#frankie connelly

[friendlessghoul]

Buster Keaton, Ruth Dwyer, T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards, Frankie Raymond, and Erwin Connelly Seven Chances - 1925

[murder-ballad-ballot]

round 2, match 4: frankie vs down in the willow garden

examples & descriptions

frankie

(alternate titles: frankie and johnny, frankie and albert)

"murder is ok if your boyfriend cheats"

mississippi john hurt

down in the willow garden

(alternate title: rose connelly)

"my father often told me that money would set me free if I did murder that dear little girl whose name was rose connelly (it didn't)"

"bro poisons his gf and then stabs her and then throws her in the river"

everley brothers, shakey graves, run boy run

[joker1315]

All the actors you can find on this blog

Use the following link and insert the tag you want to see:

a: adam croasdell - aiden turner - aimee garcia - alan rickman - alan tudyk - alex kingston - alison sudol - allen leech - amanda abbington - amir wilson - amita suman - anatol yusef - andreas pietschmann - andrew garfield - andrew scott - aneurin barnard - annette badland  - anthony hopkins - anthony mackie - antony starr - anya chalotra - august wittgenstein

b: barry bostwick - bellamy young - ben barnes - ben mckenzie - benedict cumberbatch - benicio del toro - bernard cribbins - bill nighy - billie piper - billy boyd - brendan gleeson - brent spiner - brianna hildebrand

c: calahan skogman - cameron monaghan - candice bergen - carla gugino - caroline dhavernas - cate blanchett - catherine e coulson - catherine tate - catinca untaru - chadwick boseman - charlie chaplin - chris addison - chris cooper - chris evans - chris hemsworth - chris malcom - chris pine - christian bale - christian clemenson - christian tramitz - christiane paul - christina ricci - christopher eccleston - christopher lee - christopher lloyd - cillian murphy - colin firth - colin odonoghue - colin woodell - corey johnson - cory michael smith - craig parker

d: dakota fanning - daniel brühl - daniel craig - daniel radcliffe - daniel sträβer - danielle galligan- david bowie - david dastmalchian - david duchovny - david morrissey - david tennant - david thewlis - david wenham - deforest kelley - diego luna - dietrich hollinderbäumer - dominic cooper - dominic monaghan - dominic west

e: eddie karanja - elijah wood - elizabeth olsen - elton john - emilie de ravin - emily beecham - emma thompson - emma watson - ethan hawke - eve myles - ewan mcgregor

f: ferdinand kingsley - frankie adams - freddy carter - freema agyeman

g: gareth david lloyd - gary oldman - geoffrey rush - george eads - george takei - georgia tennant - georgina haig - gillian anderson - ginnifer goodwin - gwendoline christie - gwyneth paltrow

h: hadley fraser - harrison ford - harvey keitel - hayley atwell - heath ledger - helen mccrory - helena bonham carter - henry cavill - hugh dancy - hugh jackman - hugh laurie - hugh skinner - hugo weaving

i: ian mckellen - imelda staunton - inbar lavi

j: jack davenport - jack wolfe - jackie earle haley - jake gyllenhaal - james mcavoy - james spader - jamie lee curtis - jared padalecki - jason isaacs - javier bardem - jayne brook - jeff goldblum - jenna coleman - jennifer connelly - jennifer lawrence - jennifer morrison - jensen ackles - jeremy renner - jim beaver - jodie foster - joel rush - joey batey - john barrowman - john boyega - john hurt - john larroquette - john rhys davies - john simm - johnny depp - jonathan frakes - jose pimentao - joseph gilgun - josh dallas - jude law - julia stiles - julianne moore - julie covington - juliette binoche

k: kacey rohl - karen fukuhara - karen gillan - karl urban - kat dennings - kate capshaw - kathryn hahn - keira knightley - kevin alejandro - kit young - krysten ritter - kyle maclachlan - kyra sedgwick

l: lana parrilla - lara pulver - lars mikkelsen - laura allen - laura dern - laura fraser - lauren german - laurence fishburne - laurie kynaston - laz alonso - lee arenberg - lee pace - leonard nimoy - lesley ann brandt - lesley sharp - lindsay duncan - lisa vicari - liv tyler - lizzy caplan - louise hofmann - lucas till - luke evans

m: mads mikkelsen - maggie gyllenhaal - majel barrett - margo martindale - marion cotillard - mark gatiss - mark pellegrino - mark ruffalo - mark sheppard - mark strong - mark waschke - martin freeman - matt smith - max schimmelpfenning - may calamawy - meat loaf - megan boone - mel gibson - melinda clarke - melissanthi mahut - meret becker - mia wasikowska - michael benyaer - michael bully herbig - michael cumpsty - michael des barres - michael fassbender - michael gambon - michael raymond james - michael sheen - michelle gomez - mikael persbrandt - miranda otto - misha collins

n: natalie portman - ncuti gatwa - neil patrick harris - nell campbell - nichelle nichols - nicolas cage - nicole kidman

o: olivia colman - orlando bloom - oscar isaac - owen wilson

p: paddy ohagan - patricia quinn - patrick stewart - paul bettany - paul chahidi - paul lux - paul mescal - pedro pascal - penelope wilton - peter capaldi - peter falk - peter hinwood - philip glenister - phoebe waller bridge - pierce brosnan - pip torrens

