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MQP Swap #2 - Entry #6
Size: 16"
Other details: machine pieced and quilted.
The back is quilted envelope style closing.
Now it has been a few years since rewatching, but this was the film I was the most excited to revisit in my “Road to Infinity War” watchathon! But out of all the solo films in the first phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I’ve probably seen Captain America: The First Avenger the most! I remember wanting to see this movie so bad, but for some odd circumstances, I remember watching this movie for the first time weeks after its release, but I loved it the first time. I was a fan of Captain America before the film, but the tone was just perfect for me as a 12 year old. Anyways, I just finished watching the film so let’s check out if Captain America: The First Avenger still holds up for me after this incredible journey we’ve seen Cap go through after his first outing!
Good: I think the biggest thing I’ve picked up after this rewatch is how much I love and respect on how the filmmakers handled the mythology of Captain America in this movie. It’s so interesting to watch Steve Rogers start out as propaganda through comics and shows, it was a genius idea of the filmmaker’s! This movie perfectly captures the tone of the original comics, yet still grounds itself through the great character development. The introduction to Steve Rogers into this cinematic universe was absolutely perfect in this film, Marvel Studios casted the perfect man for the job in Chris Evans and I can’t quite possibly see anyone else as the character now! This film is one of the few Marvel films that actually gets better after seeing the films that followed it. Now after watching everything that’s gone down with the relationship between Cap and Bucky in Winter Soldier and Civil War, it’s really cool to watch them as pure friends in this movie. I also believe that this film also has a very underrated villain in the Red Skull. Hugo Weaving does a great performance as Red Skull and I really wish we could see more of him in the future, I mean he’s one of the biggest villains of the Marvel universe, having this great character in one movie seems a bit odd. The last thing I’ll say about this film is I really like how different this feels from the rest of the MCU. Some of the best MCU films are some of the most original in terms of its tone and technical aspects, and the way The First Avenger looks and sounds makes it stand out from the rest of the films. Alan Silvestri created an amazing theme for the character, and I would be upset that it hasn’t returned in the other Captain America films, but I really like the soundtracks for Winter Soldier and Civil War so I don’t mind.
Bad: My biggest complaint with this film is the pacing. This film feels very rushed in terms of the plot and character development. I wish the filmmakers made Steve Rogers Captain America longer in the 40s, it feels like he became Captain America then was frozen in ice in a matter of weeks. It would’ve been cool if there was a time jump so maybe we could return to Steve in the 40s doing stuff as flashback in other films *cough*BlackPanther*cough*. I also wasn’t a fan of how fast Bucky was “killed off,” I really liked their relationship but I wanted to see more of it!
Overall, Captain America: The First Avenger is an amazing first film for an amazing character that ultimately gets dragged down with its rapid pacing. This film is only two hours and I feel like they could’ve added 30 more minutes of development to truly make us feel Cap’s loss when he ultimately gets woken up in the present. That being said, this film is still a solid entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but merely a stepping stone to greater and more memorable films. For these reasons, I’m going to give Captain America: The First Avenger a 7.75/10. Let me know your thoughts on the First Avenger are in the comments below and look forward to my review of the film that brought all these heroes together next week!
This is the entry to the courtyard of one of the most impressive and huge buildings of London. This is the palace built by the great architect Alfred Waterhouse for the Prudential Assurance Company (1879-1901). Today the building serves many lawyers offices and is known as Holborn Bars.
If you are sick of the many steel and glass buildings which cover London more and more - this is definitely a place to visit.
German postcard by H.S.K.-Verlag, Kölm (Cologne), no. 505. Photo: Paramount. Ray Milland in Copper Canyon (John Farrow, 1950).
British actor and director Ray Milland (1905-1986) had a screen career that ran from 1929 to 1985. He appeared in many Hollywood movies as the archetypal, unflappable British gentleman. Milland is best remembered for his gut-wrenching, Academy Award-winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend (1945), for the murder-plotting husband in Dial M for Murder (1954), and as Oliver Barrett III in Love Story (1970).
