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hjbirthdaywishes · 3 days

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April 24, 2024

Happy 60 Birthday to Djimon Hounsou.

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pensiveday · 2 years

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Subject: Barbatos (Barb) Art: Kam @hello-archivist Writing: Reid (Solen) (ID: A page titled ‘Barbatos (Barb)’ containing multiple illustrations. In the center is an illustration of Barb, a devil with broken horns and bandages over his eyes. Blood is dripping from the bandages. He has short hair and a scruffy goatee, and is wearing a bellhop uniform. the sleeves of the uniform are decorated with hearts and diamonds and cards are tucked up each sleeve. The text to the side of his right arm says “ace of spades” and the label on the left says “king of diamonds”. In the upper left there is an illustration of three cards, labeled ‘Personal Cards’. The top is the Ace of Pines, with an illustration of a black pine tree covered in red eyes. The bottom left is the Six of Shadows, which shows a silhouetted Night Gaunt in front of the full moon, over a forest of black pines with eyes. The bottom right is the Eight of Masks, which shows two masks positioned to mirror each other vertically. The top mask is a white mask with two red eyes, the bottom is a black mask with red eyes all over. the masks share a set of fangs, and are shaped like dog faces. In the upper right there is a key with a red diamond-shaped fob. The writing on the fob says ‘Room 17 The Resting Place’. The drawing is labeled ‘Proprietor of the Resting Place Hotel. Location: The Hallowoods’ There is a slightly crumpled note taped into the bottom left corner of the page which says *Advise agains making deals with during a game of cards*. The text is underlined emphatically.

The second page is written in blocky, all-caps handwriting, titled ‘Barbatos (Barb) followed by the below text: Dangerous? Uncertain (not enough information to tell quite yet) Sentient? Full sentience- can be reasoned with

Values: creature comforts (high end whiskey, good music, cigarettes, a comfortable bed)The success of the resting place (takes his responsibilities as proprietor very seriously. He's a very gracious host - but if you gamble with him, just be careful not to put more on the table than you're willing to part with) Cares about his friends (seems close with the countess and the diamond rider in particular)

Encounter location: the resting place hotel (see previous entry)

Description: a man (not quite sure what he is - requires further investigation) of about average size. Wears a stereotypical bellhop uniform, hat and all. He keeps a gauze bandage over his eyes which seemed to be bleeding through my entire visit to the resting place (might never stop?). Has two broken horns on his head that look to be constantly on fire.

Abilities: very good at cards (a bit too good. I've played my share of poker games in my time, and there's no way anyone would be that lucky without manipulating the cards at least a little). He's not able to see in a traditional sense, but he's gotta have some alternate vision if he's able to recognize the cards in his hand. Based on that and the flaming horns, I’d assume he'd have some sort of other abilities as well, but I hadn't seen evidence of them in the short time I was there.

Connections: The Countess, the Diamond Hound and the Diamond Rider (calls him Dimes), the Quilt, Mx Morell, Zorgelleck, Ricou (seems to have found his way out of his contract. Good for him) Many of the sentient (and partially sentient) creatures of the Hallowoods can be found here at some point or another. Barb claims to know everyone in this neck of the woods, although I reckon that's a bit of an exaggeration.)

#pensive day 2022 zine #hello from the hallowoods #hfth #hfth podcast

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ormymarius · 1 year

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#counting them as obscure characters bc most of them are original characters for the movie or they didn’t have much screentime #running out of aquaman polls to do but I’m curious lol

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zootycutieart · 2 years

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So I had the itch to make some new MotU OCs, and wanted to make some related to other characters, and thus siblings for Mer-Man were created, purely out of him being ousted as ruler. This, combined with an outside-MotU character I headcanon as their father, led to this idea. Gillor Real name: Ricou Rex Current heir of the seas! Having Mer-Man as heir of the seas has become a liability for the Aquatican court. Not long after Mer-Man's ousting as king, a new child was born to the House of Rex. Around the same age as Adam and Teela, Gillor has found himself as a young king of the seas. Attempting to patch up the damage his hardly-met older brother has caused has been a feat, especially since he's pretty unsure of his abilities, despite his chipper personality. His strongest ability lets him dive to the furthest depths of waters, no matter the darkness, waves, pressure, or currents. This has helped make him useful at helping explore and map out thought-to-be unchartable areas of the sea. Shella Real name: Megowan Rex Ambassador of the seas! Born so far past Mer-Man's outing that she never even met her eldest brother, Shella has managed to prove herself as more than just a "backup heir". Despite a pessimistic look often on her face, she is surprisingly cordial and open to communication, another key element in patching up the damage that Mer-Man caused. Thanks to her combination of smaller stature paired with a larger body, she is much more cold-resistant than the mainly-tropical other Aquaticans. As such, she is able to withstand polar waters, another boon towards creating new allies of the seas.

