#inspired by D2 ending credit

[voiddaisy]

The Victors of the Hunger Games

So when I get obsessed with a new thing, I literally need to know everything about it, even if that means making shit up. Thankfully, that means I can produce some decent, accurate content, so here that is! I made a list of all of the “known” Hunger Games victors. The canon ones are bolded, but the rest of them are named based on their district (I got the name inspiration from this naming guide). 

Huge credits to @one-mopeyboi for this idea!

I know that canonically Districts 1 and 2 have the best chance of having a lot of Victors, so I made sure that was represented, as well as when the career programs began (I have a headcanon that after the career programs were implemented, Districts 1 and 2 went on a winning streak for years). This is similar to District 4, though I think that their “career system” is hugely different than the first two districts, so they probably had fewer victors. I included statistics at the end (how many victors came from each district, genders, ages, etc..).

During the first ten games, even though District 2 didn’t have a career program, I think they still had a lot of victors due to them being the defense and masonry district -- possible peacekeepers-in-training could have been reaped, or just kids who grew up around weapons and fighting. That’s why they appear so much in the first ten years, even though the first ten years were so disorganized! 

I also gave some of my favs last names based on my interpretation of their characters, much like Suzanne Collins put a lot of time and effort into naming other characters! I’ll explain their last names when they come up!

A lot of canon victors had a range in which they could have won their games, so take any victor marked with an asterisk (*) is an up for interpretation -- add or subtract five years from their set date in this list and you should still be in the ballpark in which they won their games. Also, the ages at which they won their games are speculated and headcanons mostly, so do with those what you wish!

Ominis Jing / D1 / M18

Indigo Andrews / D8 / M16

Severus Florez / D2 / M17

Hercules Caine / D7 / M15

Atticus Gomez / D2 / M18

Vizio Everest / D3 / M18

Beatrix Regime / D2 / F17 (First female Victor)

Selerate Vega / D6 / M17

Nucleo Lamont / D5 / M18

Lucy Gray Baird / D12 (Covey) / F16 (MEMORY ERASED)

Mags Flannigan (nee Navarro) / D4 / F18 (Possibly implemented the career program in District 4 a few years after her win, and after Districts 1 and 2 implemented theirs. This is a headcanon of mine!)

Mercury Chow / D1 / M17 (Marks the beginning of “Career Districts”)

Remus Prasio / D2 / M18 

Sterling Ryfe / D2 / F18 (First time a district had a Victor two years in a row)

Victoria Argyros / D1 / F17

Cicero Shale / D2 / M16

Woof Damask / D8 / M15 *

Makari Perch / D4 / F17

Pompeii Rhine / D4 / M18

Octavio Pyrite / D2 / M17

Nyx Maelstrom / D4 / F15

Night Raleigh / D7 / F17

Ardor Maron / D1 / M18

Ting Harta / D1 / M16

Celestia Dean / D5 / F17

Seeder Harrow / D11 / F15 *

Aphrodite Penz / D1 / F18

Ceres Tritt / D9 / M16

Parsley Citron / D11 / M18

Aquarius Mokosh / D4 / M17

Spruce Hawthorn / D7 / M17

Willow Elwood / D7 / F15 (First winning streak of a non-Career district)

Olympio Knight / D6 / M16

Elixer Dynamo / D1 / M18

Lazurus Yuki / D2 / M17

Twix Serratos / D10 / M15

Tanzanite Valor / D1 / M18

Porter Millicent Tripp / D6 / F15

Tameo Swift / D5 / M16

Ciabette Pizelle / D9 / F17

Denver Propel / D6 / M16

Phyllite Hatch / D2 / F16

Beetee Latier / D3 / M16 *

Broze Aegis / D2 / M18

Chaff Pitaya / D11 / M17

Marrow Banker / D10 / M18

Wiress Latier (neē Neith) / D3 / F18 * 

Thetis Firth / D4 / M16

Cloque Madder / D8 / M17

Haymitch Abernathy / D12 / M16 (“First” D12 winner)

Brutus Castor / D2 / M18 *

Brasilia Cadillac / D6 / F17

Vestis Thompson / D1 / M18

Lyme Rabe / D2 / F18

Blight Page / D7 / M16 *

Emmer Graham / D9 / M18

Mirabelle Ortega / D11 / F17

Dahlia Celsius / D5 / F17

Eloquence Fleur / D1 / F18

Lennox Rodriguez / D10 / F17

Celia Khampan / D8 / F17 *

Enobaria Calypso / D2 / F15 (Calypso means hidden or concealed -- as an Enobaria lover who definitely sees past the whole “brutal” teeth thing, I definitely think that she has a lot of hidden rage towards the Capitol, even though people in District 2 notoriously side with the Capitol. Not only this, but she was seen running with Finnick during the breaking of the arena in Catching Fire, which I definitely interpret as she was either secretly working with Finnick or had some type of solidarity with him to be able to not attack him while running -- meaning she hid this tolerability from her district and the Capitol. I could make an entire post about Enobaria, but I’ll leave it at that.)

Gloss Mirat / D1 / M18 (Mirat means mirror -- Gloss and Cashmere were mirrors of each other -- two siblings going into the games seperately, then immensly regretting it as soon as they won for the same or different reasons. Then, they had to reenter the game together, knowing that one or both of them would die in the arena, but showing the Capitol excitement, anyway, because that is was District 1 taught them to do. They mirror each other and what their district wants them to be.)

Cashmere Mirat / D1 / F17 ^^

Finnick Odair / D4 / M14

Maze Targaren / D10 / M15

Augustus Braun / D1 / M17

Maida Pondaro / D9 / F18

 Cable Denoir / D3 / M17

Annie Cresta / D4 / F18

Johanna Mason / D7 / F17

Obsidian Trenton / D2 / M17

Lazulia Mace / D2 / F16

Katniss Everdeen / D12 / F16 and Peete Mellark / D12 / M16

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Victor Stats

District 1 Total Victors: 13 Male Victors: 9 Female Victors: 4 Average Age: 17 (17.54)

District 2 Total Victors: 15 Male Victors: 9 Female Victors: 6 Average Age: 17 (17.07)

District 3 Total Victors: 4 Male Victors: 3 Female Victors: 1 Average Age: 17 (17.25)

District 4 Total Victors: 8 Male Victors: 4 Female Victors: 4 Average Age: 16 (16.63)

District 5 Total Victors: 4 Male Victors: 2 Female Victors: 2 Average Age: 17

District 6 Total Victors: 5 Male Victors: 3 Female Victors: 2 Average Age: 16 (16.2)

District 7 Total Victors: 6 Male Victors: 3 Female Victors: 3 Average Age: 16 (16.17)

District 8 Total Victors: 4 Male Victors: 3 Female Victors: 1 Average Age: 16 (16.25)

District 9 Total Victors: 4 Male Victors: 2 Female Victors: 2 Average Age: 17 (17.25)

District 10 Total Victors: 4 Male Victors: 3 Female Victors: 1 Average Age: 16 (16.25)

District 11 Total Victors: 4 Male Victors: 2 Female Victors: 2 Average Age: 16 (16.75)

District 12 Total Victors: 3 (4) Male Victors: 2 Female Victors: 1 (2) Average Age: 16

ALL VICTORS Total Victors: 75 Male Victors: 44 Female Victors: 31 Average Age: 16 (16.7)

let me know if you spot any mistakes and I'll fix them!

#hunger games #hunger games victors #hunger games headcanon #the hunger games #the 75th hunger games #finnick odair #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #enobaria #headcanons #haymitch abernathy

[doom-nerdo-666]

MetaDoom explained part 2, check this tag to catch up.

Random Stuff/Part 2:

“Other” lore codex pick ups are D4 Marineguy dolls (1, 64, 3, 2016, Eternal with Doomicorn skin) based off different Doomguys (They have specific jingles when picked), the Tony Hawk 3 cameo, Hissy, SPISPOPD, Cacowards, Raven Soft, DeHacked, the Doom comic, a cheat code floppy disk based off cheat codes in Eternal, but its pick up may reference the D1/2 saving icon and Daisy’s foot from Quake Champions (And their pages have some more references and shit that you can look up because i’m already overexplaining shit here)

And some intentionally but familiar out-of-place icon from another FPS franchise…

Intermission screen plays a sound from D4 everytime you beat a level and it has a score number tracker

The score system and 6 treasure items (That spawn next to health/armor bonuses) is based off a cut Doom feature, inspired by Wolf 3D

Besides the 6 treasure items, there’s also a UAC Credit from DRPG

Score can be affected with secrets and kills

Mod's menu has some hellish runes in the background, possibly Doom 3 related and takes place inside a giant screen based off Doom 1's computer wall textures

The game-quit and UN message boxes are stylized after those text boxes from the recent Unity ports (The ones with the infamous Bethesda Net pop up in 2019)

ZDoom marines are acknowledged in this mod, so rail gun AI doomguys are implied to have the Gauss Cannon and Berserker guys do the D3 scream noises

Theres cheat codes too, one of them makes rooms darker to reference D3 (IMPULSE 2004 in console), while another turns floor/ceiling textures into flat colors to reference SNES Doom (IMPULSE 16)

There's also a cheat code to make a smoke effect from the Fire Extinguisher last forever (IMPULSE 420) and apparently something to do with the codex but i couldn't reach it

Kinsie worked on a thing called Consolation Prize where you can play mods in maps from PSX Doom/Doom 64. This led to a special feature in MetaDoom, where Doom 64 items can get "specific" spawn spots for the sake of faithfulness

John Romero's SIGIL episode gets a unique Evil Eye prop from MetaDoom, with the eye based off Christopher Lovell's artwork for the episode and the symbol being flipped and orange

If you IDKFA, you get all codex entries and can spawn D64's demonkeys from the inventory

If your health is low enough, you get a beeping sound from D4

If you die, Doomguy's hands have a first person animation based off D4

There's other first person death animations (Getting shocked by Caco's projectiles, burned by fire attacks (Like the one from Behemoth) which has Strife influence, getting knocked by an explosion and showing DG's legs and the gib explosion with the PS1 head explosion and head bouncing)

Throughout updates, versions of the mod had names referencing Doom related characters like some from the novel and D4

Water splash effects are Heretic related

In the player setup, the player's class is "Slayer"

Intermission screen has sounds like rocket explosion (kills), Wolf 3D treasure pick up (items) and GZDoom secret notifier (secrets)

Some D2 monsters have "fixed" sprites, probably to fix stuff like Arachnotron's "holes" and a grey thing next to a frame of a Revenant punching (From that one sprite fix mod Decino brought up in his video)

The "hehee" sound shows up when you do the Impulse cheats (Skulltag taunt)

Barrels have D4 exploding sound and also (maybe) Smooth Doom sprites

The Doom 2 cast sequence was replaced with the THE END title sequence from Doom 1 with a sound from D2016's arcade mode (This was because of some weird visual oddities)

This mod has its own ENDOOM screen, which was a thing in the original DOS version that shows up when you quit the game

There’s metadata that allows mappers to make maps specifically for this mod, specially with specific spawns for the mod’s content

Exclusive content like D2RPG boxes that can reveal anything if you break them, meathook targets for meathook platforming or flames to make use of the Fire Extinguisher

Options to turn off player footsteps and control casings on the floor or how blood splatters work/last for long

#doom #classic doom #id software #someone else's content #modding #doom modding #doom 4 #doom 64 #doom 3 #doom eternal #doom 2016 #doom rpg #doom 2 rpg #analysis #flawed analysis #long post #trivia #doom bible #metadoom #gameplay mod

[todstny]

Love of 1018 years

#tales of destiny #tales of destiny2 #テイルズ #inspired by D2 ending credit #tales

[hitogatarock]

takt op. illustration novel # 3

Carmen : "The Pride that Dances on the Battlefield"

a special short novel entry for the game takt op. Destiny by the City of Crimson Melody by Ishihara Sora ( 石原宙 ).

Illustrator : NaBaBa

All translations are belongs to me, make sure to credit properly if you plans on sharing this! Enjoy reading!

Link source • twitter post

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character appearance in order + color code : Carmen , Air , Jupiter

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——What you need for a battlefield is similar to what you need for a good woman. It's not always easy to understand, but think about it.

"A weapon."

"A healthy body."

"A mentality that you are better than your opponent."

You need all these things, don't you? You also need something like this.

