#my favorite Ralph film

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

HI HI HWBSNS IT HAS BEEN HTHERE IS RAPUNZEL RAPUN RAPUN RIDDLE

[Referencing the JP Feb 2025 news!]

aefihlw8yofw8ydfMFw Since Riddle is dressed like Rapunzel (right down to the long hair in a braid with flowers) THE FUCKING IMPLICATION THAT MRS. ROSEHEARTS IS THE MOTHER GOTHEL PARALLEL HERE IS MAKING ME LAUGH BUT ALSO KILLING ME INSIDE 💀 I wonder if that long hair is a wig, extensions, or if it's magically induced hair growth or something... Not that the last one isn't possible, but typically we get a brief in-universe explanation for why their new look is the way that it is.

With the announcement of the new story event, it definitively puts the more modern 3D animated era of Disney films in the realm of possibility for Twst. (I mean, we had the 2025 JP Halloween event, but that was technically stop motion.) So... films like Frozen, Big Hero 6, Zootopia, Wreck-It Ralph, Raya, Moana, Encanto... and, yes, even Wish. I wonder if this would also extend to Pixar films like Inside Out, Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., and more??? That would vastly extend their repertoire of material to pull from.

asldhbadoofeasd ANYWAY, I'm really excited for this event!! Tangled is one of my favorite Disney princess films from the 3D era of animation. With it coming out so close to Riddle's main story update and the subtitle to the story event (Wish Lantern: the Road to Freedom), I get the feeling that it might have some interesting development for him. Historically, the story events with significant character growth have been my most enjoyed ones.

[canisalbus]

Hello! There is this movie called Conclave by Edward Berger, with Ralph Fiennes playing a cardinal charged with the duty of organising the Conclave which will elect a new Pope, following the death of the previous one. I've just finished watching it and I kept thinking back on your work. So I thought it might be worthwhile to recommend it to you if you haven't already heard of or watched it. I think you would like it! Have a pleasant day!

Ah, it's so nice of you to think of me and take the time to tell me that!

I've heard of the film, I remember stumbling across it by happenstance while looking up one of the actors or something. It was ages ago and at the time it was in development and being delayed, I think. Good to hear they managed to get the thing finished, and that it seems to be getting positive reviews. Ralph Fiennes is consistently excellent (maybe I could recommend The Grand Budapest Hotel to you return, if you haven't seen it already. It's my all time favorite and and Fiennes is marvelous in it, imo).

I've been out of town for a while but I'm hoping my local cinema is still playing it next week when I get back home.

[allimocha]

AlliMocha’s 2024 Fancuries Spotlight Post!

Hi Everyone! It’s Me, Alli! Back at the fancuries and this time with 5… 5 NOMINATIONS???

Ya’ll are amazing, thank you guys so much for nominating me!

Speaking of which, let’s get to those nomminations shall we?

​​・・・​​⟢Best Fanseries Concept: Arcades, Racing Games, & Sweets - Sugar Rush! Pretty Cure ⟢​​・・・

S. U. G. A. R. Jump into your racing car! Sugar Rush, Sugar Rush!

It was one late night when I was bored that the idea to combine one of my favorite disney movies and precure occured in my brain, and I’m glad it did! I knew going in that arcades, and of course, racing had to be the main themes in this fanseries since it’s based on Wreck it Ralph’s Sugar Rush racers. AND Because it is SUGAR Rush, and the game and character’s in this afromentioned game are sweets related, I knew the outfits and names for the cures had to follow suit.

It’s a really fun idea and a great homage to one of my favorite films, and I’m glad you all enjoy it too!

​​・・・​​⟢ Favorite Fancure: Vanelope Von Schmitt/Cure Sweets ⟢​​・・・

Speaking of Sugar Rush! Precure, the main lead is of course, our wisecracking candy princess, Vanelope! Coming up with Vanelope’s design was pretty easy, as, you know, her character already exists. But for Cure Sweets, it was a different story. I struggled with her colors a fair bit, and her outfit too! However, in th end, I think I nailed down a design I’m pretty happy with!