Ray Milland was born Reginald Alfred John Truscott-Jones on a mountain called Cymla, above the town of Neath in Wales in 1905. Milland was the son of Alfred Jones and Elizabeth Annie (née Truscott). As a child, he took the name of his stepfather, Mullane, and was known in his early career as Jack Mullane. He later took his stage name Raymond Milland from the flat area of land called the mill lands in Neath, which he remembered fondly from his youth. In 1925, Milland enlisted as a guardsman with the Royal Household Cavalry in London. As part of his training, he became skilled in fencing, boxing, horsemanship and marksmanship. An expert shot, he became a member of his company's rifle team, winning many prestigious competitions, including the Bisley Match in England. When his duty service was completed in 1928, Milland stumbled into acting when a British filmmaker spotted him at a party and offered the 22-year-old a bit part in the romance The Plaything (Castleton Knight, 1929). More small and big roles in the British cinema and on stage followed. Among his British films were the silent ‘backstage’ drama Piccadilly (Ewald André Dupont, 1929) starring Anna May Wong, the adventure The Flying Scotsman (Castleton Knight, 1929) and the drama The Informer (Arthur Robison, 1929). Raymond Milland was discovered by a Hollywood talent scout while performing on the stage in London, and travelled to America under a short-term contract with MGM. MGM shortened his first name to Ray and continued casting the acting novice in minor supporting roles. MGM agreed to loan him out for more substantial parts in Will Rogers' Ambassador Bill (Sam Taylor, 1931) at Fox in which he tries to overthrow the boy-king of a fictional European country, and Warner Bros.' Blonde Crazy (Roy Del Ruth, 1931) in which he competes with con-artist James Cagney for Joan Blondell's affections.
When his contract with MGM expired, Ray Milland bounced around taking whatever roles he could get, including a supporting part in Fox's Charlie Chan in London (Eugene J. Forde, 1934). He returned to England for roles in This Is the Life (Albert de Courville, 1933) with Gordon Harker and the comedy Orders is Orders (Walter Forde, 1934), a satire on Hollywood movie-making. Finally, based on the strength of two films he made with Carole Lombard - Bolero (Wesley Ruggles, 1934) and We’re Not Dressing (Norman Taurog, 1934) - as well as the endorsement of his leading lady, Paramount Pictures signed Milland to a long-term contract. He would remain with the studio for some twenty years. Charming and debonair, he can be seen as suave, self-assured romantic leading man in a number of excellent drawing-room comedies, mysteries and adventures, including The Big Broadcast of 1937 (Mitchell Leisen, 1936), The Jungle Princess (William Thiele, 1936) featuring Dorothy Lamour, Beau Geste (William Wellman, 1939) with Gary Cooper, and I Wanted Wings (Mitchell Leisen, 1941) with Veronica Lake. At Film Reference, Frank Thompson writes: “The quintessential Milland performances of the ‘leading man’ variety are contained in Leisen's delightful Easy Living and Kitty. The darker, more sinister side of his personality first came to the fore in Farrow's Alias Nick Beal, a film in which Milland plays the Devil himself.” Easy Living (Mitchell Leisen, 1937) was a depression-era screwball comedy and social satire written by Preston Sturges and starring Jean Arthur. Reel Classics calls it “an often-overlooked delight”. Kitty (1945, Mitchell Leisen) was a variation on Pygmalion, in which a London aristocrat (Milland) takes it upon himself to make a lady of a guttersnipe (Paulette Goddard). Milland had a terrible accident during the filming of Hotel Imperial (Henry Hathaway, 1939) with Isa Miranda, when, taking his horse over a jump, the saddle-girth broke and he landed head-first on a pile of bricks. His most serious injuries were a concussion that left him unconscious for 24 hours, a 3-inch gash in his skull that took 9 stitches to close, and numerous fractures and lacerations on his left hand. When the Second World War began, Milland tried to enlist in the U.S. Army Air Forces, but was rejected because of his impaired left hand. He worked as a civilian flight instructor for the Army, and toured with a United Service Organisation (USO) South Pacific troupe in 1944.