"Shiny hair."

"Charming lips."

"A bright red dress and high heels."

......I wonder if you don't understand this. If that's the case, you need to learn.

"Fufu... It's nice to have a wide bathroom. A narrow bathroom can make you and your heart feel small too."

It's my first day off in a long time without any work or training. I was happy to be able to take a proper bath in the large bathroom, polishing my whole body with salt and carefully applying shea butter to my skin while massaging it when it was still daylight. It smells sweet, like chocolate and coconut. It soothes me.

This is the first dress that a mature woman wears on her bare skin, which is not only sweet but also bitter and wild. The fine brown skin soon becomes shiny, as a bead of sweat slides down it. I loved this brown skin.

— Why do you polish yourself so carefully?

— I have no lover to embrace my body.

That's how I got blunted by Air. But she doesn't understand. The only reason I polish my body is to fight with fellow Musicarts. Spoiled children who can only measure their existence by the affection of others will not know. But instead, I understood it. When I stand on the battlefield with this polished body, when I dance and fight, when I feel the pleasure of a fine dress grazing my smooth skin, I will never forget it.

The battlefield is filled with blood and smoke, screams and shouts from both sides. As I weave my way through the incessant bombardment, I turn and take aim at the D2s.

.........Be crushed.

............Be crushed.

................Be crushed.

"Thanks, Carmen! We're in the clear!"

"Yes! We can cut them off at once! Don't be late!"

My comrades pump their fists in the air and shout for joy. I respond with a smile.

"We haven't lost this battle. As long as I'm dancing on this stage."

Hair fluttering. My dress sways. My skin is brown and shiny. It is not only blood and dust that dance on the battlefield. I, too, also dance here. Recalling the pleasure of being driven by passion for what I lost, I tremble. What I have lost—— is indeed peace, in a world where music reverberates. When I am fighting for it, I feel an inexplicable elation. It's like being in the heat of love. It's like singing and dancing in front of the one you love.

I believe that the most important thing on the battlefield is "pride", and as the battle rages on, those who stand without pride will quickly be reduced to ashes. In the end, it is "pride" that will make the difference. If you stand up one more time, and shoot one more bullet. It's "pride" that inspires you at the brink. Because if you're not proud of yourself, there's no bet that you'll die there.

So I will polish my body, in order to stand on the battlefield with pride. The weapons for recovering what I've lost are my skin, my hair, and this dress. Wrapping a bath towel around my body, I look in the mirror, humming to myself.

"Yup, I'm proud of myself today ♪"

As I gently wipe my hair with another towel, I naturally smile. It's all right for me.

"I'm polishing my body for the sake of peace and music."

Fufu, I wonder if it's very cool to say. But I want to have that kind of exuberance. I'm a woman, I'm a Musicart who risks her life to protect the world. But... I thought of something.

"I wonder what the Conductor sees in me."

It's been many years since the Conductor was put into action in the fight against D2. I'm used to fighting with them, but I don't think I've been tamed. I will always be me. I will fight for what I want. I look in the mirror again, look at my bare body in the reflection and raise my mouth in satisfaction.

"I am Carmen. A woman no one can tame— Just kidding."

If you were a cute one, I might think about it? Fufu. But if there's a person who can tame me, then you might see a new me. That would be fun for a little bit. Then the bathroom door opens with a bang. When I wondered who it was, Jupiter came with a bath towel wrapped around her body.

"Uwah, Carmen's here! How long have you been taking a bath!"

".........Oh my."

Jupiter's hair was wet, even though she hadn't showered yet. She's probably been training. She really likes to work out.

"It's okay to force your body for once, but I think it could use a bit of healing. Would you like to join me?"

"No! I'm gonna get all slimy like you!"

"What a waste, really. You'd shine more if you were polished."

"I'm all sweaty and shiny right now—!"

We exchanged a few pleasantries. I handed over the bathroom to Jupiter, and after I got dressed, I walked down the corridor of the Symphonica in a good mood, full of pride.

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— translator notes : I thought this week it would be twinkle star's turn but it carmen's, so idk until next week that the order is gonna be randomized. but anyways, thank you for enjoying my tls!

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#my translates #translation #gata: game tls #takt op. destiny by the city of crimson melody #takt op. #takt opus #タクトオーパス #carmen #short novel

[queeruma]

Okay, so an anon sent me this ask:

Can I ask if canon materials say anything about Uma and Ursula’s relationship? Do you have hcs about it? I never read the third Descendant book so I don’t know much about her

and I wrote up this post, posted it, immediately realised that tumblr had fucked up all the formatting, deleted it, and then realised that by deleting it I’d also deleted the ask. I’m sorry anon, my brain is not functioning properly, but here’s my answer, hopefully formatted correctly this time:

Hi anon! So I thought I could answer this in like 10 minutes, and then it turned out that I have a Lot of thoughts about Uma and Ursula’s relationship, and here we are almost two days later (this post kind of just turns into Uma hcs at the end sorry about that)

Yes, between the movie, Rise, and Uma's Wicked Book, there's actually quite a lot of information about Uma and her mother.

Under a cut because this got long:

Within the actual text: Uma's relationship with her mother is… complicated, to say the least.

On the one hand, Ursula is about as far from a loving, caring mother as one can get. She has been forcing Uma to work for her, without pay, since Uma was 'so little she could barely see about the counter'. She is verbally abusive, berating Uma and humiliating her over her losses to Mal, and we see in the film that she's not above harming Uma physically either. And Uma seems certain when she's speaking to Ben that her mother does not care for her at all.

"All those days spent working at Ma’s restaurant, serving up gruel and scrubbing the floors, and I’ve never gotten paid a coin.” - UWB “Uma had worked at the Fish and Chips Shoppe her entire life, from when she was so little she could barely see above the counter, until she was old enough to wear an apron, carry a tray, and take an order.” - ROTIOTL “Uma was glad to have the place to herself. If Ursula were around, she would only be raging and complaining about how she had been saddled with such an ungrateful and useless daughter. Ursula never ceased to remind Uma how often she’d lost to Mal. When she’d learned Mal had been chosen to go to Auradon, Ursula flipped her tentacles. Uma never heard the end of it.” - ROTIOTL “Things I wouldn’t miss about the Isle: (...) Ma yelling at me” - UWB “My mom doesn’t care about me either. Well, not unless she needs someone for the night shift.” - D2

On the other hand, we see a certain level of respect between the two of them. Uma seems to be proud of her mother's strength, and is very comfortable showing her heritage as 'daughter of the sea witch'. Despite her mother's treatment of her, we never see Uma being afraid of her mother (contrast with the core four in the first movie, who definitely are). Uma remembers her mother taking her to Hook's inlet to watch the crocodile wrestling, and (repeatedly) telling her the story of her defeat at Eric and Ariel's hands. She states that her mother taught her about the importance of negotiation. Ursula, lamenting over her loss in her final battle, tells Uma that they would be 'Queens of the Seas' if she'd won. Given that unlike most of the villains, Ursula doesn't seem to be trying to manipulate Uma into anything in particular, I take this to mean that Ursula would have given her daughter what she felt was her due.

And, most importantly, Ursula has one single piece of her nautilus necklace left when she's on the Isle, and she gives it to Uma when Uma is a small child. Uma likes to hold it when she's feeling anxious. There's clearly more than just antagonism between them.

‘Uma was special: she was the sea witch’s daughter, a force to be reckoned with!’ - ROTIOTL 'The gold was warm against her skin, and she felt a faint echo of its former power. It had the sense and shape of her mother's wrath.' - ROTIOTL “No, last I saw her was on the news when she was blasting you with her magic!” Ursula laughed. “Good for her!” - EFTIOTL “That’s my mom! At least Maleficent recognised her power.” - MSB ‘“Mama was really something, wasn’t she? Back then?” said Uma.’ - ROTIOTL “Ma used to take me down to Hook’s Inlet when I was a kid, and we’d bet on the crocodile-wrestling matches there.” - UWB 'She recalled her mother telling her about that final battle (…) Prince Eric had taken the wheel and rammed his ship right into her heart (…) Uma always held her breath at that part of the story, wondering how it was that her mother had survived such a battle. Because even though she'd lost, she'd survived. Prince Eric hadn't destroyed her completely.' - ROTIOTL ‘Her mother had taught her about the power of negotiation, or as she’d described it, talking someone out of their greatest treasures and giving nothing of value in return.’ - ROTIOTL 'Queens of the seas, Ursula would lament. We would be queens of the seas if not for that awful Triton and that terrible Beast.' - ROTIOTL ‘(...) the locket she wore around her neck. Inside was a tiny piece of junk that her mother had given her as a child. “It’s all I have left,” Ursula had said at the time. Uma never understood why a sliver of metal mattered so much, but she liked holding it when she was anxious.’ - ROTIOTL

I think Uma's outfits also say a lot about her relationship with her mother. The core four pretty much exclusively wear their parent's colours, even after they've rejected them. We already know that colour means a lot in these movies, considering the thought they put into the shades of purple in Mal's hair and clothes in D1. Every VK either wears their parent's colours - Harry, Celia and the core four - or they don't resemble their families at all - Gil and Dizzy.

Uma's purple undertone, her hair and skirt resembling octopus arms, and the mesh undershirt with holes that mimics octopus suckers are all there to reflect her status as Ursula's daughter. She's proud of her heritage - but there's probably a practical reason as well: there's an element of protection in reminding people of her mother.

However, I think it's telling that her main aesthetic and colour are all her own. The pirate hat, the tough leather jacket complete with epaulets, the chunky belts, her sword, and the overall teal theme, all make it very clear that Uma is her own person, and no one who looks at her is going to forget it. She's not going to ride by on her mother's reputation all her life - people will know her name, not just her parentage.

Her symbol also demonstrates this mix of nature and nurture. Mal, Evie, Carlos, Jay, Harry, and Gil all have symbols that refer directly to their parents (Gil signs off UWB with a bow and arrow, presumably a reference to his father's skill at hunting). In contrast, the skull and crossbones - crossbones in this case being a trident and sword - with a wave in one cheek, an eyepatch, and octopus arms below it is 'the unofficial symbol of Uma, daughter of Ursula - pirate queen'.

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As far as headcanons are concerned, I can’t really list them? I just have a kind of general ‘this is how Ursula affected the way Uma’s life went’ hc:

I think all of Uma’s better memories of her mother are from her very early childhood. By the time Uma and Mal stop being friends, Ursula has already pretty much checked out of everything; I don’t think she ever tries to manipulate Uma in the way Maleficent and the other villains do their children. She leaves the work in the shoppe to Uma and retreats into her Auradon soap operas. Uma is used to seeing other parents on the Isle put effort into their relationships with their children (that is never actually a Good Thing but baby Uma doesn’t know what decent parenting is) and she wonders if Ursula’s lack of manipulation is her mother neglecting her because she sees her as worthless.

So Uma kind of decides that she’s going to be as independent as possible, because if she makes her distance from her mother her choice, she doesn’t have to confront the possibility that Ursula is neglecting her because Uma isn’t good enough for her. And because I loathe the canon Uma and Mal backstory with the passion of an anti-vax parent for essential oils, here’s my take on it (credit for the idea that Maleficent encouraged Mal to end their friendship goes to @edream93 in her wonderful fic ‘We’ll Light the Fuse’ - it partly inspired this hc):

Uma and Mal were good friends from a very young age, and there was some genuine affection and trust between them, which Maleficent obviously did not approve of at all.

She allowed it for a while because they did get into a lot of trouble together, but as Uma drifted further away from her mother, she became concerned about Uma’s influence on Mal.

See, Uma might have started out distancing herself from her mother to protect her own feelings, but she also actually began to care less about her mother’s opinion of her.

Maleficent, who wanted Mal firmly under her control, knew that if the two girls stayed friends, Uma might encourage Mal to question her mother’s authority.

And if there’s one person on the Isle talented at subtlety and manipulation, it’s Maleficent. Mal and Uma’s friendship was doomed to end the second Maleficent decided she wanted it to.

I also think Ursula’s F- parenting plays into Uma’s feelings about Auradon. Uma is genuinely right about the Isle - it is unfair and morally abhorrent that the children of villains are fated to live in a ‘fate worse than death’ for the crime of being born to the wrong people. She and the other descendants of villains unquestionably do not deserve to be there.

