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Friday, October 3, 2014

Gary Oldman


Bram Stoker's Dracula is a 1992 American horror fantasy erotic drama film directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It stars Gary Oldman as Count Dracula, Winona Ryder as Mina Harker, Anthony Hopkins as Professor Abraham Van Helsing, and Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker.

Count Dracula (portrayed by Gary Oldman)
"I am the monster that breathing men would kill. I am Dracula."
 
Gary Oldman's Dracula brought to the the screen an elegant mixture of man and monster. He was ruthless, powerful, ancient and vengeful. Yet beneath all of that armor, he was still just a man who longed for and had lost everything (including his soul) for his one true love. Like Frank Langella's Dracula, Oldman was a seductive and charismatic aristocrat. His chivalry was as disarming as it was dangerous, for he was no less a monster regardless the form he wore. Which, by the way, was one of my favorite aspects of this film—Dracula was shown in all his glory. He was a rat, a bat, mist, a wolfman, and a creepy old woman in a red satin gown.

Perhaps one of the most brilliant parodies, ever...
Gary Oldman's Dracula (portrayed my Charles Montgomery Burns)

The Simpsons: Tapped Out ~ Mr. Burns as Count Dracula
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Thursday, October 17, 2013

Boobarella

Boobarella
On The Simpsons, Booberella is an ample-chested vampire-looking woman and  local TV personality in Springfield. She hosts late-night monster movies and always dresses in low-cut vampire-style outfits that show lots of cleavage. She is well aware of her large breasts, and constantly draws attention to them, makes reference to them, or tells people to look at them. Booberella is the daughter of Bill, an employee in the Accounting department at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant[1]. She has occasionally been seen dating Duffman. Booberella's trademark, unsurprisingly, is her obsession with her own breasts, in combination with talking like a vampire. Booberella also has her own line of handbags.

Boobarella
When Marge Simpson was taken hostage during a bank robbery, she managed to place a cell phone call to Homer and told him that if she didn't make it out alive, he could get remarried to anyone whose name was on the list in the back of his closet. Booberella was one of the names on the list.

The Simpsons: Tapped Out ~ Boobarella
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Thursday, October 3, 2013

Marge Simpson Bouvier

"Treehouse of Horror VIII" is the fourth episode of The Simpsons' ninth season and first aired on the Fox network on October 26, 1997. In the eighth annual Treehouse of Horror episode, Homer Simpson is the last man left alive when a neutron bomb destroys Springfield until a gang of mutants come after him, Homer buys a transporter that Bart uses to switch bodies with a housefly, and Marge is accused of witchcraft in a Puritan rendition of Springfield in 1649.

Treehouse of Horror: The Bouvier Sisters
"Easy-Bake Coven"
In 1649, the town of Springfield is witness to many witch burnings. In the church, the townspeople try to figure out whom to condemn next. People start accusing one another and soon chaos erupts, until Marge Simpson attempts to intervene. She tries to talk sense into the townspeople, but Moe accuses her of being a witch. Mayor Quimby assures her that she is entitled to due process which means she will be thrown off a cliff with a broomstick; if she is a witch she will be able to fly to safety, in which case the authorities expect her to report back for punishment. If she is not a witch, then she will fall to an honorable Christian death. Lisa tries to speak on her mother's behalf, but Marge gets shoved off the cliff regardless. 


The townspeople are shocked to see that a green-skinned Marge is now flying on a broomstick revealing  that she really is a witch, and naturally, of course,... an evil one. She returns to her elder sisters, Patty and Selma, in their secluded mountain lair. The Bouvier Sisters watch Ned and Maude Flanders talking about how the witches eat children, which gives them the wicked notion to do just that. They knock on the Flanders' door and demand their sons. Before they leave, Maude offers the them gingerbread men instead. The witches seem to like these better than the children, and let Rod and Todd go. They proceed to go from house to house, getting goodies in exchange for not eating the children (though they already actually had eaten some beforehand). As the witches fly off, the Sea Captain explains that that is how the tradition of Halloween and trick-or-treating actually got started. 

The scene then jumps to the following year in the same town where everyone is dressed in costumes. Homer and several others are egging a house for not opening the door, before Lisa points out that it's actually their own house, making everyone laugh. Homer then accuses her of being a witch, and proceeds to chase her off into the moonlight...

The Simpsons: Tapped Out ~ Witch Marge
Let the witchery begin! Celebrate Halloween all October long
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