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Give me a fictional character and i will say:

Favorite thing about them:

Least favorite thing about them:

Three things i have in common with them:

Three things i don’t have in common with them:

Favorite line:

brOTP:

OTP:

nOTP:

Random Headcanon:

Unpopular Opinion:

Song i associate with them:

Favorite picture of them:

I am curious to see this one aplied to public domain fairy tale characters.

PS: I have an ask box. Don’t need to put the ask in the reblog.

So I wanna share a story .In around 1959 or 1960, a nursing student was begged by a friend to join her on a double date,the friend was seeing her fiance who brought a friend of his own,and reluctantly the nursing student went .The nursing student met this kind of quiet nerdy guy ,and she wasnt impressed .The four went to a movie (Either starring Marilyn Munroe or Bridgette Bardot ,no party could recall ) ,and it became quite apparent to the nursing student and the nerd ,this was just an excuse for the couple to make out .So here were two people who reallly didnt want to be there ,next to a couple fully under the power of Aphrodite ,and to top it the movie was pretty bad .So with nothing really to do the nerd and the nursing student just started mocking the film making fun of it the whole way through.They actually got compliments from folks who felt their commentary was more entertaining then the film .Well while it wasnt a great date they had fun but the pair went their seprate ways and that seemed to be that ....Sometime later,the Nerdy guy called the Nursing Student ,he had some tickets for a football game,didnt have a steady girlfriend, but rembered the nursing student and wanted to invite her. the Nursing Student didnt have anything better to do ,so she accepted and they went on a date....Which lead to another .....And another and by the end of 61 the pair were married ,and remained so for 51 years

The nursing student was my grandma and the nerdy guy was my grandfather .I got premission to share this charming story ,hope you enjoyed

"And then their grandson wrote a script for a movie about how they met that he refuses to sell Hollywood because he wants to produce and direct this film as an independent work... someday it will leave the development hell, we swear!"

So I wanna share a story .In around 1959 or 1960, a nursing student was begged by a friend to join her on a double date,the friend was seeing her fiance who brought a friend of his own,and reluctantly the nursing student went .The nursing student met this kind of quiet nerdy guy ,and she wasnt impressed .The four went to a movie (Either starring Marilyn Munroe or Bridgette Bardot ,no party could recall ) ,and it became quite apparent to the nursing student and the nerd ,this was just an excuse for the couple to make out .So here were two people who reallly didnt want to be there ,next to a couple fully under the power of Aphrodite ,and to top it the movie was pretty bad .So with nothing really to do the nerd and the nursing student just started mocking the film making fun of it the whole way through.They actually got compliments from folks who felt their commentary was more entertaining then the film .Well while it wasnt a great date they had fun but the pair went their seprate ways and that seemed to be that ....Sometime later,the Nerdy guy called the Nursing Student ,he had some tickets for a football game,didnt have a steady girlfriend, but rembered the nursing student and wanted to invite her. the Nursing Student didnt have anything better to do ,so she accepted and they went on a date....Which lead to another .....And another and by the end of 61 the pair were married ,and remained so for 51 years

The nursing student was my grandma and the nerdy guy was my grandfather .I got premission to share this charming story ,hope you enjoyed

"And then their grandson wrote a script for a movie about how they met that he refuses to sell Hollywood because he wants to produce and direct this film as an independent work... someday it will leave the development hell, we swear!"

Sometimes I think about how modern movie going was so diffrent for previous genertions

My grandma and my great aunt would go to the movies every weekend when they were young .Being a small town the theater showed two types of movies:Westerns on Saturdays ,Musicals on Sundays .Occasionally theyd show a religious epic like the Robe ,but that was it

I'm watching Oliver Twist 1948 and while gorgeously shot and mostly well casted......My main thought is "This is good but I'd rather be watching Oliver 1968"

Also YIKES to the Fagin makeup on Alec Guinness

Maureen O'Hara on her way to the set of “THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (RKO Radio Pictures, 1939), her American screen debut.

Actress Kathryn Adams was supposed to play Esméralda, but lost the role to 18-year-old Maureen O'Hara when Charles Laughton (male leading role as Quasimodo) cabled from Ireland to Hollywood that he was “bringing Esméralda”. Kathryn Adams played a companion of Fleur de Lys (Helene Whitney) as compensation for losing the role.

