#michael ende momo

[magicaldogtoto]

Every argument I see for why AI art is the next step in creativity reminds me of the Men in Gray from Momo, no joke. It’s almost to the point of parody.

The Men in Gray in Momo tell people that there isn’t enough time, and they have to save the time they have now so they can spend it later and live their best life. Every Pro-AI person I come across while lurking online says that they don’t have the time to develop their art skills, and that AI will pump out more and more art at a fast rate that saves them time to pump out more and more AI art.

The Men in Gray in Momo advocate “saving time” to adults by telling them to cut things out like fun hobbies or friendships that do not give them any financial benefit/personal gain, and as a result the adults in the world become even sadder and more depressed, no one has time to just enjoy life, because their lives are being drained by the Timesaving Bank.

(Children are immune to the Men in Gray because they cannot be convinced that their fun and games are a waste of time. Like the Men in Gray grumble in their board meetings that if not for children, all of mankind would have been under their thumb by now.)

But it isn’t just that: Momo has a friend named Guido who loves making up stories. He becomes a famous writer/storyteller, but thanks to the Men in Gray the demand for his output increases, and he has to resort to hacking his older works into pieces in order to recycle the plots in newer works. He becomes disatisfied with his life, but can’t get out of it. I can assure you if Michael Ende wrote Momo today, he would have had the Men in Gray offer Guido a machine that allows him to create his own stories “in the interest of saving money and time.”

I guess what I’m saying is, more people should read Momo.

[valuing-a-life]

*and some sketches*

Michael Ende "Momo", sketches for book cover /2017

[jelliclechoice]

Midday transgressions

[jellicle-superstar]

I know that you can interpret MiG as CEOs or corporate environment, but since I first read the book in like year 2017 I always saw them as people who purposely distance themselves from fun stuff in order to seem adult and normal. You know, like people who don't watch cartoons because they are for kids.

That especially is visible in their lore. Most of them were like...created 10 years ago or such. I think they have an emotional capacity of a ten year old as well. Because they see adulthood as an image, like "oh look at me I'm a grown man I wear a smart suit, smoke all the time and work at the big corp™".

If a GL is an image, a false image at that, it is understandable why they get so upset when Momo talks to them as an equal. It is called cognitive dissonance. "Wait, am I really talking to a child and I feel like I'm interested in what they say? Am I immature?"

I kinda force myself to get past being embarrassed while I'm doing something that is usually associated with children, like daydreaming, like playing games like Animal Jam or some roblox games, like watching some cartoons. No one is looking, but I still feel horrible for some reason.

Okay, moving on... But obviously, just being that is not the only problem. They still have an entire community of people who will execute them once they return at home. What does it have to do with all that? Well, try telling a group of your new acquaintances (especially if they are conservative, or over 50) that you do therianthropy, or play some certain cozy games, or agedream, or take part in other unusual hobbies. Actually don't. Don't even try it.

Also, I kinda exist within a self-made idea that the movie is canon, but show and toon are not. The stage play can be canon too but I haven't watched it yet alr... That's because Ende is a dude who plays himself in the movie so...

That doesn't mean that the toon doesn't have some cool shit too, such as this dude turning into a human being after opening up to Momo.

I kinda think about that scene when the last GL says to Momo that he is happy it all ended. I think that he really means that he is glad that he doesn't have to keep his cold-hearted persona anymore. After all, all the MiG are very emotional, especially when someone tries to treat them well. It's very personal thing too because that's how I felt first year after I escaped an abusive environment.

Uh... What I wanted to say. Please don't think that any book like Momo is "money bad" type shit.

Also check this out, a GL and Momo from the show sitting like Tom and Jerry from that one episode.

[caostalgia]

Si los hombres supieran lo que es la muerte ya no le tendrían miedo. Y si ya no le tuvieran miedo, nadie podría robarles nunca más su tiempo de vida.

Momo – Michael Ende.

