#nolan felicity

[mynameis-gloria]

Oppenheimer, 29 agosto 2023

Parere a caldissimo: Opera gigantesca, epocale, spaventosamente meravigliosa

[denimbex1986]

'It's been a few good weeks for the movies, and Oppenheimer is still rocking movie theaters everywhere with the tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), the so-called "father of the atomic bomb." Christopher Nolan's biopic shows how the nuclear physicist saw his creation have its purposes twisted and used to kill thousands of innocent people until he became an advocate against it. But a similar story has already been told in theaters, one set a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. If you're not connecting the dots, we're talking about Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and one of its main characters, Galen Erso (Mads Mikkelsen).

Although the 2016 prequel to A New Hope is mostly focused on the ragtag band of rebels that stole the Death Star plans from the Empire, it also tells a little about how the planet-killing super weapon came to be, along with the companion novel, Catalyst: A Rogue One Story. Like the bombs created by Oppenheimer, the Death Star is also the ultimate destructive power, capable of literally destroying worlds. Its purpose was not only military but also political, as the Empire expected systems to fall in line, as much as the U.S. government expected atomic power to ultimately be exclusive to them.

The Tragedy of Oppenheimer Was the Inspiration for ‘Rogue One’

The original idea for what would eventually become Rogue One came from legendary ILM visual effects supervisor John Knoll, who's been working on Star Wars since the Prequel Trilogy. His first treatment for the story was named "Destroyer of Worlds", inspired by the Hindu verses that Oppenheimer famously used to express his regret at developing the atomic bomb. Although the idea for the movie was to ultimately depict the stealing of the Death Star plans by Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) and the Rogue One team, the key to the development of the movie was her father, Galen Erso.

The story in itself already sets the highest possible stakes — if Jyn doesn't succeed, entire planets could be destroyed by the Empire using the Death Star — but it also needed to carry emotional weight, and that's where Galen comes in. His role is to serve as a motivation for Jyn to join the mission with the Rebels, but he also has his own story arc as a scientist who has his research twisted and weaponized by the Empire. A kyber crystal researcher, he is responsible for the design and production of the Death Star super laser, powered by the Force-attuned gems.

A few years before Knoll pitched his idea to Lucasfilm, Gareth Edwards was a visual effects artist on a BBC documentary called Hiroshima, which came out in 2005. Edwards would eventually take the job as Rogue One director, but his work on Hiroshima gave him plenty of historical knowledge about this part of World War II, including the development of the atomic bomb by Oppenheimer. In line with the core idea of Knoll's, the production got the codename "Los Alamos," a direct reference to the location where Oppenheimer and his team of physicists worked on Project Manhattan.

With those guidelines, the story of Rogue One was developed with the parallel between the Death Star and the atomic bomb in mind. Both are super weapons of planet-killing capabilities, designed by men who may have joined such projects with the best of intentions, but ended up bitterly regretting their involvement once their true destructive powers were revealed. As Galen says in his holographic message to Jyn, "There's no better name" for the Death Star, and his words are a sort of parallel to Oppenheimer's "destroyer of worlds" quote because that's what he ended up becoming.

‘Star Wars’ Often Draws Inspiration From Archetypes Like Oppenheimer

The parallel between Galen Erso and J. Robert Oppenheimer is certainly an interesting one to draw inspiration from, and it's something that only someone who's been a long-time fan of Star Wars like John Knoll could come up with. We know all the cinematic and artistic influences behind George Lucas' vision for the franchise back in the late 1970s, as well as the political parallels with the war in Vietnam, but World War II has also been a constant source of ideas for the movies, from starship design and general aesthetic to whole action sequences, like the Death Star trench run in A New Hope.

Only what makes J. Robert Oppenheimer a good inspiration isn't necessarily the fact that the better part of his tragedy took place mostly during World War II, but that he ultimately became a sort of mythical archetype himself. As Rian Johnson once wisely put it, "Myths are made to reflect the most difficult transitions we go through," and, in that sense, Oppenheimer is more than a cautionary tale, his tragedy is a modern adaptation of the myth of Prometheus, who stole the fire from the gods and was later forced to spend eternity suffering as a consequence (in fact, Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer script is even based on a biography titled American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer). The mythical qualities of his story are what makes it appealing to Star Wars, it's the kind of framework the franchise has always used to build its narrative and characters.

Galen Erso's story may have a few key differences when compared to Oppenheimer's, of course. For example, he ended up dying before witnessing the destruction his creation could unleash, and he still managed to quietly undermine the Death Star by laying a trap beneath all the destructive power it boasted on the surface. Oppenheimer was indeed deemed a traitor by some due to his "communist connections", as Galen was later discovered by Orson Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn), and he did become an activist against nuclear power, but this is far from causing the same consequences as Galen's trap, unfortunately. But what matters for Star Wars is the similarities between them, as much as the historical and mythical qualities carried by Oppenheimer. It's no surprise that John Knoll would come up with this sort of parallel, it takes a fan to see this kind of thing between the lines of real history and work it creatively into a new story.'

[rayfishandchips]

Glee is the last link ,it's all coming together for me now

Ok so I'm bad with recognizing actors, but I started paying attention after THAT moment when I realized the music meister is Blaine Anderson.

Now everything is related to everything else.

