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Movies: Round 3 poll 4
Propaganda:
Never Say Die
A young couple are mysteriously pursued by people with increasingly elaborate attempts to kill them; they narrowly escape death repeatedly via a series of car chases and shoot-outs. I love this movie and think it’s hilarious but my sister hated it. You can watch it on YouTube
The Island of Dr. Moreau
After being rescued and brought to an island, a man discovers that its inhabitants are experimental animals being turned into strange-looking humans, all of it the work of a visionary doctor. You can watch it here or a less violent version here
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The 1996 version
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"I HAVE SEEN THE DEVIL IN MY MICROSCOPE..."
PIC INFO: Spotlight on an unrecognizable Mark Dacascos in his full leopard-man "Lo-Mai" makeup at Stan Winston Studio, for the 1996 sci-fi/horror film "The Island of Dr. Moreau," based on the classic "science romance" of the same name, written & conceived by H.G. Wells
Source: www.stanwinstonschool.com/blog/the-island-of-dr-moreau-behind-the-scenes.
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Snake is not a human with snake genes. He's a snake with human genes.
𓆚 𓆚 𓆚 Edit: I've added at the bottom something else I had forgotten about. If you've read this post before, give it a read. Sorry about that! I've made other seperate posts related so that this one doesn't get so enormous. Here are the links: The Island of Queimada Grande The Snake Charming Flute A Pet Snake Feel free to give them a peek if you found this post interesting. These posts are much more brief than this one, I promise you! :D 𓆚 𓆚 𓆚 If you're at all familiar with the 1896 early science fiction novel "The Island of Doctor Moreau" by H. G. Wells, the tittle surely might've brought it to mind. Indeed, I am basing this theory on this novel. "The Island of Dr. Moreau reflects the ethical, philosophical, and scientific concerns and controversies raised by the themes and ideas of Darwinian evolution, which were so disruptive to social norms in the late 1800s."
In brief, Doctor Moreau was an eminent physiologist (read: mad scientist) in London who ended up fleeing Great Britain due to his experiments in vivisection being publicly exposed. Vivisection is, for all intents and purposes, experimentation on live animals. What he accomplished with his experimenting was human-animal hybrids. But it's not as one would assume at first glance (as did the main protagonist in the novel), that he'd turn humans into animals, as is often portrayed in this sort of fiction or even in real-world folklore (think werewolves or berserkers).
Instead, Doctor Moreau turned animals into humans. And unfortunately, through means of extremely painful surgery, which fits in quite well with a dark story such as Kuroshitsuji.
Almost all of the beast-folk are named after "what they're made of". For example: Leopard-Man, Hyena-Swine, Wolf-Man, Fox-Bear Woman, etc… And he refers to them as his children. Children he holds hostage on an island. You know, like an orphanage? The orphanage, which is mentioned in Chapter 192, could very well be "the island" where the Doctor's children were being held at. After all, an island is just like a building where one can be held in, only the walls are a vast ocean. Snake (or Oscar) refers to it as "… a terrible place." and remembering the painful surgery part, I think that's an understatement.
In a 1996 film adaptation that slightly deviated from the original work, the beast-folk as they're called, need to take a serum in order to keep them from turning back into their original form. All except for one hybrid in particular, which the doctor refers to almost perfect or the closest he's gotten to perfection. I feel inclined to mention that in the film someone confronts the protagonist with something along the lines of "What do you intend to do once you get her out of the island? Sell her to a circus?" referring to that almost perfect hybrid. I believe it to be the case that Snake could be the perfect hybrid. The doctor mentions the fact that in turning animals into humans, he could create the perfect human, devoid of its human flaws, devoid of malice. I firmly believe Snake is devoid of malice.
The whole incident with Phelps was nothing but a mistake, and Snake's paying dearly for that mistake as he got his neck sliced in the same place Phelps had the mamba bite.
Whichever the case, the plan was not very well thought through: he was going to kill Smile without knowing the circus troupe was dead and without so much as asking Smile about it. He was going to kill Sebastian too, were he not a demon. As Smile was telling him that he had infiltrated the circus in order to investigate, Snake kept flip-flopping between getting shocked with the revelation that the troupe were kidnapers and getting aggravated, insisting Smile was lying. Probably due to the snakes' chattering each of their opinions. He's confused, but he's not evil. It's clear from his reactions.
