#anna queen costume

[goldberry-edition]

Elsa & Anna of Arendelle

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#frozen #disney #frozen 2 #anna #elsa #queen anna #queen elsa #arendelle sisters #anna of arendelle #elsa of arendelle #jewelry #costume jewelry #ai #ai generated #fanart #disney fanart #frozen fanart

[earlymodernbarbie]

Genevieve Bujold as Anne Boleyn in Anne of the Thousand Days

#anne boleyn #queen anne boleyn #anna bolina #anne of the thousand days #genevieve bujold #tudor history #henry viii #the tudors #english history #tudor era #tudor rose #tudor england #tudor period #house of tudor #period film #period drama #period piece #costume drama #1960s cinema #1960s movies #vintage movies #vintage films #1960s

[jessi-skylark]

Frozen Northundra fashion? How should Honeymaren dress when she visits Arendelle?

Please add comments or reblog your thoughts/links.

@ericmicael, i love your comments about how Honeymaren should dress if/when she goes down to Arendelle (and love the @ariettart scene). I’m drafting a scene where she planning on going, and Elsa-magics her a dress…what do you think her final custom dress could be? Elvan earth/forest x warrior princess? We got to find something that fits her with no leather. (At least not for dinner in the castle 🫢)

I’m imagining Elsa flipping through dresses like Maui shape shifting through animals with funny ones in between…

Maybe one too princess-y and another one…well too casual/suggestive (though how Elsa may be secretly imagining her)

And then finally something that suits Honeymaren?

To fellow frozen fandom….any good links or examples? Please add in comments or reblogs 😀

@annas-hair-donut , @true--north @fuzziekins @dronning-formynder05 @citizen-a @rain1940 @ashleytheartist any outfit suggestions?

Elsamaren Love Story and Comic:

Chapter 1: Beginning - Elsamaren Comic

- - Elsamaren Story - written version by @fuzziekins

Chapter 2: Admire

Chapter 3: Crush

#honeymaren #frozen #elsamaren #give elsa a girlfriend #frozen fandom #frozen 3 #queen elsa #lesbian art #disney #frozen fanart #dress #costume design #enchanted forest #elsa of arendelle #anna fanart #frozen 2

[ceolsoncosplays]

Finally, a Disney princess who likes chocolate as much as I do! 🍫

Costuming by Royal Princess Party MN

Photography by Ben McKone Photography

Minor additional editing by me!

#disney #disney love #disney prinesses #disney princess #cosplay #cosplay girl #cosplayer #costume #halloween #frozen #frozen 2 #Anna frozen #arendelle #arendelle sisters #queen anna #disney cosplay #disney cosplayer #disney princess cosplay #party princess #princess party #Disney fan #Anna frozen 2 #princess core #princesscore #fantasy #halloween costumes

[humasahsultanimsworld]

❄️ Hümaşah Sultan (Vildan Atasever) — Magnificent Century Kösem Ep.20

The elegance of the blue caftan on Hümaşah Sultan looks just like Elsa, the snow queen

#hümaşah sultan #vildan atasever #magnificent century #muhteşem yüzyıl #muhteşem yüzyıl kösem #magnificent century kösem #osmanlı #osmanlı devleti #ottoman #sultan #perioddramaedit #period rp #periodedit #periodedits #period drama #period #elsa and anna #snow queen #aesthetic #costume

[parf-fan]

why Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth Regina Gloriana wearing Anna’s ballgown from Frozen?

