There are a LOT of Dumbo 2019 screen-worn clothes for sale (nothing that Michael Keaton, Colin Farrell, Eva Green, or Danny DeVito wore; Disney’s keeping those).
Well here it is. The minific is finally finished —> (LINK)
Last March was specially hard on me for so many reasons, but one of the hardest things that I’ve to go through was the passing of my maternal grandfather.
This is why I’ve written this fic, because now like Holt here, I know how it feels to loose someone so dear and close and having to live with the reality that we’ll never see them again.
My maternal grandfather, was the only grandfather I ever got. My paternal grandfather passed away few months after I was born. So I knever knew him.
My grandpa was the best grandpa ever, he lived till he was 85 years old, he would’ve been 86 this year. He was an squilled arquitect, he was so much fun to be around, he loved music (he sang on a choir in churches for years), he loved football, theatre, art and traveling. He adored to travel around the world and he did, several times. He was also a man of faith but he was so open to everything I and my brother and cousins had to share with him, despite he didn’t always understood technology.
He reminds me now of Max Medici, ‘cause despite being in his 80′s, he had a youthfull and open-minded spirit. Like a 20 year-old boy trapped on a 85 year-old body, lol.
But the best aspect of my grandpa is that he was present, he was there for us and he loved to learn the things we learned. He supported me in a lot of stuff and for that I’ll always be grateful. Other amazing aspect of him is that he lived happily married to my grandma till his death. The were married for 61 years!!! Can you imagine that? A 61 year-old marriege is one of the best accomplishments I’ve ever seen.
Since last year, his health due to heart problems, began to deteriorate slowly and he started to forget where he was or what was going on around him. My family and I began to prepear for the worst since that happened.
He didn’t suffer fortunately, he didn’t feel pain.
RIP Papo, te quiero y te extraño un monton!
Enjoy the fanfic!!!
I’m sorry, I didn’t see this until now! I’ll read it tonight!
I’m very sorry for your grandfather’s passing. It’s lovely that you made this in tribute to him. I’m happy to hear he had a loving family around him.
Both are extremely rich showmen (V.A. with circuses, Agreste with fashion).
Both have walking sticks (though Agreste only has his when he’s in his villain costume).
Both have headquarters in towers with huge, round windows overlooking a big city (New York for V.A., Paris for Agreste).
Both want to have ultimate power (V.A. to dominate the world of entertainment, Agreste to dominate, well, the world).
Headcanon:
Colette Marchant became pregnant by V.A. while they were still in Paris. He didn’t want a child, and convinced her that, in order to become The Queen of the Heavens, she couldn’t raise their son. Colette reluctantly left her son in the care of her mother and aunts and left for New York.
She secretly kept in touch with the boy and made sure he had the finest education. When V.A. died Colette revealed that the young man was his only living biological relative. He inherited the wealth Vandevere had managed to rebuild after Dreamland burned.
He and his children lived happy lives. But his grandson X 3 grew up in Paris, and had inherited his grandfather X 3’s personality. Which included gaining fame, fortune and power at any cost. So he turned into a super villain.
Bonus coincidence: Gabriel Agreste’s son is named Adrian (spelled Adrien).
I only learned about Miraculous Ladybug & Cat Noir very recently. I love the theme song (this one is in the original French with English CC). The intro has a brief glimpse of Agreste in his tower room.
I’ve been giving Colin Farrel’s Oz a lot of attention. I need to share some Michael Keaton VA Vandevere love!
This is the last role Keaton’s done where he makes the character far from his own voice and mannerisms. Since Dumbo he’s pretty much been doing roles that look and sound the same (Batman, and soon he’s going to play yet another assassin).
“Oz” Cobblepot was never really that bad a guy. Thrown from a horse at age 18, his limp discouraged employers, though his kindness found him a loving, beautiful wife.
In order to support Annie and their daughter, Milly, Oz accepted work at the one place where his intimidating appearance was an asset: Dreamland, an exclusive nightclub for the filthy rich, owned by billionaire V.A. Vandevere. With a head for numbers and a showman through and through, soon Oz was the billionaire’s right-hand man.
Annie died from Covid in 2020. Numb with grief, Oz drowned himself in work.
