#Film Guide

[jaynaneeya]

Raise a glass to Mary Kate Wiles!

Happy Birthday, MK!!! I hope you feel particularly loved and appreciated and celebrated today and all year. Thank you for working so hard to bring wonderful stories to life, and for being the wonderful human you are <3

#mary kate wiles #happy birthday mk #shipwrecked comedy #tin can bros #friends til the end #it's not you it's me music video #shipwrecked plays dnd #how to be a ghost #i ship it film #shipwrecked makes a noir #tin can job interview #spies are forever #headless series #wayward guide #cardboard sean #krystina arielle #sinead persaud #parissa koo #sean persaud #tessa netting #esther fallick #joanna sotomura

[saraharchivee]

favorite trope, for sure

#pip and ravi #agggtm #a good girls guide to murder #friends to lovers #partners in crime #ravi singh #pippa fitz amobi #holly jackson #books #aesthetic #quotes #daily life #life quotes #books and literature #books and reading #reading #book to film #book to tv

[writingwithfolklore]

A Quick Guide on POVs and Tenses

First person

First person perspective uses I/my and typically also accompanies present tense:

"I walk over to see what’s happening"

However, it can be used with any tense. It is the closest you can get to the character—it tends to have unfiltered access to their thoughts, feelings, ideas, memories, etc. and is the most intimate. It goes great for stories that want to stay ‘in the moment’ and rely on lots of internal dialogue.

2. Second person

Probably the least common—I’ve only ever seen it in fanfic and maybe a choose-your-own-adventure novel or two. This perspective uses you/your, and also tends to go with present tense.

                “You walk over to the stall and survey the goods.”

It’s a really unique way of telling a story that brings the reader the closest to the action—however, it doesn’t have a lot of room for character development as it relies on fitting anyone who is reading it, leaving the POV ‘character’ a shell to be filled by the reader rather than its own character.

3. Third person omniscient

Third person perspectives are outside of the character. Typically they are joined with past-tense. They use pronouns he/she/they/his/hers/theirs, etc.

'Omniscient' means this narrator has full access to the knowledge of the narrative, as well as all the characters in it. It is a bit of an uncommon perspective, as it means the narrator can and will easily “head-hop” which can be a difficult technique to do well.

                “He inhaled, staring icy daggers at Kate across from him. She knew instantly she had said the wrong thing, but had no idea how to take it back.”

                (Notice how we’re both in the male character’s head, as well as Kate’s.)

                This perspective keeps the readers at a distance, but allows them access to every character in the story. Beware, it can be difficult to build tension or keep secrets when using this perspective!

4. Third person limited/subjective

This perspective is probably the most common and my personal favourite. It has the same rules for third person, but instead of the narrator having full access to all the information, they only have access to the information the character they are following knows, or the thoughts/feelings they are having.

                “He inhaled, staring icy daggers at Kate across from him. She had said the wrong thing, and now just looked back at him with big eyes, her mouth agape as she hesitated on what to say next.”

                (Notice how in this example, Kate’s thoughts are only guessed at from our character’s POV. He doesn’t actually know what’s going on in her head, so neither does our narrator)

                Third person limited is probably the most popular because it is really effective at being a very invisible way of telling story. As well, it’s great for building tension, keeping secrets, and can explore unique character perspective and miscommunication.

Tenses:

Present tense

Things are happening right now.

“I begin my walk to the store.”

“He says as he steps through the gate.”

“You follow a long path through the trees.”

2. Past tense

Things already happened.

“I began my walk to the store.”

“He said as he stepped through the gate.”

“You followed a long path through the trees.”

3. Future tense

Things will happen—things to come.

“I would begin my walk to the store.”

“He will say, stepping through the gate.”

“You will follow a long path through the trees.”

#writing #writers #writing tips #writing advice #writing inspiration #creative writing #writing community #books #film #filmmaking #screenwriting #novel writing #fanfiction #writeblr #povs and tenses #guide #character perspective

[20th-century-man]

Inger Stevens / during production of Gene Kelly’s A Guide for the Married Man (1967)

#Inger Stevens #A Guide for the Married Man #Gene Kelly #1967 #film #1960s

[driveintheaterofthemind]

R.I.P. Angela Lansbury (1925-2022)

#Angela Lansbury #RIP #Film #Television #Theater #Murder She Wrote #Sweeney Todd #Comics #Movie Love #Women Of Film #Vintage #Mutiny #TV Guide #Magazines

[tainebot01]

Another Ace Attorney animatic, this time inspired by a video by @arcticflakes here!

