#harry powell

[heaveninawildflower]

'Straw opal' glass vase with uranium glass knop (British, circa 1880).

Attributed to Harry Powell (British, 1853–1922). Whitefriars Glassworks.

Image and text information courtesy The Met.

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I actually have two favorite cinematic villains who appeal to two diffrent halves of my brain

Harry Powell from Night of the Hunter

The Emperor from the Star Wars series

Who are your absolute favorite movie villains ?

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Robert Mitchum as Harry Powell in The Night Of The Hunter (1955)

Watercolors on Paper, 8.5" x 11", 2025

By Josh Ryals

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ROBERT MITCHUM as REVEREND HARRY POWELL in The Night of the Hunter (1955), dir. Charles Laughton

[treasuresfromthearchives]

Tall-stemmed vase

Designer Attributed to Harry Powell British

James Powell and Sons

Manufacturer Whitefriars Glassworks British

ca. 1890

"This object is a very fine example of the series of vases designed by Harry Powell (grandson of the wine-merchant, James Powell, who had purchased the Whitefriars Glassworks in 1834). Harry Powell’s designs of the 1880s and ‘90s created a whole group of decorative vessels characterized by delicately irregular wavy-rimmed bowls and subtly tinted glass. The fineness of the glass, accentuated by the ruffles of the bowl, is inspired by Venetian cristallo. The fluid design of the delicately irregular bowl, seemingly organically born of nature like a flower’s bloom, is testament to the skill of the Whitefriars’ glassmakers and to Powell’s confidence in their craftsmanship, achieved by holding the partially-shaped molten glass upside down on the blowpipe and swinging it out to create the natural form rather than by more conventionally manually manipulating the glass with a crimping tool. In this, this piece exemplifies the core philosophy of James Powell & Sons to prize glassmakers’ technique and celebrate the colors and property of their material, rather than to simply depend upon surface decoration and embellishment. At the opposite end of their spectrum of production, James Powell & Sons also used the colors and format of this group of vases’ bowl designs to great and influential effect in more functional glassware as the bowls for oil lamps."

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Okay, I don't know if Dana Terrace is a Stephen King fan or not, but there are certain elements of "The Owl House" that remind me quite a bit of the Kingverse. Obviously, the story of a group of misfits and oddballs becoming a found family together and fighting a monstrous person-entity who represents America's long history of horrific racist violence and bigotry is very "IT"-coded, and there's also the whole parallel between Mark Petrie and Luz Noceda using their knowledge of genre tropes and formula to deal with their respective supernatural menaces until those tropes fail them and they are forced to confront the uglier and darker realities of their situations.

However, I think the "Owl House"-Stephen King parallels that I find the most fascinating are the ones between "The Owl House" and "The Dead Zone". In the broad strokes, both "The Owl House" and "The Dead Zone" tell the story of a goofy and lovable nerd whose life ends up taking an unusual new direction when they discover a long-dormant form of magic (Johnny's psychic powers/Luz's glyphs) that enable to do wonderful and incredible things and eventually bring them into conflict with an evil ruler (Greg Stillson/Emperor Philip "Belos" Wittebane) who has been oppressing people across the land and whose machinations are threatening to bring about a cataclysmic apocalypse. Eventually, both Johnny and Luz are brought into conflict with this abusive tyrant and try desperately to bring them down for the sake of everyone they know and love.

Obviously, I am not saying that "The Owl House" is secretly a Stephen King adaptation anymore than "Kingdom Hearts" is secretly "The Lion King" to "His Dark Materials" as "Hamlet". I just think it's fascinating how "The Owl House" lifts from so many prior stories. Not just other previous cartoons like "Avatar: The Last Airbender" or "Gravity Falls", but also from classic books such as "The Dead Zone", "The Odyssey", "His Dark Materials", "A Wizard of Earthsea", "Great Expectations", and also the works of William Shakespeare, most notably "Twelfth Night", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and "The Tempest" with just a few bits of "Macbeth" and "The Winter's Tale" added just for spice. And there's also a lot of comparisons to be drawn between Belos and not just Greg Stillson in "The Dead Zone", but also between Belos and Noah Cross from "Chinatown" and Harry Powell from "Night of the Hunter". And before you say that Dana Terrace was probably not thinking that many layers deep, I would like to remind everyone that Willow's dads are named Gilbert and Harvey and that it was Harvey Milk who commissioned Gilbert Baker to create the first-ever Pride Flag and Willow herself...is pansexual.

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[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

How successful would Harry Powell…

…be if they decided to become a pro-wrestler?

Yes on the microphone skills / Yes on the wrestling skills

Yes on the microphone skills / No on the wrestling skills

No on the microphone skills / Yes on the wrestling skills

No on the microphone skills / No on the wrestling skills

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