[jupiterliyazar]

[coffeefromvoid]

Late night rambling/Acting/Mercutio specific hot? Lukewarm? Take, i dunno I’ve only been acting for like three years

Basically a few weeks ago I came to the realisation that when you are acting it’s useful to know a character’s greatest fear. Of course you need to know more than that to make a character come alive on stage- who they are, their motivations, their personality or the bits of it that shine through in the script and their narrative purpose.

But I also find a characters greatest fear to be important too, especially for heightened emotional moments.

For example my three biggest roles so far,

1. Franz von Moor (in a summarised version of Shiller’s “die Räuber”)

2. Paolo (in a stage adaptation of Michael Ende’s novel “Momo”)

And last and certainly not least,

3. Mercutio (shortend and modified version of the german translation of Romeo and Juliet, by Shakespeare)

These three roles are very different from each other and all have different fears, which play into their portrayal on stage. None of the fears are out right stated, it’s just my interpretation, to better play the character.

But why is a characters fear important if you aren’t playing a scene where the character is specifically afraid?

Well, to me, my fears personally do affect how i carry myself. Some days more some days less, so having a characters fear in the back of your mind can be useful for when they are doing a monologue for example, or doing an important action, or just making them appear more human

For example, when i was playing Franz, his greatest fear to me, was being alone and having nothing left as he wasn’t the main hair, leading him to doing all of those horrible actions that result in him killing himself after asking god for forgiveness. Not an excuse for his shit behaviour but a helpful guide for his characterisation.

Or Paolo who was just a kid and wanted his parents to spend time with him and who was afraid of change and everything the gray men represent. After the time skip and the kids omission into the new strict school, he becomes hopeless, robotic and depressed. Because his greatest fear came true.

And finally Mercutio who’s, in my opinion, greatest fear is death. This only shines through in the text in two places, the infamous Queen Mab speech and his final monologue before he dies.

The Queen Mab speech starts of whimsical and fun as Mercutio describes Mab and her carriage and so on and so forth, but after a while it turns darker, when he starts talking about the dark dreams that are about war and subsequent, death, that she puts in soldiers heads. This is, to me, the point where the Queen Mab speech turns cynical and basically opposite of what it was at the beginning.

And the second moment where his primal fear of death shows is obviously his death-monologue. Mercutio has, not a facade but a heightened, more dramatic version of his personality he puts on as a mask, to hide this ‘silly’ fear of death. Why would a great man like him fear such a thing? Right? This mask starts to falter when he realises he’s fucking dying, for real. But in never truly drops, as he is still making jokes until his last breath, to try and distract himself of his fate or perhaps convince himself it isn’t happening at all, while clinging on to the person he made himself to be.

I’m not saying that Mercutio making a pun in his death-monologue is out of character, no, it just shows me, that he did not digest what had happened to him before it was too late. If that makes sense.

And of course you cannot forget his very memorable and dramatic anger at both houses in this speech. He doesn’t just blame one person or house for his unexpected demise but he blames both Tybalt and Romeo. This is him expressing this anger he had in him, not just at his death but at everything around him making him feel like he had to put up this heightened image of himself. He is basically speed running the five stages of grief for himself but died before he could get to acceptance.

Mercutio’s fear of death also explains his recklessness to me, he sneaks Romeo and Benvolio into the Capulet ball without even thinking of the consequences, insults the nurse with no after thought and challenges Tybalt to the dual without considering that Romeo might come between them because of his previous yapping about loving the Capulet name like his own, even though no one knew about his marriage to Juliet.

Mercutio basically lives every day like it would be his last but isn’t actually ready to die tomorrow.

Hope this long ass post was worth the read, i’ve been thinking ab Mercutio non stop and its one am rn and i should sleep but i can’t so boom character analysis plus minor acting advice, Also sorry if the grammar is garbage, its as stated one am, and english isn’t my first language.

[safedistancefrombeingsmart]

New project for Martin!

The English-language adaptation of Momo, one of the best-loved fantasy books by The Neverending Story writer Michael Ende, has set a buzzy cast, with Alexa Goodall (A Gentleman In Moscow) taking the lead role of the young orphan girl Momo.