Camilla is rent OBC's mimi, Vaggie is Mirable from Encanto aka Rosa from b99. Hazbin Lucifer is in the flash musial episode and also in SMASH, the music meister is Blaine Anderson who also happens to be St. Peter in Hazbin, Sebastian Smythe and Marley Rose fights the music meister (aka Blaine Anderson with diffrent hair) as the flash and supergirl, Hunter Clarington is Felicity's ex bf in Arrow, Carlos Valdes have a musical background, the guys that wrote dear evan hansen and lala land wrote running home to you, John Barrowman is here for some reason as a mafia boss, John Simm (the master) collaborated with Nolan Funk in a show once, and Hunter Clarington is in a nickelodeon show similar to high school musical called spectacular that somehow showed up on my youtube dash(honorable mention).

Is this chaos? Yes. Is it fun? Yes.

You can really see how chaotic my media consumption is.

[selfsabotaqe]

hi everyone! it's been a while & finally i'm making my comeback. work has finally left me some room to breathe so i'll be reappearing on your dash and hopefully getting back into the swing of replies. down below there's a full list of everything currently in my drafts. please let me know whether you'd like to continue or drop these threads. whichever scenario is completely fine and understandable (it's been a hot sec after all), just let me know. if you'd prefer to start something new, we can also do that. feel free to message me or reply to this post anytime. there's no rush at all to make up your mind, but just to start off i'll start with replies for threads people do actively express interest in. so if anything from this list is something you're still excited about, let me know and i'll prioritize. we can always waitlist the other stuff while we feel it out. anyway, let me know, come chat, let me love u down and can't wait to continue writing together. love u all! 💗🥹

with @persephonyed. carlos x lorenzo marley x camille

with @silvrmoon. nadiye x milo axel x kadri zehra x sierra

with @lilacwiine. drew x felice amara x maya

with @invcntions. alec x lucas mateo x saxon devrim x leo beau x koa emre x noah luca x jaiden (smth new?) jesse x finn peyton x vance soren x lincoln

with @horrorphase. dominic x percy milan x kendall

with @slumpcd. max x theo kendall x nolan jinny x gwen

with @gcldcnhour. eden x mathias rhys x bodie isabel x tate alina x priya zoe x knox ethan x violet marisol x miriam

with @temptedfates. emmett x aydin noor x solana

with @spectraled. maddie x rory tbd x dallas (thought abt replying if u would like replies <3)

with @vacationeyes. marco x conrad julian x callum emre x frankie xavier x tyson jude x forest

with @lovecharged. jonas x antonio aleksei x drake bridie x quilo tbd x amie jonas x antonio (part two) julian x zayn felix x robin nadiye x rasim tatum x uziah carlos x gabriel

with @fruitpoem. ambar x joel

with @inkiidreams. aera x selin davika x esra carlos x mallory merve x yaritza robin x aurelia lais x nova casper x knox lachlan x olivia

with @wutheringdevotion. lachlan x oliver rowan x ginny connor x evan meera x monique carlos x gabriel gwen x jonah margot x adrian

with @gardenwalls. meera x paloma alec x mack naiyana x nadine daniel x minako laura x andrea fabien x mei li nazli x rhys

with @felteverywhere. alina x rowan

with @sunstvne. santiago x constantin

with @gvngsigns. gabriela x lucas kai x mateo florence x liam tobias x zuri andrea x cruz ricardo x vincent

with @scbrvght. all of our formula one threads (don't think i owe u the replies but let me know if you'd like to continue them <3) lale x finley soren x everly

mAYBE im missing things. if there's anything i owe you that isn't on this list, feel free to point it out to me! and also vice versa, if you owe me something & you want to discuss continuing or dropping it, just come message me and we can chat about it!

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Convergence: Prologue

by Thelastuser What if the DCEU and Arrowverse merged to create a new universe called Earth-Prime? What if this change was orchestrated by Lex Luthor? In this story, Lex embarks on a multiversal crusade to eliminate all Supermen. When he encounters the DCEU's Superman, he finds himself struggling to defeat him, unlike his previous opponents. The situation worsens when Wonder Woman and Batman get involved. Realizing that defeating this Superman is a lost cause, Lex escapes. As the Crisis unfolds, Lex when making himself a paragon, decides to force the heroes to become paragons as well. These heroes, who have never known about the multiverse, must now fight to protect it. Words: 1475, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Series: Part 1 of DC Universe Storylines Fandoms: Man of Steel (2013), Arrow (TV 2012), The Flash (TV 2014), Wonder Woman (Movies - Jenkins), Batman (Movies - Nolan), Supergirl (TV 2015), DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV), Batwoman (TV 2019), DC Extended Universe, Justice League (2017) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Categories: F/F, F/M Characters: Oliver Queen, Barry Allen, Clark Kent, Lex Luthor, Kara Danvers, Bruce Wayne, Diana (Wonder Woman), Sara Lance, Alternate Earth Lex Luthor, J'onn J'onzz | Hank Henshaw, Ryan Choi, Earth-167 Clark Kent (CW DC TV Universe), Kate Kane, Lena Luthor, Hippolyta (Wonder Woman), Jor-El, Lara Lor-Van, Alex Danvers, Zor-El, Alura In-Ze | Alura Zor-El, Astra (Supergirl TV 2015), Thomas Wayne, Martha Wayne, Lionel Luthor, Henry Allen, Nora Allen, Antiope (Wonder Woman), Alfred Pennyworth Relationships: Clark Kent/Lois Lane, Barry Allen/Iris West, Oliver Queen/Felicity Smoak, Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor, Diana (Wonder Woman) & Bruce Wayne Additional Tags: Crisis on Infinite Earths Crossover Event (CW DC TV Universe), Post-Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) via https://ift.tt/P5GMFzO

[chellescripts]

Orange Generation Lookbook

Odessa's style is all things Halloween. This holiday has mischief and mayhem plus lots of sweets, what's not to like? She has a range of witchy dresses, anything that screams trick or treat, and pumpkin shirts of course.

