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#paul mescal #the history of sound
#sometimes, I think to myself, that Paul Mescal is a work of art.
i'm fucking STARVING for this man. omg his nose??? really, beautiful, a handsome man!!!
#paul mescal #jessie buckley
#I have read the book by Maggie O'Farrell. It's heartbreaking but so well written.
#Take your box of tissues to the cinema for the film adaptation.
#Having to wait at least 7 months for this is too long.
Ranked 9th among the most anticipated films of the upcoming Awards Season is the historical drama by Chloé Zhao (Oscar winner for Nomadland), produced by, among others, Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes. The film is based on the acclaimed novel Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2020.
Set in 16th-century England, Hamnet tells the story of William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) and his wife Agnes (Jessie Buckley), a healer deeply connected to nature, as they face the overwhelming grief of losing their 11-year-old son Hamnet to the plague. The film explores themes of mourning, love, and resilience, offering an intimate glimpse into Shakespeare’s private life and the profound sorrow that would later inspire his iconic tragedy, Hamlet.
The screenplay, co-written by Zhao and O'Farrell, promises a faithful and emotionally engaging adaptation of the novel. Cinematography by Łukasz Żal (Cold War, Ida) ensures a visually refined experience. With its poignant story, high-profile production, and powerful performances, Hamnet stands out as one of the most eagerly awaited contenders for awards recognition.
#paul mescal #gracie abrams
#How am I only just finding out that Paul is with Gracie in New Zealand?
#I live in Perth, Western Australia, and Gracie will be here in May.
#The thought that Paul might be with Gracie in Perth makes me giddy.
#Thank you for sharing the photo. I am cheered up after a not so great day.
#I love Paul Mescal, in case I did not say this before.
New photo whit Gracie ..
Not to ruin weekends but yes... he's in NZ with G
#paul mescal #time lord
#I am playing a new video game called Old Skies, a game about time travel, which got me thinking about my favourite actor (Paul Mescal) and time travel.
#This post cements in my mind that Paul is a master of time and space LOL.
#hot priests...*sigh*
o padre da ponta da direita, se bater o olho rápido, no susto, dá pra perceber uma semelhança com o paul mescal em normal people e tipo, isso me deu TANTOS PENSAMENTOS PENSANTES VEYR---
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#Whoever has Paul's babies should know that it's a high honour to continue the Mescal bloodline.
#Of course Paul is terrific in bed. Y'all watched Normal People, Carmen and All of Us Strangers, right?
#I also am dubious on the hotel room trashing.
Some stuff about Paul in FM's new 'I Have Tea On...' thread. Funny how the same sort of things get brought up about him e.g. spin the bottle, crying after sex, ditching hookups, etc.
I do sorta believe the hotel comment though lol. Messy lad.
I have heard these rumors so much I can't help but believe them. He is a messy, sad boy. Although, I can't help but feel like we would have heard the smashing up hotels before though?
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#Paul Mescal's beautiful smile and perfect legs give me a reason to live.
#How lucky we are, to be living at the same time as him.
#This photo makes my friend in the group chat have feelings that she should not have LOL.
# My Irish king always eats and leaves no crumbs.
#aaaaaAAAAAaaaaa
#I just finished the game today, and I loved it too.
#The printer sound is so very satisfying.
#There is so much reading involved, but it's worth it.
Have you ever gotten pavlov'd into getting excited when your printer turns on
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#Hannolucius v Glyceo (gifs 4 to 7) is my Roman Empire
#I like how 'Hannolucius' looks like 'Hannolicius'
#Hannolicius is my new favourite adjective
Hannolucius on the ground and on his hands and knees <3 kicked, punched, tackled, and thrown pt 1
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#Paul's magnificent thigh in the second gif omg
#these gifs are class, so thank you
#For the last gif, I imagined David Attenborough narrating with, "Now, the males face off, to establish their dominance."
Hannolucius on the ground and on his hands and knees pt 2 rolling on the ground, thrown, kicked, and fighting
I still get chills when I think about the masterpiece that is Gladiator. 💯
Gladiator (2000) + quotes
Paul, I heard that there's a line in the script, something along the lines of Lucius has become Maximus. I'd love for you to take me to the day on set when you had to sort of film that note. What that line meant to you when you read it and and how you convey something like that as an actor.
"You convey it through the brilliance of how Ridley works visually, like you can't obviously morph into somebody you're not, but what I think the line is implying is that he is ready to step into a leadership role. The whole journey for Lucius in the film was going from an individual to a reluctant leader, so when he puts on Maximus's armour, you see that he is ready to step into his bloodline, his legacy and to leader the gladiators around him."
"That line is symbolic and spiritual. And to play it is subjective. There's no one single way to skin that. A different actor would go a totally different way with it. But I think what the screenplay means by that is that Lucius is finally stepping into his responsibility as a leader of these men. It’s a moment where he shifts his perspective from himself onto the greater responsibility of what's happening to Rome. That's how I interpreted that line. Up until that point, Lucius has just been driven by revenge. But that’s when he changes."