Oz was well aware Dreamland was just a front for Vandevere’s criminal enterprises. He kept his mouth shut and sheltered Milly as well as he could. But in order to go to college, and determined to pay her own way, Milly insisted on working as a waitress at Dreamland..
V.A. noticed her. And she noticed him. Milly thought the father she dearly loved didn’t know they were “dating.” But Oz knew everything that happens in Dreamland.
Telling Milly outright to never see V.A. again would make her dig in her heels. But one evening during a thunderstorm, with business slow, Oz tries to convince Milly to leave work early. And he confronts her with her secret.
As soon as I heard this song, I couldn’t resist to relate it to Colette. Most of the lyrics fit perfectly with my headcanon take on her. This song starts with Colette’s childhood in France until the moment she moved away with Vandevere to America. Before meeting Holt. This is how she would’ve felt during that transition in my headcanon.
Translation here:
Good evening, monsieur, madam.
Today, I say all to you
I prefer speaking to you with ‘you’ (informal)
Because I dislike the ‘You’. (formal)
.
I find that makes you older
And me, I want to remain young.
A boy for life,
Without hankerchieves, nor shouts.
.
So go ahead,I say all to you
On the drama I live.
Every day, in hell
That’s where I live.
.
I’d like to leave
Escape far from all
Of this crazy world
And go I don’t know where
.
This world strangles me, crushes me and burns me
Destroys me, it prevents me from living in my bubble.
.
So, I would leave
Far from all, just escape.
Let me run far away
Letting this world to ban.
.
If God says that the suicide is a sin, then,
He has to say how I leave, without harming him.
.
He has to change me into that doctors call it “mad”
And so maybe I will see in the blur.
.
So, dear Mister “D”,
Help me, love me.
I can’t do it
In this world that I see.
.
In this world of fights
Where the Man is just a brute
Where love is nothing anymore
Only quarrels and disputes.
.
I’d write to me a world
A planet only for me
A planet on which I feel myself.
A renovation without chains
With no hate.
.
A planet on which
You’ll give me wings
A new universe
Where the tears, the pains
Would be just a myth.
Only one fucking urban legend.
.
So, let me leave
Say to me how to escape.
.
Enough asked questions
Let me, I want to leave all.
.
The only thing I love
In your creation : man.
That’s he can dream every night, like kids.
Whatever we’re old, young, bad
Nice, or also ugly.
.
We’ve the right of dreaming
Without even anything in the pockets.
Beggar, I implore the night
I beg for hope.
.
But the night is stingy
Madam, keep her morphia.
Because I didn’t pay
Or perhaps, not enough.
.
Born from parents without wealth,
She refuses me the moon.
Since of course, in this world
We can’t live with these numbers
That your children have changed into naughty monsters.
.
Every month you earn them
Every day you lose them
.
The bill is hard
I give the bill back, I leave hell.
.
That’s right, I confess I may be defeated
I confess, I assume
The life is eating me with a bad bitter taste.
.
Then, listen to me shouting
Vomit all my guts
In this sound that tells the life of a pessimistic jerk.
.
I’m feeling alone, fuck!
Nobody holds my hand
No one to share this glory with, fuck!
.
I’m walking alone on a way
Which seems to be without tomorrow
I go faster but nobody waits for me a the end.
.
So, every night I drink
I’m getting drunk
In order to forget, that finally
The success makes you lonely.
.
No friends, no life
I’m vacuum-closed
Many ennemies, no more going out
God, I need a guide.
.
Some clowns will say
That I abuse, I exaggerate
But fuck those assholes
‘Cause I’m young and I’m struggling!
.
In my head it’s a mess
Who has switched the light off ?
Mummy, I don’t see clear anymore
I need some light.
.
First it’s happiness
When you give to your heart.
To eat one love
That soothes your pains.
.
You forget your misfortune
But, finally, it’s just a bait
In this idiotics’ generation, full of liars.
.
One time the heart is broken
No need to call it
Loneliness arrives
It comes fast to find you.
.
It doesn’t wait for you to open, no!
It comes in without knocking
Your blues’ strikes are for it a snack to eat.
.
So, who are you? Deep down, do you know?
‘Cause I don’t know who I am anymore, I’m lost.
My ambition is large, hard to satisfy
My happiness taste like a bitter flavor.
.
So, monsieur, madam
I confess, I’m unhappy.
