#sean bridgers

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[brokehorrorfan]

The Woman and Offspring will be released together on 4K Ultra HD on August 27 via Arrow Video. Vanessa McKee designed the new cover art; the original poster is in the reverse side.

2011's The Woman is directed by Lucky McKee (May), who co-wrote the script with Jack Ketchum, based on their 2010 novel of the same name. Pollyanna McIntosh, Angela Bettis, Sean Bridgers, and Lauren Ashley Carter star.

Offspring is its 2009 precursor, directed by Andrew van den Houten and written by Ketchum, based on his 1991 novel of the same name. Pollyanna McIntosh, Art Hindle, Amy Hargreaves, and Ahna Tessler star.

Both films have been restored in 4K, supervised by their respective directors. The limited edition set also comes with a booklet. Special features are listed below.

Disc 1 - The Woman

Audio commentary with director Lucky McKee, editor Zach Passero, sound designer Andrew Smetek, and composer Sean Spillane

Audio commentary with actress Pollyanna McIntosh

Audio commentary with film critic Scott Weinberg

Audio commentary with director Lucky McKee

Dad on the Wall - Behind-the-scenes documentary filmed by director Lucky McKe’s father, Mike McKee

Interview with Lauren Ashley Carter

Malam Domesticam featurette

Meet The Makers featurette

Deleted scenes

2011 Frightfest panel with indie horror filmmakers Lucky McKee, Andrew van den Houten, Larry Fessenden, Adam Green, Joe Lynch, and Ti West

Mi Burro - 2011 animated short directed by The Woman editor Zach Passero

“Distracted” music video by Sean Spillane

Theatrical trailers

Image galleries

Disc 2 - Offspring:

Audio commentary by director Andrew van den Houten and digital colorist Matt McClain

Audio commentary by writer Jack Ketchum, director Andrew van den Houten, and cinematographer William M. Miller

Interview with director Andrew van den Houten and actress Pollyanna McIntosh

Fly on the Wall - Making-of featurette

Interview with writer Jack Ketchum

Progeny: The Birth of Offspring featurette

First Stolen’s Bailout featurette

Restoration comparison

Audition comparison

Webisodes, short featurettes used to promote the film online

Archive Easter Eggs

Theatrical trailer

Image gallery

Also included:

Booklet featuring writing by Michael Blyth, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, and Kevin Kovelant

The Woman (Pollyanna McIntosh) is the last surviving member of a deadly clan of feral cannibals that has roamed the American wilderness for decades. When successful country lawyer Chris Cleek (Sean Bridgers) stumbles upon her whilst hunting in the woods, he decides to capture and civilize her with the help of his seemingly perfect all-American family, including his wife Belle (Angela Bettis,) and daughter Peggy (Lauren Ashley Carter). The Cleeks will soon learn, however, that hell hath no fury like The Woman scorned…

Pre-order The Woman / Offspring.

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WATCHLIST 2023: Room

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

Sean Bridgers, Kim Dickens, Gerald McRaney, Geri Jewell, E Earl Brown, Anna Gunn, John Hawkes, Paula Malcolmson, Brent Sexton, Robin Weigert, Leon Rippy, Cleo King, Franklyn Ajaye, Keone Young, Brad Dourif, Ian McShane, and Timothy Olyphant in publicity stills for Deadwood: The Movie (2019)

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Sweet Home Alabama 2002

[melymigo]

Eman is one of us; btw, in the latest con he attended, someone asked him who would have saved if he could have the opportunity to do, like when Ezra saved Ahsoka from Vader, he said he would have saved Tech 🥹😭

[chameleon3]

a complete analysis on every song in my dead poets society playlist and how they relate to the film

playlist linked at the bottom, yes you have to scroll all the way

the lakes - Taylor Swift

”take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die” is pretty self-explanatory and also i saw an amazing edit to it once and i’ve searched everywhere and i can’t find it 😭😭

This World’s A Giant - Zach Bryan

i just really feel that the phrase “this world’s a giant” was really how todd and the boys felt after neil’s death

THE GREATEST - Billie Eilish

neil’s acting career and how he was with his father. not much else to say

I Wait for You - alex_g_offline

todd was waiting for neil outside the theater. and he will keep waiting for him.

