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fictionalreads · 1 year ago

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From Scratch thoughts

First off, why the hell didn’t I know this shit was that sad. I cried almost every episode and for those last few it was nonstop. My eyes are puffy.

Anyway. Spoilers I guess even though it’s been out a while now.

Lino and Amy

Why were they so cute? Like. Lino is adorable. He was good to her and her to him (minus the giancarlo situation). I mean that proposal.

Lino is comparable to Jack Pearson (iykyk). Yes. I said that. And I stand by it too.

Amy is stronger than me cause I would’ve been like

Actually, I was like that and I was just a spectator.

I knew (from years of watching tv) that the cancer was gonna come back and it would be the end for him but it still got me.

Idalia

She was wonderful. Seeing her understand what was happening, worrying about her mom and then her own grief coming out in Sicily.

Zora

The goat, the queen. I loved her so much

I was glad when she told Amy off cause I think it was something they both needed. Amy was being selfish and needed to hear that to be reminded that it wasn’t all about her. Zora needed to get it off her chest that she felt unseen and that nobody was looking out for her.

Also, she was so pissed she wasn’t talking to her sister but the minute she saw the restaurant was closed she didn’t call, she went straight over to their place to make sure they were okay.

I’m glad she found Zen, he was someone who saw how hard she loved and how she took care of everyone else and then decided he was gonna take care of her.

But why did they have to treat her like the red headed stepchild? I swear every time something good happened to her, something Amy did it was a part of overshadowed it. I didn’t like it.

She’s gonna be an awesome mom.

LMAO When she was holding Amy while she fell apart and said “I don’t want you to get mad but have you bathed? Cause you stink.”

Also, the fact that she was keeping her promise to Lino by helping Amy put the pieces back together? Sobs. Intense sobs.

I loved every interaction she had with Lino. It was so pure and lovely to see. That was her brother and you couldn’t tell her otherwise. He got on her nerves but their friendship and bond was beautiful.

I wish I had seen a little more of Ken. Like in regards to Amy. I wish I could’ve seen him be there for her as she had a moment where she broke or something. I would’ve liked to have seen that they had a bind as much as Zora and Lino did.

Amy’s parents

At the beginning all of them got on my nerves. Then I came around. Gotta take the good with the bad

They ended up being so supportive and I loved to see it in a black family on screen.

I loved that the three of them ended up walking Amy down the aisle.

I loved that Lynn (eventually) acknowledged that Maxine was a mother to Zora and Amy. That during the scene where idalia came home she told her “I was only saying I was overwhelmed and didn’t know what the hell I was doing, not that you don’t know what you’re talking about.”

I love that Maxine basically said the entire series “imma keep it cute and classy cause you the mama but don’t get it twisted bitch, I raised those girls”. As she should have, cause we don’t diminish the role of found family over here. Found parents included.

Lino’s parents

I will always give Giacomo credit for trying in the end, but I will never forget what he said and did to Lino before that.

At first glance I didn’t like Filomena. Cause no man was gonna tell me I couldn’t go to my son’s wedding. But the more I watched the more I understood her. It was simply what she knew cause that’s how she was raised. We were raised completely differently. Which means we see the world completely differently.

Do I agree with her actions? No, but I can empathize with her.

I think that was the friction between her and Amy. Amy was raised to be assertive and definitely less conservative. I think Filomena had a hard time with Amy’s openness.

I was glad to see in the end she was able to connect with her and give her that land. I think it meant a lot to Filomena that her son’s family still had connections to his heritage and his home.

Miscellaneous

Wish we had seen Lino’s sister a little more and saw their relationship.

Y’all. When Idalia went to see him for the last time, I was done for.

TONINO AND THE FUCKING GOAT HAD ME SEEING BLURRY CAUSE THE TEARS WERE ROLLING

Just realized that Lino always wanted to go back to Sicily to show his wife and daughter and never got the chance to do it while he was alive.

THE WAY HE WAITED FOR HER TO WAKE UP BEING REMINISCENT OF THE NIGHT THEY GOT TOGETHER

In conclusion, Netflix,

#pissed at tumblr cause I wrote this all out and went to look up a character’s name and tumblr decided to erase it all #Lino Ortolano #Amy Wheeler #Amy Ortolano #Idalia Ortolano #Herschel Wheeler #Maxine Wheeler #Lynn Wheeler #Zora Wheeler #Ken #LMAO He’s just Ken #Filomena Ortolano #Giacomo Ortolano #Biagia Ortolano #From Scratch #From Scratch Netflix

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gallusrostromegalus · 3 years ago

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TPOFATGIF LORE: What Everyone Looks Like

It Occured to me that

1. I don't actually describe what anyone in the fic looks like because I was sort of assuming everyone had seen/read some of the source material

2. I have a lot of OCs. Who I didn't describe either.

Me Smort.