And however I live my brat’s dream.
But that’s stronger than me, I still miss this
That and that over there always more. I’m like that!
.
So, I hope one day
I could make love with a sincere person
Who will not play tricks on me.
.
I’m really fed up with giving with no return
I’m fed up with loving me,
With no soulmate, that’s hard!
.
But know all the same,
That on scene, grace to You
I think that I’m far from this crazy world!
.
’Cause I write when I’m making a mistake
And I laugh when I’m dancing
And I live when I’m singing
And for all of that, I say to you:
Thank you.
I think this fits perfectly! I can imagine her feeling rather bitter that even though she now has opportunities she could never have dreamed of, the dark side of her deal with the devil is already beginning to creep in around the edges.
‘McDonald & Dodds’ guest star Sharon Rooney: 'There’s more to Doreen than meets the eye!’
Best known for starring in such shows as My Mad Fat Diary, Two Doors Down and, most recently, Finding Alice, actor Sharon Rooney returns to our screens this Sunday in McDonald & Dodds Season 2, playing one of five friends who all become suspects when a birthday celebration ends in murder
Always centre of attention, Angela has travelled from Glasgow to Bath to celebrate her birthday with four friends, including best pal Doreen (Rooney). After meeting a group of rugby players, everyone heads to a house party at a mansion, near Brunel’s Box Hill Tunnel.
When promising rugby star Dominique Aubert is then found dead on a railway line — after drinking a lethal, spiked cocktail — all party-goers become suspects.
While McDonald (Tala Gouveia) untangles a web of mystery surrounding the women and the rugby club — and its chairman Jimmy (Cold Feet’s John Thomson) and agent Deborah (Coronation Street’s Natalie Gumede) — Doreen takes an unusual interest in Dodds (Jason Watkins) and the investigation. Is this her time to shine?
We chatted to Sharon Rooney — aka Doreen — to find out more…
Sharon Rooney on her character in McDonald & Dodds
“Doreen is the put-upon friend, and almost like the mum of the group, who’s organised this whole weekend away for her best friend Angela’s birthday. Angela is one of those people who loves to be in the spotlight while Doreen is happy to be in the background. There’s definitely more to Doreen than meets the eye, although that is the case with all of the characters in this series. You think they are one thing and they turn out to be completely different.”
Sharon Rooney on what Dodds makes of Doreen.
“McDonald sees right through Doreen and thinks she is a pain, and Doreen can tell McDonald feels that way about her, so she ignores her and hones straight in on Dodds. She is very excitable around him and constantly calls him 'Sarge’ which confuses him. She seems to enjoy winding him up.
"I worked with Jason very briefly a few years ago and it was really nice to work with him again. He’s such a great actor — so ridiculously talented — but he’s also the nicest guy. We filmed this episode for four weeks and at the end I was like: ‘Do you want me to stay a little bit longer?’”
Sharon Rooney on working with John Thomson
That was pretty cool. It’s funny because we’d worked together on this but when he was on The Masked Singer, I couldn’t believe I didn’t guess it was him. When they unmasked him, my dad said: 'Oh well done, Sharon, you kept a good poker face.’ I was like: 'I had no idea! He didn’t tell his own daughters, why would he tell me?’“
Sharon Rooney on the perfect girls’ weekend
"There is one place me and my best friends go and we love it. There is a private hot tub, so we all sit in there during the day and then, at night, it’s face masks, pyjamas, snacks, films and chatting rubbish until four in the morning. I am a bit like Doreen, I organise it all and I’m like: 'Here is where we are going, here is your itinerary, here’s our budget.’ I’ll get us all matching outfits, matching towels, the whole hog. When I’m busy with work, I don’t get to see my friends a lot, so when we get time for a girls’ weekend, I like to go ALL out.”
Sharon Rooney on being recognised
“My Mad Fat Diary is probably the most common one, although, when I’m in Scotland it’s always Two Doors Down. I have been recognised for Dumbo a couple of times by little kids. I was at an event and this little girl kept lifting my dress up. Her dad said: 'I think she is looking for your tail.’ I was like: ‘That is so cute — but this dress is quite short!’”
’…Fire up social media on your phone and within moments you’re free to interact with a world full of people. Holiday photos from your cousin in New Zealand? Click like!
