#actual lars mikkelsen

[gorevidalsassoon]

[spicynectarines]

Somewhere in Wild Space, Anakin is at an art museum

[frc-ambaradan]

THAT pause. THAT smile. Thrawn in essence.

[chasingthewesternsun]

I wanted to start with a reference of Lars and then make adjustments/changes to fit the Thrawn in my head. He’s my baby :3

[flintsilvers]

maybe when i see him act in the actual show ill like lars mikkelsen's thrawn but as of right im mourning MY thrawn

[afloatinships]

Finished Ahsoka

WolfWren is great

Great show

WolfWren is great

The villains are some of the best star wars villains we have had in a while

WolfWren is great

Glad they actually brought Lars Mikkelsen to play Thrawn

And, oh yeah, WolfWren is great

[readinglistfics]

it’s so bad rn yall. i cant stop thinking about him. old man thrawn. i keep opening tumblr and scrolling through the tags every 10 minutes. i look at reddit and comment on every thrawn post about how hot he is to me. idk why but he’s just so…

i cant get him out of my mind. why does this old man have me in such a grip what the hell like i actually really desire him carnally and yes ik he’s old and literally my grandfather’s age but why do i wanna fuck him.

like literally why is my pussy wet just thinking about thrawn someone answer me !!!!!

i need to be spayed bc im my legs are spread and im humping the air just thinking about him

(horny hours - i hope lars mikkelsen doesnt think too poorly of me 😭)

[lykomeraki]

The Ahsoka series should have been animated

Personally I am of the belief that the Ahsoka series should have been animated. It sucks that there is still a belief that animation is just for kids, and live action would draw in a larger audience. Animation brings more range and opportunities that live action just can't capture, and the fact that something is animated does not even slightly mean it is solely for kids. And honestly, viewers of Ahsoka would have had to watch both Clone Wars and Rebels to even understand who half the characters were and why Ezra and Thrawn were important.

There would be a much better range for fight scenes, and the actors apart from a few, like Eman Esfandi, David Tenant (even as a voice actor) and Lars Mikkelsen were very wooden and didn't really bring the characters to life. And that scene in the finale where they're deflecting the shots from the stormtroopers inside the fortress was choreographed horribly. Animation would have allowed for more of the action filled fight scenes we saw in Rebels and Clone Wars.

They also put to much focus on Sabine becoming a jedi, I didn't really see any hints of that in Rebels, and I think it would have been really cool to see her use some of her mandalorian gadgets. and animation would have provided much better opportunities for them to be used like we were able to see in Rebels.

The show was also essentially Rebels season 5. I think that was actually confirmed somewhere (don't remember where though). I think they should have named it differently, like Specter Crew or something. and animation would allow them to include characters like Zeb and Kallus. But unfortunately, much like the Kenobi series Ahsoka ended up being turned into a side character in her own show.

Animation would also provide more opportunities for continuation, as well as making effects like nightsister magic (the way they used this in the show made no sense at all) and explosions fit in better with the setting. Animation also means that you can get acrobatics and fluid movement from the characters you expect them from like Ahsoka, without actors having to worry about prosthetics.

Thoughts?

[kyberrebel]

Things that went through my mind during Ahsoka Episode 6

Ahsoka is talking about not having enough time to prepare Sabine to make the right choice about leaving to find Ezra, when I don’t think any amount of training could have changed her mind. Kanan’s gone, Hera, Chopper and Zeb are often off doing New Republic stuff. Even with Ahsoka back as her Master, she is probably still feeling extremely alone. She loves Ezra, and there is no way Ahsoka could have convinced her not to go.

“Perhaps for Sabine it was the only choice.” See, Huyang gets it

Huyang saying “A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away” is making me laugh my ass off

It’s hilarious, yet makes me slightly uncomfortable, since Star Wars never really breaks the fourth wall

How dare they not let Sabine share a room with her new girlfriend, Shin

OKAY BUT SERIOUSLY. LOOK AT THE WAY SHIN LOOKS AT SABINE IN THE COCKPIT, I love my space lesbians

Wow, Shin has talked more in this episode than she has in the whole show so far.

