dijo admirar, ese día Benny Hill moría en absoluta soledad y abandono. Nacido en 1924 en Southampton, con el nombre de Alfred Hawthorn Hill, desde niño trabajó como lechero, operario y conductor, su abuelo lo inició en el espectáculo como partener y ya lo presentaba como “Benny Hill” en Cenas Shows y teatros. Hizo radio durante la guerra y luego participó en esporádicos programas de TV hasta que en 1955 la BBC le propone “El show de Benny Hill”. Fue allí que comenzó su verdadera carrera, fue tan reconocido su trabajo que por momentos interrumpía sus temporadas para hacer Shakespeare. Cuando en 1969 se produjo una batalla legal que amenazó su carrera por el humor sexista y vulgar, la BBC dio por terminado su show, pero había múltiples medios que se lo disputaban. Finalmente reinició la emisión de su show en la cadena Thames Television, en la que estuvo al aire por 20 años más. Sus shows se convirtieron en tabú en Inglaterra por lo que la nueva cadena no los pasaba en el Reino Unido, lo vendía por todo el mundo. España, Portugal, EEUU, México, Brasil, Argentina, Chile y Perú compraron todas las temporadas, por lo que el show era un éxito global. En 1990 comenzó a tener problemas de obesidad, pesaba más de 100 Kg lo que le provocó problemas renales y un infarto. En febrero de 1992 recibió un llamado inesperado, fue invitado a Suiza por un personaje anónimo que le costeó el viaje, al llegar, fue conducido a una mansión donde fue recibido por Geraldine Chaplin que al tanto de su estado de salud quiso hacerle el regalo de su vida. Lo condujo a una habitación donde le mostró la sala privada de Charles Chaplin con una colección completa de videos de sus temporadas en la BBC desde el año 1955 hasta 1977 fecha de la muerte de Chaplin y la grabación de una nota donde Charles lo elogiaba como la aparición más fresca e interesante de ese invento llamado televisión. Benny no tenía casi ningún amigo, no se casó y no tuvo hijos, pese a tener una fortuna no poseía bienes materiales, no tenía casa, ni auto, alquilaba un departamento cerca de los estudios y se manejaba en taxis, el 24 de abril de 1992 uno de sus pocos conocidos se extrañó de no verlo por un tiempo y lo fue a visitar, lo encontró muerto en un sillón frente al televisor, los médicos fecharon su muerte el 20 de abril, encontraron una nota escrita hacia un año donde dejaba sus 10 millones de libras a sus ex compañeros de elenco, lo que derivó en una batalla legal con sus sobrinos.
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On this day in Wikipedia: Sunday, 21st January
Welcome, velkommen, benvenuto, welkom 🤗 What does @Wikipedia say about 21st January through the years 🏛️📜🗓️?
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Alfred Hawthorne "Benny" Hill was called up in 1942, and began his service with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, serving three-and-a-half years in France, Holland, Belgium and Germany. Driver/Mechanic 14332308 Benny Hill didn't arrive in Normandy until 1 September 1944. He was a searchlight operator for the Third Light Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Battery which landed at the Mulberry floating harbours. From there they were sent to Dunkirk where a pocket of 7,000 Germans had been bypassed. After demobilisation Benny Hill played in working men's clubs, and teamed up with Alfred Marks for Starlight Hour on the BBC Light programme. Hill would go on to gain international success with the "The Benny Hill Show." Alfred Hawthorne Hill passed away on April 20, 1992 at the age of 68. He lies in rest at Hollybrook Cemetery in Southampton England. Lest We Forget.
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Benny Hill mourait il y a 30 ans, qui était-il (vraiment) ?
Benny Hill mourait il y a 30 ans, qui était-il (vraiment) ?