​​・・・​​⟢ Best Team Design: Sugar Rush Pretty Cure ⟢​​・・・

Despite Sugar Rush! Precure just being created, and there only being two cures, I was still nominated for best team design for what I already had! I’m really exicited that people seem to like the designs I’ve already come up with! Despite the plan of there being 5 cures in total, Cure Sweets and Cure Taffy are the only two cures for a while, and so I wanted to make sure that they worked as a duo as well as apart of a bigger team.

​​・・・​​⟢ Coolest Cure: Lei Sandiego/Cure Spice ⟢​​・・・

Ah, Bittersweet X Daydream! Precure. The series in which the first chapter is still being written for about 4 years now. (I’m not even joking, it’s been that long.) And don’t get me started on Cure Sugar’s design timeline.

But for Cure Spice, her design has been the one that’s stayed mostly the same over the years, and I’m proud that this design was nominated for Coolest Cure!

​​・・・​​⟢ Excellence in Digital Art ⟢​​・・・

This one caught me by surprise. I was so estatic to get nominated for this catagory, and so happy people enjoy my art. Bringing my ideas to life and sharing it with the world has always been a dream of mine, so I want to thank everyone who’s at least seen it for being apart of that dream.

Thank you all! And good luck to everyone who was nominated!

Byyieeee~!

[lauralot89]

So I watched Nosferatu

poor Nicholas Hoult keeps getting tortured by vampires

also

that certainly was a penis

it has been years since I watched the original Nosferatu and I no longer remember what it did with any of its characters or plot so I will not be comparing this to that

so if you're going to do a Dracula/Mina romance (or in this case, Orlok/Ellen) and you're not going to base it around their shared hobby of reading train schedules, this is probably the best way to do it, because this isn't actually a romance. This movie gives Mina/Ellen the psychic sensitivity that Lucy/Anna has in the book, and establishes that Ellen has had mental connection with Orlok since her childhood, and he essentially groomed her. She even calls him out on it in the film. Yeah, there is one moment toward the end of the movie where she comforts him, but she isn't trying to save him or anything and also even in the original novel, Mina was the one who said Dracula deserved the most pity.

Yes, there was the scene where Ellen was saying Orlok loved her more than Thomas/Jonathan but she was clearly possessed

There is no romanticism of Orlok/Dracula here. He's the worst and he doesn't even have the illusion of civility that most adaptations provide.

also I was told by early reviewers that this movie was very horny and I think they must have watched a different cut than I did. I mean, sure, you see (flaccid) vampire dick once and some nudity throughout but the movie has two sex scenes and both are deeply unsexy in that in the first, you don't see anything and also both characters have gone out of their minds, and in the second, it's not even really sex. You can't just show me a dick that's not even in use and tell me that's horny. Come on, people. Raise your standards.

I don't say this to be mean but: I think the original Orlok makeup from the silent film was scarier. I get what they were doing here, I do, and the makeup was immaculate (as were the costumes, the set designs, etc. It's an Eggers film) but I personally find Original Orlok scarier, and this Orlok was most intimidating when he was kept in the shadows.

This movie felt very much like a fairy tale. It even sets up a "three nights" limit at one point sort of like the earlier versions of Cinderella. I find that Dracula adaptations, particularly in film, often put vibes above, say, characterization, and this movie felt pretty vibe-y.

If I were to make a complaint, it wouldn't even really be about the movie itself. But like, Nosferatu was originally made to be Dracula without paying for the rights to Dracula, wasn't it? You're not bound by the novel (not that most straight-up Dracula adaptations follow the novel all that closely either). You literally have a built-in excuse to do whatever you want, but it seems like what people want to do time and again in vampire movies is a highlights reel of the most famous moments in the book without ever really delving into the characters that made the novel so good.

Again, this is not a criticism of this movie. It's just that what I realized while watching this movie is that I really really want a Dracula adaptation that's a character study. Not even necessarily a character study of Dracula. If someone out there made an adaptation that focused the story on Jonathan or Lucy or Jack or whoever, I would love for that.

God bless Ralph Ineson's voice

Everyone in this film did well, but Nicholas Hoult's performance was probably my favorite. He emotes terror so damn well. And of course Dafoe is always a delight.