q: qorianka kilcher - quentin tarantino

r: rachael harris - rachel weisz - rafi gavron - ralph fiennes - rayner bourton - reece shearsmith - rene russo - rhona mitra - richard armitage - richard obrien - rob benedict - robbie kay - robert carlyle - robert downey jr - robin lord taylor - robin williams - ronald guttman - rose mciver - rupert graves - rupert grint - russell crowe - ruth negga - ryan gosling - ryan reynolds

s: sam neill - samantha smith - samuel l jackson - scarlett estevez - scarlett johansson - sean astin - sean bean - sebastian stan - sherilyn fenn - shohreh aghdashloo - sky du mont - sophia di martino - stanley tucci - stellan skarsgard - steven strait - susan sarandon

t: tan caglar - taron egerton - tilda swinton - tim curry - tim roth - toby maguire - tom conti - tom ellis - tom felton - tom hiddleston - tom holland - tom payne - tom sturridge - tomer capone - tony curran - tony curtis - tricia helfer - troy garity

u: una stubbs

v: val kilmer - vanesu samunyai - viggo mortensen - vivienne acheampong - vladimir burlakov

w: walter koenig - william shatner

y: yasmin finney

z: zachary quinto

[lesterplatt]

KIA from TOBY MORRIS on Vimeo.

Kia Seltos (Director's Cut)

Director: Toby Morris

Agency/Production Co: Elastic Studios CD: Simon Thomas EP: Briana Miller Producer: Avril Dunn DOP: Gregoire Liere, Ziga Zupancic Production Manager: Nicolanne Cox Production Coordinator: David Bedelis 1st AD: Darin Berlin 2nd AD: Davis Jensen, Frankie Noble-Shelton 1st AC: Steivan Hasler, Rhys Nicholson 2nd AC: Sam Connelly, Claudia Butters Steadicam: Jason Rodrigues Robot Arm Opp: Daniel Miller Gaffer: Jay MacNeill, Yoshi Kwon Best Boy: Felix Maude LX Assists: Balint Major, Aeasitya Sani, Craig Knight, Robert Gray Grip: Kris Wallis Grip Assist: Rob Birtles Production Design: Jamie Morris Art Assist: Pete Tslepi Wardrobe: Caitlin Murray feat. Paul McCann Wardrobe Assist: Libby Spring Hair Stylist: Daren Borthwick, Sophie Roberts Makeup Artist: Linda Jeffries, Jo Cotter Location Manager: Noel Mclaughlin Production Assist: Greer Lindsay Additional Photography: Matty Owers, Thomaz Labanca BTS: Andre Hoo

Edit: Cameron Drew 2D VFX: Tim Eddy, Josh Regoli 3D VFX: James Choe Grade: Matt Campbell

Audio: Sonar Music

[solsinfo]

the expanse.

primary.

01. NAOMI NAGATA — ROCINANTE'S XO : she / her, book + show influences, bisexual + polyamorous, fc: dominique tipper, tag. prev. beltraised

secondary.

01. FILIP INAROS NAGATA — TRANSPORT UNION CONTRACTOR + FORMER FREE NAVY OPERATIVE: he / him, book + show influences, bisexual + polyamorous, fc: jasai chase owens, tag.

02. JULIETTE ANDROMEDA MAO — THE PROTOMOLECULE'S SEED CRYSTAL + FORMER OPA OPERATIVE: she / her, primarily au, pansexual, fc: florence faivre, tag.

original characters.

01. ANDREAS ALEXIOU — FREELANCE DATA CODER : he / him, earther living on tycho, bisexual, fc: dimitri leonidas, tag.

02. VERA SULLIVAN — FUGITIVE + FORMER MCRN FLEET ADMIRAL: she / her, martian hiding out in the belt, pansexual, fc: jennifer connelly, tag.

killjoys.

primary.

01. JOHNNY JAQOBIS — KILLJOY AKA SPACE BOUNTY HUNTER + MEMBER OF TEAM AWESOME FORCE : he / him, bisexual, fc: aaron ashmore, tag.

02. ZEPH — RAC MEMBER : she / her, bisexual, fc: kelly mccormack, tag.

mass effect.

primary.

01. KAIDAN ALENKO — ALLIANCE SENTINEL + 2ND HUMAN SPECTRE : he / him, bisexual, fc: in-game model/tbd, tag.

02. MIRANDA LAWSON — CERBERUS OPERATIVE GENETICALLY ENGINEERED BIOTIC : she / her, bisexual, fc: in-game model/tbd, tag.

03. SAMARA — ASARI JUSTICAR : she / her, bisexual, fc: in-game model/tbd, tag.

original characters.

01. VERNE DANIELS — ALLIANCE VANGUARD : she / her, lesbian, fc: frankie adams, tag.

silo.

primary.

01. JULIETTE 'JULES' NICHOLS — ENGINEER + SHERIFF : she / her, show based for now, bisexual, fc: rebecca ferguson, tag.

original characters.

primary.

01. ALEC WELCH — ASTRONOMER + CAPTAIN SPACE SALVAGER : he / him, bisexual, fc: manny jacinto, tag. affiliated with @FABLELIKE

02. MATTHIAS BISHOP — ONE OF THE HUNDRED + MEDIC : he / him, bisexual, the 1OO based, fc: josha stradowski, tag.

03. PENELOPE — ETERNAL WEAVER + SORCERESS : she / her, bisexual, greek mythos based, fc: melissanthi mahut, tag. prev. ifandra

secondary.