CC List:

Hair:  Nebula Hair + Noelle Hair Skin: Strudel Eyes: Felicity Eyelashes: 3D eyelashes Shoes: Madame’s Mary Janes

Everyday: 1: Tansy Trappings 2: Constance Dress 3: Witchy Dress 4: Salem Blouse // Corduroy Pants

Formal: 5: Anabelle Dress // Confetti Veil // Metalic Choker // Midnight Earrings 6: Ghostly Gown

Athletic: 7: Freesia Zipped Top

Sleepwear: 8: Tricker Treater Graphic Top

Swimwear: 9: Sun & Moon Two Piece

Party: 10: Madame’s Mystique Dress 11: Sun Dress 12: Simblreen Dress, Tights 13: Elvira Mini Dress // Fishnet Tights // Luna Boots

Hot Weather: 14: Medusa Dress 15: La Lune 16: Fredericka Crop Top // Corduroy Shorts

Cold Weather: 17: Ursula Robe // Corduroy Pants 18: Ribbed Turtleneck Dress

Credits: [Sincerity, Enchantment, Miracle, Eternity by @clumsyalienn] [October 2021 Collection by @sentate] [Simblreen 2018, 2019, 2021 Collections by @nolan-sims] [The Midnight Collection 2020 by @arethabee x @aladdin-the-simmer]

@lamatisse @aveirasims @miikocc @trillyke @savvysweet @akalukery @joliebean @aharris00britney @MsBeary @mmoutfitters

Baia Legacy // Previous // Next

[cityofruinrp]

With our masquerade event now over, please see below for a list of the current key items now in play and who they belong to! You may also find this list on our key items page for easy referencing or on the spreadsheet linked in our discord. Our skeleton keys earned by posting an outfit for the masquerade event will be found only on the spreadsheet!

Sleeping Potion The sleeping potion is a milky white odorless potion that will make someone fall to sleep for 12 hours after ingesting.

Held By: Grace Xiong, Cyrus Ripley, Madison Paige, August Choi, Eliza Holloway, Aoife O'Sullivan, Chamomile Greensmith, Annalise Halstead, Rose Halstead, Marcia Cruz, Vera Montgomery, Thomas Skinner, Morgan Moss, Nolan Thatcher

Potion of Poison The poison will induce stomach flu like symptoms after ingesting, and lasts for 12 hours. 

Held By: Valka Hadley, Aurelia Kennedy, Desmona Atticus, Lara Rivkin, Nikko Atticus, Arte Ryan, Blair Davenport, Anika Booker, Mila Nivokova, Cordelia Verges, Vanessa Koblizka, Felicity van Brunt, Nsilo Castillon, Hester Lomidze, Talullah Kia, Zane Patel, Chamomile Greensmith, Reid Halstead, Nadia Holme, Syndra Ashburn, Elias Hunt, August Choi, Eliza Holloway, Mavi Badem, Aviel Gillinski, Theodora Blackthorn, Dahlia Alcott, Nikko Atticus, Freyja Carter, Heron Yearwood, Annalise Halstead, Willow Raya

Red Gemstone Can be exchanged for a favor with the Vampire Council. 

Held By: Lara Rivkin, Vicente Rosas, Lucia Mazzoni, Grace Xiong, Cameron McCormick, Nadia Holme, Elyse Kerr, Cordelia Verges, Desmona Atticus, Markus de Villiers, Ezra Lomidze, Orphia Sinclair, Lilia Noallies, Matteo Lazkano, Annika Booker, Nisha Eleazar, Theodora Blackthorn, Nsilo Castillon, Tomas Priestley, Freyja Carter, Zane Patel, Liam Slater, Felicity van Brunt, Aoife O'Sullivan, Asa Holland, Aviel Gillinski, Remi Felix, Oz Saffet, Jac Feng, Kevin Ma, Dahlia Alcott, Michael Booker, Kore Matsui, Valka Hadley, Cyrus Ripley, Ash Blythe, Elias King, Birdie Templeton, Syndra Ashburn, Tallulah Kia, Blair Davenport, Aurelia Kennedy, Chamomile Greensmith, Vanessa Koblizka, Tressa Shaw, Rafael Garza, Natasha Kassin, Svetlana Lomidze, Narcisse LeBlanc, Nicole Stueck, Eric Honeyfield, Apsara Urvashi, Annalise Halstead, Willow Raya, Malcolm Deveraux, Marcia Cruz, Eliza Holloway, Dani Feng, Vera Montgomery

Blue Gemstone Can be exchanged for a favor from the hunters. 

Held By: Hester Lomidze, Laure Stephens, Madison Paige, Rose Halstead, Morgan Moss, Autumn Howell, Aria Boughton, Nikko Atticus, August Choi, Mila Nivokova, Reid Halstead, Thomas Skinner, Heron Yearwood, Harley Hunt, Arte Ryan, Kelly Kane

Clairvoyance Potion This potion allows the user to scry on any location or person. The duration of the potion’s effect lasts for an hour.  