Premier humoriste britannique à attendre la célébrité grâce à la télévision, Benny Hill a été une star majeure pendant plus de quarante ans. Personnage complexe et controversé, ce turlupin égrillard a aussi provoqué la polémique… Benny Collinedo Alfred Hawthorne Hill, à Southampton en Angleterre le 21 janvier 1924 est célèbre aujourd’hui pour son humour de “méchant garçon”Hill était en fait l’un…
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I Latest, earliest of the year, Primroses that still were here, Snugly nestling round the boles Of the cut-down chestnut poles, When December's tottering tread Rustled 'mong the deep leaves dead, And with confident young faces Peeped from out the sheltered places When pale January lay In its cradle day by day, Dead or living, hard to say; Now that mid-March blows and blusters, Out you steal in tufts and clusters, Making leafless lane and wood Vernal with your hardihood. Other lovely things are rare, You are prodigal as fair. First you come by ones and ones, Lastly in battalions, Skirmish along hedge and bank, Turn old Winter's wavering flank, Round his flying footsteps hover, Seize on hollow, ridge, and cover, Leave nor slope nor hill unharried, Till, his snowy trenches carried, O'er his sepulchre you laugh, Winter's joyous epitaph.
II This, too, be your glory great, Primroses, you do not wait, As the other flowers do, For the Spring to smile on you, But with coming are content, Asking no encouragement. Ere the hardy crocus cleaves Sunny border 'neath the eaves, Ere the thrush his song rehearse, Sweeter than all poets' verse, Ere the early bleating lambs Cling like shadows to their dams, Ere the blackthorn breaks to white, Snowy-hooded anchorite; Out from every hedge you look, You are bright by every brook, Wearing for your sole defence Fearlessness of innocence. While the daffodils still waver, Ere the jonquil gets its savour, While the linnets yet but pair, You are fledged, and everywhere. Nought can daunt you, nought distress, Neither cold nor sunlessness. You, when Lent sleet flies apace, Look the tempest in the face; As descend the flakes more slow, From your eyelids shake the snow, And when all the clouds have flown, Meet the sun's smile with your own. Nothing ever makes you less Gracious to ungraciousness. March may bluster up and down, Pettish April sulk and frown; Closer to their skirts you cling, Coaxing Winter to be Spring.
III Then when your sweet task is done, And the wild-flowers, one by one, Here, there, everywhere do blow, Primroses, you haste to go, Satisfied with what you bring, Fading morning-stars of Spring. You have brightened doubtful days, You have sweetened long delays, Fooling our enchanted reason To miscalculate the season. But when doubt and fear are fled, When the kine leave wintry shed, And 'mid grasses green and tall Find their fodder, make their stall; When the wintering swallow flies Homeward back from southern skies, To the dear old cottage thatch Where it loves to build and hatch, That its young may understand, Nor forget, this English land; When the cuckoo, mocking rover, Laughs that April loves are over; When the hawthorn, all ablow, Mimics the defeated snow; Then you give one last look round, Stir the sleepers underground, Call the campion to awake, Tell the speedwell courage take, Bid the eyebright have no fear, Whisper in the bluebell's ear Time has come for it to flood With its blue waves all the wood, Mind the stichwort of its pledge To replace you in the hedge, Bid the ladysmocks good-bye, Close your bonnie lids and die; And, without one look of blame, Go as gently as you came.
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perfettamentechic · 2 years
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1999: Flora Carabella, attrice teatrale e attrice cinematografica italiana.  (n. 1926) 1997: Jean Louis, nato Jean Louis Berthault, è stato un costumista francese naturalizzato statunitense. Nato a Parigi lavorò come costumista dal 1944 al 1958 alla Columbia Pictures, per passare poi, dal 1959 al 1968, all’Universal Pictures. Prima di Hollywood, ha lavorato a New York per l’imprenditrice di moda…
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With theaters unfortunately shut down, and me sadly being laid off because Oregon has a shelter in place order it's given me a lot of time to play video games as well as think about the best films of each decade, and the who I believe are the current directors of all time. I am going to start with who are believe are the current 15 best directors of all time.
15. Bong Joon Ho: I have not seen all of Bong Joon Ho films only seen Snowpiercer, The Host, Memories of Murder, and Parasite with Snowpiercer being his best film.