But Uma’s desire for freedom and revenge isn’t just based on her rational disapproval of the Isle. It comes from a huge amount of anger and pain, and it’s admirable that she manages to use those negative feelings (along with her love for and loyalty to her crew) to motivate herself. She is equally furious and terrified - Auradon abandoned her, Mal abandoned her, her own MOTHER abandoned her - and either she didn’t deserve it, in which case she has to be angry at basically the whole world, or she did, in which case...

yeah, she tries not to think about that.

Luckily, between her friendship with Harry and Gil and the loyalty and respect she gets from her crew, more often than not she’s able to believe that she deserved better she deserves so much better she deserves the whole fuCKING WORLD.

Ultimately, Uma is a very practical person, and any feelings she has about her mother, positive or negative, will not stop her from getting off the Isle and going after what she wants - whatever that ends up being. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the octopus-inspired elements and purple undertones of her D2 look are gone in D3.

#h speaks #please let it have worked this time #uma #uma daughter of ursula #ursula #im sorry it's so rambly and incoherent #my brain does not know the meaning of the word concise #but thank you for the question anon!!! #i hadn't realised i had so many feelings about uma and ursula until now

[importantsoulmiracle]

D-BOYS as Got2BReal quotes

Wada: all the things these young girls are doing today and all the shade they think they're throwing? I planted and smoked those trees.

Zukki: know how someone could make something about someone else, but it's about you? THAT’s what's goin' on.

Arayan: can you hate AND be the Queen?

Yanagi: should I or shouldn't I press my life alert? ‘cause I've got an emergency, it’s just, it ain't mine.

Shunji: i don't care, i don't do it

Endou: don't be evil, and don't be foolish either.

Kaji: my favourite cereal is LIFE. And I got it and I LIVED

Adachi: What are friends for? Really, I wanna know. I wanna know.

Shirota: To the rest of the divas whose careers were crushed under the weight of my incredible success: I urge you all to use this opportunity to be the best that you can be. No one is expecting you to sound as good as I did...

Taito: they say never work with children or animals so why would i?

Usui: i'm tired of offering all these seats to people who won't SIT

Setomaru: it doesn't surprise me that there are lowlifes who think highly of themselves or lessers that want more...

Tomo: I don't know any other way to ask you this....are you mad? Do you possess anger? Are you experiencing hardships?

Makki: i just told her a bald-ass lie. Just under-the-rainbow-and-over-the-bullshit.

Hirata: why you mad? you can hold my bag. it ain't that heavy yet

Youichiro: these girls don’t have an aura. it’s EVIL, i knew that from the jump

Shingo: Pro...freshional

Horii: i find it inspirational you're determined to be a soprano

Mikami: One uses sunglasses to shade the classless

Ryun: must be nice - living in Hater’s mansion on Shady Lane

Masayan: WHO brings DEVILED EGGS to an album release party? 

Yuichi: so the apple is calling the orange 'fruity'....

D2:

Sho: they just....they never caught on. you know if I say “you lookin’ cute today” I’m not telling you the truth. i’m saying I saw you tried to BE cute

Ryo: I have always been real. And even if I have to be fake, I'm real fake.

Yuki: I've come to the conclusion that my life is like light up sneakers. If I just keep walkin' forward, I know I'mma shine. But it's when I stop that I lose my light.

Shion: you thought you were giving us something we could feel, we could use... and it just ended up looking like spilled hopes and dreams

Yamada: You see my mood ring here? That's the color for “I don't give a fuck"

Atsushi: you could try, but you won't win today - you CAN'T.

Jun: we're not friends, we're just familiar

Shotarou: give a bitch an inch, she gonna just take the whole ruler from you

[credit to Patti LaHelle]

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Daisy Ridley: A New Hollywood Heroine

[ scans: daisy-ridley.net | translation by @afterblossom​​ | copy edits by @sleemo​​ ]

Disclaimer: This interview was translated from English to Chinese by GRAZIA and then back to English here, so these are not direct quotes from Daisy. Please excuse any awkward sentences. Some sections were difficult to translate. If you are sharing any part of this elsewhere - please give proper credit!!

GRAZIA has an exclusive interview with the most-wanted female lead in Hollywood who is the heroine in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. People [in China] call her “Dominant Daisy” and “Naïve Ridley/Rey”. Her Rey is the first female Jedi in the 40-year history of the Star Wars franchise. She is not only a Jedi in the film itself, but outside of it as well. She is concerned about social issues and, most importantly, has stayed humble after becoming a superstar. It doesn’t sound much easier than saving the universe. 

— GRAZIA China, January 2018

Just before Christmas, the most anticipated film Star Wars: The Last Jedi held its premiere in Shanghai. If you’re wondering what it felt like to be there, besides that the film was fantastic and you need to book your tickets early, it’s that it was excruciatingly cold! I wore three layers and was still freezing after I came home. It made me shiver just seeing how dedicated Daisy Ridley was, wearing nothing but a cheongsam-style dress. Even though the cold made her cheeks pink, she still signed autographs for fans and each time she saw them pulling out their phones, she immediately stood by and smiled, showing off her white teeth and reminding us of the fluffy Jelly Cat Toothy toys.

One day ago, I still didn't think that way. The day before the premiere, GRAZIA had an exclusive interview with this new representative heroine from Hollywood, and I couldn’t help but do some research about her, besides that after being chosen as the new lead of the Star Wars franchise, she lifted weights for 5 hours every day. Here are some other fun facts about her:

• She is a strict vegan. That means milk, eggs, and even food containing these ingredients is a no-no for her;

• Before Star Wars: The Force Awakens she produced and narrated a documentary called The Eagle Huntress. This is a very feminist story about a 13-year-old Mongolian girl named Aisholpan who is trying to challenge a long-held tradition that’s only been passed down to boys over hundreds of generations. The girl learns how to hunt with an eagle with the help of her father and becomes the first eagle huntress;

• After her fame skyrocketed, she didn't move to Hollywood. She is still living in her house in London with her family;

• She has no social media, no Twitter, no Instagram, no Facebook. During the interview, she said, “I don't want to be a part of social media. It’s not good for your health.”;

• Oh, and she had a pitiful deaf and blind dog named Muffin.

Five hours prior to the exclusive shoot and interview, I reached the Shanghai Disneyland Star Wars Launch Base. I already felt myself walking through a long path, and I couldn’t help but think—not to prejudge her, but it must be a long, hard, and lonely path. Is she always hard on herself? Lifting the heaviest weights; having a dog that is difficult to care for; supporting her most vulnerable friends; walking the loneliest path; avoiding any temptations that humans like us fall prey to? Or should we describe her like a piece of iron?

Once we started the interview, my worries went away, because all these things I mentioned above didn't affect her cute, charming and playful personality. She is like the metal BB-8, doing big things but still being cute. She sat on the sofa, cupping her chin, with her big round eyes, rubbing the tip of her nose with her right thumb (she did this at least 5 times, oh poor nose) she looked to me like a husky dog, asking out loud: "Hey, how are you doing today?"

After that, she showed us some BiaoQingBao (表情包) expressions [@afterblossom​: this is the Chinese version of memes or emojis]. When we ask about the difference between JJ Abrams and Rian Johnson, she said: “JJ is like that YOYOYO kind of guy, and Rian is huhuhu. Both of them are Star Wars fans, are good directors and screenwriters, but their temperament is different. JJ is more like heng! Rian is like en~en~”

You don't get it? Let GRAZIA translate it for you: “JJ is like those ‘Hey hey hey, give me more enthusiasm!’ sort of directors. Rian is the type who would be smoking a cigar, leisurely doing his crossword puzzles. JJ is more capricious, Rian is more steady.” Please don't praise us for our cleverness, because if you saw her snapping her fingers, crossing her legs pretending to smoke, you would totally get what she meant.

Her musical background meant that she would sometimes sing during our photo shoot in her free time. She is bright like the sun, unlike Rey, who is an orphan and a scavenger with a depressing story. "Rey is very patient, I am very stubborn. She doesn’t judge people and is far better than me... I'm trying to channel all her good personality traits, but she's saving the galaxy and I’m just a human being.”

Daisy is very modest. After being announced as the lead of the new trilogy, the 22-year-old actress’s attitude during filming was quite uncommon: “It’s the first time. La la la, just enjoy it.“ After Star Wars Episode VIII, her audition for The Force Awakens was released online and it was the interrogation scene with Kylo and Rey. You can see tears falling down her face, and even though she is wearing a simple mint green sweater and messy short hair, as a viewer you feel her emotions keenly and you can’t help but worry about her. Could not imagine these were sensations outside of method acting [Improved translation by @reylocalligraphy]: "I don’t stay in character forever, I'm more of a rational actor." 

Daisy is very lucky, and her Rey is not a regular heroine or female lead. After watching The Last Jedi, everyone suddenly realized that, from the start, she was quite different from other heroines. A Mary Sue? Not at all. "Rey has more space to develop. For some female characters, the script does not allow enough time and space to do that. But in this movie, you can see how she grows and what her relationship is to the people around her. With the previous Star Wars movies, even though we had Leia and the great, awe-inspiring performance by Carrie Fisher, in the end they were still male-centric films and the fans were mostly guys. But things are different now."

Was there any risk in joining Star Wars? She shook her head and it was like some question marks appeared over her head: "What risk?!” What if the audience doesn’t like your performance? What if people only remember you as Rey? Once again, she had a puzzled look on her face like a husky dog: "Wow you really dare to ask... but no, when I started I asked myself, can I do it? But if I do it, I refuse to worry about how people think of me, otherwise there is no way to do anything. It’s just going to diminish your ability to perform." 

She’s not afraid to be typecast—after Star Wars Episode VII, she worked on four more films which is set for release this year and each role was different from Rey. "How do I say this. I know as an actor there is a limit to what I can do, what I can achieve... but I didn't deliberately choose these roles that are different from Rey. It's that these cool, interesting characters found me and I am very lucky, through Rey, that I found more opportunities. One of them is a rabbit, how could it be the same? Let’s go and see."

Just like her skyrocketing fame, Daisy went from an unemployed rookie to the most wanted actress in Hollywood. In fact, she has a hard time explaining what the difference has been. Rumors say she will collaborate on a new movie with JJ Abrams: "It's not settled yet. Actually I’m very nervous because a lot of things have change in the past three or four years. I’ve done a lot that I never have before so I’m a bit worried. Will I be as good as last time?"

Perhaps we can see how she's changed through her perspective on Hollywood. Back when she had just made her debut, she said: "I admire Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones." Now she says: "I admire a lot of actors, but now I’m more concerned with who I want to work with, like Emma Thompson, Meryl Streep..." Everyone wants to work with the big names, but clearly she has much more opportunity to do that now. She collaborated with all the masters on Murder on the Orient Express and the forthcoming Ophelia and even had a supporting role. 

This change makes her nervous: "I feel I have more responsibility now. I have a deeper understanding of the unfair treatment that women experience in this industry and in movies. When I realized this, I was shocked and it's now something I worry about. Every time I see girls who like Rey, I think: 'Oh my god, they like my acting?’”

"I don't think any one quality makes for a strong woman. Every woman is strong, as long you stay true to yourself.” Don't dwell on the past, just run towards the future. This young female warrior represents the newest trend of Hollywood heroine. Your strength comes from yourself, just like the lightsaber tips she gave us: "Lift more weights! Because what's in your hand is heavy, you need to build muscle. Remember, you're stronger than you think. Every time I train I think: no no no I can't, but actually I can!"

DAISY'S PLANS FOR 2018: A pet dog, school, and beautiful clothes!

Grazia: Between BB-8, a porg, and R2-D2, which one would you choose as a pet?

Daisy: Of course it would be BB-8, he is caring, capable, quiet and not that annoying.

G: Do you think BB-8 and your dog Muffin could become best friends?

D: If Muffin was still here I'm sure she would, but she passed away a couple of months ago (G: Oh I am so sorry!) No don't be! She’s already lived for 18 years, long enough for a dog, I think she had a very good life. When she was still around, we had a small BB-8 toy, and she wore this ‘What the hell is that’ expression on her face. Muffin's been with me since I was very young and nearing the end of her life, she could no longer see or hear anything, so she became very lazy and didn’t want to go anywhere. But she's adorable indeed.

G: Do you prefer dogs?