Did Original Orlok also favor biting people on the chest or was he a neck guy

[sparklermun]

Hey there everyone! Welcome to night fourteen of the Wreck-it Ralph Pin Post Month!

Tonight we've got another recent release. The WDI, D23 Expo 2024, Disney Villains Collection, King Candy, Wreck-it Ralph pin. LE 400.

With every D23 Expo there comes a new Disney Villains Collection, with this one not disappointing. As forty Disney Villains from forty different animated movies stared on their own jumbo pin. Complete with glitter and a stained glass effect. This particular pin stars King Candy, our not so sweet villain from the first Wreck-it Ralph film. Here we have him posed in the castle doorway with a hand on his hip and a cane in the other. We see the old king staring straight at us with a brow raised, almost tauntingly as though challenging us to try and see through his sugary façade.

This is my second favorite pin to be released this year by Disney Imagineering, (the number one favorite being one you'll all have to wait till next week to see). I love love love the attention they give pins like these! From the individual chains in the candy chandelier, to the design of the stained glass door that looks exactly like the doors Felix knocked upon in the film. Then there's King Candy himself, where a great amount of detail was brought to his face and hair to emphasize the elderly look of this persona. All without taking away the power and energy emanating off of him as he challenges the observer. Then there are the less obvious details, such as the folds and curves of his clothing. The crinkled, reflective look of his candy wrapper bowtie; as well as the faintly painted design on his wavy collar. Every D23 Expo comes with an excuse to celebrate the greatest Disney Villains of the past, and this particular pin certainly feels like a trophy to the villainous racer.

[king-crawler]

What do you see in turbo

- unhinged angry little weirdo (desirable) (?????)

- stupid outfit & stupid catchphrase (disgustingly endearing)

- something is genuinely wrong with him

- creepy/distinctive glow in the dark face. Yellow eyed freak ! I also like teeth

- I LOVE VILLAINS. His reveal scene is so dramatic and cool.

- virus/corruption adjacent entity. Parasitizes others… He’s pulling the strings … Glitching is awesome btw it’s like one of my favorite audiovisual effects ever

- 2012 video game creepypasta energy. He’s like Polybius but stupid. TurboTime is haunted. He is Cabinet Man

- Retro arcade cabinets are just such Awesome Machines. It’s such a unique aesthetic, buzzy CRTs and flashing colorful lights, the little chiptune sound effects… the only thing that comes close to the ‘character’ embodied by arcade cabinets is maybe themed roller coasters, or real life animatronics. He definitely has that kind of appeal. The Machine

- HAVE YOU SEEN HIS CYBUG FORM ITS COOL AS FUCK HE LITERALLY TRANSFORMS INTO A GIANT ROBOTIC INSECTOID MALWARE ABOMINATION INFUSED WITH CANDY WHAT THE FUCK??????

- wreck it ralph is an amazing film and king candy is a really clever villain and I love the twist and how he relates to king candy (most normal answer)

- THE HORROR APPEAL. His Symbolism…. He’s the Creepy Ghostly Skull man . The bringer of death even. Also the fact he “haunts the narrative” because he’s so rarely seen but everyone is terrified of him, and he underlies so much of the conflict. (Like: DONT BECOME LIKE HIM.) It’s like he’s become a paranormal entity, only seen in glimpses, or dismissed as nothing but a terrible memory. His presence has become intangible, but it’s dark and all encompassing. Maybe they tried to forget. For 25 years they thought he was dead. But he was lurking in the depths of game central station hearing everything. (Don’t even get me started on the horror implications of his cybug form because Oh My God)

- but most importantly I have a personal vendetta against him because he gave me nightmares at age 14 and I also kin him slightly

- he is rotten trans man

[themousefromfantasyland]

I propose the existence of a genre of film: the Storybook Movie.

What's the Storybook Movie?

The Storybook Movie is a light-hearted musical fantasy adapted from or just inspired by fairy tales and children's stories in general.

So, basically the first thing you automatically think about when you hear the words "Disney film"

So, why not just use the term Disney film?

Because just being made by Disney doesn't make the film fit in with these story structures.

For example, Wreck-it-Ralph, Meet the Robinsons, and Zootopia are Disney films, but they aren't exactly what you expect from a Disney movie.

