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ophelialoveshandsomemen · 3 months

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Say what you will about Van Helsing 2004; hate it, love it, be indifferent, But the All-Hallow's masquerade ball went sooooo hard and it had zero right to do so! It's a fun, campy, monster mash movie with wonderfully dated ( and expensive) cgi and non-stop action meant to be a popcorn flick one takes out to watch around spooky season. And it has this* chef's kiss* GORGEOUS 6 minute sequence plopped arbitrarily in the second act, which unexpectedly surpasses nearly every other ball in the last 30+ years of film( notable exception being the Cinderella 2015 ball) for literally no reason other than to be dramatic af.

Like feast your eyes on this Gothic masterpiece!!! Who doesn't want to immediately live in this picture?!??

They used those candles with oil in them so that they would have real candles, real string orchestra( I believe), probably around 100 real life extras( something which is tragically absent in modern film), said extras are all in beautiful fully decked-out costumes( which are in luxuriously dark colours, but nearly no fully black, another thing you cannot say for much modern cinema), REAL CIRQUE DU SOLEIL PERFORMERS for all the acrobatics!!!! Hell, instead of filming in a sound stage, where they could control the reverb and the acoustics and the size of the set and the bloody lighting ( they apparently had a heck of a time emulating the firelight for this sequence) and the temperature( it's very cold in stone churches!) better, they filmed in a Baroque church in Prague! As I said, peak dramatic splendour, jfc...

Think about that a second...They filmed a vampire masquerade in a Baroque Catholic Church( St. Nicholas' in Lesser Town, if you were curious) with amazing over-the-top acoustics and marble statues and real, tiled floors and marble pillars and a choir loft which they very much utilized, covered the pipe organ and the altar with a grand brocade curtain so it wouldn't be so obviously a, you know, a church! And there's a gold gilt elevated and canopied pulpit into which they put two vampire kiddies for, again, the sake of being dramatic.

And the costumes! They remind me of the 25th anniversary Phantom of the Opera Masquerade costumes. Same quality, like they're old, well-cared-for costumes pulled out of a warehouse, instead of fast industry churn-outs. With lots of trim and colour and masks and lace and feathers and..just...ugh.. they are all perfect! Just look at all the head pieces on the ladies and the hats on all the gentleman ( save Dracula of course) and the powdered wigs on the musicians. ANNNNDD! The dresses are historically correct!!!!!! It's the 80's bustle era! Nobody does the 80's bustle era in film anymore and it's a bummer. Oh and one other thing! Anna's ( and other women's) hair, at least here in the ball, is also historically accurate because it's all pinned up! None of those fucken modern beachwaves at a ball! Everybody's got updo's!

Gah, I swear, Dracula in his gold cloak really does things to me in this scene!

By the way, the acrobatics are bonkers in here for just background stuff!! Especially the random guys on unicycles and the dude playing the violin whilst standing on a ball...Like....WHAT?

Anyways, all this to say, that this masquerade ball feels sooo real and tangible and because of that it blows every other film out of the water, and no, I will not change my mind!!!!!

Here's a few more gifs, bcuz, why the hell not, this scene is sexy as fuu*ck?

Alright I need to go to bed now.

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thewolfnessphotography · 5 months

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Sebastian Chapel

Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Germany

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historiann31 · 8 months

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#baroque church #baroque architecture #baroque #baroque sculpture #sculpture #rococo architecture #rococo #abbey jasov #slovakia #church #art #history

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dieletztepanzerhexe · 1 year

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provincial baroque in Drohiczyn

#eastern europe #baroque #church #sunset #baroque church #podlasie #drohiczyn #historical buildings #poland #my pic

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darksigns-exe · 8 months

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St. Mary’s Church, Rostock (Germany)

#baroque #baroque architecture #baroque church #organ #my photgraphy #dreamy #this was among the coolest things I got to see this week #more to come

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sheltiechicago · 1 year

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The Longest 'Blood Moon' Eclipse of the Century by Alex Berger Via Flickr: The Longest Blood Moon Eclipse of the Century was on July 28th. The following are shots taken in central Copenhagen. For licensing or usage requests, please reach out directly.

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wgm-beautiful-world · 1 year

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The most decorated boroque church in Palermo, Church of Jesus, ITALY

#decorated #baroque church #the church of jesus #palermo #italy #italia #europe #europa

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theodoreangelos · 11 months

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Austrian Parliament Building, Dr. Karl Renner-Ring 3, 1017 Wien Österreichisches Parlamentsgebäude Здание австрийского парламента Bâtiment du Parlement autrichien ────────────────────── View of the Parish church of St. Ulrich and Mary's consolation (Siebenstern Quarter) St. Ulrich is a Roman Catholic parish and church in Neubau, the 7th district of Vienna, Austria. The official name of the church is Pfarrkirche "Zum heiligen Ulrich" und "Maria Trost" (Parish church of St. Ulrich and Mary's consolation), it is also known as Ulrichskirche. The Baroque hall church with two towers was built in 1721. It is consecrated to St. Ulrich and St. Mary. Franz Schubert's Mass No. 4, a missa solemnis in C-major, was performed in the church in 1825 in an expanded orchestration.