#earl thomas

[all-things-cringe-worthy]

#Earl Thomas #Y’all Stay Safe Out There #Gold Digger

[reyenii]

— thanks to wil coban for all the bts photos we have.

#sam🤝wil gave us the BEST photos with the cast #the boys in the boat #don hume #jack mulhern #joe rantz #callum turner #bobby moch #wil coban #luke slattery #thomas elms #shorty hunt #bruce herbelin earle

[une-sanz-pluis]

Thinking about Henry V attending his first parliament as Prince of Wales at 13 years old and being bored out of his skull and imagining how much worse it would've been for Richard II, who attended his first parliament as Prince of Wales at 9 years old.

Thinking about Henry VI attending parliament as a literal infant too.

#verily they should have been in the medieval playground #richard ii #henry v #henry vi #all of this is iirc #i think richard might have just turned up been invested as prince of wales and gone home #and i'm pretty sure hal attended parliament when he was younger (i want to say around 9?) before becoming prince of wales #(possibly with his brother thomas?) #but he could have probably slacked off a lot more then because he wouldn't have quite as on display as the earl of derby's son #blog

[schnoobums]

ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL (2015) | dir. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

#me and earl and the dying girl #filmedit #filmgifs #moviegifs #olivia cooke #thomas mann #rj cyler #edits by kara

[moviesycho]

every movie I've watched in 2023 [4/?]:

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (2010) directed by Samuel Bayer

#a nightmare on elm street #watched in 2023 #and i regret it #samuel bayer #freddy krueger #rooney mara #katie cassidy #connie britton #jackie earle haley #kellan lutz #thomas dekker #film #filmedit #movie #movieedit #horror #remake #2010 #2010s

[night-unfurls-its-splendour]

Hi! I was just wondering who's your favorite phantom actor?

Can be from any Poto play, or movie, or anything really.

I'm really curious!

This and similar questions have been popping up so much for me in the last week lol

I like to be extremely specific so I will give you a few of my favourites

I have been meaning to re-examine my favourites for a while now

So my favourite overall, my number one, my blorbo, the phantom closest to my heart is always going to be Gerard Butler. Say what you want about his singing, but ain't no other phantom ever done Pleading Eyes (tm) like that man.

For stage Phantoms the one who has a hold on my mind that just will not let go is Tim Martin Gleason. I love a tall phantom. I love that in the title song he does not order Christine to sing for him, he asks her. He conveys, with his intonation, that he asks for the honour of having her sing for him. I love how expressive he is. This man made so many choices.

Vocally I think the best singer that has ever played the phantom is John Owen Jones. But I think my favourite phantom Vocally is Tomas Ambt Kofod, because he--more than ANY other Phantom I have heard, sounds like Erik. His voice is remarkable in its smoothness and delicacy, but also very powerful.

He's also so sensual and gentle. He loves to administer loving touches and caresses to his Christine.

His final lair is also devastating

The Phantom actor I think I respect most is Ethan Freeman. This man has such a dedication to this character and to the book specifically. He refused to read Phantom by Susan Kay because he didn't want an apocryphal version of the character to influence his interpretation, which he specified modeled off of Leroux's Erik, adding touches pulled directly from the novel such as kissing (or almost kissing) the hem of Christine's robe during "Stranger Than You Dreamt It", as Erik kisses the hem of her dress in the book.

Seen here in the West End in 1995 with Jill Washington:

And here, in Essen, 11 years later with Anne Görner:

It seems that over time he evolved this moment to the point that he appears to abandon the thought before he brings it close to his lips--probably thinking he's not even worthy of touching her vestments.

He's got an almost faerie-goblin quality to his interpretation. Like he's just scuttled out of the Black Forest. He also leans into the idea of Erik-as-Magician

He's not afraid to be sensual either, though.

I think the most emotional phantom is Earl Carpenter. One of the first full boots I ever watched was Earl Carpenter with Rachel Barrel. His Music of the Night changed my brain chemistry forever. The gentleness! The vulnerability! The vacillation between confidence and fragility!!

The way he would jostle Christine a little when he caught her, his face a picture of panicked concern!

Though I think his interpretation of Erik as (for want of a better word) asexual is a little wacky (considering the text), it strangely works in favour of Erik's particular brand of sensuality, and it paired particularly well with Rachel's timid and apprehensive interpretation of Christine (which I generally dislike--here, though). And his singing has only improved with maturity. The raw emotion of his All I Ask of You (Rooftop Reprise) in his 2023 run is shattering. Absolutely shattering.

