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tagged by my beloved mutual @busyhearingvoices to spell out my username with songs!
B - Black Licorice - Peach Pit
E - Early Sunsets Over Monroeville - MCR
E - Elenor Rigby - Joan Baez
T - Two Coffins - Against Me!
L - Losing My Religion - Frank Iero
E - Elevated - State Champs
J - Jesus Saves - AJJ
U - Under The Milky Way - The Church
I - If You Have Ghosts - Roky Erickson
C - Coin-Operated Boy - The Dresden Dolls
E - Every You, Every Me - Placebo
S - Servo Manual Chapter 1 (Mandroids on Whisky) - Beautiful Small Machines
G - Get Disowned - Hop Along
R - Right On, Frankenstein! - Dearh From Above 1979
A - All We Ever Wanted Was Everything - Bauhaus
V - Vincent - Don McLean
E - Eyes On Fire - Blue Foundation
Y - You Must Be Fun At Parties - Forests
A - Accident Prone - Jawbreaker
R - Ramble On - Led Zeppelin
D - Dirty Night Clowns - Chris Garneau
R - Rainbow Veins - Owl City
E - Empty Glass - Thursday
V - Video Games - Radical Face
U - Undercover Martyn - Two Door Cinema Club
E - Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears
this was super fun! thank you for tagging me! i’ll tag @dykeredhood @gerardwaist @baskinsilence @phoeniceae @selenitecoffins @pippintookish @spacebronco @drakillya @cowlovely if any of you want to!
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b3crew · 2 years
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No Borders No Race: Episode 314 | B3 - Boston Bastard Brigade
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King Baby Duck rekindles his love for the web comic Swan Boy, whereas Mel Brooks's History of the World, Part Two shows why nostalgia can be both good and bad. Manual Cinema brings a new take on Frankenstein to the stage, with some amazing results! Finally, on A Bastard's Soapbox, the firing of Dilbert.
PLAYLIST (with album/single links):
YUKI -  Time Capsule (from the album Parade ga Tsuzukunara)
TRI4TH - Just Roll (from the album CALM & CLASH)
Avatar - Valley of Disease (from the album Dance Devil Dance)
Shoko Nakagawa - Gozen Roku-Ji (from the album Shototan self cover)
Queen Bee - Violence (from the album Juuni Jigen)
BIKE - O Torto Santo (from the album Arte Bruta) [in stores May 5]
The Q-Tip Bandits - Better Place (from the album Melancholy Flowers)
GA-20 - ATL (digital single)
Last Legion - Pansarmarsch (from the album Metall, Blod & Aska)
Sumire Uesaka - Play Your Heart (from the MY SADISTIC ADOLESCENCE♡ EP)
Ayumi Hamasaki - Dreamed a Dream (from the album Remember you)
The Room - Cursed Islands (from the album Restless Fate)
Crystal Kay - How You Feel (from the Start Again EP)
Click here to listen!
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dragonheadskilax · 4 years
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7 Obscure Frankenstein Adaptations
I’ll be including a rating scale for the sake of enjoyment. A scale of ⚠️1-5, from PG to mature/weird. With added content warnings if needed. A 🚫1-5 scale for how bad the foredoomed vicliz is.
Frankenstein The Metal Opera (Album & Live Adaptation)
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⚠️ 1/5 Just one montage of stock images of skeletons and worms. 🚫 2/5 Songs relating to marriage, which the Live version altered the lyrics of to be even longer. A single flinching kiss on the hand.
Manual Cinema’s Frankenstein (v.3)
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⚠️ 2/5 Shadow puppetry depicting childbirth, death, atmosphere can be eery. Victor kills a paper bird. Musculature anatomy images 🚫 1/5 A single kiss.
Frankenstein The Royal Ballet
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⚠️ 1/5 Nude cadaver visible at classroom scene. Tavern debauchery but this is a ballet so it’s just flowing upskirts and Henry being bullied for not being into the activities. The Creature is designed to look like a nude cadaver, it’s a costume of course. 🚫 4/5 The relationship of being an adopted sibling is clearly emphasized, but of course things get weird later on. There’s 3 kisses.
The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature
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⚠️ 1.5/5 Heavy on the theme of suffering and abandonment. Very good sound design on audio scenes of meat and drippings in one ending. 🚫 0/5 Besides some notes mentioning Liz that you can look over if ya don’t find them, nothing here at all!
Wishbone’s Frankenstein
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⚠️ 0/5 Lightning flashes in beginning of the episode. 🚫 0/5 The book does include about the marriage but since it’s a kids book they don’t go into detail and in Victor’s nightmare it was a kiss on the cheek instead. Nothing in show version.
Frankenstein The Puppet Opera
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⚠️ 1/5 Uncanny paper mache masks. 🚫 2/5 Sing songy on the relationship and marriage.
Frankenstein Has No Legs
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⚠️ 4.5/5 Being from an 18+ puppet production, and recorded in 2011, it shows its age. Some jokes I don’t quite get or hear. 🚫 5/5 Jokey about it but gosh... Alphonse and Caroline are weird about the marriage instead of being depicted as ‘loving and nice parents’ as other depictions do, still, it adds to the higher rating.
I’ll make posts on each individual one about the production, mediums used, and where to watch/listen/play them!
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Victors from different adaptations
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svankmajerbaby · 4 years
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the nose touching as a sign of mutual recognition, akin to the giving of a gift, to seeing the other.... how it encapsulates the creatures desperate attempts at connection......
