#Michael Green

[georgimena]

Ok, but why, WHY I just heard about this show?!?! either the IG/Tik Tok algorithm it's shit or it wasn't promoted enough.

This show is amazing!!!

The animation is great, the story keeps you on the edge of your seat, the characters are so good, lots of fights and blood.

And it got renewed for a second season!!!!

Ahhhhh!!!

#blue eye samurai #netflix #samurai #mizu #mizu blue eye samurai #maya erskine #darren barnet #brenda song #masi oka #george takei #kenneth branagh #randall park #amber noizumi #michael green #jane wu

[ifthesewings--couldfly]

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how good Blue Eye Samurai is at avoiding cliches? I 100% - no, 1000% expected Fowler to find out Mizu is a woman through the classic expedient of him ripping her clothes and exposing her breasts - especially since this show doesn’t shy away from nudity. Instead, he pointed out how “his” bones break like a woman’s, and that line was so unexpected and powerful because of course Fowler would know something about women’s bones and the way they break. He’s been doing that for the past 10 years

This show, guys. This show.

#and that FINALE #and season 2 too #blue eye samurai #mizu #abijah fowler #netflix #netflix shows #amber noizumi #Michael green

[keepcalmandwritefiction]

Writers: You do not need to wear the low-self worth [sic] "I suck" mask.

You can know you are talented and capable even when you are staring at a disaster draft.

It is just work to do and it is OK to know you are qualified to do it.

– Michael Green (Logan, American Gods, Blade Runner 2049)

#fiction #fiction writing #writing motivation #michael green #quotes #kcawf original #tweet tweet #writeblr

[moonsinola]

One of the creators for Blue Eye Samurai, Michael Green, posted Israeli propaganda on his Twitter. This is really disappointing for a show with such strong anti-colonial themes. Please don't watch it or at least pirate it instead.

#blue eye samurai #palestine #free palestine #free gaza #gaza strip #gaza #israel #jerusalem #michael green

[rptv-tolkien]

Emblem of Durin

by Michael Green

#jrr tolkien #the hobbit #lord of the rings #michael green #tolkien #middle earth #lotr #fantasy art #dwarves #durin

[thebuhonerodazorrow]

Blade Runner 2019 #5

Titan

#Blade Runner #comics #Blade runner 2019 #marco lesko #Michael Green #mike johnson #andres guinaldo #phillip k dick #ciencia ficcion #sify #cyberpunk #Scifi

[danmeigirl]

Episode 6 : "All Evil Dreams and Angry Words"

#bro got so traumatised 😂 #mizu effect #mizu blue eye samurai #michael green #amber noizumi #netflix #blue spirit #anime

[agentnico]

Blue Eye Samurai - Season 1 (2023) Review

Don't think I've ever seen so much human genitalia in animated form all in one go. Makes me wonder if the production team had a designated animator of genitals who literally just spent his time drawing penises for the show. If so, I hope it was Jonah Hill as he already proved in Superbad that he is the perfect artist for this subject.

Plot: Driven by a dream of revenge against those who made her an outcast in Edo-period Japan, a young warrior cuts a bloody path toward her destiny.

Netflix consistently hashes out so much content every week, that it is hard to keep up with any of it, as such many great projects get missed and are forever lost in the streamer's endless library void. Luckily Blue Eye Samurai didn't pass my scrolling and evidently has its fan base, as this is one of the quickest examples of the streaming giant announcing a season renewal after release. Yep, Blue Eye Samurai will be getting a second season which is amazing as this is a superb new series that if you haven't yet discovered then you are doing yourself a disservice and should amend that behaviour immediately and go watch it! Still need persuading? Alright, sit yourself down and allow me to gush about Blue Eye Samurai!...

