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John Sturges Western remake of Akira Kurosawa’s THE SEVEN SAMURAI (‘56): THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (‘60)
YES PLEASE, let’s watch, rewatch, discuss, admire, and then write fan fiction.
hey shoutout to fanfic writers who preface their fics with “english isn’t my first language so please excuse any mistakes!” and then proceeds to have flawless wonderful english that could make me weep
extra loud shoutout to fanfic writers who’s first language isn’t english and who doesn’t have perfect english when writing but still writes and publishes and want to share what’s in their hearts with fandom i see y’all and you’re amazing
We are indeed, but maybe a way out of “Not a native speaker, please excuse my mistakes” would be to find a reliable native speaker (in the best possible scenario, another fan of the film or show you’re writing in) who would (1) spot said mistakes (2) suggest alternatives.
Cate Blanchett, Emily Blunt and Zhou Xun suited up for IWC Schaffhausen’s ad campaign.
I am shooketh. 😮
Women make tuxedos look so much sexier.
An important perspective in light of recent events.
Love and admire him. A voice of reason who talks clearly enough to be understood by people at all levels of education. We need many more such voices in Australia and elsewhere.
VIDEO: Living Under Israel’s Missiles
Four boys of the Bakr family were killed by a missile strike during last year’s incursion. Their surviving family members are still scarred from the attack.
More than anyone, children bear the brunt of regular Israeli military assaults on the Gaza Strip. During the 51-day war in the summer of 2014, 551 children were killed and 3,436 were injured. But these gruesome figures say little about the psychological state of the nearly 800,000 children who have survived the periodic bombing campaigns. After the final cease-fire that ended Israel’s Operation Protective Edge on August 26 of last year, UNICEF estimated that at least 425,000 Palestinian children in the besieged Gaza Strip require “immediate psychosocial and child protection support.”
[ The physical wounds of Gaza children might have healed, but they live with enduring psychological trauma ]
Vintage women being badass. You’re welcome.
Don’t fool yourself into thinking ladies were demure and silent in the past.
I would like more female characters being this open
“I’ll die for you.”
“Thanks.”
(applauds wildly). Badass women were not totally uncommon in the past either. In an Italian 16th-C poem there’s a warrior maiden who, when defined by a knight as a man’s property, (1) replies “I don’t belong to anyone but myself / so anyone who desires me must take me from myself” (2) gets on her horse, fight the knight, defeats him, and rides off.
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