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nestofstraightlines · 5 years
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I saw this production at Edinburgh Fest at the weekend. If you have any chance to go you absolutely must, it's breathtaking.
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amuseoffyre · 4 years
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In new things I learned this year, I had no idea that The Mummy! was a futuristic science fiction novel written by a 20 year old woman in 1827 and published anonymously.
Her name was Jane Wells Webb Loudon. She was born in Birmingham, England, in 1807 and she is another of the early writers of science fiction and Gothic Horror (and horticulture manuals, but that’s another story)
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While there is speculation Frankenstein influenced her, in the end both of their novels got the Hammer Horror treatment in the early ages of cinema, turning an eloquent and intelligent character into a shuffling and terrifying monster. Whether the films were based specifically on her novel is not clear, but she was certainly one of the earliest authors to have a mummy rising from his tomb.
Also, in very sweet things, the man she later married read her book and was very excited by the technological innovations she wrote about pertaining to gardening (he was a horticulturist) and set out to meet the author, who he presumed was a man. They met and were married within the year :)
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chloehenderson · 5 years
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Edinburgh Festivals Diary - Day 23
More sun! Happy flyering!! Made all the better by an impromptu show to see Manual Cinema's Frankenstein, which was so so beautiful. This innovative show is seemingly dark, and twisted, yet within we see a delicate warmth, with a soft humour to the tale. I will remember this multilayered monster with great fondness.
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anywho · 4 years
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i know everyone and their brother has already heard about this but please please go watch manual cinema’s Frankenstein it’s worth the $15 i swear. it’s insanely artistic, it’s gothic, and it’s tragic, if y’all go watch it i will kiss you on the mouth
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youranemicvampire · 6 years
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My Top 15 favorite movies/series I’ve watched in 2018
I’m not a professional movie critic or something, I just love to share it with y’all and hope you get something from it.
If in the past years, I was hooked in Japanese movies and only watched certain genres, this year, I decided to explore and feed myself with these gems.
1. PK (2014)
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A comedic-philosophical movie. The alien concept is such a genius and a creative way to do it. EYE-OPENER. Do 👏🏼 not 👏🏼 miss 👏🏼 this 👏🏼 out.
2. Pad man (2018)
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A real-life story of a man who is dedicated to making a napkin. Reading the plot, It is quite ridiculous, but watched it for fun anyway and It turned out to be filled with Life lessons, Political and cultural discoveries. The world should learn from Indian directors!
3. How to get away with murder (Season 1-4)
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Don't judge me for just watching it this year. People have recommended it before, but idk I thought It'll be just like another American crime thriller. But I regret it! It is awesome. I'm still watching it actually. The story's very complicated, I love the main cast and their messy lives (like real-life lawyers and law students) and it's something you would finish all night. My family's obsessed with this.
4. Loving Vincent (2017)
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Don’t miss this film if you’re an artist! Animated manual paintings of artists in Van Gogh’s style? A perfect way to make a Biopic! It will not only impress you but somehow understand his life. Warning: This film might be depressing.
5. Mary Shelley (2017)
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Watched it because I was really curious who’s the genius behind my favorite movie adaptation (Frankenstein). And admired her even mooooore. One of the earliest feminists! 
6. Frankenstein (2015)
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It is actually a film viewing for our Philosophy class. Not a fan of sci-fi, but became a fan of Frankenstein because of it. This is the most unique Frankenstein film they’ve made. It was set in a modern era.
7. Witch’s court (2017)
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Koreans really make good crime/law dramas! TBH, the main plot was actually a cliché and predictable (if you watch a lot of Kdramas about crime), but the cases were interesting and gave me insights on how victims feel and experience as they're about sexual-related cases. 
8. Queen of Katwe (2016)
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The movie depicts how realities and dreams overlap. It’s frustrating and inspiring at the same time. 
9. Marshall (2017)
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You should know Thurgood Marshall. He defended black people from crime accusations based on race. They should make a series on this! This movie is not enough to show how cool He is.
10. Belle (2013)
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Inspired by a painting and life story of a biracial daughter of a British admiral. Gugu Mbatha-Raw is freaking pretty btw! Don’t sleep on her. I would love to see her be a princess in a movie someday.
11. Frida (2002)
SALMA HAYEK IS PERFECT. I don’t know what I like more, The movie or her acting. I was impressed the whole time like how can someone be so perfect for a biopic. Like ‘Loving Vincent’, They made me feel what she felt.
12. Hidden Figures (2016)
Life of 3 of the greatest brains in NASA. Very empowering! t is when there was still racial segregation in America.
13. Get out (2017)
I really don’t know what to feel about this movie. Weirdly-creepy. A unique way to make a thriller. Fresh!
14. The hows of us (2018)
NOT A KATHNIEL FAN (Just to clear things up lol). I had no plans to watch, but My brother and his girlfriend treated me to the cinema so why not. Didn’t expect it would be goooood. One of the best mainstream Pinoy movies I’ve watched. Very realistic 👌
15. Momikeshite Fuyu (2018)
Still watching Japanese series and movies! And this stood out. I hesitated at first and almost drop after 1st episode, but it turned out to be weirdly funny (Jap. Humor u know) and heart-warming. I got a lot of sympathy for the lead.
