#uncredited cameo

[anywaythewindblows19]

Robert Downey Jr as a punk party crasher in Girls Just Want to Have Fun

#rdj #robert downey jr #girls just want to have fun #80s movies #mine #robert downey junior #uncredited cameo

[laelior]

Recently posted this on the Kaidan subreddit felt like sharing it here, too. Because why not?

I headcanon him as an only child. I like to imagine that his mother has a Ph.D in electrical engineering. She was working as a civilian contractor for the Alliance in Singapore when she met his father, a logistics officer with the Alliance. Shortly after Kaidan's birth, his father decided to separate from the Alliance so that his family could put down roots near his family in Canada. He took up a consulting job while his wife continued to work as an engineer.

When they started to learn about the effects of in-utero eezo exposure, Kaidan's parents decided not to further expand their family. Kaidan has a few cousins, but I see them as a bit older than him so he didn't have many family members in his age range.

His mother fostered his interest in electronics and taught him how to build circuits and create small gadgets. I imagine that she also became interested in the engineering potential of eezo-integrated circuitry after she started delving into the rabbit hole of cutting-edge eezo research following Kaidan's exposure. She became friends with Ellen Ryder, who was at the forefront of that research.

While his mother threw herself into research to try and understand the risks facing her child, his father remained more cautious and wanting to take things as they came. He was more focused on getting Kaidan through childhood in a practical sense.

Both of his parents were reluctant to send their son to BAaT, but ultimately relented because they thought it would genuinely help him to be around other biotic youth. Naturally, they were horrified by what actually happened there. They did their best to support Kaidan through the aftermath of it. They were in a position, both in terms of wealth and open-mindedness, to help him work through some of the trauma, which put him in a better position than most of the kids who made it out of BAaT.

Personality wise, he takes after his father: cautious, observant, and completely willing to risk everything to do what he feels is right. From his mother, he gets his sense of curiosity and a keen interest in engineering. He's still close with them, which is supported by some of his comments in the games, in part because of their unconditional support that helped him through a pretty turbulent time in his life.

#mass effect #kaidan alenko #my headcanons #probably the first time i've gathered these headcanons into a coherent document #for some reason his parents' names elude me though #for anyone who's read my sara x suvi fic #kaidan's mom has an uncredited cameo in the first chapter #as one of the speakers at ellen ryder's memorial

[demisexualnathanvuornos]

Cake (2005) Written by Tassie Cameron Directed by Nisha Ganatra

Pippa McGee: Lulu, I offered to edit a bridal magazine. It's a shrine to commitment, and I'm a slut!

#cake 2005 #nisha ganatra #female directors #heather graham #sandra oh #director cameo #taye diggs #sarah chalke #sheryl hines #keram malicki sanchez #david sutcliffe #kate kelson is supposed to be in this but i couldn't see her and she's uncredited #haven cast and crew #nocticola art

[pinkiepiebones]

oh. The Demeter and the Vesta are the same ship. It was called "Vesta" in the 1931 movie but it is the Demeter. So in the '31 movie, when the sailors find the Vesta full of slaughtered crew members and find a fully-mad Renfield in the cargo hold, that's the Demeter.

So Renfield can totally make an appearance in the upcoming "Last Voyage of the Demeter."

After all, SOMEONE's gotta be unlocking the crate that holds Dracula's coffin.

#robbie don't look #I am not a smart Zombie #How sick would it be for Nicholas Hoult to have an uncredited cameo in Last Voyage #he just shows up at the very end with that Dwight Frye grin and giggle #renfield

[chaotictomtom]

feeling nostalgic.....rewatching b&t.... i just think weird al would have killed it in one of those movies

#he WAS technically in face the music #but uncredited + as a fan with all the videos #hella cute love that so much :3 #BUT WOULDN'T THAT BE AWESOME IF HE WAS IN ONE OF THESE MOVIES </333 #even as himself for a fun cameo like in the naked gun #tomtom_is_rambling

[polniaczek]

Vanishing Point (1971) featuring the uncredited cameos of David Gates, Sam Clayton, Rita Coolidge, Claudia Lennear, and Bonnie & Delaney Bramlett as religious commune singers