14. David Lynch: David Lynch is probably the most visionary and unique director on this list. It has not paid off for Lynch all the time, but all his films and series are certainly memorable. I have seen Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Dune, Twin Peaks, Dune, Lost Highway, and Mulholland Drive with Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive being is best films. Even though Lynch has not directed a full-length feature film since I think 2006's Inland Empire Lynch is still one of the best directors of all time.
13. Clint Eastwood: Although this biographical themed obsession Eastwood had been on this past decade with good, but flawed films in Richard Jewell, The 1517 to Paris, American Sniper, and J. Edgar among others it does not take away from Clint Eastwood's nearly fifty years of directing with some of his classics being Unforgiven, Mystic River, The Outlaw Josey Wales, A Perfect World, and Letters from Iwo Jima to name a few.
12. David Fincher: I could say David Fincher is the best suspense thriller director, but that would be disrespecting the one and only Alfred Hitchcock, so I will that Fincher is the Hitchcock of our time with his most known film being Fight Club, but not his best film. That would go to Gone Girl, The Game, and Se7en. Then here is the elephant in the room by the name of Alien 3. Alien 3 had its problems in production and especially with studio interference by FOX in not having faith in the young up and coming director, which hurt the film, but by no means does that make Alien 3 a bad film. Alien 3 had good acting by Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Sigourney Weaver, and the rest of the pretty unknown cast. The score by Elliot Goldenthal is riveting, and one of the best scores in the Alien franchise if not the best. William Gibson original screenplay would have been the best route to go with the film, and there were a lot of hands on the script for Alien 3 with ultimately the writing brainstormed, poorly put together, and written by producers Walter Hill and David Giler. The screenplay was definitely flawed, but not bad with a decent story and good ending to Ripley’s journey that was ruined by the truly terrible Alien Resurrection. Overall, I say Alien 3 is the third best Alien film not as good as Alien or Aliens, but not as bad as the rest of the Alien films or the Alien vs Predator films.
11. Zhang Yimou: Sadly, I have not had a chance to see some of Zhang's older films like Not One Less, Raise the Red Lantern, and especially To Live, which some have said is one of Zhang's best films. I have seen all Zhang's films since the new millennium with films that include Hero, Shadow, Under the Hawthorn Tree, House of the Flying Daggers, Coming Home, Curse of the Golden Flower, Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, Happy Times, The Flowers of War, A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop, and The Great Wall. Zhang is a master of using aesthetics whether it be the story, lighting, or choreography of his action sequences. The Great War is easily Zhang's worst film, and it is not a terrible film, and not for the reasons you might be thinking. I know when The Great Wall was coming out and came out a certain group of so called up set people were outrage that a fantasy film had a some white characters in the film and Zhang and the writers were using the white savior trope in the film, but if you actually watch the film that was not what happen or why The Great Wall was a mediocre film. It was because of the at best average CGI, poor writing, and uninspired action sequences. As for Zhang's best films they are Hero, Curse of the Golden Flower, Happy Times, and The House of the Flying Daggers. Yes, Zhang Yimou is best known for his historical films with simply masterfully choreographed action sequences I definitely recommend you give some of his smaller films like Happy Times and Coming Home a chance.
10. Ridley Scott: Although some of Scott's latest films like Robin Hood, Prometheus, All the Money in the World, and Exodus: Gods and Kings have not lived up to the directors reputation Ridley Scott will still go down as one of the best directors of all time by directing some of the best films of all time. I would also recommend Kingdom of Heaven. It is one of Scott's best film that was underrated by critics and the general population.
9. Michael Mann: Like Scott above Michael Mann's most recent films in Blackhat, Public Enemies, and Miami Vice have not lived up to the reputation Mann has earned as a director or his vision and style as a writer and director. Mann as not directed a lot of films and it is debatable what his best film is between The Insider, Heat, Thief, and The Last of the Mohicans. For me it is Heat.
8. Denis Villeneuve: Denis Villeneuve has only been directing since 1998, but has already made it into the top 10 of this list, and it is for a reason. Villeneuve is helped to craft some of the most riveting and compelling stories in films this past decade that was also greatly impacted by Villeneuve’s masterful use of cinematography creating an atmosphere in his films with Arrival, Blade Runner 2049, and Sicaro being masterpieces and three of the best films this past decade. I am really looking forward to his vision of Dune.