Baylon DEFINITELY has his own plan he is hiding from Morgan and the witches. Can’t wait to see how that goes

SABINE IS FINALLY USING THE FO- oh, never mind

The shot of the battered Star Destroyer arriving combined with the music is giving me chills

Hey, those are some cool ass looking Stormtroo- OH SHIT ITS THRAWN

ITS ABOUT TIME

Such an amazing entrance into live-action for him. I feel it is definitely succeeding at letting casual, non-rebel-watching fans know how important and how big of a figure he is.

I’m sorry but he still totally looks like a blue Elon Musk. 

Soooooo… Where’s Ezra?

I just know Ezra would love collecting all those cool Stormtrooper helmets

I don’t know what the rat-dog thing  is but I love him

SABINE USE YOUR LIGHTSABER

Oh hey, she actually listened to me

Lars Mikkelsen is doing a great job so far at portraying Thrawn in live-action. His mannerisms and body language are just like they were in Rebels. 

STOP YELLING AT THE RAT-DOG, SABINE, HE CAME BACK AND IS TRYING HIS BEST

No, but seriously Rat-Dog is adorable and I would die for him

*Me singing* Teenage mutant ninja turtles, teenage mutant ninja turtles!

TMNT-looking dudes know Ezra… Okay where is he then?? 

AGHHHJBJKSDK IT’S EZRA

EZRA I MISSED YOU *actually crying*

Ngl I’m kind of sad his hair isn’t blue BUT I’M STILL SO HAPPY HE’S HERE 

We all needed that hug, let’s be honest

Rat-dog is called a Howler? Good to know.

I was so scared that Ezra would be all traumatized, depressed, and a shell of himself when we saw him again, I’m so happy that’s not the case. He seems to be doing great, all things considering

I wonder if Sabine will give him back his lightsaber, or if he has been using the force at all since he’s been gone.

I hate to nitpick, but, they made his eyes blue (which I’m happy about) but not his hair??

Oh right, for a few minutes, I actually forgot Ahsoka was on her way and that this was her show

Like how last episode was for TCW fans, this episode was for Rebels fans!! Another great episode.

[generalpierrotdameron]

"It was a very emotional moment that I didn't expect to have," Mikkelsen says. "But I think there's a lot of love to be taken care of from the audience. And I felt enormous gratitude. It was amazing. Never tried anything like that."

How emotional was it for the man playing a character that often appears to have no emotion? "I had a hard time actually keeping my tears back," reveals the actor. "I was really tearing up. I didn't expect that."

Nor did Mikkelsen even expect to be asked to reprise his role, but when creator Dave Filoni came calling (again), the Grand Admiral was more than happy to answer. "When David finally asked me if I wanted to do it, there were no doubts. Of course, I wanted to do that, so I'm very excited. But [as far as] the transition between Rebels and the actual live-action character? I hope it works!"

So do fans, who first started charting the journey of Grand Admiral Thrawn upon his introduction in Timothy Zahn's revered 1995 expanded universe novel, Heir to the Empire, which kicked off the first Thrawn trilogy of books. As for if the Thrawn we meet on Ahsoka will be different from the one introduced on Rebels, Mikkelsen notes, "In many ways, it's the same character. He's based on the same material. But we needed to think: Do this right."

Mikkelsen says he did not go back and watch old Rebels episodes to help refamiliarize himself with the blue-skinned, red-eyed Chiss also known as Mitth'raw'nuruodo, noting that while it's the same character, he also "wanted to create something new." And how does he see that new yet familiar character we will see on Ahsoka? Is he an irredeemable villain, or a military genius merely employing tactics to achieve the ultimate goal of victory? Maybe it's a little bit of both.

