#simon pegg stuff

[freshlyslicedmilk]

My Roman Empire is the fact that Edgar and Simon wanted to make Gary King look progressively more like a sad clown as the plot of The World's End progressed.

[genericswordsmaiden]

Every time I discover an actor or actress that I quite like, it's an automatic thing for me to try and watch all I can find with them in it. It's a chance to find more stories I might love. It's a chance to refine my pirating abilities (what sites and extensions to use - it's also really fun in a way, thrilling). It's a chance for me to learn more English, or even other languages. It feeds in these occasional mini-crushes of mine. In other words I just think it's pure bliss. I love movies so much.

That said, am I going to watch the whole Mission Impossible series just because Simon Pegg is in four of those seven movies? Absolutely.

[musicismylife120191]

Hey episode 5 of this season of the boys just fucking killed me.

Shout out to Jack Quaid and Simon Pegg because fuck.

[dangerliesbeforeyou]

the league of gentlemen are cowards for not having herr lipp (or any of the other characters tbf) flirt w/ reece or mark whilst they were wearing those suits in the film honestly lol...

[marlenacantswim]

Hey sweetie, question tiiimmmmmeeeeeee. I know you love (and I love it too) Nicholas Angel in pink. What's your favourite outfit to put different Simon characters in? Or the few you imagine if their clothing is not described?

oh boy do i love to put simon characters in pink. i'm sorry, he just looks so good in the color. green flag, honestly.

these questions have wonderfully complex answers since i have so many of them as sims in my sims 4 world, and part of the creation process is dressing them up in as many canon-accurate outfits as i can, and then extrapolating their style from there for the rest. for the most part, as my accuracy autism demands, i prefer to put them in/imagine them in canon-accurate outfits. when reading fic where outfits are undescribed, I imagine tim in his muted green clamshell jacket, big baggy beige cargo pants, and wallet chain when he's outside. I imagine him in long sleeve shirt underneath short sleeve graphic tee and beanie. i imagine benji in his nice-looking jacket-three-piece-suit combos and configurations when it's cold or even remotely formal, and i imagine him in his colorful button-down/graphic tee/red leather jacket getup when it's hotter out or he's just kinda chillin'. nicholas of course gets the classic solid-sweater-over-light-collared-shirt outfit.

if i'm feeling creative, i like to put angel in turtlenecks, tim in cute frilly dresses, graeme in warm hats. gary gets to wear alt goth, black, slutty slutty shear shirts and tight pants when the weather gets hot or he's party hardying. shaun goes crazy in the casual graphic tee and long athletic Guy Shorts. all the time. nonstop. unless it's cold and then it's baggy sweaters but still keeping the shorts. mans transed his gender and then went "okay time to embrace my inner Dude Guy by wearing basketball shorts in sub-freezing weather" and he was right. good for him. he was prolly a jorts-in-fall girlie pre-transition.

one i have yet to tackle (because the free-reign potential is INSANE) is scotty. we see him out of uniform only twice, and one time it's Far Future Party Casual, and the other time it. is. COLORFUL and spilling nonbinary swag from every crease. like, people are slipping and falling on it my guy, be more considerate. put up a wet floor sign at the very least, what good it'd do with your fit somehow managing to stand out more than a literal warning sign.

need to get into scones more, that ship is beckoning me. if someone with the files to that trilogy happens to see this, i am desperate. my own searches have been fruitless.

maybe i'll post some sims stuff, i've poured so much time and effort into sculpting these characters and creating barbieland for them.

[doodlerdoodle]

#Repost @smallzyssurgery

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“In the time it’s taken to make the film, it now feels like… Oh no, this is a documentary!” 👨‍💻

#MissionImpossible: #DeadReckoning Part One star

@simonpegg talks playing the resident ‘tech guy’ & AI being introduced in the new action packed movie! 💻

#OnAirWithSmallzy#SimonPegg

[k9effect]

I haven't set up any roles yet but come hang out! its kinda bare bones but its a work in progress <3

Edit: i realised the link didnt actually upload so here it is!

[andrewknightley]

I reached the moment i have to blacklist nandor fodor cause people are making gifs and i havent seen it yet cause they put it on 3 cinemas 😭

[reloha]

Or you might just not be attracted to your best friend, I suppose, but could still be gay? I mean, I imagine gay men aren’t attracted to all their male friends, but I could be wrong. Feel free to correct me?

