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thoughtkick · 10 months
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Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking.
Noel Langley
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qvotable · 1 year
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Now I know I’ve got a heart because it is breaking.
Noel Langley; The Wizard of Oz
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perfectquote · 1 year
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Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking.
Noel Langley
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stay-close · 8 months
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Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking.
Noel Langley
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surqrised · 7 months
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Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking.
Noel Langley
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Noel Langley, Hugh Lynn Cayce - Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation - Howard Baker - 1969
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nightlyquotes · 2 years
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Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking.
Noel Langley
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adamwatchesmovies · 2 years
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The Wizard of Oz (1939)
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Movies don’t get much more magical than The Wizard of Oz. It’s been referenced and parodied endlessly. You’ve probably seen it dozens of times playing on TV. You know its iconic scenes by heart, but that doesn’t matter. Even decades later, the wonder has not diminished one bit.
Running away from her home after her cruel neighbor threatens her dog Toto, young Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) is whisked away by a tornado to the magical land of Oz. Meeting up with a Scarecrow (Ray Bolger), a Tin Man (Jack Haley), and a Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr), the newfound friends set off for the Emerald City, where the Wizard of Oz will grant them their fondest desires.
There’s a lot you could say about The Wizard of Oz on a technical level. The beautiful matte paintings, the costumes, the makeup, the dance choreography, the brilliant use of color contrasting the sepia-tone photography, the sheer imagination present... but dissecting the film, separating each element that works just feels wrong. When you watch this film, it’s as a whole. Every element, on-camera and off, work in such perfect unison that no single element is "the best". You can’t separate the heartfelt and sweet performance of Over the Rainbow from Judy Garland anymore than you can think about the Scarecrow without his introductory song. You may have a favorite scene, or a favorite character, but if your favorite is the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton), I say you’re forgetting about the Cowardly Lion. Can't you just immediately picture the makeup effects that bring the character to life? Didn't his iconic speech pattern just pop into your head? Don’t you want to imitate it out loud? “Currage! Hrammph!” It’s a film that’s easy to surrender to. You fall in love with everything about it.
This is a sweet story with universal appeal and endless rewatch value. As a kid, you’re drawn in by Dorothy; so sweet and innocent with her little dog. As an adult, it’s a trip down memory lane to simpler times. You marvel at the technical prowess of the filmmakers and learn to truly appreciate the quality of the songs found throughout. Be careful or you’ll find yourself singing, or even dancing along with the colorful citizens of this strange world. That’s when you’re not laughing or holding back tears. There’s a certain quality about great children’s films that make them cut deeper than the deepest dramas and bring forth the biggest laughs. Dorothy may have come from Kansas, she may have grown up in a place that seems so very far away by today’s standards, but that distance is nonexistent when you’re watching.
I’d wager that a lot of people will tell you that this was the very first film they saw. It's a thought that fills me with joy. This is one of those musicals even people who don't like musicals will make an exception for. It’s a torrent of smiles flowing from the screen. The Wizard of Oz is movie magic. (On Blu-ray, September 30, 2017)
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travsd · 1 year
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Noel Langley: The Royal Adaptor of Oz
Noel Langley: The Royal Adaptor of Oz
Screenwriter Noel Langley (1911-1980) was one two people connected with the 1939 MGM screen version of The Wizard of Oz to have a Christmas birthday (the other was Candy Candido, who voiced one of the talking trees). There were numerous writers on the major undertaking, of course, but Langley ended up being the principle one. He wrote the last draft but two, then it was given to the team of Edgar…
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outstanding-quotes · 2 years
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Anyone with sufficient honesty to examine his own nature, would find in it a complete lexicon of do’s and don’t’s… the still small voice of conscience never lies. It is simply that we conveniently choose not to hear it occasionally, and then wonder why we walk slam-bang into a glass door that all but flattens our nose.
— Noel Langley, Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation
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ruby-whxre · 1 year
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neil-gaiman · 19 days
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hi neil! sorry to bother you with an ask you probably get a lot, but how do you make your writing captivating to read? I have a decent plot and some nice characters, but i feel like my writing is still very bland, and it's not doing the concept justice. there are a lot of books that are an absolute joy to read because of how wonderful the actual writing is, and i'm wondering how one goes about adding that element to their writing.
neil fans pls don't angry dm me like last time, that was really weird
A lot of it is experience. Do it enough and you will. As with anything— learning to play the piano, say — you are going to get more accomplished as you do it. That being said, some things you can learn. And one way to learn those things is to copy.
Find authors with recognisable and delightful styles, whose work you love, reread them and then try writing a paragraph in their style. Pretend to be Dickens or Ray Bradbury, PL Travers or e e cummings and see what happens. See what you do with words.
My first book (unpublished and not very good) doesn’t read like me at all. It reads like a weird mixture of Noel Langley and Hugh Lofting and Roald Dahl. But there is a page about 3/4 of the way through that reads just like me.
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downthetubes · 2 years
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SHIFT Year Book hardcover on its way, features Clint Langley cover
SHIFT Year Book hardcover on its way, features Clint Langley cover
GetMyComics is now offering a hardcover edition of their 2022 Shift Yearbook, featuring a simply stunning cover by Clint Langley. Also available in newsagents and from GetMyComics as a softcover edition (as the “Shift Comic Anthology Yearbook 2022“) the hardcover remix – “the Director’s Cut” – positively brims with sequential excellence. It’s only currently available from GetMyComics direct –…
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thepersonalquotes · 1 year
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“Now I know I’ve got a heart because it is breaking.” - Noel Langley
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nine-frames · 8 months
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The Wizard of Oz, 1939.
Dir. Victor Fleming | Writ. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson & Edgar Allan Woolf | DOP Harold Rosson
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gameraboy2 · 1 year
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Cage Me a Peacock by Noel Langley Lion Library LL71, 1956 Cover by Robert Maguire
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