01. NES — ONE S SYSTEM OF THE VOID : all pronouns, ship ai system, fc: mackenzie davis / laura birn, tag.

private.

the 1OO/adapted for scifi universes.

01. RAVEN REYES — SPACEWALKER + GENIUS MECHANIC : she / her, bisexual, fc: lindsay morgan, tag. prev. damnbrain/spacewa1k

LILLY'S EDEN

02. JACE ███████ — EDEN'S SECURITY TEAM LEADER : he / him, bisexual, fc: luke macfarlane, tag.

[agendaculturaldelima]

    #ProyeccionDeVida

🎥 Cine Italiano, presenta:

🎬 “ERASE UNA VEZ EN AMERICA” [Once Upon a Time in America]

🔎 Género: Drama / Mafia / Crimen / Amistad / Años 20, 30.y 60 / Película de Culto

⌛️ Duración: 225 minutos

✍️ Guión: Sergio Leone, Leonardo Benevenuti, Piero de Bernardi, Enrico Medioli, Franco Arcalli y Franco Ferrini

🎼 Música: Ennio Morricone

📷 Fotografía: Tonino Delli Colli

🗯 Argumento: A principios del siglo XX; David Aaronson, un pobre chaval judío, conoce a Max en los suburbios de Manhattan, otro joven de origen hebreo dispuesto a llegar lejos por cualquier método. Entre ellos nace una gran amistad y, con otros colegas, forman una banda que prospera rápidamente, llegando a convertirse, en los tiempos de la Ley Seca (1920-1933), en unos importantes mafiosos.

👥 Reparto: Robert De Niro (David "Noodles" Aaronson), Elizabeth McGovern (Deborah Gelly), James Woods (Max), Joe Pesci (Frankie Minaldi), Jennifer Connelly (Deborah Gelly), Tuesday Weld (Carol), Treat Williams (James Conway O'Donnell), Scott Schutzman Tiler (David "Noodles" Aaronson) y James Hayden (Patrick 'Patsy' Goldberg)

📢 Dirección: Sergio Leone

© Productora:Warner Bros.

👤 Productor: Arnon Milchan Productions

🌎 País: Estados Unidos

📅 Año: 1984

📽 Proyección:

📆 Jueves 26 de Setiembre

🕔 6:30pm.

🏡 Auditorio Leonardo Da Vinci del Instituto Italiano de Cultura (av. Arequipa 1055, Urbanización Santa Beatriz - Lima)

🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ Ingreso libre

🎤 El dato: Después de la proyección se realiza el Conversatorio a cargo de Sebastián Pimentel (crítico de cine).

[galax1ad]

doctor who.

primary.

01. RUBY SUNDAY — 15's COMPANION + CONCEPT MADE OF MEMORIES : she / her, queer, fc: millie gibson, tag.

the expanse.

primary.

01. JAMES HOLDEN — ROCINANTE'S CAPTAIN + PROTOMOLECULE'S FAVORITE CHEW TOY : he / him, book + show influences, bisexual + polyamorous, fc: steven strait, tag.

02. JOSEP — THE TYNAN'S CHIEF ENGINEER + PILOT : he / him, book + show influences, bisexual + polyamorous, fc: samer salem, tag.

03. MICHIO — THE TYNAN'S MEDTECH + SALVAGER : she / her, show based, bisexual + polyamorous, fc: vanessa smyth, tag.

secondary.

01. CLARISSA MELPOMENE MAO AKA PEACHES — THE ROCINANTE'S MECHANIC + FORMER MAX SECURITY PRISONER : she / her, book + show influences, lesbian, fc: nadine nicole, tag.

02. FILIP INAROS NAGATA — TRANSPORT UNION CONTRACTOR + FORMER FREE NAVY OPERATIVE: he / him, book + show influences, bisexual + polyamorous, fc: jasai chase owens, tag.

03. JULIETTE ANDROMEDA MAO — THE PROTOMOLECULE'S SEED CRYSTAL + FORMER OPA OPERATIVE: she / her, primarily au, pansexual, fc: florence faivre, tag.

04. SABA — CAPTAIN OF THE MALACLYPSE + UNDERGROUND LEADER: he / him, book based, pansexual + polyamorous, fc: david ajala, tag.

original characters.

01. ANDREAS ALEXIOU — FREELANCE DATA CODER : he / him, earther living on tycho, bisexual, fc: dimitri leonidas, tag.

02. VERA SULLIVAN — FUGITIVE + FORMER MCRN FLEET ADMIRAL: she / her, martian hiding out in the belt, pansexual, fc: jennifer connelly, tag.

killjoys.

primary.

01. JOHNNY JAQOBIS — KILLJOY AKA SPACE BOUNTY HUNTER + MEMBER OF TEAM AWESOME FORCE : he / him, bisexual, fc: aaron ashmore, tag.

life is strange.

primary.

01. MAX CAULFIELD — PHOTOGRAPHER + TIME REWINDER : she / her, lesbian, fc: sophie thatcher / dakota johnson, tag.

mass effect. (now on 1stspectre)

primary.

01. COMMANDER CALLIOPE SHEPARD — EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE NORMANDY + FIRST HUMAN SPECTRE : she / her, bisexual, fc: hannah john kamen, tag.

original characters.

primary.