#guess it just wasn't finished yet last week and thus the recycling of the gown that actually maintained costume motifs #this new gown is marvelous i'm just not certain it's exactly queenly #also it literally looks like anna's ballgown with a farthingale #parf queen elizabeth #parf queen elizabeth 2022 #parf 2022 #parf #pa ren faire #pa renn faire #pa renaissance faire #pennsylvania renaissance faire #costuming #parf costumes #parf costumes 2022

[queerbauten]

Actually, I support teal!Cleves now

#Six the Musical #the first several times I saw teal!Cleves #I felt it was more of a Kitty look #but I’ve come around #(the teal costumes are my favourites tbh) #(and I’ve decided they mesh with my favourite queen) #Anna of Cleves #on a related note: teal!Boleyn my beloved

[recycledmoviecostumes]

This necklace has been used many, many times over the years. It was seen as early as 1993 in The Three Musketeers on Gabrielle Anwar as Queen Anne. In 1997 it was worn by Justine Waddell as Countess Nordston in Anna Karenina. The following year in 1998, it was seen on Gwyneth Paltrow as Viola de Lesseps in Shakespeare in Love, as well as on a courtier in Ever After. In 1999 it was seen in Harem Suaré worn by Maria Gillain as Safiya, and in 2001 by Mira Sorvino as The Princess in Triumph of Love. Lindsay Duncan as Katherine wore the necklace in 2003 in Under the Tuscan Sun, and Lynn Collins was spotted wearing it as Portia in the 2004 adaptation of The Merchant of Venice. In 2005 it was worn by Diana Kent as Lady Essex in HBO’s Elizabeth I. From there, the piece would go on to be used in The Tudors at least three times, once in 2007 and twice in 2009 on Natalie Dormer as Anne Boleyn, Annabelle Wallis as Jane Seymour, and Rebekah Wainwright as Catherine Brandon, respectively. In 2011 the necklace was worn by Ruta Gedmintas as Ursula Bonadeo in The Borgias, and in 2019, the piece was seen again on Charlotte Hope as Katharine of Aragon in The Spanish Princess. Finally, in 2022 it was worn by Elissa Alloula as Filippa in the episode of The Serpent Queen entitled The Prince. 

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#the serpent queen #the spanish princess #the borgias #the tudors #Elizabeth I

[clepysdra]

Pasiphae’s Dress

Named after the mythical queen of Minoan Crete. Pasiphae was the wife of King Minos and the mother of the minotaur, Asterion. According to some traditions, she was a goddess of the moon and sorcery.

The dress is based off a ceramic vessel in the shape of a woman’s dress found at the site of Knossos. The skirt depicts crocus flowers near its base.

Prayers for Anna Apostolaki (Άννα Αποστολάκη), who was the first Greek woman to pursue a professional career in archeology. In 1926, she oversaw the reconstruction of ancient Minoan costumes as part of a three day festival held at the Panathenaic Stadium, among which included this beautiful dress.

Long dress category

43 swatches

Base game compatible

Feminine

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#my cc #my cas cc #s4cc #ts4cc #crete #cretan #greek #greece #minoan #pasiphae #phaedra #mythology #mythos #history #ancient history #bronze age #mycenaean #mycenae #queen #goddess

[benegesseritofficial]

Pushing Daisies has immediately struck me as extraordinarily queer coded. Enjoy my rant.

This show came out in 2007 and yet Ned is an extremely gentle man in every aspect of his characterization. He was emotionally wounded as a child, a fact we linger on and explore at length. He drives people away but in an incredibly passive way. He isn't interested at all in the hot woman throwing herself at him. The only person he's interested in was his childhood best friend. The man is passive, sweet, and a romantic; not someone who would chase you but a prize to be won.

Chuck is literally named Chuck. Sure her name is Charlotte but when we first meet her she's in a dinosaur costume and her name is Chuck. No one's called her Chuck since Ned, and when he does again she only wants him to call her Chuck. Almost immediately everyone calls her Chuck. Also... Charolette Charles? Charolette is the feminine form of Charles. Gender fuckery is afoot from square one. And she's assertive. She has no trouble talking over Ned, or any other man for that matter. She cares deeply about feelings and emotions and her perceptions of right and wrong, and she will steamroll anyone who tries to contradict her. She kisses Ned first. She figures out how she can safely kiss Ned. They both wanted it but she's the one who starts problem solving. Now, her actress Anna Friel is slender, her hair is long, and she is dressed exclusively like a 1950s fashion model. She's 5'5", but dwarfed by Lee Pace's 6'5". But what if she wasn't? What if she was opposite a man who wasn't a fucking tree? What if these lines and actions were given to a woman who wasn't a size 2? What if Anna Friel wore jeans for even one scene while Chuck interrupts and problem solves and takes action? Well, the audience might start to notice that the character isn't very feminine at all. Chuck is all character and very little gender. She could really be played by anyone.

