#elisha cuthbert icons

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The Girl Next Door, (2004).

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THE GIRL NEXT DOOR. (2004) dir. Luke Greenfield.

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Carly Jones — House of Wax (2005)

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Top CELEBRITY icons posted to @oldinterneticons in 2023

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William Regal x Fem Reader- "Spill the Tea"

Many professional wrestlers have been famous enough to be considered for roles in popular movies.

The Rock was offered to play Willy Wonka in the 2005 Tim Burton remake, Trish Stratus was considered to play Jessica Alba's role in "Sin City", Triple H was considered to play Thor in the early 2010's and Chyna was offered a role in the 3rd "Terminator" movie.

When you were at the zenith of your wrestling popularity in the late 1990's, you were considered for many roles in popular movies.

Some of the roles you were considered for and offered were Elizabeth Hurley's character in "Bedazzled", Carmen Electra's role in "Scary Movie", one of the angels in those "Charlie's Angels" movies, Lara Croft in the "Tomb Raider" movies, one of the strippers in "Night at the Blue Iguana" and one of the barmaids in "Coyote Ugly". 

Even in the early 2000's when your popularity had winded down, you were considered for several roles in popular movies, like playing Elisha Cuthbert's character in "The Girl Next Door" and Anna Faris' role in "Just Friends".

However, you turned down all of those roles down due to the scheduling you had to do for the World Wrestling Federation (as well as the WWE).

Looking back, you regret turning down to play some of these movie roles, in particular in "Coyote Ugly" and "Night at the Blue Iguana".

Speaking of which, if there is something that is really popular in pop culture going on, the WWE/F will try to cash in on it and reference it.

Examples would be Al Snow's Chihuahua Pepper being based off of the iconic Taco Bell Chihuahua who was popular AF at the time and the Kat recreating a moment in her dressing room based off of an Austin Powers movie gag.

Since you couldn't really be in "Coyote Ugly", you're going to bring that movie to the World Wrestling Federation.

Yes, the WWE was still called the WWF when "Coyote Ugly" was released!

On a "Sunday Night Heat" episode in September 2000---which was one month after "Coyote Ugly" was released---William Regal was sitting backstage in front of a circle shaped table, where there was a silver tray sitting on top of this table.

This tray contained a matching silver teacup and teapot on top of that tray.

You marched down to William, and as you walked up to him and the table he was sitting by, the camera was filming you walking sideways, and many male fans in the audience got out of their seats and cheered for you and whistled at you.

The outfit you wore was similar to what the women in "Coyote Ugly" wore---wearing hip hugging pants with a midriff baring tank top.

You placed your hands on top of the table William was sitting at once you stood in front of it, where you slightly bent yourself down.

"Hey" you greeted him with a slight smirk on your face.

William wasn't taken aback by seeing you, in fact, he enjoyed looking at you, his eyes studying you up and down.

Your eyes looked inside those teacups to see if there's any tea there, and lo and behold, there was.

"May I have a sip of tea?" you asked him with a smirk, the index finger of one of your hands raising off of the table and pointing inside that tea cup, asking him for a drink to be polite.

"Go ahead!" William offered with a smile.

He actually doesn't mind it if you have a sip of tea, with the way you look.

"Thanks" you replied with a smirk on your face, where one of your hands took one of the tea cups and raised it up to your mouth, where you took a sip of it and arched your head back as you drank that tea.

It isn't very classy to drink down tea like you're drinking a shot glass, but there's a reason you're drinking your tea like that.

You raised your head up after you drank that tea, placing the cup of tea back on the table.

"Y'want me to pour you some more tea?" you asked him with a grin on your face, removing your hand off of that tea cup when you asked that.

"Oh yes, please!" William replied excitedly, smiling and eager to await.

This was making the audience really think of "Coyote Ugly", and that was the intention.

William may be a classy English gentleman, but he can enjoy some rowdiness.

One of your hands grabbed that tea pot by its handle and raised it up from the table, where you tilted it above one of the empty tea cups and tea poured out of that pot and into the cup.

As the tea poured into that tiny little tea cup, your eyes were looking inside the tea while your mouth grinned, and your hips were gyrating and grinding left and right while your knees were bending a little bit.

You were basically acting like those women in "Coyote Ugly" pouring alcohol in people's drinks while they sexily danced on top of bar tables.

Your eyes were careful when you watched how much tea gets poured into that cup.

William, on the other hand, was looking at you pour that tea in the cup, his eyes focusing both on you and the tea being poured.

His eyes were wide and eyebrows raised.

"I wish I had a stripper pole right now" you admitted to him with your eyes looking at him. "Maybe even danced on top of a bar"

Male fans in the audience got out of their seats and cheered hearing that, agreeing with you.

William would have to agree with that, considering he wants to see you work that pole.

You didn't pour all the tea inside that pot, you were saving that for later.

You then raised the teapot until it was positioned straight, where you placed the teapot back on top of the table and let go of it.

You strutted around next to the table William was sitting by until you were close enough for hands to reach and touch him, and your hands grabbed William's button down shirt and pulled it apart until the buttons popped down out of the holes.

This really took William by surprise, even though this moment was rehearsed and staged.

The audience was completely shocked seeing this moment, both male and female fans.

As the buttons kept being separated away from the holes due to you opening up his dress shirt, more of his bare skin was getting exposed underneath that shirt.