My favourite feral Phantom is without a doubt Scott Davies. If you ever want to see the most unhinged "Let these freaks be together" e/c show you've ever seen you have GOT to watch Scott Davies with Meredith Braun. Ethan Freeman's got the Goblin King energy and Anthony Crivello has the Sewer Gremlin vibe, but if you ever want a Phantom with a real primal streak, you can do no better than long-standing West End understudy Scott Davies:

This guy tackled the role with a ferocity and an audacity that you don't generally find outside of Russian productions.

His Phantom hands? Oh Lordy!

And the best part is that Meredith's Christine was picking up EVERYTHING he was laying down. Her Christine is just as mad, just as feral, just as unhinged. And especially paired with such a hearty goodfellow Raoul as Matthew Cammelle--Raoul would have done well to gtfo of there. He was NOT prepared to handle this lmao.

And then there's Ted Keegan. Who for me will always be the Phantom that got away. If I had just done a little more research before--just three months into my poto obsession--booking my tickets to see phantom before it closed on Broadway, I might have had the transcendent experience of seeing Ted Keegan live. As it was, I had no idea he was even still playing the phantom, and wound up with Ben Crawford instead.

And I would be remiss if I finished this list without naming Thomas James O'Leary. Like Ethan Freeman, O'Leary leans into Erik's ghostly persona, with a magician's touch. I think he took a lot of inspiration from Lon Chaney's Phantom (note the position of his hands here).

His "Sing for me~" is one of my all time favourite line readings and got a very embarrassing reaction out of me when I first heard it.

And then, as if that wasn't enough, there was the moan.

#asks #phantom of the opera #poto #poto musical #poto 2004 #erik the phantom #gerard butler #tim martin gleason #scott davies #thomas james o'leary #ted keegan #ethan freeman #tomas ambt kofod #earl carpenter

[seasidesandstarscapes]

From the instagrams of Thomas Elms & Bruce Herbelin-Earle respectively

(In which Jack is a whole ass mood and the boys are about to drop some fire beats)

#the boys in the boat #tbitb #jack mulhern #luke slattery #thomas elms #sam strike #wil coban #bruce herbelin earle #Joel phillimore #Tom varey #salix's sideblog escapades #I think that’s Luke in the corner with a whole pizza box to himself and same bro

[fleursfairies]

we talk about how weird it is referring to two name actors with one name but do you know how weird it is to refer to three name actors by two names??

like thats sarah jessica parker, NOT sarah parker

imagine

jonathan taylor thomas as jonathan thomas 💀

jamie lee curtis? nah, jamie curtis

helena carter

jennifer hewitt

joseph levitt

sarah gellar

mary moore

mary winstead

catherine jones

neil harris 💀

its so bad

who is that? michael jordan or michael jordan

#sarah jessica parker #jonathan taylor thomas #jamie lee curtis #helena bonham carter #jennifer love hewitt #joseph gordon levitt #sarah michelle gellar #mary tyler moore #mary elizabeth winstead #catherine zeta jones #neil patrick harris #michael jordan #michael b jordan #michael j fox #bryce dallas howard #james earl jones #neil degrasse tyson #robert sean leonard #actors #celebrities #celebrity #three names

[lonely-soul-02]

The photographer, Justin Thomas, explains that night [link to Justin's full explanation below]

"They stood side by side and I said, ‘Why don’t you give your brother a kiss?' 

'Kiss him? I’ll fookin’ ’ave ’im!' he replied and kissed him on the cheek. 

I had time to take a few more before the security guy said, “That’s your lot, now fuck off and DON’T come back.” 

I love that picture ’cos Liam’s kissing his brother SO hard his top lip is curled upwards…”

#oasis #liam gallagher #noel gallagher #justin Thomas photography #oasis Earl's Court gig #I'll fuckin have him #also what's with people asking them to kiss each other? lol #Japan kiss happened because they were asked to kiss too #gallagher relationship

[cinematicmasterpiece]

me and earl and the dying girl (2015)

#me and earl and the dying girl #film #movie #cinema #art #edit #screencaps #photography #cinematography #2010s #alfonso gomez-rejon #olivia cooke #thomas mann #rj cyler

[richmond-rex]

Margaret of Anjou had the most intimate interest in the wedding in 1456 of her kinswoman, Marie, daughter of Charles, count of Maine, to Thomas Courtenay, the son and heir of the earl of Devon. That this was a court-contracted marriage is suggested by the fact that Marie's wedding gown was supplied by the king's Great Wardrobe [...] The second notable marriage of 1457 to be arranged at court was that between the king's cousin, Margaret Beaufort, countess of Richmond, and her third husband, Henry Stafford, second son of the duke of Buckingham. This additional bond among the king's blood relatives buttressed the Lancastrian regime and the royal family at a time when the survival of the dynasty rested on the young shoulders of Prince Edward, the only son and heir of King Henry VI and Queen Margaret.