Paul Mescal on "Lucius Becomes Maximus": ExtraTV / Esquire
I love both Paul and Pedro, and their characters in Gladiator II. 😍
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PEDRO PASCAL ⏤ Gladiator II | Training
Paul is so handsome. 🥰
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Paul Mescal | Oscars (2023)
The Use of Colour in Gladiator II: Black, Part 1
Once again before I get into it, here's my copy and paste from previous iterations of this: I referred quite a bit to some of my favourite books, The World According to Colour: A Cultural History by James Fox, The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St. Clair, and Emperor of Rome and SPQR by Mary Beard while working on this. I highly recommend all of them! These are definitely not mind blowing ideas here, just stuff that came to me because this movie has given me a severe case of brain rot. If you disagree, that’s cool. If you’ve mentioned any of this before, I love that we’re on the same wavelength. If you think this is ridiculous and I’ve gone off the deep end, you are correct.
Past Colour Posts: White Yellow Purple Brown
Black can be used in Gladiator II to represent exposure.
Black is most obviously associated with darkness, with hiding, with secrets, or evil. It's often the colour we connect with villains, or the "bad guys" in stories.
James Fox writes, "Just as we can only 'feel' a hole by touching the edges around it, so we 'see' black by observing the lightness that surrounds or precedes it. Black, in other words, is made by light" (The World According to Colour, James Fox, pg. 24). When characters wear black in Gladiator II, I argue that they are exposed, either for what they truly are deep inside, or their thoughts and ideas.
The first character we see in black is Geta, at Thraex's party.
One thing that is interesting to me about the twins wearing black is that every time they do so, it is combined with a metallic colour. Geta, with the silver here, and Caracalla with gold. Other characters that wear black do not get that same colour combo, and I'd argue it's because the twins are emperors, with gold and silver being used to represent wealth and power.
Arguably, Geta's outfit here is more silver than it is black. But I think that works well here, because at Thraex's party, Geta draws attention to himself after the fight by standing up, walking around, clapping, yelling out. All eyes are already on him and Caracalla, but he brings them even more attention, even more exposure. This is where the silver comes in. He's an emperor after all. He's flashy, he's important. However, he doesn't anticipate Lucius embarrassing him in front of everyone by reciting the poem. Geta's shortcoming's have been exposed for all to see. He is not the great, scary, imposing emperor he portrays. And this is where the black comes in, his weaknesses and failures peeking out for everyone to see.
Geta also wears black (and silver and gold) in the deleted adoption scene.
Geta and Caracalla ask Lucilla to adopt them, thus securing legitimacy for themselves and connecting them to Marcus Aurelius. Their weakness, their lack of authority, and their tenuous position as emperors is exposed in this scene, and it's a shame it never made it to the final film.
Lucilla also wears a black cloak when she meets with Lucius for the first time and exposes herself as his mother. Her vulnerability is on display, and she is open to hurt. And she is hurt, Lucius isn't receptive, he's angry, he denies her. But her secret is out there, and she speaks it aloud for the first time while wearing black (the blue dress is for another post).
Lucius and Acacius both wear black as well.
It's definitely a practicality thing (as I wrote about in the post on brown), to wear dark colours while in battle, but for the sake of the post, let's look at it again. In the opening of the film, Acacius is wearing dark armour to capture more land for Rome and for the emperors. He is exposing his role as general and conqueror, but he also exposes how he truly feels about it all with the rather sad way he speaks about his actions.
It's fitting that Acacius wears that same armour in his final fight. He is fighting Lucius, who even if we ignore the entire coup plot, is from the place Acacius just raided and captured. This is the first time Lucius and Acacius have spoken or even really been close to each other, and Acacius' actions in the raid are exposed to the very person that was impacted by it.
He is doubly exposed in this fight, as the entire point is that the coup plot has been revealed and his transgressions against the emperors is exposed to the entirety of Rome (or at least, those in the colosseum).
Lucius wears black armour that belonged to Maximus at the end of the movie. The symbolism is pretty obvious, it's a full circle moment here. His true identity is exposed, his birthright is right there for the taking, and he wears his deceased father's armour to defend his mother. The cat is full out of the bag by the time Lucius puts this armour on.
Caracalla also wears black (and gold). The first time is at the second round of games:
This entire scene is super interesting to me, mostly because of Geta. At this point in the movie, Geta is seen as in control, the more stable twin and emperor. However, he is really losing it here. He rubs his gums, he rocks in his seat, and is generally twitchy and fidgety. In other words, he acts the way we are meant to view Caracalla.
Caracalla wearing black and gold here exposes him via Geta. He looks to Geta in this scene for reassurance. He fiddles with his fingers and straightens up in his seat as he looks at Geta. His role as an emperor is on display because Geta is acting so much not like an emperor here. Geta becoming a little unglued shows Caracalla's usual behaviour, but also exposes their lack of control. If Geta is rocking in his seat, where does that leave Caracalla?