Anyway, coming out of a verys tressful fortnight (Herschel had pneumonia and had to be on antibiotics/house rest so I pretty much didn't sleep but he is fine now), and like in Drawing, it's important to do warm-up exercises, so:

Yugi Moto:

Near the front of the classroom sat Yugi Moto, who was as close as someone could become to being one of those brightly colored plush animals you win at the carnival while still being human. He was technically five feet tall but at least six inches of that was a red-tinted black and splash of blonde hair whose vertical nature had stumped over a dozen barbers so far. His shoes, untied, dangled a few inches from the floor because the high school desk was sized for someone who had spent their puberty getting tall instead of getting shoved into lockers. Two notebooks open on his desk- one with paltry notes on the Teapot Dome Scandal they were supposed to be studying, the other, much more detailed containing notes about crad draw probablility curves and drawings of wizards. If he was going to study for the test, he'd recall more about the lecture by lookng at the second. The teacher called on him, and he looked up at her with a politely guiless expression that could easily be mistaken for a Customer Service Smile (TM), but something about the sustained eye contact and faint tilt of his head put more observant people in mind of something vaugely... carnivorous.

More Peeps under the Cut:

Joey Wheeler

Imagine if, in the Air Bud movies, the school had insisted that if the dog wanted to be a student athlete, that he be a student as well as an athlete, and attend classes. Imagine a Golden Retriver, seated awkwardly in one of those wretched plastic desk-chair combos, staring at a board of chemical formulas and trying, trying so hard in the desperate and earnest way that all working dogs try, to understand even a bit of what was happening, and you will have something very close to what it was like to sit next to Joey Wheeler. Right down to the blonde hair that got in your jacket and total inability to sit in a chair like a Normal Human. He consistently had one gangly leg thrown over the desk or propped up on his backpack, the other folded in an origami-like position under him. He counteracts his lack of academic comprehension with a soical genius any confidence man would murder to have. His smile is genuine and charming and sweet enough that you'll explain the pH scale slowly and with appropriately small words for him. He has never forgotten a single birthday of anyone he's ever met and is close to exceding the limit of possible contacts in his phone, so should the man ever end up in real trouble he absolutely knows who to call and how to get them to come fix this.

Téa Gardner:

Ballerinas are frequently described as birds in popular culture- graceful swans, delicate hummingbirds, beautiful as doves, and for some reason, docile and submissive, which is weird because all of those birds can and will beat the tar out of things eight and ten times thier size for merely looking at them funny. Téa also, was a ballerina that greatly resemebled a bird, and that bird was a cassowary. She had the magnificent calves and quads of a valkyrie, the eye of the Tiger and the the compettitive instincts of a stallion. All this, dressed in the most pastels-and-pinks-jellyroll-glitterpen-Bows- ribbons-and-ruffles-sixteen-layers-of-Bracelets-and-bangles-unapologetic-teenage-girlhood possible. She'll kick you apart and write about it with a pink glitter pen in her diary.

Tristan Taylor:

If you were to draw a Triange of Modern Former-Boy Adventuers with Fred Jones (earnest hubris and weirdly comprehensive engineering knowledge), Geralt of Rivia (Muscles, love of horses) and Tintin (Inventive hair, willingess to Shoot A Bitch) on each of the points, Tristan Taylor would be at the exact center. In any other show he'd be the protagonist, with his classically handsome good looks and ability to give clear directions in an emergency, but instead he lives in a world dictated by the whims of What's Funny rather than any kind of predictable physics and thus it is his destiny to cling to reality with white knuckles and occasionally hit it with a tire iron until it stops trying to steal people's souls or whatever bullshit is happening this week.

Bakura

Bakura looks like firstly, someone who gets into strange bargains with the fair folk, secondly, that he absolutely did at some point, thirdly, that the rule of the exchange was that he could have whatever it was but he would forever be described by a single adjective, and finally, that he is a little shit bastard and grabbed the word "ambiguity" from the fairy and ran off with it, and whatever the bonus prize was, cackling into the night. Is he a world-weary teenager or a babyfaced young man? Is he a He at all? Showing up to school in the boys uniform was very much a concious choice on his part- nobody would have doubted a thing if he'd shown up in a skirt instead. Is he holding onto that cursed artifact because he can't let anyone else deal with it in good conscience, or has he become friends with the thing inside? Are those fangs? Do you really want to know for sure?

Seto Kaiba

Seto Kaiba is a Theater Kid that was taken from his native habitat and raised in captivity, like how sometimes people think that it's fine to keep a tiger like a housecat. This is terrible for all parties involved- the tiger never gets proper nutirtion or enrichment activities and grows up gangly and full of nerves until it eventually turns on it's keeper and the headlines run on about the totally preventable tragedy, like they had not been featuring the tiger in reality the week before. Seto is all limbs and a glare that belies both contempt and terror, and an ostentatious trenchcoat to provide him cover the cage never did. He's out of the cage now but still all ribs and knobby joints and snarls and stalks where he doesn't knw how to smile or stroll. He'll grow into it, And that's a Threat.