William wasn't disgusted over you ripping his shirt up at all, but his eyes were looking at his bare chest and torso getting exposed.

After his shirt was unbuttoned, with your eyes looking into his eyes and with a smirk on your face.

"Is this tea hot?" you asked him.

"Not quite" he admitted.

You're not going to do what he thinks you're going to do.

Oh yeah, you did it, but at least you were polite and asked him if this tea is hot so you won't hurt him.

One of your hands let go of his shirt and grabbed that tea pot on top of the table, where you tilted it above his chest and poured that tea on top of his torso, where warm tea poured out of the pot and landed on his bare chest, the tea dripping and running down his skin.

The tea wasn't that warm, but the fans really reacted to this.

Fans---both male and female---cheered seeing this moment, whereas William's face was panicking and freaking out a bit.

Some of the tea was even sinking into William's clothes.

You, on the other hand, were smiling and grinning while your eyes looked at his chest as you poured that tea on his torso.

The skin on his torso was turning a little bit pinkish from getting slightly burned by that tea, but he wasn't completely burned by it.

You then raised that teapot up until it was sitting up straight, and you then raised that tea pot up until it was a few inches above your head, where you tilted that teapot and let it pour out tea on top of your face and on your body.

Your hand holding that teapot motioned it to pour on your face and on your top, making that tea pour across both of your tits.

You wore no bra underneath your top, so your nipples were poking through it.

When you poured this tea on top of you, male fans in the audience got out of their seats and cheered, although is this really sexy?

While you were pouring tea on top of yourself, you swayed your hips left and right sexily to dance, placing your opposite hand on your hip as you swayed and grinded your hips and body.

Your makeup surprisingly wasn't running as you poured tea on yourself, but your hair was getting wet and tea was soaking through your tank top.

"Is this sexy?" you asked him as you poured that tea on you. "I wish I could pour some water on myself right now"

So you could recreate another "Coyote Ugly" scene where the barmaids pour water on themselves when they're standing on top of the bar.

You would toss the rest of the tea in the teapot at William's chest to completely recreate this scene.

You actually recreated a few other "Coyote Ugly" moments in episodes of WWF shows, including when they poured water on themselves.

Since you couldn't be in "Coyote Ugly", you'll at least bring it to the WWF.

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Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! #26: “Jim and Derrick” | September 1, 2008 - 12:30AM | S03E06

One of the all-time greatest. It’s somewhat of an in-joke; in that a literal first-time viewer might not pick up exactly on what’s going on (you’d hope the more observant would at least be able to infer it’s satiric nature). This episode of Awesome Show presents, without fanfare or even any preamble, an alternate-universe version of Tim and Eric named Jim and Derrick. Jim and Derrick are basically the versions of Tim & Eric whose post-internet career paths had them so desperate to get on television that they became willing to bend to every network note ever given to them. It's as if Tim & Eric’s artistic vision was easily compromised by MTV money.

What we get is a frenetic nightmare of rapid-cutting, sweaty, shallow signifiers of easily digestible coolness, fad-chasing, and lowest-common denominator humor that sells itself with attitude rather than anything inspired. Jim Heckler and Derek Whipple host the show from an MTV-style faux-industrial studio with a DJ and a corporate sponsor in Turbo Fuel. Turbo Fuel is an energy drink that is immediately shown to have negative effects even in the cold open spot (a man vomits with ‘tude towards the camera, and we see blood trickling out of his nose post-chug).

Jim & Derrick are coarse and lazy; so much so that they come off as heroin addicts or something like that. They speak in all manner of embarrassing/trendy vernacular. It screams early 2000s in a way that their show usually doesn’t. They do segments about buying bongs (with Tim’s quotable line “plus, I like frogs”), skateboarding, tattoos, and they frequently cut away to other things that have little to do with scripted sketch comedy.

The only thing that actually qualifies as an in-universe bonafide comedy sketch in the whole thing is cheap and dashed-off, and co-stars a guy who just screams “dude on the writing staff”.* The “sketch”, ends with Jim saying “that’s wack”, then a back-patty musical interlude with a bunch of comedy-related buzz-words rolls out (including Tim & Eric’s favorite: “RANDOM”). They both declare “You’ve been sketched!” into the camera. The entire sketch is encased in a metal border. It gives the impression that the Jim & Derrick Show was at one time way more focused on scripted comedy, but then that aspect shrunk so much that sketches became once per episode, and they eventually started shrinking the screen to diminish the sketches even further. It's a physical manifestation of the comedy being "contained."

*”dude on the writing staff”: It’s LA comedy stalwart Joe Wagner, who did indeed hold similar jobs on a lot of shows, some good, even! I remember he posted on a message board I was on and he hosted a podcast that I remembered being good, even though I don’t remember the name of it. 

Other touches include an announcer who is the same guy from the then-current Carl’s Jr. ads, which were very bro-ey and usually featured Playboy models eating large drippy hamburgers. There’s also transitions that look like they came directly from VH1’s I Love the 90s, featuring internetty imagery like folder icons and whatnot. There’s also frenetic cutaways to a “creepy” old man who makes googly faces at the camera with fake old-timey film effects covering it, to telegraph nasty jokes like when Derrick says he wishes Elisha Cuthbert was his daughter in a gross, suggestive way. 

