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Tinny Logan

@tinnylogan

20 days ago

A $1 Camera That Actually Works!

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The Forge 🍿

@TheForgexx

about 1 month ago

Nicolas Cage’s performance as Johnny Blaze in ‘GHOST RIDER’ (2007) remains one of the strangest and most unforgettable performances in comic-book cinema. When Johnny transforms into the Spirit of Vengeance for the first time, Cage refused to simply let the visual effects carry the scene. Instead, he approached the transformation as a physical and psychological breakdown, drawing from his own performance ideas that he described as “Nouveau Cirque” and “Western Kabuki.” As Johnny’s flesh burns away and his human form gives way to a flaming skull, Cage contorts his body, twists his movements into unnatural shapes and screams as if he is experiencing genuine agony. The CGI created the Ghost Rider, but Cage supplied the pain, fear and madness behind the transformation. And Cage’s obsession with comic books went far beyond the role itself. His stage surname, Cage, was inspired by Marvel’s Luke Cage. He named his son Kal-El, after Superman’s Kryptonian birth name, and had previously been attached to some of the most famous unmade comic-book projects in Hollywood, including Tim Burton’s Superman Lives. Ghost Rider was finally his chance to step into a live-action Marvel role. The production also went to unusual lengths to make Ghost Rider look like Cage. The visual-effects team used a detailed scan of Cage’s actual skull as part of the process of creating the character’s digital skull, helping preserve recognizable elements of his facial structure beneath the flames. There was also an ironic problem with Cage’s real-life Ghost Rider tattoo. He already had a large Ghost Rider skull tattoo on his arm, but Johnny Blaze wasn’t supposed to have one. So the makeup department had to spend hours covering Cage’s actual tattoo before filming. Then came the famous abs scene. When Johnny Blaze looks at his ridiculously ripped physique in the mirror, some viewers assumed Cage’s body had been digitally enhanced. Director Mark Steven Johnson later confirmed on the DVD commentary that Cage’s physique was real. Cage eventually joked about the skepticism: “That’s why I will never work out that hard again, because nobody wanted to believe they were real.” And despite being a Marvel film, Ghost Rider also became notable for something it didn’t contain: a Stan Lee cameo. Lee had no role in creating the original Ghost Rider character, who was created by Roy Thomas, Gary Friedrich and Mike Ploog, although Lee was credited as an executive producer on the movie. What makes Cage’s Ghost Rider so fascinating is that he never seemed interested in playing Johnny Blaze conventionally. He went completely over the top. The strange movements. The theatrical expressions. The physical pain. The flaming skull. The leather. The motorcycle. Even the way Johnny transforms. It was Nicolas Cage treating a comic-book character less like a conventional superhero and more like an operatic creature of horror. And whether you love or hate Ghost Rider, there is one thing that’s difficult to deny: Nobody else could have played Nicolas Cage’s Ghost Rider quite like Nicolas Cage did.

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Pink Floyd 💎

@Just_pinkfloyd

about 2 months ago

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day Fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town Waiting for someone or something to show you the way Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today And then one day you find ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older Shorter of breath and one day closer to death Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say Home, home again I like to be here when I can And when I come home cold and tired It's good to warm my bones beside the fire Far away, across the field The tolling of the iron bell Calls the faithful to their knees To hear the softly spoken magic spell