"He's a top strategist," says Mikkelsen. "He's always seven paces ahead of anybody else. And ruthless, of course. But only when it's needed, actually. I think he thrives also with the creativity of the surroundings. I mean, he's not using people in a bad way. He's using their creativity to reach his goals."

[nerdypipsqueak]

I just finished Ahsoka and I have thoughts on Grand Admiral Thrawn. I actually really like Lars Mikkelsen as Thrawn. Now, I will concede that the design of his eyes was Not Great, the overall visual Elon Musk/Commander Data vibe was Not Great, and the uniform was ill-fitting and made him look ill-proportioned. HOWEVER, Mikkelsen's voice, speech pattern, physical stance and facial expressions were absolutely fantastic. His physique was excellent and IMHO made a lot of sense for a Chiss, a species that lives in an extremely harsh and cold climate. Bodyshamers can fuck right off, there is nothing wrong with that man and there is no reason to attack him.

Could the costuming have been better? Absolutely! Could the make up/CGI have been better? Hell yeah! But Lars Mikkelsen did the best he could with what he was given and I am in awe.

And I really want to hug a Chiss but that's a conversation for another day.

[gorevidalsassoon]

i'm still glitching him...

in the... biblical -? sense -?

[vibratingskull]

Why are people shaming the actor? I actually thought he did great as Thrawn so far. People need to chill out and watch how the series progresses.

They regret he's not a hot 20 year old muscular twink and pretend he looks like Elon Musk, wich his blatantly untrue cause he's so much finer than this joke of a man.

I love my twink as much as the next girl, but this is not Thrawn anymore : he's past 65 years old and has been stranded in a desert planet for 10 years and they DON'T LIKE THAT.

I love Lars Mikkelsen to death and him taking back his role as Grand Admiral is a really great move cause he gots the voice and he did his research on the character (contrary to someone with a cowboy hat), his subtle shift of expressions tell us so much about Thrawn and he was the only good choice in my opinion.

Now if you want to really know why they shame him : he had commited the atrocious crime of having a little belly (horrifying, I know, I know) and he's now having a dad!bod.

Wich, you know, checks out since Lars is soon 60 years old and plays a 70 years old. Hard to keep a thin body past a certain age (not impossible, but not common) and they wished Lars spent months and months at the gym to get abs instead of palying with a more realistic body type, wich mind you is not even that fat, for a 60 years old he's still really much in good shape.

That's the gist of it

That and the stupid scenario but that is outside of Lars control.

They should sit back and relax but apparently shaming a talented actor is way funnier.

[tilbageidanmark]

MOVIES I WATCHED THIS WEEK #206:

9 MORE POST-DOGMA DANISH FILMS:

🍿 I probably seen RIDERS OF JUSTICE 12-15 times already, and I just can't get enough of Anders Thomas Jensen's 2020 brilliant thrill ride. It's an absolutely perfect movie, perfectly-told. The level of nuanced cinematic story-telling here is as good as any movie I've seen. It's about fate and chance, the power of coincidences and healing, about grief and mental health, and a fraught relationship between a father and daughter...

Watching it around now is even better, because it's actually a Christmas fairy tale (although a tale that include PTSD, sodomy, death of a mother, sale of a child (alleged), and intense bloodshed and gang violence.) 10/10 re-watch ♻️.

🍿 The new FAMILIES LIKE OURS which just premiered on Danish TV, is my 6th by Thomas Vinterberg, and his first miniseries. It has a terrific premise: Because of rising sea level, flatland Denmark [whose highest hilltop is 186 meter] is about to be completely flooded, and all its citizens must evacuate to other countries. So the nice, middle-class society which was used to life of civility and leisure, become climate refugees among other European countries, who may or may not be interested to have a new flood of immigrants among them.