It’s hard to overstate just how stunning Blue Eye Samurai is to look at. The series uses a mix of 2D and 3D animation styles to create landscapes and characters who seem only a few degrees removed from live-action, even as the form allows for combat on a scale that would cost several large fortunes to craft with flesh-and-blood actors. In fact, looking at the behind-the-scenes the team hired an actual martial arts choreographer to support in creating the combat sequences in real life with real people, and then the movements of those fights were transferred to animation and used in the final product. In one episode (seemingly inspired by the 1978 martial arts film Enter the Game of Death where Bruce Lee had to fight his way up to the tower to get to the last floor) the main samurai Mizu must defeat multiple bosses on each level of the season's big bad Fowler’s impregnable fortress home, and each separate battle is a work of art in itself. Honestly, the show just looks like a moving painting, with every frame absolutely jaw-dropping gorgeous. Even without dialogue or characterization, it would be completely engrossing.

Luckily, writers Michael Green and Amber Noizumi are as interested in the people at the center of these crazy fights as they are in the many improbable techniques Mizu uses against her opponents. Mizu is presented throughout as both supernatural and deeply human. She can handle any odds, and come back from every injury that would cripple or kill a normal person. But the series never loses sight of what a life wholly devoted to revenge has cost her, and the ways in which she has turned herself into every bit the monster that her countrymen believe her to be.

It is then also the exploration of how Mizu interacts with the other characters in this world. There's the disabled would-be apprentice Ringo (played warmly by Masi Oka), who has learned to navigate life despite his lumbering size and lack of hands. Mizu has no interest in a sidekick, but Ringo gradually wears her down, as if he’s a peaceful stream flowing against a rock over hundreds of years. There's also Taigen (Darren Barnett), a warrior chasing after Mizu to collect a debt of honour, yet due to this honour he ends up helping her as in his eyes only he has the right to kill her, no one else, so ends up attacking those that attempt to harm her. Brenda Song voices the princess Akemi, who is just as eager to escape the bonds of Edo society as Mizu is, but who uses very different methods to achieve that. We follow her journey through an intimate tour of the area brothels, which is where the aforementioned heaviness of nudity comes in. There is, in fact, a lot of naked flesh on display throughout the season. The series can be just as graphic in depicting sex as it is in violence, yet both avoid feeling gratuitous. And finally, there's Kenneth Branagh as this season's big bad Fowler, a despicable arms dealer who has no sense of morality or empathy and is willing to destroy anything standing in his path. He's a massive presence and seemingly the only one able to hold himself in a fight against Mizu, hence why Branagh's British snark yet heavy tone fits perfectly here.

The whole thing is an incredible, utterly badass example of how animation can be used to create worlds, characters, and adventure every bit as vivid as live-action if not more at times. Even though I would say there are a few areas of pacing issues, which withheld me from binging this season all in one go and instead had me taking regular break intervals throughout, this is still a stellar show and one that you can tell was created by a team of passionate filmmakers and artists. Blue Eye Samurai would never have had the impact it did had it been live-action - using animation as its storytelling medium elevated it to a masterpiece in my opinion. Kudos to everyone involved in such an amazing project and I can’t WAIT to see more!

Overall score: 8/10

#blue eye samurai #mizu #adventure #thriller #action #animation #digital animation #2d animation #netflix #michael green #amber noizumi #maya erskine #masi oka #brenda song #george takei #randall park #kenneth branagh #darren barnet #2023 #blue eye samurai review #tv series #streaming #samurai #adult animation #history #drama #sword #blue eye samurai season 1 #martial arts

[theforswornelite]

Season 2 of Blue Eye Samurai better open with

"COR BLIMEY, ITZ A FOOKIN' BLOO 'OI SAMOROII!!!!"

#Blue Eye Samurai #Michael Green #Amber Noizumi #Jane Wu

[ilovekbranagh]

A Haunting in Venice 2023 Making of & Behind the Scenes + Deleted Scenes

#youtube #a haunting in venice #kenneth branagh #tina fey #jamie dornan #jude hill #kyle allen #emma laird #camille cottin #michael green

[a-book-of-creatures]

If you don't mind I'd love to know what's on the next page in that unicorn book about dragons.