And finally, Olive. Dear, sweet, Olive, longing after a man who shuts down one half her advances and doesn't seem to notice the other half. Olive, who is bold and brash and catty and fun and (apparently, by the costuming department's choices) obsessed with '70s fashion. It's 2007. A gay writer cannot express his struggles longing after a straight man who will never care for him. Not in so many words. But he could write most of that character. He could just swap a few little details and pronouns. By the time a minuscule, high voiced actress is reading Olive's lines, the average straight viewer would never even guess. But there Olive is; a readymade gay icon, over the top and feminine and unapologetically attracted to men. Everything a more feminine gay man wishes he could be out in the open. Olive can tell gay men's stories when they couldn't use their own voices. Relatedly, once you see her and Chuck's aunts as drag queens, you just can't unsee it. When Olive first meets those two, they take her under their wing as a kindred spirit. In the course of telling a story, it's not a trope or action that makes much sense for straight women. Younger women don't seek out and value the advice of old women. Not on TV, not in the cultural wisdom of 2007 or today. Gay men on the other hand. Drag queens on the other hand. If you were in the culture, you understood to value your elders when they bestowed wisdom.

And none of that addressing the situation. Ned absolutely cannot touch the person he's in love with. He and Chuck kiss in (I think) the third episode. Chuck isn't a love interest, she is arguably his girlfriend for most of the series. And yet, a forced wall must remain between them. Chuck has to remain in disguise when they're in public. They are together, but still feel they have to restrain themselves. There is no clear future for their relationship, no matter how in love they are. Much like a gay couple might feel, years before widespread societal acceptance and legal recognition of their relationship. It isn't safe, and only a few close friends can know.

#pushing daisies #I want Ned to be trans #I don't think the text supports it I just want it #Chuck totally is trans though

[cressida-jayoungr]

Coeli's Picks: Fantasy & Sci-Fi, part 1

(Multiple movies listed left to right.)

One Dress a Day Challenge

Barbarella (1968) / Jane Fonda as Barbarella

Sleepy Hollow (1999) / Christina RIcci as Katrina van Tassel

The Fountain (2006) / Rachel Weisz as Queen Isabella I

Flash Gordon (1980) / Ornella Muti as Princess Aura

"She also wears red, black, pink, and silver outfits."

Jupiter Ascending (2015) / Mila Kunis as Jupiter (left) and Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Famulus (right)

Immortals (2011) / Isabel Lucas as Athena

"I don't know what is up with Zeus's enthusiasm for drapery cords there, but she looks great."

Blade Runner (1982) / Sean Young as Rachael

One Million Years B.C. (1966) / Raquel Welch as Loana

"The costume that almost killed her!"

Mirror, Mirror (2012) / Julia Roberts as Queen Clementianna

Death Becomes Her (1992) / Isabella Rossellini as Lisle von Rhuman

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) / Anna Popplewell as Susan Pevensie

Star Trek (s3e21, "The Cloud Minders") / Diana Ewing as Droxine

Frank Herbert's Dune (2000 miniseries) / Barbora Kodetova as Chani

#one dress a day challenge #one dress a week challenge #coeli's picks #television costumes #tv costumes #movie costumes #barbarella #sleepy hollow #the fountain #flash gordon #jupiter ascending #immortals #blade runner #one million years b.c. #mirror mirror #death becomes her #dune 2000 #the lion the witch and the wardrobe #star trek tos #the cloud minders

[newsatsix1986]

