It’s been there for weeks, and then this morning by the fountain… I’ve never done anything like that before. And I was so angry with you, and with myself.
We watched [Beyond The Lights] and were like, ‘Holy… who is that?’ [Gugu Mbatha-Raw’s] performance going unrecognized is a travesty. Gina Prince-Bythewood is such an extraordinary filmmaker, and Gugu’s performance… I have goosebumps just thinking about it. Who Gugu is as a person is so separate from who she is onscreen. She’s such a chameleon. […] This is the most talented actress of her generation. — Julia Hart
Couldn’t agree more. She disappears into every role she has and completely embodies totally different characters. I put her and Amy Adams in the same boat where they are almost too good to the point that you don’t realize who they are being just become the character on screen so fully. Unfortunately, that hurts them getting the recognition they deserve.
Dichen Lachman as Reileen Kawahara in Altered Carbon, premiering on Netflix February 2nd, 2018 [trailer]
Based on the award-winning novel, Altered Carbon takes place in a future where the human mind can now be digitized and downloaded into a “cortical stack” and placed into new bodies, called sleeves.
I was frustrated with how Marvel’s Valkyrie was just a sequence of weird design decisions. This particular version ticked me off because they had the cool cuirass with the abs, but then the chafing and the metal boob cones…. ugh.
I started with fixing that chest armor: getting rid of the weird metal bra and adding cool (to me, anyway) shoulder guards. I wanted to give her a more powerful look. I added some small dangling leather straps to mirror those on her belt.
When it was time to fix her…. boots? I took the liberty of, at the same time, painting over poor Hel’s painful-looking <biggest air-quotes ever> “armor.” I actually started giving her a more reasonable breastplate but gave up. That would be a project all on its own.
Those leg ropes seemed very stupid to me, and they didn’t go with the rest of the design, so I gave her plate armor that kept the small shapes. I then gave her simple pants to be the large shape in the design. In hindsight, I feel like I should have gone through with the metal gauntlets I wanted to give her but bailed on.
Finally, I replaced her Generic Pout™ with a more determined expression. Now both ladies can go forth and fight whoever it is they’re fighting.
-Icy
The second one is just so great and so much more visually clear without those big bright patches of naked skin and boob cone; the composition now focuses the eye on her head with the light behind it, and that makes her head, HER, the center of the image. SO much better.
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