She was fearsomely wrought, with darting, lidless eyes; and the first sight caught in her unblinking gaze was her own image, reflected in the dark waters. She worshiped the sight, and a secret lust for that selfsame image has consumed her heart for all time since.

And Yaldabaoth grew great and spawned others like herself: Nagamat and Kaliyat and Orkus, Tarasque and Serpens; and many more besides. Now while dragons are of many sizes and shapes, all are swift and sharp of intellect, and thirst after knowledge. While the Unicorn seeks to divine the secrets of creation that he may more perfectly know the Creator, the Dragon desires the same that it may gain dominion over all the world, and thereby conquer death.

Now the Dragon fiercely hates the Unicorn for his primacy, because it is not self-created, but owes to him its being. And so it has ever been the bane of the Unicorn, its fixed intent being to devour him, that it may no longer be an aftercomer, but be Oldest of All Things.

Now the Unicorn oversees all dominions of this world, and so in shadows and in fading light he finally must confront the Worm. No creature exceeds the Unicorn in quickness or in courage, but vast and subtle is the knowledge of the Dragon. It can mold its mind to his and lure him into the mazes of its thought, where the Unicorn tarries, judging that such intelligence cannot be utterly without redemption. And so, by imperceptible degrees is he led into a debate unending; while the Dragon drains him of his strength and light. In those sunless halls his doom approaches; and only when he treads paths of thought that utterly violate his nature does he realize how grim his plight has become.

Then must the Unicorn traverse a narrow path. On the one side waits hatred; on the other, cold despair. Either will prove his defeat; for to succumb to hate would be to grasp his enemy's own device and perish in its fire. Yet if he flees, despairing and depleted, then will he be overtaken, be undone, and perish.

Meshed in confusion, the Unicorn knows for the first time the cold touch of the fear suffered by mortal men; the only fear that he shall ever know. But if he be steadfast, victory may still be claimed. With great sagacity, with highest love, he must awaken as from a dream and, without hesitation, pierce the Dragon with his Spiral Horn.

#dragons #unicorns #de historia et veritate unicornis #michael green

[ifthesewings--couldfly]

Gotta love disabled representation in Blue Eye Samurai.

#blue eye samurai #michael green #amber noizumi #netflix #netflix original

[balu8]

Mahmud Asrar

Supergirl #5: Homecoming

by Michael Green/Mike Johnson; Mahmud Asrar; Dave McCaig and Rob leigh

DC

#dc comics #Mahmud Asrar #dave mccaig #rob leigh #mike johnson #Michael Green #comic book

[cinemgc]

Death on the Nile (2022, US)

 • Dirección: Kenneth Branagh

 • Guion: Michael Green

 • Cinematografía: Haris Zambarloukos

• Cast: Tom Bateman, Kenneth Branagh, Russell Brand

#Gif #Película #Intriga #Muerte en el Nilo #Kenneth Branagh #Michael Green #Haris Zambarloukos #Tom Bateman #Russell Brand #Film #Death on the Nile #Mystery Movie #Agatha Christie #Hercule Poirot #Bouc #Linus Windlesham #Hércules Poirot

[thebuhonerodazorrow]

Blade Runner 2019 #5

Titan

#Titan comics #titan #Blade Runner #Blade runner 2019 #comics #cloe #tyrell #marco lesko #Michael Green #mike johnson #andres guinaldo #phillip k dick #cyberpunk #ciencia ficcion #sify #Scifi

[rptv-tolkien]

Minas Morgul (?)

by Michael Green

-

There was no caption for this picture but it appears to be the fortress of Minas Morgul.  At first I thought it might be Barad-dûr but there appears to be no eye and no Mount Doom nearby.  Then I thought it might be Cirith Ungol but the surrounding land looks too flat.  Because it has bridges, I believe that this is probably a picture of Minas Morgul.

#minas morgul #lord of the rings #tolkien #JRR Tolkien #LOTR #minas ithil #Michael Green #Mordor #middle earth #morgul vale