Honorable mentions:
Victor Frankenstein (2015)
Newsies (1992)
12 years a slave (2014)
Amadeus (1984)
Black Panther (2018)
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
Idiocracy (2006)
Malcom X (1992)
Mandela Long Walk to Freedom (2013)
Moonwalkers (2015)
Ray (2004)
Game night (2018)
Hotel Transylvania 3 (2018)
Memoirs of a murderer (2017)
Tokyo DOGS (2009)
Border (2014)
Ima kara Anata wo Kyouhaku Shimasu (2017)
The greatest showman (2017)
Spotlight (2015)
More recommendations:
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2019
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dragonheadskilax · 4 years
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Creature wandering scenes from Manual Cinema’s Frankenstein
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automaticvr · 4 years
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Set in a post-industrial Rust Belt city in the 1990s and told through a collection of original 70’s R&B-inspired art pop songs, The End of TV explores the quest to find meaning amongst the increasingly constant barrage of commercial images and advertising white-noise. Two sides of the American Dream — its technicolor promise as delivered through TV ads, and its failure, witnessed in the dark reality of industrial decline — are staged in cinematic shadow puppetry and lo-fi live video feeds with flat paper renderings of commercial products. The show is driven by a sweeping chamber art pop song cycle performed live by a five-piece band. The End of TV premiered in June, 2017 as a commission by The International Festival of Arts and Ideas, New Haven, CT. Manual Cinema’s 10th Anniversary Retrospectacular! is a month-long virtual birthday party featuring four of the company’s most seminal shows from the past 10 years on multi-camera, high-definition video, streaming for FREE July 27-August 23. The streams come with a suggested donation to Manual Cinema to compensate for lost touring income due to Covid-19. In addition, each week, Manual Cinema will host live, online, virtual talkbacks reuniting each production’s creators, collaborators and fans. All four shows will be free to enjoy here at manualcinema.com/watch. Each week’s show will be posted on Monday at 12pm CST, where it will be available 24/7 on-demand until the following Monday at 12pm CST, when it will be replaced with the next week’s show! WHEN TO WATCH: The End of TV August 3-10 No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks August 10-17 Frankenstein August 17-23 TALKBACKS: The End of TV, Saturday, August 8, 8pm CST No Blue Memories, Saturday, August 15, 8pm CST Frankenstein, Friday, August 21, 8pm CST The End of TV CAST Kara Davidson (Flo/Puppeteer) Aneisa Hicks (Louise/Puppeteer) Jeffrey Paschal (Ensemble/Puppeteer) Vanessa Valliere (Ensemble/Puppeteer) Maren Celest (Vocals, Live Sound FX, Live Video Mixing) Deidre Huckabay (Flutes, Vocals) Ben Kauffman (Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard) Lia Kohl (Cello, Vocals) Kai Black (Drums) Marques Toliver (Vocals, Violin) Kyle Vegter (Bass)
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issarrar-ben-kanaan · 7 years
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DRÁCULA: A LITERATURA FANTÁSTICA NA ERA VITORIANA STOKER, ABRAHAM "BRAM" (1847 - 1912) Fig.1 Abraham Stoker (Bram) foi membro da ORDEM HERMÉTICA DA AURORA DOURADA (GOLDEN DAWN) - observação deste blog. Biografia Escritor irlandês nascido em Dublin, no histórico subúrbio de Clontarf, em novembro de 1847 e morto em Londres a 20 de abril de 1912. Chamava-se Abraham como seu pai (um oficial público civil e protestante na secretaria do Castelo de Dublin), mas sempre preferiu ser chamado de Bram. Bram Stoker passou os primeiros oito anos de sua vida confinado à cama por uma doença misteriosa que os médicos não puderam diagnosticar. A sua relação com a mãe, Charlotte Thornley, era excepcionalmente íntima e Sra. Stoker partilhou com o filho seu conhecimento e amor por contos de fadas, histórias de fantasmas e apavorantes narrativas da epidemia de cólera de 1832 que ela havia testemunhado. Aos dezesseis anos, tendo superado a enfermidade, Bram ingressou no Trinity College de Dublin, onde realizou seus estudos, diplomando-se em Matemática (Bacharel em Ciências, com louvor, 1870). Em 1866, iniciou uma carreira de funcionário público que transcorreu toda na Irlanda. Como burocrata, a serviço da Justiça, escreveu um manual intitulado "Deveres dos amanuenses e escrivães nas audiências para julgamento de pequenas causas e delitos na Irlanda". Desempenhou também cargos universitários e pertenceu a sociedades científicas e literárias, colaborou em periódicos, foi cronista, jornalista, contador, diretor de um jornal vespertino, agente teatral, secretário particular e administrador do Royal Lyceum Theatre, de Londres, para o famoso ator shakespeariano Henry Irving. Sir Henry Irving, ator shakespeariano que serviu de modelo para a descrição de Drácula Fig.2 Foi, aliás, Sir Henry Irving - "de voz sibilante e terrível" - quem inspirou a Bram Stoker a figura do diabólico Conde-vampiro dos Székes Transilvanos (grupo étnico que se localizou na Transilvânia, "a terra situada além das densas florestas" romenas, a partir do século VII ou no fim do século IX, como querem alguns, oriundo de tribos húngaras ou búlgaras), "descendentes de Átila e Hunos", "altiva raça que cruzou o Danúbio para bater o turco em sua própria terra" e "rechaçou