And Anastasia, Over the Moon, and several of the direct-to-video Barbie movies technically fit in with the rules I laid out about the genre.

Technically, the Wizard of Oz was the biggest example of a Storybook Movie made outside of Disney. It was made specifically because of the success of Disney's Snow White, and it's a light hearted musical adaptation of the L. Frank Baum's story.

So, why not just use the term "Fairy Tale Movie"?

Because although many Storybook movies technically are Fairy Tales movies, not all fairy tale movies are Storybook movies.

The Wizard of Oz is not a fairy tale film, but it's in the genre. And so it is Willy Wonka.

I consider Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory as a Storybook Movie. It shares tone, themes, story structure, and tropes with the Wizard of Oz and several Disney movies.

Now compare Cocteau's La Belle et la Bete with Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Both are movies adapted from fairy tales. Both are inspired by the same exact fairy tale. But noticed how they diverge in how they tell the story. How one is much more light-hearted, whimsical, and uses music to tell its story.

This is the Storybook Movie, and honestly, I wish we had more good films made outside of Disney since it's one of my favorite genres of films.

[geeky92]

Walt Disney Animation Films I Rank By Era

Golden Age:

Fantasia

Pinocchio

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Bambi

Dumbo

Wartime Era:

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

Melody Time

Make Mine Music

Saludos Amigos

Fun and Fancy Free

The Three Caballeros

Silver Age:

Lady and the Tramp

Sleeping Beauty

One Hundred and One Dalmatians

Alice in Wonderland

Cinderella

The Jungle Book

Peter Pan

The Sword in the Stone

Bronze Age/Dark Age:

The Great Mouse Detective

The Fox and the Hound

Robin Hood

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

The Rescuers

Oliver & Company

The Black Cauldron

The Aristocats

Disney Renaissance:

The Lion King (My Favorite)

Beauty and the Beast

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Aladdin

Mulan

Hercules

The Little Mermaid

Tarzan

The Rescuers Down Under

Pocahontas

Post-Renaissance/Experimental Era:

Lilo & Stitch

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

The Emperor’s New Groove

Meet the Robinsons

Treasure Planet

Fantasia 2000

Brother Bear

Dinosaur

Home on the Range

Chicken Little

Revival Era:

The Princess and the Frog

Zootopia

Wreck-It Ralph

Moana

Frozen

Tangled

Big Hero 6

Winnie the Pooh (2011)

Bolt

Post-Revival Era:

Encanto

Frozen II

Raya and the Last Dragon

Wish

Ralph Breaks the Internet

I haven’t seen Moana 2 or Strange World, but I imagine them ranking pretty low on my list.

[i-eat-large-amounts-of-pasta]

I don't understand why I never hear people talking about Wreck-it Ralph. Maybe it's because it's not something that adults nowadays are nostalgic about or something, but I loved that movie. I still do. It's one of those movies that nobody talked about because it wasn't awful and wasn't perfect. It was just really good.

But it's SUCH A GOOD MOVIE. It's a movie about being a fish out of water, about coming to terms with the consequences of your actions, and making friends who love you for all your flaws. But most of all, it's about coming to love yourself for all of your flaws. Self-acceptance is a core theme especially in the climax of the film. Ralph is only able to beat King Candy by accepting himself and using his unique skills to help in spite of his label as a "bad guy". He is not defined by the label he was given. He doesn't need other people to tell him who he is anymore.

The one quote that I'll never forget, one which helps me to know myself, is said once at the beginning of the film and once at the end, with both having completely different context

"I'm bad, and that's good. I will never be good, and that's not bad. There is no one I'd rather be Than me."

This is significant to me in ways I don't have the words to describe sometimes. I am broken. The way I see the world is fundamentally different to most other people. There are others who are also warped in similar ways, who see the same bent shapes as me. Ralph is not alone, and neither am I. Neither are you. Don't let other people tell you who you are. Life isn't binary. Make friends with people who understand and love you for exactly who you are, and remember to extend them the same courtesy to them. Don't treat people differently based on what labels society has given them.

All these lessons from an animated comedy movie for kids that's rated 87% on Rotten Tomatoes.