01. ALEC WELCH — ASTRONOMER + CAPTAIN SPACE SALVAGER : he / him, bisexual, fc: manny jacinto, tag. affiliated with @FABLELIKE

01. MATTHIAS BISHOP — ONE OF THE HUNDRED + MEDIC : he / him, bisexual, the 1OO based, fc: josha stradowski, tag.

03. VERNE DANIELS — VOLLEYBALL COACH + SUPER HERO : she / her, lesbian, fc: frankie adams, tag.

secondary.

01. NES — ONE S SYSTEM OF THE VOID : all pronouns, ship ai system, fc: mackenzie davis / laura birn, tag.

02. XENIA SEVYN — SECOND OFFICER OF THE VOID INTERGALACTIC HITCH-HIKER : she / her, aroace, fc: sonequa martin green, tag.

silo.

primary.

01. JULIETTE 'JULES' NICHOLS — ENGINEER + SHERIFF : she / her, show based for now, bisexual, fc: rebecca ferguson, tag.

secondary.

01. SHIRLEY CAMPBELL — ENGINEER : she / her, show based for now, lesbian, fc: remmie miller, tag.

misc canon characters.

01. CINTA KAZ — REBEL : she / her, andor, lesbian, fc: verada sethu, tag.

02. DIEGO HARGREEVES — NUMBER TWO : he / him, tua, vibes only, bisexual, fc: david castañeda, tag. by request

03. SALVOR HARDIN — TERMINUS WARDEN + TELEPATH : they / them, foundation, show based + au, queer, fc: leah harvey, tag. by request

04. BROTHER CONSTANT — NOVICE CLARIC + ENEMY OF EMPIRE : she / they, foundation, show based, queer, fc: isabella laughland, tag. by request

05. YASNA FARZEN — THE IC DRAGONFLY'S ASTROBIOLOGIST : she / her, the invincible (video game), demiromantic/demisexual, fc: golshifteh farahani, tag. by request

[trnsocial]

84 From '84: Once Upon A Time in America

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life. Cast: Robert De Niro as David “Noodles” Aaronson James Woods as Maximilian “Max” Bercovicz Elizabeth McGovern as Deborah Gelly Jennifer Connelly as young Deborah Joe Pesci as Francis “Frankie” Monaldi Burt Young as…

[crystalmodelsafrica]

Over the centuries, artists have used children as models for countless works.

In Uganda, child modeling has become a distinct activity because of the explosion of commercial media over the past several decades. Many young actresses and actors notably, Naomi Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Katherine Heigl, Jessica Alba, Ashley Benson Lindsay Lohan,Naya Rivera, Miranda Cosgrove, Hayley Kiyoko, Liv Tyler, Brooke Shields, Taylor Momsen, Peyton List, Gigi Hadid, Yara Shahidi, Maddie Ziegler, Skai Jackson,Anastasia Bezrukova, and Frankie Muniz began as child models.

The visible success of child models who became media celebrities has led numerous children (and their parents) to pursue modeling as a part-time career.

In practice, most of this success has their parents, guardians, and agents behind it.

While it's considered a great opportunity for the children by their parents since they learn a solid work ethic and are also taught about the responsibilities that come with working in a professional environment, it’s very important for them to get approval from their parents first.

Over the centuries, artists have used children as models for countless works.

In Uganda, child modeling has become a distinct activity because of the explosion of commercial media over the past several decades. Many young actresses and actors notably, Naomi Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Katherine Heigl, Jessica Alba, Ashley Benson Lindsay Lohan,Naya Rivera, Miranda Cosgrove, Hayley Kiyoko, Liv Tyler, Brooke Shields, Taylor Momsen, Peyton List, Gigi Hadid, Yara Shahidi, Maddie Ziegler, Skai Jackson,Anastasia Bezrukova, and Frankie Muniz began as child models.

The visible success of child models who became media celebrities has led numerous children (and their parents) to pursue modeling as a part-time career.

In practice, most of this success has their parents, guardians, and agents behind it.

While it's considered a great opportunity for the children by their parents since they learn a solid work ethic and are also taught about the responsibilities that come with working in a professional environment, it’s very important for them to get approval from their parents first.

https://nsubugaronnie.com/post/42-as-a-child-model-do-i-need-my-parents-approval-to-model

[dear-indies]

i really want to bring my oc set into 'the outer worlds' to my mumu but i am really lost about a fc. i'd love to find fcs of any gender who have gif resources in a sci fi setting, so astronaut/space traveler vibes? could you possibly help me out? age, gender, ethnicity can be anything!

Nonb:

Olive Gray (1994) Zambian / English - is non-binary (they/them) - Halo.

Mason Alexander Park (1995) Mexican and Spanish - is non-binary (they/them) - Cowboy Bebop.

Quintessa Swindell (1997) African-American / Unspecified White - is non-binary (he/they) - Voyagers.

Blu del Barrio (1997) Argentinian - is non-binary (they/he) - Star Trek: Discovery.

Ian Alexander (2001) Vietnamese / White - is non-binary(they/he) - Star Trek: Discovery.

Women:

Michelle Yeoh (1962) Malaysian Chinese of Hokkien and Cantonese descent - Star Trek.

Ming-Na Wen (1963) Macanese / Chinese Malaysian - The Book of Boba Fett, The Mandalorian, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Jennifer Connelly (1970) Ashkenazi Jewish / Irish, Norwegian - Snowpiercer.

Anthony Rapp (1971) - is bisexual - Star Trek.