Your pal’s video of a Yorkshire terrier that sounds like Brian Blessed? Hit retweet! Don’t like the way someone looks? Tell them to lose some weight!
Hang on, that last one is probably a bit rude. You wouldn’t wander up to a stranger in the street and casually advise them to give the sweeties a miss, not unless you were desperately craving a sore face.
Yet that kindly advice is precisely what someone like Sharon Rooney is offered when she logs into sites such as Instagram.
Sharon, who starred in Disney’s recent live action Dumbo remake, E4’s My Mad Fat Diary and hit sitcom Two Doors Down has endured her fair share of trolling.
“It’s the unsolicited medical advice I enjoy,” she laughed. “Telling me not to eat jellybeans. Thanks!
“I learned quite quickly people will pick apart anything. They will find something. Even if I was five sizes smaller, someone will tell me I looked better before. You’ll never please everyone.
“There’s a lovely mute button now. If someone writes something rude I just quietly say ‘Shhh’ to them.
“With My Mad Fat Diary I’m already saying, ‘Hello, I am fat human’. What can they say?
“I have eyes, I know what I look like and I’m fine with that. Sorry if you’re not. I’m doing OK, so please don’t worry about me.”
Sharon, 32, is doing more than OK though, which you’ll see if you tune into new ITV drama Finding Alice tonight.
She stars opposite Keeley Hawes and it’s a role that saw Sharon cross the Bodyguard star’s name off a special list.
“I’ll let you into a secret. Every actor has a dream list of people they’d love to work with and Keeley was on mine,” she said.
“I told Keeley. She just rolled her eyes and told me to shut up.
“Why would you not want to work with her? She’s fantastic in everything she does.
“Keeley’s everything I thought she would be. Whe’s one of a kind. A special human being. Look, Keeley’s not paying me to say this! Maybe she should…?”
Praising a colleague is, of course, second nature to an actor. There’s a reason they call them luvvies; plus you don’t want to end up working with someone you’ve bad-mouthed on a project in a year’s time, do you?
This isn’t merely empty platitudes for a thespian pal. Sharon’s praise is warm, generous and genuine. It’s how she herself comes across, along with a dash of wry humour.
Perhaps it’s the influence of her late granny, who Sharon describes as her soulmate.
“This sounds so cheesy but she truly was,” she added. “You know you get one human who you just chime with? I just loved her. We were two old souls.
“She taught me so much. I think grannies have that magic where they teach you to deal with life after they’re gone. I just enjoyed every minute I had with her.”
The pain and sadness we’ve all experienced over the past year, along with the forced holiday she’s had to take with being locked down, has let Sharon think about the grief she felt when her gran died.
“Even if you’re preparing for a death I don’t think it’s any easier than if it’s unexpected,” she said.
“When it is unexpected, like the way Harry dies in Finding Alice, you’re left reeling from it for so long before you can take in what’s happened.
“With Nicola, the character I play, the initial shock has happened. Her big brother has died. So how do you move forward? Grief itself is such a complicated thing. There’s no guide book. When you feel sad, you feel sad.
“Grief sneaks up on you. You think you’re fine then it appears with a ‘Hiya!’
“I still get it. I’ll think I can’t wait to show my gran something before going, ‘Oh yeah’.
“My gran spoke about it before she died. We were talking about how thinking of someone after they’ve died is like ringing a bell for them.
“She said, ‘Don’t think of me too much, hen – I’ll get no rest.’”
(Sharon Rooney as Miss Atlantis with co-star DeObia Oparei in Tim Burton’s Dumbo)
Happily, Sharon brought her sardonic and garrulous Glaswegian spirit to the set of Dumbo, in which Sharon appeared alongside Hollywood legend Danny DeVito.
“You forget they’re still humans, which is easy to do when you’re standing in front of Danny DeVito. All I could think was that this was Danny DeVito. Has anyone told him?
“You just talk on set. Gab, gab, gab. That’s all we did. I was shouting over to Tim to ask for two minutes so Danny could finish his story.
“That’s Tim Burton, by the way. Listen to me, I just call him Tim now.”
Casting for a Disney blockbuster like Dumbo was straightforward, although it did come with an ironclad ban from telling her friends about the project until it was announced.