Held By: Birdie Templeton, Aria Boughton, Nisha Eleazar

Duality Potion This potion must be imbibed by two separate witches. After consuming, the two witches will be able to swap powers for 12 hours. 

Held By: Grace Xiong, Eric Honeyfield

Moonbane Talisman This talisman allows werewolves to turn during the full moon without any pain - thus making the transformation much quicker (30 minutes). After one full moon, the talisman shatters.  

Held By: Felicity van Brunt, Theo Blackthorn

Enhanced Strength Potion For one hour, after ingesting, the user is filled with strength equivalent to a vampire’s. 

Held By: Valka Hadley

Invisibility Potion For one hour, after ingesting, the user is completely invisible - including their clothing. 

Held By: Autumn Howell, Elyse Kerr, Morgan Moss

[littleedragen]

The Happiness of Felicity [The Rookie Fanfic]

- What if Lucy Chen was a mother? She has Daughter named Felicity

(CH 3/?)

Chapters: 3/? Fandom: The Rookie (TV 2018) Rating: Family Fluff Relationships: Tim Bradford/Lucy Chen Characters: Tim Bradford, Lucy Chen (newcomer), OC, Angela Lopez, Jackson West, John Nolan (newcomer), Talia Bishop, Nyla Harper, Percy West, Wade Gray Additional Tags: Canon-specific violence, Alternate universe - Canon Divergence, Fluff, Family Fluff.

[manyfandomocs]

Speak Now [Taylor Swift]

Okay this has been 75% completed in my inbox long enough so I'm not doing the vault tracks as initially planned but! Just lmk if you do wanna see the vaults

also I am apparently so attached to assigning Enchanted to ships I should just do an edit series for couples. And Innocent was so hard to assign

Mine ; Thomas Mayfair (with Brady Mariano @randomestfandoms-ocs ), Ashton Daniels (with Blaine Anderson), Emmeline Fitzherbert (with Mal), Cassidy Fuchs (with Grace Chasity)

Sparks Fly ; Ruby Fitzherbert (with Evie), Natalia Finch (with Obie Bergmann)

Back To December ; Ashton Daniels (with Sam Evans), Sebastian Van Wyck (with Henry, pre-RWRB), Katherine Keller (young with FP Jones)

Speak Now ; Tiffany Holloway (with Max Jägerman), Jasmine Teller (with Jess Mariano), Robin Davidson (with Betsy McDonough), Theodosia Fortescue (with Colin Bridgerton), Sampson Lockhart (with Arabella Kingsley)

Dear John ; Belladonna Callow (with Malachi), Gabriel Legume (with the unnamed ex), Genevieve Sterling (with Hiram Lodge)

Mean ; Felicity Moore, Cassidy Fuchs, CJ Kelly

The Story Of Us ; Genevieve Sterling (with Hiram Lodge), Steve Schuester (with Jesse St James), Serafina Hollander (with Tristan Dugray), Solana Reed (with Val), Carrie Ryan (with Noah Puckerman)

Never Grow Up ; Chloe Brown (with Eloise Sol @randomestfandoms-ocs ), Lottie Tyler (with Rose Tyler), Silas Green (with Hannah Foster)

Enchanted ; Leticia Beaumont (with Colin Bridgerton), Arabella Kingsley (with Sampson Lockhart), Calliope Angelos (with Nora Holleran), Kendall Frost (with Beatrice Mountchristen-Windsor), Cassie Rose (with Annabeth Chase), Vincent James (with Jenny Banks), Tamora Snow (with Lucy Gray Baird), Charles Pond (with Clara Oswald), Odelia Roth (with David Nolan & Odessa Pavlova)

Better Than Revenge ; Gabriel Legume (with Ben, Audrey's POV), Delilah Curdle (@ Betty Cooper), Catalina Cabrera (with Dan Humphrey, Serena's POV), Carrie Ryan (honestly this is just Rachel @ Carrie for all of their shared boyfriends)

Innocent ; Chloe Brown, Ginevra Gothel

Haunted ; Carrie Ryan (with Noah Puckerman), Steve Schuester (with Jesse St James), Wrenley Daring (with Jay), Gabriel Legume (with Harry Hook), Victor Chase (with Billy Loomis), Lorelai Cooper (with Chuck Clayton)

Last Kiss ; Steve Schuester (with Jesse St James), Carrie Ryan (with Sam Evans), Ashton Daniels (with Sam Evans), Thomas Mayfair (with Lane Kim), Tiffany Holloway (with Max Jägerman in most timelines), Catalina Cabrera (with Nate Archibald)

Long Live ; Sage Rowe, Nathan Price, Ashton Daniels, Carrie Ryan, Silas Green, Cassidy Fuchs, Ivy Perkins, Abigail James, Felicity Moore, Zeke Beiste

Ours ; Arabella Kingsley (with Sampson Lockhart), Karina Jimenez (with Brittany Pierce), Felix Dosier (with Finn Hudson), Ashton Daniels (with Blaine Anderson), Gabriel Legume (with Ben), Theo Gleason (with Jess Mariano)

Superman ; Carrie Ryan (with Jesse St James), Silas Green (with Lex Foster), Sebastian Van Wyck (with Henry Hanover-Stuart-Fox, pre RWRB), Katherine Keller (with FP Jones), Madeline Stevens (with Frank Delfino)

Send me an album and, if I know the artist, I will try to associate to every song an oc/ship/crossover

[randomfoggytiger]

Tagged by @amplifyme-- thanks!