#zootycutie's art #masters of the universe #own characters #fan characters #mer-man #gillor #shella

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voyevoda-thejoy · 3 years

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#Aquaman #Ocean Master #Orm Marius #Patrick Wilson #King Ricou #Djimon Hounsou #dc #dceu #my gifs #myedit #aquamanedit #dcedit #dceuedit #movies

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tawneybel · 3 years

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Mermen Characters

Note: To celebrate MerMay. This list is includes ones based on cephalopods, coral, crustaceans, pinnipeds, seaweed, etc. Basically any type of fishy or marine life humanoid. (Or water life in general.) I plan to update this. Be free to suggest more!

Atlan from Aquaman

Brine King from Aquaman

Arthur Curry from Aquaman

Orm Marius from Aquaman

Murk from Aquaman

Nereus from Aquaman

Trench from Aquaman

Vulko from Aquaman

Ricou from Aquaman

the Deep from The Boys

Sean Dwyer from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Dodd McAlvy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Gage Petronzi from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Cameron Walker from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Merman from The Cabin in the Woods

Kraken from Clash of the Titans 1981

Kraken from Clash of the Titans 2010

Gill-man from The Creature from the Black Lagoon

the Creature from Marco Polo (Crypt TV)

various from Dagon

Logan Cobb from Grimm

Anton Cole from Grimm

Dominic from Grimm

Stetson Donovan from Grimm

Abel Mahario from Grimm

Timothy Perkal from Grimm

Baron Samedi from Grimm

Ryan Smulson from Grimm

Victor Krum from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Abe Sapien from Hell Boy

various from Humanoids from the Deep

Henry Limpet from The Incredible Mr. Limpet

Old Gregg from The Mighty Boosh

Commander Crayfish from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

Fang from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Added 3/18/2022.)

Goo Fish from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

Jellyfish Monster from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

Octophantom from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

Oysterizer from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

Pineoctopus from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

Pirantishead from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

Slippery Shark from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

TurbanShell from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Added 1/9/2022.)

Knifehead from Pacific Rim

Slattern from Pacific Rim

Scunner from Pacific Rim

Angler from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Clanker from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Crash from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Greenbeard from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Hadras from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Koleniko from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Jimmy Legs from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Maccus from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Morey from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Ogilvey from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Palifico from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Penrod from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Quittance from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Two Head from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Spikeballs from Power Rangers Dino Charge

Bogshell from Power Rangers Dino Fury

Brineblast from Power Rangers Dino Fury

Fogshell from Power Rangers Dino Fury (Added 1/9/2022.)

Loafer from Power Rangers Dino Super Charge (Added 1/9/2022.)

Mad Mackerel from Power Rangers Dino Thunder

Megalador from Power Rangers Dino Thunder

Angler Fish Rinshi from Power Rangers Jungle Fury

Crustaceo from Power Rangers Jungle Fury

Master Finn from Power Rangers Jungle Fury

Slickagon from Power Rangers Jungle Fury

Chillyfish from Power Rangers Lost Galaxy

Destruxo from Power Rangers Lost Galaxy

Fishface from Power Rangers Lost Galaxy

Green Shark from Power Rangers Lost Galaxy

Mutantrum from Power Rangers Lost Galaxy

Radster from Power Rangers Lost Galaxy

Red Shark from Power Rangers Lost Galaxy

Samuron from Power Rangers Lost Galaxy

Starcog from Power Rangers Lost Galaxy

Teksa from Power Rangers Lost Galaxy

Wisewizard from Power Rangers Lost Galaxy

Skyfish from Power Rangers Megaforce

Clawbster from Power Rangers Mystic Force

Sculpin from Power Rangers Mystic Force

Tentacreep from Power Rangers Ninja Storm

Vexacus from Power Rangers Ninja Storm

Clawhammer from Power Rangers in Space

Coralizer from Power Rangers in Space

Crocotoxes from Power Rangers in Space

Jakarak from Power Rangers in Space

Manta Menace from Power Rangers in Space

Seymour from Power Rangers in Space

Double Tone from Power Rangers Samurai

Octoroo from Power Rangers Samurai

Crabhead from Power Rangers S.P.D. (Added 1/9/2022.)

Spiketor from Power Rangers S.P.D. (Added 1/9/2022.)

Invidious from Power Rangers Super Megaforce

Tranceferer from Power Rangers Super Megaforce

Fatcatfish from Power Rangers Time Force (Added 1/9/2022.)

Izout from Power Rangers Time Force (Added 1/9/2022.)

Klawlox from Power Rangers Time Force (Added 1/9/2022.)

Tentaclaw from Power Rangers Time Force

Staroid from Power Rangers Zeo

Lonny from R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour: The Series (“Pool Shark”)

Amphibian Man from The Shape of Water

Gial Ackbar from Star Wars

Donovan Donati from Teen Wolf (He has lamprey mouths on his hands. It counts, darn it.)