My Mad Fat Diary focused on the plus-sized character Sharon played but, since then, the roles she’s taken don’t normally specify anything about her character’s weight.
“A lot of parts I go for don’t say the character must be plus-size or look a certain way,” she said.
“I’ve only been doing this for eight years or so but for me it’s never been an issue but I know for some it has been.
“It’s about owning who you are. I realise that’s difficult because of social media. What I try to do is take jobs with people who are authentic characters.
“If it does specify a plus-size actor then my response is to ask why. Let’s investigate this.
“These days – well, before the pandemic – I would go to auditions and the room would be filled with so many different people, which I love. The room isn’t filled with girls who all look the same.
“And I love seeing a role that I didn’t get go to someone completely different to me. Well, I don’t love it because then I’ve not got the role, but it’s still nice to see.”
A closeness with her other granny (the pair are bubbled up) has developed during the lockdowns of the past year, from which Sharon has taken heart.
Other than that she’s been enjoying her break ahead of Finding Alice’s release, as well as browsing social media.
Although these days she’s a lot wiser in how she does it; retaining the enjoyment with the help of that handy mute button.
“I used to follow every celebrity and every celebrity magazine,” added Sharon. “But it just made me doubt myself. I’d go to post a video then I’d wonder if I should put more make-up on first.
“I’ve stopped doing that. On Twitter these days I post videos where I’ve just woken up.
“I mean if you do post a video where you look great and have all your make-up on, then great, but I don’t know how you do it! I look forward to my no-make-up days.
“Oh you should see the state of me. I live in loungewear now. I put on jeans the other day. What are these things? What is this material we wear? These are awful!”
Finally, some feedback with which we can all agree…’ X
Leah Gallo Photography has done several portraits for Tim Burton films, including Miss Peregrine’s. I absolutely love these. They capture the feeling of the period perfectly, as well as the personalities of the characters.
I love V.A.’s expression. And that the photographer included the VAV Enterprises logo.
It’s Christmas Eve in New York City, 2021. V.A. Vandevere, billionaire playboy and Impresario of Dreamland, leads a secret, double life. Milly Farrier, 18, leads a miserable life as the intern of billionaire financier J.G. Remington. Their paths cross, triggering murder, a robbery at Cartier’s, and inescapable lust.
In the scene below V.A. asks, “Why are there children in my office?” This shows he does recognize Milly as a child, and his office is a place for adults.
But after Holt tells him that Dumbo flew off because he recognized his mother’s call, it’s Milly who talks to V.A., and he talks to her. Not to Holt, not to Colette. He focuses on her and states that going it alone is what you do in order to grow up. He’s explaining that Dumbo would be better without his mother, but peripherally he’s telling Milly to separate from her father, who, more than likely, he believes is stifling her as his father stifled him. V.A. doesn’t see parents as anything but impediments to one’s ambitions.
V.A. and Holt confront each other. Again, Vandevere makes it plain that he thinks Milly would be better off without her dad, as V.A. was without his. Holt senses this, and becomes alarmed.
V.A.’s lack of understanding that Mrs. Jumbo going away upsets Milly is partly because he, hating his parents, can’t imagine Milly missing Holt if he left. In V.A.’s eyes Holt mocks his daughter’s desire to be a scientist. Wouldn’t she naturally want to be free of him? And V.A. has hardened his heart toward mothers in general, having had a shitty one himself. Plus, Milly’s motherless, yet she’s doing fine.
Here’s the whole scene:
In this deleted scene, V.A. takes the time to talk with Milly, using his pet name for her. It’s bad writing that he asks her for a prediction and she instead repeats what he told her during the parade. But the thing is, what he said stuck with her. And this delights V.A. That he talks to her at all shows he feels connected. He has no reason to talk to her, to ask her prediction of how the show will do. A typical grownup would forget she even exists, or just pat her on the head. People give their attention to what they like, and V.A. demonstrates time and again that he likes Milly
Joe’s just kind of there, V.A. never speaks to him directly. Joe doesn’t interest V.A. because, honestly, there’s nothing to him. V.A.’s keen eye for the extraordinary dismisses Joe. He recognizes talent, and Joe doesn’t have any.