Fable - Gigi Perez

LOVE WAS THE LAW AND RELIGION WAS TAUGHT (self-explanatory) (coughmrperrycoughcough)

Kill For You - Gigi Perez

🤷‍♂️ vibes lmao

not a lot, just forever - Adrienne Lenker

and neil will be waiting forevermore for the life he should have had.

anything - Adrienne Lenker

the first 1-2 verse(s) describe neil’s home life and reality, when really he just wants to be with todd (bonus points for “shining with the sheen of a shotgun”)

We’ll Never Have Sex - Leith Ross

just vibes. anderperry soft love core idk (also ace mittsie headcanon)

I’d Have to Think About It - Leith Ross

neil was really todd’s one true love, and though todd might find love in the future, neil will always be above all else in todd’s heart

Scott Street - Phoebe Bridgers

how i think the poets were after neil died and they graduated :/

Funeral - Phoebe Bridgers

yeah

House Song - Searows

the “empty house” metaphors paralleling the perry house :,{

Motion Sickness - Phoebe Bridgers

emotional motion sickness = getting sick in the snow, “surrender to the sound”: neil surrendered to the sound 🫢

Velvet Ring - Big Thief

vibes vibes vibes, the boys’ love was thicker than a velvet ring :,)

Not Strong Enough - Boygenius

multiple edits, “always an angel, never a god”, “black hole opens in the kitchen” at the perry house when they find neil, a lot of the lyrics show symptoms of a panic attack (todd)

Thérèse - Maya Hawke

vibes, lyrics (vaguely), bonus points for being ethan’s daughter

j’s lullaby (darlin’ i’d wait for you) - Delaney Bailey

todd will be waiting for neil forevermore blah blah blah crying

Tired - beabadoobee

first verse

Your Needs, My Needs - Noah Kahan

read the rant about it here

End Of The World - Searows

“what do you say to a brand new ghost” ??? “i saw the end of the world last night, i ran to you” ?????

Maine - Noah Kahan

the most heart-wrenching song for the most heart-wrenching movie + “and i hope that we make you proud, ‘cause this town’s just an ocean now” !!!! (bonus points for “they’d make me a star”)

Missing Out - Maya Hawke

kinda just the whole idea is SO todd + bonus points for being maya hawke

I And Love And You - The Avett Brothers

again, just the whole idea, especially from todd’s perspective + “your dreams they catch, the world, the cage” bc the cage of the world caught neil’s dreams

Footnote - Conan Gray

rare knarlie moment from a non-knarlie shipper (charlie’s pov)

The View Between Villages - Noah Kahan

just imagining how the boys felt after neil’s death :,( also “i’m 17 again” because they were presumably all seventeen that year. (i only did extended version for the line “left at the graveyard, i’m driving past ghosts, their arms are extended, my eyes start to close”)

Paul Revere (with Gregory Alan Isokov) - Noah Kahan

mainly because i wish neil had the chance to cut it clear and get the FUCK out of there (“if i could leave i would have already left”) i actually don’t know why i did with gregory alan isokov but wtv

New Perspective - Noah Kahan

all about the new perspective neil and mr. keating brought todd and how that will stay with him forever, pretty self-explanatory

Something in the Orange - Zach Bryan

SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE TELLS ME WE’RE NOT DONE (bonus points for orange being used in color theory for this movie, idk ho look it up)

Into Your Arms - The Lemonheads

probably the only happy song in this playlist 💀 this is specifically for the soccer scene when todd jumps into neil’s arms LMAO

True Blue - Boygenius

AND IT FEELS GOOD TO BE KNOWN SO WELL!!! I CAN’T HIDE FROM YOU LIKE I HIDE FROM MYSELF!!!!! because neil can see everything inside of todd, regardless of how todd sees himself

The Ballad of Lucy Gray Baird - from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Rachel Zegler

the first good (and therefore best) dps edit i ever saw, “it’s sooner than late that i’m six feet under” and the rest of the entire end part jesus christ (linked here)

Piano Man - Billy Joel

“i’m sure that i could be a movie star if i could get out of this place”, duh

Bloom - Bonus Track - The Paper Kites

“can i be close to you” 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 also vibes

cardigan - Taylor Swift

“when you are young they assume you know nothing” ☹️☹️☹️☹️ + the first and last choruses

Someone New - Hozier

ughhh idk it’s just so the boys coded

Cardinal - Kacey Musgraves

i already talked about this but this is so todd after neil’s death??? especially considering cardinals are native to northeast america AND are not known to migrate most of the time, making the chances of seeing a cardinal very possible at welton in the winter and snow, AND cardinals are known for being a symbol of a deceased loved one watching over you (birds)

Sòlas Ané “Yesterday’s Joy” (Live) - Bunkyo University Wind Orchestra

i just really find this piece to be so musically THERE in dps, especially since some parts remind me of common bagpipe melodies NOT EVEN CONSIDERING THE NAME???? “yesterday’s joy”????? regarding how happy the boys were the night of the play??????? i’m such a band kid idc

Mystery of Love - Sufjan Stevens

yeah

The 1975 - The 1975

literally just for the line “i’m sorry if you’re living and you’re seventeen” 😭😭

You’re Gonna Go Far - Noah Kahan

he was good, he was really good 😶 neil could have gone so far.