If you haven't watched this movie, I highly encourage it. It's still my favorite Disney film (followed closely by Treasure Planet) and still watch it from time to time. It's just called Wreck-It Ralph and it's on Disney Plus. Or pirate it. I don't really care. I hold an immense amount of disdain for Disney, sooooooo...

[ducktoonsfanart]

The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings - The Lord of the Ducks?! -Duckverse in June - Mystical Creatures - Cosplay and literature - Duck comics, Ducktales, Quack Pack, Darkwing Duck and Mighty Ducks - Duckverse - My version - Fantasy

Well, more specials related to Donald Duck's 90th birthday that I drew and related to one of my favorite topics, certainly related to fantasy, literary works and movies, and one of the best works in the world that is definitely worth reading, and it is Tolkien's works, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer and philologist (study of the origin of language) and one of the greatest fantasy writers of all time who will certainly influence other authors and future generations. Born in 1892, died in 1973. He translated Beowulf, one of the oldest surviving Anglo-Saxon epics, and also wrote The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and other works. However, he was best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He inserted a lot into his works from Norse, Celtic, Slavic, ancient Greek and ancient Roman mythology, as well as elements from antiquity and the Middle Ages that happened in Europe, as well as religious elements, and of course he invented the Elvish language in his own way, and it is considered that that and high fantasy. The Hobbit was published in 1937, while The Lord of the Rings was written between 1937 and 1954, and published in 1954 and 1955 in three volumes, which are called "The Fellowship of the Ring", "The Two Towers" and "The Return of the King". Of course, it received a lot of film and animated adaptations, the most famous and popular of which are Ralph Bakshi from 1978, the version by Rankin-Bass from 1977 and 1980 The Hobbit and The Return of the King, and certainly the most famous that received the most Oscars are Peter Jackson's films with the same titles awarded with many Oscars and shown from 2001 to 2003. And three parts of The Hobbit from 2012 to 2014. So I drew combining from literary works and certainly from the film version of Peter Jackson, since that is my favorite.

Not to go further, since I would like to talk about the plot of the story for a long time, it is certainly about Middle Earth and the conflict over the power over the whole earth and about the conflict of one ring. In The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, the famous hobbit joined the wizard Gandalf and the thirteen dwarves of Thorin's Company in a quest to reclaim their home and take their treasure back from the dragon Smaug. The Lord of the Rings deals with the fact that Sauron, the dark lord, made the rings and gave them to dwarves, lords and humans in order to rule the world. But he is defeated by Isildur and King Elrond, but his spirit remains and can only be destroyed if the ring is destroyed. So the main task was given to four hobbits led by Frodo Baggins. And there is the elf Legolas, the dwarf Gimli, the human and prince Aragorn and the wizard Gandalf.

So I drew and combined two brilliant fantasy novels, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings into one where I gave my favorite characters specific roles that would suit them in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings in my own way. Yes, I combined almost everything from Donald Duck media, comics, cartoons, video games, but mostly from Donald Duck comics, including Paperinik New Adventures, as well as from Ducktales, Darkwing Duck, Quack Pack and Mighty Ducks. Yes, not all the characters stopped, because this is only the first part of my version of The Lord of the Ducks. Donald Duck would certainly be Bilbo Baggins, the hero from The Hobbit, and his nephews Huey, Dewey, Louie and Phooey Duck would be hobbits like Frodo Baggins, Meriadoc "Merry" Brandybuck, Samwise Gamgee and Pereg "Took", and added Newton Gearloose (Gyro's nephew) as an additional hobbit. Yes, the Quack Pack version would be more appropriate, since older boys and teenagers are into this kind of fantasy. Scrooge McDuck is certainly Gandalf the Great (doesn't matter if gray or white), Drake Mallard is the prince and future king of Aragon, ruler of Arnor and Gondor, Moby Duck (Donald's older cousin who is a seafarer) as the dwarf Gimli, Abner Whitewater Duck as Thorin Oakenshield (the leader of a group of 12 dwarves), Gyro Gearloose as the elf Legolas, Wildwing Flashblade and Nosedive Flashblade (brothers from Mighty Ducks) as Boromir and Faramir, Odin Eidolon as King Elrond, El Capitan as Gollum (since he is very fascinated by gold, and surely with a ring, otherwise he appeared in the first episodes of Ducktales 1987), Flintheart Glomgold as the wizard Saruman the Great, John D. Rockerduck as Gríma Wormtongue and finally Negaduck himself as Sauron, since he loves chaos and that he rules the whole world and loves jewels. There is no replacement Smaug dragon so I drew him as his interpretation.

