Bruce Willis told Samuel L. Jackson to find a recurring role "everybody loves" so that he'd be protected from box office flops.
“Bruce told me, 'Hopefully you’ll be able to find a character that, when you make bad movies and they don’t make any money, you can always go back to this character everybody loves,'" Jackson remembers. "He said, ‘Arnold’s got Terminator. Sylvester’s got Rocky and Rambo. I’ve got John McClane.’ I’m like, ‘Oh, okay.’ And it didn’t occur to me until I got that Nick Fury role—and I had a nine-picture deal to be Nick Fury—that, ‘Oh, I’m doing what Bruce said. I’ve got this character now.'”
Antoni Gaudi died 100 years ago today.
He was 73 and spent over 40 years working on La Sagrada Familia (completing 1/4th of entire basilica).
Gaudi’s method for designing it was genius: he hung movable weights on strings and let gravity do the work of showing the proper angles and force vectors for his nature-inspired look.
He then flipped the model upside down to see how to build the columns and arches.
Also inspired by forests and sea life, the legendary architect once said, “there are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature.”
In the final years of his life, Gaudi’s was solely focussed on the project. His diet was lettuce leafs dipped in milk. Lived inside the Basilica and barely slept on a simple cot.
He died after getting hit by a tram while walking aroudn Barcelona. His clothes was so ratty — underwear held together with safety pins — that passerbys thought he was homeless.
The city held a massive funeral for him with 30,000 people packing the streets.
While 3/4 of La Sagrada Familia was undone, Gaudi left enough plans (models, drawings) for future generations.
La Sagrada Familia was largely dormant for a few decades 1930s-1960s (Spanish Civil War, World War II, early Cold War).
Some of Gaudi’s designs were so ahead his time that it would require the development of aeronautical design software to complete his vision.
Gaudi once remarked that “my client” — referring to God — “is not in a hurry”.
There is still work to be done but a major milestone was completed in February: workers installed a cross on top of La Sagrada Familia, making it the tallest church in the world (172.5 meters or 566 feet).
It’s also the tallest structure in Barcelona. But Gaudi intentionally capped the height because “human creation should not pass God’s work.”
The Montjuïc Hill in the southwestern part of Barcelona is ~570 feet.
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¡Vemos por primera vez la torre de Jesucristo iluminada!
El espectáculo de luz iniciado desde la base hasta la iluminación de la cruz ha culminado con una composición de luces guiadas por drones, que han dibujado la figura de Gaudí y la frase «primero el amor, después la técnica».
not a movie but the 'How I Met Your Mother' finale is hailed as one of the worst sitcom conclusions due to the way it wasted away the shows entire buildup
Tracy dying with Ted running back to robin just felt so distasteful and rushed
Venezuela un país que a una gran mayoría de sus ciudadanos hay que reeducar de nuevo #5Jun
No puedo ser que debajo de un puente o en una esquina instalen una barbería.
Talleres de autos y motos en cualquier calle de un sector popular.
El facilísimo y la anarquía por doquier.
Comienza junio. Hace 36 años arrancaba Italia 90, uno de los mundiales con más mística en la historia. Y lo hacía con esta canción que los argentinos no podemos olvidar y, obviamente, la ligamos con Diego. Himno entre los himnos, "Un Estate Italiana". ¿Hubo alguno mejor?
I'm really trying to stay calm about the Odyssey movie, but what THE HECK IS THIS????????? This is supposed to be the official Odyssey cast photoshoot? Why can't we see masculinity anymore????? That's NOT Odysseus, that's Ben Stiller in Zoolander for crying out loud!!!!!🙄🙄🙄Boycott this freaking movie....
Amo Game of Thrones y es una de las mejores series jamas hechas, puede que la mejor. Eso NADIE lo puede negar.
Pero su final fue HORRIBLE. Y destruyó el legado que construyó durante casi 10 años.
El final no fue épico, ni emotivo, ni satisfactorio, ni siquiera tuvo sentido con la trama y los propios personajes que nos habían introducido a lo largo de 8 temporadas.
A día de hoy me siento estafado y ojalá hubiesen hecho el final con el mismo amor con el que empezaron la serie porque a día de hoy podría considerarse una obra maestra y me duele que no sea así.
Gracias a su “gran” final ahora ya no se sigue hablando de ella como se debería de una serie de su calibre.
De El Señor de los Anillos se sigue hablando mas o igual y han pasado mas de 20 años. Una autentica pena.
Este señor anda por Caracas trabajando a su manera. En una ciudad de trámites, copias, bolígrafos y funcionarios que te atienden como si te hacen un favor, encontrarlo es un alivio. Te asesora, te lleva, te busca, te trae, te vende, te anima y, al despedirse, te desea que todo salga bien.
Olvidé preguntarle su nombre, pero si lo ven, no duden en usar sus servicios.
Lo que pasó con Henry Nowak confirma que la policía de Inglaterra tiene ordenes directas de no proteger a sus ciudadanos y contribuir con la caída de la civilización Europea.
Henry Nowak de 18 años fue apuñalado por un indio, cuando la policía llegó Henry fue detenido mientras se desangraba porque el indio dijo que Henry había sido racista. Henry le pidió al policía ingles que le llamara a una ambulancia, el policía le respondió “no te creo” y murió minutos después.
Lo mas lamentable de todo esto es que los medios no han dado cobertura en absoluto solo porque no cumple con la narrativa. La víctima es blanca y el culpable es de ascendencia india.
If you’re a lesbian, you’re nothing but a lesbian.
You’re not queer, trans, intersex, asexual, or any of that other stupid bullshit.
You’re a real biological woman attracted to other real women. That’s it. Everything else is mental illness and cringe weirdo shit.
Fuck off, the whole goddamn lot of you.
That includes all the rest of you groomer men, fake lesbians pretending to be females on X.
Real lesbians see you and we fucking despise you. Block me know cunts.
The LGB is taking the rainbow back. You can have your retarded flags. 👌
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
As a lesbian woman, I fucking hate Pride Month with every fiber of my being.
It makes us look like absolute shit.
The entire LGB has been hijacked by groomers, men in cheap wigs with toilet-paper tits, freaks duct-taping their peanuts to their asses, pedophiles, fetish weirdos and every other kind of gross filth parading down the street.
Real gay, lesbian, and bisexual people want NOTHING to do with this circus.
We just want to be left the fuck alone.The LGB community condemns these degenerates and every organization pandering to them.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk. 🖕
As a lesbian woman, I fucking hate Pride Month with every fiber of my being.
It makes us look like absolute shit.
The entire LGB has been hijacked by groomers, men in cheap wigs with toilet-paper tits, freaks duct-taping their peanuts to their asses, pedophiles, fetish weirdos and every other kind of gross filth parading down the street.
Real gay, lesbian, and bisexual people want NOTHING to do with this circus.
We just want to be left the fuck alone.The LGB community condemns these degenerates and every organization pandering to them.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk. 🖕
Puede ser porque el dinero de los Venezolanos fue robado para financiar todos los partidos zurdos de Latam que ustedes tanto apoyan?
Eso podría ser.
Quizá.