#my art #ace attorney #sebastian debeste #yumihiko ichiyanagi #miles edgeworth #ace attorney investigations #aai2 #aai2 spoilers #spoilers kinda? #all it really spoils is that Seb ends up back at law school #but I’ll tag it anyway just in case #Kay’s filming this all go down #the world needs more AAI2 animatics #especially with Seb #used the Themis Law Academy bg from DD because I wasnt feeling confident in my background skills #but I at least added some nice colours :) #also used the official sprites as reference for the poses #except for the last 4 Miles poses #because the sprites don’t really convey the emotions I wanted #namely: #Slight Amusement #Concerned Intrigue #Captain Picard levels of exhaustion #and Outright Discombobulation #respectively #not really sure how to write an image ID for a video - will try look up a guide? #I crammed to finish this on April fools and just got it done 30 minutes before midnight #and here I am uploading it on April 2 #so I guess I’m the fool here #Youtube

[clarencerambles]

i cannot be the only person who immediately thought of the hospital scene in the hbo tlou show when nadja was going to save guillermo. maybe it’s the film student in me but like…

the camera following a character making their way down the hall of a dingy hospital, taking people out to get to a person they care about. the person lying there in a hospital gown, about to be killed by a doctor for a greater good. the doctor holding out a sharp medical instrument, exclaiming “you can’t have him/her.” and both nadja and joel saving their found family by taking out a doctor, even though it means keeping a huge secret related to their loved one.

#THAT’S PERFECT CINEMA #wwdits spoilers #wwdits #what we do in the shadows #what we do in the shadows fx #guillermo de la cruz #nadja of antipaxos #the last of us #tlou #joel miller #ellie williams #hbo #film #nandor the relentless #lazslo cravensworth #colin robinson #the guide

[reluctantjoe]

‘Baddies are my new type’: Mathew Baynton on Ghosts, Wonka and wicked villains

He is about to say goodbye to his role in beloved spectral sitcom Ghosts. But dastardly turns in Wonka and the a festive Agatha Christie drama suggest the actor’s future is bright – if somewhat nefarious

“I feel like I’m moving into really wanky territory now,” says Mathew Baynton, looking a little anxious. We are talking about Ghosts, the much-loved comedy about a gaggle of spirits consigned to spend the afterlife in a crumbling country mansion, which Baynton co-writes and in which he plays a deceased Regency poet. After a triumphant five seasons, Ghosts officially breathed its last in October – except there’s now a Christmas episode on its way. (Last year’s Christmas special drew 5.9 million viewers, making it the BBC’s biggest comedy of 2022.)

When I ask Baynton what it is about Ghosts that struck a chord with viewers, he worries he might sound pretentious. “But here goes,” he says. “I have learned that, as a writer, you don’t always know what you’re writing. There are the quite boring times where you have an idea and it comes out as you imagined, and there’s no mystery in that process. But when it’s exciting, you have an idea and it leads you to places you don’t expect.”

With Ghosts, he and his co-writers initially imagined hundreds of spirits haunting Button House, which would have allowed them to tell different stories with a new set of characters each week. “But when we looked at the taster tape we made, we all went: ‘Hang on, there’s something much richer here,’” Baynton continues. “We realised it was a show about people being stuck together, potentially in eternity, and how they find ways to get along. All of which is to say that I’m enamoured with Ghosts too because, right from the get-go, we had absolutely no idea what it would become.”

Baynton, who is 43, is talking from his study at home in north London where he lives with his partner, the film historian and film-maker Kelly Robinson, and their two children. He is self-effacing and thoughtful, choosing his words carefully and, at intervals, wondering if he could be expressing himself better. “I think it’s partly the writer in me,” he says, “but I do come away from conversations thinking how I’d like to rewrite things I’ve said.”

As an actor, Baynton has cornered the market in ultra-sensitive men who walk a fine line between pathos and silliness. Along with his lovelorn poet in Ghosts, there was his turn as a Victorian psychiatrist in 2017’s Quacks, who masterminds a new treatment for patients called “talking”; his lute-playing bard in the 2015 film Bill, about the early life of Shakespeare (“London is not going to know what hit it!”); and good Samaritan Sam in The Wrong Mans (2013-14), which he co-wrote and starred in alongside James Corden.

