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hey guys guess what

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I fucking swear to god

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Original artworks by @arhpriest 🥺✨

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endless curses… malediction even

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This gif is outrageous

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■ The so-called “blood explosion” which punctuates the conclusion of Akira Kurosawa’s 1962 movie Sanjuro remains one of the most memorable and influential special effects in film history. Production designer Yoshiro Muraki would later recall this scene was filmed in a single take. No such effect had ever been attempted before, as movies of the time rarely showed violence with graphic detail. Filled with uncertainty, Muraki worried the blood spray he’d rigged up wouldn’t impress Kurosawa, so he added an extra 30 pounds of pressure to the fluid pump. At the moment the pump was activated, the additional pressure caused the compressor hose attached to actor Tatsuya Nakadai to blow a coupling which created a slight, unintentional delay before the fake blood began to spray, and caused a much larger gush of fluid than planned. It sprayed so powerfully Nakadai claimed it almost lifted him off the ground. His heart sinking, as he believed the delay and over-pressure had ruined the effect, Muraki nervously glanced at director Akira Kurosawa, but Kurosawa only nodded in approval.

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“oh god i fucked this up”

“yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOO”

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And to think this is so iconic that “two dudes clash, there’s a beat, then one dies incredibly violently” is just a must-have for action in anime

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Its crazy to think that this iconic visual that has been so ubiquitous in pop culture for so long despite that the source material barely being known by people all came from actors staying in character thru an FX malfunction.

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There are worse legacies.

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I love how just before the cut it gets even stronger

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what is really more embarrassing, wearing a fursuit and pretending to be an animal or wearing clothes and pretending not to be

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tell me, will,

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Richard Taylor (Weta Workshop Design and Special Effects Supervisor):

“Elrond once again drew forth his sword, seen previously in The Lord of the Rings in his hands and also his daughter Arwen’s.”

Tim Abbot (Saddle Maker):

"I might finish something and think it looked nice, only for someone to come along and bash it on the concrete or beat it with chains to give it that worn and lived-in look that they were after.”

Nick Weir (Prop Master):

"We imagined that the Dwarves had acquired and modified saddlery gear from other races who might be more associated with horses, like Gondor or Rohan. They had added their own fittings and buckles to suit their unique needs, which included enclosed stirrups. Giving them pugs was a nice point of difference from the other races we’ve seen riding horses in the movies and it just looked Dwarven somehow—solid and practical.”

Next pages: Rivendell Elf Costumes, Rivendell Costume Jewellery, Galadriel’s Costumes

Collective tag link: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Cloaks and Daggers

1600px versions: Dropbox repository (updated as I post more pages, might take a few days for new pages to show)

Notes: These photo excerpts are meant to be used by fans as references for the creation of The Hobbit fanwork (cosplay, art, fiction, nonfiction, etc.) Feel free to repost, use, and edit any of these photographs as you wish. Credit back to me is unnecessary.

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antique-symbolism

Imagine a dragon at Antiques Roadshow, appraising its hoard

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Imagine the dragon hoards monetarily worthless things like newspapers or old bones and the person appraising it getting more and more nervous about telling the dragon their stuff isnt worth anything

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Imagine that the dragon knows this and just likes watching the person squirm.

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The dragon actually hoards uncomfortable situations

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I just love it when people come up with random weird animal or dragon things and iguanamouth illustrates them just because.

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I need to talk about this for a second.

This is right after Gandalf says, “A balrog. A demon of the ancient world.”

I just love how PJ chose to cut to Legolas’ face because he is exactly who you should cut to at this moment. You need an elf to show what it really means. Other than Gandalf, the rest of the Fellowship can sense something is gravely wrong, but they don’t understand just how grave. Like Gandalf, Legolas knows the terror. He understands the gravity of what lies around that corner. He’s got a piddly little bow and he is mere steps away from a demon of the ancient world. This frame shows a kid coming to the realisation that he is way out of his depth, that this mission will take him to places he only knew to exist in legends of the Elder Days, a time long gone, barely history.

He’s probably one of the youngest elves in Middle Earth at this point. He probably grew up on stories of the balrogs, slaying the ancient High Kings of the Eldar and tearing Middle Earth apart, thousands and thousands of years ago. They are legends in old crumbling books, read illicitly by a little elfling who was kept up at night by the terrible tales.They are the monsters under the bed and the shadows in the heart of the forest. They are the beasts behind the winged hordes of hell, that older elves, who’ve seen the worst that Arda has to offer, always assured him were no more than distant nightmares, stories relegated to dust and ancient memory. Except now they are real. They are here. They are coming.