#m: the zookeeper's wife

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ICONS ONLY: Daniel Brühl Characters (2011 - 2021)

The criteria of this collection changed from iconic looks to favorites, so it ended up being a mix of both. I wanted to do a 3x3, so I kept it to a certain decade to limit the selection pool. It pains me that I had to cut Tony Balerdi, but he felt so out of place with this chaotic, feral bunch. Might just do a different one so I can make it up to him.

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[kaitlinj16]

🦋365 Days / 365 Characters🦋

[217/365] Characters 》 Antonina Żabińska

"You can never tell who your enemies are, or who to trust. Maybe that's why I love animals so much. You look in their eyes, and you know exactly what's in their hearts."

❤❤❤

[quotelr]

The faint pink coating the treetops promised rippling buds, a sure sign of spring hastening in, right on schedule, and the animal world getting ready for its fiesta of courting and mating, dueling and dancing, suckling and grubbing, costume-making and shedding-in short, the fuzzy, fizzy hoopla of life's ramshackle return.

Diane Ackerman, The Zookeeper's Wife

[blackleatherjacketz]

Jessica Chastain out here stealing all our men: Tom Hiddleston, Oscar Isaac, Sebastian Stan and now Daniel.

When will it end, Jessica? When?!

Daniel Brühl and Jessica Chastain being adorable on the set of ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’

[six-demon-bag]

Top First Time Watches of 2024

Tagged by @mikelogan ᐠ( ᐛ )ᐟ Rules: post 9 of your favorite films you saw for the first time this year that aren’t new (2023/2024) but are new to you, then tag 9 people.

Below (2002) dir. David Twohy Ravenous (1999) dir. Antonia Bird Malignant (2021) dir. James Wan Eva (2011) dir. Kike Maíllo Sea Fever (2019) dir. Neasa Hardiman The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007) dir. John Erick Dowdle Caveat (2020) dir. Damian McCarthy The Zookeeper's Wife (2017) dir. Niki Caro Maniac (2012) dir. Franck Khalfoun

no pressure tags: @deepdwellingsteamboat @evilvvithin @hiddenxplaces-blog @ex0rin @raraeavesmoriendi @icepickparty @river9noble-random @murphythetoaster @fallling-in-winter

(idk if all of you have been hitting the movies this year but !)

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[deepdwellingsteamboat]

Daniel Brühl as Lutz Heck THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE 2017・dir. Niki Caro

[bookstothrivecom]

Book Summary: The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman – A Heart-Wrenching War Story

[blogdemocratesjr]

The Zookeeper’s Wife (2017) by Niki Caro

[thesilveregg]

So for those who are just now joining us:

Grian’s lore: ocean-worshiping-mending-book-obsessed fisherman

Gem’s lore: cursed pirate who performs experiments on her friends

Impulse’s lore: post-apocalyptic cyberpunk city with clear class divide

Skizz’s lore: possible alter poe-poe skizz?? Also torture pyramid

Scar’s lore: world-hopping painter and zookeeper who travels the multiverse in his train

Mumbo’s lore: death isn’t real

Joel’s lore: I love my wife <3

[petitsdieu]

sc 𝑓𝑡. @asgardsprotector

❛ You can never tell who your enemies are, or who to trust. Maybe that's why I love animals so much. You look in their eyes, and you know exactly what's in their hearts. ❜

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Daniel Brühl Smoking Hot, a collection:

Me, a non-smoker for life: dying from secondhand smoke watching these DB characters puff a cigarette up close wouldn't be the worst thing in the world...