Briefly Duckverse in Middle Earth and our heroes who need to save the world from evil and Sauron and Smaug. How about this? I hope you like this idea and these characters and love fantasy as much as I do. :D I know Tolkien didn't like Disney because of certain views, and I apologize for that, but since many authors like Tolkien's works, including Don Rosa, why shouldn't I? And sorry for these long sentences and finally the music for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SBQvd6vY9s

Feel free to like and reblog this if you like it, just don't use these same ideas of mine without mentioning me, thanks! Also this is intended as a dedication to the Duckverse in June, the fourth week under the theme "Mystical Creatures", however elves, dwarves, wizards and dragons can be counted under that, so I am dedicating to @duckversejune2024, @secret-tester, @tokuvivor, @queer-in-a-cornfield. And I dedicate it to my friend @cityoftheangelllls who likes ducks and fantasy like me. I hope you like this. Once again, happy belated birthday Donald Duck and his 90th birthday!

[imaginesig]

Masterlist

@imaginesig

All SMAU

Hockey

Quinn Hughes

Father day posts verstappen!reader’s inner child is healed by her boyfriends dad

F1

Oscar Piastri

Dancing under the lights ballerina reader and her f1 boyfriend

"Hang on now, Joseph, You'll make it someday" childhood best friends to lovers

Lewis Hamilton

“If they call me a slut, you know it might be worth it for once” pop-star reader speaks out against hate over her relationship

“Can someone give a message to the smallest man who ever lived” Pop-star Y/n and her long term relationship with Lewis Hamilton ends and silence is broken

"Ditch the clowns, get the crown / Baby, I'm the one to beat" what happened between the releases of TTPD, pt2 to "Can someone give a message to the smallest man who ever lived"

Logan Sargent

The Y/l's Y/n and her husband get the Issac Kutch treatment

Yuki Tsunoda

Sweet Summer Hughes!Reader plays professional hockey and a certain f1 driver is taken with her

F2

Kimi Antonelli

"I was enchanted to meet you" Kimi and Lando's little sister have a secret relationship and their soft launch doesn't go as planned, SMAU with writing

“I had the best day with you today” a short fic based on the previous Kimi smau where they get invited to the Eras Tour

"Private But Not Secret" Kimi's girlfriend is a vet student who tries to keep away from public eye, but that doesn't mean she's hidden

Ollie Bearman

You Would've Done It Too We all know Mad Max, but what if his younger sister is worse? And what if her on track enemy isn’t always that?

A Bear and a Gorgeous Girl with a new wave of fame how will rockstar Y/n’a fans react to the side her of posted by her boyfriend

Paul Aron

"I think he knows... he's gorgeous" Paul and his singer s/o, inspired by Taylors mashup

Documenting A Proposal Leclerc!Reader is getting engaged; she doesnt know, but her brothers girlfriend does

Paris 2024 What does the journey to a gold medal look like for Paul Aron's gf?

Arthur Leclerc

Left My Heart in SoCal can a driver from Europe and an American surfer end up together?

Zak O'Sullivan

"He laughs at all my jokes / And he says I'm so American" Logan Sargents grid kid is an american menace to the grid, her British bf included

Indycar

Pato O'Ward

Blue + Papaya an f1 and indycar driver go on a social media brake

NFL

Joe Burrow

"Ditch the clowns, get the crown / Baby, I'm the one to beat" what happened between the releases of TTPD, pt2 to "Can someone give a message to the smallest man who ever lived"

Actors

Xolo Maridueña

Nepo Baby Xolo Mariduena and Ralph Macchio's daughter seem to have more than a friendship going

Nicholas Hoult

I'd Have 2 Nickels The release of Nosferatu compliments Nick's wife's own film perfectly, as does the couple. SMAU Blurb