7. Hayao Miyazaki: Miyazaki is by far the most mainstream and acclaimed director of anime films from Japan, and for good reason. Hayao Miyazaki is a masterful writer and director who stands by his belief of caring for the environment, being anti-war, and love. Speaking out on his beliefs regulating not caring if it offends some of his fans or his own government. His beliefs play a heavy influence in his films, which I think make is unique visions all the better for that. In my view Miyazaki’s best film is Princess Mononoke. 1999 was a terrible year for me on many levels and Princess Mononoke just blew my mind and help to lift my spirits and my will to go on. No other Hayao Miyazaki film has come close to affecting me that way.
6. Terrance Malick: Terrance Malick has been directing films for directing films for 47 years, but has only directed ten films in that time with 1973’s Badlands. I think the reason is while other directors like Uwe Boll, Michael Bay, and Paul W.S. Anderson will just make films no matter the quality of the film Terrance Malick is determined that his artistry be perfect, and it shows in his film. Malick’s determination to perfection shows in his true mastery of cinematography and his use of nature and the environment to enhance the story and isolate they characters. His perfectionism shows in all his films, and while Malick’s films may not always land on perfection, but his films always leave a mark on the viewer. I consider Terrance Malick’s best film to be 1998’s The Thin Red Line, and a far better film than Saving Private Ryan that came out earlier that year.
5. Christopher Nolan: We have finally reached the top 5 of what I consider to be the current best directors of all time with number five being Christopher Nolan. Nolan is number five on this list, and is the best director alive today. There are better directors on this list, but they all have passed away. Christopher Nolan is known for his love of the theatrical experience, and the technical side of filmmaking. Christopher Nolan along with his brother Jonathan Nolan and other writers to craft unique and captivation stories and their use of memories, time, space, dreams, perspective, and war in each of film of films. Nolan has also directed has put his stamp on Batman and the comic book film genre by directing the Dark Knight Trilogy that is the best superhero/comic book trilogy. As for what is Christopher Nolan’s best film, it is too hard for me to choose between Prestige, The Dark Knight, and Dunkirk.
4. Alfred Hitchcock: Alfred Hitchcock is and as far I am concerned will go down as the best suspense thriller director of all time. Hell, the term Hitchcockian was named after the type of films he wrote and directed. It wasn’t just the huge impact Hitchcock had on the suspense, thriller, and horror genre’s, it was Hitchcocks technical and writing imfluence that has had a lasting impact on in film and popular culture. Alfred Hitchcock’s basically created a new filmmaking style using camera’s for perspective many times putting making the viewer the voyeur in his films to brilliantly adding to the suspense to his films. Hitchcock along his early writers created for better or worse the plot device called the MacGuffin that has a tremendous influence today in filmmaking that is used too much in not correctly. In my view Alfred Hitchcocks best films are North by Northwest, Rear Window, and Strangers on a Train.
3. Sergio Leone: The legendary director Akira Kurosawa who had a huge influence on Sergio Leone’s filmmaking, and in doing so Sergio Leone created his own impact on filmmaking creating the “spaghetti western” with his script writing long sprawling epics, and the use of long sweeping shots and extreme close ups. While Leone did not direct a lot of films, he did direct perhaps the two best unofficial trilogies of all time in No Name trilogy and the Once Upon A Time trilogy. All six films could easily fit into the top 50 films of all time and two of them in the top 20 films of all time. While both Clint Eastwood and composer Ennio Morricone were in the business of filmmaking Sergio Leone should get credit for lunching both to super stardom of the film industry in the 1960’s.
