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i did intend to try my hand at making fleur in veilguard but got cold feet in the last moment because for some reasons i fear it might not align with what you have in mind 😭 now that you say you would recreate them, yay (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧ but for reference would you mind sharing some descriptions for fleur (and colombe and couteau if you are free, like no need to be concrete bc i know you said you would need to go through all of your works again and it sounds like a lot so whatever crumbs you can give is good to me)

Aww, you don’t need to have cold feet! This is just my interpretation of the characters, you can build them up however you like! I’d like to see more interpretations of them, see how other people see them, maybe you can influence me too, I’m very easily swayed lmao.

For your question now; while I don’t have what I wrote about them already fully in mind, I have come to have this sort of abstract vision of them - that may or may not contradict what I’ve written.

So, I’m going to give Actors who I thought resembled what I imagined them to be; these are not 1:1, but sort of the same characteristics that stand out to me about them.

For Fleur I drew up, very subconsciously and again not 1:1, around Sarah Shahi. Anahita is, above all, a Persian name and I think once I dreamed up her backstory, Shahi just sort of filtered in. Shahi is a small woman, which is also what I thought Fleur to be, very closely resembling Mantillon in that too. The dark eyes, sharp features, and black hair also line up pretty well to what I imagined her to be. Again, not sure what I’ve actually written, but yeah, lmao.

For Colombe…. I don’t think I’ve ever said this outside of shouting in my head or in DMs but for Celene I always imagined her like Elizabeth Debicki; super pale hair, statuesque, pale blue eyes, very thin. Debicki has very sharp angles to her, which I think lines up well with Celene’s description, but also looks a bit fragile - which, yes, excellent. For Colombe to closely resemble her I’ve thought about Robin Wright; the angles are a bit softer, but the colouring is almost pretty much the same. Wright also has a sturdier look to her, which I think matches Colombe very well. They’d be closer in height than the real actresses are IRL, but I imagine Celene to be pretty tall, so I’d add height to Colombe’s Wright probably.

For Couteau, idk why but I always picture a dark-haired redhead, almost auburn. Judy Greer or Julianne Moore, but more resembling Christina Hendricks?? Idk there is no reason, the vibes are just there lmao.

(For added bonus, even though you did not ask at all; Cyril I always imagined Alexander Vlahos, from my fav awful historical TV Show Versailles (beloved beloathed) - the historical figure he plays there is also who I based a lot of Cyril on. For Briala I imagined a cross between two models; Khadijha Red Thunder and Felicia Porter, but I don’t think either of them really get the look of how I imagined her down.)

Again, these are not 1:1 and more sort of abstract pictures in my head, but if I was forced to pick someone to portray them, I think these would be it - sort of, god knows what I would do with the mixes lmao.

Again, thanks for the ask; I hope it helped!

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Halloween Kills (An Hour of my God Damn Life)

Anyway, I paid 4.99 for peacock (with ads!) so I could review this movie. Give me notes.

I went in with the notion that this movie would be mid. I liked the first movie and I really like the director so I thought I’d try to clear my head of expectations and let the movie speak for itself.

What is this movie?

Bad.

How scary is it?

It’s not. I feel like everyone has seen Michael Myers do his thing enough to the point there’s no way the image of him popping out can be scary.

At some point someone says, “There’s something in our house, and I don’t think it’s kids,” which would be scary in a different movie, if it created some suspense as to what exactly is in the house and let our imagination run wild, if we didn’t know the fate of these characters. But in this movie, it’s Michael Myers. If the people in the house simply leave, then they are safe. But if they decide to stay for whatever reason, they’ll die. It’s as simple as that.

Jump scares?

Uh, kind of? Maybe? Maybe Michael pops up sometimes, but it doesn’t really do much.

Is there blood and gore?

It’s the only thing this movie has going for it besides Dylan Arnold’s hair and Judy Greer.

On a scale of 1 - 10 (10 being Al-- actually, Halloween Kills is the new 10), how dumb were the characters?

Imagine watching a bunch of people walking into a woodchipper and then thinking to yourself, “Well, I’m built different,” and proceeding to walk into said woodchipper, naked. That’s a decision every single character not named Michael Myers makes in this movie.

Does the story make logical sense if you think about it too long?

No.

Can’t you just enjoy it as a dumb fun slasher flick?

If it fucking LET ME.

The thing about this franchise is, the 2018 Halloween was actually good. It was a lean, mean slasher movie that didn’t reinvent the wheel but had some interesting things going on in its head with Laurie’s PTSD and that fracturing her relationship with her family.

This movie also tries to have deeper themes. It forgets those along the way. It feels as if it’ll have something to say about making sure the next generation doesn’t experience the same trauma, then a man who has Michael Myers PTSD takes his son on a Michael Myers-hunting stroll about town. There is also a weird mob mentality storyline that says nothing and adds nothing but 15 minutes of brain-killing runtime.

There are a gazillion characters in this, and this movie lets you latch onto exactly zero. Jamie Lee Curtis hangs out in a hospital gown for 15 minutes before cashing her check. The camera lingers meaningfully while introducing or re-introducing various characters who you think will provide some narrative cohesion and emotional weight to the story. Then they don’t. They probably get up and run naked into the woodchipper and call it a day. One character gets like a 15 minute flashback sequence then has probably 5 minutes of present day screen time. Anthony Michael Hall says one emotionally complex sentence and then is directed to act like an angry Elmer Fudd for all his other scenes.

And then the drama. It wants you to feel awful about some kills, and then it makes some kills kind of funny. Having someone goofily assist Michael Myers in their own murder in one scene and then having someone grieving over their loved one’s corpse in another is some tonal whiplash more brutal than any of the executions.

It feels as if this movie was made in spurts. As if they had to pause production because of Covid multiple times, but every time they resumed production, they had completely forgotten what they were going for last time they were all together. I wish I could forget the same way. 2/10

I liked the intro thing with the burning pumpkins.

Spoiler-y thoughts below

I guess Big John and Little John were kind of fun.

I would have decked that skull kid who took all the candy. Crushed him.

“Since Laurie is in the hospital, I wonder if the main characters in this movie are gonna be the doctor and nurse... nevermind.”

I thought that dude who played Joe Collie in Midnight Mass, the dude who Michael let live as a kid, was going to have some meaningful encounter with the killer. Nope. Dude gets fucking stuffed.

Dude’s son also gets destroyed.

That was Theo from You. Damn. But this franchise could take some cues from You on how to balance the fucking tone in a murderfest.

They seem to bring back characters from the dead all willy-nilly, and it looked like Michael was just stabbing Judy Greer’s arms. She was blocking like she was playing RE, so I kinda doubt she’s dead.

Michael Myers is immortal. Sure.

I would have crushed him. Just built different.