— Ralph A. Griffiths, "The King's Court during the Wars of the Roses" | King and Country: England and Wales in the Fifteenth Century

It is, indeed, a striking fact that no aristocratic marriages of comparable significance took place outside the court circle in these crucial years before the onset of civil war. Most — if not all — of those that did take place were probably discussed at court among magnates — Staffords, Courtenays, Beauforts, Talbots, Berkeleys, Butlers, Greys and Percies — who were loyal to the house of Lancaster and prominent at King Henry's court.

#crazy how henry vii might've had stafford siblings #this is why the duke of buckingham was #margaret beaufort's nephew by marriage #also thomas courtenay was beaufort by blood #historicwomendaily #margaret beaufort #henry vi #margaret of anjou #thomas courtenay 14th earl of devon #marie of anjou countess of devon #historian: ralph a. griffiths

[opera-ghost]

a study of hands in music of the night

#hahahaha “study” #aka me staring at the phantom's hands for hours on end #for educational purposes of course! #for the refs: #top is earl carpenter #bottom left is ian jon bourg and janine kitzen #bottom right is thomas borchet and anne gorner #art tag #poto art #poto #phantom of the opera #alw phantom #again i have not drawn in a Very Long Time and i'm really trying to practice

[k-wame]

hate the veil of gentility masking the horrors unleashed on the world by the english aristocracy 

#communism #socialism #perioddramaedit #downton abbey #downtonabbeyedit #i would like to see the earl of grantham's voting record in the house of lords #bet it perfectly mirrors every other hereditary peer #always voting to keep the poor poor and poorer im sure #out here pretending he's isn't conservative of a most brutal class system ever devised #thank god for thomas - yes i said thomas NOT branson! branson is THAT guy yall kno whom im tamlbout #rich people #inverted totalitarianism #war on the poor #anti capitalism explained #class warfare #class politics #history #anti capitalism #propaganda #economic violence #poverty #income inequality #mental health #downtonedit #dynasts #period drama #british empire

[une-sanz-pluis]

If Sir Thomas Gray's letter of confession to Henry V can be believed, Cambridge in the summer of 1415 was entertaining fantastic delusions. He told Gray, who was staying at Conisborough castle on 17 June, that the Scottish regent, Robert Stewart (c. 1340-1420), duke of Albany, was willing to trade the pseudo-Richard II in exchange for one of eighteen prominent Englishmen, headed by Bishop Courtenay of Norwich (one of the king's most trusted councillors), and the head of the Nevill clan, the staunchly Lancastrian Ralph, earl of Westmorland, who was married to Henry V's aunt, Joan Beaufort. Needless to say, there was no possibility that men of high rank would put themselves at Cambridge's disposal or become available to be used as hostages in these bizarre negotiations. Perhaps the Scottish regent, unwilling to disclose that his puppet was no longer alive, and eager to keep up the pretence that Richard II still survived, had stated unacceptable terms to evade coming to an agreement with Cambridge. It should have been obvious to Sir Thomas Gray as he rode homewards that his host, the earl of Cambridge, had lost touch with reality, and memories of that astonishing conversation at Conisborough castle, when the two men rashly talked of treason, should have been enough to deter him from getting more deeply involved in such preposterous schemes.

T. B. Pugh, Henry V and the Southampton Plot (Alan Sutton, 1988)

#henry v #richard earl of cambridge #ralph neville earl of westmorland #joan beaufort countess of westmorland #richard courtenay bishop of norwich #sir thomas gray of heton #the southampton plot #historian: t. b. pugh #posting this because the idea of the southampton plot targetting hal's besties on top of everything else makes me feral

[schnoobums]

ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL (2015) dir. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

#me and earl and the dying girl #thomas mann #olivia cooke #rj cyler #filmedit #filmgifs #moviegifs #edits by kara #one of the best movies

[neverscreens]

— A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, 2010.

Part One, 347 Screencaps.

Part Two, 347 Screencaps.

Find in GALLERIES. Like or reblog the post it was useful. Your interaction shows me that I should keep making screencaps. And if you want me to post some in separate posts, tell me! ♡

#screencaps #a nightmare on elm street #rooney mara #kyle gallner #katie cassidy #jackie earle haley #kellan lutz #connie britton #thomas dekker #nancy holbrook #quentin smith #kris fowles #freddy krueger #jesse braun #screencaps of movies #movies screencaps #horror movies #horror movies screencaps #packs for download #pack of screencaps #coral #a nightmare on elm street screencaps #a nightmare on elm street 2010