#bud Cort

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HAPPY 40TH ANNIVERSARY TO ELECTRIC DREAMS!!

i wanted to make something way out of my comfort zone to celebrate the 40th anniversary, so i went with puppets! i definitely learned a lot, got frustrated a lot, but overall had a ton of fun. as shown by the photo though, i only got miles done on time, but madeline and edgar will be made! it’ll just take some time from now. the edgar used for this picture is the one i made for when i cosplay miles!

on july 20th, 1984, electric dreams was released to theaters. due to sudden executive concerns, the movie had to be pulled out of theaters only 2 weeks after its first run, but the movie still managed to survive through reairings, rentals, and cult followings (so if any EDheads wondered why it did so bad at the box office, that’s why, it got yoinked)

this movie… very funnily enough isn’t even my number 1 favorite movie (it’s in the top 3 though) but it IS the number 1 inspiration i have for a lot of what i create and do, its a really charming movie, and 80s as all hell. here’s to many more years of celebrating this piece of art :]

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harold and maude (hal ashby, 1971)

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“The Aloof”, Sweet Charity (1969)

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behind the scenes of harold and maude

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Harold and Maude, 1971

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Harold and Maude 1971

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film of the day: harold and maude (1971) dir. hal ashby

[miles-harding]

Lenny Von Dohlen describes accidentally* meeting Bud Cort for the first time while on the set of Electric Dreams (1984).

*Bud Cort had insisted upon recording his lines for Edgar live from a hidden room on set, avoiding meeting them in-person until after filming had wrapped, to encourage his castmates to speak to and interact with the computer prop without associating it with him as a human actor.

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harold and maude (1971)

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These two pictures of Bud Cort with Edgar are so important to me

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Happy 76th, Bud Cort.

With Shelley Duvall.

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Shelley Duvall (e Bud Cort) in Brewster McCloud (it. Anche Gli Uccelli Uccidono, Robert Altman, 1970).

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Heroes & Villains The DC Animated Universe - Paper Cut-Out Portraits and Profiles

Toyman

Winslow Schott Sr. had been a kindly and ingenious toymaker who dreamed of building a magnificent toy factory. Bruno Mannheim offered to finance the factory, yet once it was built it became clear that Mannheim was a mobster and only wanted the factory as a front to launder funds from his criminal operations.  The factory was later raided by the police and while Mannheim was able to skirt responsibility, Schott was sentenced to a long prison term and ended up dying while incarcerated.

Schott’s son, Winslow Jr. ended up remained to foster care and spent the next several years passed from one foster home to another.  When he reached adulthood, Winslow Jr. had become obsessed with ‘reclaiming’ his lost childhood, so he created a childlike persona for himself. He inherited his father's mechanical acumen yet the ‘toys’ he created were actually sophisticated and deadly weapons disguised to look like harmless playthings.  

Now calling himself The Toyman, Schott returned to Metropolis.  Sporting a ghoulish porcelain mask resembling a grinning child, The Toyman set about a plot to use his deadly toys to extract murderous vengeance on Bruno Mannheim.  Toyman had little regard for any innocent victims that might get caught in the mayhem and Superman thwarted Toyman’s initial efforts to kill Mannheim.  After Lois Lane wrote an unflattering exposé on The Toyman, the villain had his toys kidnap her so that he could have the reporter hear his side of the story.

Superman was able to track Lois down and saved her from The Toyman.  The villain appeared to perish in the ensuing chaos, but it would not be long before he turned up once again.  Mannheim had died in the service of Darkseid and now Toyman focused himself entirely on gaining vengeance on Superman.  He joined the Superman Revenge Squad and later accepted membership in Gorilla Grodd’s Legion of Doom.  

Actors Bud Cort and Corey Burton provided the voice for The Toyman with the creep of a villain first appearing in the fourth episode of the first season of Superman: The Animated Series, ‘Fun and Games.’  

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Heat (1995)

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i kept imagining a harold and maude edit set to elton john’s song ‘i think i’m going to kill myself’ so i took it upon myself to make it