Lauren Ridloff (1978) African-American / Mexican - is deaf - Eternals.

Dichen Lachman (1982) Nepalese Tibetan / German - Altered Carbon.

Jodie Whittaker (1982) - Doctor Who.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw (1983) Zulu South African / English - The Cloverfield Paradox.

Cara Gee (1983) Ojibwe - The Expanse.

Tala Ashe (1984) Iranian - Legends Of Tomorrow.

DeWanda Wise (1984) African-American - Jurassic World.

Mary Wiseman (1985) - is queer - Star Trek.

Sonoya Mizuno (1986) Japanese / Argentinian and British - Maniac.

Wunmi Mosaku (1986) Nigerian - Loki.

Kelly Marie Tran (1989) Vietnamese - Star Wars.

Hannah John-Kamen (1989) Nigerian / Norwegian - Killjoys.

Kristen Stewart (1990) - is bisexual - Underwater.

Jess Bush (1992) - Star Trek.

Adria Arjona (1992) Guatemalan / Puerto Rican - Andor, Pacific Rim.

Maisie Richardson-Sellers (1992) Afro Guyanese / English - is queer - Legends of Tomorrow.

Kutsuna Shioli (1992) Japanese - Invasion.

Frankie Adams (1994) Samoan - The Expanse.

Taylor Russell (1994) Black Canadian / European - Lost in Space.

Banita Sandhu (1997) Punjabi Indian - Pandora.

Alaqua Cox (1997) Menominee and Mohican - is Deaf and is a leg amputee - Hawkeye.

Celia Rose Gooding (2000) - is bisexual and grey asexual (she/they) - Star Trek.

Men:

Paterson Joseph (1964) Afro-Saint Lucian - Timeless.

Timothy Olyphant (1968) - The Mandalorian.

Anson Mount (1973) - in Star Trek.

Wilson Cruz (1973) Afro Puerto Rican - is gay - Star Trek.

Wes Chatham (1978) - The Expanse.

Diego Luna (1979) Mexican / Scottish, English - Andor.

Oscar Isaac (1979) Cuban, Guatemalan, Spanish, some French - Star Wars.

David Tennant (1971) - Doctor Who.

Santiago Cabrera (1978) Chilean [Spanish, Basque, French, Belgian/Flemish, English, Irish, German, possibly other] - Star Trek.

Gong Yoo (1979) Korean - The Silent Sea.

Brian Tyree Henry (1982) African-American - Eternals.

Daveed Diggs (1982) African-American / Ashkenazi Jewish - Snowpiercer.

John Boyega (1992) Yoruba Nigerian - Starwars.

Sam Otto (1992) Indian and White - Snowpiercer, Pacific Rim.

Keon Alexander (?) Iranian - The Expanse.

Shayan Sobhian (?) Iranian - Legends of Tomorrow.

Here you go!

[kingsmakers]

Also Tilda x Ben and Merikh x Frankie 😉

😍 for both!

[huntsthemoon]

Frankie Connelly Aesthetic #2

I am mine...

before I am ever anyone else’s....

[rippk3s]

Reading like five books at once is so relatable though 😭

three ships: i really like the cleo+frankie ship from the new monster high series, um sunset shimmer and twilight from equestria girls, i guess carmilla and laura? :’) i really dk

first ship ever: ron+hermione probably

last song: the excess of sorrow, laughs by clarissa connelly

last movie: equestria girls friendship games

currently reading: the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon (seriously read this and update me on it)

currently watching: nothing but i want to watch korra :)

currently consuming: cooking curry potatoes with my gf rn

currently craving: exactly that

Thank you for the tag as always 💘

also im scared to tag people but if you guys want to: @daenerystargaryensgirlfriend @lesbianseaweed @rightventricle

@pencil-case-watches thanks for the tag!

Tag nine people to get to know them better

Three ships: me and my blorbos. and soushin if you fw toxic yaoi. actually and doctorriver

First ever ship: probably undyne and alphys 😶

Last song: currently listening to I/Me/Myself by Will Wood

Last movie: probably Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

Currently reading: I can't

Currently watching: STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION PLEASE ASK ME ABOUT IT-

Currently consuming: water

Currently craving: water

No pressure tags: @pencil-case-watches do it again

and @xeneric-shrooms @gothkurusu @kieshartzishere @pleafyistired @formal-frog-shoes @thesnowydalmatian @ananinidraws @shortgremlinman

[viragoseries]

Masterlist

You’ll find below a master list of all my one shots and drabbles both from this blog and the main blog.

**=smut

Italics means there’s a guest OC as well

Teen Wolf // Nora // Gabriel

Boyfriend Stealing? 

Nora’s Crazy Night Out 

Blue Bird 

Strip Poker Always Leads too... (smut version) 1/3 ** 

Strip Poker Always Leads too.. 2/3 ** 

The Morning After (part 3/3 of Strip Poker Series) ** 

Shortest Drabble Ever 

Distracting Myself ** 

Fred Faced 

Dominance** 

I’ll Do My Best 

Your Turn 

Man Child 

The Civil War Crossover 

Strip Poker Non-Smut Version 

Nora and the Three Bromigos 

Wolf Prom Part I 

Wolf Prom Part II 

Wolf Prom Part III 

Wolf Prom Part IV 

The Period One and Two 

Jealous Wolf 

Movie Night 

Adults are Gross 

Drunk Kevin?! 