Marek, Honolulu (2001)

Daniel, No Regrets / Nichts Bereuen (2001)

Paul Krantz, Love in Thoughts (2004)

Jan, The Edukators (2004)

Salvador Puig Antich, Salvador (2006)

Klaus Prompst, In Tranzit (2008)

Dr. Georg Rosen, John Rabe (2009)

Álex Garel, Eva (2011)

Iván Pelayo, Winning Streak / The Pelayos (2012)

Thomas Lang, The Face of an Angel (2014)

Sebastian Zöllner, Me and Kaminski (2015)

Inspector Escherich, Alone in Berlin (2016)

Lutz Heck, The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)

Wilfried Böse, Entebbe (2018)

[hotvintagepoll]

I just want to say, a) love your work, thanks for running a delightful blog, I appreciate all the new-to-me vintage star power I've been exposed to…and b) every. single. time I read "It is vintage times." in the Dracula casting posts, I crack up. Pure joy.

this ask is old but thank you! the dracula polls are done for now, but here's one last poll as a farewell bite.

this is a poll for a movie that doesn't exist.

It is vintage times. The powers that be have finished their remake of the classic vampire novel Dracula, with you—the hvp electorate—in charge of the casting. in an amazing show of inter-studio solidarity, Hollywood’s most elite hotties came together to star in a movie that will not soon be forgotten.

Here is the cast list.

Jonathan Harker—Jimmy Stewart

Count Dracula—Gloria Holden

The Old Woman—Martita Hunt

Mina Murray—Setsuko Hara

Lucy Westenra—Judy Garland

The Three Voluptuous Women—Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, and Lauren Bacall

The Agonized Mother—Mary Philbin

Dr. Jack Seward—Vincent Price

Quincey P. Morris—Toshiro Mifune

Arthur Holmwood—Sidney Poitier

R.M. Renfield—Conrad Veidt

The Captain of the Demeter—Omar Sharif

The First Mate of the Demeter—Leonard Nimoy

Mr. Swales—Ed Wynn

The Correspondent for The Daily Graph—Ethel Waters

Dracula in dog form—Frank Oz with a puppet

Sister Agatha—Angela Lansbury

Mrs. Westenra—Gladys Cooper

Dracula's solicitors—Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee

Dr. Van Helsing—Orson Welles

Mr. Hawkins—Donald Meek

Thomas Bilder, zookeeper—Lon Chaney Jr.

Thomas Bilder's wife—Elsa Lanchester

The Reporter from the Pall Mall Gazette—Hattie McDaniel

Patrick Hennessey M. D., M. R. C. S. L. K. Q. C. P. I.—George Takei

Mr. Marquand, the Westenras' solicitor—Gregory Peck

The obsequious undertaker—Tura Satana

The Cockneys from the carrier's cart—Wilkins and Wontkins

The beautiful woman in Piccadilly—Dorothy Dandridge

[purplecobra52]

How I'd fix Zoochosis: (These are just my opinions, also I haven't seen the full game so some of this might be redundant.)

-Change it so that Doc isn't the actual owner of the Zoo, and instead is just another zookeeper with no real power. He wouldn't be innocent of the experiments going on at the Zoo, but it wouldn't actually be his fault. He just doesn't have strong moral convictions like the protagonist does and is more easily bribed by the good pay and fancy benefits.

-Make the villains be the greedy executive heads of the Zoo. They pushed for the experiments to happen.

-Get rid of the C.J cheating thing. It serves no purpose other than to make his wife hang up on you, which could easily be changed. Other than that, it's a useless plot point that just makes Sarah (Is that her name?) even more unlikable.

-Make it so you can save the mutated animals. Remind them of who they were, re-domesticate them, any bullshit will do. Have the protagonist have actual sympathy for the animals and try to save them, which sets them apart from the previous zookeepers and is ultimately what helps them stay alive.

-Empathy could be a really good theme. Also, conservation of animals and environment.

-Make the animals accurate FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! Zebras aren't horses and will kick the shit out of you. Wallabies are not the size of kangaroos. Hippos are an incarnation of Satan. Even giraffes are really dangerous, not because they're defensive, but because they're freaking huge and really curious and will accidentally stomp all over you.