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cas-kingdom · 3 years

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Can you do Ricou x reader from aqua man he's the fisherman king please if you have time

I'm not accepting requests

#ask

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thornfield13713 · 5 years

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Prince Orm thoughts/headcanons?

For E37? Ok.

I’m still developing my Orm Thoughts, and most of them are drawing off the movie to some extent, but here’s the rough synopsis.

Orm is not his father’s son. Well, he is, biologically speaking, but not in any other sense. Orm would never admit this, and if asked he would define himself as King Orvax’s son before he mentioned anything else about himself. And a lot of that has to do with his upbringing. Orvax Marius was, put simply, a brute. He was passionately jealous, self-obsessed, cruel, and could never bear the thought that he was not the centre of everyone in his life’s world. He would not even allow married servants in the palace, because everyone in Orvax’s service must put him above and before all else, and damn anything else in their lives. That Atlanna did not worship him, and had had another lover before they married, was to him a crime terrible enough to warrant only the most terrible of punishments even before he was given legal grounds to enact said punishment when he discovered Arthur’s existence. It did not matter that Orvax did not love Atlanna. She was his wife, his consort, and he was not the most important thing in her world. That was a personal insult, and his pride would never allow such a state of affairs to stand.

Orm grew up with this. He grew up with a father who must be the first and most important thing in the world for everyone in his life, and a mother who loved him fiercely, but was not often allowed to see him after he had been weaned. Orvax could not even bear the thought of Atlanna loving her son more than him, or Orm loving his mother more than his father, and so took steps to ensure that mother and son were only very rarely allowed to spend time alone together. From his mother, on those rare occasions that they were permitted to spend time together unobserved, Orm heard stories about the surface worlds - about dogs, and snow, and the first time she ventured into a human town, and the family she had left behind her. She used to promise he’d see them himself one day, although he didn’t figure out until years later that she was always planning to run back to her family on the surface, taking Orm with her. From his father, he learnt other things. Orvax did not want a son so much as he wanted a kind of echo of himself, the best parts of himself. Anything that did not fall in line with that desire had to be eliminated, and he was ruthless about that. And so Orm must be a warrior. Orm must be the perfect pure-blood Atlantean. Orm must live up to all his father’s ideals of rulership, short-sighted as many of them are, Orvax having got as far as ‘it is more secure to be feared than loved’ in his reading of Machiavelli, but missed that next bit about how it is important above all else to avoid being hated. And Orm excelled at all of these things. He sort of had to. He’s spent his life chasing the conditional affection of his father because it was all he was ever allowed, because he was so rarely allowed to meaningfully interact with his mother even before she was sentenced to death. He was not allowed to love her, but did so anyway, and it was not until she was sentenced to death and it was made clear to him that she died because she was seduced by the surface world, and would have abandoned all Atlantis and even Orm himself in order to stay there, that Orm’s hatred of the surface really crystallised.

I’m leaning towards having Orm actually redeem himself after Arthur takes the throne, and borrowing a bit from season 1 of Young Justice, where he is shown to be both fairly close to his brother and to play a reasonably active role in the Atlantean government. Yes, ok, it’s a façade in YJ, but I rather liked Orm in this episode, and I have spoken before about my being an absolute sucker for happy endings. Yes, all right, he probably had to serve some sort of sentence for a lot of his actions first, especially if I keep the murder of King Ricou, but how much of what Orm gets up to is actually criminal is…kinda debateable. The false flag operation is, certainly, and so is the murder of Ricou, but the rest of it? Is a king getting on a war footing, and a war most of Atlantis seems to have been behind. And Orm does seem to have been a popular and effective monarch for the most part. I’d be interested in seeing that continued.

#orm marius #aquaman #earth 37

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elcinelateleymickyandonie · 3 years

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Bruce Gordon.

Filmografía

Cine

1948 : The Naked City, de Jules Dassin

1948 : The Street with No Name, de William Keighley

1949 : Amor en conserva, de David Miller

1958 : The Buccaneer, de Anthony Quinn

1959 : Curse of the Undead, de Edward Dein

1960 : Mission of Danger, de Jacques Tourneur y George Waggner

1960 : Key Witness, de Phil Karlson

1962 : Rider on a Dead Horse, de Herbert L. Strock

1962 : Tower of London, de Roger Corman

1968 : Slow Run, de Lawrence Kardish

1969 : Hello Down There, de Jack Arnold y Ricou Browning

1971 : Machismo: 40 Graves for 40 Guns, de Paul Hunt

1978 : Piraña, de Joe Dante

1982 : Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann, de William Dear.