D: Absolutely. I'm allergy to cats, and some have told me that cats are related to some witchcraft and I think... umm, dogs are great. But I still like cats.

G: Do you think about owning a dog again?

D: Yes I do! But since 2017 I’m rarely at home, so I can't take care of it. But I still plan to have a dog in the future.

G: Your middle name is Jazz, any story behind it?

D: Nothing special, my dad likes it, just like my second sister Kika, and my eldest sister’s middle name is Sophia. It’s just a cool name.

G: Why did you become vegan?

D: I saw some documentary and it was very scary, especially about the dairy industry. So I made a decision and the next day I switched to a strict vegan diet.

G: Does being vegan affect your work-outs?

D: No. When I started and I was very busy and tired, I couldn’t tell if my body was actually tired or if it was because of my vegan diet. The key thing is that you have to make sure you’re getting enough nutrients. Before, when I was working on a film, their food was so good. Now that it’s done, I have nothing to eat at home and I have to learn how to cook.

G: You studied psychology before. Why is that? Is it to help with your acting performance?

D: No no, it has nothing to do with acting. I'm very interested in psychology because I’m interested in the motives behind human behaviour, the human brain, emotions, impulses, what is behind these things? It's interesting, but in the end I studied social research. (G: How is it?) It's boring! It was an introductory course. There were two options for me to choose from, between humanities and social research. I had studied humanities before so I was thinking: wow, this time I’ll pick something different! And I chose social research... in the end... but anyway I finished it and passed the exam. 

G: Why don't you continue? Too busy?

D: Yes, but next year I want to do another program. It’s a part-time course and I have 16 years to get all my credits. 6 courses need to be complete and each take 8 months. This is something I have wanted to do for a long time, so I plan to finish it.

G: Did you like today’s photo shoot? Does fashion interest you?

D: I liked it. Yesterday when I went back home I was thinking, I need to upgrade my wardrobe. Otherwise, I wear beautiful clothes during the day and make a big movie, then go home at night just to wear casual stuff... It’s time to dress better.

G: What’s the last piece of clothing you purchased?

D: A Stella McCartney sweater. It’s the first piece I brought from them. Very eco-friendly, comfortable and fashionable.

G: This is your second visit to China. Would you like to try something new while you’re here?

D: I still plan to go to TongLeFang (同乐坊) [@afterblossom: a creative market in Shanghai with lots of galleries], there is a Chinese store called "Spin旋", it's awesome, I've recommended it to many people. I still want to go to the Great Wall, but my family won't allow me. They want me to take them together.

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4 days in central coast CA

2 couples, 4 days tasting in central coast. Flew into Santa Barbara, stayed in Los Osos. We really enjoyed staying in the quiet, coastal Los Osos. A little bit of a drive to all our destinations, but a great jumping off point and so relaxing. Staying on Morro Bay during the Fall bird migration is pretty amazing. We know from reading posts on this thread that there were so many great places we could have gone. In the end, we really wanted to be firm about sticking to no more than 2-3 a day so as not to feel rushed at all and not to have a shot palate by a 4th or 5th (been there).

D1 – Headed straight to Lompoc Wine Ghetto from Santa Barbara airport. Arrived around 2:30pm. Most tasting rooms close up around 4-5pm. Unlike Paso, firm reservations were not needed, though we gave each place a general heads up.

Flying Goat – Interesting mix of single vineyard Pinots and sparklings. Favorites were the Solomon Hills Vineyard Pinot and the Sierra Madre Goat Bubbles. Really enjoyed the owner talking about the focus on Burgundy style. Winery dog ran away during our visit and one of us chased after it. The owner really appreciated it and topped us off.

Ampelos – We have had the Gamma Syrah before and loved it. All the wines were good, but nothing beyond the Gamma really stood out. Very chill atmosphere.

Palmina – Italian style. We enjoyed all the wines, but the server was completely checked out. One in our party asked if the Nebbiolo approached Barolo or Barbaresco in style. The response was “I don’t know, I have never had either – you tell me”. Then she left. Personally, I think she was just eager to leave because it was near closing time. If I had a chance I would go back because I never like to pass a bad judgment off of a single experience. Credit should be given for serving aged wines relative to most tasting rooms – i.e., the neb was 2010.

D2- Paso – this may have been 1 of our top tasting days. The order, range of styles and atmospheres worked perfectly.

Clos Solene – Posh atmosphere with outstanding service. Elegant, mostly Rhone inspired wines. The favorite was the 18 Harmonie. We joined their club – pretty pricey, but felt it was worth it and our 1st shipment is in a few days – yeah!

Giornata – fun tin city winery. We were already club members and the treatment was amazing. As we started to indicate which tasting we would do, we were basically told we would just try everything. Our server was great, but was replaced by the owner (Stephanie) who decided to give the server a lunch break. Stephanie described herself as the farmer and her husband as the winemaker. She proceeded to describe every wine in detail, answer all of our questions and we discussed modern and traditional Barolo production – she had went to Italy to see examples of both. This place is refreshingly so down to earth. I found all of their wines to be a solid entry level for a given Italian style – they cover so many styles well, and even had 3 orange wines. Favorites were the Barbera and Montepuliciano.

Austin Hope – Fun atmosphere – greeted with a refreshing Chenin Blanc even before we checked in. The rest of the tastings were reds – big, bold, heavy bodied, fruit forward takes. Many like the cab (they were out of the reserve), I personally liked the Mourvèdre. Their style is certainly a crowd pleaser, even if not appreciated by some serious wine drinkers. 1 of us really wanted to join their club, but they do not ship to our state.

D3 – Paso. Stuck to 2 because we were doing a sunset kayak trip out of Morro Bay, which was amazing.

Tablas Creek – We really appreciated hearing about the biodynamic farming, the incorporation of sheep and alpacas into their vineyards and the incredible contributions this winery has made in bringing the Rhone style to the region – several of the other places we tasted praised this winery for all they have done. While none of the wines stood out, we really appreciated the opportunity for couples to share a full white and red flight. The whites were all refreshing and the reds were true to style.

L’Aventure – former assistant winemaker form here started Clos Solene, so it was nice to hear both stories. The wines were Bordeaux-ish in style (the owner left Bordeaux to not be held to the strict standards). Clear potential, but the server indicated that all were probably too young (1-2 years). All were enjoyable – found the range to be a bit narrow. I guess I had a bit of preference for Solene but really enjoyed this one too.

D4 – Arroyo Valley – chose to spend this day hunting for Pinot and Chardonnay.

Laetitia – Fun tastings that included a still flight and a sparkling flight. Sat in the garden level with a great view of the vineyard. The favorite of many was the brut rose. We bought a bottle and walked the vineyard. 1 of us joined their club.

Talley – Greeted with a brut rose, which was wonderful. Our tasting was inside because we chose the taste of terroir, which was all estate – 3 chardonnay, 3 pinot paired with a charcuterie board. Our table was all set up for our arrival and the presentation was phenomenal as was the breathtaking view of the vineyards. It was a long, relaxed tasting and our server was phenomenal, we also spent a fair amount of time with the owner. Everyone had a different favorite, but agreed they were all amazing. These are some of the best pinots and chardonnays we have ever encountered in tasting. We also got a tour of the production after our tasting. Both couples joined the club.

Summary – Best experience was a tie between Giornata and Talley – both were great for extremely different vibes. Best wines was a tie between Clos Solene and Talley depending on style preference. November is a lovely time to visit central coast. Very laid back vibe, along with some beautiful colors in the vineyards.

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Why Clash Of The Titans Was The End Of An Era

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It was 40 years ago, in June 1981, that Clash of the Titans, the last film to feature the stop-motion animation effects of Ray Harryhausen, was released.

Starring a then-unknown Harry Hamlin, along with veteran stars like Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Burgess Meredith, and Ursula Andress, the film was loosely based on the Greek myth of Perseus (Hamlin), weaving in strands of other mythologies and legends and putting its hero into conflict with creatures like the Kraken, Calibos, Medusa the Gorgon and a two-headed dog named Dioskilos.

“Greek and Roman myths contained characters and fantastic creatures that were ideal for cinematic adventures,” wrote Harryhausen in his memoir, Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life. “If some of the adventures were combined with 20th century storytelling, a timeless narrative could be constructed that would appeal to both young and old.”

Harryhausen was already a filmmaking legend by the time he began work on Clash of the Titans. Born in Los Angeles on June 29, 1920, a 13-year-old Harryhausen’s life was changed when he saw King Kong for the first time in 1933. Inspired by the groundbreaking stop-motion animation work in that film by Willis O’Brien, Harryhausen began experimenting with his own short films employing the same process.

He got to meet O’Brien at one point, with the visual effects pioneer encouraging the young Harryhausen to keep refining and improving his work. Some years later, after attending USC, doing a stint in the military during World War II and working at his first professional job on George Pal’s Puppetoons, Harryhausen landed a job as O’Brien’s assistant on Mighty Joe Young (1949).

It was on 1953’s The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, the first film on which Harryhausen was in charge of the visual effects, that he created the process known as “Dynamation,” which allowed for greater and more realistic interaction between his stop-motion creatures and live actors.

In 1955, Harryhausen met producer Charles H. Schneer and formed a partnership that would begin with Harryhausen’s next feature, It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955), and last all the way through their final collaboration on Clash of the Titans.

Their run of pictures included fantasy and sci-fi classics such as Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956), 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957), The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), One Million Years B.C.(1966), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974) and many others.

Unlike many visual effects artists even to this day, Harryhausen had an unusually high degree of creative control over his projects. He didn’t just animate the monsters; he was involved in the conceptual and story development, production design, and many other aspects, acting as a co-producer with Schneer and sometimes as a co-director — an agreement that any director of a Harryhausen film had to abide by.

Harryhausen even received co-producer credit on The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, a title he would also officially obtain on his and Schneer’s next and last two pictures, Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977) and Clash of the Titans. “I felt he deserved it,” Schneer told Starlog magazine (#152) in March 1990. “It was a recognition that Ray contributed more than just the special FX. His input was added from day one.”

Clash of the Titans was an idea that Harryhausen had been kicking around since the late 1950s, with screenwriter Beverley Cross (who wrote the final script for Titans) penning a treatment called Perseus and the Gorgon’s Head in 1969. Although the plans were delayed by the next two Sinbad pictures, work on the project began in earnest as Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger neared completion.

“The original legend of Perseus is complex and convoluted,” wrote Harryhausen in An Animated Life. “So we had to manipulate events, stealing from one legend and putting it in another.” Harryhausen cited the creation of the winged horse Pegasus as one example: in the original story, Pegasus is born from the blood of Medusa’s severed head. But since her death would come near the end of the film, a different scene involving Perseus capturing and training Pegasus was conceived to bring him in earlier.

With a screenplay and production storyboards ready, Schneer presented the film to Columbia Pictures, where he and Harryhausen had a number of successes over the years. But the studio balked at the $15 million budget — more than all Harryhausen and Schneer’s previous films combined — so Schneer next brought it to Orion Pictures.

MGM/Warner Bros.

That company had one request: cast a then obscure but up-and-coming bodybuilder-turned-actor named Arnold Schwarzenegger as Perseus. This time Schneer and Harryhausen balked. “I told them he didn’t fit the part, because it had dialogue,” Schneer told Starlog. “But Orion considered his casting to be a deal breaker. They refused to accept another actor, so I walked out on them.” Eventually, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer showed great enthusiasm for the project, providing the full budget and even a bit more.

Schneer, Harryhausen and director Desmond Davis — whom Schneer had hired because of his work with Shakespearean actors on several BBC productions of the Bard’s plays — looked at Malcolm McDowell, Michael York and Richard Chamberlain for Perseus before choosing Hamlin. “Harry had only made one picture, but had considerable stage experience,” wrote Harryhausen. “Not only was it felt that he would be able to handle the role and the effects, but he also looked the part.”

Hamlin told Starlog (#46) in May 1981 that he was initially reluctant to take the role, thinking it would be strictly a monster picture, until he saw the rest of the cast that was involved. But he was also drawn to the idea of playing a hero in the classical sense.

“I’m playing an across-the-board Greek hero type,” he explained. “Perseus has no superpowers himself. He has a few accoutrements, such as a sword and a helmet which makes him invisible. He has a magic shield. He’s a real hero in the classic sense. It’s a good role. I’ve always wanted to be a hero.”