Top 10 favorite movies

We share a lot of favorites here (Silence of the Lambs and FTF and The Mummy, for instance); but I'll shake it up and pick different favorites.

The Village

Good Will Hunting

An Ideal Husband (1999)

Ever After (1998)

Most Scooby Doo or Barbie movies

(Why not?) American Girl Felicity movie

Terminator 2/Predator/True Lies

Indiana Jones 1-3 or Star Wars 4-6

Christopher Nolan Batman

Any Old Disney movie

Tagging any and all (exhausted from previous tags post~.)

[pattinsonworld]

Entrevista y fotos via RPAustralia

Traducción pattinsonworld

Aquí está la entrevista completa de Alexandra Jones (quien me comentó en Instagram que Rob “fue realmente genial, ¡muy divertido!”) y 5 fotos nuevas gracias a Louie Banks. De Evening Standard 

Aunque tiene una gorra de béisbol calada hasta los ojos después de haber estado despierto desde las 4 a.m., ahora son las 7 p.m., cuando me encuentro cara a cara con  Robert Pattinson  , rápidamente me asegura que está totalmente bien. El hecho de levantarse temprano se debe a que está en medio del rodaje de una nueva película: una película por la que está extremadamente entusiasmado.

"Es con el  director  de Parasite  , Bong Joon-ho  , y no se parece a nada que haya hecho antes", dice. "La  película  es tan loca, es un estilo de trabajo completamente diferente". En la película —  Mickey 17, basada en una novela de ciencia ficción distópica de Edward Ashton: Pattinson interpreta dos versiones de sí mismo (ambos clones) que se unen para trabajar juntos. "Es mucho hablar", dice. Se ha estado hospedando en un pequeño hotel en Bedford cerca de un gran hangar del aeropuerto donde han construido el set. Por las noches ha vuelto a su habitación, cada vez más preocupado de que pueda estar embrujada. "De todos modos, hoy me di cuenta de que probablemente no estoy viendo fantasmas, probablemente sea solo porque he estado bebiendo alrededor de 17 tazas de café al día". Entonces, para confirmar: Robert Pattinson no se está volviendo loco, solo está muy, muy cansado.

Durante mucho tiempo, Pattinson ha sido uno de los actores de carácter más interesantes de su generación. Más recientemente, ha regresado al territorio de los éxitos de taquilla como un Bruce Wayne agradablemente fuera de lo común en The Batman. En la década anterior, perfeccionó su oficio en los circuitos independientes y de arte y ensayo, a menudo interpretando a los bajos fondos, a los bichos raros y a los pelos de punta para algunos de los directores más respetados del mundo (David Cronenberg y Christopher Nolan entre ellos). Mi favorito personalmente es Pattinson como el estafador callejero profundamente antipático Connie en la frenética película de los hermanos Safdie, Good Time. Te olvidas de que estás viendo a un hombre que alguna vez fue considerado el rompecorazones adolescente más guapo del mundo, que es básicamente el punto.

Pero de todos modos, está aquí en su calidad de embajador de la fragancia Dior, ya que la casa de moda relanza Dior Homme Sport y agrega una crema de afeitar a la línea más vendida. Ha trabajado con la marca durante 10 años felices, tanto que ahora me dice que se ha hecho muy amigo de muchas de las personas de la empresa. Ni siquiera lo digo para ser agradable. Ha sido una de las experiencias laborales y personales más agradables que he tenido en mi vida.' En cuanto a la fragancia, dice que es malo para identificar cuáles son sus olores favoritos, "pero, quiero decir, es un poco cursi, si estás enamorado de alguien, su olor se vuelve muy particular para ti... así que sí, algo como 'novia en bata'.' Su novia es la modelo y música Suki Waterhouse.

Lo que más le gusta de trabajar con Dior son las oportunidades que le ha brindado, dice. En el último anuncio de la fragancia Dior Homme, tuvo la oportunidad de enfrentarse a uno de sus mayores miedos y bailar en público. 'Pensé que había roto mi maldición cuando hice esa escena [en la que Pattinson realiza un shimmy exuberante y despreocupado]. Pero luego fui a una fiesta unas semanas después, pensando que era como Billy Elliot y tan pronto como di un paso en la pista de baile tuve uno de los ataques de pánico más grandes de mi vida. Sabes cuando crees que eres ese tipo y luego, de repente, te sientes brutalmente humillado. Sí, se sentía como si mi papá me hubiera pillado disfrutando de andar en auto. me quedé helado; Creo que me fui de la fiesta después de eso. Pattinson ha hablado en el pasado sobre el hecho de que se siente incómodo siendo el centro de atención y que no le gustan las multitudes.

Actuar parece una elección de carrera extraña para alguien con estas aversiones particulares, aunque, presumiblemente, no esperaba inspirar una lujuria tan rabiosa en aproximadamente la mitad de los adolescentes del mundo. Quizás la instantánea menos filtrada que obtenemos de sus puntos de vista sobre la fama es a través de Miedo y vergüenza, el corto de comedia de tres minutos que escribió y protagonizó en 2017. En la película, una celebridad hambrienta se encuentra en una espiral descendente neurótica mientras corre por Nueva York en busca de un perrito caliente. Mientras trata de evadir los aullidos de los paparazzi y evitar ser visto ("Ese es Teen Wolf", dice un transeúnte. "Definitivamente se está burlando de ti", responde el monólogo interno de Pattinson), tienes una idea de la claustrofobia y la paranoia que una persona en esa posición. podría experimentar.