Today, Tomorrow, Forever When they meet on Skins, Yn and Nick weren’t exactly a love at first sight story but they get there eventually SMAU with written bits and interview clips

Bill Skarsgård

Couple of the Year Bill’s wife had an unexpected reaction to his transformation as Count Orlok in their new film Nosferatu. SMAU using interview clips and Twitter

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

In Every Realm Aaron's wife is a big name in Hollywood: Lily-Rose Depp's favorite cousin and Robert Egger's muse. What a time she has filming "Nosferatu"

[madam-o]

Inside Out 2 (minor spoilers)

This one was a lot more successful as a sequel than other recent Pixar attempts (I'm looking at you, Ralph Breaks the Internet). Emotionally it felt accurate to the original. My favorite thing is, again, watching Riley herself dealing with simple everyday life problems. She's a very likable everyperson who can represent pretty much anyone with any kind of sexuality or gender identity. Her experiences are never limited specifically to cishet girls of whatever age. I was expecting there to be a whole Mean Girls vibe going on in the plot, but these movies are much better at representing real kids than that. It's a franchise that shows a lot of kindness and empathy to all of its characters.

The new emotions all make sense in the context of the story. I love Envy and Embarrassment a lot. They're just freaking adorable. Ennui is fun. Nostalgia's kinda whatever. I just wish those emotions had some more stuff to do.

Anxiety is the one in the spotlight here, and she's the best thing this film does. She's the Toy Story 2's Jessie of Inside Out 2. The whole film could only be about her and it would still be great. The way she looks and behaves is perfect. She's like Fear on steroids. I don't think I'll ever get over her very 70's sweater and bell bottom corduroys ensemble.

The only place the movie falls down is in some of its writing. A lot of the new characters we meet in the brain just don't work as comedic relief. The elements of the brain introduced in the first film were a lot more funny and creative. I like some of the new concepts and the animation on them is quite impressive, but the secret vault characters just don't really do much for me. The jokes were not nearly as sharp as in the original, and, in fact, the writing was overall less insightful and moving. The emotion characters from the first film, who I haven't even mentioned yet, do a serviceable job but don't develop or change in any huge way.

But I mean, generally it's a decent sequel. Definitely worth watching. It's just not as good as the first one. Maybe when they inevitably make the third one, the whole thing will get elevated there.

[talkedy]

After all of this time, Wreck it Ralph is my favorite Disney movie and one of my favorite films of all time, it still holds up each and every time I watch it. It's such a thorough love letter to video game culture while also being a great story on its own, the universe is so well made and the characters are great and the villain is fantastic... I'm so happy it never got a shitty cashgrabby sequel that butchered the characterizations of the original cast and made an originally timeless film be remembered as instantly dated and cringeworthy and stupid. I'm so happy the Wreck it Ralph series ended after the first movie.

[lonelydragon62]

One of my least favorites films with Ralph, but today I realized that he performed with Stanley Tucci before Conclave 😅😅😅

Ralph as Christopher Marshall in "Maid in Manhattan" (2002) 🛎

[sparklermun]

Hey there everyone, and welcome to night twenty-one of the tenth annual Wreck-it Ralph Pin Post Month!

Tonight we've got an exciting one! The WDI, Wedding Series, Sargent Calhoun & Fix-it Felix, Wreck-it Ralph pin. LE 300.

Here we have the ninth pin released in July 2024 for the Wedding Series! A small collection of pins featuring characters from Animated Disney or Pixar films that were married during their movie. With this pin featuring Sargent Calhoun and Fix-it Felix in their wedding attire. Likely in the middle of their "I dos" while gazing longingly at each other within the boundaries of a stained glass archway. Their names printed in flowing cursive along a waving banner, weaving around the archway on either side of them.