She’s in this, by the way. Jim and Derrick interview her and it does not go particularly well, with Jim and Derrick rudely cutting her off when she’s about to actually get to say anything of substance. She rolls her eyes and says “great” seeming genuinely annoyed. This is an incredible bit of acting, because a significant number of people believed that her annoyance was genuine, and that the wool was pulled over her eyes. I vaguely recall (but unfortunately don’t have) a video commentary for this episode that aired on Adult Swim’s website. They assured the audience that she was in on the joke, and indeed, if you seek out the blooper reel for this season you’ll see the first time Tim cuts her off in the same manner, she bursts out laughing. 

Speaking of guest stars, John Mayer is in this episode during the fake commercial. I remember Tim & Eric discussing this almost as if they put him in here via process of elimination. Mayer wanted to be on the show and they had a little trouble finding a place for him. He also filmed a “you’re watching Jim and Derrick” bumper that didn’t wind up getting used. 

The commercial is for a GF Spooner, which is basically like a baby bjorn that you strap your girlfriend into. It comes with fake arms that she can cuddle with, keeping your arms free. It’s purpose is to wear at concerts so you can double-fist Turbo Fuels, and hold hands with your male friends. The woman in the commercial was vaguely familiar to me: She plays one of Howard’s girlfriends in the criminally underrated program Austin Stories. I remember Tim trying to make Doug Lussenhop squirm during the video commentary, suggesting that he tried and failed to hit on her during production. When Doug doesn’t take the bait, an exasperated Tim suggests that he’s just looking for ANYTHING to talk about that’s even a little bit interesting. AGAIN: I wish I had it!

Another segment of note is Bradley Needlehead, in the Viral Clip of the week. This is an alternate version of David Liebe-Hart, singing a song about being a crazy guy that believes in aliens. It seems to satirize the lack of respect an MTV-style network would have for a guy like DLH. Though Tim & Eric’s “respect” for DLH is a little questionable, I do agree that they are kinder to him than most would be. In that video commentary, they said DLH directed that segment himself, dashing any expectations of him being blindsided by it. To be a fly on the wall during that session. There’s no footage of this shoot on the DVD. 

Holly Brown makes another appearance on the show; her bit is sorta slight, and I’d wager that it was a gift they were giving her so she could put it on a reel to try and get on-camera announcer work. Her presence fits with the whole vibe; many of these shows will have hot women as correspondents or hosts. The main comedic takeaway from this one is the concept of Tordos Flavor Dust, which has little to do with the actual scene.

The show ends with Jim & Derrick doing a Turbo Boost chug contest, where a hot, but uh, artificial-looking woman, smiles and sprays a keg tap of Turbo Boost into both Jim & Derrick’s mouths. We eventually see blood coming out of their eyes and ears, and they succumb to the toxic beverage and collapse dead on the floor. The woman never stops smiling and spraying Turbo Boost. DJ Drez doesn't stop the beats, either. Then we get a slideshow of fake production logos, including, most memorably, Gregg Turkington saying “Egg Zackly” as a parody of their own “Abso-Lutely” 

This one’s not just in the pantheon of great episodes, but it also joins the ranks of episodes that I’ve watched over-and-over again, so much so that they sorta lost most of their power, so I have to go off memories of how good it was. I recall telling somebody that I laughed so hard at this episode that it caused me to punch stuff that I own while watching it. It’s only with that kind of hindsight that I can recognize that some of the sketches are a little more potent in their satire than others. But the whole thing works incredibly well, and even the weakest bits have inspired jokes and ideas.

A welcome respite from an otherwise lackluster season. Say what you want about season three, but one will forever be able to point to this episode and say "at least that season had Jim and Derrick".

EPHEMERA CORNER:

Jim and Derrick at Spring Break

I forget exactly when and why these were produced, but Tim & Eric did additional Jim & Derrick "spring break" sketches. It would make more sense for them to have been produced for Spring Break 2009, but I'm putting them here for relevance. I don't think they repeated Jim & Derrick on Awesome Show itself.

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[novmberain]

house of wax icons

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Elisha Cuthbert - Andrew Macpherson Photoshoot 2003

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carly jones (house of wax)

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Elisha Cuthbert

[jimsmovieworld]

HOUSE OF WAX- 2005 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

House of Wax has to be one of the most underrated horror movies ever and is one of my favourite slasher movies of all time.

A group of friend's car breaks down on the way to a football game. They stumble upon a quiet small town and try to find help. While they wait for a mechanic they explore the towns "House of Wax" where not just the house, but everything in it is made of wax.

They soon find themselves fighting for survival as the only real people in the town are the Sinclair brothers. Conjoined twins seperated at birth who will kill anyone who stumbles into there town and make them a permanent resident in the House of Wax....

Starting with the killers, they have a creepy and at points quite sad backstory. The movie opens with a glimpse at there traumatic childhood at the hands of an abusive mother.

After being seperated, Vincent was left with a horribly deformed face. Vincent is the scarier of the two with his wax face being very chilling. Both Vincent and Bo are played by Brian Van Holt who was put under heavy makeup for Vincent. Think both killers are great.

The production design for the movie is phenomenal. A good setting for a horror movie is everything and the abandoned town of Ambrose is perfection. It took ten weeks to build the entire town and everything in it. They wanted it to look like a "sleepy lost american town".