This outfit in this latest The Newsreader S2 unit still, and this image of Anna Torv behind the scenes of filming the season! It was a costume after all, not just a jumper of Anna's from home! I too am a sucker for an off-shoulder jumper with a protruding singlet top strap poking out so this speaks to me greatly! 😍

Helen Norville is certainly the queen of casual and cool! 😍👸🏻💖

#helen norville #anna torv #dale jennings #sam reid #murray the newsreader #john leary #the newsreader #a hip hip hooray kind of connection made! #the second I made this connection I did a fist pump in the air! this is a COSTUME! which we'll get to SEE IN THE SHOW. YES. WE KEEP WINNING!

[frozen-snowflakesandsunflowers]

Frozen 3 thoughts: Elsa's attire

Elsa's had some really beautiful dressed and outfits over the years. From her most iconic blue "Snow Queen" attire to her white "5th Spirit" attire. All if her outfits have shown her stages of character growth, from hiding herself from everyone she loves with her coronation attire to letting herself go with her "Snow Queen" attire. But since Frozen 3 has been announced it's left the question pondering; What is her next step of her growth given she's found herself as the 5th spirit? What's the next step of her story now?

I'll be answering those exact questions in a theory regarding Elsa losing her powers and Hans returning but in this post I'll answer it by guessing and exploring the possibility for her attire in Frozen 3.

Elsa's main style is a long floor length dress with a slit be it on the right or in the middle, with a longer flowing cape and snowflake like shapes patterned all over the attire. She also likes transparency in elements of her costumes. Let's not forget she loves shoes made out of ice. So we can expect at least some of those elements in her Frozen 3 attire. Oh wait - some of you might we wondering will Elsa even get a new attire because she found herself and is the fifth spirit now. The answer to that is of course she will! There is more to her and even Anna's story to tell because if not there wouldn't be a Frozen 3 in the works. And with every new journey of finding themselves, they make, come new outfits. Here are some of Elsa's iconic looks:

She also goes for a cooler colour palette with shades of blues, whites, pinks, purples, turquoise, teal etc. There would be only a few occasions where she'd go warm which is on Anna's birthday, to match the floral theme by wearing pink and green (my personal favourite looks of Elsa). As fifth spirit, her attire includes the specific colours of each element: turquoise (water), blue (air), pale blue (earth), and purple (fire). And because she's got ice powers, and white is part of the ice and snow colour palette, it makes it the fifth spirit colour and balances out the other four spirit colours. So she'll most likely be wearing white. But as a theory goes around that she should lose her powers temporarily, her attire will reflect her powerless side. Maybe she'll wear black as opposite to her fifth spirit dress to show the title that came with the powers disappearing.

But let's look at her styles in the Broadway version of the movie. During her second solo, "Monster", she wears a different attire for it (which I absolutely am obsessed with!). She wears a pant suit. Here's a few stills of it:

It's so classy, so elegant, so Elsa! Her top half of the outfit has basically the same kind of structure as her original dress. The only difference is that this has a V-neck and that had an off the shoulder neckline and the other difference is the neckline if the bodice has a thin lining of wool. The pants are same have embroidered white pattern to it and she has below-the-knee heeled boots with a thick fur lining on the rim of it. She keeps her cape with this look which puts the cherry on the top of the cake.

I definitely would want Elsa to have this kind of look because if her fifth spirit role consists of running around the forest especially if there's danger than honestly speaking she should be wearing pants - like she did in Frozen 2 as her main look underneath her overcoat. I think I might re design the look above to make it suit for the role she was born into (Fifth Spirit).

Then we have her Disney Lorcana (Disney's trading card game) looks.

The one on the left is inspired by her attire she wears underneath her coat in Frozen 2, but it has elements of her fifth spirit attire in it. So if we see Elsa embracing new looks with her new style it could look similar to this. Her cape is along her sleeves too which is also a nod to her fifth spirit cape being 2 separate capes going down from her shoulders.