Problemáticamente, él es realmente atractivo. Incluso con un sueño mínimo, Pattinson es lo suficientemente guapo como para hacerte sonrojar (y yo ni siquiera era parte del Equipo Edward en el pasado): de mandíbula afilada y leonino, también es modesto y autocrítico. En la sesión de fotos para este número, entró con tan poca fanfarria (agarrando una bolsa de por vida con un diseño de perro con su almuerzo dentro) que al principio nadie se dio cuenta de que había llegado. Se movió por la habitación, estrechando la mano de todos, diciendo 'hola' a cada miembro de la tripulación de turno. No es exactamente encantador, en esa manera suave de Los Ángeles, es demasiado inglés e inquieto (vapea durante toda la entrevista, no es un vape con sabor, me dice, está tratando de dejarlo), pero es divertido. No es algo que esperaba, rara vez lo lees sobre él, pero todo lo que dice tiene una inflexión perversamente irónica. Tiene buen ojo para el absurdo (ver de nuevo: Miedo y vergüenza) y se ríe rápidamente, a menudo de sí mismo. En los días previos a nuestra entrevista, me encuentro con varias personas que lo conocen o que lo han conocido, todos ofrecen reseñas estelares. La escritora de sucesos Lucy Prebble, por ejemplo, se entusiasma con él; no son muy cercanos, pero se han visto varias veces y él es muy divertido, me dice, bueno para salir por la noche.

No puedo decirles cuál es la ecuación que significa que un actor candente termina catalogado como un 'actor serio' mientras que otro es descartado como un mero 'dulce para la vista', pero Pattinson ciertamente no es el primero en encontrar frustrante su lote asignado. . A principios de este año, Alexander Skarsgård dijo que después de su primer trabajo, terminó en una 'estúpida lista de "chicos sexys"' y luego nadie lo tomó en serio. En el pasado, Pattinson ha hablado sobre resistir la presión de ser definido para sus papeles, incluido Batman. Era una broma, dice ('aunque me metí en muchos problemas por decir que no hago ejercicio, incluso de mi entrenador, que dijo: "¿Por qué dices eso?") pero ciertamente insinúa su malestar por ser visto como un símbolo sexual. También es, señala,

Broma o no, sus citas arrojaron luz sobre la presión que enfrentan los hombres para verse de cierta manera, una presión que se ha estado filtrando constantemente a los niños cada vez más jóvenes. "Sí, es una locura", dice. "Y también es muy, muy fácil caer en ese patrón, incluso si solo estás observando tu ingesta de calorías, es extraordinariamente adictivo, y no te das cuenta de lo insidioso que es hasta que es demasiado tarde". Pattinson dice que nunca ha tenido problemas con la imagen corporal, 'pero básicamente he probado todas las modas que se te ocurren, todo excepto la consistencia. Una vez comí nada más que papas durante dos semanas, como una desintoxicación. Sólo patatas hervidas y sal rosa del Himalaya. Aparentemente es una limpieza... definitivamente pierdes peso. Y traté de hacer esto una vez. Yo estaba como, "Oh, ¿Hay una dieta en la que solo comes tablas de charcutería y queso todo el tiempo? Pero no me di cuenta de que no puedes tomar cerveza, ya que anula por completo el propósito. Una de sus resoluciones para 2023 es probar la consistencia y conseguir un perro. “Pasé tantas horas mirando fotos de diferentes perros, quiero decir literalmente durante meses y meses, así que si no obtengo uno, será una pérdida de tiempo colosal”. Quiero decir, realmente entré. Me dice que prefiere la variedad desaliñada y enana.

Es divertido que en la próxima película interprete a clones de sí mismo porque hay un comercio saludable de falsificaciones profundas de Robert Pattinson en las redes sociales. "Lo sé, es aterrador", dice. 'La cantidad de personas que me conocen bastante bien y todavía dirán: "¿Por qué estás haciendo estos videos de baile extraños en TikTok?" Es realmente extraño. Simplemente te das cuenta de que estamos a dos años de que sea indistinguible de la realidad, y ¿qué diablos voy a hacer como trabajo entonces?

A pesar de un horario tan intenso que raya en la psique – delicia, me dice que todavía le preocupa de dónde vendrá el próximo trabajo. "Hay algo en mí que es muy, muy profundo y hace que la idea de tomarme unas vacaciones parezca imposible... Me descubro pensando: 'No, tengo que seguir trabajando, tengo que seguir trabajando todo el tiempo, esto podría ser mi última oportunidad, tengo que ahorrar para un día lluvioso.

Es genético. Mi papá siempre fue malo para tomarse vacaciones”, continúa. "A él siempre le encantaría, pero recuerdo que incluso cuando era un niño muy pequeño, siempre había lágrimas la noche anterior, decía: 'Solo vete sin mí, solo vete sin mí'".

Pronto, sin embargo, me dice mientras terminamos, llegará su hora de tomarse un tiempo libre. "Y mientras tanto", sonríe, "estaré aquí luchando con el demonio fantasma".

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'But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die (Gen 2:17).

