Chaplin may be the only person who really hurt Hitler.
Louis C.K. (via afterthereconciliation)
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick, American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor. (via tfachicago)

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“This long shot here is split into two: the back of the house and the front. That was because we wanted the sun at the back in the beginning of the shot. And so coming up here is a wipe. So there´s a cut there. And this bit was shot at the end of the day, so we got the sun in the front of the house. So there´s two suns. A bit cheeky, but I don´t think anyone really notices.
We wanted to create an atmosphere where you got led into the environment with Elizabeth. We got to know them with her. And the mess. The idea that it´s a house full of hormones, basically.”

(Joe Wright, Director)

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Ahead of watching almost six hours of shakespeare, BBC’s Hollow Crown series, I decided to draw Tom Hiddleston (Prince Hal). Not amazingly realistic but I am happy with it. Going to try again with a picture as the Prince, any excuse to stare at his face for a couple of hours I guess.

Ahead of watching almost six hours of shakespeare, BBC’s Hollow Crown series, I decided to draw Tom Hiddleston (Prince Hal). Not amazingly realistic but I am happy with it. Going to try again with a picture as the Prince, any excuse to stare at his face for a couple of hours I guess.

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Keep shooting and have fun experimenting…take every opportunity even if it doesn’t seem like it’s what you want to be doing at the time. On every picture you will meet someone you will feel close to creatively and will want to work with again. Try and meet people who want to tell stories the same way you want to, and build that group; on every project you learn something. Just be daring and don’t be stuck in set ways and apply the same approach over and over again. You will find a new language when you take chances. The payoff it offers is that we’re not all manufacturing the same product.
Phedon Papamichael (via needsolace)
If it’s too perfect, you don’t believe it. I want it a little out of focus. I don’t want you to admire the image. You never stop to look - so you feel.
John Cassavetes (via johncassavetes)

Phantom of the Opera

I went to see the London production of Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre yesterday. Something I have been counting down to all the way through my exams when I first booked the tickets. Phantom of the Opera is my absolute favourite musical, after seeing the film and 25th Anniversary version, it didn’t disappoint in the slightest. Just like Frankenstein is the most fantastic play I have ever seen, Phantom of the Opera will always be the best musical I have seen.

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“Softly, deftly, music shall caress you,Hear it, feel it, secretly posess you.Open up your mind, Let your fantasies unwind.In this darkness that you know you cannot fight,The darkness of the music of the night.” Peter Jöback as the Phantom and Sofia Escobar as Christine Daaé.

“Softly, deftly, music shall caress you,
Hear it, feel it, secretly posess you.
Open up your mind,
Let your fantasies unwind.
In this darkness that you know you cannot fight,
The darkness of the music of the night.”

Peter Jöback as the Phantom and Sofia Escobar as Christine Daaé.

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What I’d give to see it again.

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The mood of tragedy is enhanced by a strong contrast of deep blacks and glaring whites - shadows and highlights. In drama we light for mood, we paint poems. Lighting with its ups and downs becomes a symphonic construction paralleling the dramatic sequences.
John Alton  (via movietalkplease)