2. Stanley Kubrick: Whether it be Crime drama, Science Fiction, Epics, War, or Comedy Kubrick has had a lasting influence on virtually every genre. Like Terrance Malick, Stanley Kubrick had a different style with his filmmaking process saying his scripts were never really finished before his film started filming so he could be willing to adapt during filming, his relentless and sometimes endless scene takes sometimes making his actors shoot scenes dozens of times trying to get what he view as the perfect shot. Some film historians would call Stanley Kubrick the most influential filmmaker in history with in my view Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
1. Akira Kurosawa: It was a little hard to choose between Stanley Kubrick, Sergio Leone, and Kurosawa, and in my view the most influential, and all-around best director of all time is Akira Kurosawa. Kurosawa has had so much influence on cinema in story, style and technique throughout the years influencing directors like George Lucas, Sergio Leone, Quinton Tarantino, Clint Eastwood, Stanley Kubrick, and countless others. Akira Kurosawa introduced the world two different story styles/tropes in with the “Team building” trope, and the perspective or Rashomon style that can be seen in the Dirty Dozen films, Star Wars films, Ocean 11 films, Hero, Knives out, and countless other films as well as just about every part of popular culture. Akira Kurosawa as faced some criticism over his career with one that I can understand was his filmmaking during WWII. Like many filmmakers throughout the world in the late 1930’s and through the 1940’s they were pushed, paid, and sometimes forced to make propaganda films for the citizens of their countries. Akira Kurosawa was one of those directors, and I can understand the criticism of Kurosawa’s first films as a director in the early 1940’s. Another criticism that is completely unfounded and is laughable was by the French new wave movement in the 1950’s with many of the film makers saying Kurosawa was elitist and his films were not Japanese enough. Really men Frenchman from a former colonial power telling a Japanese filmmaker that his films were Japanese enough. That would be me as a white man like telling Spike Lee that his films aren’t black enough or Zhang Yimou that his films aren’t Chinese enough. Simple that is unfounded and just wrong. Even with some small legitimate criticism of Akira Kurosawa’s life and work it does not take away from his brilliance as a filmmaker crafting some of the best films made influencing countless others. As for Kurosawa’s best film that is hard, but even though I love his sprawling historical masterpieces in Yojimbo, Seven Samurai, Ran, Rashomon in my view it is one of Kurosawa’s smaller films that is the director’s best film. That would be 1952’s moving and poignant drama Ikiru.
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Honorable mentions that I briefly considered for this list: David Lean, Steven Spielberg, John Ford, Charlie Chaplin, Sergey Eisenstein, Ingmar Bergman, and Billy Wilder to name a few. I have seen very few films from the silent film era.
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fandom list.
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Films
TV Shows
YouTube ASMR Voice Audios (misc.)
* Italics = a character I will only write platonically.
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The Maze Runner
Thomas / Teresa Agnes / Newt / Minho / Frypan / Gally / Brenda / Aris / Sonya / Harriet
Janson / Ava Paige
The Hunger Games
Katniss Everdeen / Primrose Everdeen / Peeta Mellark / Gale Hawthorne / Finnick Odair / Haymitch Abernathy / Cato / Clove / Glimmer / Foxface / Enobaria / Johanna Mason / Effie Trinket
Rue / President Snow / President Alma Coin / Cinna