The reason I'm bringing this up is because he was acting purely on impulse. Not much thought. Or at least, the thought he put into it wasn't much. It wasn't malice guiding his actions, but a sort of instinct. Snakes don't think much about attacking when they feel threatened. If they feel inclined to do so, they just do. No questions asked. No thinking about consequences.
In the film mentioned earlier, the doctor's office looks like a small library. The doctor is obviously quite literate. However, his "children" aren't.
There seems to be quite a bit of focus on Snake not knowing how to read. First mentioned on Yana's personal blog and most recently brought up in Chapter 195. It was quite common for people to be illiterate at the time Kuro takes place, but there was a focus on Snake from Yana's part, which I only find interesting because of how his snakes were named. After famous writers.
Could the doctor have named the other snakes but not him, as he was the first snake? The Snake. Or could Snake have named the others because he himself didn't have a name? It's funny that among all his family, the one human is simply named "snake" while the ones that would be naturally referred to as snakes are named quite fancifully. It's also quite comical if you consider chapter 51, when Finnian thought Snake was "Mister Oscar" as he introduced himself with "I'm Snake…", "- Says Oscar."
If you'd like to consider going a little further and going a bit crazy on these what ifs: consider that his snakes are the others who didn't make it or reverted back to normal. The panel in chapter 195 (page 7) where Snake has himself a little dilemma (in space!) with all the snakes chiming in in his head? I know it might sound a little out there, but I think the reason those three Snakes are shown naked could be because they're not Snake, they really might be Keats, Emily, and Wilde. Either the Snake-Man hybrids all look the same, or this is how Snake visualizes them speaking, as he himself is a snake like them. The difference is that he can use human speech, so if they were to use it as well, they too would look like him… right?
In fact, he often makes little distinction. He's said this in chapter 202 when Arty asks if he's a snake charmer, to which he firmly responds, "No. Snake and us are family. - says Dan." and "We are all footmen. - Says Goethe." Before this, he says "We're all here. - says everyone." He refers to them as "us". He makes little separation between himself and the other snakes. He understands and talks to snakes because, naturally, he is a snake. And he's the only snake who can talk to humans—the only one who is also human. He's the spokesperson (spokesnake, lol) of the group. Edit: He makes different voices for different snakes. Each snake has their own voice. What if those were really their voices at some point in time? The first idea one gets from Snake is that the snakes are like parts of his personality that he's expressing through them. However, this isn't true (or entirely true) because they do really do communicate with him, as proven undeniably by Oscar sneaking into the castle basement in the Green Witch arc and bringing back information Snake had no way of knowing (and couldn't really explain very well when Bard asked for details).
In chapter 53, he's sneaked down to the cargo to share the food with "everyone" as he says. I always found it a little odd to share human food with snakes, who only eat whole animals. On the plate, there were some leaves. There are no herbivorous snakes; they're all exclusively carnivorous (insectivorous, too). Of course, the lettuce, or whatever it is, is intact. But still, snakes don't eat breaded chicken or liver pâté either… It's just odd that Snake, who's been seen feeding his snakes mice twice, suddenly thinks they'd be interested in this gourmet, first-class dish. I believe he thinks, since it's delicious to him, surely they might think so too. After all, they're all snakes. Could he get a little confused sometimes?
He's also never showed any fear of the werewolf forest while the other servants were scared as they made their way to the village in the Emerald Witch arc. He doesn't seem phased by the idea of wolf-men. He was freaked out by the torture instruments in the village though, meaning some things are scary, just not the werewolves.
