Better to have just 1 Egg in a decade w/ meaning, as a masterpiece representing our epoch in museums once a year to bring a true miracle to the masses, rather than making all this cheap stuff. #HouseOfFabergé
When it comes to the House of Fabergé, my mind goes to: the eggs, the eggs, & “Oh! The Eggs.” What happened to its soul? Why make cheap trinkets inlaid with nature’s raw gifts? A benefactor should take it under their wing — art is far more important than money.
#HarryPotterHBO From the very beginning, I expected cast changes throughout the seasons, so it's no wonder to me that even the main roles might be recast, and perhaps more than once. It’s better to focus on the storyline.
The BBC just released a new adaptation of Lord of the Flies, the classic novel by William Golding. It's beautifully made, but it's still telling the wrong story.
A few years ago, I went looking for the *real* Lord of the Flies. I wanted to know: has it ever actually happened? Have kids ever been shipwrecked on a deserted island?
It took me a year of research, but I found it. In 1965, six boys from a boarding school in Tonga stole a boat, got caught in a storm, and drifted for eight days without food or water. They washed up on 'Ata, a remote, uninhabited island in the Pacific. They stayed there for 15 months, and what happened on that island was the exact opposite of William Golding's novel.
These boys set up a small commune. They built a food garden, stored rainwater in hollowed-out tree trunks, created a gym with improvised weights, and built a badminton court. One of them, Stephen (who would later become an engineer) managed to start a fire using two sticks. They kept it burning the entire time.
Of course they fought too. But then they argued, they had a rule: go to opposite ends of the island, cool down, then come back and apologize. As one of them told me: ‘That's how we stayed friends.’
Back home, everyone assumed that the boys – Luke, Stephen, Sione, David, Kolo and Mano — were dead. When they were finally discovered by an Australian captain named Peter Warner, he radioed their names to Tonga. After twenty minutes, a tearful response came back: ‘You found them! These boys have been given up for dead. Funerals have been held. If it's them, this is a miracle!’
Peter commissioned a new ship, hired all six boys as his crew, and named the boat the Ata, after the island where he found them. They remained friends for the rest of their lives – Peter and Mano even became soulmates. I tracked them down, and it became one of the central chapters of my book Humankind.
Here's what struck me most: William Golding (the author of Lord of the Flies) was a troubled man, an alcoholic who once said ‘I have always understood the Nazis, because I am of that sort by nature.’ I think he was projecting his own darkness onto children. And we turned it into a lesson about human nature that we teach to millions of kids around the world.
I think the real lesson is the opposite. When real children found themselves alone on a real island, they didn't descend into savagery. They cooperated, they took care of each other, they survived.
I'm not saying that the Tongan castaways were representative of all kids everywhere. But I am saying that every kid who has to read or watch the fictional Lord of the Flies also deserves to know what actually happened when it played out in real life.
Stories are never just stories. We become the stories that we tell ourselves.
HBO CEO Casey Bloys says new 'A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS' seasons will be released annually
"It is something that, where it's possible creatively, to get back to that and we'd like to try and do that"
(via: Deadline)
other thing I just saw is the 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 – smthng’s not ok w/ it: 1st season is promising and cool, the 2nd’s the copied version of the 1st w/ some additions, and the rest just a perfectly made scheme job
btw, can’t say I liked the film a lot, BUT it contains very deep hedonistic line fuelled by music accompanied us thru the picture as if it’d to lead us to smth (but it won’t), n the film ending doesn’t appear as it should b, like the music’s still playing tho the credits r over
why in films w/ vampires in it they often present as very gracious n wealthy characters n never a broke n pity ones? like, u know, w/ coming years I'm realising that I am more up to «vampires» like in the #WhatWeDointheShadows or #OnlyLoversLeftAlive type of films