Televisión

1951 : Nash Airflyte Theatre – serie TV, un episodio

1951-1953 : Lux Video Theatre – serie TV, 2 episodios

1951 : The Philco Television Playhouse – serie TV, 2 episodios

1952-1955 : Studio One – serie TV, 3 episodios

1952 : Suspense – serie TV, un episodio

1953-1957 : Robert Montgomery Presents – serie TV, 3 episodios

1953 : The Goldbergs – serie TV, un episodio

1954-1955 : You Are There – serie TV, 3 episodios

1954 : King Richard II – telefilm

1954 : The Man Behind the Badge – serie TV, un episodio

1955-1957 : Kraft Television Theatre – serie TV, 4 episodios

1955 : The Best of Broadway – serie TV, un episodio

1955 : Justice – serie TV, un episodio

1955 : Star Tonight – serie TV, 2 episodios

1955 : The United States Steel Hour – serie TV, un episodio

1955 : I Spy – serie TV, un episodio

1956-1957 : Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre – serie TV, 2 episodios

1957-1959 : Have Gun - Will Travel – serie TV, 2 episodios

1957-1963 : Armstrong Circle Theatre – serie TV, 2 episodios

1957 : The Lark – telefilm

1957 : The Kaiser Aluminum Hour – serie TV, un episodio

1957 : M Squad – serie TV, un episodio

1957 : Decoy – serie TV, un episodio

1957 : Harbormaster – serie TV, un episodio

1957 : Zane Grey Theater – serie TV, un episodio

1957 : Tombstone Territory – serie TV, un episodio

1958-1959 : Behind Closed Doors – serie TV, 26 episodios

1958-1959 : Whirlybirds – serie TV, 2 episodios

1958-1959 : Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse – serie TV, 4 episodios

1958-1960 : Gunsmoke – serie TV, 3 episodios.

1958 : The Walter Winchell File – serie TV, un episodio

1958 : The DuPont Show of the Month – serie TV, un episodio

1958 : Trackdown – serie TV, un episodio

1958 : Jefferson Drum – serie TV, un episodio

1958 : Man Without a Gun – serie TV, un episodio

1958 : Target – serie TV, un episodio

1958 : Colgate Theatre – serie TV, un episodio

1958 : Northwest Passage – serie TV, un episodio

1958 : Shirley Temple's Storybook – serie TV, un episodio

1958 : Sheriff of Cochise – serie TV, un episodio

1959-1963 : Los Intocables – serie TV, 28 episodios

1959-1964 : Perry Mason – serie TV, 3 episodios

1959-1970 : Bonanza – serie TV, 3 episodios

1959 : The Californians – serie TV, un episodio

1959 : Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond – serie TV, un episodio

1959 : The Scarface Mob – telefilm

1959 : Playhouse 90 – serie TV, un episodio

1959 : Johnny Ringo – serie TV, un episodio

1959 : Bat Masterson – serie TV, un episodio

1959 : The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor – serie TV, 2 episodios

1959 : The Grand Jury – serie TV, 1 episodio

1960-1961 : Sugarfoot – serie TV, 2 episodios

1960-1962 : Outlaws – serie TV, 3 episodios

1960 : Riverboat – serie TV, un episodio

1960 : Tightrope – serie TV, un episodio

1960 : Hotel de Paree – serie TV, un episodio

1960 : Laramie – serie TV, un episodio

1960 : The Chevy Mystery Show – serie TV, un episodio

1960 : 77 Sunset Strip – serie TV, un episodio

1960 : Tales of Wells Fargo – serie TV, 2 episodios

1960 : The Barbara Stanwyck Show – serie TV, un episodio

1960 : Stagecoach West – serie TV, un episodio

1961 : Maverick – serie TV, un episodio

1961 : The Deputy – serie TV, un episodio

1961 : Checkmate – serie TV, un episodio

1961 : Gunn – serie TV, un episodio

1961 : Death Valley Days – serie TV, un episodio

1961 : Adventures in Paradise – serie TV, 2 episodios

1962 : Surfside 6 – serie TV, un episodio

1962 : Cain's Hundred – serie TV, un episodio

1962 : Ruta 66 – serie TV, un episodio

1962 : Car 54, Where Are You? – serie TV, un episodio

1963 : Naked City – serie TV, un episodio

1963 : The Defenders – serie TV, un episodio

1964 : Mr. Broadway – serie TV, un episodio

1965-1966 : Peyton Place – serie TV, 25 episodios.