#TPOFATGIF #The Power Of Friendship (And This Gun I Found!)#yugioh #fanfic #Seto Kaiba #yugi moto #joey wheeler #tea gardner #tristan taylor #Bakura

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ptbf2002 · 3 years ago

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My Top 35 Favorite Movies

35. Hey Arnold! The Movie

34. Rugrats In Paris The Movie

33. The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

32. The Lego Ninjago Movie

31. Rugrats The Movie

30. The Lego Batman Movie

29. Tom And Jerry (2021)

28. Scoob!

27. Space Jam: A New Legacy

26. The Lego Movie

25. How To Train Your Dragon

24. Kung Fu Panda

23. Happy Feet

22. The Powerpuff Girls Movie

21. Free Guy

20. Home

19. The Smurfs

18. Despicable Me

17. Despicable Me 2

16. Despicable Me 3

15. The Spongebob Squarepants Movie

14. The Spongebob Movie: Sponge On The Run

13. The Angry Birds Movie

12. The Simpsons Movie

11. Uglydolls

10. Shaun The Sheep Movie

9. Beavis And Butthead Do America

8. South Park: Bigger, Longer, And Uncut

7. Bad Boys For Life

6. The Loud House Movie

5. Cars

4. Ratatouille

3. Finding Nemo

2. The Angry Birds Movie 2.

And 1. The Peanuts Movie

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Credit Goes To @patricksiegler1999 for template

Meme: https://www.deviantart.com/patricksiegler1999/art/Top-35-Favorite-Movies-Meme-Base-898803666

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weirdbooksifoundatwork · 6 years ago

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New Year’s Update

On New Year's 2015-2016, I made a resolution which I have re-made every year since: to

1) Read as many books as possible throughout the year, with the ultimate goal of (1a) reading at least 52 books (1/week) in one year, and

2) Keep an accurate and up-to-date list of all the books I'd read, so that I'd never forget.

I'm happy to relate that, after three years of trying, I have successfully achieved Resolution 1a! This year I finished 79 books! In past years I’ve posted my results on Facebook, but for the first time ever I can share the results with ya’ll here.

Will Grayson, Will Grayson // John Green and David Levithan

German Men Sit Down To Pee // Niklas Frank & James Cave

The Music and Hymnody of The Methodist Hymnal // Carl F. Price

Finland and its People // Robert Medill

Faust // Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

John Quincy Adams // Harlow Giles Unger

The Oboe Concertos of Sir William Herschel // The American Philosophical Society, Edited by Wilbert Davis Jerome

Hark, A Vagrant // Kate Beaton

The Art of Castle in the Sky

R.U.R.: Rossum’s Universal Robot’s // Karel Capek

Are You My Mother? // Alison Bechdel

Music Master of the Middle West: The Story of F. Melius Christiansen and the St. Olaf Choir // Leola Nelson Bergman

The National Anthems of the World // Martin Shaw and Henry Coleman

Inventing Champagne: The Worlds of Lerner and Loewe // Gene Lees

The Complete Plays of Sophocles // Translated by Robert Bagg and James Scully

The Lapps // Björn Collinder

The Unbearable Lightness of Being // Milan Kundera

The Warlords of Appalachia // Phillip Kennedy Johnson

Batman: The Killing Joke // Alan Moore

Ragtime // E.L. Doctorow

March: Book One // Rep.John Lewis (GA-5)

March Book Two // Rep. John Lewis (GA-5)

March Book Three // Rep. John Lewis (GA-5)

Songs of Innocence and of Experience // William Blake

The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge // David McCullough

The Politics of Black Women’s Hair // Althea Prince

From Memory to Memorial: Shanksville, America, and Flight 93 // J. William Thompson

Ask Me About Polyamory // Tikva Wolf

A.D.: After Death // Scott Snyder & Jeff Lemire

Silent Builder: Emily Warren Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge // Marilyn E. Weingold

American Indians and Their Music // Frances Densmore

Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town // Jon Krakauer

Russian Regional Flags: The Flags of the Subjects of the Russian Federation // Anne M. Platoff

Saga: Volume One // Brian K. Vaughn & Fiona Staples

Saga: Volume Two // Brian K. Vaughn & Fiona Staples

Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats // T.S. Eliot

Saga: Volume Three // Brian K. Vaughn & Fiona Staples

Saga: Volume Four // Brian K. Vaughn & Fiona Staples

Saga: Volume Five // Brian K. Vaughn & Fiona Staples

Saga: Volume Six // Brian K. Vaughn & Fiona Staples

Canadian City Flags: 100 Flags from Abbotsford to Yellowknife // NAVA

Saga: Volume Seven // Brian K. Vaughn & Fiona Staples

Saga: Volume Eight // Brian K. Vaughn & Fiona Staples

Candide // Leonard Bernstein, Hugh Wheeler, and Richard Wilbur

West Side Story // Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, and Jerome Robbins