de volta a suas origens os magiares, os lombardos, os avares e os turcos". Irving recompensou o seu fiel discípulo e colaborador fazendo uma leitura dos diálogos de Drácula no palco do Lyceum Theatre. Um ano após a publiçação de Drácula (em maio de 1897), a carreira de Stoker entrou em declínio. Um incêndio no Lyceum destruiu a maior parte do guarda-roupa, adereços e equipamentos do teatro, que fechou em 1902. Irving morreu em 1905 e a saúde de Bram piorava sensivelmente. Naquele ano teve um derrame e, logo a seguir, contraiu a doença de Bright que afeta os rins. Foi com grande dificuldade que Stoker escreveu seus últimos livros. O homem que escreveu Drácula faleceu aos sessenta e quatro anos, esgotado e empobrecido por longos anos de luta contra a sífilis, sem ter podido gozar o notável sucesso de sua criação. Drácula continua sendo a obra literária mais frequentemente adaptada para o cinema e seus personagens as figuras mais retratadas na tela, além de Sherlock Holmes e do Dr. Watson. Em 1987, a Horror Writers of America instituiu um conjunto de prêmios anuais em seu campo de atuação que foi batizado com o nome de "Bram Stoker Award". Publicações - The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland (1878); - Under the Sunset (1881); - A Glimpse of America: A Lecture Given at the London Institution at 28 December 1885 (1886); - The Snake's Pass (1890); - The Watter's Mou (1894); - Croken Sands (1894); - The Shoulder of Shasta (1895); - Dracula (1897); - Miss Betty (1898); - The Mystery of the Sea (1901); - The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903); - The Man (1904); - Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1906); - Lady Athlyne (1908); - Snowbound: The Re-cord of a Theatrical Touring Party (1908); - The Lady of the Shroud (1909); - Famous Impostors (1910); - The Lair of the White Worm (1911). Publicações Post-Mortem - Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914); - The Bram Stoker Bedtime Companion (1973); - Midnight Tales (1990); - Bram Stoker's Dracula Omnibus (1992); - The Essential Dracula, ed. Leonard Wolf (1993). (...) Uma análise do panorama intelectual da época em que Stoker viveu revela a forte influência dos movimentos espiritualistas na Inglaterra Vitoriana de Fins-do-Século e inícios da Era Eduardiana: a "Belle-Époque". Estranhas combinações de esotérico cientificismo e ritualístico misticismo eram dadas à luz, ganhavam notoriedade e esfumavam-se na pira da aclamação popular. Racional e irracional achavam-se estreitamente ligados, as distinções eram muito artificiais. Neste sentido, a figura e a obra do escritor e médico inglês Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), criador de Sherlock Holmes e de seu fiel biógrafo o Dr. Watson, são emblemáticas: aos domínios de raciocínio lógico e agudeza intelectual de Holmes não era estranho, graças ao poder de observação muito sutil, o Reino das Fadas... O pensamento e as doutrinas de Henri Bergson (1859-1941) exerciam considerável influência neste período de viragem histórica. O laureado Nobel de Literatura de 1927 postulava a "Ação" como ponto inicial de seu sistema filosófico que pretendia combater o Materialismo. Para Bergson, além do conhecimento científico, existia o conhecimento filosófico, assim como além do conhecimento pela inteligência existe o que é fornecido pela intuição. Intuição dos dados da consciência separados da ideia de espaço e matéria. O pensamento científico, pela análise e abstração, mostra-se incapaz de compreender ou captar a vida e o espírito, os quais constituem o fundo da Realidade... No que concerne a Bram Stoker, foi o convite feito por Henry Irving para assumir a direção do Lyceum em 1878 que o trouxe a Londres. Era o início de uma longa colaboração que perduraria até a morte de Irving. O trabalho com Irving põe Stoker em contato com a sociedade inglesa ou certa sociedade londrina apaixonada pelo sobrenatural. Bram sempre guardou certo gosto pelo fantástico. Stoker vai se filiar à sociedade secreta mágica-iniciadora da "Golden Dawn in the Outer" cuja história Pierre Victor escreveu com detalhes. Ao lado de Stoker, encontravam-se outros escritores tais como o poeta William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood e Sax Rohmer. A Golden Dawn, ordem iniciática embasada em conhecimentos ocultos e práticas de magia, deve ter influenciado os autores de Le Grand Dieu Pan, Fu-Manchu e Dracula (Machen, Rohmer e Stoker). Samuel L. Mathers, um dos três fundadores da Golden Dawn , era o marido da irmã de Henri Bergson. É possível supor que venha daí a familiaridade de Stoker com as ideias bergsonianas. Nesse fim de século, tudo é possível! Foi assim que ele pode encontrar em Londres "vampires personalities", "sugadores de sangue", cujas características permanecem contudo muito vagas. A presença do "jornalista" Stoker em diligências da Yard londrina, possibilitaram ao futuro autor de Drácula um contato em primeira mão com os corpos exangues de vítimas de homicídios que, na época, ainda apresentavam mutilações e cortes característicos de vampirismo e profanação satânica. Percorrendo as prisões britânicas, Stoker pode encontrar detentos obcecados pela compulsão de verter sangue, vê-lo fluir ou mesmo bebê-lo. Mas o vampirismo já havia inspirado o gótico britânico dos séculos XVIII e XIX e nutrido a imaginação do criador de Drácula bem antes de Bram Stoker começar a procurar a ambientação e a legenda para o