#vanishing point #vanishing point 1971 #filmedit #movieedit #musicedit #70sedit #mine #david gates #bread band #rita coolidge #sam clayton #claudia lennear #delaney bramlett #bonnie bramlett #delaney & bonnie #70s movies are so weird #nothing prepared me for this

[notafraidofredyellowandblue]

Who is driving the van in the Adieu Video? Did we ever find out?

when i got this ask, i was like 'duh, ofcourse we kno...wait...what..?"

so i watched the video again, including dissecting the end credits, but there was nothing in those credits at all, and in the video all the guys are in the back

and the few brief shots we see of the cabin, the lights prevent us seeing the driver..

so my conclusion is.... that it must be an uncredited cameo by Rammstein's unofficial 7th member, and the one who would definitely *be* the ringleader if they ever decided to infiltrate the Opera Garnier for real:

Frau Schneider

(gif from post by @xmanicpanicx)

#well who else could it be #adieu mv #rammstein #frau schneider mention #maybe it's wishful thinking

[cesperanza]

As someone whose opinion I respect, can you please explain to me why the internet is suddenly obsessed with that hot piece of Cold War garbage? Cybill Shepherd's "Russian" is about as convincing as ScarJo's in the MCU (which is to say it kind of makes me want to claw my eardrums out); Hackman, as much as I love him in things like Under Suspicion, is CLEARLY phoning it in for the paycheck (though I guess he sounds vaguely like a drunk uncle of mine, so I guess I can forgive him for at least working with a dialect coach); and it's 2022, so can we not with that Russian femme fatale bullshit already? As an immigrant and a child of immigrants, I had to grow up with that secret squirrel Boris and Natasha bullshit and am honestly really kind of tired how the only points of reference for whatever bits of my heritage communism hasn't destroyed are Bond's usually murderous flavor of the week, genocidal autocrats like Putin and Stalin, and, now, apparently this. I mean, I guess I can appreciate Robert Duvall's uncredited cameo, but that's kind of the only positive thing I can say about this movie.

Because everything new is old again, nonnie! :D And you know that fandom always likes an underdog--a cult classic, a cancelled TV series, a canon that's a hot mess with plot holes to be filled. And Goncharov is all holes! But seeing Goncharov trending in the year of our lord 2022 takes me back to the years of self-hosted websites and slash zines under the table--I probably have an old Goncharov zine lying around here somewhere if I could only lay my hands on it. I wonder if the old Clock Tower archive ever made it onto the AO3?

Tl;dr let people have their fun, nonnie--don't like, don't read!

#goncharov

[ralfmaximus]

The streamer announced that it’s adapting William Gibson’s seminal cyberpunk novel Neuromancer into a 10-episode series. Graham Roland (Lost, Jack Ryan) will serve as showrunner, while JD Dillard (Utopia) will direct the first episode. (Both will also be executive producers on the series.)

Huh. No word whether William Gibson is involved or not.

Keanu Reeves should have an uncredited cameo.

#neuromancer #cyberpunk #william gibson

[tyrantisterror]

Wizard School Mysteries: Book 1 Side Characters

Ok I'm 90% sure I've shared all of these sketches before but for funsies, let's look at some of the minor characters from book 1 of Wizard School Mysteries.

We'll start with the four elemental experts of the AAAM's teaching staff. While I generally use the four humors theory as, like, a surface level detail for my students, I tried to make the four teachers who specialize in the elements really live up to it, witch each teacher sporting the personality traits associated with the humor that corresponds to their elements. Lymf Splenik is a sadsack melancholic, Sulfrous Bladgal is cantankerous as befitting a choleric, Arturiel Haemoglobe is free-spirited and sanguine, and Mewcosa Glycocet is sweet but extremely emotional, as a phlegmatic should be.

Their names, of course, play on this too. Mewcosa is a play on Mucus, Sulfrous's last name, Bladgal, is a corruption of "Gall bladder," which makes yellow bile, Artery = Arturiel and Hemoglobin = Haemoglobe, and Lymf = lymph nodes while spenik is a corruption of "spleen," which makes black bile.