And it does. The whole town looks like its from another time. The cinema is still playing "Whatever happened to Baby Jane".

Setting looks authentically american despite being filmed entirely in Australia.

The House of Wax itself is something else.

The wax people positioned around the house always gave me the creeps.

As far as horror movies go, i think this one is legitamately scary at points. Aside from the films scary setting and killers, it has a few sequences that are done really well.

The scene where the lights go out on Wade and he is attacked by Vincent is scary as hell.

The sequence where Carly hides in the cinema among the wax mannequins is very tense.

All of this building up to an insane finale where the House of Wax melts around them like a giant candle.

In making House of Wax, practical effects were prioritized over CGI giving the movie a very real feeling. Elisha Cuthbert even agreed to use the real thing for the scene where her lips were glued together.

House of Wax has a great cast that help bring the movie to life. They feel like a real group of friends and have interesting dynamics.

Elisha Cuthbert as our resourceful and very likable final girl Carly.

Chad Michael Murray as her brother Nick, they have a strained relationship but are clearly still very close.

Jared Padelecki as Wade, Carlys boyfriend who is far too nosey for his own good and gets by far the most painful kill of the movie.

Robert Richard as Blake, although not bad, probably the least interesting in the group.

Jon Abrahams as Dalton. The one who films everything and eventually loses his head. I think Jon Abrahams is always very funny and is a good addition to this.

Last but not least is Paris Hilton as Paige....

One of the most memorable things about House of Wax was its viral marketing campaign built around Paris Hilton who was extremely famous at the time but was also experiencing backlash from parts of the public sick of seeing her or sick of her public persona.

Warner Brothers were given permission by Paris to release shirts and other advertisements that read:

"On May 6th, WATCH PARIS DIE!"

They're were also reports from various news outlets of cinema audiences cheering or clapping at her death scene.

Paris wears one of her iconic Velour tracksuits during a scene. Thats hot.

I think Paris actually did a good job and this is her best movie performance in my opinion.

Love the music in House of Wax. Miss horror movies having a rock/metal soundtrack.

"Helena" by My Chemical Romance is an excellent choice for end credits song.

House of Wax is only a very loose remake of the 1953 Vincent Price movie.

Director Jaume Collet-Serra said in an interview that it was actually more of a remake of the 1979 slasher "Tourist Trap". Warner Bros insisted on using the more recognizable name.

House of Wax didnt do well at the box office on release. Possibly related to 2005 being a crowded year for horror remakes with The Fog and The Amityville Horror being released at similar times.

House of Wax also received mainly negative reviews. It went on to make a profit after making over $40 million dollars on home video.

One of my favourite movies.

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Why Jack Bauer Is America’s James Bond

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Despite what Marvel might have you believe, not all film franchises are perfectly serialized.

Take, for example, another kind of cinematic superhero: James Bond a.k.a. 007. The MI6 spy created by Ian Fleming and brought to screen by Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli is timeless in the most literal sense of the world. Since Sean Connery passed the role of James Bond to Roger Moore for good in 1973’s Live and Let Die (Connery previously gave way to George Lazenby in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service before returning in Diamonds Are Forever), James Bond has become unstuck in time. 

As played in subsequent films over several decades by actors like Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig, Bond remains the same while the world around him changes. Some fans like to theorize that “Agent 007” and “James Bond” are aliases used by different MI6 spies throughout the years. But within the context of the series, there is only one Bond…James Bond. Bond is always middle-aged, looks good in a tux, enjoys stiff drinks and beautiful women. 

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The Cold War ended in the ‘90s and yet Bond, perhap the ultimate cinematic representative of its aesthetic, just kept calm and carried on as usual. Save for a handful of Craig’s latter year depictions, James Bond rarely learns any new tricks. He doesn’t develop. He is what he is – a hero of espionage and action. In that regard, the James Bond series is a surprisingly honest exploration of the occasional propagandistic aims of major blockbuster filmmaking. Bond isn’t a character in a story. He’s the United Kingdom’s idealized version of itself writ large on a canvas widescreen: a suave spy who is welcomed into every country to get laid and save the world. 

But what about the United States’ idealized version of itself? How has the Cold War’s lone surviving superpower let itself go without a similarly iconic (and occasionally nakedly jingoistic) cinematic creation? The answer is that America already does have an outsized action icon…he was just on television. 

Jack Bauer of early 2000s Fox thriller series 24 is American James Bond whether we want him to be or not. Just as Bond is the idealized Englishman, with his martini lunches and quick wit, Bauer is the America’s warped ideal of itself: angry, merciless, focused, and unfailingly effective. 

As portrayed by Kiefer Sutherland (who won an Emmy for the role), Jack Bauer started off as a fairly three-dimensional character in 24’s first season. That season picked up with Jack as a family man and a glorified pencil pusher at the fictional Counter Terrorist Unit’s Los Angeles office. Over the span of the first season’s 24 hours (24’s hook, of course, is that each season takes place over the span of a 24-hour day in real time), Jack slowly lost grip of his humanity, culminating with his friend Nina Myers turning out to be a mole and murdering his wife Teri. 

The death of Teri fundamentally changed Jack. For eight subsequent seasons and a movie, Jack became an Uncle Sam-style cartoon character obsessed with protecting his country from terrorists all over the globe, because his family was already taken away from him. Elisha Cuthbert as Jack’s daughter Kim was a prominent character for a few seasons, but as she was phased out so too was Jack’s grip on reality.