Edit: I forgot to mention an interesting passage from the Kuroshitsuji Original Picture Drama live reading from 2015. As far as I know, the script was written by Yana Toboso. It's all done mainly for comedic purposes. However, there's a part where the characters are drinking and chatting and eventually some get a little tipsy. What Snake says in a drunken crying fit is "I'm a snake! I feel better if I drink a lot of sake!" Interesting, isn't it? ;) Go ahead and watch it yourself here if you feel like it: https://youtu.be/xMmrWsHLaqc?si=ozkAfssE_fLOOoaM&t=506
To end I'd also like to call attention to the cover art from Chapter 196. Him being confused about a lemon cake and a lemon tart being different snacks when they're both sweet and both cakes made it to the cover art. He's having trouble grasping how a lemon flavored dessert can be different from another lemon flavored dessert.
I think that sums it up nicely, although I might have forgotten some things. I do apologize if anyone has already made this correlation between this work by H. G. Wells and Snake's possible origins, I couldn't find anything related.
Of course it can all be explained easily by just saying he sees the snakes as family and as "us" because he has a connection to them. However, it's the "how he came to be" part that is my main motive behind the theory.
I put a lot of love and care into this theory and since Snake's flashbacks might be coming up soon, I thought I'd share it just so that it's out there for all it's worth.
Thank you so much for reading. Have a lovely day. Red
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The Island of Dr. Moreau will be released on Blu-ray on May 21 via Scream Factory. The infamous 1996 sci-fi horror film is the third major film adaptation of H.G. Wells' 1896 novel.
John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate, Ronin) was brought in to direct after Richard Stanley (Color Out of Space) was fired. Stanley and Ron Hutchinson wrote the script. Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, David Thewlis, and Fairuza Balk star.
Both the theatrical and director's cut are featured, the latter newly scanned in 2K from the interpositive. DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Surround & 2.0 Stereo audio options are included. Extras are listed below.
Special features:
Director's cut (100 minutes)
Theatrical cut (96 minutes)
Interview with makeup effects supervisor Shane Mahan (new)
The Making of The Island of Dr. Moreau featurette
Trailers
Photo gallery
Dr. Moreau is a brilliant geneticist on the brink of superseding evolution. When a U.N. diplomat visits Moreau's island laboratory, he uncovers fantastic but brutal experiments that turn animal life forms into human-like beasts. As Moreau and his assistant race toward their barbaric goal of creating the perfect life form, the beasts revolt, threatening not only the island but ultimately all of mankind!
Pre-order The Island of Dr. Moreau.
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David Thewlis
The Island of Dr Moreau - 1996
Part 5/4
#stressed out Lupin
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The Island of Dr. Moreau (John Frankenheimer & Richard Stanley, 1996).
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In honor of the current trend in horror fandom circles of classic monster Mashups here's a list of my favorite depiction of all the classic monsters. Disclaimer: This list is subject to change based on my mood. _____________________________ Dracula - Tied between Gary Oldman as Dracula in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Frank Langella in Dracula (1979) original theatrical coloring preferred. TV Dracula - Castlevania. __________________________ Frankenstein's Monster The 2004 Halmark mini-series of Frankenstein starring Luke Goss. It's the most faithful to the book. _____________________________ Werewolf The Company of Wolves. And if that one is too surreal than The Wolfman (original 1941 version). TV werewolf- Tie between George in the UK version of Being Human and Randi in She-Wolf of London. __________________________ Mummy
Christopher Lee in Hammer's version of The Mummy and (weirdly) the one from Asylum's Monster Mash. He reminds me of N'kantu AKA Living Mummy from Marvel comics.
________________________ Invisible Man Claude Rains or the lesser known Memoirs of an Invisible Man _____________________ Creature from the black Lagoon / aquatic creature The Asset from The Shape of Water and Abe Sapien from Hellboy (2004) _____________________
Witch: The Sanderson Sisters in Hocus Pocus. Katrina Van Tassel in Sleepy Hollow (1999 movie). _____________________ Sorcerer: Faust in the 1926 silent film Faust and Dr. Craven in The Raven (1963) ______________________________ Ghost: Captain Greg from The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and Patrick Stewart as The Canterville Ghost (1996) ________________________________ Zombie: R from Warm Bodies and Billy from Hocus Pocus. (There aren't too many zombies with distinct personalities). ______________________ Ghoul: Billy Cole from Fright Night (Original 1985 version) ___________________________ Headless Horseman: The Hessian in Sleepy Hollow (1999 movie). __________________ Mad scientist: Dr. Moreau in The Island of Doctor Moreau (1977 version.) _________________ Dark fae: Maleficent in the movie Maleficent.