Professor Alys Evelina, teacher of Sorcery Studies, ends up serving as a secondary antagonist for books 1 and 2. Given how wild I went with making a lot of these side wizards explicitly monstrous, I decided to make Alys look excessively normal, even attractive, to not play into the "ugly = evil" trope. Don't read too much into the Alice in Wonderland motiff - while Alys and Alice both share a general disdain for things that are don't make sense to them, Alice Liddel is a much more likable character.

We don't get to see much of Alys's rival, Broomhilda Siegfried, but I still wanted to put some effort into her design anyway. She's meant to visually contrast Alys in the ways that Conjuration contrasts to Sorcery - notably, she's a lot shorter and hides her face, to go with the fact that Conjurers are kind of looked down upon by sorcerers. She's not keen on how her magic is viewed as the "lesser" of the two main ways to be a wizard.

They might not all get named, but we do see a lot of the non-educator staff in the first two books as well. Astrae Bygonn, the bugbear who runs the AAAM's Lost and Found, plays a pretty important role for how little screen time he gets. Esmer the gargoyle is named, while Quasi and Modo go uncredited in their roles as the two gargoyles working the school dance that starts the climax of Book 1. I think Ralda might only have showed up in book 2, but what the hell let's include her here anyway. And of course the janitorial homunculi are always on the fringers, being gloppy, helpful little guys maintaining all the school's functions.

Though they don't feature heavily in the story, both Ambrosio Medina (the alchemy professor) and Curdletongue (the prophecy professor) have named cameos in book 1, and they'll have slightly more important roles later on. Ambrosio is specifically meant to resemble Vincent Price, as I wanted him to have that charming yet slimy quality to him that Price so often brought to his roles.

I wanted the school to feel full, so I had my friends in the writers workshop discord I'm in pitch loose concepts for wizard students so I could have, like, a few dozen to pick from whenever I needed a background extra. Eventually we sorted them all loosely into the minor arcana of Tarot, and then expanded it to include some of the arcana from Minchiate, a card game very similar to Tarot that might be a parody of it? We were having fun making wizard students, what can I say.

Mugre Repellus was pitched by @bugcthulhu while Bartholomew Crawson was pitched by @dragonzzilla, and both of them went the extra mile to do some concept art too, which I adapted into these designs. They were two of the earliest spare wizard students we made, and we grew a bit attached to them - and since they both had claws on their arms, they were unofficially named "the claw gang" despite only having two members. Then, because it was fun, I made Shere Statchell to be their third member, the Jessie to their Team Rocket, and the Claw Gang became a sort of quirky trio who we kept making fun side stories for while working on the rest of the Spare Wizard Kids.

The joke was fun enough to keep going, to the point where I've made them recurring background extras and cameo characters in the series. What can I say, I love the Claw Gang.

Of course, another reason I needed a big ol' bucket of Spare Wizard students is that this is a mystery series, and mysteries need victims. I warned all my friends sending me pitches not to get too attached, because some of these kids were gonna die.

I'm a firm believer that a character's death should serve a purpose, though. You can kill a random one-off character for a gag, but if a character actually has, like, stuff going on, their death should have some weight to it. And book 2 needed at least one death that we felt - a side character who we liked enough to be sad to see go.

I picked Gabriev because his concept pitch - a wizard who also wants to be a chivalric knight - felt easy to make likable very quickly. Possibly a bit of personal bias - I'm a suck for knights in shining armor - but all you really need to do is make him nice and profess his desire to be a hero who goes out and does good, and suddenly that untimely death he's facing seems tragic.

Buuuut, if you do that too hurriedly, it'll be obvious he's set up to die - akin to having an old character say "I'm two days away from retirement" in a monster movie. Gabriev had to be seeded subtly, so audiences think he might have a future ahead of him.

So I put him in book 1, as a nice but not terribly prominent background extra in one of the main classes the kids attend in it, so readers might remember him and assume he's just a recurring extra like the Claw Gang. Ain't I devious?

Gabriev Zelgad's design and name is another Slayers reference. His armor is based on Gourry Gabriev (who is also obviously the source of his first name), and his last name is just another Slayers character, Zelgadis, without the "is." Like Gourry, he's a beautiful blond young man who's a bit of a ditz, and like Zelgadis, he suffers horribly tragedy.

