#Corelli’s Mandolin

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This is the second time I’ve looked up a movie’s title in search of gifs of John Hurt and only found every single post to be thirst traps of Christian Bale. Suffering and agony.

[moonlight]

Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) dir. John Madden

[in-love-with-movies]

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (2001)

[christianbalesblueadidas]

character ai bots i've made

(christian bale characters and descriptions.)

batman

in which you're a rookie cop conditioned to hate batman. when commissioner loeb orders you to shoot on sight, will you?

bruce wayne

in which you're a student studying at princeton. when you're on the verge of failing your physics course, at your professor's suggestion, you ask help from the campus loner bruce wayne.

jack kelly

in which you're a sheltered and well-off girl rebelling for the first time. out on an adventure in the city, jack kelly runs into you. literally.

john preston

in which you're his apprentice, a well-performing graduate from the monastery who dreams of becoming a first-class cleric. you can't come at a worse time — he has been missing his doses of prozium.

laurie laurence

in which you're a neighbor to him and the marches. he's a close friend, but he wants to be even closer.

mandras

in which you're a mermaid. one day, he gets caught in a thunderstorm and you rescue him.

[christianbalefanatic]

Christian Bale as Mandras in Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (2001) dir. John Madden

(christianbalefanatic edit)

[para-que-no-nos-borren]

"The other night when you were dancing, the way you were moving, the turn of your head. I thought I could watch you forever."

[litandlifequotes]

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. 

Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières

[lobbycards]

Captain Corelli´s Mandolin, French Lobby Card. 2001

[take-a-dip-in-the-deadpool]

Heres something i put very little effort into but just needed to create so it was out of my brain

[kuronekkosan]

"Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident."

On Love, from Dr. Iannis to his daughter Pelagia, in the island of Cephallonia, Greece from Louis de Berniéres' "Captain Correli's Mandolin".

[fiction-quotes]

The captain clicked his tongue disapprovingly. “Symmetry is only a property of dead things. Did you ever see a tree or a mountain that was symmetrical? It's fine for buildings, but if you ever see a symmetrical human face, you will have the impression that you ought to think it beautiful, but that in fact you find it cold. The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry, Kyria Pelagia. Look at your face in a mirror, Signorina, and you will see that one eyebrow is a little higher than the other, that the set of the lid of your left eye is such that the eye is a fraction more open than the other. It is these things that make you both attractive and beautiful, whereas...otherwise you would be a statue. Symmetry is for God, not for us.”

  —  Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Louis de Bernières)

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

[Text ID] Poor little Chrysoula, poor little girl, what a terrible thing to happen. Papas coming home late at night, shaking with rage and distress, all because Chrysoula got to the age of fourteen and no one had ever told her that one day she would bleed, and she is so horrified, she thinks that she has some loathsome secret disease, and she can't tell anyone, and she takes rat-poison. And Papas is so angry that he takes Chrysoula’s mother by the neck and shakes her like a dog shakes a rabbit, and Chrysoula's father just goes out with the boys as usual and comes home drunk as if nothing has happened, and underneath Chrysoula's bed is a pile of paper as thick as a bible, full of her prayers to St Gerasimos for a cure, and the prayers are so sad and desperate that they make you weep. [End Text ID]

😢 Chrysoula sweetie— no!

RIP Dr. Iannis; you would have committed so much violence upon learning of the state of the American education system.

[moonlight]

Christian Bale as Mandras

Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) dir. John Madden

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[from my files]

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"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love” which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."  

— Louis de Berniéres, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

[christianbalesblueadidas]

christian bale masterlist

| / — drabble | // — oneshot | /// — series |

| 🍓 — fluff | 🥀 — angst | 🍒 — smut |

characters in alphabetical order

AUGUSTUS LANDOR (the pale blue eye)

coming soon

BRUCE WAYNE / BATMAN (the dark knight trilogy)

I'm Sorry, Sweetheart // 🥀🍒

Routine Surveillance // 🍒

DAN EVANS (3:10 to yuma)

coming soon

JOHN MILLER (the flowers of war)

Let's Go Home I /// 🥀

JOHN PRESTON (equilibrium)

Discovering His Favorite Feeling / 🍒

MELVIN PURVIS (public enemies)

coming soon

THEODORE "LAURIE" LAURENCE (little women)

coming soon

MANDRAS (captain corelli's mandolin)

coming soon

PATRICK BATEMAN (american psycho)

coming soon

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Christian Bale as Mandras in Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (2001) dir. John Madden

(christianbalefanatic edit)