Esteemed British actors like Olivier, Smith, Jack Gwillim, Claire Bloom and Sian Phillips embodied the constantly scheming, calculating gods Zeus, Thetis, Poseidon, Hera, and Cassiopeia, while Meredith — best known as the Penguin on the Batman TV series — was cast as the playwright Ammon. John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and even Orson Welles were considered for Zeus until Olivier accepted the role.

“I told Ray that if he thought he was the star of our pictures, then I was going to upstage him once and for all,” Schneer jokingly told Starlog. “I was going to cast actors who were bigger names than he was, and whose work the world knew better than his. I wanted to see if he could survive.”

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The movie begins with an infant Perseus and his mother Danae being sealed in a box and cast into the sea by Danae’s father, King Acrisius, who is enraged that the god Zeus (Olivier) impregnated Danae with the child. Perseus is rescued and grows to become a young man, while a furious Zeus orders from Olympus that the Kraken — last of the Titans — be released to destroy Acrisius and his kingdom.

Sometime later, the adult Perseus wants to win the hand of the beautiful Andromeda (Judi Bowker), who was once betrothed to a prince named Calibos. But Calibos (played by both actor Neil McCarthy and a stop-motion model) was turned into a monster by Zeus after the former offended the gods, and any prospective new husband for Andromeda must now answer a riddle concocted by the man-monster.

Andromeda is eventually offered to the Kraken as a sacrifice even after Perseus successfully answers the riddle. The only way for the giant sea creature to be defeated is for Perseus to voyage to the island of Medusa, sever her head, and use her eyes to turn the Kraken into stone — unless Perseus succumbs first.

Clash was shot at England’s Pinewood Studios, with location filming in Spain, Malta, and southern Italy. Principal photography began in May 1979 and concluded in September of the same year. Harryhausen then began the arduous, 18-month process of creating all the Dynarama effects (Dynamation had been renamed) and animating all the film’s creatures, from Calibos to the Kraken to the eerie Medusa to the mechanical owl Bubo, which Harryhausen said was not a riff on R2-D2 from Star Wars.

To complete the post-production work in time for the film’s June 1981 release, Harryhausen — who usually worked completely alone — brought in additional animators Steve Archer and Jim Danforth.

MGM/Warner Bros.

“I enjoy working by myself,” Harryhausen said in Starlog #127 (February 1988). “I did all but one of my films entirely on my own. Clash of the Titans was the only picture on which I had assistants for the animation. I always liked to put my mark on the work because that’s the final imprint you see on the screen. I felt a personal attachment to my films.”

But Harryhausen admitted that the grueling work of sitting alone in a studio, doing the frame-by-frame movements and shots that are at the core of stop-motion animation, began getting to him as he raced to finish his work in January 1981.

“It is always a frame-by-frame process which takes time,” he told Fangoria magazine in June of that year. “One of the greatest problems in this field is that after everyone’s forgotten the picture you have to go on keeping excited and interested in what you are doing in order to go on for another year. Sometimes it gets a bit dismal but I survive.”

The film did meet its release date as MGM’s major release for the summer of 1981. Released on the same date as Raiders of the Lost Ark, it came in second to that film with a first weekend gross of $6.5 million. It finished 19th for the year at the domestic box office with total earnings of $30 million. Although some reports had it earning a total of $70 million worldwide, it actually topped out at $44.4 million — still a sizable hit against its $15 million budget and the equivalent of nearly $99 million today.

Critics and fans were mixed on the film, with the former giving it a 67% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and the latter awarding it a slightly better 70% score. While Roger Ebert called it a “grand and glorious romantic adventure, giving it three-and-a-half out of four stars, Variety absolutely buried the film, calling it an “unbearable bore” and targeting Harryhausen’s “endless array of flat, outdated special effects.”

For Harryhausen, the Variety slam in particular seemed to flip a switch inside him. “When I came to read the Variety review…I became very disillusioned,” he wrote in An Animated Life. “I gave the film so much of myself that when it was vindictively and unconstructively torn apart, the passion of filmmaking seemed to die.”

Schneer told Starlog that he sensed a change in his longtime friend and partner after Clash was completed. “It was a gradual process,” he said. “It didn’t happen overnight. I saw it coming at the end of Clash. I could see that Ray was getting older….the trial of making a picture is so draining, that I don’t blame him for backing away from it.”

While Harryhausen’s work in the field of fantasy filmmaking is unparalleled in its imagination and influence — everyone from George Lucas to James Cameron to Guillermo Del Toro has cited the man’s work as an inspiration — it’s clear that Clash of the Titans did indeed mark the end of an era. The effects look dated now, which could certainly be expected 40 years later; but at the time of the movie’s release, the previous five years alone had seen a massive upheaval in cinematic visual effects.

Star Wars, Superman, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Alien and The Empire Strikes Back had all come out in the years immediately before Clash, with all of those movies revolutionizing the way in which visual effects were achieved to one degree or another.

The incredible new techniques used to create epic space battles, detailed and awe-inspiring starships and lifelike monsters and extra-terrestrials all left Harryhausen’s painstakingly handcrafted and impressive — if now undeniably quaint — methods in the dust (although stop-motion was still deployed in small doses in several films, most notably The Empire Strikes Back).

Computers were already being used to create the dazzling space dogfights shots in movies like Star Wars, and even more groundbreaking use of computers — the CG revolution — was on the way, with Tron giving the first glimpse of what was to come just a year after Clash of the Titans came out (Clash itself was remade in 2010, using many of the techniques fashioned in the last 30 years with disappointing results).

Harryhausen himself seemed to recognize what was coming. Although he and Schneer began preparing two more films — Sinbad Goes to Mars and Force of the Trojans — neither project got the necessary backing and Harryhausen decided to quit while he was ahead. “The decision to end my career at that point was absolutely right,” he recalled in An Animated Life. “I was forced to concede that it was time to stand aside for others and their new technology to take over.”

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For movie lovers and fantasy fans of a certain age, Clash of the Titans was their first exposure not just to the work of Ray Harryhausen (who died on May 7, 2013, at the age of 92), but to the magic of fantasy storytelling, the wonders of stop-motion animation and the resonance of Greek mythology.

All of Harryhausen’s films provided that kind of entertainment and enlightenment to different generations, and were the link between the work of Willis O’Brien on King Kong and the trailblazing era of effects defined by companies like Industrial Light and Magic, Digital Domain and Weta. Progress is necessary and change is inevitable; yet Clash of the Titans brought down the curtain on a career and a style of filmmaking that may be behind us, but will live on in the imaginations of all they touched.

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That's not original

The media is filled with a lot of material. This includes music, videos, films, stories and lots more. There is so much content provided that it is hard to believe that all of these components were created by original ideas. 

This is because they are not. 

A guy named Kirby Ferguson opened my eyes to understanding that “everything is a remix” in the way that people tend to “combine or edit existing materials to produce something new”. This is something that can be found in almost every piece of entertainment. Looking at one of the examples mentioned on his video series Everything is a Remix, we can identify how the 1977 film series Star Wars is not a fully original thought out creation. 

The film contains different types of recognizable material from other films such as Flash Gordon, Yojimbo and Hidden Fortress. The famous Star Wars opening title design was taken from the 1936 Flash Gordon which rolled in the text from the bottom to the top in an arched way. This is something that the film series has used and is considered to be their signature entrance. 

The characters persona and friendship of R2-D2 and C-3PO are just like the one Matashichi and Tahei have from the 1958 film Hidden Fortress. They are a very comic duo who the audience love because of the entertainment they bring to the film. 

Then there’s the arm chopping scene which happens to be taken from the 1961 film Yojimbo where Star Wars acts it out in an identical way. 

All of these ideas are unoriginal because they were put out before Star Wars was made. They were transformed in the film to adapt to the movie style and design but again using the same ideas as someone else had. They were executed similarly just in a newer way using different props, actors, scenes and other elements that would fit into their storyline. 

I believe that what Star Wars has done to create something original enough to not infringe on the original work's copyright is that they made sure to not copy things exactly as they were. They added their own twist to things and switched up some of the ideas by having distinct story lines from the other films. Comparing them side by side, yes you could definitely tell that there is a similarity in ideas, but at the same time they are not the same because the intentions and purposes in the films are not. It’s not a replica, it is more taken as an inspiration for the creator because that is how more ideas are born.

To end it off, I guess I want to get across that no idea is original nowadays but it doesn’t mean anyone can just rip something off from someone or multiple people because this is the case. If you are going to use material or ideas that did not come from you, then make sure you at least credit those people you got it from. It’s not fair for the original creator and it would just be considered plagiarism. Make sure you don’t copy it piece by piece, make it your own. That way it looks more like inspiration rather than a knock off. Don’t also say you thought of it all on your own because then it just looks like you are stealing from the original creator and you won’t just look bad, but will probably face backlash and legal action against you. 

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Here are some of the links to the sources mentioned in my blog if you are interested in finding out more...

Everything is a Remix Part 1: https://vimeo.com/14912890 Everything is a Remix Part 2: https://vimeo.com/19447662 Everything is a Remix Part 3: https://vimeo.com/25380454

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Kevin Smith's Movies, Ranked By Rotten Tomatoes | ScreenRant

Kevin Smith might not be the most revered director in Hollywood, but he has a dedicated cult fan base that loves what he does. He was also responsible for one of the first cinematic universes, dubbed the View Askewniverse.

Smith was tying together movies and their sequels with other movies and their sequels before anyone had even heard of Iron Man. He’s predominantly a director of comedies, but he’s also given us horror films and episodes of superhero shows. Some of Smith’s movies have been acclaimed by critics, while others have been viewed less favorably. So, here are Kevin Smith’s Movies, Ranked By Rotten Tomatoes.

12 Cop Out (18%)

This is the first and last time that Kevin Smith has directed a movie that he didn’t write. It’s a buddy cop action comedy (scarce on both action and comedy) starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan as a couple of detectives on the trail of a rare baseball card.

RELATED: The 10 Best Characters Kevin Smith Created, Ranked

Smith and Willis famously clashed on the set, which resulted in a movie that felt very disjointed. On top of that, the script wasn’t very inspired. The characters didn’t feel like real people, the plot plodded along, and it didn’t end with a satisfying conclusion. The movie was a disaster from start to finish, on-screen and off.

11 Yoga Hosers (22%)

The second installment in what Kevin Smith is calling his “True North trilogy” (three vaguely connected horror-comedies set in Canada) is even zanier than the first – and the first involved a guy getting turned into a walrus!

Yoga Hosers stars Smith’s daughter Harley Quinn Smith and Johnny Depp’s daughter Lily-Rose Depp as a pair of convenience store clerks (both named Colleen) who have to fend off a horde of Nazi sausages. The movie was panned by critics, who felt that Smith’s downfall was self-indulgence and laziness, but let’s face it: a movie about Nazi sausages is never going to be boring.

10 Jersey Girl (42%)

This was Kevin Smith’s attempt to pivot his career towards more audience-friendly material. He’d built up a niche fan base with comedies that were crass, crude, and filled with expletives. Jersey Girl was an attempt at a heartwarming Hollywood romcom.

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It stars Ben Affleck as a widowed single father who reluctantly dips his toe back in the dating pool when he meets an “it” girl played by Liv Tyler. The movie has its heart in the right place, but unfortunately, the most notable thing about Jersey Girl is that it was the first major motion picture to contain a joke about 9/11.

9 Tusk (45%)

One of the only movies to be adapted from a podcast episode, Tusk stars Justin Long as a podcaster who goes out to interview a crazy old man, played by Michael Parks, who wants to turn him into a walrus.

This was based on an episode of Kevin Smith’s podcast SModcast, in which he and co-host Scott Mosier discussed a Gumtree ad where a man had offered a room at his place rent-free to anyone who’d be willing to dress up in a walrus costume. The movie is as weird as it sounds, but unfortunately, that weirdness becomes excessive at a certain point.

8 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (52%)

Jay and Silent Bob are sort of the R2-D2 and C-3PO of the View Askewniverse. They appear in every movie to provide lovable support. But there’s a reason why R2-D2 and C-3PO have never been given their own movie (well, not yet – give Disney some time and they’ll get there).

