Fantasmic! with Wizard Victor
I like cinema, animation, art, Disney, sci-fi/fantasy, comics, toys, and Discworld.
Some say I'm eccentric, others say I'm annoying. Sometimes I go on rants, but usually I'm a pretty chill guy.
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Fred McFeely Rogers (March 20, 1928 – February 27, 2003)
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Part of my about me project for COM…of course I had to make something sunday crew..I’m no artist >.> But I love you all
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Random request week results 2 of 3.
“The Disney Princesses at high tea, drawn to look like their film’s ages (Snow White is 75, Cinderella is 62,...
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Happy Birthday Roy E. Disney (January 10, 1930)
Filmmaker Spotlight: Fred Astaire
20th century dancing started with one man, Fred Astaire. The great Gene Kelly once said that “the history of dance on film begins with Astaire”. Without this tall, nimble man, modern dancing wouldn’t exist in its present form today. Many classical dancers and choreographers have acknowledged his importance and influence.
Fred Astaire was born on May 10, 1899 as Frederick Austerlitz and began dancing in a vaudeville act. His family changed their last name to Astaire, as Austerlitz sounded like “the name of a battle.” Astaire eventually transitioned to Broadway and London before moving to Hollywood and teaming up with Ginger Rogers in a series of successful musical films including Flying Down to Rio, The Gay Divorcee, Swing Time, and Shall We Dance. He was also featured in the legendary Ziegfeld Follies, dancing alongside Gene Kelly.
A legendary Hollywood story goes that, during his screen test for RKO Pictures, the report read: “Can’t sing. Can’t act. Can dance a little.”
The movies of Astaire represented the best of the Golden Age of Hollywood when movies were thought of only as great escapism. In particular, the films of Astaire and Rogers were so successful because they were made during the Great Depression, when audiences needed a diversion from the troubles of real life.
Fred Astaire made tap-dancing famous. His sense of rhythm and technical control were astonishing, yet it always seemed as though he was doing it effortlessly. Whereas Gene Kelly’s dancing was athletic and muscular, Astaire remains elegant, graceful, and precise. Simple as it may look, he had to rehearse for weeks before he could completely perfect his routines
He said of dancing:
“Working out the steps is a very complicated process—something like writing music. You have to think of some step that flows into the next one, and the whole dance must have an integrated pattern. If the dance is right, there shouldn’t be a single superfluous movement. It should build to a climax and stop!”
Furthermore, he was responsible for two dancing innovations in musical films. 1) Keeping a camera stationary while the performer dances and making the cuts as seamless as possible (usually with long shots), and 2) Integrating the song-and-dance routines into the story, progressing the narrative.
I drew Frozart
Can I please be Brianne when I grow up? *__*
Pick of the Week: The Blues Brothers (1980)
As a native Chicagoan, I’ve felt a sense of ownership towards two films, as have other Second City kids. One is Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, the other is The Blues Brothers. Two wildly different films involving fast cars and avoiding the authorities. One was sweet and coming-of-age, the other was edgy and wildly raucous.
I mention the Windy City because the humor that comes out of this film is so quintessentially Chicago. Of course, actor John Belushi was born and raised in Chicago, and Dan Aykroyd spent quite a bit of type there. Though Belushi and Aykroyd were associated with New York and Saturday Night Live by the late 70s, the type of humor displayed in this film is completely Second City, improv included.
The Blues Brothers is a very offbeat film. There’s a lot of car chases, swearing, law-breaking, and overall crudeness in the movie, yet it still manages to be endearing. The musical numbers in the film, a huge love letter to R&B, come off as fresh and exciting, despite their age. Especially when Curtis, played by the legendary Cab Calloway, dons his zoot suit one last time for a performance of Minnie the Moocher. Only in Chicago can such edgy and hot music be considered sweet and nostalgic.
Probably of all the films that director John Landis has done, The Blues Brothers is his most mainstream. All his other successes, from An American Werewolf in London to The Three Amigos, are genre cult pictures. He belongs to a certain group of geek culture filmmakers inspired by the works of Forrest J Akerman (other directors include Joe Dante, Ray Harryhausen, Frank Oz, Peter Jackson, and in his early years, Steven Spielberg). Here, John Landis directs an SNL act, and that requires abandoning the LA film studio mindset. Despite this, he still manages to slip in a few Hollywood trademarks including “See You Next Wednesday” and cameos by Paul Reubens and Steven Spielberg.
The Blues Brothers was, and will probably forever be, the most successful SNL spin-off flick (alongside Wayne’s World) due to the energy of Belushi and Aykroyd. It’s also, hands down, one of the funniest, most explosive films ever. Its cult-like status has created a certain sense of nostalgia for the 1980s, where parties were rampant and we didn’t worry as much. It’s a dirty, elbow grease, hard-boiled, overindulgent film, but that just makes it all the more fascinating.
“To me, that is Rapunzel’s world, and the idea that this girl is making her walls go away by painting on them—I love that.” - Glen Keane on Rapunzel’s tower in Tangled
Future Academy Award Winner Leonardo DiCaprio
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Introducing the Couture de Force collection by Cyndy Bohonovsky. These are truly stunning pieces! Hit up her Facebook page for this collection and see even more detailed shots!
Available 7/15:
Available 11/15: (Edit: Just spoke to original designer, and she says these three were not done by her, will update when I find designer.)
Pre-order packs can also be found here.
but ohmygosh the Ariel one is so flawless i cannot even handle it.
A few years back, when Disney announced that they were making a new Muppets movie, everybody got excited. This would be the first Muppets film since Muppets in Space and it would herald a revival of sorts for the franchise that started with Jim Henson back in 1955.
So it was announced that…
And then the art style changed….