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Movies: Semifinals poll 2
Propaganda:
The Island of Dr. Moreau
After being rescued and brought to an island, a man discovers that its inhabitants are experimental animals being turned into strange-looking humans, all of it the work of a visionary doctor. You can watch it here or a less violent version here
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
The story of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia, and the others did not end with the destruction of the Death Star, it continues in this movie. Imperial forces have since driven the Rebels to hide on the ice world of Hoth. But even on such an icy, backwater world, they cannot escape the evil Darth Vader's eyes for long, and he devastates the Rebel base in an assault with the Imperial AT-AT walkers. Luke flees to Dagobah to begin Jedi training with Master Yoda, while Han Solo, Chewbacca, Princess Leia, and C-3PO run the blockade of Imperial Star Destroyers in the Millennium Falcon. The Imperials pursue them across the galaxy and eventually catch up with them on Bespin. Now Darth Vader plans to use them as bait to lure Luke Skywalker to him, and turns Han Solo over to Boba Fett as a prize to be delivered to crime lord Jabba the Hutt. Luke learns a terrible family secret after losing a swordfight with the Dark Lord. Will he, and the others, escape the Empire’s clutches? I watched it on Disney+
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Stats from Movies 1401-1500
Top 10 Movies - Highest Number of Votes
Blue Monkey (1987) had the most votes with 1,611 votes. The Ring Two (2005) had the least votes with 331 votes.
The 10 Most Watched Films by Percentage
Hellboy (2004) was the most watched film with 62.7% of voters out of 785 saying they had seen it. The Boneyard (1991) had the least "Yes" votes with 1,7% of voters out of 484.
The 10 Least Watched Films by Percentage
Death Note (2017) was the least watched film with 73.7% of voters out of 797 saying they hadn’t seen it. Blue Monkey (1987) had the least "No" votes with 13,7% of voters out of 1,611.
The 10 Most Known Films by Percentage
Sharknado (2013) was the best known film, 2,2% of voters out of 641 saying they’d never heard of it.
The 10 Least Known Films by Percentage
Blue Monkey (1987) was the least known film, 84,5% of voters out of 1,611 saying they’d never heard of it.
The movies part of the statistic count and their polls below the cut.
Altitude (2010) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) Corpse Party (2015) The Ring Two (2005) Rose Red (2002) Shadow of the Vampire (2000) Sharknado (2013) Sinister 2 (2015) The Disappointments Room (2016) The Eye (2008)
Frogs (1972) Grave Encounters 2 (2012) Harbinger Down (2015) Shivers (1975) Red Riding Hood (2011) Rabid (1977) Rabid (2019) Pulse (2006) Hellraiser (2022) The Grudge (2004)
Extraordinary Tales (2013) The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) The Deaths of Ian Stone (2007) Outpost (2008) The Collection (2012) The Wolfman (2010) John Dies at the End (2012) Krampus (2015) You Should Have Left (2020) Deep Blue Sea (1999)
From Hell (2001) The Raven (2012) V/H/S/2 (2013) An American Werewolf in Paris (1997) Apt Pupil (1998) The Amityville Horror (2005) Jug Face (2013) I, Frankenstein (2014) The Long Night (2022) Evolution (2015)
Last Shift (2014) The Toolbox Murders (1978) Q: The Winged Serpent (1982) Island of Lost Souls (1932) The Omen (2006) The Burning (1981) The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) The Open House (2018) Underwater (2020) The Gravedancers (2006)
The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) Necronomicon: Book of Dead (1993) Parasite Eve (1997) Shocker (1989) Uncle Sam (1996) Wolf (1994) X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) Stake Land (2010) The Possession (2012)
Underworld: Evolution (2006) Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009) Underworld: Awakening (2012) Underworld: Blood Wars (2016) The Grudge 2 (2006) Zombeavers (2014) The Boneyard (1991) Prophecy (1979) Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)
Prometheus (2012) Se7en (1995) Hellboy (2004) Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) Midnight Mass (2021) House on Haunted Hill (1999) Death Note (2017) Cat People (1982) Mulberry Street (2006) Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003) Halloween II (1981) Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) Feardotcom (2002) The First Omen (2024) Humanoids from the Deep (1980) Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) Poltergeist (2015) Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) Mutant (1984) Ghoulies (1984) Neon Maniacs (1986) Blue Monkey (1987) Night of the Demons (1988) Ghostbusters II (1989) Kuchisake-onna (2007) Teketeke (2009)
Them (2006)
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Watching THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU (1996)
One of those truly awful movies that you have to see at least once in your life...