Unlike the James Bond series, 24 was particularly devoted to its chronology, with the very premise of the show meaning it had to have a close relationship with time. Jack Bauer would in theory grow as a character from season to season. But rather than developing, he mostly devolved into the most base version of himself. 

It’s in this way that Bauer actually became more like James Bond than one might initially expect. Regardless of who is playing him or what time period a particular film is set in, Bond’s characteristics remain static. By the end of 24’s run in 2014, Jack was similarly a Bond-ian relic of the past. Though the country was still feeling the effects of it, “The War on Terror” seemed as dramatically quaint for 24 as the Cold War did for James Bond. And yet here was this rugged American in the miniseries 24: Live Another Day, gripping the life out of a pistol and barking at perceived London terrorists in a gravely timber like a psycho.

24: Live Another Day was the last appearance for Jack Bauer and rightfully so at the time. The character had become a bit too anachronistic and his show, quite frankly, was frequently xenophobic. Still, as the continued success of Craig’s Bond films indicate (with No Time to Die finally set to arrive this October) perhaps there is still room for walking anachronisms in the entertainment world, as long as they’re approached correctly.

Fox has repeatedly attempted to rejuvenate the 24 brand. In 2017, the network greenlit a spinoff starring Corey Hawkins called 24: Legacy. Like its forefather, 24: Legacy, utilized a real-time format, only condensing 24 hours into 12 episodes like Live Another Day did. The spinoff was not successful and was quickly canceled following the conclusion of its first season.

Ultimately, Fox (now owned by Disney) hasn’t made any subsequent reboot attempts work yet because it has misidentified the appeal of 24 as a franchise. While the ticking clock aspect of telling a story in real time is novel and interesting, it wasn’t the reason the original series lasted for nine seasons. The real reason for 24’s success was Jack Bauer. Viewers are typically attracted to characters, not concepts. In Jack Bauer, many an American viewer likely found the embodiment of a paranoid nation they recognized.

There’s an undercurrent of anger and indignance in the American psyche. Exactly why is a question best left for sociologists. Perhaps it’s misplaced guilt over displacing a society to create a new one, or maybe it’s just the disappointment of being promised a Manifest Destiny and getting Wyoming. But whatever the reason, Jack Bauer is as apt a cartoonish American avatar as James Bond is a British one.

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So why then doesn’t 20th Television (again, now owned by Disney) just formalize the comparison and make Jack Bauer literally American James Bond? Just as Connery once handed off the baton to Lazenby and Moore, have Sutherland hand the role off to someone else. That actor would preferably represent the American physicality that Sutherland brought to the role (despite Sutherland being a Canadian, which is somewhat fitting given that the Scottish Connery was the first to play Her Majesty’s favorite spy). The new Jack Bauer would be played by someone who is short, stubbly, and angry rather than Bond’s tall, dark, and handsome. Throw the new Jack back into the field in a modern day ticking time bomb plot without bothering to explain why he is still middle-aged after 20 years. 

The answer to why Disney wouldn’t want to do such a thing is almost certainly all that aforementioned racism and torture. That is admittedly a, uh…roadblock. It really can’t be overstated just how xenophoci 24 was at times and how cruel it could be to characters and actors of Middle Eastern descent. Jack Bauer’s reliance on torture wasn’t just a dramatic crutch, 24 co-creator Joel Surnow genuinely believed in the value of torture as a foreign policy tactic. 

Suffice it to say, the series has not aged well. Then again, however, neither have many of the earlier Bond films. To a certain extent that’s the point of the Bond franchise. It understands that making movies is making myths. James Bond is every bit the mythical figure that Captain America or Iron Man are. The fact that Bond is so obviously an exaggerated character now has helped soften some of his more problematic edges. 

Bauer, on the other hand, comes from an era where Americans were both terrified of the looming threat of terrorism and were starting to invest in television as a more “serious” art form. As such, not everyone of the time was prepared to accept Jack Bauer as American James Bond, that is to say a cheesy cultural figure, not a vital supersoldier of freedom. 

In The Atlantic’s 2007 article “Whatever It Takes” about the politics of 24,  U.S. Army Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan, the dean of the United States Military Academy at West Point, recounts Jack Bauer’s effect on enlistees.

“The kids see it, and say, ‘If torture is wrong, what about 24?’ The disturbing thing is that although torture may cause Jack Bauer some angst, it is always the patriotic thing to do.”

The world has changed since then, obviously. But even now, it feels like it hasn’t fully set in that Jack Bauer is the American James Bond and should be treated with the same amount of reverence, which is none at all. Perhaps the only responsible move left is, in fact, to continue the increasingly ridiculous stories of the character with new actors.

In the right hands, Jack Bauer could be put to use as a blockbuster magnet and an appropriate critique of American foreign policy. In the end, icons don’t matter so much as what you do with them. 

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In celebration of June being Caribbean American Heritage Month, there’s a masterlist below compiled of over 170+ Antiguan and/or Barbudan faceclaims categorised by gender with their occupation and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. If you want an extra challenge use random.org to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever faceclaim or whichever project you desire.