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum // Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart, and Stephen Sondheim

A Fiddler on the Roof // Jule Styne, Jerry Bock, and Sheldon Harnick

The Big Book of Bisexual Trials and Errors // Elizabeth Beier

She Loves Me // Joe Masteroff, Jerry Bock, and Sheldon Harnick

Funny Girl // Jule Styne, Bob Merrill, and Isobel Lennart

South Pacific // Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua Logan

The King and I // Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II

You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown // Clark Gesner & John Gordon

A Little Night Music // Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler

Of Thee I Sing // George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, and George & Ira Gershwin

Hello, Dolly! // Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart

Great Buildings and their Constructors // Albert Kahn & Associates

History of Copper Harbor, Michigan // Clarence J. Monette

History of Jacobsville and its Sandstone Quarries // Clarence J. Monette

Two Steps Forward // Graeme Simsion and Anna Buist

Step Aside, Pops: A Hark, a Vagrant Collection // Kate Beaton

The Contract with God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue // Will Eisner

The Great Gatsby // F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Old Man and the Sea // Ernest Hemingway

Grief is the Thing with Feathers // Max Porter

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing // Hank Green

The Verge // Susan Glaspell

The Adding Machine // Elmer Rice

Wuthering Heights // Emily Brontë

Mulatto // Langston Hughes

First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Roll // Jeanna E. Abrams

A Long Day’s Journey Into Night // Eugene O’Neill

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo // Stieg Larsson

A Wizard of Earthsea // Ursula K. LeGuin

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? // Edward Albee

Genannt Gospodin // Phillip Löhle

Fences // August Wilson

A Christmas Carol // Charles Dickens

The Tombs of Atuan // Ursula K. LeGuin

#personal #book #books #library #libraries #i'm not gonna tag all the authors and titles #i simply do not have the willpower

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k-m-k · 5 years ago

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PHOTOS #GreysAnatomy 1620 Sing It Again / airdate 040220 / writer Jess Righthand / directorMichael Watkins . Owen and Link treat an older woman who wakes up from surgery and can’t stop singing, while Teddy helps Koracick stay afloat after an estranged loved one from his past comes to the hospital looking for help. Meredith, Bailey and Maggie focus their efforts on a difficult patient with a tricky diagnosis. . Guest starring is Debbie Allen as Catherine Fox, Jason George as Ben Warren, Jaicy Elliot as Taryn Helm, James Saito as Herschel Roberts, Kheng Hua Tan as Vera Roberts and Dana Wheeler-Nicholson as Dana Hamilton. . “Grey’s Anatomy” stars Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey, Chandra Wilson as Miranda Bailey, James Pickens Jr. as Richard Webber, Kevin McKidd as Owen Hunt, Jesse Williams as Jackson Avery, Caterina Scorsone as Amelia Shepherd, Camilla Luddington as Jo Wilson, Kelly McCreary as Maggie Pierce, Kim Raver as Teddy Altman, Giacomo Gianniotti as Andrew DeLuca, Greg Germann as Tom Koracick, Chris Carmack as Atticus “Link” Lincoln and Jake Borelli as Levi Schmitt. . “Grey’s Anatomy” was created and is executive produced by Shonda Rhimes. Betsy Beers, Mark Gordon, Krista Vernoff, Debbie Allen, Zoanne Clack, Fred Einesman, Andy Reaser and Meg Marinis are executive producers. . “Grey’s Anatomy” is produced by ABC Studios. ABC Studios is a part of Disney Television Studios, alongside Twentieth Century Fox Television and Fox 21 Television Studios. https://www.instagram.com/p/B-XmLLQh29F/?igshid=19os8ri9j3ihj

#greysanatomy

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gothamsite · 6 years ago

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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II – Ngôi sao mới của Hollywood

Bộ phim Aquaman đã làm mưa làm gió trong đợt cuối năm 2018, và dường như chúng ta không thể bỏ qua được một nhân vật phản diện chắc chắn sẽ tiếp tục xuất hiện trong Aquaman 2, chính là Black Manta. Và diễn viên thủ vai cho vai phản diện này chính là Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. Hãy cùng chúng mình tìm hiểu về nam diễn viên này nhé

Tiểu sử diễn viên Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

Nam diễn viên Yahya Abdul-Mateen II sinh vào ngày 15 tháng 7 năm 1986. Ngoài vai trò diễn viên như chúng ta đã biết thông qua các bộ phim anh đóng, anh còn là một kiến trúc sư. Anh được biết đến qua các vai diễn như Cadillac trong loạt phim truyền hình The Get Down, bộ phim nghệ thuật ăn khách The Greatest Showman (2017). Hay chính là vai phản diện đầy ấn tượng trong Aquaman (2018).