The one on the right is more a witchy look which I love. She looks like she would be called "The Northern Witch". It's inspired by one of her one of her concept arts of Frozen 2 (can be found in the Art of Frozen 2 book). Again it's got her fifth spirit emblem on it. As for her cape, it's more of a cloak here. If Elsa vanished to the North mountain again she would nail this look and if there was a magical book involved too, this would be go well.

To conclude, I would really love to see Elsa in pants again because her role as fifth spirit is less formal than her role as Queen, as it is more about protecting the forest from any kind of threats that may arise (as we are due to see hear in the upcoming podcast). Don't get me wrong, I love Elsa in dresses and skirts, it's her main iconic looks. But I think from time to time, if she wears pants it would show her change from the formal Queenly role to her free spirited role. Oh and yeah I know Elsa does have pants underneath the gown but I mean, showing it more obviously like the one in the Broadway way version. Her long capes and dress would get in the way when dealing with threats as she will in the podcast so maybe learning form that she changes.that up a bit. I mean we are going ot have new looks for both Elsa and Anna for promotion purposes too so might as well. But either way, dress or pants, I'm definitely going it be excited to see both Elsa and Anna's new looks in Frozen 3 symbolising their character or further growth in the movie.

Also I think since November will mark 10 years of Frozen, we should add the tag "A decade of Frozen". Just for celebration purposes and for fun! It feels like only yesterday we got the first movie - im not crying 🤧❄️

#disney frozen #frozen #frozen 2 #frozen 3 #elsa #disney #frozen fever #ofa #Olaf's Frozen Adventure #elsa of arendelle #queen elsa #the snow queen #concept art #disney lorcana #frozen broadway #disney broadway #broadway musicals #musical #Monster #A decade of Frozen

[charlottegeorgesheart]

Young Queen Charlotte, played by India Amarteifio, keeps to innocent pastels in her early scenes, but her colors grow bolder as her power does too.  (Liam Daniel/Netflix)

BY VALLI HERMAN

In the first minutes of the “Bridgerton” prequel “Queen Charlotte,” the namesake character complains heartily how her elaborate gown and its restrictive corset made of brittle and sharp whalebone means that if she moves too much, “I might be sliced and stabbed to death by my undergarments.”

Oh, dearest gentle reader, young Queen Charlotte hasn’t suffered in vain. Her every ensemble, and those of the show’s sizable cast, are crafted with such sumptuous detail, that surely all who view them would gladly have them suffer even more.

Even though period costumes are notoriously cumbersome, Emmy-winning costume designer Lyn Elizabeth Paolo and co-costume designer Laura Frecon dispel notions that the actors suffered much (thanks to light, modern fabrics and stretchy panels in their corsets). Still, the yearlong shoot in grand estates across the United Kingdom overlapped the pandemic lockdown and required worldwide sourcing. It seems that their brand of elegant finery was a tonic for distress, and a cause for celebration. The work, helped by a 220-person costume crew, has earned them a 2023 Emmy nomination for period costumes.

Replica undergarments were crafted from light, modern fabrics and stretchy panels to be slightly more comfortable than the actual period clothing. (Liam Daniel/Netflix)

“This [shoot] was challenging, but also joyful. Every time a piece of a costume would come back, it was, ‘Oh, my God! It looks better than we thought it would.’ There was a lot of joy there,” says Paolo, the longtime designer for other Shonda Rhimes productions, such as “Inventing Anna” and “Scandal.”

The six-episode costume drama on Netflix explores the early days of the difficult marriage of Queen Charlotte (India Amarteifio) and King George III (Corey Mylchreest). The fictionalized story of the actual royals takes place in two time periods — the Georgian era of the 1760s and the later Regency era in which “Bridgerton” is set — and includes key characters from the original show. There are several grand balls, a royal wedding and a coronation to wardrobe. No biggie.

Or so Paolo was led to believe.