seu nosferatu carpatiano. É interessante destacar o aparecimento de Carmilla (de Sheridan Le Fanu) em 1872 e d'O Estranho Caso do Doutor Jekyll e Mr. Hyde (de R.L. Stevenson) em 1886. Nos trabalhos de Ann Radcliffe, Coleridge, Byron, Polidori, Rymer, Le Fanu e Collins estão as raízes ancestrais do Conde Wampyr de Estyria! Ignora-se frequentemente que, embora Stoker tenha mudado o nome do seu Conde-vampiro ainda na fase inicial da elaboração do livro (por volta de 1890, quando leu os artigos de Emily Gerard e resolveu delinear o seu personagem como um nobre transilvano do século XV), ele só decidiu utilizar Drácula - como título - pouco tempo antes da sua publicação em maio de 1897. É o ponto central da carreira literária de Abraham Stoker, os outros livros apresentam intuições brilhantes, ainda que não desenvolvidas plenamente. Como se a partir de Drácula, a inspiração de Bram se interiorizasse, manifestando-se apenas em jatos intermitentes. Infelizmente! Foram muito poucos os que souberam reconhecer a sua importância e o compararam a Frankenstein. No dizer de J. Gordon Melton: "nenhum crítico percebeu que Stoker tinha chegado ao ápice da literatura, mas a verdade é que poucos autores chegaram ao cume que Stoker alcançou"... A decisão de contar a história por meio do testemunho de múltiplos registros (diários, cartas, notas, recortes de jornais, gravações) partiu provavelmente da leitura dos livros de Wilkie Collins (The Moonstone, The Woman in White). Esta alternância de pontos de vista dos diferentes personagens tem a propriedade de conservar intacto o mistério de Drácula, dado que este é sempre indiretamente aproximado do leitor. Negando-se uma voz narrativa ao Conde também se reforça textualmente o seu papel como o Outro. O estrangeiro, a criatura das trevas... Para localizar o cenário da sua lúgubre epopéia, Stoker valeu-se de um completo e pormenorizado guia de viagem, o Baedecker, bem como dos livros e mapas do British Museum, particularmente "The Land Beyond the Forest" de Emily Gerard. As longas conversações que manteve com um amigo húngaro também ajudaram... Por que optou pela Europa Central e pelos Cárpatos como sítio do Castelo de Drácula? O próprio Stoker responde à questão no Diário de Jonathan Harker (...). "Três de maio, Bistritz (...) Dispondo de algum tempo livre durante minha permanência em Londres, ali frequentei o Museu Britânico, consultando livros e mapas geográficos na biblioteca, a fim de recolher dados sobre a Transilvânia. (...) Verifiquei então que o distrito por ele citado se achava localizado no extremo oriental do território precisamente na faixa limítrofe de três Estados: Transilvânia, Moldávia e Bukovina, no centro da cadeia dos Cárpatos, um dos mais selvagens e desconhecidos sítios da Europa. Em nenhuma das muitas obras e mapas consultados me foi possível estabelecer a exata localização do Castelo de Drácula". [Drácula, 2ed, Porto Alegre: L&PM Editores, 1985, pp. 7 e 8] Dessa forma referencia-se o itinerário do procurador Jonathan Harker, cuja viagem pela Alemanha, Áustria, Hungria e Romênia pode ser traçada nos mapas com precisão matemática. Harker viaja de Budapeste para o norte da Transilvânia, então parte do Império Austro-Húngaro. Seu destino final era uma localização não-assinalada em qualquer mapa: o Castelo de Drácula. O percurso, duração e impressões da viagem equivalem a uma experiência real. Stoker informou-se tão bem sobre a Transilvânia que parecia lá já ter estado! A identificação do Castelo com o seu senhor é um tema que aproxima Drácula da primeira ficção gótica (O Castelo de Otranto publicado em 1764 por Sir Horace Walpole). Mas não podemos deixar de especular... Stoker leu algo a respeito de um antigo castelo no Borgo Pass? Sabia algo sobre o Castelo Bram? É claro que nada poderia saber sobre a fortaleza de Vlad Tepes nos Arges... Vlad Tepes Fig.3 Igualmente interessante é a questão do vampirismo em Drácula. Além da significativa influência das fontes literárias (Lord Ruthwen, o vampiro de Polidori; Sir Francis Varney de Rymer e a Condessa Karnstein de Le Fanu são os ascendentes mais prováveis), o artigo de Gerard "Transylvanian Superstitions" pode ter fornecido a Stoker uma explicação para o "estigma de Caim" do seu protagonista: o detalhe do Scholomance, a escola do Demônio nas montanhas da Transilvânia, aonde os Dráculas iam buscar os seus segredos. (...) Segundo Arminius, da Universidade de Budapeste, os Dráculas pertenciam a uma grande e nobre estirpe, embora vez por outra também apresentassem certas degenerescências que, na versão de seus contemporâneos, os levassem a manter estreitas ligações com o Maligno. Eles se apoderaram dos seus torvos segredos nos antros de necromancia, existentes às escarpadas margens do Lago de Hermanstadt, onde o Demônio ia recrutar o seu dízimo humano entre os indiciados para, a partir daí, submetê-los a seus serviços. Nos registros de então, as expressões mais encontradiças são stregoica, que significa bruxa; ordog e pokol que são o mesmo que Satanás e Inferno; e, num determinado manuscrito, este mesmo Drácula é descrito como um wampyr, cuja lexicologia conhecemos já perfeitamente. Houve neste clã muitas e sucessivas gerações de grandes homens e bondosas mulheres e até hoje seus túmulos santificam aquele chão onde somente o mal podia florescer. Pois não é certamente o menor dos seus terrores devermos admitir que este ser do mal ainda conserva suas raízes profundamente