#Orlando West

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The Damsel and Orlando

Artist: Benjamin West (American, 1738–1820)

Date: c. 1793

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States

Description

The Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto’s epic "Orlando furioso" (1516) enjoyed revived popularity in the eighteenth century. In this melodramatic scene, the costumes, the physical types, and, especially, the poses are reminiscent of the style of the Italian High Renaissance, which West greatly admired. The hero, Orlando, is shown as he learns that he has lost his place in the affections of Angelica, who now loves someone else and has dispensed with a jeweled bracelet Orlando had given her. The painter concentrated all the work’s tension in the theatrical pose of Orlando, who, in the wildness of his grief, loses his mind.

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Orlando in Love MV out 1.14

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Sandy Powell: 'Orlando! Dressing The Part' @scadfash curated by @raf_gom.

2 November 2024

Sandy Powell's Dressing the Part: Costume Design for Film is curated by Rafael Gomes, creative director of SCAD FASH museums in Atlanta, USA. Open now until March 26, 2025.

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WOOOOO OCTOBER RECAP

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316 - Liberty Heights

After Diner earned an Oscar nomination for its screenplay and the hearts of dads everywhere, writer/director Barry Levinson's star quickly rose in Hollywood, culminating in Rain Man sweeping the Oscars. In the 1990s, Levinson had his share of hits and misses, but ended the decade with the final entry of his Baltimore films, Liberty Heights. The film tackles antisemitism and racism in the midcentury from a boomer lens with a young cast led by Ben Foster and Adrien Brody, but even strong reviews failed to draw an audience or the attention of awards voters.

This episode, we talk about Levinson's filmography and the film atmosphere that led to this film being quickly forgotten. We also talk about Foster's recent output overlooked by Oscar, Joe Mantegna's career before being lost to the CBS soup, and Brody being mostly cut out of The Thin Red Line.

Topics also include Forget Paris, Bebe Neuwirth cast as a mom shortly after the Chicago revival, and retro movie chain pre-shows.

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Orlando

from Orlando by Virginia Woolf

submitted by anon

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Kick ass art from Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver 1 by Lorenzo Tammetta and Frank William!

[ephermalities]

this is kinda sick of mrs woolf because imagine being vita and your gf writes you a book but the whole time the primary symbolism is her saying that you suck at writing 😭

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Weird conservative people who bitch about forced diversity and white genocide every time they see a black person in a period piece are so funny. They have no idea how diverse the western classics actually are. Take the damsel in distress trope, for example. We all have this image of a swooning lily white maiden being rescued by a noble knight in shining armour. Except that's bullshit. Andromeda, the trope-maker, was an Ethiopian princess. Her medieval clone Angelica was a Chinese princess rescued by a Muslim knight. Even Saint George's damsel was eventually placed in Libya. The writers of our myths had no interest in puffing up "The West" or "whiteness" because those concepts hadn't been invented yet, and stories of exotic foreign princesses in faraway lands were much more fascinating to the average peasant than Sir Toby of Essex rescuing the Duchess of York from the Loch Ness monster or whatever.

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corporate needs you to find the difference between this picture:

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ok here's a question. am I going to get a pink seashell for Fake Out 🥺

[julianpotto]

Orlando is just Virginia Woolf's fanfiction of Vita Sackville-West, when you think about it

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orlando summary for y'all gay people

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All Passion Spent: Episode 3 (1.3, BBC, 1986)

"I realise that he wanted me to enjoy all his beautiful things, but what did he imagine I could do with so much money? I can't believe, Mr. Bucktrout, that he knew what he was doing when he left all this to me."

"In the eyes of the world he has conferred a great benefit on you, Lady Slane."

"I know. I know, but I never wanted anything but to stand aside. Something, it seems, that this world of ours won't allow even at the age of eighty-five."

"Well, even the smallest planet is compelled to circle round the sun."

"Yes, but does that mean that we must all, willy-nilly, circle round wealth, position, possessions? I thought that I had escaped from all those things, Mr. Bucktrout, and now Mr. Fitz... of all people... he pushes me back into the middle of them. What am I to do? What am I to do? I always preferred the works of God to the works of man, because they're given - freely - to anyone who can appreciate them, pauper or millionaire. Does that make sense?"

"It makes perfect sense."

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genuinely the northern part of florida is not florida in the same way the rest of it is. like. i cant describe it. maybe the problem with florida is that the capital is up there

we need to make it accurate. we need to slide the midwest regions across the map until they're actually in the west