“I remember Sara Fischer, who is head of production at Shondaland, called me and said, ‘Shonda has this idea for a small, intimate show. She really wants you to do it.’ And, what are you going to say?” recalls Paolo, who was a consultant on Season 2 of “Bridgerton.”

She invented a time-twisting concept inspired by Monet and Matisse paintings and modern fashion designers who themselves referenced historical costume such as John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Moschino, Zuhair Murad and Christian Dior in his New Look era. Yet Paolo kept the silhouette appropriately Georgian.

“The pitch was, we kind of want it to look like a Met Ball … but to be slightly more on point with the period. We still wanted to have our own stylistic elements that would make sure that the modern eye understood the costumes,” Paolo says.

Corey Mylchreest as King George and India Amarteifio as Queen Charlotte all but sparkle in their lustrous clothing. (Nick Wall/Netflix)

“For the men, we had images of rock ‘n’ roll icons from the ‘70s and ‘80s. So a lot of images of Prince, the New Romantics and Adam Ant. All those people back then who had that pirate chic going on.”

That vision required a mostly custom-made wardrobe that sourced from London, Los Angeles, New York, Budapest and Spain. Jewelers Joseff of Hollywood, Manhattan’s Larkspur & Hawk and Italy’s Pikkio custom made the period jewelry and other adornments. British manufacturer James Hare supplied traditional fabrics as did a mill hours from London that wove custom fabrics. Smaller artisan shops focused on hand embroidery or a particular character.

“It was sort of a small army,” says Paolo, who relied on the organizational skills of Frecon. A giant calendar and flow chart helped them track the flow of work, particularly of the embroidered pieces, which were outsourced to UK specialists Twan Lentjes Creations, Beth Parry and Hattie McGill, whose Instagram accounts illustrate their handiwork.

Other members of the court stand out in patterned fabrics (on Tunji Kasim as Adolphus) and brightly colored gowns with hats (Arsema Thomas as Agatha Danbury).

“It’s so complicated,” Paolo says, describing a process of sample making, initial embroidery, further tailoring and additional hand embellishing before a pattern piece is ever fitted into a garment. Even fabric-covered buttons were embroidered.

The women’s gowns are especially intensive. The earlier dresses, from 1760 onward, required 13 to 20 yards of fabric and at least four weeks of construction; five if they’re heavily embellished. Each ensemble requires petticoats that can add five to 10 more yards each, plus a corset, a pannier (a cage-like underpinning), a padded bum roll, shoes, stockings and garters. The jewelry sets were matched to each costume and included rings, earrings, necklaces, bracelets and tiara-like hair jewelry that was fitted into fantastical wigs by hair and makeup designer Nic Collins.

With two sets of characters to dress in two different eras, the costume designers were careful to build visual continuity, typically with color. Young Queen Charlotte, for example, keeps to innocent pastels in her early scenes, but her colors grow bolder as her power does too. The designers cannot precisely count the number of costume changes, or quantify the number of pieces they used, only to say “in the thousands.” Paolo says Jeff Jur, director of photography, was on board to capture the spectacle and regularly texted her and Frecon to say, “‘I’m doing a full head-to-toe shot of this one.”

Still, it’s tricky to absorb all of the detail, even though it’s there on the hand-embroidered initials on a man’s handkerchief, or the restored antique jet beading and lace on Queen Charlotte’s mourning gown, or the Easter eggs, as Paolo calls the references she wove into many costumes, particularly those in the final episode, which features an astronomy-themed ball, hosted by the king and queen.

King George loves astronomy, so stars and moons are embroidered and beaded into their clothes. The ball was shot outdoors at night, which usually obscures costume details. Jur expertly lit the scene to illuminate the clothes that were so laden with sparkly bits that they twinkle.

Though the final episode was picked to submit for Emmy consideration, the choice was “brutal,” Paolo said. “It’s a huge group of amazingly talented people who all deserve recognition. If we are lucky enough to win, I would want 220 miniature ones to hand out to everyone.”