Instead of creating over-dramatic situations, Vinterberg concentrates on the interpersonal travails of the members of one extended family, some more interesting than others. Eventually, the 7 hour-long saga becomes a bit too lengthy and kind of stodgy - a condensed 2 hour version would have been so much more effective. 4/10.

🍿 LAST ROUND (1993) was Vinterberg's film school graduation short. Young Thomas Bo Larsen has terminal leukemia, so he parties hard in his last night in town. But it's an unconvincing, nervous, childish effort.

🍿 THE IDIOTS WHO STARTED THE PARTY is a celebration of the Dogma 95 movement, on its 25th anniversary in 2020. Exciting recollections by members of the collective, as well as interviews with my old film professor from the University, Peter Schepelern! (Photos Above).

The 10 "Rules of Chastity" which they defined and enforced were gimmicky and off-putting, and out of the 35 movies made in this style, only a few are worth watching today. But it definitely built a highly-successful 'New Wave', it energised a whole generation of local filmmakers, and it re-established the Danish film-scene into an international powerhouse.

🍿 WHEN DANISH FILM CROSSES THE LINE (2020) is another Denmark Radio documentary about the most controversial Danish films, From Benjamin Christensen's 'Häxan' (which I haven't seen yet) and Asta Nielsen's 'The Abyss', to 'A stranger knocks' and Lars von Trier. Denmark was the first country to legalize pornography in 1969, so there's plenty of sex involved, but also violence, animal abuse, profanity and atheism, sometimes all at once. Among the talking heads, Peter Schepelern again puts things in prospective! [*Female Director*]

🍿 ØDELAND (WASTELAND) (2015), an unusual film school short - not from Copenhagen, but from the the town of Odense on Fyn . A live action doomsday dystopia, similar to 'The Road', very low-budget but fully accomplished. A father and his teenage daughter, among the last survivors, must use extreme caution when they run across a deaf, traumatized boy. Found at random on YouTube, and surprised that the director never broke through.

🍿 Susanne Bier directed 6 of Anders Thomas Jensen's manuscripts (including my all-time favorite 'After the wedding'). OPEN HEARTS (2002) is the only one I haven't seen until now. It's different from his usual fare, being a straight love melodrama with a strong, domestic plot; A driving mother causes an accident that paralyses a young man who's preparing to get married. Mixed-up doctor Mads Mikkelsen, the driver's husband, falls in love with the fiancé of the paralyzed man, and eventually leaves his family for her. It's a small mess.

There's a lot of fawning online, both gay and hetero, over sexy Mads Mikkelsen. This film surely created much of this fawning: he is playing here an ordinary guy, not a hero, who's just deliciously lovable. [*Female Director*]

🍿 Also, two of Mads Mikkelsen's earliest films: In his very first film, CAFÉ HECTOR, Mads has a small cameo, while the main character is played by his real-life brother, actor Lars Mikkelsen. An affected little make-believe story about a social outcast pretending to be Travis Bickle who actually gets to stop and kill a real psychopath with a gun. Surprisingly, this is also one of Anders Thomas Jensen's first works as a writer. 1/10. [*Female Director*]

🍿 THE CARETAKER (1997), a little nightmarish Noir about a man watching a woman with binoculars, sees a murder, maybe not. Some surrealist touches, cockroaches crawling in the ceiling, bloody hand - M'eh.

🍿 The "romantic" comedy ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS (2000), my second by Lone Scherfig. But while 'An Education' was wonderful, this one was unpleasant all the way through. Not only the low-cost, indie, badly lit and noisy vibes, but none of the clumsy, meek and fumbling characters were endearing. There are two abusive parents (who fortunately and separately, die), and especially the main dude, Hal-Finn, is a real asshole but whom everybody tolerate. And they all want to learn Italian, for some reason. Pass! [*Female Director*]

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ROSE HOBART was a 1936 experimental collage film, an early re-purposing of found footage. It comprised mostly from snippets of Rose Hobart, the main actress of 'East of Borneo' which Joseph Cornell, the shy avant-garde artist who made it was obsessed with, making it also an early 'fan-edit'. Salvador Dali disrupted in rage during the premier of this film which he attended, claiming that Cornell stole the idea "from Dali subconscious". Selected for the 'National Film Registry' in 2001.

