#messala

[vildo]

[petimetrek]

Messala and Ben Hur for @anduriil (very very late happy birthday!)

[film-classics]

Stephen Boyd

William Millar (born in Whitehouse, County Antrim, Northern Ireland on July 4, 1931), better known by his stage name Stephen Boyd, was an actor from Northern Ireland. As a young teen, he quit school and joined the Ulster Group Theatre. In less than a decade, he had a wide range of theatre experience in London and abroad. One of his first film roles, a pro-Nazi Irish spy in the movie The Man Who Never Was, not only brought him acclaim, but also a contract with 20th Century Fox. In Hollywood, he successfully auditioned for the role of the villain Messala in MGM's critical and box office success, Ben-Hur. After winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his performance, he was offered dozens of starring roles. Nevertheless, in the 1970s, he focused his attention on European films and TV shows when the film roles diminished. Sadly, after his unexpected death, many of the episodes he filmed were released posthumously, the last being on the CBS police procedural drama Hawaii Five-O .

He died of a massive heart attack on June 2, 1977 at the age of 45 while playing golf at the Porter Valley Country Club in Northridge, California.

Ten Selected Works:

The Man Who Never Was (1956) as Patrick O'Reilly

The Best of Everything (1959) as Mike Rice

Ben-Hur (1959) as Messala

Lisa (1962) as Peter Jongman

Jumbo (1962) as Sam Rawlins

Imperial Venus (1962) as Jules de Canouville

The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) as Livius

The Oscar (1966) as Frank Fane

The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966) as Benson

Fantastic Voyage (1966) as Grant

[the-evil-skull]

A large messala has appeared

[medusasdaughterwrites]

I do love the hunger games renaissance and the new theories popping up everywhere. But one theory I refuse to accept is that "Cinna was planted by district 13 and that's why he was a rebel and that's why he chose district 12". Like no... Cinna is infinitely more interesting as a Capitol native who grew up being fed all that propaganda and yet still couldn't gring himself to see district people as anything other than human went to art and fashion school and maybe met other rebels like Portia and channeled his feelings into his art like he said he always does and when he got the games gig chose to style the underdog the one who's the most ridiculed because if he can humanize the ones the Capitol despises the most maybe people will start to wake up and see that those are human beings they are killing and he hit the jackpot with Katniss and Peeta and Haymitch. Besides, a headcanon like that just assumes that no person born in the Capitol would be a rebel and completely dismisses Plutarch and Fulvia and Cressida and Messala and Castor and Pollux, granted Castor and Pollux have personal reasons to rebel, but still humanity does exist even in the Capitol that's one of the lessons Katniss learns and fiercely protects and dismissing that by making Cinna a district 13 citizen just annoys me.

[farfromhome87]

This moment with Squad 451 is such a great example of what allyship/co-conspiratorship looks like in a diverse movement. Because you see Messala say something silly that reveals the privilege he has compared to his District companions who lived in abject poverty, but he catches himself. And importantly, he doesn't need the District folks to explain his privilege to him. He realizes it, shuts his trap, doesn't get defensive, and hopefully learns something.

And likewise, Finnick, or Katniss, or Gale don't make him feel silly or ashamed. They recognize the unique knowledge he has due to his privileged position (the layout of Capitol apartments), and he uses it to help them move forward toward their collective liberation.

[gerogerigaogaigar]

HG PMX-000 Messala

This is the first kit I've built where I strongly considered displaying it in flight mode. I feel like that's the more iconic version considering the Messala has probably three minutes tops of screentime and is known as the first transforming ms in the series. The stand supported it better in suit mode tho. Sho ganai 🤷🏻‍♀️ Great hg kit overall, lots of bizarre shapes. And having built this back to back with the Hambrabi I feel pretty happy with these transforming high grades. Worst I can say is that a few of the fins on the body and backpack kept falling off. He comes with a stand that has room to store all his little accessories too.

[artbeat]

It’s his voice btw