-Have more variety in the types of animals. As it is, they're all mammals except for the penguins (I think the Elephant could stand to go, it's by far the weakest mutated design in my humble opinion. And maybe the wallaby.) Add a swarm of insects and birds that can mimic a human form. Add sharks and have a mini message about the demonization of sharks in media. Add lizards. ADD CROCODILES AND HAVE A MUTATED MOTHER CROC THAT ONLY ATTACKS IF YOU GET CLOSE TO HER BABIES

-Get rid of the stupid boss fights, make the animals actively stalk you instead

-Make Mother less of a villain. It doesn't need an "Oh it was a human that got turned into a monster" sort of thing, more of a "Mother, eldritch being that it is, is just as much of an animal as the giraffes and it doesn't understand why it's being expirimented on and hurt. It's just as angry and scared and confused as any of the mutated animals.

-Add a dinosaur for shits and giggles

[smallgodseries]

Humans are such short-lived creatures.  Did you hear about Gerald?  Oh, yes, I did, his poor wife, she must be heartbroken.  They’re born and they die, all in the blinking of an eye, and for the divine, there’s no difference in the death of an infant and the death of a venerated elder.  Time has no meaning on the other side of the hourglass.

Oh, did you get the news about Carol?  Such a tragedy, she was so young, really, and that bulldozer wasn’t even supposed to be in her neighborhood.

Every human death is an inevitable tragedy, and someone will be heartbroken, always.  Even the grimmest of misers leaves someone lost to mourning.  And for all of that, some deaths are…different.  Some deaths fall under a different umbrella, one patterned in polka dots and smiley faces.

Some deaths are, to be blunt about it, absolutely hilarious.

Consider Gerald, devoured by hyenas.  It might not have been funny had he been a zookeeper or a zoologist, but as he was an accountant who had decided to become a tightrope walker in his middle age, and begun his new career by walking the thin rail of the hyena enclosure at the zoo, well…

Even his grieving widow had to see the humor, after she finished crying off her supposedly waterproof mascara, anyway.

Or consider Carol, bulldozed to death in her own apartment parking lot, an ending straight out of a children’s cartoon, flattened like a pancake.  Or Kathy, who fell through the floor of a medieval bathroom while on her once-in-a-lifetime trip to Scotland, only to discover that the castle employees had been using it for its original purpose.  She drowned in effluvia before she could be saved.

Or Charles, pecked to death by ducks, or Margery, or Michael, or…

Wherever a life ends with a giggle instead of a groan, he is there, scythe in hand, ready to close the book on their stories, however ridiculous or rugged they had been.

Because death is funny.  Not always, but often enough to be made manifest. Sometimes, anyway.

[starz2005]

The 4 main types of Brühlies

I've noticed there's some common traits between different fans depending on where they first got introduced to Daniel Brühl, ofcourse people have discovered him from all over but these are just the most common ones.Feel free to add more ☺️

1.The Alienist

• You probably love historical fiction and mysteries

• Book nerds

• Fell in love with Dr.Kriezler and that sent you down the Brühl rabbit hole

• Think he's the ultimate baby girl

• Some people think you're stuck in the 1800s but your fashion sense is just superior (don't show those ankles around Laszlo)

• The most sophisticated one at the party

• You're probably a writer(and play classical music to feel like you're living back in the day)

2.Inglorious Bastards

• You're a war history buff

• Probably also have a crush on August Diehl or Christoph Waltz (You know I'm right)

• Your film taste is better than everyone else and you make it known

• You probably prefer clean shaven Danny👀

• Fredrik Zoller isn't bad if you squint rightttt

• First one to watch The Zookeepers Wife

• Brag that you knew Daniel before he broke it big ;)

• Single handedly keeping the Inglorious Bastards fandom alive

3. Rush

• Do I even have to say it... you're an F1 fan

• Probably have a crush on the real Nikki Lauda too

• Know more about cars than all your friends

• You think Daniel looks like a hamster

• Probably have a stash of Nikki Lauda edits somewhere

• Definitely a cool AF person

• Go to races on whenever you get the chance

4. Civil War/ TFATWS

• You probably already liked a marvel villain(or a few) so you had to add a new one to the collection

• You're the life of the party I bet

• Defend Zemo from the haters every chance you get

• Let me guess...you ship winterbaron

• "I wish Sokovia was real"

• Impatiently waiting for more Zemo content

• You're either the sweetest person ever or actually terrifying (can depend on the day)