Ray Milland had made over 60 feature films by the time he won an Oscar for his portrayal of an alcoholic trying to kick the booze in Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend (1945). It would be pinnacle of Ray Milland's career and an acknowledgement of his serious dramatic abilities. The surprise shown by the critical establishment at Milland's proficiency in the role suggests that nothing much had ever been expected of him. Milland was the first Welsh actor to ever win an Oscar. He was also the first actor not to have spoken a single word during his acceptance speech, preferring to simply bow his appreciation before casually walking to the stage exit. For this performance, he was also given an award at the first Cannes Film Festival. Five years later, he gave a strong performance in Close to My Heart (William Keighley, 1951), starring with Gene Tierney as a couple trying to adopt a child. As Milland grew older and his value as a romantic lead began to wane, the more sinister aspects of this self-assuredness became more evident. In 1954, he starred as the suave and mannerly accomplice opposite Grace Kelly in Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954). Other films that exploited the murderous glint in Milland's eloquent eyes include The Thief (Russel Rouse, 1951) a Film Noir without any dialogue, and The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (Richard Fleischer, 1955) with Joan Collins. He made many television appearances. He starred as a professor in the CBS sitcom Meet Mr. McNutley (1953-1955). The program was renamed in its second season as The Ray Milland Show. From 1959–1960, he starred in the CBS detective series Markham. In the late 1960s, he hosted rebroadcasts of certain episodes of the syndicated western anthology series, Death Valley Days under the title Trails West.
In 1955, Ray Milland started directing films, such as the western A Man Alone (Ray Milland, 1955) with Raymond Burr, and the well-paced espionager Lisbon (1956, Ray Milland) with Maureen O’Hara for Republic Pictures that he also produced and starred in. He did it with surprising proficiency, but the films failed to make him successful. He achieved more success with directing for television. According to Kit and Morgan Benson at Find A Grave, he “was considered a solid and capable director and producer.” Milland returned as a film character actor in such fascinating low-budget horror films as The Premature Burial (Roger Corman, 1962) and The Man with the X-ray Eyes (Roger Corman, 1963), the latter providing Milland with the wittiest, most energetic role of his later career. He appeared in the TV classic Daughter of the Mind (Walter Grauman, 1969) in which he was reunited with Gene Tierney, and he played Ryan O'Neal's father in the hit tearjerker Love Story (Arthur Hiller, 1970). He can also be seen in such dreadful horror films as The Thing with Two Heads (Lee Frost, 1972), the British Crazy House/The House in Nightmare Park (Peter Sykes, 1973), and Terror in the Wax Museum (Georg Fenady). One of the best of that bad lot is Frogs (George McCowan, 1972), a surprisingly enjoyable entry from the ‘nature-run-amok’ horror subgenre. Milland wrote an autobiography, Wide Eyed in Babylon, published in 1974. Toward the end of his life, he guest starred in TV series as Battlestar Galactica (Glen A. Larson, 1978-1979) and the Harold Robbins’ adaptation The Dream Merchants (Vincent Sherman, 1980). His last film was the Spanish fantasy-adventure The Sea Serpent (Gregory Greens, 1986) with Timothy Bottoms, after which his declining health forced him to retire. A book-loving homebody, Milland kept away from the Hollywood glitter and was rarely mentioned in the gossip columns. At 81, he died of lung cancer in Torrance, California in 1986. He was survived by his wife, Muriel ‘Mal’ Weber, to whom he had been married since 1932. They had a son, Daniel, and an adopted daughter, Victoria. Frank Thompson at Film Reference: “Hollywood never quite knew what it had in Ray Milland, but he continuously showed himself to be an adventurous artist, always interested in exposing his established image to radical and surprising lights.”
Sources: Frank Thompson (Film Reference), Lynn Dougherty (Classic Movie Favorites), Kit and Morgan Benson (Find A Grave), Reel Classics, AllMovie, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
My entry for the Downfallrpg Senator and staff figbarf contest.
Following the death of Emperor Palpatine and the loosening of the Empires grip on the galaxy, the small world of Silla, led by its previous governor, and now senator, Bernon Morillo, seeks to join the New Republic. Hoping to bring new jobs and residents to his small and often overlooked planet, Morillo runs on a campaign of reform and freedom for his people. Having lived under the rule of the tyrannical Empire and having had a whole town kidnapped by the Empire for seeing one of its experiments (Zillo beast in Bad Batch), the people of Silla have bolstered behind Morillo in his attempt to bring them into the New Republic. From its energy independence (solar farms) and precious stone quarries suppling the wealthy of the galaxy, Silla is a planet poised to thrive under the protection of the New Republic.
From left to right
- Pilot
- Silla Royal Guard
- Lucius Sundar: Head of the guard
- Nash Morely: Chief advisor
- Bernon Morillo: Senator of Silla
- Galven Vinjagga: Governor of Silla
- Thalo Barris: Economic advisor
- Amara Verga: Head of PR
- Luca Agosti: Trade advisor
WEEK 7 – Mansfield, OH, Target (I)
With Bullseye's Playground and the restrooms in different locations, then it stands to reason that the café must be as well. Indeed it is... you can see it along the front end on the right side of this entry area overview pic. We'll take a closer look at it later, but suffice to note right now that this store has no Starbucks and the café isn't branded Food Avenue.