1966 : The Lucy Show – serie TV, un episodio

1966 : El agente de CIPOL – serie TV, un episodio

1966 : Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre – serie TV, un episodio

1966 : Run Buddy Run – serie TV, un episodio

1966 : La chica de CIPOL – serie TV, un episodio

1967 : The Jackie Gleason Show – serie TV, un episodio

1967 : He & She – serie TV, un episodio

1968 : The Flying Nun – serie TV, un episodio

1968 : Superagente 86 – serie TV, un episodio

1968 : Mannix – serie TV, un episodio

1968 : Gentle Ben – serie TV, un episodio

1968 : Tarzán – serie TV, 2 episodios

1968 : It Takes a Thief – serie TV, un episodio

1969 : Blondie – serie TV, un episodio

1969 : Ironside – serie TV, un episodio

1970-1972 : Here's Lucy – serie TV, 2 episodios

1970-1972 : Adam-12 – serie TV, 2 episodios

1970-1973 : The Doris Day Show – serie TV, 2 episodios

1971 : The Smith Family – serie TV, un episodio

1972 : The Partners – serie TV, un episodio

1974 : Banacek – serie TV, un episodio

1975 : La mujer policía – serie TV, un episodio

1975 : Lucy Gets Lucky – telefilm

1975 : Joe Forrester – serie TV, un episodio

1977 : The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries – serie TV, un episodio

1982 : The Stunt Man – serie TV, un episodio

1984 : Simon & Simon – serie TV, un episodio.

Créditos: Tomado de Wikipedia

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Gordon_(actor)

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hjbirthdaywishes · 1 year

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April 24, 2023

Happy 59 Birthday to Djimon Hounsou.

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cadaverthor · 3 years

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Chapter 21 (pt. 5)

"Power hungry maniac." Rina spat.

"I won't deny it. I thought- no, I wanted power. I wanted the power to destroy the surface. I thought I wanted what was best, but I just wanted the power. King Ricou wanted to work with them. Teach them. He was right. I should've listened, but I was so blind by what I wanted that-"

"You murdered him in coldblood." She cut in again scathingly.

"Mother." Scales held her hand up. "You're not doing a good job defending yourself."

#kayla writes fanfic #day 350 #Kayla writes 2020

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ormymarius · 1 year

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Orm with his trident behind during the Fisherman scene, in a way its prongs seem like horns growing out of his head. right before he arguably does the Most Evil Act in the movie (killing King Ricou - I hope the Fisherman Princess and her kingdom get more of a closure in the sequel sob). not only that, the trident was Orvax's trident. and right before the moment Orm meets his mom again and backs down Arthur SHATTERS the trident - Orvax's influence, the first step to redemption. the sYMBOLISM

right, the symbolism is just *chef’s kiss* justice for the fisherman princess fr I hope she gets some closure

also, this might be a reach but when orm’s trident broke the two holes behind him look kind of like wings. idk, I don’t think it was intentional but reading too much into aquaman (2018) is my job :)

#asks

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npwiggins1208 · 5 years

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Djimon Hounsou as The Wizard Shazam: An ancient wizard who bestows his powers on Billy Batson so that he can magically transform into an adult superhero. Hounsou previously portrayed Ricou, the King of the Fishermen, in Aquaman and the MCU, Korath, in Captain Marvel. Created in the 1940s by Bill Parker and C. C. Beck for Fawcett Comics, he is an ancient wizard, who gives young Billy Batson the power to transform into the superhero Captain Marvel. Shazam informs Billy that he is an ancient Egyptian wizard who has been using his powers for many centuries to fight the forces of evil, but that he is now old and not long for this world. He therefore passes along part of his power to Billy, who shouts his name – "SHAZAM!" – to transform into Captain Marvel/Shazam. Although Shazam is killed, as prophesied, by a giant granite block falling on him, Billy/Captain Marvel/Shazam can summon the ghost of Shazam for guidance by lighting a special brazier in the Rock of Eternity. More superheroes soon joined Shazam in carrying on the legacy of Shazam, including Shazam Family members Mary Marvel and Captain Marvel Jr. In the New 52, the Wizard is depicted as a native of the Middle Eastern kingdom of Kahndaq. The Wizard was the last of a council of beings who controlled magic from the fortress known as the Rock of Eternity. The Wizard summons Billy to the Rock of Eternity as his last candidate to replace him, but upon the meeting, he sees how rotten a child he is and dismisses him as well until Billy argues that perfectly good people "really don't exist" and that the Wizard may never find what he is looking for. Agreeing with Billy and aware that he is dying, the Wizard sees that Billy has the potential to be good and passes on his powers to the boy by asking him to speak the magic word "Shazam". #shazam #asherangel #zacharylevi #thaddeussivana #freddy #thewizardshazam #marybromfield #eugenechoi #pedropeña #darladudley #victorvasquez #rosavasquez #billybatson #markstrong #jackdylangrazer #gracefulton #djimonhounsou #ianchen #jovanarmand #faitheherman #cooperandrew #martamilans #dceu #wb #dc #misfitcomics https://www.instagram.com/p/Bve7Z1gHKIL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1jqqsljkohsmt

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blackkudos · 4 years

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Djimon Hounsou

Djimon Gaston Hounsou (; French: [dʒimɔ̃ unsu]; born 24 April 1964) is a Beninese–American actor and model. Hounsou began his career appearing in music videos. He made his film debut in the Sandra Bernhard film Without You I'm Nothing (1990) and gained widespread recognition for his role as Cinqué in the Steven Spielberg film Amistad (1997). He gained further recognition for his roles in Gladiator (2000), In America (2003), and Blood Diamond (2006), receiving Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nominations for both the latter films. He also had a minor role in Furious 7 (2015). He has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. Djimon Hounsou plays an important role as well in the French film Forces spéciales in 2011.

