#Midnight Express

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brad davis midnight express, 1978

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THIS is my turn-on for today: Loverboy Dennis putting the Ab Stretch on young Jim Evans. See the jobber sell. Sell, jobber, sell!

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Joseph Johnny Lillard Jr. (June 15, 1905 – September 18, 1978) was an American football, baseball, and basketball player. From 1932 to 1933, he was a running back for the National Football League's (NFL) Chicago Cardinals. Lillard was the last African-American, along with Ray Kemp, to play in the NFL until 1946, when Kenny Washington and Woody Strode joined the Los Angeles Rams. Lillard received the nickname "The Midnight Express" by the media. In 1933, he was responsible for almost half of the Cardinals' points.

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October 6, 1978 marked the U.S. premiere of Alan Parker’s MIDNIGHT EXPRESS in New York City.

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Speak softly and carry a spike maul…

Elsie Lysander from my original story Midnight Express :) I’m still working on the premise but it involves the afterlife and steam locomotives.

Elsie, by trade, is a Rail Runner (although she wasn’t always). Her job is to jump off the back of trains traveling between life and death in order to make repairs to the track, or lay new spikes (hence the hammer). It’s dangerous work, yet Elsie has seemingly no issues completing her in high heels and a skirt.

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m i d n i g h t e x p r e s s, 1978 🎬 dir. alan parker brad davis [w. norbert weisser]

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Rewatching my boy Jethro Cane on the midnight express! It's been many years since I last watched this episode.

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Old Boyfriends (1979) by Joan Tewkesbury

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Midnight Express (1977) by Billy Hayes and William Hoffer

A Book of Common Prayer (1977) by Joan Didion

Going Crazy: An Inquiry into Madness in Our Time (1976) by Otto Friedrich

Living Well is the Best Revenge (1971) by Calvin Tomkins

Heavily Tattooed Men and Women (1976) by Spider Webb

Maya Plisetskaya (1976)

Secret Passages and Hiding Places (1974) by Jeremy Errand

Dispatches (1977) by Michael Herr

Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 (1962) by W. H. Auden

Slapstick (1976) by Kurt Vonnegut

Colette: A Taste for Life (1977) by Yvonne Mitchell

The Laszlo Letters (1977) by Don Novello

Cheap Chic (1975) by Carol Troy and Caterine Milinaire

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A bad machine doesn't know that he's a bad machine Midnight Express (1978) Dir: Alan Parker

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Platoon (1986, Oliver Stone)

24/03/2024

Platoon is a 1986 film, written and directed by Oliver Stone, which deals with his time in Vietnam as a volunteer during the war and is inspired by the real experiences the director had between 1967 and 1971 during his military service.

The film won 4 Oscars out of 8 nominations and Oliver Stone was also awarded the Silver Bear in Berlin as best director. In 1998 the American Film Institute placed it in eighty-third place in the ranking of the one hundred best American films of all time, while ten years later, in the updated list, it dropped to eighty-sixth place. In 2019, it was chosen for preservation in the National Film Registry of the United States Library of Congress.

The bloodiest episode, as in many other films dealing with the Vietnam War, is inspired by the most atrocious event of that conflict, known to history as the My Lai massacre, in which American soldiers committed atrocities including rape of very young girls, indiscriminate killings of innocent civilians, destruction of the homes and resources of the inhabitants, believed to be allies of the Viet Cong, despite there being no evidence. From this perspective, the figure of the platoon commander, Lieutenant Wolfe, both for his inability to control his men and for other characteristics, can be traced back to the main person responsible for My Lai, the then US Army Lieutenant William Calley, convicted to several years of military detention for that very affair.

Due to an error by Lieutenant Wolfe, who gives wrong coordinates via radio, the platoon is decimated by friendly artillery.

In the last war action of his volunteer service, Chris escapes a deadly ambush by the Viet Cong who almost completely annihilate the platoon and the subsequent American bombing with napalm.

Initially Hollywood snubs the script as many producers are of the opinion that what three is to say about the Vietnam War has already been reported in highly successful films such as Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter, however the strength of Stone's script still attracts some producers who see enormous potential in him. He was then assigned to write a screenplay for another film, Stone accepted and wrote Midnight Express in 1977, thanks to which he won the Oscar for best non-original screenplay (first statuette for Stone) a fact that made all of Hollywood understand the Stone's enormous potential; it was therefore not difficult for him to find the producer to begin work on Platoon.

The film was shot, following the great example of Apocalypse Now, director Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece, on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines, starting in February 1986. The film's production was almost canceled due to the political upheavals in country, due to Ferdinand Marcos, dictator of the country. Upon arrival in the Philippines, the cast members underwent a two-week course of intensive training by Dale Dye (former Marine captain during the Vietnam War and interpreter of Captain Harris), during which they had to dig trenches and suffer forced marches and night "ambushes".

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brad davis midnight express 1978 dir. alan parker

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Midnight Express, 1978.

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Transformers: Mosaic #390 - "Rules"

Originally posted on June 11th, 2009

Story, Art - Seb

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wada sez:

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Elsie Lysander

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In the forgotten Crescent Quadrant of Midnight Express’s main world, Elsie grew up in the small town of Ariadine. It’s a tiny place with scarce inhabitants, where color doesn’t exist and people live their lives under a permanent shroud of night.

Unlike her gray-skinned peers and monochrome world, eighteen-year-old Elsie has her own natural pigmentation, though it’s very faint due to her moonlit pallor. It’s something that makes her strange amongst her class; so strange that her overbearing mother, May, paints her skin gray each morning to help her fit in. But Elsie doesn’t let that keep her from thinking; she’s a wiz at mechanics, and loves to tinker with things like watches in her spare time.

If only she knew the secret her mother was hiding from her.

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Elsie’s gray skin ->

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m i d n i g h t e x p r e s s, 1978 🎬 dir. alan parker brad davis [w. norbert weisser]

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You ever hear a story and think, "there's no way this can exist in any visual medium"? Something so wild, so weird, so dream-like, it can only be seen in your imagination?

About a week ago I refreshed my phone's local music library (4700 songs now) and threw a bunch of podcasts and audio books on there for good measure. This came up while I was working out in the shed while I was packing up to move. It's absolutely wonderful and very seasonally appropriate.

Hopefully the BBC doesn't kill me too hard for this. I tried to find a copy online to link, but it's currently listed as "unavailable" on the official BBC website and there's no other way to hear it outside of archive.org, which while operational, still has not completely recovered from the problems it suffered a few weeks ago.

Feels like the sort of thing where they keep a tight leash on stuff like this so maybe I'll get a finger wagged at me for posting something they're making artificially scarce. Pray for mojo and listen while you can.