But this winter heralds a new set of projects that Baynton has dubbed “my Christmas of villainy”. In Murder Is Easy, based on the Agatha Christie novel about a spate of killings in a sleepy English village, he plays a doctor who, he says, “is an awful person with some very awful views”. Next year brings A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, based on Holly Jackson’s bestselling YA novel, in which a young true-crime enthusiast investigates a five-year-old murder case; Baynton can’t reveal too much, although he confirms his character is a far cry from the puppy-eyed romantics for which he is known. And in the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory prequel, Wonka, released in cinemas earlier this month, he plays the devious Fickelgruber, Wonka’s Brylcreemed rival in the confectionery business.

Baynton can’t account for this sudden pivot into treachery beyond the fact that “a few [casting directors] had the same idea at the same time … Acting is strange like that. You do one notable thing early on and you are put on a track that for 10 years that can be hard to get off. Perhaps baddies are my new type.”

Wonka was co-written by his friend and Ghosts compadre Simon Farnaby (who also co-wrote Paddington 2) and was filmed at Warner Bros Studios in Hertfordshire. For Baynton, it “felt like you were with the same kids but in a plush playground … Even though you’re working with this huge Hollywood star [Timothée Chalamet, who plays Wonka] and you’re on a set that probably cost the same as an entire series of Ghosts, it’s still a comedy with a big heart, so for me it felt like home.”

Baynton and Farnaby first came together on the set of Horrible Histories, the anarchic children’s sketch show that recreated history’s most ludicrous and bloodthirsty moments, alongside Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond. Shortly after it finished its decade-long run, the six of them wrote the madcap puppet comedy Yonderland, largely because “we couldn’t bear that we weren’t going to get together for more mucking about in front of the camera”. This was followed by Bill, and, four years later, Ghosts. They have even given themselves the collective name Them There, mostly for production credits, though “no one actually calls us that”. Aren’t they more Britcom’s answer to the Brat Pack? “I don’t know about that,” Baynton says, bashfully, “though it depends on which of them you think I am.”

The youngest of three children, Baynton grew up in Southend on a diet of sea air and his dad’s Monty Python cassettes. He reckons being lowest in the pecking order at home contributed to his desire to perform and be noticed. In his teens, he went through a morose period during which he was overtaken by self-consciousness, but then he discovered theatre via a production of Bruno Schulz’s The Street of Crocodiles by Theatre de Complicité “which moved me to tears in ways I couldn’t understand and ignited something in me. I knew I wanted to be in that world in some way.”

Baynton went on to drama school, where he studied directing, but when he got there he realised acting was his calling. He spent a summer as assistant to Cal McCrystal, then director of the physical theatre group Peepolykus, who pushed him to join in with improv games. Later he went to Paris to study under the renowned clown Philippe Gaulier, which cemented his love of slapstick. Upon returning home, McCrystal gave him his first break on the stage in a production of Joe Orton’s Loot.

But it was Horrible Histories that really opened doors for Baynton, both as an actor and writer. On being offered the job, he nearly turned it down, fearing that he might get stuck doing nothing but children’s TV, but his agent persuaded him to take the job by telling him: “No one will see it.” In a talk last year at the Oxford Union, Baynton remarked how, were they making it today, they would do certain things differently, such as not using white actors in tanning makeup to portray Egyptians.

“I think it’s important that we examine where the line is [around portrayals of other cultures],” he says now. “It’s a murky area where intention sometimes doesn’t match reception. Certainly, no one had bad intentions making Horrible Histories and none of us at that time, in the culture as it was, hesitated and thought: ‘Hang on, maybe I shouldn’t play an Egyptian.’ But times have changed and I would hesitate now.”

If the odd Horrible Histories sketch hasn’t aged well, it is worth observing the sensitivity and inclusivity that runs through Ghosts. Baynton notes how throwing together characters from different historical periods allowed them to “highlight wrongful attitudes and interrogate how they had arrived at them. At one point, there’s a gay wedding at Button House and [the ghost of] Lady Button is appalled and goes on this journey in which she faces her own homophobia. When we were writing that story, it felt like I was having a conversation with my homophobic nan.”

Baynton is content moving between acting and writing, not least because “if I’m between acting jobs, it means I get to dream up new projects for myself and my friends”. Keen to avoid any signs of egotism as his career soars, Baynton keeps his feet on the ground by recalling the “pure dystopian hell” of his time as a school leaver working in a call centre. There, every second of the day was monitored and he was once upbraided by a manager for taking too many toilet breaks. “So when I’m on set in a scratchy costume or I’m feeling a bit tired and thinking what a terrible time I’m having,” he says, “I remember that time, and what a privilege it is do what I do.”