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4 SHORTS BY GERMAN ANIMATOR VOLKER SCHLECHT:

🍿 THE WAITING: "Ecologist Karen Lips lived for several years in a tiny little shack in Costa Rica to observe frogs. When she left the cloud forest for a short time and returned, all the frogs were gone. She set out to find out what happened to them – and encountered a horrible truth. Mysterious deaths occur all over the planet and have a similar pattern. Why have so many species vanished? And what does it all have to do with us?"

This outstanding 2023 science animation of a real-life crime mystery won a bunch of awards at film festivals. 9/10.

🍿 In KAPUTT (2016), two women who were political prisoners in East Germany describe the horrific conditions of forced labor and abuse in the notorious central prison at Hoheneck. Hard watch. 10/10.

🍿 GERMANIA WURST (2008) is a semi-humorous rundown of Germanic history, from the Holy Roman Empire to the present day. He serves it sliced with bouts of sausage making and lively military march music. Terrific! 8/10.

🍿 NOTHING ELSE (2001), Schlecht's second film, more of a mood piece about tiny gestures on a train ride.

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MORE FROM FREAK OF NATURE RICHARD CONDIE:

🍿 Re-watch♻️: Isn't his 1985 THE BIG SNIT the best Canadian movie ever made? Yes, it is. And why is there a giant Goodyear Tire in one of the rooms? 10/10.

🍿 "Moments ago I had everything - Now there's a cow in my nose - Because I opened the stupid door!"

In LA SALLA (1996) a wacky Italian inventor literally loses his head. So much drugs were used during the creations of this film!

🍿 OH, SURE (1977), a very short short about how to make a fool of yourself, even at your old age. Perfect for me.

🍿 In PIGBIRD (1981), a man smuggles a hybrid animal into the country, only to discover too late that it is covered with some nasty ticks. It was actually a PSA for Canadian Customs. 9/10.

🍿 THE APPRENTICE (1991) is another weird, incomprehensible story set in medieval times. Wordless, it's told only through guttural, cacophonous sound effects.

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THE ONLY GIRL IN THE ORCHESTRA is a new documentary about the first woman whom Leonard Bernstein allowed to play with the all-male New York Philarmonic in 1966, and her illustrious career as a double-bass musician. It features some beautiful music, but the old-time sexist theme is told in the typically pedestrian Netflix style, devoid of air and life. [*Female Director*]

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2 WITH ELEANORA PIENTA:

In PLAISIR (2021) she's a young American seeker who doesn't speak French, but nevertheless comes to the south of France to stay in an art/work commune. It's about the inability to communicate, and not being exactly sure what you know and what you want. Female-focused with a distinct female gaze. [*Female Director*]

🍿 LITTLE CABBAGE is a Southern Gothic of a kind. In 1959 Alabama, a young female composer falls for a black man and goes insane. 1/10. [*Female Director*]

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A BUNCH OF SHORTS:

🍿 My first Popeye cartoon, the 1934 A DREAM WALKING. What a terrific piece of art! Popeye and Bluto fight each other to see who will get to save the sleepwalking Olive from the beams of a high-rise construction site. Absolutely thrilling - 10/10.

🍿 "Shag me kindly...?"

LADY PARTS (2018) is the pilot for the series about this all-girl Muslim punk band in Camden. The musicians are one Halal butcher, one Uber driver, one illustrator who sells her art at the open market, and their Niqāb-clad manager working at cheap ladies' lingerie booth. [*Female Director*]

🍿 "Give the kid a bagel!"

