#Soleils

[vhscorp]

Nos cœurs sont comme deux soleils qui se réchauffent l’un l’autre…

V. H. SCORP

[fleurdusoir]

La mélancolie Berce de doux chants Mon coeur qui s’oublie Aux soleils couchants.

Paul Verlaine, Poèmes saturniens

[taffywabbit]

all fours

[ophelialoveshandsomemen]

Say what you will about Van Helsing 2004; hate it, love it, be indifferent, But the All-Hallow's masquerade ball went sooooo hard and it had zero right to do so! It's a fun, campy, monster mash movie with wonderfully dated ( and expensive) cgi and non-stop action meant to be a popcorn flick one takes out to watch around spooky season. And it has this* chef's kiss* GORGEOUS 6 minute sequence plopped arbitrarily in the second act, which unexpectedly surpasses nearly every other ball in the last 30+ years of film( notable exception being the Cinderella 2015 ball) for literally no reason other than to be dramatic af.

Like feast your eyes on this Gothic masterpiece!!! Who doesn't want to immediately live in this picture?!??

They used those candles with oil in them so that they would have real candles, real string orchestra( I believe), probably around 100 real life extras( something which is tragically absent in modern film), said extras are all in beautiful fully decked-out costumes( which are in luxuriously dark colours, but nearly no fully black, another thing you cannot say for much modern cinema), REAL CIRQUE DU SOLEIL PERFORMERS for all the acrobatics!!!! Hell, instead of filming in a sound stage, where they could control the reverb and the acoustics and the size of the set and the bloody lighting ( they apparently had a heck of a time emulating the firelight for this sequence) and the temperature( it's very cold in stone churches!) better, they filmed in a Baroque church in Prague! As I said, peak dramatic splendour, jfc...

Think about that a second...They filmed a vampire masquerade in a Baroque Catholic Church( St. Nicholas' in Lesser Town, if you were curious) with amazing over-the-top acoustics and marble statues and real, tiled floors and marble pillars and a choir loft which they very much utilized, covered the pipe organ and the altar with a grand brocade curtain so it wouldn't be so obviously a, you know, a church! And there's a gold gilt elevated and canopied pulpit into which they put two vampire kiddies for, again, the sake of being dramatic.

And the costumes! They remind me of the 25th anniversary Phantom of the Opera Masquerade costumes. Same quality, like they're old, well-cared-for costumes pulled out of a warehouse, instead of fast industry churn-outs. With lots of trim and colour and masks and lace and feathers and..just...ugh.. they are all perfect! Just look at all the head pieces on the ladies and the hats on all the gentleman ( save Dracula of course) and the powdered wigs on the musicians. ANNNNDD! The dresses are historically correct!!!!!! It's the 80's bustle era! Nobody does the 80's bustle era in film anymore and it's a bummer. Oh and one other thing! Anna's ( and other women's) hair, at least here in the ball, is also historically accurate because it's all pinned up! None of those fucken modern beachwaves at a ball! Everybody's got updo's!

Gah, I swear, Dracula in his gold cloak really does things to me in this scene!

By the way, the acrobatics are bonkers in here for just background stuff!! Especially the random guys on unicycles and the dude playing the violin whilst standing on a ball...Like....WHAT?

Anyways, all this to say, that this masquerade ball feels sooo real and tangible and because of that it blows every other film out of the water, and no, I will not change my mind!!!!!

Here's a few more gifs, bcuz, why the hell not, this scene is sexy as fuu*ck?

Alright I need to go to bed now.

[ohmovie]

Alain Delon in Purple Noon Plein soleil (1960) dir. René Clément

[le-cercle-rouge]

Paris, août 2024.

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Soleil (Pierre Clémenti, 1988)

[chimkin-samich]

Yeah, yeah, the audio is in Italian but I promise you it's been translated word for word, I couldn't help myself it fit him *like a glove*

Guess I had to wait COVID delirium to muster up the courage to do fanart for other creators 👉👈

GITM belongs to @venomous-qwille

[circasoleil]

Sea Grunks Caught

[soupdweller]

tw blood⚠️

:')

gitm belongs to @venomous-qwille [speedpaint under cut]

[rechab]

Paul Celan - des chants au-delà des hommes

peinture W M Turner Soleils-Filamentsau-dessus du désert gris-noir.Une pensée haute commeun arbreaccroche le son de lumière : il y aencore des chants à chanter au-delàdes hommes.

[taffywabbit]

a small glimpse into an alternate timeline where i got really obsessed with ferrets instead of bunnies. yay yippee

[mocha-illustrates]

hi i'm alive, i've just been down with the sol sickness since last september so have some sketches and wips

anyway go read ghost in the machine by @venomous-qwille plsplsplsplsplsplspslpls

[ohmovie]

ALAIN DELON PURPLE NOON PLEIN SOLEIL (1960) dir. René Clément

[mulatto-macchiato]

“My choice, Friend.”

I'm starting to realize I draw a lot of melodrama with this AU.

GITM -> venomous-qwille

Uncropped panels w/o texts:

[thetruemek]

“Misuta, this behavior is most unbecoming~” - GITM: Three of Pentacles

IT'S FINALLY DONE HOLY SHIT!! I really hope you guys like it! Details under the cut!

@venomous-qwille *bows* this was one of my favorite scenes so far in the fic!! Can't wait for more bots to finally show up I HAVE A MIGHTY NEED FOR NOVA AND SOMBRA!

Uh, also, the term 'Comely Thespian' lives in my head rent-free now and pokes me in the ganglia every few hours 👀 I SEE YOU FOOL!