Hang In There - Maya Hawke

“he’s gonna get away with it” and “hang on, hang in there” referring to dean nolan and mr. perry?? JESUS MAYA MY HEART (bonus points for maya hawke)

apollo - Faith Zapata

i like the idea that todd thinks of neil as his own apollo, while neil thinks of todd as his 🥹 “i’ll sing you a love song, you’ll read me a poem” 💔💔💔 (me and my 2020 indie pop against the world 🤞)

evelyn - Lexie Carroll

todd talking/praying to neil after he dies (LAWWWD I CAN’T DO IT LAWWWDD)

Fireworks - Mitski

something about todd seeing neil every time it snows ughhhhhh i hate my mind

Pink Skies - Zach Bryan

this song is very mr keating when he had to leave welton?? also “i bet god heard you coming” for neil

Name - The Goo Goo Dolls

lowkey all the lyrics relate to neil’s dreams being crushed under the foot of society and his father but specifically “cause all the dreams you never thought you’d lose got tossed along the way” and “did you lose yourself somewhere out there? did you get to be a star?” (also it’s just such a beautiful song i’ve listened to it on repeat today)

woah okay that took up an hour of my life i hope you enjoy reading all those words!!! i’ll probably update this as i add/remove songs

playlist linked here

ps i didn’t analyze the lakes - original version by taylor swift because it would just be the same notes as the lakes by taylor swift 💀

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I love that in the interim between attempts to gain entry, Doc assessed the whole of the staff for their likely use as back-up and settled on Jewel as the best candidate

Perhaps vindicated by Johnny tripping on the stairs and Dan heroically dislocating his shoulder, while Jewel's much more useful contributions were to keep Doc being flattened by Dan charging through, and pulling the laudanum.

[jedimandalorian]

Rebels fans, do you remember this mysterious theme from Season 4? Listen to the beginning of this track, “Clues from the Hologram.”

Now listen to this iconic John Williams theme for the Ark of the Covenant from the Raiders of the Lost Ark soundtrack.

Clearly, the Kiners were influenced by more than Williams’ scores for the original Star Wars films.

Whether the audience is aware of it or not, the music influences their perception of the story that is being presented to them on screen. When I first heard “Clues from the Hologram” I knew that the music was inspired by John Williams’ score for Raiders of the Lost Ark. I immediately knew that the Imperial archaeological dig on Lothal wasn’t to unearth some ordinary relic or ruin. Palpatine’s cronies, like the villains in Raiders, were seeking power from a supernatural source that was beyond their ability to understand. This would end in disaster for them.

I also enjoyed Sabine and Ezra acting so much like Indiana Jones in this scene.

I’m wondering if we will hear this mysterious theme from the Kiners again in Aksoka Season 2. I am also wondering what new information we will learn about the Mortis Gods and the World Between Worlds as the saga continues.

What are your thoughts?

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

W Earl Brown and Sean Bridgers in Deadwood: The Movie (2019). Sean was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and has 78 acting credits from a 1991 tv movie to 2023. His other notable credits include Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice, Nell, Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored, Sweet Home Alabama, 36 episodes of Deadwood, one of True Blood, Trumbo, Midnight Special, The Magnificent Seven, 17 episodes of Rectify, Thank You for Your Service, 27 of Get Shorty, and Bones and All.