Any questions can be sent here and all tutorials have been linked below the cut for ease of access! REMEMBER to tag your resources with #TASKSWEEKLY and we will reblog them onto the main! This task can be tagged with whatever you want but if you want us to see it please be sure that our tag is the first five tags, @ mention us or send us a messaging linking us to your post!

THE TASK - scroll down for FC’s!

STEP 1: Decide on a FC you wish to create resources for! You can always do more than one but who are you starting with? There are links to masterlists you can use in order to find them and if you want help, just send us a message and we can pick one for you at random!

STEP 2: Pick what you want to create! You can obviously do more than one thing, but what do you want to start off with? Screencaps, RP icons, GIF packs, masterlists, PNG’s, fancasts, alternative FC’s - LITERALLY anything you desire!

STEP 3: Look back on tasks that we have created previously for tutorials on the thing you are creating unless you have whatever it is you are doing mastered - then of course feel free to just get on and do it. :)

STEP 4: Upload and tag with #TASKSWEEKLY! If you didn’t use your own screencaps/images make sure to credit where you got them from as we will not reblog packs which do not credit caps or original gifs from the original maker.

THINGS YOU CAN MAKE FOR THIS TASK -  examples are linked!

Stumped for ideas? Maybe make a masterlist or graphic of your favourite faceclaims. A masterlist of names. Plot ideas or screencaps from a music video preformed by an artist. Masterlist of quotes and lyrics that can be used for starters, thread titles or tags. Guides on culture and customs.

Screencaps

RP icons [of all sizes]

Gif Pack [maybe gif icons if you wish]

PNG packs

Manips

Dash Icons

Character Aesthetics

PSD’s

XCF’s

Graphic Templates - can be chara header, promo, border or background PSD’s!

FC Masterlists - underused, with resources, without resources!

FC Help - could be related, family templates, alternatives.

Written Guides.

and whatever else you can think of / make!

MASTERLIST!

F:

Anna Maria Horsford (1948) Afro-Antiguan, Limba, Dominican - actress. 

Patsy Moore (1964) Afro-Antiguan / Unspecified - singer and poet.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste (1967) Afro-Antiguan / Afro-Saint Lucian - actress. 

Drena De Niro (1967) Antiguan, African, Creole / Unknown - actress and producer. 

Rozonda Thomas (1971) African-American, 1/16th Bengali Indian, 1/16th Afro-Antiguan, possibly Unspecified Native American - actress, dancer and singer. 

June Ambrose (1972) Afro-Antiguan - tv personality and stylist.

Fay Wolf (1978) Afro-Antiguan / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress, singer and pianist. 

Claudette Peters (1979) Afro-Antiguan - singer.

Javine Hylton (1981) Afro- Antiguan or Barbudan, White - singer.  

Gemma Hunt (1982) Afro- Antiguan or Barbudan - presenter. 

Masaba Gupta (1988) Indian / Antiguan - fashion designer.

London Hughes (1989) Afro- Antiguan or Barbudan - comedian and presenter. 

Xiea Hull (1993) Afro-Antiguan - model.

Aaron Philip (2001) Afro-Antiguan - model. - Has Cerebral Palsy - Trans!

Au/Ra / Jamie Lou Stenzel (2002) Antiguan / German - singer-songwriter.

Donalia Jones (?) Afro-Antiguan - actress.

Nicoya Henry (?) Afro-Antiguan - model.

Mara (?) Afro-Antiguan - instagrammer (mara_mac).

Tamzin (?) Afro-Antiguan, Nigerian, British - singer (instagram: tamzinmusic).

Catherine Melenciano (?) Afro-Antiguan - instagrammer (cathiimedialuna).

Melisa N. Charles (?) Afro-Barbudan - model.

Desiree Heslop / Princess (?) Afro- Antiguan or Barbudan - singer.

F - Athletes:

Ruperta Charles (1962) Afro-Antiguan - sprinter. 

Jocelyn Joseph (1964) Antiguan or Barbudan - sprinter.

Laverne Bryan (1965) Antiguan or Barbudan - middle-distance runner.

Heidi Lehrer (1966) Antiguan [White] - canoer.

Monica Stevens (1967) Antiguan or Barbudan - sprinter.

Heather Samuel (1970) Antiguan or Barbudan - sprinter.

Charmaine Gilgeous (1971) Afro-Antiguan - sprinter.

Barbara Selkridge (1971) Afro-Antiguan - sprinter.

Charmaine Thomas (1974) Antiguan or Barbudan - sprinter.

Dine Potter (1975) Antiguan or Barbudan - sprinter.

Kevinia Francis (1978) Afro-Antiguan - cyclist.

Sonia Williams (1979) Afro-Antiguan - sprinter.

Amy Harris-Willock (1987) Afro-Antiguan - long jumper and Miss Caribbean UK. 

Priscilla Frederick (1989) Afro-Antiguan / African-American - high jumper.

Christal Clashing (1989) Afro-Antiguan / Costa Rican - swimmer.

Samantha Edwards (1990) Afro-Antiguan - sprinter. 

Amelia Green (1991) Antiguan - footballer.

Tamiko Butler (1991) Antiguan - cyclist.

Afia Charles (1992) Afro-Antiguan / Unknown - sprinter. 

Karin O'Reilly Clashing (1992) Afro-Antiguan / Costa Rican - swimmer.

Satara Murray (1993) Afro-Antiguan, Afro-Barbudan, Afro-Jamaican, Afro-Guyanese, English - footballer.