High in the sky on August 9, 1945, two B29s circled above the southern part of Japan. One of them was getting ready to drop a plutonium bomb dubbed “the Fat Man.” But it had developed a malfunction with its fuel pump, so after cloud cover made the military target of Kokura impossible, it was becoming urgent to shed its payload. This is how the second nuclear weapon ever used was detonated right over the heart of the most Catholic area of Japan, Urakami, significantly north of Nagasaki city and the Mitsubishi plant that was meant to be targeted. The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, painstakingly built by descendants of the persecuted Christians at the end of the nineteenth century on the very site where their forebears had been interrogated, was destroyed. The spiritual heirs to the twenty-six sixteenth-century martyrs of Nagasaki, along with their non-Christian compatriots, were vaporized, scorched, left homeless.

In Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Oppenheimer, someone states that the first bomb must be dropped in order to show the enemy what America was capable of. But the second bomb would demonstrate the will to keep dropping them, if necessary. For a Catholic, the question nags: where does Just War Theory get to raise its hand in all this? The nobler motives of the scientists working on the Manhattan Project had to do with ending war, not perpetuating it. “Is it big enough?” Niels Bohr asks the director of the project, Robert Oppenheimer. Meaning: will it make a sufficient impression to end the war, once and for all?

From its first reference to Prometheus, punished by the gods for stealing fire and giving it to man, Oppenheimer is punctuated by mythical and religious references (the book on which the film is based is entitled American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer). Perhaps the most disturbing of these are the words from the Bhagavad Gita, spoken by Vishnu to the warrior Arjuna, with which the father of the atomic bomb is said to have marked the successful detonation of the first nuclear test at Los Alamos in July 1945: “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” An article on the Los Alamos website insists that Oppenheimer saw himself not as the god, but as the stricken hero, reluctant to go to war but obliged to do so. “To uphold dharma, the power which upholds the cosmos and society, Arjuna must do his duty, which is fight.”

In Nolan’s film, the human representative of Lord Vishnu—his high-priest, you might say—is Lieutenant General Leslie Groves, played with gruff conviction by Matt Damon. It is Groves who, after corralling the country’s most brilliant minds in a two-year effort to build a nuclear weapon before Nazi Germany could, gives Oppenheimer an immovable deadline. They had to have conclusive evidence of the atom bomb’s viability before the Yalta Conference in July 1945. By now Hitler had been defeated. So, what was the purpose of continuing with the project? The ends that justified the means were already being reconfigured.

Batter my heart, three person’d God. It is said (and the film references this) that Oppenheimer chose the code name “Trinity” for the first atomic test because of the John Donne poem that opens with these words. The unconscious depths from which the name arose in Oppenheimer’s mind are not available to us; but the poetry of Donne, with its tension between the sacred and the profane, was something that he shared with his former mistress, Jean Tatlock. At the time Oppenheimer dubbed the world-shattering event in the New Mexican desert with this most Christian of epithets, Jean had been dead for eighteen months. She had committed suicide. The hold of Tatlock on Oppenheimer’s psyche is something that Nolan takes pains to point up. The first time the viewer hears the famous words from the Bhagavad Gita is during their early sexual encounter.

What do you do with the snake you find, after you turn over the stone? This image is first raised by Neils Bohr in Cambridge, where the youthful Oppenheimer has apparently tried to kill his tutor with a poisoned apple. Whatever the truth behind this strange episode (it is apparently a story Oppenheimer told against himself), Nolan presents his Promethean protagonist as an obsessive visionary. Cillian Murphy’s intense and often disturbing performance drives this home. “Gravity gets to swallow everything,” as Oppenheimer says of the imploding stars that lead to black holes.

Later in the film, prompted by Bohr’s words about the serpent unleashed, Oppenheimer tries to rein in the consequences of the discovery he has helped to instrumentalize. This does not sit well with Cold War exigencies. Enter Lewis Strauss (a subtly psychopathic Robert Downey Junior), in whom wounded vanity combined with political ambition compel him to use Oppenheimer’s leftist history to destroy him. He succeeds, but is then hoisted on his own petard.

By the time we get to the end of the film, we have been drenched in every kind of power-play imaginable. While Cillian Murphy’s performance conveys the conscience-stricken horror gradually unfolding in Oppenheimer’s mind, Nolan draws his narrative arc to a close with the man, and only the man. Simultaneously on the cover of Time magazine, whilst being mocked by President Truman for speaking about having blood on his hands, the story ends in the corridors of power. As Strauss puts it: “Survival in Washington is about knowing how to get things done.”

*** Back on the ground, between the sixth and the ninth of August 1945, more than a hundred and twenty thousand Japanese civilians died immediately as the result of those two bombs, which we see leaving Los Alamos in their wooden packing cases. Hundreds of thousands died later of radiation poisoning, then cancer and other diseases resulting from the nuclear fallout. Then of course there were the victims of the atomic testing itself. Chris Nolan has referred to the geographical location of the Manhattan Project as “the desolation of where they built Los Alamos.” In fact, this was not a totally unpopulated area. The fallout from the first atomic test, not to mention the subsequent ones, affected the seemingly invisible inhabitants of the New Mexico desert. Hispanic farmers who kept sheep on the land, Navajo Indians whose territory it actually was (there is a fleeting reference to this in the film when a chastened, more circumspect Oppenheimer suggests giving the area “back to the Indians”). Not to mention wildlife. All these suffered the consequences of the atomic tests—and the rural communities went, for the most part, without compensation.

There is another film that I watched in the same week as I watched Oppenheimer, which has a somewhat different take on how the powerless suffer at the hands of worldly power. This is Alice Rohrwacher’s 2018 Lazzaro Felice (Happy as Lazzaro). The film depicts another isolated and impoverished rural community, enslaved as unpaid tobacco growers by the local land-owner (chain-smoking is the one thing that runs through both films).