Crush on Coach 

Mama Bear 

One Condition 

The Forehead Kiss 

TMI 

No More Than Eighteen 

Never Living This Down 

The One with All Three 

The On With All The Blocking

Riverdale // Frankie // Ben

Caught Red Necked 

Do You Mean It? 

Midnight Milkshakes 

The Last Visit 

Tenacious Evening 

P-A-R-T-Y!! 

Frankie Meets Dani 

Hot and Bothered ** 

MCU/Myra

Ash Left Behind 

Titans // Valentina 

Halloween Meet-Cute

[francesderwent]

The Most Romance, the Complete List

Gabriel Oak and Bathsheba Everdene, Far From the Madding Crowd

Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe, Anne of Green Gables

Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, Wimsey mysteries

Frankie Derwent and Bobby Jones, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans (2022)

Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth, Persuasion

Damon Salvatore and Elena Gilbert, The Vampire Diaries

Eugenides and Irene, Queen’s Thief series

Jack Traven and Annie, Speed

Jude Duarte and Cardan Greenbriar, Folk of the Air trilogy

Sam Vimes and Sybil Ramkin, Discworld (also Carrot and Angua tbh)

Penelope and Johnny, Penelope

Ella and Kit, Cinderella (2015)

Leslie Knope and Ben Wyatt, Parks and Rec

Steve Harrington and Nancy Wheeler, Stranger Things

Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, Hunger Games trilogy

Lyla Novacek and Louis Connelly, August Rush

Frank Castle and Karen Page, Daredevil and The Punisher

Batty Penderwick and Jeffrey Tifton, Penderwicks At Last

Special Mentions: Bluesey, Farawyn, El and Orion, Carol and Doug, Rory and Amy, Troy and Gabriella, Zutara, Warren Peace and Layla Williams, Lorelai and Luke, Jackson and Hayley, Peggy and Sousa, Veronica and Logan, Sara Tancredi and Michael Scofield

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Once Upon a Time in America Is Every Bit as Great a Gangster Movie as The Godfather

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This article contains Once Upon a Time in America spoilers.

The Godfather is a great movie, possibly the best ever made. Its sequel, The Godfather, Part II, often follows it in the pantheon of classic cinema, some critics even believe it is the better film. Robert Evans, head of production at Paramount in the early 1970s, wanted The Godfather to be directed by an Italian American. Francis Ford Coppola was very much a last resort. The studio’s first choice was Sergio Leone, but he was getting ready to make his own gangster epic, Once Upon a Time in America. Though less known, it is equally magnificent. 

Robert De Niro, as David “Noodles” Aaronson, and James Woods, as Maximillian “Max” Bercovicz, make up a dream gangster film pairing in Once Upon a Time in America, on par with late 1930s audiences seeing Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney team for The Roaring Twenties or Angels with Dirty Faces. Noodles and Max are partners and competitors, one is ambitious, the other gets a yen for the beach. One went to jail, the other wants to rob the Federal Reserve Bank. 

Throw Joe Pesci into the mix, in a small part as crime boss Frankie Monaldi, and Burt Young as his brother Joe Monaldi, and life gets “funnier than shit,” and funnier than their more famous crime films, Goodfellas and Chinatown, respectively. Future mob entertainment mainstays are all over Once Upon a Time in America too, and they are in distinguished company. This is future Oscar winner Jennifer Connelly’s first movie. She plays young Deborah, the young girl who becomes the woman between Noodles and Max, and she even has something of a catch-phrase, “Go on Noodles your mother is calling.” Elizabeth McGovern delivers the line as adult Deborah. 

When Once Upon a Time in America first ran in theaters, there were reports that people in the audience laughed when Deborah is reintroduced after a 35-year gap in the action. She hadn’t aged at all. But Deborah is representational to Leone, beyond the character.

“Age can wither me, Noodles,” she says. But neither the character nor the director will allow the audience to see it beyond the cold cream. Deborah is the character Leone is answering to. She also embodies the fluid chronology of the storytelling. She is its only constant.

The rest of the film can feel like a free fall though. Whereas The Godfather moved in a linear fashion, Once Upon a Time in America has time for flashbacks, and flashbacks within flashbacks, and detours that careen between the violent and the quiet. It’s a visceral experience about landing where we, and this genre, began.

Growing up Gangster

Both The Godfather and Once Upon a Time in America span decades; it’s the history of immigrant crime in 20th century America. But they differ on chronological placement. Once Upon a Time is set in three time-frames. The earliest is 1918 in the Jewish ghettos of New York City’s Lower East Side. 

Young Noodles (Scott Tiler), Patrick “Patsy” Goldberg (Brian Bloom), Philip “Cockeye” Stein (Adrian Curran) and Dominic (Noah Moazezi), are a bush league street gang doing petty crimes for a minor neighborhood mug, Bugsy (James Russo). New on the block, Max (Rusty Jacobs) interrupts the gang as they’re about to roll a drunk, and Max makes off with the guy’s watch for himself. He soon joins the gang, and they progress to bigger crimes.

The bulk of the film takes place, however, from when De Niro’s Noodles gets out of prison in 1930, following Bugsy’s murder, and lasts until the end of Prohibition in 1933. Max, now played by Woods, has become a successful bootlegger with a mortuary business on the side. With William Forsythe playing the grown-up Cockeye and James Hayden as Patsy, the mobsters go from bootlegging through contract killing, and ultimately to backing the biggest trucking union in the country as enforcers. They enjoy most of their downtime in their childhood friend Fat Moe’s (Larry Rapp) speakeasy. Noodles is in love with Fat Moe’s sister, Deborah, who is on her way to becoming a Hollywood star. The gang’s rise ends with the liquor delivery massacre.