[caption id="attachment_1413" align="alignnone" width="3365"] Yahya Abdul Mateen II[/caption]

Abdul-Mateen được sinh ra tại New Orleans, Louisiana, là một người công dân của Mỹ. Cha anh, Yahya Abdul-Mateen I là người hồi giáo và mẹ anh, Mary là một người đạo Kitô giáo. Anh đã trải qua thời thơ ấu của mình tại Magnolia Projects ở New Orleans. Và sau đó, cả gia đình anh cùng chuyển đến Oakland, California vào thời điểm anh học trung học. Ở đây, anh theo học tại trường trung học McClymonds. Vào năm 2004, anh thi và đỗ vào trường đại học California. Tại đây, anh đã tham gia vào đội thể thao California Golden Bears với vai trò là vận động viên nhảy rào. Sau cùng, Abdul-Mateen tốt nghiệp đại học Califonia, Berkeley với tấm bằng chuyên ngành kiến trúc và sau đó làm chuyên viên kế hoạch tại một công ty ở San Francisco.

Tuy nhiên, sâu trong tâm hồn của Abdul-Mateen luôn có một mong ước, ước mơ trở thành diễn viên. Vì thế, để đi theo tiếng gọi con tim, anh đã đăng ký học và lấy bằng thạc sỹ mỹ thuật ở Trường Sân khấu điện ảnh Yale, và làm việc như một diễn viên kịch.

Sự nghiệp diễn xuất

Anh bắt đầu sự nghiệp diễn xuất của mình và tham gia vào giới giải trí vào năm 2016. Anh bắt đầu sự nghiệp của mình với sê-ri phim truyền hình âm The Get Down của Baz Luhrmann, được công chiếu trên Netflix. Anh vào vai nhân vật Clarence “Cadillac” Caldwell, một hoàng tử của thế giới vũ trường. Với vai diễn này, Abdul-Mateen thành công trong việc gây ấn tượng với người hâm mộ và các phê bình bằng khả năng diễn xuất của mình. Để có thể diễn vai diễn này, anh đã phải dành tổng cộng 7 giờ liền để học nhảy Disco cho vai diễn này. Có thể nói, anh nghiêm túc như thế nào với nghiệp diễn và đam mê của anh đối với nghiệp diễn.

[caption id="attachment_1416" align="alignnone" width="800"] Yahya Abdul trong The Get Down[/caption]

Năm 2017, Abdul-Mateen xuất hiện trong bộ phim truyền hình The Vanishing of Sidney Hall của Shawn Christensen. Trong bộ phim này, anh thể hiện vai Duane, một người giáo viên Tiếng Anh từ thời trung học. Bộ phim cũng được công chiếu tại liên hoan phim Sundace vào cùng năm 2017.

Trong cùng năm, anh cũng xuất hiện trong bộ phim hài hành động Baywatch trong vai diễn một sĩ quan cảnh sát tên Garner Ellerbee, cùng với Zac Efron và Dwayne Johnson. Bộ phim này do Seth Gordon đạo diễn và được phát hành vào ngày 25 tháng 5 năm 2017. Năm 2017 có vẻ là một năm làm việc chăm chỉ của Abdul-Mateen khi anh còn tham gia diễn xuất trong bộ phim nhạc kịch nghệ thuật The Greatest Showman (2017) trong vai diễn W.D. Wheeler cùng với Zac Efron và Hugh Jackman. Từ một kẻ thất nghiệp, P.T. Barnum ch��ng tỏ mọi giấc mơ đều có thể thành sự thật nếu ta dám thực hiện nó. Bộ phim về những con người “đặc biệt”, vốn bị người khác xem là quái nhân, đối xử bất công, khinh thường. Họ dám đứng lên vì ước mơ của mình, tham gia vào một màn trình diễn chưa từng có trong lịch sử trước đó. Họ cháy hết mình trên sân khấu như thể đấy là lần cuối họ được sống với chính bản thân họ, với chính ước mơ bị người đời dè bỉu, chê bai và phản đối. Bộ phim gặt hái được nhiều thành công với nhiều đề cử và giải thưởng.

[caption id="attachment_1414" align="alignnone" width="1280"] Abdul cùng Zendaya trong The Greatest Showman 2017[/caption]

Năm 2018, có vẻ là một năm thành công của Abdul-Mateen. Anh tham gia bộ phim truyền hình Boundaries, cùng với Christopher và Vera Farmiga, do Shana Feste đạo diễn. Và bước ngược trong sự nghiệp của anh, để lại nhiều ấn tượng chính là vai diễn nhân vật phản diện trong bộ phim Aquaman, vào vai nhân vật phản diện Black Manta, người có hận thù sâu đậm với Aquaman do Aquaman đã bỏ lại cha anh ta và không cứu ông ta thoát chết dù cặp đôi bố con này đã gây ra nhiều điều ác. Trong bộ phim của DC Comics này, anh đã thể hiện xuất sắc sự căm hận của nhân vật Black Manta dành cho Aquaman và năm lần bảy lượt đòi giết Aquaman.