RELATED: Every Single Kevin Smith/View Askewniverse Movie (In Chronological Order)

They’re better party guests than they are hosts. The same goes for Jay and Silent Bob. They’re fun in small doses, but a little tiresome when they take center stage. Having said that, the upcoming Jay and Silent Bob Reboot does look like it’s going to be a lot of fun.

7 Mallrats (55%)

Kevin Smith’s sophomore effort failed to drum up the same critical acclaim as his directorial debut. Where Clerks was about a bunch of people talking in a convenience store, Mallrats was about a bunch of people talking in a mall. In theory, anyone who liked Clerks should like Mallrats.

It doesn’t have the rawness of Clerks as there’s a lot more wackiness, while the larger studio budget allowed by Clerks’ success actually became its successor’s downfall. However, it has the same zany New Jerseyan characters with New Jerseyan dialogue, as well as a hilarious Stan Lee cameo, so it’s not all bad.

6 Red State (60%)

The first non-comedy directed by Kevin Smith, Red State is a thriller with horror elements about a trio of high school students who are lured into a house with the promise of sex and end up getting captured to be sacrificed by a sadistic religious cult. As a firefight breaks out between the cult and the police, these kids struggle to escape.

It’s an exciting movie with a strong hook and plenty of action. It’s not perfect by any means – its climax is resolved disappointingly quickly and the stakes escalate rapidly at the start and stay at the same place for the rest of the movie – but it is an enjoyable thriller.

5 Clerks II (63%)

The sequel to Kevin Smith’s directorial debut swapped the black-and-white film for color and swapped the convenience store setting for a fast-food restaurant. It begins with the store from the first one burning down and Dante and Randall taking jobs at a fast food place called Mooby’s.

RELATED: 10 Funniest Quotes From Clerks

This time around, even worse things happen to the poor guys, but it leads them to even greater emotional resolutions than the first one, too. Sadly, it looks as though Clerks III has been called off for good and we’ll never get to see the Clerks trilogy concluded, but at least this one left the characters in a good place.

4 Zack and Miri Make a Porno (65%)

Kevin Smith hoped that Zack and Miri Make a Porno would be his first big box office hit because it had a high-concept premise and two members of the Apatow company of actors – Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks – in the lead roles.

Alas, thanks to a reserved marketing campaign and the fact that most theaters couldn’t even name the movie, it performed as well as Smith’s other movies (a middling response; not a bomb, but not a smash hit by any means). It’s a shame because the movie found the perfect balance between mainstream Hollywood comedy and idiosyncratic Kevin Smith romp for the first time in the director’s career.

3 Dogma (67%)

A passion project of sorts for Kevin Smith, who was raised a devout Catholic, Dogma tells the tale of two fallen angels who try to get back into Heaven based on a loophole in God’s rules, but since such a loophole would prove that God is fallible, their success could undo the history of all creation.

RELATED: The 6 Best And 5 Worst Kevin Smith/View Askewniverse Movies (According To IMDb)

The film inspired protests from Christian groups (some of which Smith attended in disguise as a joke). It takes on the subject of religion in a comical, but ultimately respectful way. Everyone in the ensemble cast – from George Carlin to Alan Rickman to Alanis Morrisette as God – is fantastic.

2 Chasing Amy (87%)

The premise of Chasing Amy makes it sound like a crass, juvenile, high-concept romantic comedy. It’s about a comic book artist who falls in love with a girl, only to be devastated when he finds out she’s a lesbian. However, in the hands of Kevin Smith, this is actually a poignant reflection on sexual identity and human relationships.

Holden and Alyssa are a proxy for any pair where one person wants to be with the other, but due to uncontrollable circumstances, they just can’t be. Chasing Amy introduced audiences to some key players in the View Askewniverse, not to mention some cult icons of the ‘90s.

1 Clerks (88%)

The movie that made Kevin Smith’s career remains his best-reviewed work. It’s a comedy set over the course of one really bad day in a convenience store clerk’s life, and the story behind the film’s production is almost as interesting as the film itself.

Smith maxed out ten credit cards to shoot it; he shot it on black-and-white film because it was cheaper than color; he used the convenience store he was working in as a location, and since he was working there all day, he could only shoot at night (hence a running gag about the shutter being stuck all day)

It premiered at Sundance to instant acclaim and made Smith a household name.

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To Fall, Or Not to Fall: Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala.

"We don't say "rising into love." There is in it the idea of the fall. "  -- Alan Watts, "Falling in Love."

It's officially the end of February and my brain can not handle how quickly twenty-seventeen is already passing us by! I meant to have this particular post up on That Film Girl, Britt by February 14th, but fate (and procrastination, at it's finest) had other plans. If you happened to notice my beautiful logo created by the wonderful Brittany Fett (of Fett&Co), you may have speculated (and you would be 100% correct) that I have a slight fondness (#obsession) for Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) and Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman) of the Star Wars Saga. For as long as I can remember, I've been watching the Star Wars films and some of my favorite memories from when I was young are watching the original trilogy with my mom. I jokingly say that I came out of the womb knowing Harrison Ford's name before knowing my own due to my mother's own fondness of everyone's favorite smuggler. That being said, I never truly became invested in that oh so familiar galaxy far, far away until I was five years old and I dragged her to go see Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (because duh, Star Wars) in theaters. It was while watching that film I found a hero I never knew I needed in Padme and from that moment on, I became a die-hard of the franchise. However it wasn't until I saw Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith at the Mustang Drive-In (TWICE) that I began to care about Anakin Skywalker, specifically Hayden Christensen's portrayal of Anakin's fall into darkness. I fell in love with Anakin within seconds upon being introduced to him in Revenge of the Sith, all it took was a quirky side-smile and his vehement defense of R2-D2 ("No loose wire jokes...he's trying"), and I was head over heels. More to the point, it was within this film that I fell in love with Anakin and Padme's relationship. From the moment they reunite during the beginning of the film, I had butterflies from the intimacy of their touch and the love in their eyes. To me, it was pure magic and it was what made their tragic end that much more heart-breaking. It was the raw emotion I felt between these two characters in this film that left me breathless by the end and strengthened my resolve to follow my dream of working in the film industry, a dream I am still currently working towards nearly twelve years later. 

I've often questioned why I love these two so dearly beyond what I felt as an adolescent watching the chemistry between Natalie Portman, an actress I've been watching mesmerize the silver screen for practically all of my life, and Hayden Christensen, who I must admit was the first guy to ever catch my eye (who else could make the dark side look SO good) especially now that I'm older. Is it a sense of loyalty to my younger self, a justification of life-long taste? Or a sense of nostalgia that I will never shake? But the more I think about it, the more I've come to the conclusion that it's something more. Much more in fact, or else I would still faithfully say that Bella and Edward are indeed a healthy-functioning relationship (oh what it is to be fourteen and blissfully ignorant). I could argue until I'm blue in the face why I believe Anakin and Padme to be as iconic of a couple as Han and Leia, but deep down, I know why these two will always make my heart skip a beat and that's no ones business, but my own. It is in the little things like aggressive negotiations and radiating smiles during clandestine meetings that I find my "I love you...I know." It is in behind-the-scenes photos of moments I will never fully get to experience that makes my heart race like no other. It is in interviews where I saw two people who truly cared about each other that I found my heroes. 

But wait, let me capture this moment! It is the small, intimate moments between Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala that I savor above all else because while I ferociously love these two characters together, they are not perfect. As much as the beginning of Revenge of the Sith made my heart soar to a galaxy far, far away, the second-half of the film brought it to a screeching halt. I HATE the injustice done to Padme, the very idea that she lost the will to live after giving birth to two beautiful babies who needed her or the insinuation that she died of a broken heart. Where is the Padme Amidala from the Prequel storyboards who dreamt of Anakin's fall overcome by the force-sensitivity flowing through her body, or the one who could not bare to see her lover do this to himself so she set out to kill him, only to realize she couldn't upon kissing Anakin on Mustafar? I HATE how unsatisfying their final kiss is because Anakin is no longer himself, driven mad by the fear of losing her and the lies he told himself to somehow make sense of what he had done. I HATE how forlorn I've felt ever since I realized there would be no happy ending for these two characters I fell so hopelessly for, BUT I will never justify what Anakin did after he became Darth Vader, because the Anakin Skywalker I loved died the moment Padme did. It was in the second-half of the film I saw real human beings, albeit in out of this world circumstances, but the vulnerability and the pain was all the same. While they may not be perfect, they were real to me and I've never felt the same since. 

Sadly, I'm often isolated by my feelings for these two because they are the reason I love Star Wars as passionately as I do and not many feel the same as I do, but seeing as February is the month of love, I wanted to share how I let the galaxy know where my loyalties lie in a galaxy far, far away! Sometimes it feels like I am on a quest to find the Ark of Covenant when all I'm searching for is merchandise featuring the two key players of one-half of the most-successful film franchise in cinematic history. In the midst of Han and Leia EVERYTHING, I've found there are few places to turn to find these two together...at least, without the mention of sand or dramatic fireside proclamations (beautiful to read, awkward to say). It is in small businesses I've found my salvation however, such as Fett&Co's Across the Star...bucks shirt or artists such as Maria of Some Imagination Art on Instagram who graciously created the gorgeous bag you can see above for me. While I can't buy a hat that says "You call this a diplomatic solution?" "No, I call it aggressive negotiations" on it or a Funko POP set featuring their secret wedding ceremony on Naboo, at least I can go to awe-inspiring artists like Maria who have the ability to make something personal that I can carry with me always, along with my dreams. Until then I'll be listening to Across the Stars on repeat and imagining a galaxy where things turned out a little differently. 

Because of a little switch in the back of my mind that says "THIS IS NOT REAL" (other than when I've decided to watch a horror movie, of course), I've never been an emotional movie-watcher. I've only truly cried once while watching a film and you might be able to guess which one it is...witnessing the fall of Anakin and specifically, the death of Padme, my hero since the age of five years old, was enough to bring me to my knees.  I vividly remember the heartbreak I felt while watching the credits roll underneath a blanket of stars at the Drive-In, because I couldn't believe that it was over and this was it. I would never see these two characters together again and that broke me. It still breaks me, which is why when I find things like the Star Wars: Galactic Spectacular fireworks show in Disney's Hollywood Studios, I keep coming back for more. I've seen the show multiple times and I could watch it a billion times more times for the inclusion of the two, as pictured above. For over a decade, Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala have shattered my heart and rebuilt it over, and over again, and I will always come back for more. In fact, I live for it.  Till next time, Britt.  #NowWatching: Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. 

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Why These Characters Had Such Small Roles In Rise Of Skywalker

Why These Characters Had Such Small Roles In Rise Of Skywalker

Date: 2020-01-04 23:00:04

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There’s a lot going on in Star Wars Episode IX, which means that some characters were bound to fall by the wayside as others took the lead in the closing chapter of the saga. Here are several characters with relatively small roles in The Rise of Skywalker, along with why each one ended up with such…

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The most important Star Wars character of all time is Wat Tambor, leader of the Techno Union Army

1p>> In some ways, developments are visual results, however when it comes to lightsabers, Wookiees, R2-D2, and also Darth Vader, the best enduring Celebrity Wars factors may not be for your eyes, yet as an alternative for your ears.

A lot of hardcore Superstar Wars followers recognize that epic sound developer Ben Burtt is accountable for R2-D2's tones as well as the hum of a lightsaber, however did you understand that this individual likewise possessed a scene-stealing moment in Star Wars: Episode II-- Strike of the Clones!.?.!? Primarily, it's listed below that Superstar Wars fandom may be steamed down to pair of kinds of people: Those who realize that Ben Burtt was a fantastic audio designer, as well as those who think about him as the voice of a green tooth-headed quasi-cyborg with the dubious given name of "Wat."

If you are actually rational, you come under the 1st camp. If you're me, you're securely in the 2nd. According to at least one job interview, Ben Burtt illustrated the character Wat Tambor as his "beloved Celebrity Battles robot," however that is actually Wat Tambor? The solution: Wat Tambor is the absolute most crucial and also peculiar Celebrity Battles personality of all time.

Of all, despite creating the vocal for Wat Tambor's pair of lines of discussion, Ben Burtt is theoretically wrong. Wat Tambor is not a robotic. True, he talks in a halting, automated manner, and also changes themself along with little bit of dials on his metallic chest if you want to eject one of his pair of pipes in a Superstar Wars movie, but he's not a robot. Tambor is actually a Skakoan, a participant of an aquatic race of aliens that, when off-world, are actually called for to use a pressure fit to simulate their house planet's setting.