It is only when the landowner’s son pulls out a mobile phone that we realize these serf-like peasants are not living in some distant historical period. Finally, they are “liberated” by the carabinieri, who transport them to the city, where they are oppressed in a different way, forced to live in a disused oil tank near the railway tracks. In one scene, people seeking work are invited to bid for casual employment by reducing the hourly wage they are prepared to accept. The first one to be taken on offers to work for just one euro an hour.

What makes Lazzaro Felice special is a magical realist atmosphere that somehow shifts the burden of indignity away from the obvious victims. More than anything else, the mysterious central character of Lazzaro embodies the very thing that is so disturbing in the ethos depicted in Oppenheimer. A seemingly simple-minded young peasant who never aggresses against a single creature, Lazzaro evolves into a holy fool over whom death and time have lost their grip. When he falls down a steep hillside and by rights should be fatally injured, the local wolves refuse to harm him, just as the wolf of Gubbio refused to harm Saint Francis. The motif of the wolf is one that Rohrwacher brings in again at the end of the film, a witness to the vulpine mendacity of “civilized” society. It is not intended to be a Christian parable (the Church comes out as badly as anyone else), but yet it is. Lazzaro, who ceases to age whilst everyone else does, ends up bringing warmth and hope to those his life touches.

In Nagasaki, there was a real-life holy fool who bears comparison to this. His name is Takashi Nagai. He was a highly intelligent doctor specializing in radiology; he was also a Christian convert. Just as Lazzaro’s innocence exposes the corruption around him, the scandalous hermeneutic of Nagasaki’s bombing is put in relief by Nagai’s response. He exhorted his compatriots to forgive the atrocity done to them, and to rebuild with faith and trust. The Franciscan thread reappears here too, for the Franciscan monastery near Nagasaki, founded by St. Maximilian Kolbe in the 1930s, was spared destruction by the sheltered position its founder chose for it: on the other side of a mountain, allowing the friars to give invaluable help to the victims of the bombing.

For his part, throughout the six years that Nagai lived on after the bomb had incinerated his wife and given him severe radiation poisoning, Nagai lived in a makeshift hut and simply tried to be of service to others. With his hospital, not to mention his health, in ruins, he carried on practicing medicine. He wrote books and counseled those who lived in despair. He embraced the Hibakusha whose keloid scarring made them the social lepers of their time.

Not far from where Nagai lived, close to the Sanno Shinto shrine that was destroyed like the Cathedral, there stands a strange architectural remnant. The ceremonial gate to the original shrine, known as a Torii: one of its legs was obliterated in the atomic blast, and its twisted lintel is supported solely by the remaining leg. A ritual gateway smashed by the bid for a knowledge that brings death in its wake, it has been wrought into something resembling a Franciscan Tau, or cross. Like the saints who occasionally lighten the darkness of our world, the maimed structure should not still be standing. And yet it is.'

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"Oppenheimer": tremenda desilusión desde el punto de vista del guion

Un película-timo como una catedral. Se me ha caído una venda con Carlos Boyero. Leí su crítica sobre la película “Oppenheimer” de Cristopher Nolan, Carlos la ponía muy bien, me generó felices expectativas, y convencí a mi madre de 80 años y a mi hijo de doce para ir a ver el film a los cines Vialia de Málaga, en la estación María Zambrano de Málaga, un 31 de julio, en plena operación salida del…

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Convergence: Prologue

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/P5GMFzO by Thelastuser What if the DCEU and Arrowverse merged to create a new universe called Earth-Prime? What if this change was orchestrated by Lex Luthor? In this story, Lex embarks on a multiversal crusade to eliminate all Supermen. When he encounters the DCEU's Superman, he finds himself struggling to defeat him, unlike his previous opponents. The situation worsens when Wonder Woman and Batman get involved. Realizing that defeating this Superman is a lost cause, Lex escapes. As the Crisis unfolds, Lex when making himself a paragon, decides to force the heroes to become paragons as well. These heroes, who have never known about the multiverse, must now fight to protect it. Words: 1475, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Series: Part 1 of DC Universe Storylines Fandoms: Man of Steel (2013), Arrow (TV 2012), The Flash (TV 2014), Wonder Woman (Movies - Jenkins), Batman (Movies - Nolan), Supergirl (TV 2015), DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV), Batwoman (TV 2019), DC Extended Universe, Justice League (2017) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Categories: F/F, F/M Characters: Oliver Queen, Barry Allen, Clark Kent, Lex Luthor, Kara Danvers, Bruce Wayne, Diana (Wonder Woman), Sara Lance, Alternate Earth Lex Luthor, J'onn J'onzz | Hank Henshaw, Ryan Choi, Earth-167 Clark Kent (CW DC TV Universe), Kate Kane, Lena Luthor, Hippolyta (Wonder Woman), Jor-El, Lara Lor-Van, Alex Danvers, Zor-El, Alura In-Ze | Alura Zor-El, Astra (Supergirl TV 2015), Thomas Wayne, Martha Wayne, Lionel Luthor, Henry Allen, Nora Allen, Antiope (Wonder Woman), Alfred Pennyworth Relationships: Clark Kent/Lois Lane, Barry Allen/Iris West, Oliver Queen/Felicity Smoak, Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor, Diana (Wonder Woman) & Bruce Wayne Additional Tags: Crisis on Infinite Earths Crossover Event (CW DC TV Universe), Post-Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/P5GMFzO