Throughout the film Vandevere pays attention to Milly. He respects her intelligence, talent, and ambitions. He defends her in front of her father. One of the reasons Holt is skeptical about Milly’s wanting to be a scientist was because very, very few women were. Women attending colleges and universities was uncommon. Milly has a lot of obstacles in front of her if she wants to achieve her dream, just as V.A. had.
When I was Milly’s age I had several adults, women and men, who encouraged and mentored me. Some gave me the same attention V.A. grants Milly. That’s why I see a growing mentorship between these two, which Holt obviously feels happening as well. Holt has every reason to feel threatened. He was an absentee father for a couple years. He and Milly didn’t connect before he left for war, and they don’t now. Milly’s angry with him for not stopping the sale of Mrs. Jumbo. They butt heads. But V.A. and his world offer Milly everything she dreams of, especially encouragement. He’s a hell of a potential father figure to compete with.
It was EASY for my imagination to come up with an 18-year-old Milly being attracted to the man who supports her goal for what will be a difficult career. Shit, such support is rare enough for girls these days, so rare that that’s why Dumbomade Milly a model for girls in STEM.
And I had much older lovers when I was 18, so I have absolutely no problem seeing Milly lusting for and falling in love with a hot 50 year old.
So. I’ve had several messages like the following. This one was on AO3, and is very polite, and went on to be complimentary (thank you):
The other messages were various shades of nasty. Beetlebabes, you know what I mean.
I’m updating and reblogging this and Part 2, since both posts were fl@gged on my original blog.
Nobody has to justify their Ship. But when some, like the nice person above, are sincerely confused or just don’t “get” it, I don’t mind explaining.
The Ship hit me when I read the novelization Dumbo: Circus of Dreams, weeks before the movie opened. The book has a lot more background about the characters and a lot of lines which were cut from the final film. The trailers cemented my fixation on V.A. I wrote the first two chapters of Baby, MinebeforeDumbo premiered. The movie clinched the Ship for me. Here’s why:
Note: I did not, in any way, sense ANY sexual or inappropriate behavior by V.A. toward Milly in the film.
Keaton said, “One reason Vandevere, my character, behaves the way he behaves, which is not too nice, is he never really had a family, and deep inside, that ate him up—although he would never let you know that.” This is important. In the novelization, we learn that when V.A. was 16 his dad dumped his family and left to make his fortune in the Gold Rush, and his mother pretty much was a flutter-brain.
When V.A. first meets Milly it’s because Max points out that “the kids” (Milly, really) taught Dumbo to fly. V.A.’s awkward; obviously he’s not good with kids. But he listens to Milly. In the scene below look how he leans forward quite far. His body language and expression are entirely focused on her. If he merely dismissed her he’d turn away or straighten up. Every indication is he’s fascinated. I’m not saying sexually. But, as later scenes show, I think he sees something in her with which he can identify. Her intelligence, obviously. You can tell, earlier in the scene (not shown here), that V.A. is captivated by the idea that an elephant can fly. He still longs for magic and wonder, as he did as a child. So he’d be equally enraptured with the person who recognized a miracle, the same way V.A. recognizes the extraordinary.
During the parade V.A. explains to Milly why he’s keeping Dumbo under wraps. When Holt belittles his daughter’s ambition to become a scientist, V.A. immediately defends her. A line from the book, but cut from the film, has V.A. telling Milly his father didn’t believe in him. V.A. senses a kinship with Milly, as an intelligent, talented person with a big goal her father doesn’t take seriously.
In this scene below V.A. pretty much ignores Holt, the father who mocked his daughter. He turns to Milly, identifying her as the authority on Dumbo. Considering how uncomfortable he is around children, this has meaning. And he’s created a pet name for her, which reinforces his support of her ambition to be a scientist. Though he calls her “our little scientist” it’s not said in a condescending tone. Nicknames can also be a way of bonding. He says it right in front of her father. V.A. does acknowledge Holt as a party to Dumbo’s training, but that doesn’t lessen how he sees Milly.
At Hot Topic and Box Lunch I see a lot of Disney Villain shirts like these:
I’m annoyed that Dumbo2019′s villains aren’t included in any Disney Villain merch.
So I made this of my favorite bad boys.
I dunno what the fuck happened to the color in the scan. They look like ghosts! But I like how Rufus turned out so much I’m using this design for an evil character in my graphic novel. :-) I’ll credit Phil Zimmerman in the acknowledgements!
