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[atomic-chronoscaph]

The Day of the Triffids (1963)

[doubtfultaste]

The Day of the Triffids (1962)

[whumpookies]

Wahoo celebrate time..

Whumptober is complete, not without the teamwork/support from a few fellow whumpies...

@how-much-for-a-whump and @99point9percentwhump plus @whump-they-it-is incredible as always though I came close to panicking a couple of times...

Thinking I wouldn't do all 31 days..like a triffid was after me 🤣 (yes I needed to use that gif!)

But it's done! I did my 1st year of Whumptomber!!!

The question is now what?! 🤣 oh yeah... Back to the whump cookies and good old whump Gifs!!!

[old-mans]

Do you want to watch The Day of the Triffids (2009) with me?

[lyselkatzfandomluvs]

Shane Taylor in The day of the Triffids - Nick Copus, 2009 (2/2)

For @realhunterswearplaid ❤

[peacekindnesspossibility]

Jo Playton and Bill Masen being unbearably adorable The Day of the Triffids, Part Two

[theendofthefilm]

The Day of the Triffids

Steve Sekely UK, 1962

[nuclear-warrior]

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴀʏ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛʀɪғғɪᴅs (1963)

[captainpikeswoman]

Okay so I had this wild idea... we've seen what a dinner at Chris's quarters looks like... how about a movie night with the crew?

Cuteeeeee!

Movie night with the crew includes:

•well first and foremost, the movie night can’t begin until after dinner has been served and cleaned up from- Chris isn’t not going to feed his family. This Daddy makes sure his family eat well!

•but once that’s done the inevitable bickering over what to watch begins. Erica and La’an want to watch a Horror movie, Christine and Una want an action film, Dr M’Benga and Chris want a rom-com, and Spock is adamant that that what way to make use of this time is to watch a documentary…everyone groaned at Spock’s suggestion- it was the first one knocked out of the running.

•eventually a sort of truce- a sci-fi/apocalyptic show was chosen, an old Earth production called The Day of the Triffids.

•as soon as he read the synopsis Spock had deemed it ‘fascinating’, and everyone else had jumped on board!

•while Chris saw to making some popcorn, and Una dealt with pouring everyone a drink of whatever they’d asked for, the ‘kids’ all fought and bickered, even going so far as to physically move other people as they argued about seating.

•La’an and Spock were the first settled. They sat stiffly beside each other in the corner of the sofa…glaring at anyone who dared to come too close.

•Erica and Christine ended up squeezed together on a bean bag, crammed close and potentially closer to the screen than they should’ve been!

•as he settled in the arm chair Dr M’Benga joked that they’d both get ‘square eyes’ from sitting so close to the screen- something that humans apparently used to say. It tickled him a little.

•only once snacks were distributed, drinks were handed round, and Una was sat on an inflatable vintage armchair did Chris turn down the lights and set the screen playing- the surround sound was incredible!

•once the show was on no one talked- there were a few jumpy moments where Chris chuckled as his crew turned to each other for comfort.

•Erica and Christine ended up holding hands, Dr M’Benga was hiding behind his fingers and Una…well she wasn’t scared, she was scarily calm as she ate her popcorn, not in the least bit scared.

•as for Spock and La’an…Chris looked over at them and quickly looked away again. La’an was practically sat in Spock’s lap…Chris understood how why they were essentially sat in ‘the back row’. They were making out as Vulcan’s would- stroking their fingers together, their eyes weren’t even on the screen, they were locked onto each other’s.

•Chris sighed. Movie nights with the family were always an important part of his schedule, and even if two of them were necking in the back row, Chris was just glad to see them happy.

[notalkingbusiness]

One of these things is not like the others

Question - What do The Day of the Triffids, 28 Days Later, and The Walking Dead have in common?

Answer - The fish out of water plotline.  Bill, Jim, and Rick wake up in their hospital beds, oblivious to the fact that the outside world has descended into chaos.

It’s worth examining why the fish out of water storyline works in these narratives. 

I think it’s important that the protagonists wake up in a location that means something to them.  Bill and Jim lived in the London area before the collapse of civilization.  Rick wakes up in his local Georgia hospital.  These narratives establish a sense of history and a sense of place. Our heroes are intrinsically linked to their surroundings and all three have their “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore” moment.  The use of familiar locations gives birth to the uncanny.

Take 28 Days Later. The shots of the empty metropolis are inherently unsettling. But the uncanniness is elevated when we discover Jim’s personal connection to these streets.  Jim’s visible confusion and bewilderment takes on an added significance when we learn that he used to be a bicycle courier.  They don’t make a big deal out of this detail in the film, but it’s an enriching narrative choice. The deserted roads would be especially jarring for someone who navigated the traffic-choked streets for a living.  These shots and character details are employed deliberately – it’s all about establishing how the familiar has been transformed into the radically unfamiliar overnight.  