This is also the scene where Lucius shoots an arrow into the emperor's box seats. No one is hurt, but it's a direct display of how their roles have impacted everyone in that colosseum, even themselves.
Caracalla also wears black once he is sole emperor.
This is his darkest outfit. We know that he doesn't remember what happened to Geta, nor does he realize the implications or consequences of what is happening. He is ill, he is mad, and while Rome probably already knew that, he doesn't have Geta to hold him back anymore. He full exposes his illness in this scene by naming Dondus as first consul.
He is also out of Geta's shadow. Throughout the film, Geta has been the one to make decisions and to speak for the two of them. Geta holds Caracalla back from gutting Lucilla and Acacius in the night scene (where the darkness of the night exposes the coup). Geta is the one that makes the mercy/no mercy decisions (although he does ask for input the first time around, I'll give him that). Geta is running the show because it is necessary; Caracalla is ill (does Cara even realize he is ill? Debatable). We also know that Geta has been this way their whole lives as mentioned in their final moments together. It was Geta that took the blows from their father to spare Caracalla.
But here, dressed in black and gold, Caracalla is in the driver's seat so to speak. He's the one in control. He's sole emperor. And when you are sole emperor, you also become the sign of the times. There is no one else to shift the blame on to, no twin left to shoulder the consequences for you. Geta protected Caracalla all their lives, till the very end, but he can't protect him anymore. It's all on Caracalla now.
So ends part one. Part two is a piece of absolute brain rot that is related to the idea of exposure but it veered off course so it gets a separate post.
you don’t need perfect conditions to start. you just need to start. five minutes of focus is better than waiting for motivation to come.
The moment Paul Mescal became the hottest man on this planet. 🥵
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PAUL MESCAL as LUCIUS Gladiator II dir. Ridley Scott
The Use of Colour in Gladiator II: Brown
So once again before I get into it, here's my copy and paste from previous iterations of this: I referred quite a bit to some of my favourite books, The World According to Colour: A Cultural History by James Fox, The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St. Clair, and Emperor of Rome and SPQR by Mary Beard while working on this. I highly recommend all of them! These are definitely not mind blowing ideas here, just stuff that came to me because this movie has given me a severe case of brain rot. If you disagree, that’s cool. If you’ve mentioned any of this before, I love that we’re on the same wavelength. If you think this is ridiculous and I’ve gone off the deep end, you are correct.
Here are past colour posts: White Yellow Purple
This one seems extremely obvious to me and I almost didn't want to do it, but I'm going through all the colours I can and mama didn't raise a quitter. So without further ado: brown can be used to represent humility.
The character we see most often in shades of brown is Lucius. This makes sense, considering his story line. He's been raised outside of the luxury of the palace and the imperial rights he was entitled to, and is risking his neck every time he has to step into the colosseum.
As Kassia St. Clair states, "In an echo of what happened in art, bright, colourfast dyes for cloth, such as scarlet, were difficult and expensive to come by, and therefore remained the preserve of the wealthy and powerful. This left brown for the poor." (The Secret Lives of Colour, Kassia St. Clair, pg. 239).
And so it makes sense for Lucius to don brown hues throughout the film. But it also provides a full circle moment. Lucius is the representation of the hope for Rome. Marcus Aurelius dreamed of a Rome free for her people, and what better way to reflect the people than through the drab clothing of the humble gladiator?
But there are different types of brown. For example:
Before the party scene, Lucius is wearing a sort of olive-ish/khaki brown. "For thousands of years prior to this, warriors had decked themselves out in eye-catching styles to intimidate opponents. Bright colours, such as the red cloaks of Roman legions [...] could make individuals and forces look larger than they really were, and served as easy identification of friend or foe on smoke-filled battlefields." (The Secret Lives of Colour, Kassia St. Clair, pg. pg 241).
Take a look at the colour his opponent is wearing for the fight:
Thraex has dressed his fighter in yellow. And while this is only a fight between two men and not legions, the idea remains the same. Lucius, wearing his khaki colour, comes out on top.
His brown coloured clothing also proves advantageous in the arena.
Now, obviously the way he throws the sand is a call back to Maximus. But, it wouldn't have worked nearly as well as it did if he was wearing a bright colour.
I could continue on for just about every scene with Lucius, as he's wearing some sort of shade of brown, but you get the point. He's the humble, poor, chained gladiator. He's the hope for the Roman people (even if they don't know it), and he's the salt of the earth kind of person that should be in charge of Rome.
There's one more person that uses the colour brown to represent humility.
Ravi is the "good" character in the entire film. He's a former gladiator that freed himself, and offers his medical talent to help others. He offers Lucius a shoulder to lean on, advice, and is the one that sends for troops to be mobilized for Lucius. He's loyal, generous, and kind. It's no surprise he's dressed in brown too.
For science, indeed. 👀
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PAUL MESCAL Gladiator II | Behind The Scenes
What a man. 😍
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Paul Mescal