See this if only to see the amazing BTS Documentary Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey.
From Marlon Brando not giving a fuck about anything, to Val Kilmer being a dick to everybody. This movie is so bad it's bad. Describing it cannot convey how truly entertainingly awful this movie is.
David Thewlis acquits himself of all crimes by turning in a decent performance. What was he thinking? He probably never served in jury duty for the remainder of his life.
Fairuza "Nancy" Balk also actually tries, which probably earned her a nice pat on the head from Marlon Brando, right before he ate his weight in manatee.
If you haven't seen it, ask someone who's seen it. Their eyes glaze over and either tears or mad laughter ensues.
Why does this movie exist? Why do stars and white guys with dreadlocks exist? There's no use asking. Just accept.
My Article on How I survived 67 Years on Stranded On A Desert Island With This movie's help
67 (or Fewer) Horror Movies to Watch If You’re Stranded on a Desert Island Like I Was (LINK below)
This Like Is an Oasis On an Island!
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The movie Island of Lost Souls (an adaptation of The Island of Dr. Moreau) was on TV last night. I really approve of how they handled the animal-people rebelling against Dr. Moreau!
The catalyzing incident is that Dr, Moreau commands one of the animal-people to break Moreau's own law and kill a human (the same animal-person earlier attempted to break into the room of Moreau's human female "guest"; it's implied that Moreau ordered him to rape her, as part of his experiments). From this the animal-people learn that normal humans can die, and extrapolate that Dr. Moreau also can die, and his power over them is broken; the next time he shows up to order them about and threaten them with his whip, they do not obey him, and they attack him, chase him into his own "house of pain," restrain him to his own operating table, and kill him with his own surgical instruments, inflicting on him an ironic reversal of the torments he inflicted on them. I also see a possible unstated subtext that the animal-people have more respect for Moreau's laws than Moreau did; they rebelled when they realized Moreau would break his own laws the instant they become inconvenient to him, that his laws were always just a tool he used to manipulate and control them. This is almost the only violence we see the animal-people do under their own initiative (and the exception is something that's also easily interpreted as Lota taking revenge on somebody who abused her on Moreau's orders - though I'll note I missed the first ten minutes or so of the film, so I might have missed something). The most clearly objectionable and monstrous violence comes from Dr. Moreau!
I find it interesting to compare this to the 1996 The Island of Dr. Moreau movie, which felt like it basically went with a centrist-brained "Yeah, Dr. Moreau is kind of bad, but revolutionary violence is also bad and scary, and the animal-people are ugly and scary-looking so they're probably bad, so really, who can say who the real villain here is?" take. Island of Lost Souls had a more implicitly positive attitude toward the animal-people and their revolutionary violence, and a more implicitly condemnatory attitude toward Dr. Moreau!
On that note, interesting to note the differences between how the two films presented Dr. Moreau. In the 1996 movie he comes across as kind of an out-of-touch old weirdo who doesn't realize how dangerous the situation he's created is. Island of Lost Souls feels like it has a clearer idea that Dr. Moreau is an abuser, he knows exactly what he's doing, and when he finally messes up and gets himself killed it's through underestimating the cleverness, and, perhaps, the humanity of his victims, in a way that rings pretty true for the kind of mistake an arrogant abusive petty tyrant might make. Motherfucker makes his electricity by chaining people up and forcing them to turn a crank!
