Mark Welsh

Ralph Fiennes in Schindler’s List (1993) His portrayal of Amon Goeth is often regarded as one of the most chilling villain performances of the 1990s. What’s remarkable is that during the audition, Steven Spielberg didn’t even ask for a second or third take: “After take one, I knew he was Amon. I saw sexual evil — subtle kindness flickering in his eyes, then turning instantly cold.” Fiennes delivered a character both ordinary and terrifying, making audiences shudder at the banality of evil. Though he only received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor and didn’t win, many still consider this one of the most great performances that lost Oscar.

In The Godfather Part II, early in Vito Corleone’s flashback storyline, Don Fanucci suddenly appears with a scar across his neck - a scar that wasn’t there in his earlier scenes. The film never explains how he got it, but a deleted scene reveals what happened, and it plays out almost exactly as Mario Puzo described it in the novel. “One day Fanucci was set upon by three young men who cut his throat from ear to ear, not deeply enough to kill him, but enough to frighten him and make him bleed a great deal. Vito saw Fanucci fleeing from his punishers, the circular slash flowing red. What he never forgot was Fanucci holding the cream-colored fedora under his chin to catch the dripping blood as he ran. As if he did not want his suit soiled or did not want to leave a shameful trail of carmine.” Coppola wanted the moment to match Mario Puzo’s description as closely as possible. The blood-spurting effect from Fanucci’s neck was created with a fake piece of skin made from foam latex, rigged with two canisters hidden under actor Gastone Moschin’s arm: one filled with compressed air, the other with fake blood. A trigger was placed in Moschin’s palm, and when he pressed it, the compressed air forced blood up through tiny tubes beneath the fake skin, making it look as if Fanucci’s throat had been slashed open. It was a great effect; however, the problem with the scene is that Coppola chose to shoot the attack in a very brief wide shot, from Vito’s point of view. As a result, the violence had less impact than what audiences had come to expect after the first film. Special effects supervisor A.D. Flowers explains… “Yeah, well that was a scene where actually it didn't photograph as well as the story [required]. And this is one of the things which ruins effects, that often the camera goes away so fast from where it happens that you don't realize what is happening. An effects scene can't stay on too long, but it's got to stay on long enough to register. Like there, a guy's getting his throat slit, and he was supposed to put his hat underneath it to catch the blood dripping, and the scene was cut real short, and I don't think the audience really got that much out of it, and I think that was the main reason they cut it out.” (1/2)

The noise it made, half a mile away from Everton’s stadium when they scored last night… 😲 Quality, that! 👏

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Matt Damon says filming Nolan's THE ODYSSEY felt like "the last big movie that I was ever going to get to make." He also "lost a ton of weight" and cut down to 167 pounds. "Nolan wanted me lean but strong. I stopped eating gluten. I haven’t been that light since high school.”

The brutal baseball bat scene in THE UNTOUCHABLES (1987) is one of the best scenes in De Niro's career. The intense, terrifying scene has given fans goosebumps for 37 years!

We miss Barrack Obama 💔

BBC World Cup Grandstand…LIVE June 1986 Last 16 England 3-0 Paraguay Commentator John Motson #England #Paraguay #WorldCup

The same crab that keeps popping up to play and be caught again and again KEEPS FRYING ME LMAO—ARE THEY HAVING SEX

The US Air Force is nothing to mess around with. 🇺🇸

That is the happiest I’ve ever seen him 😭

⚡The thunder returns. Thor is BACK in Doomsday — and the trailer hits like a godly storm. 🔨🔥 #AvengersDoomsdayTrailer #Thor #Doomsday #MCU

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Anne Hathaway at the School of Rock premiere. This changed lives.

When football was no-nonsense.. West Ham vs. Man City ⚽️

Laura Dern dropped out of college because UCLA would not allow her to take a leave of absence to film "Blue Velvet." She gave David Lynch's script to the head of the film department in order to convince him, but he fired back at her: “First of all, if you make this choice, you are no longer welcome at UCLA. You’ll be out. But secondly, having read this script, that you would give up your college education for this is insane.” Dern says that "today, if you want to get a masters in film at that school, when you write a thesis there are three movies you are required to study. And you know what one of them is? Pisses me off."

This bird just found out that golf balls bounce on concrete, and he’s having the time of his life 😂

Aged Wagyu Beef is the world's most expensive meat at $3,200 per pound 🐂🥩 © vaultvision.xo

Happy birthday, Kevin Turvey! He made his first appearance on A Kick Up The Eighties on this day in 1981. And a star was born… 🌟👍 #RememberingRik #RikMayall #KevinTurvey

01' - Everton 0-1 Aston Villa 30' - Everton 1-1 Aston Villa 54' - Everton 1-2 Aston Villa 93' - Everton 2-2 Aston Villa 94' - Everton 2-3 Aston Villa Whenever I think of Aston Villa away at Everton, only this game comes to mind 😍 #AVFC