The same is true for the first episode of The Walking Dead.  Rick’s connection to the local area is critical.  We get to see Rick in the “before times” so we know that his whole life revolved around these streets: he lived here, he kept these streets safe, he was a member of the community . . . and he’s lost everything. The scene where Rick returns to an empty home, crying out desperately for Lori and Carl, is so impactful.  And I will tip my sheriff’s hat to Frank Darabont and Andrew Lincoln - Darabont’s character-centered storytelling and Lincoln’s powerful performance make compelling viewing.  A scene like this couldn’t exist if Rick had woken up in a completely random location . . .  

Which brings me to the Daryl spinoff.  According to Scott Gimple, Daryl’s “a fish out of water” in his solo show.  Dan McDermott (AMC’s President) noted that the spinoff will "follow Daryl as he wakes up and finds himself somewhere on the European continent and tries to piece together what happened. How did he get here? How's he going to get home?”  

It sounds like a fever dream, doesn’t it?  It’s a horrible concept for a whole host of reasons. The basic premise isn’t a million miles away from the openings of The Day of the Triffids/28 Days Later/The Walking Dead (Daryl wakes to a nightmare scenario and a totally unfamiliar world).  But whoever came up with this idea doesn’t understand why this set-up worked for their predecessors.  The fish out of water set-up is something you’d use to kickstart an original story - it’s an engaging introduction to a fictional world and it quickly builds empathy for new characters. It’s not something you use 11 seasons down the line – we already know Daryl; we’re already emotionally invested in him and TWD. Creative minds wouldn’t resort to this trope if they had a good story befitting of Daryl’s character.  And we all know that Paris doesn’t feel true to Daryl’s journey in any way, shape, or form.  And unlike Bill, Jim, and Rick, Daryl is going to be operating in a vacuum.  There are no geographical or emotional touchstones for Daryl in Paris.  Daryl will wake up in a place that means nothing to him, immersed in a culture that means nothing to him, surrounded by people who mean nothing to him.  Are you inspired to tune in yet?

I guess whoever came up with this concept thought we’d all watch a Daryl show, no matter how insulting the premise.  They thought that we’d stop talking about Melissa McBride. They thought wrong.

Melissa McBride said “Carol has more story to tell” - McBride’s not done, and we’re not done with Carol or Caryl either.   

Caryl spinoff or bust!

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday Scottish actor Ewen Bremner who hits the big five o today.

Bremner has worked with many of the most respected directors in world cinema, including Danny Boyle, Mike Leigh, Ridley Scott, Joon-Ho Bong, Werner Herzog and Woody Allen. Hen has established himself by creating unique characters in critically acclaimed films, as well as going toe to toe with many of Hollywood's biggest stars.

The first film I saw him in was the excellent and very underrated Naked, playing Archie, who was searching for his girlfriend, Maggie, played by fellow Scot, Susan Vidlrer.

Ewen has worked widely in theatre, television, and film for years before being cast in his breakout role in Trainspotting, by Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle. He was the first to be cast in the role of Mark Renton in Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre production but lost out to Ewan McGregor in the film version, instead he was handed the role of Spud Murphy and earned screen immortality with his character's infamous "speed fuelled" job interview scene.

In 1999, Bremner received critical acclaim for his portrayal of a schizophrenic man living with his dysfunctional family in Harmony Korine's Julien, Donkey-Boy. Filmed strictly in accordance with the ultra-realist tenants of Lars Von Trier's Dogma 95 movement and starring opposite Werner Herzog,  Bremner played Julien its eponymous hero, requiring him to assume an American accent. He then worked with director Michael Bay in his high-profile 2001 war film Pearl Harbor, proving his versatility once again by portraying the role of a wholeheartedly patriotic American soldier fighting in WWII. The following year, he stepped back into fatigues for a supporting role in Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down, while rounding out the next several years with roles in high-profile Hollywood releases such as The Rundown, Disney's Around the World in 80 Days), AVP: Alien vs. Predator, Woody Allen's Match Point, the comedy Death at a Funeral directed by Frank Oz, and Fool's Gold starring Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson. This past few of years proved to be a busy when Bremner was invited to join the DC Universe in the Zack Snyder-produced feature Wonder Woman, directed by Patty Jenkins, co-starring Gal Gadot and Chris Pine. Ewen also reprised his unforgettable role as Spud in the sequel to Danny Boyle's cult classic, T2: Trainspotting

  Bremner appeared in the TNT Drama Series Will with Shekhar Kapur. The series told the story of the lost years of young William Shakespeare after his arrival to London in 1589 but only lasted one season. Other notable film credits include Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Perfect Sense starring again alongside Ewan McGregor, Great Expectations, Jack the Giant Slayer, and Snowpiercer starring alongside Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton. Further credits include Exodus: Gods and Kings, Wide Open Spaces, Mojo, Mediator, Faintheart, Hallam Foe, Sixteen Years of Alcohol, and Snatch.