[olympain]

There was a line [in the airport bomb scene] when we originally shot it, when the bomb asks Benji a personal question - it’s in the moment when the bomb is trying to… it’s a psychometric test thing. And the question that the bomb asked didn’t go down well with the test crowds. […] The bomb asked Benji if he has ever thought about hurting himself or others. It’s like a classic question you ask people in a psychiatric exam. And Benji says “no”, and the bomb tells him that he’s lied. And so Benji has to admit that he’s kind of self-harmed. And the audience fucking hated that idea. They hated the idea that Benji… So we changed the question to “Are you afraid of death?” Which actually came up with a great moment when he says, “Who isn’t?!” But… yeah, […] it was too dark. My character’s score went up, like, 10% after they took that question out. […] We were getting into this idea of PTSD, and Benji had been almost killed in Fallout, Ilsa saved his life, and we were talking about how this weighs on him, you know, and how he was kind of close to the edge in a few earlier iterations of the script. Benji was having moments of doubt and, you know. In the end, that stuff kind of felt like it wasn’t really necessary, and we wanted to concentrate on the team dynamic and have the audience infer certain things about where they are emotionally. So that felt a little too on the nose, and we moved on from that. — Simon Pegg on Episode 573 of The Empire Film Podcast

Originally transcribed by @snovyda

[snovyda]

There was a line [in the airport bomb scene] when we originally shot it, when the bomb asks Benji a personal question - it's in the moment when the bomb is trying to... it's a psychometric test thing. And the question that the bomb asked didn't go down well with the test crowds. [...] The bomb asked Benji if he has ever thought about hurting himself or others. It's like a classic question you ask people in a psychiatric exam. And Benji says "no", and the bomb tells him that he's lied. And so Benji has to admit that he's kind of self-harmed. And the audience fucking hated that idea. They hated the idea that Benji... So we changed the question to "Are you afraid of death?" Which actually came up with a great moment when he says, "Who isn't?!" But... yeah, [...] it was too dark. My character's score went up, like, 10% after they took that question out. [...] We were getting into this idea of PTSD, and Benji had been almost killed in Fallout, Ilsa saved his life, and we were talking about how this weighs on him, you know, and how he was kind of close to the edge in a few earlier iterations of the script. Benji was having moments of doubt and, you know. In the end, that stuff kind of felt like it wasn't really necessary, and we wanted to concentrate on the team dynamic and have the audience infere certain things about where they are emotionally. So that felt a little too on the nose, and we moved on from that.

Simon Pegg

[trashmenace]

Between Two Worlds by Nandor Fodor

Between Two Worlds by Nandor Fodor 1964, Paperback Library

Fodor has a psychoanalytical approach to the supernatural so we get a lot of gestalt/collective unconscious/Jungian kind of digressions, with very few actual claims of the paranormal. He actually had the reputation as a skeptic at the time, in that he thought hoaxes were a possibility in some cases.

A hairband disappears. Only a ghost could have taken it, one doesn't simply lose a hairband, you buy one for life.

A dog barks at something he can't see, proof positive of ghosts.

A 70 pound table slides around during a séance in the dark. This was impossible to move by corporeal means - it was on a carpet.

His wife has a dream Hitler shaves off his moustache. The next day he sees an ad in the paper for the Great Dictator. Nobody has previously connected Charlie Chaplin and Hitler's moustaches. Coincidence?

He goes over the deeply stupid case of Gef, the magical talking mongoose, which was made into a movie with Simon Pegg as Fodor and a serial sexual predator as the voice of Gef.

One of the dumber aspects of Spiritualism is the use of spirit guides, the ghosts of dead racial stereotypes which aid in seances. Fodor marvels of the case of a reader who transfigures herself into a "Chinaman" and wonders if she had the skills and facial elasticity to make the change herself, when you know she just squinted and stuck her front teeth out.

A woman claims to be molested by a ghost. It stops for a while when she stuffs a giant iron cross in her undies, but it gets too uncomfortable. For a while she was able to guess where the ghost was and grab and yank off his ghost dick, but that lost effectiveness. The ghost starts coming around the backdoor until she shouted "abnormal!" enough that he swings around to the front. They seek the assistance of a medium and her spirit guide Minnehaha, the fictional woman from the Longfellow poem, and her spirit tribe, which presumably includes Tonto and Billy Jack.

From Amazon

[genericswordsmaiden]

Consider it a way to welcome you in the fandom! By the way you could either start chronologically by watching the stuff he did with Edgar Wright and Nick Frost: Spaced (14 episodes series) -> Shaun of the Dead -> Hot Fuzz -> The World's End (these three titles make up a thematic trilogy called "The Cornetto Trilogy") and with Nick Frost there's also the movie Paul, which is regarded as being really good - or you could focus on other movies. some of them could have been better, some definitely need a friend to watch them with as someone else told you lol. Man Up (2015) is a certified good romcom though! And, as I suggested before in a previous reblog, his role as Benji Dunn in the Mission Impossible movies is just so good. Adorable, even.

What if I binged all the Simon Pegg movies?

[noddytheornithopod]

Watching this interview with Joshua Pruett and Scott Peterson about Night of the Living Pharmacists on a Night of the Living Dead podcast. If anything noteworthy comes up, I'll post it here.

Josh had ambitions to write more than storyboard from the get go, and apparently the other writer-boarders said that isn't something that really happens because "they hate our ideas". Josh eventually found Scott (who was head writer since Season 2) to try and pitch ideas, and his samples were all horror related. Scott jests that Josh was "more than a little obnoxious."