If you were actually truly awaited up on that thing George Lucas said once about repeating aesthetic concepts in the Superstar Wars movies-- "it feels like poetry, they rhyme"-- you could be skewed to advise that Wat Tambor's tension match prefigures Anakin's fate to live inside of a breathing apparatus as Darth Vader. Isn't it more enjoyable to simply believe of Wat Tambor as a silly invader that is also more significant than Darth Vader? Because, in phrases of the strategies of exactly how the Star Wars universe is changed, Wat Tambor is, as a matter of fact, means more vital than Darth Vader. And also that's considering that unlike Darth Vader, Wat Tambor practically provides the goods.

Wat Tambor and also Obi-Wan Kenobi; ships coming on the evening.(Credit Rating: Lucasfilm

)Wat Tambor's very first of two appearances in live-action Star Wars films remains in ... and also because tale, he modifies every thing.

In some ways, the story of Strike of the Clones can be simplified this: Below are actually the extremely particular nitty-gritty details of just how an intricate sci-fi battle was paid, through which each sides began the battle without possessing a standing army. Naturally, we understand coming from the headline of the movie that the State eventually obtains a soldiers of clones who attack, yet the "crooks"-- the Separatists-- use an army of war droids. Right now, we had actually satisfied militaries of war androids in the previous movie,, but what Attack of the Duplicates makes clear is actually that brand new, even more extreme struggle droids are actually taken right into the Separatist war initiative to make certain the androids are formidable to roar with the Jedi.

Get Into Wat Tambor. As Obi-Wan listens in, our team hear (however do not entirely see) Wat Tambor utter among his 2 galaxy-shaking lines in his humorous faux-robot vocal: "Along with these new struggle androids our experts have actually created for you, you'll have the finest soldiers in the universe."

What battle droids performs he describe, pray inform? These would certainly be actually the "incredibly" fight droids who trigger the Jedi such difficulty in the field battle by the end of the movie, and also, if you've been actually checking out, these are actually the very same range of struggle droids worrying younger Mando as well as his family members in those hallucinations.

So, you observe, actually, exactly how significant Wat Tambor is? His incredibly fight droids secured a lot of Jedi on Geonosis and also, relatively, orphaned young Pedro Pascal, triggering him to come to be The Mandalorian in the initial spot. Had Wat Tambor certainly not developed the brand new war androids for Count Dooku and the Separatists, the Clone Battles will possess certainly never occurred given that the Commonwealth will never ever have actually been cajoled right into approving the duplicate army they really did not actually really want. As well as this also implies Mando would have probably certainly never end up being an orphanhood. And if Mando had actually never ever ended up being an orphan, that would certainly possess saved Infant Yoda???

An incredibly fight android in' The Mandalorian.'Wat Tambor made these traits!

Each of these activities were actually placed in to movement since of the only various other scene in Strike of the Clones through which Wat Tambor communicates. Again, as Obi-Wan listens in, Count Dooku entices a bunch of dishonest individuals to dedicate their forces to the Separatists. This is when Wat Tambor gets his big close-up; changing himself like a broken 1983 Tandy saggy disk travel fused with Maximum Clearance's rhythmus, he says, "The Techno Union Army is at your disposal, Count."

Throughout both variations of The Clone Wars animes (the 2002-2005 Genndy Tartakovsky non-canon one, and the even more famous 2008 version) the Techno Union Army and also Wat Tambor create a handful of looks (including an arc where he infests the world Ryloth), yet it is actually not like you ever acquire the sense that Wat Tambor is a great association leader. Possibly the most effective comparison for Wat Tambor is actually that he's a little like Jimmy Hoffa; he as well as the Profession Alliance clearly believe that obtaining entailed along with the crowd (the Separatists) will certainly help their trade guilds and techno unions, but the truth is, the Separatists are way even worse than any real-life mob. (Edge note: Note Martin Scorsese failed to claim anything negative about Superstar Wars flicks during the course of that entire Marvel motion picture rhetoric. Is it feasible he was actually inspired to perform after watching Wat Tambor and Anakin Skywalker in the prequels? I think the solution is a big indeed.)

Speaking of Anakin Skywalker, he plainly understands how legitimate Wat Tambor is actually due to the time of Revenge of the Sith given that when he goes to secure all the Separatist leaders, the next-to-last individual he punches with this lightsaber, is, you suspected it, Wat Tambor. Wait, is Wat Tambor actually dead?

Zero, Wat Tambor, don't get up. Anakin will certainly correct there

.(Credit Scores: Lucasfilm)You are actually possibly quite knowledgeable about this shot of Anakin Skywalker (this really takes place to become the monitor you'll get for the recap of Retribution of the Sith on Disney+ at this moment), but there is actually a possibility you certainly never discovered that Wat Tambor is actually, like, delicately obtaining up from his chair after Anakin has actually gotten almost everybody else in the evil Separationist authorities.

In the staged launch of the movie our experts certainly never find Anakin actually get Wat Tambor, our company merely acquire this chance of Wat standing up, apparently to adjust his dials and also possibly use Anakin some also cooler new droids. Purportedly, Wat Tambor performs die in this performance. If you do some Googling, you'll learn there is actually a deleted arena where Anakin takes out Wat, however, you'll certainly not discover it in the contemporary Disney+ "add-ons" for Vengeance of the Sith. And also, unlike a ton of prequel-era removed arenas, it is actually kind of challenging to uncover the real video recording of Anakin eliminating Wat.

Hang on Anakin. Wat desires to talk. (Credit Rating: Lucasilm)

So, what is actually the package? The databank mentions that Wat must "answer for his unlawful acts" on Mustafar, which is actually where our team get this image of him and also Anakin having an intense chat. Yet, strangely, although Wookieepedia claims Wat Tambor is one hundred per-cent dead, it's really difficult to locate him in the aftermath of Anakin's rage. An ordinary person would only allow that Wat Tambor's death was shed on the cutting space floor, but if you are actually a Wat Tambor patriot, you might think he's still around.

In short, every person understands that Anakin eliminated all the Separatists on Mustafar, however what a few hopeful fans really hope is actually, possibly he failed to?

If Wat Tambor is still available, then possibly the previous foreman of the Techno Union Military created Palpatine a lot of spaceships for. I suggest, those Superstar Destroyers needed to stem from someplace, right?

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Bristol City 2-3 Manchester City (Agg: 3-5)

Kevin de Bruyne celebrated signing a new five-year contract at Manchester City with a goal

Manchester City reached their first final under Pep Guardiola as the Premier League leaders beat battling Bristol City in the Carabao Cup.

Already leading 2-1 from the first leg, goals from Leroy Sane, Sergio Aguero and Kevin de Bruyne at Ashton Gate ensured Manchester City’s place at Wembley on Sunday, 25 February.

They dominated the first half and Sane deservedly put the visitors in front shortly before the break, with his deflected shot bouncing in after Bernardo Silva had dispossessed Hordur Magnusson.

Manchester City looked to have all but killed the tie early in the second half when Aguero’s strike across goal rounded off a lethal counter attack.

The Championship team produced a rousing final 20 minutes to give Guardiola’s side a brief late scare, with Marlon Pack’s smart header and Aden Flint’s stoppage-time goal threatening for a moment to take the tie into extra time.

But De Bruyne’s calm finish with the final kick of the game denied Bristol City a creditable draw on the night and confirmed Manchester City’s place in the final where they will face either Arsenal or Chelsea, who play the second leg of their semi-final on Wednesday.

The Robins, meanwhile, will turn their attention to converting their current fifth place in the second tier into promotion – with their four previous victories over Premier League opposition in the Carabao Cup giving them a taste of what they hope is to come.

Relive Manchester City’s Carabao Cup semi-final win at Bristol City

Guardiola takes no chances at Ashton Gate

Leroy Sane has either scored or assisted in five of his six appearances for Manchester City in 2018 (three goals, three assists)

Guardiola has previously used this competition to rest and rotate a number of his star players, but he picked a near full-strength side for the second leg, making just two changes to the team that beat Newcastle in the Premier League on Sunday.

His selection was tribute to the way Bristol City had performed at the Etihad a fortnight ago, impressing many with their adventure and attacking intent.

There would be no such repeat at Ashton Gate, however, with the away side taking complete control almost from the very first whistle.

Aguero’s cross clipped the bar and David Silva’s low shot had to be palmed away even before Sane’s opener – and once Manchester City were able to add a ruthless streak to their overall dominance it was always going to be a big ask for the home team.

Despite the impressive late rally, culminating in makeshift striker Flint stabbing in for 2-2, the visitors were still more than good value for their victory across both legs.

They had 68% possession and finished Tuesday’s game with 28 shots on goal, scoring from three of the six they got on target.

Can Man City do the quadruple?

Guardiola is now just one game from winning his first silverware with Manchester City, having endured only the second barren season of his managerial career in 2016-17.

The 47-year-old Spaniard, who won 14 trophies in four years as Barcelona boss and a further seven in three years at Bayern Munich, is hoping to lead City to an unprecedented quadruple.

He has repeatedly played down his team’s chances of achieving that feat, yet they continue to fight strongly on all fronts – already 12 points clear in the Premier League, they have also reached the last 16 of the Champions League and the fourth round of the FA Cup.

Domestically, only Liverpool have found a way to beat them so far this season, meaning the one apparent remaining question mark is over whether they can translate their league and cup form into European competition.

If they are able to progress beyond FC Basel and into the quarter-finals of the Champions League, even at this early stage they may seldom have a better opportunity of sealing a clean sweep of league and cups.

A step too far for brave Bristol City

Johnson has turned Bristol City from Championship relegation contenders to promotion candidates within a season

Lee Johnson and his players earned plenty of plaudits after their first-leg defeat, with Guardiola describing Bristol City as a “fantastic team” and lauding their style of play and attacking intent as “good for the show”.

Despite trailing on aggregate throughout the second leg, the fact they became only the second team since October to score twice in a domestic match against Manchester City spoke volumes of both their quality and spirit.

The Robins had already seen off top-flight sides Watford, Crystal Palace, Stoke City and famously Manchester United on their way to the last four – though two legs against the runaway Premier League leaders was always going to be a tall order.

Following a tentative opening period, during which they were pinned back for long spells, they looked much more of a threat with the half-time arrival of £5.3m summer signing Famara Diedhiou.

Head coach Johnson will now hope the return of Diedhiou, who has missed the past three months with a knee injury, can also inspire his side towards achieving the ultimate goal of securing top-flight football for the first time since 1980.

“I’m very proud, not just of the team, but of the club,” said Johnson.

“It was a fantastic run. The fact is, it has taken them two injury-time goals in both legs to beat us.

“We came close to a draw today. They are a top, top side, probably the best side I’ve seen live.”

What they said:

Bristol City boss Lee Johnson: “We came close to a draw. They are a top, top side, probably the best side I’ve seen live.

“They have so many players that are intricate and have class on the ball and sometimes you have to hold your hands up and say ‘they are a better side than us’.

“But the spirit we showed, we never gave in and we continued to try and attack and scored two goals and not many teams can score two goals against a side like that.”

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola on Sky Sports: “We are so happy to be there, to reach this final. We played an amazing game until 2-0 and then we lost control, these type of games never end until the end.

“At 2-0 we knew it would be easier because they needed three or four goals but with one minute left it was 2-2 and anything could happen.

“It’s not for me, it’s for Manchester City, a club who are trying to reach another level. We try to keep going, the important thing for me is to be there.”

A landmark game for Pep – the stats

Pep Guardiola celebrated his 363rd victory in top-flight management in what was his 500th game, with 63 of those victories coming in 92 games with Manchester City.

Guardiola has now won 11 of his 18 semi-final ties, reaching his first final as a manager in England.

Bristol City have won just once in nine games in all competitions (D2 L6) since their victory over Manchester United in the quarter-finals.

Manchester City have reached their sixth League Cup final, winning four of the previous five — 1970, 1976, 2014 and 2016.

Man City have progressed to a domestic cup final for the fourth time in the last six seasons (excl. Community Shield); winning the League Cup in 2014 and 2016, as well as finishing runners-up in the 2013 FA Cup.

Marlon Pack’s header ended Bristol City’s run of 550 minutes without scoring a goal from open play in all competitions.