In television, Ewen has worked on many acclaimed productions including David Hare's Worriker trilogy starring Bill Nighy for BBC, Jimmy McGovern's Moving On and also his Australian mini-series Banished, Strike Back for Sky TV, Dominic Savage's Dive, the Dylan Thomas biopic, A Poet In New York and the adaptation of Day of the Triffids for the BBC. Other noteworthy series appearances include portraying legendary surrealist Salvador Dali in the U.K. television drama Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali, and a guest spot on the successful NBC series, My Name is Earl, not to forget an early appearance in Taggart way back in 1990.

More recently Ewen has been seen in  Creation Stories playing  infamous Creation Records label head Alan McGee; who “discovered” Oasis, and Primal Scream, among others, the film was a bit hit and miss and was co-written by Irvine Welsh. 

Bremner has a few things on the go just now that are in Post Production, the pick for me is a  historical drama about the first female archaeologist, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, it’s called  Canyon Del Muerto

[danu2203]

Man Eating Plant Attacks - The Day Of The Triffids (1962)

DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS...1962...STEVE SEKLEY & FREDDIE FRANCIS

[steamedtangerine]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iHtgl2Gy7o

Clear out your schedule for the next hour and a half to pop some popcorn, get comfy and watch sexy Mamie Van Doren (with the Navy-yeah, I think they have something to do with this, maybe) fight off thawed out shambling palm trees with acid for blood that have a taste for people and penguins.

God be praised we had napalm in 1966, right?!

Don’t pass up a movie that combines elements of Alien, The Thing, and Day of the Triffids....and maybe Star Trek 2: Wrath of Kahn

[lyselkatzfandomluvs]

Shane Taylor in The day of the Triffids - Nick Copus, 2009 (1/2)

[peacekindnesspossibility]

What The Fuck, Bill: A Memoir by Jo Playton

[joshcockroft2]

2017 in books: 

18.1.17 Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre

23.1.17 Stephen King – Mr Mercedes

26.1.17 Chuck Palahniuk – Pygmy

31.1.17 Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples – Saga Volume 3

4.2.17 Mark Watson – Eleven

9.2.17 J.D Salinger – Franny and Zooey

21.2.17 Henry James – What Maisie Knew

24.2.17 James Dean

8.3.17 Martin Amis – Lionel Asbo

12.3.17 Derf Backderf – My Friend Dahmer

20.3.17 Adrian Tomine – Sleepwalk

29.3.17 Ira Levin - A Kiss before Dying

2.4.17 Norman Ohler – Blitzed, Drugs in Nazi Germany

18.4.17 Daphne du Maurier – Rebecca

21.4.17 Stephen King – Different Seasons

23.4.17 Judd Apatow – Sick in the Head

1.5.17 Ken Kesey – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

5.5.17 Melvin Burgess – The Cry of the Wolf

23.5.17 Margaret Atwood – The Handmaids Tale

25.5.17 Vaughan Chang – Paper Girls 2

2.6.17 Elan Mastai – All Our Wrong Todays  

21.6.17 Stephen King – Finders Keepers

24.6.17 David Finch & Jason Fabok – Batman - The Dark Knight: Golden Dawn

27.6.17 Tom Baker – The Boy Who Kicked Pigs

29.6.17 Jennifer Ackerman – The Genius of Birds 

6.7.17 Ben Goldacre – Bad Science

15.7.17 NoFX w/ Jeff Alulis – The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories

21.7.17 Arthur Conan Doyle – A Study in Scarlet

31.7.17 Gerald Durrell – My Family and Other Animals

3.8.17 Michael Finkel – The Stranger in the Woods

7.8.17 Stewart O’Nan – The Speed Queen  

13.8.17 Gerald Durrell – Birds Beasts and Other Relatives

21.8.17 Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway

23.8.17 Virginia Woolf – A Room of One’s Own

27.8.17 Ernest Cline – Ready Player One

29.8.17 Roger B. Goodman ed. – 75 Short Masterpieces

12.9.17 Jennifer Eagan – A Visit from the Goon Squad

20.9.17 Agatha Christie – The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

2.10.17 Jonathan Lethem – You Don’t Love Me Yet

4.10.17 Gay Talese – High Notes

10.10.17 Stephen King – 11.22.63

11.10.17 Wendy Jones & Grayson Perry – Grayson Perry: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl

17.10.17 Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five

26.10.17 John Wyndhan – The Day of the Triffids

1.11.17 Bill Bryson – The Life and Times of The Thunderbolt Kid

7.11.17 Richard Matheson – Hell House

20.11.17 Donna Tartt – The Secret History

21.11.17 Graham Greene – The Third Man & The Fallen Idol

28.11.17 Henry Marsh – Do No Harm – Stories of Life. Death and Brain Surgery

28.11.17 Vaughan & Staples – Saga Volume 4

5.12.17 Dan Rhodes – Little Hands Clapping

9.12.17 Vaughan & Chiang - Paper girls 3

17.12.17 Markus Zusak – The Book Thief