[caption id="attachment_1418" align="alignnone" width="768"] Abdul trong vai Black Manta[/caption]

Cùng năm 2018, Abdul-Mateen được chọn tham gia bộ phim kinh dị Us, do Jordan Peele đạo diễn, được phát hành vào tháng 3 năm 2019. Bộ phim kinh dị gây được nhiều tiếng vang cũng như có những plot twist khiến người xem buộc phải suy ngẫm đến từ đạo diễn bộ phim “Get Out” (2017).

Trong tương lai về sự nghiệp diễn xuất của Abdul-Mateen sẽ còn phát triển hơn nữa. Dự kiến anh sẽ hợp tác và tham gia diễn xuất trong sê-ri Watchman của HBO. Vào tháng 2 năm 2019, người ta cũng đã xác nhận rằng Abdul-Mateen đang đàm phán để đóng vai chính trong bản làm lại Candyman của Jordan Peele với tư cách là nhân vật chính. Có vẻ mối nhân duyên giữa anh và nhà đạo diễn đầy tài ba này không hề kết thúc. Đặc biệt, nếu có thể vào vai diễn chính trong bộ phim của Jordan Peele, sự nghiệp diễn xuất của Abdul-Mateen sẽ còn nở rộ hơn nữa.

[caption id="attachment_1415" align="alignnone" width="913"] Abdul trong phim Candyman[/caption]

Vào tháng 3 năm 2019, Abdul-Mateen đã được thông báo sẽ tham gia vào phần thứ năm của loạt phim khoa học viễn tưởng Black Mirror của Netflix.

Hãy cùng chờ đón những sự thể hiện mình về mặt diễn xuất của anh hơn nữa trong tương lai gần.

Đời tư của Abdul-Mateen

Không giống như những diễn viên khác, nam diễn viên Yahya Abdul-Mateen II không có những tin đồn liên quan đến đời tư cũng như không có bất cứ tranh cãi nào về đời tư lẫn cuộc sống của mình cả. Hiện tại, theo thông tin từ nhiều nguồn, thì nam diễn viên này đang trong tình trạng độc thân và cũng không có mối quan hệ nào để đưa ra các phỏng đoán hẹn hò. Không có bất cứ dữ liệu nào liên quan đến đời tư của anh. Có thể nói, Abdul-Mateen là một con người sống khép kín cũng như anh không hề muốn cuộc sống của anh được chú ý thay vào đó mọi người hãy chú ý nhiều hơn vào con đường sự nghiệp của anh. Tuy nhiên, người hâm mộ vẫn luôn muốn tìm kiếm thêm chút thông tin đời tư của anh ấy.

Tuy thế, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II cũng không làm người hâm mộ quá buồn lòng vì sự kín tiếng về phương diện đời tư. Anh đang hoạt động trên cả Facebook, Instagram và Twitter. Anh sở hữu hơn 2,9 nghìn người theo dõi trên Facebook, 60,8 nghìn người theo dõi trên Instagram và 19,8 nghìn người theo dõi trên Twitter.

Những điều cần biết

Cái tên rất phổ biến trong tiếng Ả Rập

Lớn lên trong một gia đình có cha là người Hồi giáo và mẹ là người Kitô giáo, không có gì ngạc nhiên khi nam diễn viên 32 tuổi này có một cái tên rất phổ biến ở Hồi giáo. Yahya là tiếng Ả Rập và nó được dịch theo nghĩa đen có nghĩa là John The Baptist, một nhà tiên tri nổi tiếng trong Kitô giáo và Hồi giáo. Tuy nhiên, nó cũng có thể biểu thị ý nghĩa một nhà lãnh đạo.

Anh ấy là một diễn viên được đào tạo bài bản

[caption id="attachment_1419" align="alignnone" width="1662"] Yahya Abdul[/caption]

Giống như Angela Bassett, David Alan Grier và Lupita Nyong, Abdul-Mateen theo học tại Trường Sân khấu điện ảnh Yale danh tiếng sau khi tốt nghiệp đại học Califonia chuyên ngành kiến trúc. Không có gì ngạc nhiên khi anh ấy có thể đa dạng hóa sự nghiệp diễn xuất của mình với nhiều vai diễn, nhiều thể loại khác nhau như vậy. Cũng như thấy được sự nghiêm túc và tâm huyết của anh đối với sự nghiệp diễn xuất như thế nào.

Chịu một mất mát lớn trong những năm tháng đại học

"Tôi theo học chuyên ngành kiến trúc tại Berkeley khi cha tôi qua đời vào năm 2007. Chúng tôi biết ông ấy bị ung thư, nhưng chúng tôi không ngờ nó sẽ cướp đi ông ấy nhanh như thế", nam diễn viên nói. "Trong tâm trí tôi luôn nói rằng 'Ông ấy sẽ vượt qua.' Và khi anh ấy không thể vượt qua, tôi không thể hiểu nổi. Tôi chỉ mới 21 tuổi và người bạn thân nhất của tôi đã chết. Điều tồi tệ nhất đã xảy đến với tôi, cũng vì thế nó dạy tôi hãy làm những điều khiến tôi hạnh phúc và thực sự theo đuổi ước mơ của mình.”