[beasanfi1997]

Ben Solo and Marnie Edgar are very similar because they were traumatized when they were Kids killing the Sailor and Thrawn and then in their adulthood, they continued to traumatized the past without removing It and they they meets theirs loves Rey and Mark Rutland that they will help them to learn the truth(you know the actress Daisy Ridley played in the Murder on Orient Express) until in the end Ezra Bridger, Ahsoka Tano, Sabine Wren and Mrs Edgar decide to reveals the Truth, First Ezra reveals at Ben that his grandfather Anakin Skywalker defendes him from Thrawn, Maul and even the Empire thinking that Padme Amidala was died in her childbirth with her Children Luke and Leia in her womb while Mrs Edgar reveals the Truth at Marnie that She Is dall' in love with a boy that She want a White cloth before they will made Marnie

[asoftepiloguemylove]

OUR LOVE STORY COULD BE KINDA GORY // DEVOTION THAT DESTROYS YOU

Sean Glatch "Caffeine Pt. 1," 4:41 // "Dolce," Hannibal (2013-2015) dir. Vincenzo Natali // Richard Siken Editors Pages: The Long and Short of It // Silas Denver Melvin "Let Dead Dogs Lie," Grit // "The Number of the Beast Is 666," Hannibal (2013-2015) dir. Guillermo Navarro // James Bay // Ethel Cain Western Nights // Supernatural (2005-2020) cr. Eric Kripke // Phoebe Bridgers Scott Street

[jedimandalorian]

Yes! The way that scene was scored in the show was amazing…

…but have you heard the alternate track?

A new version of “Where the Sun Sails and the Moon Walks” was used in the finale of Ahsoka Season 1. This music was too good to remain an alternate track forever. (I like the original version from Rebels best though.)

I don’t think we give the ending scene and musical number of Rebels Season 2 enough love (x)

It does a perfect job wrapping up the affects of what just happened, how people are reacting to it, who is for sure alive, how they got out, Kanan turning his head towards where Ezra ans Zebs cabin is… then scene change to where Ezra is opening the sith holocron???!!! etc

And with the music which is like mournful but also hope? Or like idk. It has that finale understanding but it’s not the end vibes. (I’m bad at emotions leave me alone)

It’s so good

[relativefic]

Love as devotion

Julien Baker red door // Leah Horlick for your own good // nosugarallspicenothingnice on pinterest // Phoebe Bridgers waiting room // Sean Glatch caffeine, pt.1 // Otto Künzli ring for two people // Hozier francesca // Michael Cunningham the hours // Richard Siken “the torn-up road,” crush // boygenius we’re in love.

[leaveharmony]

I enjoy the reoccurring "And then Johnny did something stupid that somehow helped" gag

[jedimandalorian]

Ahsoka Episode 8 “The Jedi, the Witch, and the Warlord”: The Story, the Symbolism, and the Score Part Four

If you missed Part One of this analysis, it can be found here:

Part Two can be found here:

Part Three is here:

Epilogue I

The first epilogue begins as the Noti pack up their pods. The Noti seem happy to see Ahsoka and Sabine, who arrive at their camp on the howlers. Listen for Ahsoka’s theme played by a trumpet, and also listen for a fragmented version of Sabine’s theme during this scene. A wooden flute presents Ahsoka’s theme once more when Ahsoka’s convor owl, Morai, makes her brief cameo.

We hear themes for Shin, who ignites her saber near the red bandits’ encampment to signal her desire to join them, and for Baylan, who stands on a rocky promontory gazing at a distant mountain peak illuminated by a mysterious glow. We then see that the rocky outcropping he’s walking upon is the arm of a gigantic statue of the Father of the three gods of Mortis. In a long shot it is revealed that the Father is pointing toward a distant glowing mountain peak. Next to him is a giant statue of the Son, who represents the dark side of the Force. There is a crevasse where the statue of the Daughter once stood. She represents the light side of the Force, and her essence dwells within Ahsoka. Perhaps the Force has been out of balance since the Daughter saved Ahsoka’s life so many years before, and Ahsoka’s mission on this planet is to restore that balance.

The enormous statues of the Mortis gods are yet another visual tribute to The Lord of the Rings. They are reminiscent of the Argonath, the awesome monuments to the kings of Gondor, Isildur and Anárion, which marked the kingdom’s northern border. The statues, whose left hands are raised in a gesture of warning to the kingdom’s enemies, stand guard on either side of the banks of the Anduin River.

A piano plays a mysterious theme as Baylan gazes at the distant glowing mountain peak. This music continues as the Eye of Sion approaches Dathomir. The Chimaera arrives with its enormous cargo of coffin-like crates which may contain the bodies of long-dead Nightsisters awaiting resurrection. Thrawn’s theme is heard during this scene.

Epilogue II

The shuttle that once belonged to Baylan Skoll approaches Home One amidst the New Republic defense fleet. When it docks, Hera, Chopper, and several officers and soldiers assemble to greet or confront whoever is aboard. In the first scene of the first episode of Ahsoka, many members of the New Republic defense force were slaughtered by the former occupants of that shuttle. This time they are more cautious and have their weapons drawn, ready for an attack.