#mathew baynton #mat baynton #the guardian #bbc ghosts #murder is easy #a good girl's guide to murder #a good girls guide to murder #agggtm #wonka #wonka 2023 #wonka movie #wonka promo #wonka (2023) #wonka film #horrible histories #6 idiots #six idiots #the six idiots #themthere #them there #murder is easy spoilers #a good girl's guide to murder spoilers #a good girls guide to murder spoilers #agggtm spoilers #rj: interview #rj: the guardian #rj: mathew baynton #rj: 2023 #Youtube

[ahaura]

The Thing (1982) dir. John Carpenter

via imbd

#the thing #the thing 1982 #john carpenter #film posters #posters #movie posters #**p #** #geroya #derelictship #i had to include the tv guide/vhs-esque ad theres smth abt it that so...!

[hannibalismos-jaaneman]

the sole and devastating problem with monkey man is that it will literally never be able to push past the people who think the concept of the film disrespects hanuman ji to be exposed in an environment where people see it for more than its name.

#raj shitposting #my mother ACTUALLY asked me why the film took hanuman ji as the monkey god to drive the plot when there are monkey gods everywhere. #i was so shocked because wtf all those monkey gods are literally based on hanuman ji besides this is a film about an indian man. #she still thought that it was just disrespecting hinduism so i didn't let her watch past the scene with lucky in the tavern. #like i don't think indians have the tolerance or the right etiquettes to watch this film at all. #which is why i am starting to feel glad it was never released here. indians saale hain hi adipurush ke layak mcbc. #inn logo ko bhakti do to uski batti banakar filmmaker ki hi gaand mein ghusedna chayenge. #inhe violence do to kahenge humare bhagwaan aese nahi the tum log humare bhagwan ka mazak uda rahe ho. #saala chahate kya ho? #tum log behenchod adipurush dekho aur har acchi cheez ko ban hone do. #people view religion as blind devotion rather than something that allows you to connect yourself to your gods. #they don't believe their gods could make mistakes. and they sure don't believe for a goddamn second that their god could be wrong. #i am not saying monkey man is about proving god wrong because it FUCKING ISN'T. #it's about a boy who clung to a story his mother told him as a child in hopes of finding her in the ugly face of the world. #something that would allow him to keep going because that's what hanuman ji would've done. that what his mother would've wanted. #like stop this absolute crap nonsense guys this film does not call the kid hanuman it literally invokes his image to inspire the kid. #HANUMAN JI IS WHAT IS HELPING THE KID FIGHT THIS WAR WITH HIMSELF AND THE WORLD. #he's literally like the krishna to the kid's arjun. he's a guide who talks through the kid's past through his mother's voice. #tum log bajrangi bhaijaan hi dekhlo bhai tumhare andar yeh picture hazam karna ka guda nahi hai. #monkey man #dev patel

[livingfast04]

Au where Steve and Eddie buy their first house- no longer renters actually buy it. It's a great little place, pretty cheap. Needs some Love. It's a four bed room three and a half bathrooms. No upstairs because Steve's not great with Stairs. It's on like at least 3 acers of land. It's not very big despite the amount of rooms- perfect for them. They don't realize until afterwards that, they also inherit a Feral Cat Colony.

That's it- that's the whole au- Just Steve and Eddie taking care of a Feral Cat colony. They name all of them- and take in Kittens to be fostered and adopted. They get all of them their shots. They take the older cats to get fixed as well.

It does piss Eddie off when people start dumping their unwanted cats on the property- not because he and Steve don't want more cats (or can't pay to take care of them) because one- it's so incredibly irresponsible take them to the Shelter!! Or knock on their fucking door. And, not only that- It upsets Steve, a lot. People just abandoning living creatures is a very sore spot for his Beloved, and Eddie will not stand for it.

The older cats that are super friendly in the Colony eventually make their way into living in the house.

(They also own a bookshop in town that has shop cats-)

#steddie #steve x eddie #steveddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #they so would tho #it's their cat colony now #Eddie is incharge of naming all of them #So they are named after just nerd things #Steve takes pictures and spends way too much money on camera film #they have a name guide too! #liv is losing their mind #They are 100% known as the crazy cat people #neither of them mind #those are their kids damnit

[assortedvillainvault]

If you don’t mind can I request a headcannon of pitch black dating a human reader would be like

Oh absolutely, I love this dramatic bastard so much it's unnreal.

Pitch Black x Human Reader Headcannons

Pitch is... testy.

Not on a concious level, but it's a twofold reason for this relationship to not be the smoothest, at least at first.