Before I started the Spare Wizard Student project, I made a handful of supporting cast wizard students based on alternative names for various Major Arcana cards. Liam O'Sullivan here is based on The Lust, which is what Aleister Crowley renamed The Strength to in his Tarot deck, because of course he would, the horny old bastard. I initially didn't want to use that as a prompt because, like, what the fuck would that character end up being, WSM's take on Mineta? But then one of my friends joked I could just make him another take of the running gag I have in my TTRPG campaigns of introducing side characters who are deeply unflattering caricatures of myself that inexplicably end up in relationships with hot, terrifying goth women, and I smiled wickedly and said, "Oh you dumb bastard, that's canon now."

...which ended up being a godsend, because it gave me a way to introduce The Queen of Night, a minor character who's nonetheless important to book 1's mystery, as romancing her is the goal of the true antagonist. Sometimes torturing a specific part of your audience accidentally leads to a useful story beat.

Mr. Mackers is another minor fairy character who I wanted to use to show that Midgaheim does not work on the "Seelies = good fairies and Unseelies = bad fairies" trope, and also that it doesn't follow the "all fairies are explicitly evil eldritch horrors" trope that's becoming increasingly common as a "more true to the myths" approach. The mythic Nuckelavee is explicitly evil, to be fair, but not all fairies are, and I figured taking a fairy that's popular in internet culture for being so damn creepy and monstrous and having it be a relatively nice guy was a good way to subvert the modern expectations of what fairies should be - and try and stay true to the general mythological approach to fairies, which is that fairies are complex, not just good or evil.

Finally, we have good ol' Lornwig Kayjay, no relation to any children's book authors who decided to be figureheads for hategroups that specifically bully trans people. My rough concept for Lornwig was "that kid you get in at least one college class a semester who deliberately antagonizes the professor and every other student in class," because dear god you always get at least one class with a That Kid in it. The worst I ever endured was my class on Environmental Studies, because we had THREE That Kids in there. My second worst was the graduate class I took on Medieval Literature About Hell, because despite my best efforts, I was the That Kid of that class. It's a weird phenomenon.

As pre-writing chugged along and a certain children's book author became more prominently deranged, I decided Lornwig could get some theming outside of her role as a That Kid. And, you know, she's not the only That Kid I have planned. There's different flavors of That Kid, you know.

While Lornwig's role as a minor antagonist doesn't leave a lot of room for depth, I tried to give her a consistent philosophy behind her douchebaggery. She likes order and categorization, and things fitting into neat and tidy groups that you can sort into "Good" and "Bad" categories. That's a very human mindset - not a good one, but a very human one nonetheless. And she lives in a world of dangerous magical monsters, she does have some reasons to be scared and paranoid.

But mostly, she's That Kid.

Next time: minor characters of book 2!

#Wizard School Mysteries

[infochores]

Goncharov movie prop Mystery Hungarian SMG identified at last!)

Movie weapons buffs have thought that the gun seen at the conclusion of the shootout following the Anchovy scene in Scorsese’s Goncharov was some kind of variant on some sort of Sig SMG or similar mid century light calibre typewriter classic of the cold war, but recentl, Ian McCollum of Forgotten weapons has confirmed privately to a few intrepid movie prop sleuths that in fact, the weapon that Goncharov uses to kill Michailovs henchman ( an uncredited Alfred Molina cameo) is in fact the infamously rare Danuvia 53m:

As you can see, the Danuvia has some cursory similarities to the much more common Hungarian issued SMG Kucher K-1 which was used in the infamous flashback montage featuring Goncharovs uncles being murdered in a forest at the beginning of the movie , but is wildly different in other ways, as well as being much rarer, even at the time of production.

EDITING TO ADD: recently discovered that the guns that the hit team in the title sequence montage use to when fighting the Corsican Gendarmes at the docks are ALSO a hungarian model: the FEG-AP9, an interesting choice, as the filmmakers would probably have been made aware of its origins as a copy of the infamous Walther PPK. 