A man dressed in a zombie stormtrooper’s uniform exits the ship with his hands raised, showing that he is unarmed. Chopper chatters and rolls forward, and like Odysseus’s faithful dog Argos, Chopper recognizes the armored man before anyone else does. The man in the stormtrooper armor touches the droid’s head gently as the two recognize each other. Soft synthesizer music accompanies this scene. The man removes his helmet, revealing the face of Ezra Bridger. Some of the New Republic officers and soldiers lower their weapons, including Hera, who recognizes him.

“Ezra?”

“Hi, Hera,” he says. “I’m home.” Hera’s theme plays softly as he approaches her.

It is nighttime back at the Noti camp as Sabine helps them pack. She looks at Ahsoka who is staring at the night sky. A fragmented rendition of Sabine’s theme is heard as she walks toward her.

“You did well,” Ahsoka tells her. The closed captioning explains that emotional music accompanies this scene. Listen to the stringed basses playing Ahsoka’s theme under the dialogue here.

Ahsoka: “And thanks to you, Ezra got home.”

Sabine: “I hope.”

Ahsoka: “He did. Ezra is where he needs to be and so are we.”

Sabine smiles at the Noti and at Ahsoka.

Ahsoka: “It’s time to move on.”

Sadly, Sabine stares off into the distance.

Ahsoka: “What is it?”

There is a highly significant but brief, subtle musical reference to John Williams’ “Across the Stars,” the love theme for Anakin and Padme’ from Star Wars Episode II: The Attack of the Clones here, which is followed immediately by Sabine’s theme. (To hear the “Across the Stars” fragment, listen to the Ahsoka Soundtrack Vol. 2, Epilogue II from 2:34-2:39. I included the recording at the end of this blog post.)

Sabine: “I felt like…Nothing. Just shadows in the starlight.”

Did Sabine sense the presence of Anakin’s Force ghost? I think the brief musical quotation of “Across the Stars” may indicate that, but it is also foreshadowing Sabine’s romantic arc in this series. Anakin’s possessive desire for Padme’ and his inability to accept death as part of life ultimately led to his fall to the dark side. Sabine’s love for Ezra is about letting go of her obsession with him, which will hopefully lead to a healthy, fulfilling relationship between the two of them. I have been saying all along that these two are “star-crossed” would-be lovers. When Sabine and Ezra finally admit to how they feel about each other the relationship will feel as if it has been truly earned.

My theory is that Ahsoka will find her ultimate destiny on Peridea, but Sabine will stay there, perhaps to learn how a Jedi can be in a romantic relationship without falling to the dark side the way Anakin did, and then she will return home to be with Ezra.

We hear Ahsoka’s theme as the episode concludes, and Anakin’s Force ghost appears onscreen. The music we hear is a new arrangement of “Where the Sun Sails and the Moon Walks,” an unused track from the season 2 finale of Rebels, written to accompany the main characters’ reaction to Ahsoka’s apparent “death” in her duel with Darth Vader, the tragedy of Kanan’s blindness, and Ezra’s temptation to open the Sith holocron and possibly turn to the dark side. The new arrangement of this beautiful music at the end of this episode may be a foreshadowing of Ahsoka’s “death” or an irreversible transformation into something greater, taking the Daughter’s place as the goddess of the Light Side of the Force.

The title of this unused track is yet another reference to J. R. R. Tolkien. This time, it is a quotation from The Hobbit:

“Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles.

"May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply.

I wrote about Ezra as the Sun and Sabine as the Moon in my analysis of Ahsoka Episode 6 “Far, Far Away.”

With regards to the title of that beautiful unused musical track, the Sun has indeed sailed (Ezra has crossed the void between galaxies to return home) and the Moon does indeed walk (Sabine is still with Ahsoka, walking or riding, as a nomad on the surface of Peridea). I think Sabine will eventually make it home, perhaps by means of a hidden path of secret gate. Could that be the World Between Worlds?

The new orchestration of “Where the Sun Sails and the Moon Walks” replaces the beginning of the Ahsoka end credits music. It replaces both the Ronin theme and Sabine’s theme. The end credits music from the previous episodes resumes with the Purrgil theme, Ahsoka’s theme, and concludes with Hera’s theme.

I hope you all enjoyed going on this musical and mythological journey through the Ahsoka series with me. Please leave a comment and tell me what you think of my musings. Thank you for all of the positive feedback and encouragement you have given me along the way!