mergulhadas nas terras do Bem, visto como sobre os solos de sagradas memórias ele jamais poderia deter-se. [Drácula, L&PM, p. 301] É este Drácula fictício e não o histórico que conquistou a imaginação do mundo ocidental. "O fascínio de Drácula reside em seu mito, não em sua realidade" (Florescu & McNally). A ideia de um morto retornar para reivindicar o amor de um vivo era um tópico popular no folclore europeu. A mais famosa peça literária a abordar o tema foi a balada "Lenore" de Gottfried August Bürger, popularizada na língua inglesa graças a tradução de Sir Walter Scott. Segundo Roger Vadim (cineasta francês de Rosas de Sangue/Carmilla) "de todas as manifestações poéticas do Ocultismo, o mito do vampiro é a mais atrativa, duradoura, resistente e satisfatória". Uma justificativa para esse permanente poder de atração da legenda vampiresca pode ser encontrada na riqueza das tradições mitológicas (ainda que a geografia cultural da legenda seja eminentemente ocidental e européia, na forma sob a qual nos foi legada), no grande número de relatos e obras publicadas, na psicanálise freudiana e por extensão nas concepções sociológicas marxistas e marcusianas: Eros e Thânatos (amor, sexo e morte) são elementos chaves para o entendimento de nossa civilização. O vampirismo (enquanto relação sublima-da na arte, literatura, etc.) permite o pleno desfrute do binômio sangue-sexo. Transferimos para o nosferatu - ser vivente que se recusa a acatar a implacável lei natural e perecer - toda a magia de nossa sede de imortalidade que e também uma vontade de liberdade, uma reação contra os mecanismos de coerção e correção social que nos limitam e aprisionam. A busca de imortalidade é (pode ser), em última análise, a busca de liberdade e da felicidade. Segundo Marcuse, liberdade e felicidade são termos intimamente relacionados: "A felicidade, como realização de todas as potencialidades do indivíduo, pressupõe liberdade (...), no fundo é liberdade." (...) As personagens de Stoker são positivas (em graus diversos) porque agem. A vida é continua modificação e diversificação em sucessivas criações [Byron e Bergson]. Vendo por este prisma, não se pode compreender o mundo, a não ser que seja ele impelido por uma ação, seja ela mágica, onírica ou artística. Drácula, o príncipe negro da Transilvânia, ajusta-se a tais critérios mas é mais do que uma hipérbole da reprimida sexualidade vitoriana. (Reprimida e liberada pelas convenções, os vitorianos viviam intensamente uma vida dupla passada em clubes e casas noturnas...) Sombra especular de nossos egos, oferece a oportunidade de maior liberdade na harmonização das polaridades de uma personalidade pluripotente, em um ser uno, não mais dividido e fragmentado. Assim o mundo parte do sonho e ao sonho retorna tomando às vezes a forma de um pesadelo. Quando questionado, Abraham Stoker respondia que Drácula fora inspirado num pesadelo provocado por indigestão de frutos do mar... "La fête du sang" (the feast of blood - subtítulo de um livro de James Malcolm Rymer) celebrada por Drácula, o "Príncipe nas Trevas", deve dar lugar a uma ressurreição e ascese mais espiritual? Para Stoker, assemelham-se os dois caminhos; é preciso ir até o fim do terror e enfrentá-lo. O grão deve perecer para que frutifique (...). Depois surge a luz: as páginas finais evocam uma aurora radiosa sem as nuvens portadoras da angústia (...). Bram Stoker escreveu 17 livros, nenhum deles porém foi capaz de obliterar o fascínio crescente que ia se acumulando em torno da legenda do seu príncipe-vampiro transilvano. Quando Stoker morreu em 1912, "Drácula" estava em nona edição e já havia ganhado os palcos londrinos. O biógrafo de Stoker, Harry Ludlam escreveu: "Há um profundo mistério entre as linhas de sua obra... o mistério do espírito do homem que as redigiu...". Se existem respostas para o mistério de Stoker é nas páginas de sua obra que devemos procurá-las. (...) Fábio Silveira Lazzari Fonte do Texto e das Gravuras: http://www.carcasse.com/sepia/bram.htm (Os grifos são deste blog.) (Texto reduzido) Fontes Consultadas: ENCICLOPÉDIA VNIVERSAL ILVSTRADA EVROPEO-AMERICANA. Barcelona: Espasa-Calpe. 1930. v. 57. p.1024. McNALLY, Raymond T. & FLORESCU, Radu R. Em Busca de Drácula e outros vampiros. São Paulo: Mercuryo, 1995. 304 p. MELTON, J. Gordon. O Livro dos Vampiros. São Paulo: Makron Books, 1995. pp.731-32. MACINTYRE, Alasdair. As ideias de Marcuse. São Paulo: Cultrix, 1993. pp. 15-18. MILLER, Elisabeth. A Gênese do Conde Drácula in Megalon, São Paulo, 1997. v. 9. nº 43. pp. 22-25.
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“No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks,” was presented on a Chicago stage during the centennial of the birth of the noted poet, the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize in any category. Now, three years later, it is being presented as an hour-long video for free online at Manual Cinema from August 10 to 17, as part of the company’s tenth anniversary “Retrospectacular,” presenting four of its most popular shows. What the video retains is the play’s delightful jazz and blues infused score, which helps bring forth the poet’s own jazzy rhythms in such famous poems as this one about seven teenage pool players she spotted in her neighborhood dive on the South Side, the Golden Shovel:
We real cool. We Left school. We
Lurk late. We Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We Drink gin. We
Jazz June. We Die soon.
