#carl gould

[sandytrish008]

Since it's still April, I had to do another drawing dedicated to Autism awareness/acceptance month, this time, with some characters that I like and that I think (just headcanons, nothing official, just my interpretation) are on the spectrum:

- George Lundgren with his friends Fern Walters and Carl Gould (this one being canon!) from Arthur;

- Resasuke from Aggretsuko;

- Alphys from Undertale (with Undyne who 100% supports her... with a kinda tacky t-shirt, but with good intentions)

- Peridot from Steven Universe ♾

[doyouknowthisdisabledcharacter]

Do You Know This Disabled Character?

Carl Gould is autistic.

[ur-fav-is-autistic]

Carl Gould from Arthur is Autistic!

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

The mum from that one episode of Arthur: And so this is what autistic people are like!

George: Awesome!

George: Also in future can you please talk to my intricately carved handmade puppet and not to me? Having to make eye contact and talk to people directly sets off my anxiety.

George: Anyway, cool to finally meet an autistic person! What a unique and novel experience.

[sophiebyers]

Autistic Characters Being or Wearing Purple (For Autistic Peeps) (Part 1)

[tumblydove]

If I had a nickel for every PBS Kids character named Carl that happened to be autistic I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

[everyonesonthespectrum]

Today’s Autistic character of the day is:

Carl Gould from Arthur

Requested by @mayodayo

[arthur-character-showdown]

ROUND 1, SHOWDOWN 4

(apologies again, I didn't intend for these two to face off...)

[fuzzychildchopshop]

Human Arthur Characters 2 by ToonRandy

[camyfilms]

OCEAN'S TWELVE 2004

Look, it's not in my nature to be mysterious. But I can't talk about it and I can't talk about why.

[midmodmar]

I got to draw for a school project application. The alternate name was Lazarus Taxons.

(Click for full res)

[adamwatchesmovies]

Ocean's Twelve (2004)

Making Ocean’s Twelve must’ve been a blast. You can tell the actors were certainly having a good time. Too bad the fun can't extend to the audience as well. This film thinks it’s so clever, so funny. All I want to do is punch it in its smart little face.

Set three years after Ocean’s Eleven, Terry Benedict (Andy García) has located the Ocean's crew and demands they return his money - with interest. Fearful for their lives, the group schemes to pull a few quick jobs to pay him back but their efforts are hindered by the master thief “The Night Fox”. He agrees to help Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and his friends out of their jam if they can best his legendary skills.

Immediately, the film is in trouble. Either Danny and his friends will succeed in their mission and pay back Benedict - which will make us unhappy because we don't like him - or they will fail and the villain will have them all killed - which will make us unhappy because we like them. The only possible way to avoid audience disappointment would be for the scoundrels to somehow steal from the man - again - and beat him so decisively that he gives up trying to get his revenge. Unfortunately, that’s what the first movie was about so you know it’s not going to happen.

Ocean's Twelve can’t even figure out what to do with its characters. The problem is that although we sort of got a vibe that they got along, we never really believed the people rounded up by Danny were friends. It was pretty clear that at the end of the first movie, they were going their separate ways. Maybe some of them would keep in contact but no one was ringing up “The Amazing” Yen (Shaobo Qin) to see how he was doing. Like many others, he was hired to fulfill a role in a con and nothing more… but he was in the first movie so he has to come back again. How does the screenplay by George Nolfi use him? It shoves Yen into a bag and then accidentally ships him off to the wrong country so he can be “in the movie” but off-screen as much as possible.

Forget Twelve. This movie only has a few important characters. There’s Danny and Rusty (Brad Pitt), Danny’s wife Tess (Julia Roberts) and Rusty’s old flame, Isabel Lahiri (Catherine Zeta-Jones). Then, you have the villains with Vincent Cassel as The Night Fox and Andy García. Everyone else could’ve been condensed into one or two people. Similarly, the plot could’ve been thinned a lot. As is, there are so many twists and turns it’ll make your head spin. In another heist film, that would've been good but so many revelations are then revealed to be completely useless by the final scene it makes you feel like you wasted your time. In this instance, the main plan is so dumb you know director Steven Soderbergh is trying to pull a fast one on you and you don’t buy it for a second.

The most infuriating scene is also the unfunniest. The crew's target is the Fabergé Imperial Coronation Egg (quite the step down from a vault full of money if you ask me) so they recruit Tess (who is the twelfth member of the team) to help. Their plan? Capitalize on the running joke that she “sorta” looks like Julia Roberts by distracting the people in the museum while the others steal the egg. Not terribly clever, this gag also breaks one of the unspoken rules of filmmaking. The audience promises to ignore the fact that we know these are actors on-stage as long as the movie doesn’t draw attention to it and pretends the story is set in a world other than ours, “Last Action Hero”-style. As Oceans Twelve does this whole “I don’t look that much like her”, “Oh no! There’s Bruce Willis! Now I have to pretend like I know what he’s talking about” thing, you make a mental promise to hate the film no matter what it does later.

The worst part of Ocean’s Eleven” was the hint at a sequel right at the very end because deep down, you knew the magic couldn’t be replicated, that only the most convoluted of scenarios could bring these people together again. Ocean’s Twelve proves that so thoroughly it’ll make you wish the actors would all retire. (April 28, 2022)

[leonardoeatscarrots]

Art print of mine for Dana Fucking Gould.

Hope he enjoys his model.

[elvismentions]

"A Little Less Conversation" by Elvis Presley in Ocean's Eleven (2001) dir. Steven Soderbergh

[sophiebyers]

Made in August of 2023

Made in roughly 2020 or 2019

[oldshowbiz]

Burlesque is Alive and Well in Downtown Burbank (1969)