Titanic (1997)
Jack Dawson / Rose DeWitt Bukater / Fabrizio / Cal Hockley / and maybe the ship officers
Triple Frontier
Tom “Redfly” Davis / Santiago “Pope” Garcia / Francisco “Catfish” Morales / William “Ironhead” Miller / Ben Miller / Yovanna
Reservoir Dogs
Mr. Orange / Mr. Pink / Mr. Brown / Mr. Blonde / Mr. White / Nice Guy Eddie
Pulp Fiction
Vincent Vega / Jules Winnfield / Mia Wallace / Butch / Ringo "Pumpkin
Inglourious Basterds
Aldo Raine / Donny Dorowitz / Shosanna Dreyfus “Emmanuelle Mimieux” / Marcel / Archie Hicox / Bridget Von Hammersmark / Hugo Stiglitz
Hans Landa, Major Dieter Hellstrom, Fredrick Zoller (in some cases, I can write implied topics but nothing of my writing condones Landa, Hellstrom or Zoller’s actions as N*zis - in no way am I tangentially condoning their actions in this film - so they are written platonically - preferably as enemies of the reader)
Dunkirk
Tommy / Peter / George / Gibson / Alex / Collins / Farrier / Soldier (Cillian Murphy)
Midsommar
Dani Ardor / Christian Hughes / Josh / Mark / Pelle
Heathers (1989)
The Heathers / Veronica Sawyer / Jason “J.D” Dean
Scream franchise
(1996) Sidney Prescott / Billy Loomis / Stu Macher / Randy Meeks / Tatum Riley / Dewey Riley / Gale Weathers
(2000) Roman Bridger
(2022) Tara / Sam / Amber / Richie / Chad
—tv shows
Gotham
Bruce Wayne / Selina Kyle / Edward Nygma / Oswald Cobblepot / Jim Gordon / Jerome Valeska / Jeremiah Valeska / Ecco / Barbara Kean / Tabitha Galavan / Jervis Tetch / Lee Thompkins / Ivy Pepper (older), Fish Mooney, Eduardo Dorrance “Bane” / Ra’s Al-Gul / Victor Zsasz, Jonathan Crane “Scarecrow”
Harvey Bullock, Alfred Pennyworth, Butch Gilzean
Squid Game
Gi-Hun / Sang-Woo / Kang Sae-byeok / Hwang Jun-ho / Ali Abdul / Ji-yeong
Arcane (League of Legends)
Vi / Jinx / Caitlyn Kiramman / Sevika / Silco / Vander / Ekko / Jayce Talis / Viktor / Mel Medarda / Deckard 
Powder (younger) 
Euphoria
Rue Bennett / Jules Vaughn / Maddy Perez / Cassie Howard / Lexi Howard / Kat Hernandez / McKay / Fezco / Elliot
Gia Bennett / Ashtray
***will not write for Nate, Cal or Aaron Jacobs***
Skins (UK)
Generation 1: Tony Stonem / Sid Jenkins / Cassie Ainsworth /  Michelle Richardson / Jal Fazer / Chris Miles / Anwar Kharral / Maxxie Oliver (no female pairing unless platonic/familial)
Generation 2: Effy Stonem / Pandora Moon / James Cook / Freddy McClair / JJ Jones / Thomas Tomone / Katie & Emily Fitch / Naomi Campbell
Generation 3: Franky Fitzgerald / Mini McGuiness / Alo Creevey / Rich Hardbeck / Liv Malone / Grace Blood
The Haunting of Hill House
Steven Crain / Shirley Crain / Theo Crain / Nell Crain / Luke Crain
Young!Crain siblings, Hugh Crain, Olivia Crain
The Haunting of Bly Manor
Dani Clayton / Jamie / Peter Quint / Rebecca Jessel / Owen / Hannah Grose
Henry Wingrave / Flora Wingrave / Miles Wingrave
Black Mirror
Bandersnatch: Stefan Butler / Colin Ritman
Fifteen Million Merits: Bingham Madsen / Abi Khan
Be Right Back: Ash Starmer
White Christmas: Matt
San Junipero: Kelly / Yorkie
Hated in the Nation: Karin Parke / Blue Colson
USS Callister: Nanette Cole, Walton, Elena Tulaska, Shania
Hang the DJ: Frank / Amy
Kenny (Shut Up & Dance) / Robert Daly (USS Callister)
*I do not write for all Black Mirror episodes*
The Pacific
Bob Leckie / John Basilone / Manny Rodriguez / Lew “Chuckler” Juergens / Wilbur “Runner” / Conley Andrew “Ack Ack” Haldane / Eddie “Hillbilly” Jones / Bill “Hoosier” Smith / Eugene Sledge / Merriell “Snafu” Shelton / Sid Phillips / Jay D’Leau / Bill Leyden / R.V Burgin / Vera Keller / Lena Riggi
Superstore
Jonah / Amy / Dina / Garrett / Cheyenne / Mateo / Marcus / Bo
Glenn Sturgis
The Queen’s Gambit
Beth Harmon / Jolene / Benny Watts / D.L Townes / Harry Beltik
The Good Place
