#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.

[ronniesbizzareblog]

My mum saw this and said: You make him ugly, is perfect

im crying

[valuing-a-life]

*and some sketches*

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

[dendropolis]

Midday transgressions

[rosegardendeprofundis]

“People never seemed to notice that, by saving time, they were losing something else. No one cared to admit that life was becoming even poorer, bleaker and more monotonous.”

—Micheal Ende, Momo

[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]

[ich-existiere-nicht]

"Und alle Zeit, die nicht mit dem Herzen wahrgenommen wird, ist so verloren wie die Farben des Regenbogens für einen Blinden oder das Lied eines Vogels für einen Tauben."

Buch: Momo von Michael Ende

[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).

[magicaldogtoto]

First attempt at sketching Momo. I imagine her skin is darker than it appears here, but that would be something for when I make a colored image. The pose is inspired by that one photo of Alice Liddell that Lewis Carroll took (Alice was meant to be a "beggar girl," which made me think of Momo), while the insectoid creature is inspired by the Chronophage from Cambridge's Corpus Clock. As a creature meant to eat time, it seemed as an appropriate symbol for the Men in Gray, while also doubling as something the Men in Gray would promote to scare humanity into "saving" more time.

[ronniesbizzareblog]

"You get everything you want and money always talks to the idiot savants"

I can't stop thinking about the song "Choke" by IDK HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME and how it can fit...a little bit with some part of momo alla conquista del tempo and the original book

also a bonus: my Gigi interpretation

[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

[dendropolis]

Tried to draw my guys without any sketching. Color first, lineart second.

[rosegardendeprofundis]

Momo by Michael Ende Review

Dates Read: January 26 — January 28, 2025

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Genre: Fantasy

2025 Reading Goal: 11/100

In Momo, Michael Ende critiques the “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mentality by telling the story of a happy, community-centered town that transitions into a corporate hellscape when the fraudulent, fear-mongering “men in grey” convince the town’s people to cut back on time-wasting activities (like spending time with friends, hobbies, creativity, and even sleeping) so they can store that time in the ���Timesavings Bank” for a future return on their investment. It is up to Momo—a little girl with a talent for listening—to recover all of the stolen time and restore her community.

It is a shame that this book isn’t well-known in the United States because it is truly phenomenal and deserves to be a well-known (and taught) classic. The themes present in this story are very relevant to the culture we live in today, which is incredible considering it was written over 50 years ago. Momo is a powerful story about the importance of community and how it is the little moments spent with friends or doing the things you love that make life worthwhile.

[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.