It also offers a look at a down-to-earth woman who spent a lifetime writing extraordinary poems (published from the age of 13) and at the same time devoted her life to mentoring schoolchildren, inmates and hospital patients, reflecting a philosophy expressed in the last three lines of one of her poems:
Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song Live in the along.
What the video of “No Blue Memories” doesn’t do well is show what Manual Cinema does at its best — or, indeed, what Manual Cinema does, period. The videos of their shows may look like animated features, but to call them animations is to miss the beauty and ingenuity of what the company creates. The unusual hybrid of theater and cinema uses live actors and musicians, shadow puppetry, cardboard cutouts,  hand drawings on overhead projectors, and twice the accessories employed in the old radio dramas.
I saw my first Manual Cinema plays on stage at the Public Theater as part of the Under the Radar festival, “Lula Del Ray” and “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.”  Each was simultaneously a silent film, and the making of that film — with the cast and crew running around on stage in front of us to create in real time what was on the screen behind them. This worked especially well with Lula, about a lonely, star-gazing girl in the desert of the American Southwest in the 1950s who bravely adventures to the big city. We’re treated to a catalogue modern film techniques manually created – long shots of beautiful sunsets, extreme close-ups of Lula’s expressive face, panning, fade-outs, Dutch angles, tracking shots… There is hilarious moments when she finally meets the country music duo she idolizes, and realizing that they were no more substantive than the cardboard cuts being used to depict them. (Lula was the first video presented at the Retrospectacular; Frankenstein will be presented August 17-23.)
Unlike those plays, “No Blue Memories,” which was commissioned by the Poetry Foundation, is full of words spoken aloud — Brooks’ words of course; it would be absurd to do otherwise.  Yet Manual Cinema’s approach is much the same as with their other shows, live actors turned into animated characters in silhouette; use of modern camera techniques; some gorgeous hand drawings.  The few times her words were smartly projected on the screen made me wish they had done this more often. I’m not sure it makes as much sense to present both a movie and the making of the movie when the subject is a poet, but in any case the making-of part doesn’t much register on the video.
Such concerns are likely to mean little to those meeting Gwendolyn Brooks for the first time. At the unveiling of a sculpture by Picasso in Chicago in 1967, Brooks delivered a mischievous poem:
Does man love Art? Man visits Art, but squirms. Art hurts. Art urges voyages— And it is easier to stay at home…
How could she have known, more than half a century later, there would be a special new resonance to that last line.
No Blue Memories: Black Poet Gwendolyn Brooks via Manual Cinema "No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks," was presented on a Chicago stage during the centennial of the birth of the noted poet, the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize in any category.
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by Paul Batters
Classic film lovers are passionate about the films they love and all share a special feeling for those films with others. The classic film community is one bound by that love for classic film and it is a romance that will not die. If love forever after ever exists, you will certainly find it amongst those who love it and also write about it.
This article will be the first of two parts which will celebrate the films which brought people to love classic film. A number of people have shared how they came to love classic film as well as the film or films which began that journey for them.
John Greco 
Blog – John Greco Author/Photographer
I can’t name just one movie. Each film I watched was like a piece of a puzzle with the right ones fitting the overall picture. It was an assembly of films and filmmakers that gave me inspiration and a love of cinema.
Many noir and crime films were early influences of both my love of movies and in my fiction writing. The first gangster films I remember seeing were “Al Capone” and “Baby Face Nelson.” On television, I discovered “The Maltese Falcon,” “The Roaring Twenties,” “The Public Enemy,” and many others. A bit later, I discovered Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window,” “Psycho,” “North by Northwest,” and many others. After Hitchcock, I started following the careers of film directors, and it was works like Polanski’s “Repulsion” and “Rosemary’s Baby,” John Frankenheimer’s “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Seven Days in May,” Billy Wilder’s “Double Indemnity,” “Some Like it Hot,” “Ace in the Hole” that cemented my love of celluloid. There were plenty of others, Wyler’s “The Collector,” Penn’s “Bonnie and Clyde,” Lumet’s “The Pawnbroker,” Brooks’ “The Professionals,” Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove,” and Hiller’s “The Americanization of Emily” were and are influences and all still rank high in my admiration.
Kellee Pratt
Blog: Outspoken And Freckled    Twitter: @IrishJayhawk66
For me, my love for old movies came to me as a child when we lived in Taos, New Mexico. The local art center would screen slapsticks on Saturday mornings such as the hilarious Laurel & Hardy, Our Gang, and Mack Sennett. My maternal grandmother had a love for classic film and considered it a vital part of my education. I recall an early memory of her introducing a certain film being broadcast on tv, “Pay close attention, Kellee. This is an important film.” She was right, I still love WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION to this day and I included it in a film course I taught. Classic comedies were an early love in particular. For many of us fans, old movies, especially comedy, is a form of escapism. Some of the other films my grandmother brought into my life: “ THE GREAT RACE,” “IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD,” and “THE QUIET MAN.” That last film mentioned, a John Ford classic, was not just a silly film to her, it was propped up as the family how-to manual in our Irish Catholic family. These films are more than simply entertainment, they actually helped to shape my identity.