Tìm đến đồng nghiệp Lupita Nyong'o để lấy cảm hứng.

"Tôi yêu việc cô ấy cũng đến từ Trường kịch nghệ Yale," Abdul-Mateen II nói về người chiến thắng giải Oscar. Dù cách nhau nhiều khóa nhưng cả anh và Nyong'o đều được trao giải thưởng Herschel Williams danh tiếng của trường Yale vì khả năng diễn xuất xuất sắc của mình. "Công việc, nhận thức, phong cách của cô ấy. Cô ấy hoàn toàn là hình mẫu. Tôi rất tự hào về những thành tích cô ấy đã đạt được."

[caption id="attachment_1417" align="alignnone" width="800"] Bộ phim US - 2019[/caption]

Cả hai cũng có cơ hội cùng hợp tác trong bộ phim kinh dị Us, làm mưa làm gió trong giới yêu phim kinh dị.

Bài viết trên của chuyên mục Đời sống diễn viên đã tổng hợp những thông tin thú vị về nam diễn viên Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, người thủ vai diễn phản diện Black Manta cũng như có tài năng diễn xuất đáng kinh ngạc này. Hy vọng bạn có những giây phút đọc bài bổ ích và thư giãn nhé!

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13. The 1985 Season ---

With no shift to the fall, ownership groups in Michigan, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Miami (Washington) did not opt to relocate their franchises for 1985 and the Championship game remained scheduled for the Silverdome.

With no more talk of a move to the fall, the perception of the league improved dramatically. Season ticket sales bounced back dramatically.

Even with the departure of two teams (San Antonio and Chicago) and the early perception of Los Angeles being a weaker team, the 1985 season was significantly stronger than anyone expected, especially at the gate, as the fall shadow over franchises like Denver and Houston did not exist in this universe.

Usher would be pleased with the way Haphadzy’s reallocation efforts helped parity in the league. All teams would finish with at least 6 wins, a good total for franchise survival.

The return of J. Walter Duncan relaxed the league leadership. With three of the four ridiculously rich owners (Taubman, Duncan, Trump, and DeBartalo) in the league favoring calmly waiting it out in the spring, the influence of Einhorn and Trump fades as the season progresses.

Team by team breakdowns

With Anthony Carter back healthy, the Michigan Panthers roar back to form tying the Stars for the best record in the league and edging them out for the division title.

With no ridiculous commute times and the championship attendance bump in this reality, the 1985 Stars look more like the Stars in this alternate universe with only a brutal conference pulling their record back down to the pack.

With Steve Young and Herschel Walker, Trump fully expected to win his division, but Young struggled with a non-threatening receiving corps and went down with an injury late.

The contraction reinforced Pittsburgh Maulers hung around every week, but the division was just too tough for them. Rozier and Carano looked significantly better in year two, but the team’s conservative play calling was blamed.

Birmingham was dramatically improved and ran away with their division, but in this alternate reality Michigan & Philadelphia's players did not have weird travel hardships and new teammates to adjust to, so Birmingham again fell short of the elite level.

In our reality, a late-season collapse cost the bandits a playoff spot in Bassett's last year. In this reality, a loaded division would knock the Generals out of the playoffs instead. Bandits minority owner Donald Dizney would purchase the team late in the 1985 season.

Lindy Infante was never able to consistently win as a head coach. The unfortunate injury to quarterback Brian Sipe would end up costing him his job. Despite the signing of very highly regarded San Diego Chargers backup quarterback Ed Luther and a strong season by former Heisman Trophy winner RB Archie Griffin and RB Kevin Mack, the Bulls just cannot win enough games.

Mike Hohensee would open the season as the team’s starter as Miami went hard after Bernie Kosar. The team would eventually lose out on the Miami star when Kosar’s hometown Cleveland Browns staked a claim. Hohensee would be a very solid, but unspectacular starter. Schenellenberger would turn Miami into a live underdog some weeks, but the defense although quite deep, seemed to be missing a player or two. Rookie Willie Broughton would have a good year at DE, but that would not be enough. Joey Walters, Eddie Brown, and Curtis Bledsoe would be in the thousand yard club at season's end.

Despite scoring a ton of points, Houston would barely hold off Oklahoma for the division title due to a very forgettable record in division. The loss of key players QB Jim Kelly and WR Ricky Sanders (to Injury) and RB Todd Fowler would hurt the team.