The main cast is completed by Araloyin Oshunremi (Top Boy, Heartstopper), Kim Bodnia (Killing Eve, The Witcher), Claes Bang (The Square), Laura Haddock (The Recruit, Transformers: The Last Knight), Jennifer Amaka Peterson (The Sandhamn Murders), David Shütter (Charlie’s Angels) and Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, Sherlock).

[idislikefrenchclass]

some of my favourite books because i am gay and single in january of 2025. looking for alaska is missing because i don’t have that one. and solitaire! sad.

[ulahayaaaaaaagat]

"Önceleri pek farkına varılmaz. Günün birinde insanın canı artık hiçbir şey yapmak istemez. Hiçbir şeyle ilgilenmez ve kurur gider. Üstelik bu isteksizlik geçici değildir, hatta giderek de artar. Günden güne, haftadan haftaya daha kötü olur. İnsan kendinden hoşlanmaz, sanki içi bomboştur ve dünyayla bağdaşamaz. Sonraları bu hisler de kalmaz ve hiçbir şey hissetmez olur. Bütün dünyaya yabancılaşmış ve hiç kimse onu artık ilgilendirmez olmuştur. Ne kızgınlık duyar ne de hayranlık. Ne sevinmesini bilir ne de üzülmesini. Gülmeyi de ağlamayı da unutmuştur. Böyle bir insanın içi kaskatı kesilmiştir. Artık hiçbir şeyi ve hiç kimseyi sevemez. Bu durumda, artık hastanın iyileşmesine olanak yoktur. Geriye dönüş kalmamıştır. Bomboş, kül rengi bir yüzle ve nefretle çevresine bakar, tıpkı duman adamlar gibi. Onlardan biri olup çıkmıştır. Hastalığın adına gelince, buna ölümcül can sıkıntısı denir."

-Momo/Michael Ende

[magicaldogtoto]

If you're into magical girls, you'll like Momo by Michael Ende.

The basic premise is about a girl and her animal companion (sound familiar?) trying to stop the Men in Grey, a group of supernatural beings who extend their lives by stealing time from humanity (they also, not coincidentally, take the form of bankers with grey skin and grey clothes, wearing grey bowler hats and smoking cigars). They do this by convincing people to overwork themselves, under the pretense of saving time, when it really just makes humans unhappy and tired with their lives while the Men in Grey eat the time up and extend their own existence. Their only threat is children, who have all the time in the world and cannot be convinced like adults that they are wasting time by playing games and having fun... so the Men in Grey work on the adults by telling them to monitor their children's every move, and to cut back on "wasteful" things like fun games and art so the children will be dedicated to overworking themselves as adults. The whole book has a very fantastical, dreamy kind of lore that you see in magical girl stories.

[valuing-a-life]

my illustrations for «Momo» by Michael Ende /2017 illustrations with Momo, Men in Grey and Master Hora (and Cassiopeia) for half-titles

[jelliclechoice]

Momo...OC? Can a GL character be considered OC, since MiG are about being unoriginal..?

I had so many things to say, but now I only have one.

I can't force myself to hate MiG. I think they are kinda dramatic in their essence. I think that each one of them would prefer a human life over their existence, but they can't. Not only because of their species parasitic lifestyle, but because it's a society that has a crab bucket mentality and when one of them tries to escape the proverbial bucket the rest try to pull them down again.

Anyway twink mad at young female child or something, idk.

[jellicle-superstar]

I watched a toon version first and kinda didn't want to watch the movie because I thought I wouldn't like the grey lords from there but this lil'guy sold it to me.

He's so pathetic, like he has those big red eyes like he's about to cry at any moment now. I think that's really how all MiG are because of how tragic their fate really is. They are not scared of little children because they don't like them but because they can give what they don't have and when they are given that, the majority are going to turn on against them and eventually kill them.

[pedromoyaglez]

Character design inspired by the book Momo by Michael Ende. Master Hora ⏰ 🕰️⏳

I imagine him like the author Michael Ende, even though the description of this character in the book is different.

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