The final part of the film comes in 1968. After 35 years in hiding, Noodles is uncovered and paid to do a private contract for the U.S. Secretary of Commerce Christopher Bailey…  Max by a different name who 35 years on has been able to feign respectability and make Deborah his mistress. An entire life has become a façade.

Recreating a Seedier Side of New York’s Immigrant Past

While The Godfather is an adaptation of Mario Puzo’s fictional bestseller, Once Upon a Time in America is based on the autobiographical crime novel, The Hoods. It was written by Herschel “Noodles” Goldberg, under the pen name of Harry Grey while he was serving time in Sing-Sing Prison. 

Coppola’s vision in The Godfather is aesthetically comparable to Leone’s projection. From the opium pipes at the Chinese puppet theater to the take-out Lo Mein during execution planning, the multicultural world of old New York crowds the frames and the players in both films. Most of Once Upon a Time in America was shot at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios. The 1918 Jewish neighborhood in Manhattan was a street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which was made to look exactly as it had 60 years earlier.

Leone skillfully, yet playfully, captures the poverty of immigrant life in New York. The first crime we see the four-member gang commit could have been done by the Dead End kids. They torch a newspaper stand because the owner doesn’t kick up protection money to the local mug. And like the Dead End kids, they needle their mark, and joke with each other. At the end of the crime, Cockey is playing the pan pipe, and the very young Dominic is dancing. They are proud of their work and enjoy it. It’s fun to break things for money. And even better when they get a choice between taking payment in cash or rolling it over into the sure bet of rolling a drunk.

Violence without the Cannoli

Gangster films, like Howard Hawks’ Scarface and William A. Wellman’s The Public Enemy, were always at the forefront of the backlash to the Motion Picture Production Code. Which might be why gangster pictures were one of the first genres to benefit from the censors’ fall. A direct line can be drawn from the machine gun death which ends Bonnie and Clyde (1967) to the toll-booth execution of Sonny Corleone (James Caan)  in The Godfather. Another from when Moe Greene (Alex Rocco) gets one through the glasses and Joe Monaldi gets it in the eye in Once Upon a Time in America.

The Godfather has some brutal scenes. We get a litany of dead Barzinis and Tattaglias, horse heads and spilled oranges. Once Upon a Time in America ups the ante though. The shootings and stabbings are neat jobs compared with the beatings, which allow far more artistic renderings of gore, and pass extreme scrutiny. The one time the effects team balks at a payoff is when it’s not as gruesome as the setup.

“Inflammatory words from a union boss,” corporate thug Chicken Joe asks as he is about to light Jimmy “Clean Hands” Conway O’Donnell on fire. The mobster has such a nice smile, and the union delegate, played by Treat Williams, looks so pathetic while dripping gasoline that it feels like it might even be a mercy killing. It is a wonderful set piece, perfectly executed and timed. When Max and Noodles, and the gang defuse the situation, rather than ignite it, it is a lesson in the dangerous balance of suspense.

Like many specific scenes in Once Upon a Time in America, Conway’s incendiary introduction would’ve worked in any era. This is the turning point for the gang. The end of Prohibition is coming and all those trucks they’re using to haul liquor can be repurposed for a more lucrative future. 

“You Dancing?”

Music is paramount in both Leone’s and Coppola’s films. The Godfather is much like an opera, the third installment even closes the curtain at one. Once Upon a Time in America is a frontier film. The score was composed by Ennio Morricone, who wrote the music behind Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

The film opens and closes with Kate Smith’s version of “God Bless America.” Though the scene occurs during the 1968 timeframe, the song comes out of the radio of a car seemingly from another point in time.

Morricone’s accompaniment to Once Upon a Time in America is as representational as Nino Rota’s soundtrack in The Godfather. Characters, settings, situations, and relationships all have themes, which become as recognizable as the Prohibition-era songs which flavor the period piece’s ambience. Fat Moe conducts the speakeasy orchestra through José María Lacalle García’s “Amapola” while grinning dreamily to Deborah who is chatting with Noodles. He’s a romantic.

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The music becomes part of the action in Once Upon a Time in America. Individual couples cut their own rugs, doing the Charleston between tables as waiters and cigarette girls glide by. Cockeye, who has been playing the pan pipe since the beginning of the film, wants to sit in with the band. 

Forsythe almost steals Once Upon a Time in America. He cries what look like real tears at the mock funeral for Prohibition and drinks formula from a baby bottle during the maternity ward scene. The blackmail scheme, which involves swapping infants, plays like an outtake from a Three Stooges movie, something Coppola would never dare for The Godfather. The ruse is choreographed to the tune of Gioachino Rossini’s “The Thieving Magpie,” which elicits the youthful thuggery celebrated in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. 

Devils with Clean Faces

One ironic difference between the two films is whimsy. The Godfather, which glorifies crime as corporate misadventure, is a serious movie with no time for funny business. Once Upon a Time in America, which is an indictment of criminal life, has moments of innocence as syrupy as in any family film (of the non-crime variety) and can be completely kosher. It’s sweeter than the cannoli Clemenza (Richard Castellano) took from the car, or the cake Nazorine (Vito Scotti) made for the wedding of Don Vito’s daughter. 