Leroy Sane has either scored or assisted in five of his six appearances for Manchester City in 2018 (3 goals, 4 assists).

In fact, the German winger has provided 14 assists for Manchester City in all competitions this season; no Premier League player has provided more (level with teammate Kevin de Bruyne).

Sergio Aguero has scored eight goals in six appearances since the turn of the year, assisting one more.

What next?

Bristol City resume their bid for promotion to the Premier League as they host QPR on Saturday, 27 January (15:00 GMT). Manchester City, meanwhile, are away to Championship side Cardiff City in the fourth round of the FA Cup on Sunday, 28 January (16:00 GMT) in a game that is live on BBC One.

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Star Wars 30 Day Challenge- In One Day!

As most of you likely know, the first public screening for the new Star Wars movie releases tonight at midnight. You also probably know about my love for this series and I can’t wait to see review it. I found this video series from the Wars YouTuber HelloGreedo where for thirty days leading up to the release of The Last Jedi, he made a short video covering a variety of different Star Wars related questions. I thought it would be fun to answer the same thirty questions in a single blog entry. Feel free to respond with your own thoughts in the comments!

1. My Personal Favorite Star Wars Memory

My favorite Star Wars memory was seeing The Force Awakens in theaters for the first time. I had never seen a Star Wars movie in the theater to that point, and I was giddy from the time the lights dimmed to the end credits. I felt like a little kid and it made me fall in love with the series again.

2. My All Time Favorite Character

This is a tough one  because there are so many great characters to choose from. As a kid I would have said Darth Vader, but as an adult now I’ve grown to love Han Solo. Harrison Ford is so great in the role and he has so many memorable moments and lines. I also love what he brings to the table as a character, a rough and tumble anti-hero who has a greatr arc through the Original Trilogy.

3. Favorite Original Trilogy Movie

My favorite of the Original Trilogy movies is The Empire Strikes Back. I love how it takes a great premise presented in A New Hope and expands it considerably. You learn more about Vader, the nature of the force, and get to meet some really memorable characters in Yoda and Lando Calrissian. There’s so much depth and I would go as far as to say powerful scenes in what on the surface, just looks like a fun science fiction movie.

4. Favorite Prequel Trilogy Movie

This one is also hard because I dislike pretty much all of the prequels, but I would have to say Revenge of the Sith is the one I like the best. There are a few scenes that are true to the original spirit of Star Wars and also a lot of good visuals.

5. Favorite Star Wars Video Game

This one was very easy. The original Star Wars Battlefront II video game from 2005 just might be my favorite video game ever. I got hours of playtime from it when I was in grade school and had a blast every time. The game was so simple in its concept, recreating battles from the movie or ones we never saw on screen, but that’s what I think made it so great.

6.  Favorite Lightsaber Fight

The final dual between Vader and Luke in Return of the Jedi is by far my favorite lightsaber fight in the saga. There is so much emotional weight to the scene as Luke is torn between trying to redeem his own father who is also trying to kill him. You can’t help but feel for him as he is constantly being taunted by both Vader and the Emperor and trying to remain true to the teachings of Obi-Wan and Yoda. His outburst at the end where he realizes he is slowly becoming like Vader is also poignant, as well as Vader’s sacrifice to end the scene.

7. All Time Favorite Scene

I  could probably make a list of just my favorite Star Wars scenes, but the top would have to be Yoda explaining the Force to Luke and then raising his X-Wing out of the swamp in Empire. Yoda’s dialogue is so well written, and John Williams’ score makes the scene feel both mystical and inspiring. I get chills each time I see this scene and there’s no other one like it in the whole saga.

8.  Favorite Yoda Quotation

After a lot of thought, my favorite Yoda quote might be “You must unlearn what you have learned.” It might not seem to make much sense, but part of why I like it might be because it is similar to one of my favorite quotations in real life “It’s what you have learned after you know it all that counts”. They both speak to how nobody every truly becomes a master at anything, and there’s always something new you can be learning. 

9. Favorite Fan Film

In all honesty I’ve never seen a Star Wars fan film. If anybody reading this knows of a good one to check out, let me know. On to the next one.

 10. Something I Wish Was Different

Like I mentioned before, I really don’t think very highly of the prequels. Yes they are what originally peaked my interest in the series as a kid, but as I’ve grown older I’ve realized how poorly made and pointless they are. I wish they didn’t exist at all, only the original and sequel trilogies were made. None of them are all that good, and create a plethora of plot holes that hurt the original movies.

 11.  Favorite Piece of Star Wars Merch I Own

A couple years ago for my birthday, my parents bought me some wooden portraits with posters of the original movies printed on them. One of them was a pretty standard one for the Force Awakens, but the other two are the ones that I really love. One is for Empire, with Darth Vader’s mask floating in space with the cast list underneath it with the title. The other one is for Return of the Jedi, and but it says “Revenge” instead of Return. This was because George Lucas decided to change the title during filming, making the original posters with this small detail extremely valuable to collectors. Even though what I own isn’t a original copy, I think it’s really cool and have them both hanging up in my room. 

12. Actor I Want to See in a Star Wars Movie

There was a lot different names I considered for this one, but the one I feel the best about is Aaron Paul. If you have watched Breaking Bad, he gives a performance throughout the entire series that is arguably as good as the one Bryan Cranston gives. I think Aaron Paul is a terrific actor, and I’m surprised I haven’t seen him in much outside of Breaking Bad. I don’t have a character in mind for him to play but the Star Wars universe is so big and he’s such a great talent I have no doubt he could play a strong role and really excel.

13. Favorite Member of the Rogue One Crew

Another easy one, K2-SO is by far my favorite character in all of Rogue One. Alan Tudyk’s motion capture performance is fantastic in his comedic timing and vocal work, and by far playing  the best character in the movie in my opinion.

14. Favorite Piece of Star Wars Music

Of all the incredible compositions of Star Wars score, my favorite is Finale/End Credits from Empire. It starts with a slow build up to a strong rendition of Han and Leia’s theme before transitioning in to the typical end credits theme that plays in the other movies. What comes after is what puts it over the top for me though, as it features a medley of the different character themes from throughout the movie. Yoda’s theme, The Imperial March, and finally a return to the love theme are all played and works as a nice musical microcosm of the film. 

15. Favorite Vehicle in the Saga

My favorite vehicle in Star Wars is also one of the best vehicles in all of pop culture, the Millennium Falcon. Its design has always been really cool to me and its so recognizable. I like how it seems like you could live in it, and I love how proud Han Solo is of his ship even though the other characters are constantly making fun of it. I also like how its seen all kinds of action, been to the furthest corners of the galaxy and all of its different features.

16.  Favorite Special Edition Change

The change in the Special Edition that I don’t mind is the general improvement of the visuals and audio. I don’t think it hurts the integrity or undercuts the work put in by the original crew, but enhances their work and helps the movies age a little bit better.

17.  Least Favorite Special Edition Change

In my opinion, the worst of all the Special Edition changes is the CGI creatures and backgrounds added in to Mos Eisely in A New Hope. Not only does it look terrible, but it’s ridiculously distracting and one animal even blocks the entire view of the scene right before Luke, Obi-Wan, and the droids are stopped by the stormtroopers. It makes no sense at all why all of this was added, and that might be why it irritates me the most.

18. Favorite Star Wars Parody

I admittedly haven’t seen the most Star Wars parodies, so I’ll have to go with Space Balls by default, but that doesn’t mean that it is still a really funny parody. It captures the spirit of the Original Trilogy while also satirizing the merchandising it has become famous for, as well as the logic of movies altogether.

19.  Favorite Non-Star Wars Movie from a Star Wars Actor

My favorite for this one would have to be Raiders of the Lost Ark, featuring Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. Both of these series have a special place in my heart as they sparked my interest in movies as a kid. Harrison Ford is just as iconic as Indy as he is Han, and the rest of the movie is masterfully guided by my favorite director, Steven Spielberg. It never lets up with action, suspense, an incredible score, and I never get bored while watching it. 

20. Favorite Droid

BB-8 is my favorite droid in all of Star Wars. I love his design, how it looks original but still looks like it exists in the Star Wars universe. I also think its really cool how the creators of Force Awakens were able to make a character that is so funny and lovable but doesn’t have any dialogue, much like R2-D2.

21. Star Wars Game I Wish Existed

I’m not a huge video game fan so I don’t know if a game like this exists, but I think an open world game simlar to Red Dead Redemption in the Star Wars Universe would be really cool. Maybe your character would be a bounty hunter or character similar to Luke in A New Hope trying to find his way in the galaxy, but you make the decisions that ultimately affects his fate. 

22. The Star Wars Anthology Film I Want

YouTube movie reviewer Jeremy Jahns actually had an idea for an anthology film that I would love to see. It would focus on Obi-Wan between the events of Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. Ewan McGregor would come back as Obi-Wan, but the tone of the movie would be more similar to a western than a space opera. He would be in hiding in Tatooine, riddled with guilt from the fall of Anakin and maybe PTSD from the Clone Wars. He’s on Tatooine not because he feels the need to watch over Luke, but because he just doesn’t want to see a galaxy under the control of the Empire’s iron fist and falls away from his Jedi beliefs. This is where the western theme comes in, as maybe a small settlement near where he’s hiding in the desert is under threat from the Empire or a gang from Jabba the Hutt and he is forced to try and stand up to them. I like this idea because it would be a very different tone for a Star Wars movie and wouldn’t add too much unnecessary backstory.

23. Favorite Force Awakens Moment

I absolutely loved the scene in Fore Awakens where Kylo Ren has just incapacitated Finn tries to use the Force to pull the Skywalker lightsaber out of the snow. He has some trouble getting it out, as it wiggles around and finally comes out, but flies past his face and in to Rey’s outstretched hand. She looks confused and a bit scared after it happens, but the Force theme slowly begins to swell up. I got goosebumps seeing this scene in the theater and me and several other people cheered as it happened. It’s such a great reveal, and it represents everything Star Wars is about, finding something special deep inside you and riding to an occasion with that ability you have. 

24. Favorite Space Battle

Although I didn’t like the movie as whole very much, the last thirty minutes of Rogue One are fantastic. The battles going on in space and on the ground look incredible and are intense, combining new technology with the classic Star Wars action cut scenes from A New Hope. The hammerhead ship crashing in to the Star Destroyer is a great scene and there is a new level of intensity that you don’t really see in the other Star Wars space battles.

25. Least Favorite Star Wars Moment

This might be a cop out, but all of the Anakin and Padme love dialogue scenes are absolutely terrible. They are so poorly written and awkward to watch. I can’t remember the last time I watched Attack of the Clones from beginning to end, but it won’t be again any time soon partly because of these scenes.

26. Favorite Darth Vader Quotation

I think it’s great in Empire when Vader says to Lando “I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it further”. It fits the character so perfectly, being menacing and pithy at the same time. I also love how Lando tugs at the collar of his shirt after Vader turns away, almost like Vader gave him a bit of a force choke as he left. 

27.  If I Were An Extra, What Scene Would I be in?

I’ve always found it funny how in every Original Trilogy movie, there’s a stormtrooper who gets shot and falls from a ridiculous height screaming on the way down. I would want to be one of these guys, because it would be a funny cameo and just a fun scene to be in. 

28. Director I Want to Direct a Star Wars Movie

Jon Favereau, the director of the first two Iron Man movies, The Jungle Book remake, and Elf would be a great choice to direct a Star Wars movie. He has worked with Disney before so he would be able to work with the corporate aspect but also bring a unique flavor to the story, and some great special effects too.

29. A Prop I Would Like to Own

The burnt-up Darth Vader mask scene in Force Awakens would be a cool prop to have. There’s something intimidating about it still, even though it’s heavily damaged and mishaped. I feel like it represents the new trilogy’s connection to the originals though, and would be a unique piece of memorabilia. 

30. Why I Love Star Wars

I love Star Wars because of what it was and what it has become. I love hearing the stories of how the first movie went over budget and schedule, nobody thought it would be any good, and now it might be the  most famous film franchise in existance. I love the fun, light-hearted moments and the ones with depth and emotions too that I think get overlooked too often by film critics. I also love how it has had such a strong impact on my life, and how I will get to pass on the story and my experiences with it to future generations.

That’s it! I’ll have my review for The Last Jedi as soon as possible after I see it. Let me know what your responses to these questions are!

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