This MAY explain the cut line, previously thought inexplicable by most hardcore fans, where one henchman was originally scripted to have turned to the other and said “ Makes you feel like James Bond doesn’t it?” Immediately after shooting Captain Matthieu

#goncharov

[jedivoodoochile]

“My kids found a picture of me from (1985) with Eddie Van Halen, where I look 12, and he looks 14, and I thought, ‘What a cool life I’ve lived, where my kids can find a picture of me with Van Halen on the internet.’ It’s like looking back on footprints in the sand. LOOK WHERE I’VE BEEN.” --Michael J. Fox

Michael, of course, was the lead actor in the most successful movie of 1985, "Back To The Future". Eddie made a very cool "instrumental" contribution to that movie.

The concept of Back to the Future is that Marty McFly (played by a young Michael J. Fox) has traveled back in time to his own parents' adolescence and must engineer their meeting, or risk being erased from the future himself. To command his sci-fi obsessed father to ask his future mother out, Marty dresses as an alien and pays McFly senior a late-night visit. To prove his futuristic credential, he blasts his fathers' ears with a Sony Walkman loaded with a cassette marked "Edward Van Halen." And while this blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment could easily be chalked up to an homage, the bombastic music playing IS IN FACT a riff from Eddie.

The commentary from the DVD of the film fleshes out the backstory: The rest of Van Halen didn't want to be involved in Back to the Future, hence the tape couldn't legally say Van Halen, so they added the name "Edward" in a smaller typeface. The film also wasn't allowed to feature the band's music, but relied instead on a solo piece from Eddie. The exact authorship of the piece remained unclear until 2012 when Eddie confirmed to TMZ that it was him "just playing a bunch of noise." The "noise" was actually a musical piece composed by Eddie for the 1984 movie "The Wild Life" and is titled "Out The Window". It can be found on YouTube. Eddie wrote the entire musical score for that movie.

Music was a strong element throughout the Back to the Future trilogy–Huey Lewis plays a talent show judge, there's a running joke about Chuck Berry, Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers appears in both sequels, and ZZ Top sound tracked Back to the Future Part III. But it's Eddie Van Halen's brief instrumental cameo that has proven to be one of the MOST enduring moments. Not bad for an uncredited appearance where you don't even see the man in question!

#michael j fox #eddie van halen #back to the future

[citizenscreen]

John Huston directs his father Walter for the elder’s uncredited cameo in THE MALTESE FALCON (1941). This was John’s directorial debut and Walter wanted to be a part of it. The story goes Walter Huston promised Jack Warner he wouldn’t ask for money to appear in the film. #WB100

#john huston #walter huston #the maltese falcon #behind the scenes

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

BEHIND-THE-SCENES -- EASTER EGGS -- UNCREDITED CAMEOS -- TREKKIE EDITION.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on American filmmaker Brian Singer, director of the first three "X-MEN" live-action movies, on the set of "STAR TREK Nemesis" (2002) for an uncredited cameo appearance, pictured alongside TNG characters Data, Worf, Riker, and Picard.

And a happy Sci-fi Fri to all you real one's out there, and keep on Trekkin'.

Source: www.pinterest.com/pin/710654016181540373.

#STAR TREK #STAR TREK Nemesis #TNG #Brian Singer #Sci-fi #X-MEN #Riker #Filmmaking #Nemesis #Nemesis 2002 #STAR TREK Nemesis 2002 #American Style #Behind-the-Scenes #STAR TREK 2002 #STAR TREK: TNG #Sci-fi Fri #Sci-fi/Action #Science Fiction #USS Enterprise #Data #STAR TREK TNG #Filmmaker #Worf #Captain Picard #Photography #2002 #Film Director

[kvetchlandia]

Uncredited Photographer      Bridge Over Part of Echo Park Lake, Los Angeles     c.1928

There’s still a bridge in that spot in Echo Park, but the current one, which had a cameo in the film “Chinatown,” was built in 1948.

[retrosofa]

We got a lot of trivia for Cutie Honey episode 22: “Our Beloved Paradise Academy.”

Screenwriter: Masaki Tsuji

Art Director: Iwamitsu Ito

Animation Director: Shinya Takahashi

Director: Kazukiyo Shigeno

The animation director for this episode, Shinya Takahashi, has a history of working on Toei Animation’s early majokko series. He previously did the character designs for Himitsu no Akko-chan, Mahou no Mako-chan, Sarutobi Ecchan, and Mahoutsukai Chappy.