A miracle in Brooklyn, and a holiday classic: In 2007 Ken Russell's was challenged to make a film so offensive that even he would want it banned, so he made the absurdist A KITTEN FOR HITLER, with an Oompa-Lumpa playing a little Jewish boy with a swastika tattoo. As much as I hated 'Jo Jo Rabbit'...

🍿 MERMAID (1997), my 5th Pagan/Christian Russian fairy-tale by animator Aleksandr Petrov, done in his recognized style: Pastel oils applied by hand unto glass plates, like moving paintings, making his films seem like blurred dreams.

🍿 When I lived in Norway in 1974, there was a little toddler in the farm, and her favorite TV-characters were the classic KARIUS OG BAKTUS. These two puppets were tooth bacteria that lived in some boy's mouth, and destroyed his teeth. I can see how traumatic was this 1955 horror cartoon for little kids.

🍿 I only watched the Israeli love story SASSI KESHET NEVER EATS FALAFEL (2013) because it had 'Falafel' in its title. It's a stupid reason - just like this film. 1/10.

🍿 "Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty details." Don Herzfeldt's WORLD OF TOMORROW, my second favorite movie of all times. I should start watching it every week... 11/10.

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When I saw the first episode of STONER CATS, I wrote: "I like cats and I like 'stones, so (this) was exactly for me. 5 cats gets stoned when their old lady shares her medicinal delivery stuff with them." But now that I saw the whole first season, I say: Screw that! It was a one joke stretched into an unwatchable lame, thin slop soup. 1/10.  

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(ALL MY FILM REVIEWS - HERE).

[coruscantiscribbler]

Musings on Ahsoka

Ahsoka isn’t bad, exactly, it just suffers from comparisons with Andor. And the writing feels very… juvenile? Simplistic? 

There is a schizophrenia in Star Wars. In Andor we have realistic and gritty. The true cost of rebellion both financial and personal. The deals one makes to stay current and relevant in politics. How the heavy boot of law in a fascist regime oppresses average people. It shows us ordinary people trying to live ordinary lives only to have their worlds and hopes and dreams shattered.

Ahsoka by comparison feels like another universe where we have night witches and ancient maps. And I get that we have space wizards, and people who can live on as Force ghosts, but it just doesn’t seem as visceral, dangerous and as real as the world we see in Andor. And it feels like we have way too many occult and fantastical elements.

I love seeing Thrawn, and Lars Mikkelsen’s delivery of his lines is pitch perfect. I'm still trying to figure out how Ezra got away and has eluded Thrawn for years. For a Rebels fan seeing the gang — Sabine, Hera, Jacen, Chopper, Ahsoka and Anakin is great, but overall it’s falling flat for me. So far, the episode where Anakin helps Ahsoka find the will to continue to live has been the best moment.

I’ll keep watching because it’s Star Wars and I love Star Wars, but I wish it had a bit more bite and depth and the dialogue crackled a bit more… actually, a lot more.

I also wouldn’t mind a final ruling on the Zeb/Kallus thing. I’ll accept whatever they present as canon even though I just don’t see that pairing ever working out. I just wish we knew for certain because then I would write to that. Just tell me, are they just very good friends or something more?

[owenthetokencishet]

Regardless of what you think of the writing the ahsoka show is just... not very well made.

Nothing is propely weathered. it's all far too clean for Star Wars, the movie that INVENTED the dirty space aesthetic. Come on, they made CHOPPER look relatively clean and polished

The bad guys' costumes look like they're surplus from a doctor strange movie

Sabine Wren spends a LOT of time NOT wearing her armour and even when she does, that's not what her armour looks like

The sheer amount of contouring on Lars Mikkelsen's face makes Thrawn look like Elon Musk

lucasfilm is WAAAAAY overusing the volume

The lighting and colour grading make every shot look beige and muddy

The editing paces the show like it was supposed to be a movie, regardless of whether or not it actually was

This show has a budget of over 100 million dollars but it looks like it was made for a fraction of the price. Where is all that money going? Because it is clearly NOT being given to the production crew