Also interesting to note that the movie does something pretty close to just letting the animal-people win and benefit from doing that. It throws in a line about how soon the fire will destroy all of Moreau's work but, really, it's pretty easy to interpret the ending as the animal-people kill Dr. Moreau and end his tyranny over them, are liberated, survive, and are left to try to build their own society without him, basically getting about the happiest ending for them that they plausibly could have.
Side note: watching the scene where Lota throws the book in the pool gave me the same kind of feeling I got reading The Sisters of Dorley. I was like, man, if that was me I think I'd be better at solidarity than this protagonist, I'd realize the abusive cult leader is probably not going to just let me leave after what I've seen, I'd realize that me and Lota are likely both Moreau's victims and thus likely have common interests, I'd be less condescending about her probably not knowing what a radio is and I'd suggest that building one is a possible escape strategy for both of us, when I saw her claws I would not tattle on her to the people she's clearly afraid of for reasons that should be pretty easy to imagine given what this guy has already seen so far.
I feel like there are actually some very striking parallels between Dorley and Moreau's cult and there's probably an interesting gender studies essay in poking at that. Could totally see the Dorley girls having some kind of ritual where they recite some code of conduct with each rule accompanied by the rhetorical question "Are we not women?" or giving their surgeon an aggressively cutesy-feminine pink novelty mug with "Hers is the hand that heals. Hers is the hand that hurts," written on it in fancy text with a couple of heart symbols next to it.
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I've seen bits of the 1996 film adaptation of The Island of Dr. Moreau before. While the plot is interesting, it has a values dissonance attached due to not aging well.
Hmmm
I've search it and it's uhh different from the movie I watch back in high-school
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Round 1 poll 7: Fraszka from the 2004 Warsaw production of Cats! the musical vs Azazello from the 1996 adaptation of The Island Of Dr. Moreau
Propaganda under the cut:
Fraszka:
Okay, so in 2004 there was a production of Cats which is widely known as the first Non-Replica, which means it doesn't use the same costumes/choreo/theming as the West End and Broadway productions. Cats has a lot of nonreps, like a weird number of "what if they were cats.... in a circus" productions, and at least one "what if the cats were in a WWII bunker in London?" production. So Cats Warsaw is kinda set on a closed film studio, and kinda on a roof in Warsaw. And for some reason in this nonrep they had just loads of characters. Like 36 characters, and seven of them are original. That's where Fraszka comes in. She's a Warsaw exclusive kitten and she is the love of my life. She's so bubbly and excitable and lovely. She looks a little like a racoon. She's a random chorus character. She's inexplicably on the Wikipedia page for Cats. She's almost indistinguishable from Kocik Le Miau, an adult character. I had to recheck my reference guides for Warsaw to double check the Wikipedia pic is her. I have included her in a fic. I don't have a 100% rate of recognising her. I think I might be her 2nd biggest fan on all of Tumblr. I'm not sure if she sings any lines by herself. And I don't speak a word of Polish. Well that's a lie, I know several Cats themed words in Polish. The picture included is the one of her on Wikipedia.
Azazello:
Everyone except me hates that movie and Azazello used to be a Saint Bernard
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here's my classification system in case it's helpful <3
top secret! (1984) my beloved
kill me again (1989) is his honeymoon movie with his then-wife
if you love val as ice you'd love him in this → thunderheart (1992), tombstone (1993)
fun & corny romance (they're not mutually exclusive) → the saint (1997), at first sight (1999)
dad looks dad bod early 00s val kilmer (my favorite) → the salton sea (2003), spartan (2004), kiss kiss bang bang (2005)
val and tony scott double joint again → true romance (1993), deja vu (2006)
also barely watchable to me but val looks so good in it so i just wing it → the island of dr. moreau (1996), the ghost and the darkness (1996)
THANKSSS OMGGG I have been dying for a rec bc letterboxd is genuinely so unhelpful sometimes 😭😭 and then I got scared off by his filmography but now I’m just Slightly motivated to resume so THANK YOUUUU 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 I shall check back in to let y’all know how my binge goes 😎
#excited to be a kilmerologist#it’s like. it’s like scientologist but kilm- [.99 calibre bullets get fired into my head instantly]#ask
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