“Der Glöckner von Notre Dame” (1939)

Paris ist am Ende des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts im Wandel begriffen. Die Erfindung der Buchdruckkunst durch Johannes Gutenberg, die auch in der französischen Hauptstadt Einzug gehalten hat, symbolisiert zwar den Anbruch einer aufgeklärteren und fortschrittlicheren Epoche, doch sind die Menschen allenthalben noch von Aberglaube und Vorurteilen beherrscht. Die Zigeunerin Esmeralda (Maureen O’Hara) verschafft sich entgegen dem Bann, der für ihr Volk für Paris ausgesprochen wurde, Zutritt zu Paris und betet in der Kathedrale Notre Dame für die Verbesserung der Lebensumstände der Zigeuner. Dabei begegnet sie Frankreichs höchstem Richter Jean Frollo (Cedric Hardwicke), der sogleich in Leidenschaft für die attraktive junge Frau entbrennt. Der fortschrittliche, junge Poet Pierre Gringoire (Edmond O’Brien) gerät durch Zufall in die Fänge des Bettlerkönigs Clopin (Thomas Mitchell) und ist dem Tode geweiht, doch Esmeralda verheiratet sich aus Mitleid mit ihm, um sein Leben zu retten, während Pierre sie aufrichtig liebt. Eine Zuneigung, die sie erst später erwidern wird. Auf Frollos Geheiß entführt der missgestaltete und geistig zurückgebliebene Quasimodo (Charles Laughton), der Glöckner von Notre Dame, Esmeralda, wird aber bei seinem Vorhaben gestört, zur Strafe ausgepeitscht  und der öffentlichen Demütigung durch die Bevölkerung preisgegeben. Lediglich Esmeralda empfindet Mitgefühl für Quasimodo und gibt ihm Wasser zu trinken. Ob dieser rührenden Tat ist der Bucklige nunmehr bereit, für die junge Frau alles zu tun. Als Frollo Zeuge eines potentiellen Schäferstündchen zwischen Esmeralda und Hauptmann Phoebus (Alan Marshal) wird, ersticht er in rasender Eifersucht den Nebenbuhler. Der Verdacht fällt auf Esmeralda, die wegen Mordes vor Gericht gestellt wird, dem ausgerechnet Frollo vorsitzt. Esmeralda wird unter fadenscheinigen Begründungen und nach einem unter der Folter erzwungenen Geständnis zum Tode verurteilt, doch während der geplanten Hinrichtung entführt Quasimodo sie in die Sicherheit von Notre Dame … Der deutsche Emigrant Wilhelm Dieterle der seinen Vornamen zu William anglisierte, schuf 1939 eine zwar von der literarischen Vorlage mehrfach abweichende nichts desto trotz überaus eindrucksvolle Verfilmung des berühmten Romans von Victor Hugo, wobei vor allem die brillante schauspielerische Leistung von Charles Laughton als Quasimodo, die hervorragend choreographierten Massenszenen sowie die stimmungsvollen Kamerabilder von Joseph H. August hervorzuheben sind. Dieterles Film mit einem Drehbuch des renommierten Exilautoren Bruno Frank strahlt trotz seines im 15. Jahrhundert angesiedelten Geschehens ein immenses Kolorit seiner damaligen Entstehungszeit aus, das in einigen Szenen geradezu beklemmend wirkt - so unter anderem wenn Quasimodo Esmeralda vor dem scheinbar sicher geglaubten Tod mit dem leidenschaftlichen Ruf “Asylrecht!” rettet, wenn Esmeralda die permanente Verfolgung der Zigeuner beklagt und Frollo Esmeraldas Volk in der Originalfassung als “böse Rasse” schmäht, die es zu vernichten gelte.

Early makeup tests for The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

Charles Laughton, who played Quasimodo, went back and forth with makeup artist Perc Westmore in an attempt to find a look for the hunchback which he deemed suitable. The makeup artist, on loan to RKO from Warner Bros, was often frustrated and the notoriously difficult to please Laughton’s dissatisfaction with his various designs. 

This version of the makeup differs from the final version in several ways. The deformed eye is not only lowered but is partly obscured by a growth and is misaligned. The hair appears shorter and there is a noticeable boil of some kind above the upper lip.

“They found among all those hideous carcasses two skeletons, one of which held the other in its embrace. One of these skeletons, which was that of a woman, still had a few strips of a garment which had once been white, and around her neck was to be seen a string of adrézarach beads with a little silk bag ornamented with green glass, which was open and empty. These objects were of so little value that the executioner had probably not cared for them. The other, which held this one in a close embrace, was the skeleton of a man. It was noticed that his spinal column was crooked, his head seated on his shoulder blades, and that one leg was shorter than the other. Moreover, there was no fracture of the vertebrae at the nape of the neck, and it was evident that he had not been hanged. Hence, the man to whom it had belonged had come thither and had died there. When they tried to detach the skeleton which he held in his embrace, he fell to dust”

-The powerful final words of The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

Once he came at the moment when she was caressing Djali. He stood pensively for several minutes before this graceful group of the goat and the gypsy; at last he said, shaking his heavy and ill formed head, 

“My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should like to be wholly a beast like that goat.”

She gazed at him in amazement. He replied to the glance.

“Oh! I well know why,” and he went away.

”Not wanting to pain him, she resumed her song, and by degrees her fright wore off, till she abandoned herself wholly to the slow and plaintive measure of the air. He, the while, had remained upon his knees, his hands clasped as if in prayer—attentive, scarcely breathing—his gaze fixed on the gypsy’s radiant eyes. He seemed to hear the music of her voice in those twin stars.”

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