Scott (who like Josh is also a huge horror fan) reiterates the story that he along with Dan and Swampy always wanted to do zombies but struggled to do something to that nature on a Disney cartoon until Josh pitched Pharmacists.

Josh watched Night of the Living Dead when he was very young, saying he could handle it because it was black and white, and he came to realise the tropes in it could make for something that could work for kids. He describes the original idea as basically Doof turning himself into a virus. Scott loved it, and then Dan and Swampy loved it.

Josh also namedrops Jim Bernstein and Dani Vetere also contributing to the special's outline. Him, Scott, Jim and Dani are the final credited writers for the story outline.

Josh mentions they enjoyed getting to add some real stakes for the characters and make things emotional.

Talked a bit about getting the George Romero and Simon Pegg and Nick Frost cameos, even comparing faking being zombies Shaun of the Dead (haven't seen so cannot confirm and deny) with the Fireside Girls dressing up as pharmacists. Shaun of the Dead actually provided a lot of basis, saying how despite the comedic and silly nature the stakes can still be real and scary.

Apparently early versions Josh had contained references to Dawn and Day of the Dead they wouldn't have been able to get away with.

Josh mentions again taking the structure of Night of the Living Dead and applying it to Phineas and Ferb, making it its own thing.

Josh mentions again how it could've been a movie, three half hours vs two like the final. Also brings up how Disney wanted more specials and how Pharmacists fit into that.

Apparently getting George Romero was a fairly late addition to the special, Dan and Swampy also did everything they could to make him feel welcome and not like this special was making fun of him.

When the host asks for other episode recommendations, Scott mentions he's very proud of how the Star Wars special turned out, even noting the different approach they took to most Star Wars parodies.

Apparently Swampy was connected with Simon Pegg already and that's how he and Nick Frost got on the show. Supposedly Romero showing up was another big motivator for them.

Offhand mention of a sequel someday, lol.

Josh and Scott both agree that they would've made the special regardless of zombies being trendy in the early 2010s.

Josh and Scott never expected people to find the episode scary, but are glad that people did react that way. Earlier, Josh mentions one of the storyboard artists on the current run of PnF was scared of the episode. Josh also talks about "gateway horror" and how they can make stuff that's scary but still accessible to kids, nothing that should horrify them but it's more like a thrill ride (as a Whovian, he also brought up Doctor Who being similar in this regard).

Scott discusses actively wanting to push the boundaries of what Disney would allow, like obviously not being something that kids couldn't watch but stuff that if Disney disapproved they could find creative ways around it. Josh doesn't remember any real pushback against the episode, especially since Phineas and Ferb as well as Dan and Swampy in general had garnered a lot of trust from Disney. Josh again mentions they did get feedback that people found the episode scary and unnerving, but it was never in a negative way.

The host when doing research beyond watching the episode noted he saw many responses saying this episode was an all time favourite for them, or that they were scared by it. Wonder if any of my comments reached him, lol.

Scott jokes they could do a whole episode on things Disney has rejected from the show because the censors were worried about it. There have often been very heated discussions on some things, some things they find understandable like imitable acts but others are just baffling to them. Scott says if cornered they can just find creative ways around it, though.

Josh has said with him and Scott around, there is going to be more science-fiction and horror elements on the way in Phineas and Ferb. Scott adds they'll do as much as they let them. Colour me intrigued.

[freshlyslicedmilk]

Just realised I've never properly introduced myself.

So...

Hello There!! I'm freshlyslicedmilk (Fresh works just fine too.)

Some stuff I'm into:

Film, TV & Games

Mission Impossible

Cornetto Trilogy

A Fantastic Fear of Everything

Spaced

Any other Simon Pegg media

Scott Pilgrim

Dragon Age (mainly Inquisition)

Baldur's Gate 3

The Sandman

Good Omens

Taskmaster UK

Doctor Who

Broadchurch

Dungeons & Dragons

Friday Night Funkin'

Interview with the Vampire

Our Flag Means Death

Love, Death + Robots

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

Sonic (Mainly Sonic Riders series)

Cyberpunk

There's more I'm forgetting so I'll edit it later

Music

Glass Animals

Blur

Pulp

The Smashing Pumpkins

Radiohead

Happy Mondays

The Stone Roses

Chappell Roan

The Sundays

Suede

Sex Pistols

Nothing But Theives

Hozier

Joji

Foo Fighters

Lady Gaga

Rihanna

Pearl Jam

Audioslave

Anything Madchester or Britpop

Misc Stuff

Asexual/Panromantic

Trans FtM

Australian

Lovecraftian horror

Deep sea horror

Art and drawing

Game design

Writing

Benthan, Bloodweave and Cullrian my OTPs ever

Nice to meet y'all :) this is the most inconsistent tumblr page on the face of the earth.