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he plays the role of Korath the Pursuer in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Captain Marvel (2019). Additionally, in the DC Extended Universe, he played the role of the Fisherman King in Aquaman (2018) and the wizard Shazam in Shazam! (2019).

Early life

Hounsou was born in Cotonou, Benin, to Albertine and Pierre Hounsou, a cook. He emigrated to Lyon in France at the age of twelve with his brother, Edmond. Soon after arriving in France, Hounsou dropped out of school and became homeless for a time. A chance meeting with a photographer led to Hounsou being introduced to fashion designer Thierry Mugler, who encouraged Hounsou to pursue a modeling career. In 1987, Hounsou became a model and established a career in Paris. He moved to the United States in 1990.

Career

Acting

Between 1989 and 1991, Hounsou appeared in the music videos for "Straight Up" by Paula Abdul, "Love Will Never Do (Without You)" by Janet Jackson, and Madonna's "Express Yourself". He also appears in En Vogue's music video for "Hold On".

Hounsou's film debut was in the 1990 Sandra Bernhard film Without You I'm Nothing. He had television parts on Beverly Hills, 90210 and ER and a guest starring role on Alias. Hounsou had a larger role in the science fiction film Stargate.

Hounsou received wide critical acclaim and a Golden Globe Award nomination for his role as Cinqué in the 1997 Steven Spielberg film Amistad. He gained further notice as Juba in the 2000 film Gladiator. In 2004, Hounsou was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for In America, making him the fourth African male to be nominated for an Oscar. In 2005 he played a mercenary in the movie The Island alongside Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson. In 2006, he won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Blood Diamond; he received Broadcast Film Critics Association, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Academy Award nominations for this performance.

Hounsou acted in a supporting role in the 2009 science fiction film Push, as Agent Henry Carver. In 2011, he starred as a French commando in the French film Forces spéciales.

Director Tim Story told IGN that if he were to do a third Fantastic Four film, he would like to have Hounsou as the Black Panther. In November 2008, it was announced that Hounsou would be providing the voice of the Black Panther in the television series of the same name. Hounsou had signed on to play Abdiel in the film version of John Milton's Paradise Lost with Benjamin Walker and Bradley Cooper. The film however was scrapped in early February 2012.

In 2013, he appeared in the comedy film Baggage Claim alongside Paula Patton. He also voiced Drago Bludvist in How to Train Your Dragon 2 and portrayed Korath the Pursuer in the Marvel Studios film Guardians of the Galaxy, both in 2014. He played villains in two 2015 films, Seventh Son and Furious 7, the seventh installment of The Fast and the Furious film series, the latter where he played the role of Mose Jakande, a Nigerian-French mercenary.

On 17 February 2016, it was reported that Hounsou would join the second season of the television series Wayward Pines. Also in 2016, he played Chief Mbonga in The Legend of Tarzan movie.

In July 2018, Hounsou joined the DC Extended Universe, voicing the Fisherman King Ricou in Aquaman (with the character being motion-captured by Andrew Crawford), as well as replacing Ron Cephas Jones as the Wizard Shazam in Shazam! (2019). Also in 2019, he reprised his role as Korath in the Marvel Studios film Captain Marvel.

Modeling

On 24 February 2007, it was announced that Hounsou would be the new Calvin Klein underwear model. At the time, Hounsou was being represented by Los Angeles modeling agent, Omar Albertto.

Other work

In 2010, Hounsou was featured as the narrator in ESPN's running series of "32 teams, 1 dream" commercials for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Hounsou spoke at the Summit on Climate Change at the United Nations on 22 September 2009. On 1 December 2009, Hounsou told French media that developed countries "need to be held accountable" for their contribution to climate change.

Personal life

In 2007, Hounsou began dating model Kimora Lee Simmons. In 2009, Simmons gave birth to their son. Hounsou and Simmons visited Hounsou's family in his native Benin in the summer of 2008, where the two participated in a traditional commitment ceremony. The couple were adorned in traditional clothing and used the ceremony, in the presence of Hounsou's family, to solidify that they are "dedicated to each other 100%". The two emphasized that the ceremony was not a wedding. In the début of Kimora Lee Simmons' show, Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane, he was billed as her husband. Hounsou and Simmons, who were never legally married in the United States, announced their separation in November 2012.

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The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) starring Richard Carlson, Julie Adams and Richard Denning

Clawing monster from a lost age strikes the Amazon’s forbidden depths!

Be a farmer or not, 1954 is a bumper crop—for horror movies. Imagine, in a single year, the many delicious, delectable, diabolical—and sometimes dumb—exploits added to the distorted world of this particular genre.