The scene where young Patsy brings a Charlotte Russe to Peggy in exchange for sex is a masterwork of emotive storytelling. He chooses a treat over sex. On one level, yes, this is a socioeconomic reality. That pastry was expensive and something he could never afford to get for himself. But as Patsy sneaks each tiny bit of the cream from the packaging, he is also just a child, a kid who wants some cake. He learns he can’t have it and eat it. It is so plainly laid out, and so beautifully rendered.

The Corleone family never gets those moments, not even in the flashbacks to Sicily or as children on the stoop listening to street singers play guitars. We know little of Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) or Sonny as youngsters, much less teenagers, and are robbed of their happier moments of bonding. We know they are close, they are family. But Michael has his own brother killed while Noodles balks at the very idea. Twice, as it turns out.

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“Today they ask us to get rid of Joe. Tomorrow they ask me to get rid of you. Is that okay with you? Cos it’s not okay with me,” Noodles tells Max after the gang delivers on a particularly costly contract, double-crossing their partners in a major diamond heist. They are not blood family, but from the moment Max calls Noodles his “uncle” to fool a beat cop, they are all related. 

Noodles then does what young men in coming-of-age movies have done since Cooley High: Something really stupid. An indulgence the Corleones could never enjoy. He speeds the car into the bay. The guys can’t believe it. It adds to his legend. The scene could have been in Diner, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, or even Thelma & Louise. It is hard to dislike the gangsters in these moments. We know them too well, even as they do such horrible things.

How Women are Really Treated by an Underworld

The Godfather is told from the vantage point of one of the heads of the five established crime families; organized crime is as insular as the Corleone mall on Long Beach. That motion picture reinvigorated the “gangster film,” long considered a ghetto genre, but its perspective is insulated. By contrast, no matter how far they climb, Leone’s characters never really get off the block. They are street savages, even in tuxedos. Once Upon a Time in America whacked the gangster film, and tossed its living corpse into the compactor of a passing garbage truck.

The Godfather doesn’t judge its gangsters. The Corleones are family men who keep to a code of ethics and omerta. They dip their beaks in “harmless” vices like gambling, liquor, and prostitution. While there are scenes of extreme domestic violence, and a general dismissal of women, the film stops short of challenging the image of honorable men who do dishonorable things. Leone offers no such restraint. His history lesson is unabridged.

Long before Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman stripped gangster lore to a tale of toxic masculinity, Once Upon a Time in America robbed it of all glamor. There is a very nonchalant attitude toward violence and other demeaning acts against women in Leone’s film, from the very opening scene where a thug fondles a woman’s breast with his gun in order to humiliate her civilian date.

This is deliberate. The director, best known for Spaghetti Westerns, wants to obliterate any goodwill the gangsters have accumulated through their magnetic antiheroism. One scene between Max and his girlfriend Carol (Tuesday Weld) is so hard to sit through, even the other members of the gang squirm in their chairs.

Noodles sexually assaults two women over the course of the film. While there is some motivational ambiguity in the scene during the jewel heist attack, the rape of Deborah is devastatingly direct. It kills any vestige of romance the gangster archetype has in film. The camera does not look away, and the scene lingers with terrifying ferocity and traumatic intimacy. There is a visible victim, and Noodles’ wealth and pretensions of honor are worthless.

The Ultimate Gangster Epic

Once Upon a Time in America brings one other element to the genre which The Godfather avoids, a lingering mystery. Coppola delivers short riddles, like the fate of Luca Brasi, which are revealed as the story warrants. But the 35-year gap between the slaughter of Noodles’ crew and the introduction of Secretary Bailey is almost unfathomable. How did Max go from long-dead to a man with legitimate power?

What happens to Noodles in those years is fairly easy to guess, without any specifics. He got by. The gang’s shared secret bankroll was empty when he tried to retrieve it as the last surviving member. He put his gun away and eked out a quiet life. But even as the details spill out on the true fate of Max, it is unexpectedly surprising, as much for the audience as Noodles.

“I took away your whole life from you,” Max/Bailey says. “I’ve been living in your place. I took everything. I took your money. I took your girl. All I left for you was 35 years of grief over having killed me. Now why don’t you shoot?” This final betrayal, and Noodles’ inert revenge, take Once Upon a Time In America into almost unexplored cinematic depths. 

Max has gone as low as he could go. The joke is on Noodles, everyone’s in on it, including “Clean Hands,” who is tied in to “the Bailey scandal.” The cops are in on it, and so is the mob. Max admits even the liquor dropoff was a syndicate set-up. He’d planned this all along. Just like Michael Corleone had a long term strategy to make his family legitimate. 

This is an ambitious story. Beyond genre, this bends American celluloid into European cinema. By sheer virtue of being outside of Hollywood, Leone transcends traditional boundaries. He has a far more limitless pallet to draw from. He can aim a camera at De Niro’s spoon in a coffee cup for three minutes and never lose the audience’s rapt attention. Leone can pull the rug out from everything with a last minute reveal. Coppola bent American filmmaking for The Godfather, but stayed within proscribed parameters. He never gets as sweet as a Charlotte Russe nor as repulsive as the back seat of a limo. 

Once Upon a Time in America ripped the genre’s insides out and displayed them with unflinching veracity and theatrical beauty. It is a perfect film, gorgeously shot, masterfully timed, and slightly ajar.

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