In the USFL’s first season, Chuck Fairbanks grossly underestimated the quality of the other coaches in the league. In his second go around, he does not. Ernest Anderson has a breakout year at RB with 1300 yards, helping keep the load off Doug Williams. No longer overburdened and gifted with a full range of targets with proven possession receiver Kris Haines joining holdovers deep threat WR Al Williams and TE Ron Wheeler, Williams does enough to get Oklahoma into the playoffs just ahead of Memphis. The Outlaws shutdown “Gunslinger Defense” under Jim Bates is the story of the season, holding Jim Kelly to a total of 40 points in their two regular season matchups.

Pepper Rodgers took it up a notch in 1985 but there were still too many teams that were just better than the Showboats. Still no one wanted to face the Minister of Defense and this game team in the playoffs. Rodgers benching of dynamic young QB Walter Lewis for veteran Mike Kelley is somewhat controversial with the fans.

With Marcus Dupree not blowing out his knee on Portland's lousy turf as he did in our reality, New Orleans offered the League's most devastating one-two punch on the ground. Dupree’s combination of size and speed reminded many of Hershel Walker, but many felt Dupree had a lot more flexibility and RB skills and might be better down the road as his game matured. Reggie Collier was the same unpolished, often injured QB despite the coaching of QB whisperer Dick Coury. Still...Collier and Dupree sold a lot of season tickets. Sadly the wins weren’t there and Coury was let go at season’s end. To try to solve his QB problem, Carnizario would pursue Collier’s collegiate coach, Bobby Collins.

Alan Risher struggled a bit in his return as Arizona's new starting quarterback. It was clear there were passes old QB Greg Landry could make that Risher struggled with a bit. Risher played better in a scheme that incorporated his mobility than he did in the Allen offense. The loss of Tim Spencer is noticeable, despite very strong seasons from HB Mack Boatner and FB Kevin Long. The fans don't care. They embrace the Wranglers. The return of Risher to the starting lineup and Keel to the team allows George Allen's team to recover fans of the Year 1 Wranglers. The team also sees an attendance bounce from the run to the championship game the previous year.

Doug Flutie takes over the starting role in Denver by mid-season and Denver streaks to the playoffs squeezing by Oakland on the season’s last day. Denver fans don't like how their legacy Bronco guys are getting cycled out, but with no head-to-head competition with the Broncos they're willing to buy into Mouse Davis's success.

Fred Besana, Eric Jordan, Tim Newton, Gordon Banks and Charlie Sumner have a very good season with the offense reaching new heights, but the team falls short of the playoffs due to some late injuries.

The departure of Steve Young and the star offensive linemen is oddly a non-factor. Neuhesiel is a competent replacement and the new offensive line plays well. Season ticket sales go up with the arrival of the UCLA vets TE Tim Wrightman and QB Rick Neuheisel and the move to Anaheim Stadium. The arrow is generally pointing upwards on what the LA media is now calling “The Anaheim Express”. The Tathams are not thrilled with John Hadl though as the Los Angeles offense is more methodical and solid then dangerous, plus second-year quarterback Rick Neuheisel throws a few too many interceptions. The story of this team is it’s dominant young defensive line that guts any team with offensive line issues.

Playoffs???!!!!...

Houston continued to struggle in the post season against ball control teams with good defenses.

Oklahoma held Doug Flutie below 28 for the first game in 2 months.

Philadelphia rallied late to beat Birmingham.

Michigan got a surprisingly tough game from an inspired Tampa Bay squad.

The Philadelphia/Michigan game was a game for the ages with a late no-call at home allowing the home town Panthers to put the game away in front of 65,712 fans. There was a lot of controversy in league offices before and after the game as Usher got killed for insisting the league adopt a western and eastern conference that has the Stars and Panthers in the same conference. Tad Taube sent a letter railing on the commissioner for “costing the league the ideal championship game from a rating perspective”. He also went on to attack the league for “Handing the western conference to Duncan”, voicing what many of the less successful teams were thinking....that Oklahoma was made too competitive by the league’s allocations.

Oklahoma’s “Gunslinger Defense” throttled Alan Risher, sacking him 8 times and intercepting him a season high 3 times as Oklahoma defeated the defending Western Conference Champions to advance to the title game.

With minimal TV ratings expected with small market Oklahoma in the final and a perception that Michigan would run away with the title game, the story of the game may have been the story before the game.

Michigan owner Al Taubman followed through with his promise to slash the price of remaining tickets for the championship game. In front of a very noisy capacity crowd of 80,638, the Panthers dominated early, with the fan noise causing several Outlaw offsides and delay of game penalties. Michigan took an 18 point lead into halftime as the Panthers held the Outlaws to 70 total yards in the first half.

But the game wasn’t over. Chuck Fairbanks made some adjustments at the half and Oklahoma got their running game going a little at the start of the second half.

That opened up the deep passing game and Doug Williams came alive at the start of the fourth quarter. With three minutes to go Williams had the Outlaws down by only three points but that was as close as they could get.

Michigan RB John Williams was the game’s MVP with 40 rushes for 129 yards and 2 TDs.

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