On a personal level - he's not been vulnerable, genuine or just alone without the intention of frightening someone for literal centuries. It's hard for him to put down his paranoia, his mind games, his need to remain untouchable and one step ahead.

As such - snarky bastard. He loves to play little games: sing- songing that he knows something you don't, putting things onto high shelves just for fun and liking to startle you by appearing silently and waiting for you to notice him.

It's fun, but it can lead to you feeling like you're on uneven ground, and you will need to push him to recognise the effect he's having on your relationship. Doing this without convincing him that you're sick of him already will be hard, as this entire approach is indicative of his own fear of rejection and failure.

The second reason, and one that took you some deep talks with the other guardians to realise, is that Pitch literally embodies an archetype in fiction, most commonly shown as an antagonist, but at it's core is The Challenge.

Pitch, for literally thousands of years, has been The Challenge to anyone who encounters him. The threat to be recognised, heeded and conquered. He's the third act, the test for every hero, the insurmountable odds meant to test your mettle and prove yourself.

Pitch's whole being is teaching and testing people to grow. And growing is painful, and scary, and necessary for change.

Whether he realises it or not, Pitch is pushing you to be better by acting out so you will Call Him On His Bullshit. He pushes your boundaries and smiles when you plant your feet and set them harder. He teases you for staying in your comfort zone so you'll defy him and try something new to prove him wrong. He wants to see you grow more than he wants to see you wither, which is rare for Pitch.

On the flip side, you literally have the monster on your side. The darkness and everything that resides in it is now your friend. You can walk in the darkness confident that you won't be hurt, because the master of those shadows has his eye on you and his scythe at the ready.

Aside from all that, you've noticed Pitch's role has left him critically fumbling in one aspect of your relationship.

He has no idea how to respond to physical affection. Like. None. He craves it so badly he doesn't even know what to do once he has it aside from cling.

So now it's your turn to make a game of it! Touch him as much as possible. Hug him, hold his hand, pull his gangly ass down onto the sofa and ruin his hair. His protests will barely make it out before he's melting into a goey pile of shadows and sand.

You can bribe the nightmares with sugar and cookies. They will also eat creepy crawlies from inside your house, which is nice.

Pitch will sometimes convince them to release said creepy crawlies into your shower. Your soap throwing skills are now legendary.

#thalassa responds #pitch black x reader #rotg pitch black #x reader #god I have Feelings about Pitch's wider role in a world that creates physical manifestations of emotions as guides for humanity #fear has been part of us as a species since the year dot and they way the film depicts the fight against Pitch intrigues #and infuriates me #anyway #hope you liked these and thank you for the ask!

[lisamarie-vee]

#vintage magazine #hbo guide #al pacino #actors #dog day afternoon #1970s #film

[boilingcowboy]

I KNOW WHAT SCENE THAT IS I KNOW WHAT SCENE THAT IS I KNOE WHAT SCENE THAT IS I KNOW WHAT SCENE THAT IS I KNOW WHAT SCENE THAT IS I KNOW WHATS HAPPENING I KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING (pretend I am jumping up and down like a ball for full effect)

#also whoever had the idea to give us these behind the scene film pics #just know I am kissing you on the mouth #I am writing a ten page declaration of my love #cus I am loving these #fuck a trailer this is all I need #agggtm #pip and ravi #a good girls guide to murder #pippa fitz amobi #ravi singh

[pharawee]

Bake Me Please (which for some reason does not have a mdl page yet) starring Ohm Thitiwat, Guide Kantapon (IFYLITA), Prame Nopanut (Love Puzzle), Atom Nathaphop (7 Days Before Valentine) and Poom Phuripan will release 19 November on gagaoolala. Apparently it's going to be a miniseries about (lmao) people who love baking but the teaser is literally just about them looking pretty in black and white so we'll see.

#bake me please the series #bake me please #ohm thitiwat #guide kantapon #prame nopanut #atom nathaphop #poom phuripan #jane watches stuff #thai bl #thank u gaga i owe u my life🙏 #this sure looks pretty and the cast is stellar #also i didn't think i'd see ohm in a bl again #i'm really curious and excited about his chemistry with (i'm assuming) guide #also with this out of the way hopefully love puzzle can start filming soon🙏

[driveintheaterofthemind]

Partners In Crime (1984)

Lynda Carter And Lonnie Anderson

#Television #Partners In Crime #Lynda Carter #Lonnie Anderson #Women Of Film #Women #Crime #Vanessa Williams #TV #Film #TV Guide #Advertising #Ads #1984 #1980s #80s #NBC