Let’s see . . . among the “lower,” properly forgettable films of that year: Killers from Space, Monster from the Ocean Floor, Gog and Godzilla. Deeper, deeper, at the murkiest bottom, the lower regions of nothingness: The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters, Devil Girl from Mars, Monsters from the Rue Rogue and The Snow Creature. But working quality upward, there’s light, and despite those who see a disreputable genre, some titles rise above that notoriety and become something more: The Mad Magician, Them! and The Naked Jungle.

And, in this year of 1954, what about The Creature from the Black Lagoon? Where does it stand in this bubbling cauldron of hell-broth? Some critics go so far as to endow the film with high praise indeed, that its creature, a resilient fish-man or gill-man—all monsters are “resilient,” just look at the armies which try to defeat them—belongs in the illustrious company of Dracula, the Frankenstein monster, the Wolf Man and the Mummy.

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Truly, Creature, along with its monster, is one of the most original horrors of the 1950s.

Whatever its status among the horror hierarchy, the idea for Creature comes from the fertile—or festered?—mind of William Alland. If the name is unfamiliar, it shouldn’t be: he’s Mr. Thompson the reporter, usually seen in silhouette, who is in search of the meaning of “Rosebud,” the dying word of the egotistical newspaper tycoon in Orson Welles’ famous 1940 movie Citizen Kane.

Much more than a minor actor, Alland is better known as a producer of horror films—It Came from Outer Space (1953), This Island Earth (1955), Tarantula (1955), The Deadly Mantis (1957) and, of course, the creature feature under discussion.

Alland, a member of Welles’ Mercury Theatre on the Air, with a hand in the 1938 radio scare of a Martian invasion, War of the Worlds, attended one particular dinner party given by Welles. Alland heard Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa (later an Oscar nominee for John Huston’s The Night of the Iguana, 1964) regale his audience with the legend of a half-fish, half-man creature that terrorized the Amazon River, emerging annually to possess a woman victim.

Alland had the idea, Maurice Zimm put it on paper and screenwriters Harry Essex and Arthur Ross converted it to screen. And Jack Arnold, no stranger to directing other “creature” films, including his masterpiece The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), directs Creature.

Composers Hans J. Salter, Henry Mancini and Herman Stein, along with some Universal stock footage—even a snip from 1941’s The Wolf Man—assemble an unexpectedly integrated score. Beware, however, of that three-note “creature theme” on the flutter-tongue trumpets. Even if it’s only a claw, the motif blares out each time the creature appears and so often the motif quickly becomes a boring nuisance long after any terror-striking effect has worn off. Still, the three notes could be the most memorable of its kind since Franz Waxman’s five-note “monster theme” in The Bride of Frankenstein (1935).

Aside from some scenes shot in a water tank, most of the underwater photography was filmed by a second unit, over 2,000 miles from Hollywood, in the sparkling clear waters of Wakulla Springs, about fourteen miles south of Tallahassee, Florida. One of the first films shot there was Tarzan’s New York Adventure (1938).

So it is to this spring, passing for the Upper Amazon, that a scientist, Dr. Carl Maia (Antonio Moreno, Captain from Castile, 1947, The Searchers, 1956), finds the fossilized remains of a scaly forearm and webbed claw-hand.

Not even three minutes into the film, the audience hears the three-note motif, fortissimo, and is teased, some might think prematurely, by, this time, a living claw-hand groping at the river bank. Carl has his back turned to this, of course.

Carl returns to civilization and recruits three companions for an expedition—ichthyologist Dr. David Reed (Richard Carlson, It Came from Outer Space, etc.), the financial backer of this expedition, Mark Williams (Richard Denning, the governor in TV’s Hawaii Five-O, 1968-80), and David’s girlfriend, Kay (Julie Adams, The Private War of Major Benson, 1955), the requisite “female in danger”—the woman the creature is after in any horror film.

With tag-along scientist Dr. Thompson (Whit Bissell, Hud, 1963, Seven Days in May, 1964) aboard, they arrive by river trawler at Carl’s camp, only to find two of his aids dead. The jovial captain of the “Rita” is Lucas (Nestor Paiva, Humoresque, 1946, Tarantula).

After finding no more fossils, David believes that any possible remains might have been washed down the river thousands of years ago, and in traveling further down the waterway they discover the black lagoon with its primeval forest rising from water’s edge.

Having noticed Kay, the creature has followed the trawler to the lagoon, establishing the beauty-and-the-beast premise, specifically King Kong (1933), the writers admitted source of their story. After David and Mark have dived for rocks in the lagoon, Kay goes swimming and the fish-man, somehow unnoticed, swims along beneath and around her.

The creature later climbs aboard the “Rita” and kills some of Lucas’ crew before its capture and confinement in a bamboo cage. When the scaly prisoner escapes, he mauls Thompson. Kay tosses a lantern and, in flames, the creature jumps overboard.