Michael / Eleanor Shellstrop / Chidi Anagonye / Tahani Al-Jamil / Jason Mendoza / Janet
The Walking Dead (S1-11)
Rick Grimes / Shane Walsh / Daryl Dixon / Carl Grimes / Glenn Rhee / Maggie Rhee / Beth Greene / Michonne Hawthorne / Negan / Simon / Enid / Rosita Espinosa / Yumiko / Magna / Connie / Kelly / Jesus / Siddiq / Noah / Cyndie / Tara Chambler / Dwight / Sherry / Sasha Williams / Eugene Porter / Jerry / King Ezekiel / Abraham Ford
Aaron, Lydia, Judith Grimes, Henry Peletier, Sophia Peletier
Dracula (BBC/2020 Netflix original)
Count Dracula / Agatha Van Helsing / Zoe Van Helsing / Jonathan Harker / Jack
Peaky Blinders (S1-S6)
Tommy Shelby / Arthur Shelby / Ada Thorne / John Shelby / Finn Shelby / Polly Gray / Michael Gray / Grace Burgess / Lizzie Starke / May Carleton / Alfie Solomons / Luca Changretta / Tatiana Petrovna / Gina Gray / Aberama Gold / Bonnie Gold
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Jake Peralta / Amy Santiago / Rosa Diaz / Charles Boyle, Gina Linetti
Raymond Holt / Kevin Cozner
Shadowhunters
Clary Fray / Jace Wayland / Alec Lightwood / Isabelle Lightwood / Magnus Bane / Simon Lewis / Maia Roberts / Luke Garroway / Raphael / Jordan Kyle / Seelie Queen / Meliorn / Hodge Starkweather / Helen Blackthorn / Aline Penhallow
Jonathan Morgenstern / Sebastian Verlac (as disguise) / Valentine Morgenstern / Jocelyn Fray / Maryse Lightwood / Max Lightwood / Camille Belcourt
Stranger Things
Steve Harrington / Jonathan Byers / Nancy Wheeler / Robin Buckley /  Eddie Munson / Chrissy Cunningham / Dmitri Antonov / 001/Henry Creel/”Peter” (not writing him as Vecna) / Jim Hopper / Joyce Byers
Eleven / Mike Wheeler / Will Byers / Lucas Sinclair / Dustin Henderson / Max Mayfield
***no longer writing for Billy Hargrove***
—youtube asmr voice audios (misc)
ZSakuVA 
Professor Andrew Marston (Strict Professor series)
CardlinAudio
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On this day in 1924, Alfred Hawthorne 'Benny' Hill was born...& he became the fastest milkman in the West. Happy 95th! #DailyDrawing Lovelyruthieslovelyart
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According to the Benny Hill song, 'Ernie' was the fastest what?
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Written and performed by the English comedian Benny Hill (1924-1992), 'Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)' is a humorous song inspired by Hill's experience as a milkman. It was performed for the first time in 1970 and shot to the top of the UK Singles Chart in 1971. Additionally, it reached the UK Christmas number one spot that year.
'Ernie' was originally written in 1955 for a screenplay that was never filmed. It narrates the fictional story of Ernie Price, a 52-year-old milkman who drives a horse-drawn milk cart. Ernie is constantly at war with "Two-Ton Ted" the bread delivery man, with whom he competes to win the heart of Sue, who lives at No. 22, Linley Lane. When it looks like Ernie may have won, Ted challenges Ernie to a duel, using the items on their respective carts as weapons. Ted emerges triumphant after Ernie is killed by a rock cake underneath his heart and a stale pork pie in his eye. The tongue-in-cheek song ends when Sue and Ted, now married, hear strange noises and wonder if Ernie's ghost has returned to haunt them.
Hill first performed the song on 'The Benny Hill Show' in 1970. After its success as a single, Hill recorded a promotional film of the song with himself as Ernie and his comedy partner, Henry McGee, as Ted.
Alfred Hawthorne "Benny" Hill was a British comedian, actor and singer, who starred in 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' (1968) and 'The Italian Job' (1969). 'Ernie' won Hill an Ivor Novello Award in 1972.
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