Everything is ok!

We had been looking into ways of getting her home for the holidays, how to deal with airlines and a sick passenger. Through a generous gift from Hubert de Givenchy, we flew home to Switzerland in his private jet. My mother had never splurged during her life, and she certainly would never have suggested [a private jet]. When | told her of Hubert’s gesture, her eyes filled with tears of joy and gratitude.

She urged me to get him on the line. We did. She could hardly speak. She was so overcome with emotion. All she could utter was “Oh, Hubert. . . je suis si touchée.” When she hung up, she looked up like a child, unbelieving at what he had just told her. “He said that I have been everything to him in his life." It is safe to say that the feeling was mutual. - SEAN HEPBURN FERRER

WONKA - CHRISTMAS '23

Timothée Chalamet in ‘Dune: Part Two’

My therapist recommended I enjoy things I liked as a child but she has no clue who’s she’s dealing with. Now I’m drawing fan art for fucking Willy Wonka

It's interesting that for so many years, I've been familiar both with Disney's Snow White and with Romeo and Juliet, but until someone else online pointed it out, I never noticed the strong Romeo and Juliet vibes in the scenes between Snow White and her Prince.

I first saw this pointed out some time ago, on a site which suggested that the 1936 film version of Romeo starring Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer may have influenced those scenes in Snow White.

Now I'll never un-see it again.

During "One Song," of course, Snow White is on a balcony, with the Prince wooing her from the courtyard below. That's a blatantly obvious parallel.

Then there's the final scene. Like Juliet, Snow White lies on a bier in a state that looks like death, but isn't really death, and the Prince kisses her lips, just like Romeo kisses Juliet's.

And both kisses are followed moments later by the girl reviving, though of course in Juliet's case it's not the kiss that revives her, and Snow White is lucky enough to wake up to a still-living Prince.

I suppose it's only fitting that for their first human romantic couple, Disney should look to the most famous pair of lovers in all of fiction for inspiration.

And to add to all this, Adriana Caselotti, the voice of Snow White, is also the voice who says "Wherefore art thou Romeo?" in "If I Only Had a Heart" in The Wizard of Oz! I forgot about that until now!

I was just looking over Snow White's Wikipedia page for an unrelated reason, and found out that at a production meeting in 1936, Walt Disney specifically mentioned the new Romeo and Juliet film and recommended that the animators study the scene of Romeo's final speech over Juliet's bier as inspiration for the blocking of the Love's First Kiss scene.

I only wish I could find a still from that movie of Howard kissing Shearer in that scene to compare it with the Snow White kiss.

At any rate, it's clear from the above still of the balcony scene that the Disney animators also drew inspiration for "One Song" from that particular moment, right down to the exact angle of the balcony and of Romeo below it. And as @ariel-seagull-wings has pointed out, Snow White's hairstyle is similar to Shearer's hairstyle as Juliet, although slightly shorter.

In the list of Shakespearean influences on Disney, the influence of Romeo on Snow White and the Prince's love scenes deserves attention right along with the Hamlet-like aspects of The Lion King!

I watched the tomb scene from the 1936 movie, and the blocking as Romeo approaches Juliet’s bier does look similar to the Prince approaching Snow White’s coffin. But the kisses don’t look alike. Howard’s Romeo is holding Shearer’s Juliet in his arms when he kisses her, and he squishes her in a slightly undignified way during the kiss. That’s why I’ve kept the 1968 Leonard Whiting/Olivia Hussey still of the Romeo kiss in this post, because it looks more similar to the graceful, dignified kiss of Snow White’s Prince.

That small difference is justified, though. Romeo and Juliet were already married, and there’s no other living person in the tomb. Whereas the Prince and Snow White were not married and the dwarfs are watching, so the Prince has to be more seemly.

being unwilling to accept degradation on any level as a woman makes people so mad at you lmao. no i will not exist and walk around like i am here to be performative art and not a human being fuck you

Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998)

Sleeping Beauty AU where the princess was born on a Leap Day, so when the evil fairy curses her to prick her finger “on her 16th birthday”, her family realizes that’s not the same thing as her 16th year of life and she’ll actually be in her 60′s when it happens.

By the time the Royal Counsellor has finished speaking the King looks slightly less like he might faint and the Queen actually looks a little hopeful.

“Are you certain?” she pressed.

“Absolutely,” the Counsellor assured her. “I had one of my clerks take notes during all the fairy’s speeches for the exact purpose of studying their phrasing.”

“What,” the King blinked. “Even the good ones?”

The counsellor sniffed. “Especially the good ones.”

“So…so we can truly argue that it is the birthday that counts and not the passing of the years?” asked the Queen, colour returning to her cheeks.

“Indeed!” the Counsellor said with a smile. “So if my math is correct your daughter will be sixty-four when the curse enters into effect.”

“That is hardly what I would call a long and prosperous life!” the King protested.

“Ah, but it does give her Royal Highness the Princess a lot more time to find this contractually necessary one true love,” his Counsellor explained. “Quite a reasonable amount of time I would say, if she happens to be of a romantic and monogamous persuasion, of course.”

The royal couple looked equal parts relieved and bewildered.

“But there’s no need to worry about that just yet,” the Counsellor said comfortingly. “And besides. Times are moving on. That is the entire reason we have the High Court of Magical Justice. Why, just last month a transformed prince was kissed back to human by his platonic life partner after successful litigation against the original layer of the curse! It is riveting caselaw.”

“…this is a good thing, yes?” the King ventured.

“Very good,” the Counsellor nodded.

“Well then!” Her Majesty the Queen beamed. “In that case, I say we continue the celebrations!”

“Quite right, Your Majesty, quite right,” the Counsellor said with a bow. “If you need me, I shall be in my study.”

It is a tenet of contract law that the meanings of contractual language are construed against its drafters. I think it makes perfect sense to interpret the language of curses against their casters as well.

Better curse breaking through semantic specificity.

odette costume (1977) for anne woolliams’ swan lake // designed by tom lingwood and photographed by nick manuell

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audrey hepburn as natasha rostova in “war & peace” (1956). costume design by hubert de givenchy .

Kylo Ren Escorting Rey as His Prisoner

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