Michael W Denney
Blog – ManiacsAndMonsters.com   Twitter: @ManiacsMonsters
As a horror movie fan, I have a deep admiration for the classic films from Universal Pictures:  Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, Dracula, et al.  And yet, they were not the gateway to my love of classic film.  Growing up, I regularly watched The Little Rascals, Laurel & Hardy, and The Three Stooges and I am certain that those short films planted the initial seed.  I am also a long-time aficionado and collector of shorts and memorabilia from the golden age of animation and in particular the Warner Bros. cartoons.  Those cartoons further developed an appreciation for the aesthetics, humour, and timing of classic film.  But if I have to designate a single feature film that cemented my love for the classics, I would have to choose the Marx Brothers’ A Day at the Races.  The first time I saw it, I was immediately enthralled by both the slapstick and the clever word play.  The frantic nonsense in the last act as the Marx Brothers do everything in their power to delay the steeplechase and then help jittery Hi-Hat win the race made me a devotee of that era of film making.
Patricia (Paddy Lee) Nolan-Hall 
Blog: https://www.caftanwoman.com/    Twitter: @CaftanWoman
Shane is the movie that made me love movies. I first saw Shane on a theatrical re-release in the mid-1960s when I was around 10 years old.
The enlightening experience began with Victor Young’s score. The music had such power and melancholy that it pulled me into the story. Years later when I read Shane I realized that I lived the movie the way the character of the young boy lived those weeks with Shane – observing, sensing, and understanding. I had laughed and cried at movies before, but never had the emotions felt so crystallized.
Strangely, the experience of Shane wasn’t purely an emotional response. One part of my brain was buzzing with the revelation that movies didn’t just happen. Movies had a how and a why to them. That must be why my dad always made us read credits. A switch was flipped and the whole movie experience became alive. I understood why the music moved me, why Shane was often framed away from the other characters, and so much more. It was all too thrilling. Every movie was better after Shane, but it still stands alone as the movie that made me truly love movies.
Toni Ruberto
Blog – watchingforever.wordpress.com    Twitter: @toniruberto 
My love for classic movies can’t be traced to one film but to an entire genre: horror movies. As a kid, I watched the “old movies” (as we called them) on TV with my dad: Universal Monsters, the giant bugs of the 1950s B-movies, the fantastical creatures of Ray Harryhausen. “Them,” “The Thing” “Tarantula” and are among those we watched over and over again – and still do to this day. I never tire of hearing that screechy sound of the big ants in “Them” or seeing the fight against the giant crab in “Mysterious Island.”
Classic horror movies bring back wonderful memories of sitting on the floor by my dad’s chair as we watched them together. I love to hear similar stories from others who share they also were introduced to the classics by a family member. Because of my comfort in watching the old horror movies, it never bothered me to watch a film in “black and white” like it did my friends. So I kept watching. Thanks to dad and all the creatures who helped me discover my life-long love of classic movies.
Blog – The Classic Movie Muse  Twitter: @classymoviemuse
I fell in love with classic movies before I knew it was happening to me. As a one year old (I’m told) I would watch The Wizard of Oz (1939) repeatedly. It seems that I had a penchant for musicals. When my parents visited a family friend who owned Show Boat (1951), that became my go-to while the adults chatted.
In our home we owned a few Gene Kelly musicals that introduced me to the dancing man and some MGM stars: Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949), Anchors Aweigh (1945), and Singin’ in the Rain (1952). I also remember watching The King and I (1956) and The Sound of Music (1965) frequently in my adolescence.
In my teenage years I was introduced to Gone With the Wind (1939) and my life changed. I had to know more about this movie, the actors, and how in the world did they make something so grand in 1939? Thus began my endless journey of research and love of this golden era of film.
Jill -Administrator of The Vintage Classics Facebook Page and Group and Instagram.
The films that got me into Classic films were “East of Eden” & “Rebel Without a Cause.” I owe that to my Dad. James Dean played a huge part. My love for classic films has grown so much over the years. I love so many. I prefer the classics to the films of today.
A poster for Nicholas Ray’s 1955 drama ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ starring James Dean. (Photo by Movie Poster Image Art/Getty Images)
Zoe K
Blog – Hollywood Genes
My dad and I were very close when I was growing up. He loved old movies and used to tape a few (remember VHS?) off of TCM for us to watch. The incredibly fun Bringing Up Baby filled with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant’s madcap antics was a favorite. Desk Set was another. I would sit at the coffee table while I watched with my dad’s work stationary and the giant pink Electronic Dream Phone (from the Milton Bradley game) in front of me. I mimicked Joan Blondell and her fellow ladies in the research department as I blew the minds of callers with my vast array of know-how.
My dad died when I was 11, but those tapes bearing labels with his handwriting remained on the shelf. I think I clung to them as a way to keep us connected. Though I’ve seen many more classic films since then, Bringing Up Baby and Desk Set remain two of my favorites. Good memories make all of the difference.
  A huge thank you to our contributors for sharing the films that started their journey with classic film. Hopefully we are all inspired by their words to remember the films that also start our own love for classic film.
Tomorrow, we will continue with Part Two of The Films That Brought Us To Love Classic Film.
Paul Batters teaches secondary school History in the Illawarra region and also lectures at the University Of Wollongong. In a previous life, he was involved in community radio and independent publications. Looking to a career in writing, Paul also has a passion for film history.
The Films That Brought Us To Love Classic Film – Part One by Paul Batters Classic film lovers are passionate about the films they love and all share a special feeling for those films with others.
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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 REVIEW - Manual Cinema's Frankenstein ★★★★★
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 REVIEW – Manual Cinema’s Frankenstein ★★★★★
How do you explain this except to say that the show is by Manual Cinema – and that is your very best clue. 
The stories of Frankenstein and Mary Shelley’s own life are exquisitely unfolded before your eyes on the big screen, both filmed and projected live. It is an intricate stage set and this show is skilfully and imaginatively presented, and you can see in detail how it is being created.…
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