Desirèe Henry (1995) Afro-Antiguan, Afro-Guyanese - sprinter. 

Sabrina Frederick (1996) Afro- Antiguan, Jamaican - footballer.

Kaila Charles (1998) Afro-Antiguan / Trinidadian - basketball player.

Samantha Roberts (2000) Afro-Antiguan - swimmer.

Sher-Rhonda Greenaway (?) Afro-Antigua - IFBB Elite Pro Athlete and Miss Antigua overall Bodyfitness Champion 2017.

M:

King Short Shirt / Sir MacLean Emanuel (1942) Afro-Antiguan - singer. 

Romeo Challenger (1950) Afro-Antiguan - musician. 

Kool DJ Red Alert / Frederick Crute (1956) Afro-Antiguan - disc jockey.

Jazzie B / Trevor Beresford Romeo (1963) Afro-Antiguan - DJ and music producer.

Shashi Balooja (1968) Antiguan - actor and filmmaker.

Andrew Keoghan (1980) Antiguan - singer-songwriter. 

Tian Winter (1985) Afro-Antiguan - singer-songwriter.

Ricardo Drue (1985) Afro-Antiguan - singer-songwriter.

JB Gill / Jonathan Benjamin Gill (1986) Afro-Antiguan - singer. 

Killian Lyrik (1991) Algonquian, Antiguan, Jamaican, Dutch, German - singer, model and writer.

Lucien Laviscount (1992) Afro-Antiguan / English - actor and singer. 

Kirk Knight (1996) Afro-Antiguan / Grenadian - rapper.

Quan The Supreme (1997) Afro-Antiguan, Afro-Barbudan - tiktoker (quanthesupreme).

KneeCaps (1998) Afro-Antiguan, Afro-Barbudan - youtuber.

Sheku Kanneh-Mason (1999) Afro-Antiguan / Sierra Leonean - cellist. 

Clifton Joseph (?) Afro-Antiguan - dub poet.

Shirville Jarvis (?) Afro-Antiguan - actor and model.

M - Athletes:

Maurice Hope (1951) Afro-Antiguan - boxer.

Andy Roberts (1951) Afro-Antiguan - cricketer. 

Viv Richards (1952) Afro-Antiguan - cricketer. 

Cuthbert Jacobs (1952) Antiguan, Barbudan - sprinter.

Maxwell Peters (1955) Antiguan, Barbudan - triple jumper.

Everton Cornelius (1955) Antiguan, Barbudan - sprinter.

Leon Richardson (1957) Antiguan - cyclist.

Elisha Hughes (1959) Antiguan - cyclist.

Alfred Browne (1959) Afro-Antiguan, Afro-Barbudan - sprinter.

Eldine Baptiste (1960) Afro-Antiguan - cricketer. 

Brian Lyn (1961) Antiguan - cyclist.

Richie Richardson (1962) Afro-Antiguan - cricketer.

Oral Selkridge (1962) Afro-Antiguan, Afro-Barbudan - sprinter.

Curtly Ambrose (1963) Afro-Antiguan - cricketer. 

Lester Benjamin (1963) Afro-Antiguan, Afro-Barbudan - long jumper.

Howard Lindsay (1963) Afro-Antiguan, Afro-Barbudan, Afro-Jamaican - middle-distance runner.

Jacob Lehrer (1964) Antiguan [White] - canoer.

Ira Fabian (1964) Afro-Antiguan - cyclist.

Dale Jones (1964) Antiguan - middle-distance runner.

Winston Benjamin (1964) Afro-Antiguan - cricketer. 

Pieter Lehrer (1965) Antiguan [White] - canoer and footballer.

Rolston Williams (1965) Afro-Antiguan - footballer.

Daryl Joseph (1966) Antiguan, Barbudan - boxer.

James Browne (1966) Antiguan, Barbudan - long jumper.

Mitchell Browne (1966) Afro-Antiguan, Afro-Barbudan - sprinter.

Neil Lloyd (1966) Afro-Antiguan - cyclist.

Kenny Benjamin (1967) Afro-Antiguan - cricketer. 

Ridley Jacobs (1967) Afro-Antiguan - cricketer. 

Anthony Henry (1967) Afro-Antiguan - sprinter.

Robert Marsh (1968) Afro-Antiguan - cyclist.

Reuben Appleton (1968) Afro-Antiguan - middle-distance runner.

Derrick Edwards (1968) Afro-Antiguan - footballer.

Robert Peters (1970) Afro-Antiguan - cyclist.

Kenmore Hughes (1970) Antiguan or Barbudan - sprinter.

Hamish Anthony (1971) Afro-Antiguan - cricketer. 

Michael Terry (1973) Afro-Antiguan, Afro-Barbudan - middle-distance runner.

N'Kosie Barnes (1974) Afro-Antiguan - sprinter.

Adam Sanford (1975) Afro- Antiguan or Barbudan - cricketer.

Marc Joseph (1976) Afro- Antiguan or Barbudan - footballer. 

Ben Challenger (1978) Afro- Antiguan or Barbudan - high jumper. 

Emile Heskey (1978) Afro-Antiguan - footballer. 

Speedy Claxton (1978) Afro-Antiguan - basketball player.

Kieron Dyer (1978) Afro-Antiguan / English - footballer. 

