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I see you Dan 😍
Alright y'all! Sit down cause were about to talk about something! And that something is Belle, and her costume design.
I’ve been seeing a ton of hate going around about the “accuracy” of Belle’s costumes in the recent live remake of Beauty and the Beast. So I’m gonna have a little tete a tete with you and try and work some things out.
Firstly: I have heard a lot about how Emma Watson had a “huge” say in the creative decisions on her costumes and I want to address that. As well as address everyones incessant whining about how she doesn’t wear stays/corsets.
Here we go: So I’m a costume designer and deal with people requesting things all day long. The point of the costume designer is to make everyone happy with how the character looks. That’s the simple version, but it is. And a huge part of designing is listening to the actors and getting to know how they feel about the character. If the actor feels strongly about what shoes their character would wear, you listen. If the director has a strong opinion on the color of a shirt, you listen. A huge part of being a technical designer on something (specially costumes) is about creating a balance between multiple different visions, that come from multiple different people. Because clothing is the biggest indicator to anyone seeing you, what kind of person you are. So coming from my costume design background, it is not always right to just go fully period and make it happen.
My most recent costume designs were supposed to be 1860-1890s Western American clothing. Now when you google the 1860s you find corsets and huge hoop skirts, but my characters where women of little money, no maids, and worked on farms. If I asked you to put on a corset, a hoop skirt, with no help from anyone else, and then go work in a field would that make sense? My point to all of this is, we know what the documented styles were for a time period, but usually finding information on the more common pedestrian styles is infinitely harder. One of the biggest things that helped me (but was something I never looked into) was using the Metropolitan Museum of Arts’ online archive to view clothing from that time period, and see what clothing people were wearing that weren’t middle or upper class.
So all of this leads up to me saying this; and many people are going to get very angry at me for it. In no way did not having stays/corsets, panniers, and hoops change the overall period and style of this film. Belle is a country girl with no maid, who works with her hands and has very little money. Having the constraints of stays (which are difficult to put on correctly even with help, let alone without) and hoops would not make any logistical sense for her character. Now for the Silly Girls, yes! They are obviously of more means then Belle and have the help of each other to get into full on garb everyday, and it almost seems (in the new film) like the silly girls are supposed to be the daughter of the town seamstress, which is a reason why they have such fine clothing in such a small town. And by evidence of the last scene where Belle’s dress has very obvious stays (even if they were just built into the bodice itself) she would have had stays in more of her outfits after she married the Prince because she would have had the means and a maid to help her, and no longer had to dress in a practical manner.
Moral of this story is: Fashion over Function in the 18th century was a very big thing, and still is today. So sometimes being “fully true” to a time period, isn’t always what you want. Thank you and goodnight.
Plus, all the costumes of the characters in the 1991 animated film are from the 18th century, while Belle yellow dress (the animated one) is late 19th century…
She’s always been out of her time, so people shouldn’t even bother to talk about hostorical accuracy
The suit ladies and gentlemen
Correction: guy in far right corner is Dan in Apostle.
Apostle (2018)
The Secret Tunnels and Missing Manuscripts of Mont Sainte-Odile Abbey
The ancient monastery of Mont Sainte-Odile in the French region of Alsace is steeped in mystery. From secret tunnels to the strange disappearance of more than 1,000 ancient books, it has many a story to tell over its 1,300-year history.
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Colin O’Donoghue doing the chair trick during rehearsal of ‘Revenge Is Gonna Be Mine’ from Once Upon A Time: The Musical Episode. (x)
Montmarte, Paris, France
photo via linda
You don’t see him?
“You’ve lived your life and I’ve lived mine. Now it’s time we lived them together.”
The last day of Harry Potter.
NOT OKAY
IM CRYING
nooooo
Dan Stevens: on set of Apostle
TAKE COVER. TAKE AIM, TAKE OVER. kill.switch
First look at Hayley Atwell and Matthew Macfadyen in Howards End, a Starz and BBC co-production based on E.M. Forster’s novel.
The four-part limited series is the first television adaptation from Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and playwright Kenneth Lonergan, and is directed by BAFTA winner Hettie Macdonald: it follows the story of two independent and unconventional sisters and the men in their lives seeking love and meaning as they navigate an ever-changing world:
Margaret Schlegel (Atwell) is an intelligent, idealistic young woman who is courted by the older Henry Wilcox (Macfayden), a self-made conservative businessman, after his wife Ruth Wilcox (Julia Ormond) dies unexpectedly and he becomes owner of Howards End. Meanwhile Margaret’s passionate and capricious younger sister Helen Schlegel (Philippa Coulthard) takes up the cause of Leonard Bast (Joseph Quinn) a young bank clerk who falls on hard times at work and at home with his partner Jacky (Rosalind Eleazar).
In the absence of their late parents, the sisters’ loving but interfering Aunt Juley (Tracy Ullman) tries to keep the young ladies and their brother Tibby (Alex Lawther) on the straight and narrow.
XYZ Films has released the first Apostle movie image and synopsis for Gareth Evans' new film; the upcoming thriller stars Dan Stevens and Michael Sheen.
XYZ Films has released the first image and synopsis for Apostle, the new movie from The Raid director Gareth Evans. When we first reported on the film back in November, the logline was “a mysterious man who travels to a remote island in search of his missing sister,” but now we have a far more enticing synopsis:
The year is 1905. Thomas Richardson travels to a remote island to rescue his sister after she’s kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult demanding a ransom for her safe return. It soon becomes clear that the cult will regret the day it baited this man, as he digs deeper and deeper into the secrets and lies upon which the commune is built. Not only do I love that Evans is moving into a new setting (although his fascination with cultists can also be seen in the segment he did for the horror film V/H/S/2, “Safe Haven”, which is amazing and is definitely worth checking out), and an entirely new story, but I can’t help but grin when I read the line, “It soon becomes clear that the cult will regret the day it baited this man.” We also know that star Dan Stevens has no problem doing action, and hopefully this will stand alongside The Guest as one of his more memorable performances.
It’s unclear when we’ll see this movie. It’s possible if Evans finishes it this summer it could be ready for the fall festival, but a 2018 release is far more likely. I’m all for giving Evans the time he needs to finish this movie, but I can’t wait to see him tackle a new story.
Check out the image below. Apostle also stars Michael Sheen, Lucy Boynton, Mark Lewis Jones, Bill Milner, Kristine Froseth, and Paul Higgins.
apostle Image via XYZ Films
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAh!
YEs…
This is good.
Mini Belle and Beast interview Dan Stevens and Emma Watson
That last gif tho