Takahashi would later do animation work for the 1995 PC-FX video game, Cutey Honey FX.

The principal of Paradise Academy is based on the grandfather from Go Nagai’s Kikkai-kun manga, which is also where the characters Alphonne and Pochi originated from. Kikkai-kun’s grandfather also served as the basis for the janitor Kiyohiko Todoroki in the Devilman anime.

The principal was voiced by Isamu Tanonaka, who had filled in for Keiko Yamamoto as Pochi in the previous episode. 

Goemon is based on Goemon Abashiri, the oldest son from the Abashiri Family manga. Goemon’s claim to fame is that he’s a “professional pervert.” Go Nagai’s assistant and good friend Ken Ishikawa was the model for Goemon. While he doesn’t appear in the original Cutie Honey manga, one of Honey’s (female) classmates is based on him. Goemon would make cameo appearances in New Cutey Honey, Re: Cutie Honey, and Cutie Honey Universe. 

Shunji Yamada (later known as Keaton Yamada) voiced Goemon in this episode only, while Sanji Hase played him for the remainder of the series. Hase was previously the King of Manaco in episode 16 and the occasional nameless Panther subordinate.

The “Yoshitune” that Danbei sings about is probably Minamoto no Yoshitsune, a military commander from the late Heian and early Kamakura periods.

Danbei’s “adorable nephew” Naojiro is another character borrowed from Go Nagai’s Abashiri Family. In that series, Naojiro was the second oldest son of the Abashiri family. His unique feature was being a cyborg.

In the original Cutie Honey manga Naojiro does not appear as Danbei’s nephew but instead as a girl named Naoko. Naoko is the gang leader of St. Chapel Academy, much like how Naojiro is the gang leader of Paradise Academy in the anime. According to producer Toshio Katsuta, he wanted to introduce Naojiro as a good contrast to Honey, unlike Seiji who he said was “silly and weak.” 

In this episode only, Naojiro was voiced by Hiroshi Masuoka, who previously voiced Demon General Zannin in Devilman and Hebitsubo in Dororon Enma-kun. For the remainder of the series Naojiro is voiced by an uncredited Shoji Nishizaki, who mostly did voice work in tokusatsu series. 

Naojiro would later make a cameo appearance in the second episode of New Cutey Honey.

While Paradise Academy does not appear in the original Cutie Honey manga, it is very much inspired by Go Nagai’s infamous manga, Harenchi Gakuen. Before he was reinventing the concept of magical girls and giant robots, Go Nagai was stirring up controversy with this 1968 series. Harenchi Gakuen or “Shameless Academy” was one of the first manga to be featured in the popular Weekly Shonen Jump. It featured ridiculous Benny Hill-like antics, excessive nudity, lowbrow toilet humor, crucifixion scenes played for laughs and made a mockery of the Japanese school system. There was such outage towards Harenchi Gakuen, PTA groups actually performed public burnings of the manga. Despite the controversies, Harenchi was immensely popular, which led to live action TV series and films. 

Paradise Academy’s name comes from the Abashiri Family manga. Originally, Paradise Academy was a prison-like middle school for aspiring young assassins and served as the setting for an early arc in the manga. A few of Naojiro’s classmates seen in this episode are taken directly from the Abashiri Family manga as well.

While attempting to evade Naojiro, Honey transforms into members of the baseball club, wrestling club and boxing club. As a boxer, she is only wearing shorts, shoes and boxing gloves. This is exactly how Kikunosuke dresses when she practices boxing in the Abashiri Family manga.

The self-proclaimed “Magician of Hell” was originally designed by Ken Ishikawa, who had her sporting more obvious magician motifs such as a giant top hat and bow tie. The “Great” in her name likely refers to a magician’s title.

Great Claw controlling Naojiro’s comrades with spider-like threads is possibly a reference to the Devilman manga. There are a couple of chapters involving a spider-like demon who controls the students of Nakado Academy and forces them to attack Akira and Miki. There is also an episode of the Devilman TV series which features a demon who controls human-like mannequins with spider threads.

This is also the only episode to not feature Panther Zora or Sister Jill.

That's all for episode 22!

#cutie honey #cutey honey #go nagai #trivia