#queen charlotte: a bridgerton story #india amarteifio #corey mylchreest #queen charlotte #king george iii #charlotte x george #charlottegeorge #tunji kasim #arsema thomas #prince adolphus #lady danbury #netflix #!

[parallel-awhite]

Bluebeard's Castle / a novel by Anna Biller

I first encountered polymath auteur/cinéaste Anna Biller when she screened her Cal Arts thesis film Three Examples of Myself as a Queen (1994) at Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center in Venice, California. The film was a tour-de-force - a straight-faced hilarious surreal camp fantasy musical that Biller wrote, starred in, directed, costumed, composed and set-designed. Around that time I was also lucky enough to catch her live stage production, The Lady Cat, in which she starred as a be-whiskered furred sexy feline. Those glorious offerings have since been followed by films such as The Hypnotist (2001), A Visit from the Incubus (2001), Viva (2007) and The Love Witch (2016), each of which has been a gleaming iconic/iconoclastic constellation in the Anna Biller firmament.

Now, years later, I've just finished the audio version of Biller's debut novel, Bluebeard's Castle (Verso Fiction, 2023). Fascinating, complex and interwoven with stealth historic, cinematic and literary hat-tips, the novel absolutely felt like an Anna Biller production. Biller's indelible mise en scène over the years has been so gloriously signature with its unapologetic embrace of nostalgic high fashion and cinematic kitsch that the novel unspooled in my head as a dazzling film punctuated by bits of quintessential Biller-esque theatrical side-business: naked men painted white posing as statues; costumed dancers performing a sensual pas-de-deux between a caterpillar and a butterfly.

The book is a true-to-form romance novel that follows the erotic evolution of romance novelist Judith as she is drawn ever deeper into the gravitational pull of a devilishly handsome cad. But Biller subverts the genre by confronting the reader with the nightmarish horror of the narcissistic demonic, all the while seducing us with inescapable eroticism, daring us not to turn the page (or keep listening to the audio - convincingly read with Gothic intensity by Samantha Hydeson).

The juxtaposition of romance novel genre and rigorous razor-sharp psychological insight of Bluebeard's Castle made my head spin. In vivid Biller-esque fashion, the dark momentum of the work made me feel like I was being strangled with a gold satin cord and lowered into a red velvet lined coffin in a symbolic death. This is a filmmaker's novel with big dreamlike technicolor impact and Hitchcock-like precision.

I read somewhere that Biller had originally pitched Bluebeard's Castle as a film and, rather than wait for the capricious wheels of cinematic fate to spin in her favor, took to the novel form and made it happen.

Here's holding out hope that this scintillating work gets a green light. Would be epic.

#novel #literature #anna biller #cinema #film #subversive #fiction #genre #feminist

[fancylala4]

as someone who used to be a huge frozen and Elsa fan as a kid and had an Elsa costume that I wore a lot, I regret ever liking the movie. Literally why is it so bad 😭😭

It really didn’t age well at all. I still like to watch it every winter but there are some really big flaws in the story. Like why does Elsa get away with all the messed up things she did like almost killing her sister and freezing the whole kingdom? And why was Kristoff even necessary to the story. In the snow queen, the main character went on a journey by herself and saved her friend. But Disney thought Anna couldn’t do that and needed some random guy to babysit her? The story is all over the place and felt like it was written and thrown together in 3 days. The animation is awful and stiff. Especially the facial expressions of Anna and Elsa. They have limited facial expressions because Disney wanted them to look pretty at all times and marketable. Disney has truly fallen in 2010 and every movie they put out since then sucks except for Moana, big hero six and encanto.

It’s so sad because the snow queen is such a great story and would make a great movie. But Disney dropped the ball on it and gave us one of the most overrated movies of all time. What makes it even worse is that we can’t even get a proper snow queen adaptation without people whining that it’s nothing like frozen.

#asks #anti frozen #disney critical #frozen critical