David wants to end the expedition, but Mark is bent on capturing, or killing, the fish-man. There are more struggles. The “Rita” is locked in the lagoon by some loose logs moved by the creature and Mark is killed in an underwater fight with the aquatic adversary.

When Kay is kidnapped to a grotto by the fish-man, David, Carl and Lucas rescue her, but not before shooting the creature, which retreats into the lagoon. The last shot of the film is of its body sinking limply to the bottom of the lagoon.

The Creature from the Black Lagoon, which seems, at least on first viewing, so unified creatively, contains at least six “doubles,” necessitated by the second unit work in distant Florida. The credited “surface” director might be Jack Arnold, but for the underwater scenes it is James C. Havens. Likewise, the Hollywood cinematographer, William E. Snyder, is replaced in Florida by Scotty Westbourne, using a then innovative underwater camera. This was about the same time as Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953) and 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1954), films known, at the time, for their spectacular underwater photography.

In Hollywood, lead actress Julie Adams is making her signature movie, while beneath the water, exhibiting acrobatic stunts and somersaults, is Ginger Stanley, then a performer at Florida’s Silver Springs tourist attraction. In the swimming sequence between “Adams” (Stanley) and the fish-man, some critics have seen a highly erotic ballet, a “love dance,” intimations of sexual intercourse, albeit from a distance.

Aside from the water tank shots, actors Carlson and Denning are doubled in the lagoon sequences by two local college students hired for the occasion. On the boat and getting in and out of the water, Carlson wears two air tanks, Denning only one, a distinction replicated by the stand-ins beneath the surface.

Even the fish-man leads two lives. Stalking on the surface, climbing aboard the trawler, being set on fire or shot at, Ben Chapman is the creature; under the water it’s Ricou Browning, who, as a result of this filming experience, became a director, writer, producer and underwater cinematographer.

Milicent Patrick, supposedly the first woman animator at the Walt Disney Studios, designed the creature’s outfit, though Bud Westmore took unfair credit, as is so often the case with him.

With the fish-man only presumably dead in the end, the writers and producer left room for—that’s right!—a sequel, and not one but two. Neither The Revenge of the Creature (1954) nor The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) is as good as the original, and although still another remake is rumored, so far the nearest to one is The Shape of Water (2017), which its director, Guillermo del Toro, said was inspired by the 1954 film.

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Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) - Episode 3 - Decades of Horror: The Classic Era

“We didn’t come here to fight monsters! We’re not equipped for it!" Join the Decades of Horror: The Classic Era’s Grue-Crew - Chad Hunt, Erin Miskell, Jeff Mohr, and Joseph Perry - as we take a deep dive (and we do mean DEEP!) into the legendary Black Lagoon and talk of all things Creature. Chad Hunt picked this one - it’s one of his “favorite movies of all-time” - so listen as he leads us on our expedition into the Amazonian jungle in search of the Creature from the Black Lagoon. The erudite Erin Miskell was under the weather for this one, but we sallied forth aboard the Rita and motored into dangerous waters without her, foolhardy as that may seem.

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 3 – Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

All three of us first experienced Creature from the Black Lagoon on television via our local creature features and fell in love at first sight, but that didn’t stop us from being surprised at what we learned about it.

The film is co-written by Harry Essex and Arthur A. Ross and is directed by Jack Arnold. Do you know which one of them had a hand in Gilligan’s Island (1964-66) and Rawhide (1959-64)? How about The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) and Octaman (1972)? Or even Satan’s School for Girls (1973)?

The film features the Gill-Man, the last of the Universal Studios Classic Monsters, as played by Ricou Browning and Ben Chapman. Why do they need two actors to play the Gill-Man? And is the Creature designed and built by Bud Westmore with assistance from Millicent Patrick or is it the other way around?

The quintessential cast for a 1950s science fiction / horror film - Julie Adams, Richard Carlson, Richard Denning, Whit Bissell, and Antonio Moreno - plays a team of scientists in search of the source of a fossilized, clawed hand they found up river. They travel aboard the Rita, whose captain is played by the inimitable Nestor Paiva with over 300 acting credits to his name. wonders why anyone would want to fish for rocks.

So many questions and so little time. Share 70 minutes of your time with us and find out:

Exactly what does Creature from the Black Lagoon have to do with Citizen Kane (1941)?

Who is Carl Dreadstone and why should we care?

Why the heck aren’t there any bubbles?

What happened to the Gill-Man’s “suit?”

Why would anyone want to fish for rocks?

We plan to release a new episode every other week. Our upcoming schedule includes King Kong (1933), The Tingler (1959), and It! (1967).

Please let us know what you think and what films you’d like to hear us cover! We want to hear from you! Send us an email ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected]) or leave us a message, a review or a comment at GruesomeMagazine.com, iTunes, the Horror News Radio App, or the Horror News Radio Facebook group.

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