Rory Gonsalves (1979) Antiguan - cyclist.

Shannon Falcone (1981) Antiguan [White] - sailor.

Robbie Joseph (1982) Afro-Antiguan - cricketer. 

Joel Anthony (1982) Afro-Antiguan / Unknown - basketball player. 

Mikele Leigertwood (1982) Afro-Antiguan - footballer. 

Justin Cochrane (1982) Afro-Antiguan / Saint Lucian - footballer. 

Gavin Tonge (1983) Afro-Antiguan - cricketer. 

Brendan Christian (1983) Afro-Antiguan - sprinter.

Julius Hodge (1983) Afro-Antiguan - basketball player.

Kurt Looby (1984) Afro-Antiguan - basketball player.

Damien Farrell (1984) Afro-Antiguan or Barbudan - footballer. 

Peter Byers (1984) Afro-Antiguan - footballer. 

Ronayne Marsh-Brown (1984) Afro-Antiguan or Barbudan - footballer. 

James Grayman (1985) Afro-Antiguan - high jumper.

Ayata Joseph (1985) Afro-Antiguan - triple jumper.

Colin Kazim-Richards (1986) Afro-Antiguan / Turkish Cypriot - footballer. 

Dexter Blackstock (1986) 1/4th Afro-Antiguan, Unknown - footballer. 

Colin Kazim-Richards (1986) Afro-Antiguan / Turkish - footballer. 

Daniel Bailey (1986) Afro-Antiguan - sprinter.

James Walker (1987) Afro-Antiguan or Barbudan - footballer. 

Moses Ashikodi (1987) Afro-Antiguan or Barbudan - footballer. 

Luke Blakely (1988) Afro-Antiguan - footballer. 

Myles Weston (1988) Afro-Antiguan - footballer.  

Marvin McCoy (1988) Afro- Antiguan or Barbudan - footballer. 

Malique Williams (1988) Afro-Antiguan - swimmer.

Orlando Peters (1988) Afro-Antiguan - cricketer.

Justin Athanaze (1988) Afro- Antiguan or Barbudan - cricketer. 

Keiran Murtagh (1988) Afro-Antiguan or Barbudan - footballer. 

Jyme Bridges (1989) Afro-Antiguan - cyclist.

Devon Thomas (1989) Afro-Antiguan - cricketer. 

Josh Parker (1990) Afro-Antiguan or Barbudan - footballer. 

Kemba Walker (1990) Afro-Antiguan / Antiguan [Antiguan, Crucian] - basketball player.

Kiernan Hughes-Mason (1991) Afro-Antiguan or Barbudan - footballer. 

Jamol Pilgrim (1991) Afro-Antiguan - paralympic sprinter.

Nathaniel Jarvis (1991) Afro- Antiguan or Barbudan - footballer. 

Hayden Walsh Jr. (1992) Crucian [Afro-Antiguan / Unknown] - cricketer. 

Keanu Marsh-Brown (1992) Guyanese, Afro-Antiguan or Barbudan - footballer. 

Quinton Griffith (1992) Afro-Antiguan - footballer. 

Kareem Valentine (1992) Afro-Antiguan - swimmer.

Zaine Francis-Angol (1993) Afro-Antiguan or Barbudan - footballer. 

Rahkeem Cornwall (1993) Afro-Antiguan - cricketer. 

Norvel Pelle (1993) Afro-Antiguan - basketball player. 

Calaum Jahraldo-Martin (1993) Afro-Antiguan - footballer. 

Rhys Browne (1995) Afro-Antiguan - footballer. 

Mahlon Romeo (1995) Afro-Antiguan / Unknown - footballer. 

Cejhae Greene (1995) Afro-Antiguan - sprinter.

Ché Adams (1996) Afro-Antiguan / Unspecified - footballer. 

Blaize Punter (1996) Afro-Antiguan / Unspecified - footballer. 

Connor Peters (1996) Afro-Antiguan or Barbudan - footballer. 

Alzarri Joseph (1996) Afro-Antiguan - cricketer. 

Courtney Wildin (1996) Afro-Antiguan or Barbudan - footballer. 

AJ George (1996) Afro-Antiguan - footballer. 

Vashami Allen (1997) Afro-Antiguan - footballer. 

Luther Wildin (1997) Afro-Antiguan or Barbudan - footballer. 

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (1998) Afro-Antiguan / Unspecified White - basketball player.

DJ Buffonge (1998) Afro-Antiguan - footballer. 

Daniel Bowry (1998) Afro-Antiguan or Barbudan - footballer. 

Noah Mascoll-Gomes (1999) Afro-Antiguan - swimmer.

Stefano Mitchell (1999) Antiguan - swimmer.

Zayn Hakeem (1999) Afro-Antiguan - footballer. 

Thomasi Gilgeous-Alexander (2000) Afro-Antiguan / Unspecified White - basketball player.

TJ Bramble (2001) Afro-Antiguan or Barbudan - footballer. 

Patrick Spencer (?) Antiguan - cyclist.

Rowan Benjamin (?) Antiguan or Barbudan - footballer.

Problematic:

Conrad Mainwaring (1951) Afro-Antiguan - hurdler. - Sexual assault allegations.

Mohammed George (1982) Afro-Antiguan / Afro-Jamaican - actor. - Assault allegations.