I've been excited to show off this pin all month as it's by far my favorite pin released this year. It's a beautiful pin; the gold of the archways, the elegance of the banner, the shimmer of the stained glass when held in the light. Then the details; the painted lines in Calhoun's hair, the golden hammers in the archway. Of course there's also the humor of Felix standing on that stool to comfortably hold Calhoun's hands. Every inch of this pin has something to bring a smile to my face, and I'm so glad that these two were added to this series. A little fun fact, this is actually the second Wedding series, where the first only included eight pins released in 2019. Now this entire series was remade with an entirely new design, with Felix and Calhoun joining as the new ninth pin. It makes me wonder if there'll be another rerelease in the future as this isn't the first time Disney's redone an old release. Which makes me excited for another wedding pin featuring these two again someday in the future.

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Night at the Museum: Redesigning Characters 2/4(?)

Character profile: Al "Scarface" "Snorky" Capone

This character is based off of and takes inspiration from the historical Al Capone.

Real Name: Alphonse "Al" Gabriel Capone

Nickname and Meaning: Scarface - He earned this nickname because of the three scars on the left side of his face, two on his cheek and one on his neck. Embarrassed by them, Al hates the nickname and never shared the real story of how he got them, siting that he actually got them fighting in WWI.

Snorky - Snorky was slang for sharp dresser. Al loved expensive, flashy clothes. Only close friends used it for him

Age: 26 (January 17, 1899)

Time Period: America's Prohibition in the 1920s, around mid-1925 Johnny Torrio, Al's boss, stepped down and let Al take over the Outfit.

Family: James "Jimmy" Vincenzo Capone, Raffaele "Ralph" James Capone, and Salvador "Frank" Capone + Three younger brothers and one sister that wasn't brought back.

(Headcanons under the cut)

Based on/taken from History:

Can play Banjo and Mandolin, prefers Mandolin

involved in the Five Points Gang with mobster John Torrio as a kid. John Torrio mentored him and gave him the role as the Chicago Mob leader

Only got into the mob for the money to care for his family

Can go from 1 to 10 very quickly

Played in a semi-pro team in Brooklyn as a kid/teen with Ralph. They were known as the Al Capone Stars

+ Intelligent + Generous + Confident - Overdramatic - Attention seeker - Petty

My own silly headcanons:

A little twerp, Al doesn’t respect authority

Feels that he’s better than Ivan and Napoleon because he’s from a newer generation and knows more.

“Okay boomer” vibes

Acts like he hates Napoleon and Ivan (mostly Napoleon), but likes them secretly. They are two men in history that did grand things- in fact he liked learning about Napoleon in school! Al just thinks he had a too big of a head.

Only has one tone of voice- really loud

Swears every other word

He’s a basically still a kid, one with too much power. Al knows his way around the mob, he’s been in it since he was around 15, but now he’s been given power over the Outfit and hasn’t come down off that high yet of being in charge.

Hes happy to have Frank back, they were four years apart in age and were extremely close. He’s missed Frank the year he’s been dead

Was extremely tempted to play baseball using the Einstein’s as balls. He doesn’t like them.

On that note, Al is slightly unnerved around the miniatures. He doesn’t seem to know what to do with himself around them.

He likes sitting at the bench in middle of the hall of miniatures just watching them. Al liked Cowboys and liked playing cowboys and robbers with his brothers as a kid. Some part of him wishes he could be part of their group.

After finding the Sinatra songs made after Al died, he’s constantly found humming them and making up his own lyrics to go along with them. He likes That’s Life the best.

Al somehow acquires a camcorder and films the whole night that they’re trying to take over the world, making himself a big star and part of the plan. He wants that stardom, he loved it when he was alive – he was just getting a part of it when he was alive

Really loves making up nicknames and short stories for people around him. One of his favorite things to do with Ralph is people-watch.

Al: I don’t like Napoleon! He’s a fuckin’.. fuckin’ bitch! A short ass goblin! Ralph: Yeah.. goblin’ that dick. Frank: MMHHEHEHAHAHAHAHAAH!!! Al: What.

Makes jokes about Napoleon and his boys being gay because he's frightened about questioning his own sexuality. He knows he likes women, but he's got that good ol' "1910's Christian beat the gay away" ideal still stuck in his head. It takes a bit for Al to realize he's bi

Loves giving gifts

He likes having at least one of his brothers by his side. Historically it's been Ralph, but during the events that take place during NATM 2, Al kept Frank close because he was frightened of loosing him again.

Frank, Ralph, Napoleon