Also: I love that huge window in the vestibule!!
(c) 2017 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
MQP Swap #2 - Entry #7
Name: Quilted States of America
Size: 14"
Other details: Raw edge fusible web applique finished with a tight machine stipple and hand quilting.
Envelope enclosure back.
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We entered the field not knowing what to expect. I saw multiple rebels, so I picked off the alien one. The guy behind him hid on the side of the building. Axel and Tof got on top of the building and Filer came with me. I dropped the suited one and Tof dropped down when Filer got blasted by a rebel hiding in the building.
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Finally, we´re about to start to Taris.
We got a lot of new gear. I have to say, the new gear can be really helpful! My new backpack with things lika ropes, nails, food for emergencies and much more!
Also some new pistols.
But sadly, our squad members Rambo and Rookie were commanded to another legion to help out. Many troopers died during Geonosis. We´ve lost many of our brothers...
I´ll hope they will be back as soon as they can. And heathy...
So they have to help out until the new troops are ready for one of the bests, The 457th Corps...
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Lieutenant Lacce:
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Number: CC-1717
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Name: Lacce
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Rank: Lieutenant
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Weapon: Two modded Star Corps Pistols
Helps: Backpack with useful things
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Bio:
During the Battle of Geonosis, Lacce was arrested by Geonosians. With a few troopers he tried escape and that worked. They fought against hundreds of Geonosians and droids. Their Mission was to destroy the Communication Center. Then, they had done this Mission with bravery. After that he joined the 457th Corps, because of his special performance. Now, he´s a important Lieutenant of the 26th Legion. He is from a great significance for the Republic.
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Racker:
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Number: CC-1616
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Name: Racker
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Rank: Trooper
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Weapons:
Two special Magnum Pistols
Second weapon: Knife
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Bio:
During the hard Battle of Rhen Var, he joined our Xeta Squad to help us. He was a very good help during these icecold battle. Now he´s one of our best and solid squad member. We all were really lucky, that he was assigned to our Xeta Squad. Everytime when someone had a problem, Racker was there. He has a great personality and a big heart, but not for droids...
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Sniper:
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Number: CC-1515
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Name: Sniper
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Rank: Trooper
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Weapon:
High Precision Sniper Rifle
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Bio:
He joined us before Conquering Nar Shadaa. He is our best Marksman. No one is saved from him. During Nar Shadaa, he really saved our back. After a few Missions, he turns out very important for the Xeta Squad. Now, the squad can´t do a Mission without him. He´s just one our our best!
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Boombs:
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Number: CC-1414
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Name: Boombs
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Rank: Trooper
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Weapon:
First Weapon: High Power Bazooka
Helps: Lamp
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Bio:
He joined the Xeta Squad from the beginning. He´s a specialist for Power. To destroy buildings or closed doors is his first topic. He´s also a Master in electricty. To hack something, is not a problem, too. This is why he is a real piece of gold for us. He is one of our importants, too. One thing, he really like, is the standart. That´s why he wears always his standard armor. This does really make him special...
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That´s my Squad for The 457th Corps; Mission 11 - Taris; Queen of Hearts
Hope you like it!
n7mereel
My entry for Cliche Saturday pool.
1. Las Vegas
2. Snoglobes
3. Bokeh [does this count as bokeh balls?]
4. Rule of thirds
HCS!
My entry for 'Cake International' @ the NEC, 2011.
I entered into the 'All edible, sculpted' class and won GOLD, Best in class AND "BEST IN SHOW!!!"
He's actually placed on a perspex board and on an invisable stand so he hovers above the table. The wings of the fairy are clear gelatine but you can't really see them from this photo.
I'll see if I can dig out more pics ;O)
My 6th entry for the Colossal Castle Contest, this time in the Archery Tournament category. I enjoyed getting to use our sand green plates for the landscape.
The annual horseback archery tournament in Avalonia is always a popular competition. Spectator stands are placed around the range, while wooden stakes mark how close archers are allowed to get to targets.
More pics: www.brickbuilt.org/?p=5956