PicSpam: Emma Thompson - Seven Colours of Awesome
Quite simply, Emma Thompson is someone who I respect, admire, and am amused and inspired by. Picspam format nabbed somewhat from curlybeach's fantastic David Tennant picspam here.
RED
She won't can't spoil you for Harry Potter movies.
ELLEN: My question is, will Professor Trelawney make it to book number 7, the final book in the series?
EMMA: Well now, it's interesting, because I can (suddenly winces in pain and leans forward, clutching her neck) ah! oh!
ELLEN: Oh, you can't talk? That's weird.
EMMA: (still holding her neck) No, so sorry. I really want to tell you, but they put a chip in your neck.
YELLOW
She can terrify Stephen Fry with her breasts. No, really.
STEPHEN: She used to show me her breasts.
EMMA: ...this fanastic effect I used to have on him. I could do it now - I'm not going to (Stephen cries out) but I could make him scream....a real, actual scream of fright, just by appearing nude at the top of his stairs. (Stephen cowers) And locking all the doors at the bottom, so that when you tried to get away...
GREEN
Not only can she act, she can write. She wrote the screenplays both for Sense and Sensibility and Nanny McPhee.
EMMA:...when I was shooting Nanny McPhee, I was doing a few changes on Joe Wright's script for Pride and Prejudice. So he would rush in to the studio, and I'd be sitting there in a fat suit and a big fat nose, writing new lines for Jane Austen.
Writing can have the same therapeutically creative effect upon you as performing.
BLUE
She starred in the remarkable Wit. I must admit I have never seen it, but this clip (and the script) were quite amazing. Emma's delivery, and her reactions, too. She adapted the screenplay from the original script for theatre performance.
E. M. ASHFORD: Do you think that the punctuation of the last line of this sonnet is merely an insignificant detail?
In the edition you choose, this profoundly simple meaning is sacrificed to hysterical punctuation. And Death, Capital D, shall be no more, semi-colon. Death, Capital D comma, thou shalt die, exclamation mark! If you go in for this sort of thing I suggest you take up Shakespeare.
Gardner's edition of the Holy Sonnets returns to the Westmoreland manuscript of 1610, not for sentimental reasons I assure you, but because Helen Gardner is a scholar. It reads, "And death shall be no more", comma, "death, thou shalt die." Nothing but a breath, a comma separates life from life everlasting. Very simple, really. With the original punctuation restored Death is no longer something to act out on a stage with exclamation marks. It is a comma. A pause.
In this way, the uncompromising way one learns something from the poem, wouldn't you say? Life, death, soul, God, past present. Not insuperable barriers. Not semi-colons. Just a comma.
INDIGO PINK
She plays Elizabeth Barrett to Stephen Fry's Robert Browning. And is blimmin' hilarious. (She, Stephen Fry, and Hugh Laurie were all in 'Cambridge Footlights' together.)
ROBERT: I read some more of your poems last night. They're so rare. So fine. So absolutely fantastic.
ELIZABETH: Fantastic?
ROBERT: Absolutely fantastic.
ELIZABETH: How fantastic?
ROBERT: Fantastically fantastic.
VIOLET
Brilliant, brilliant comic delivery.
KAREN: So what's this big news, then?
DAISY: We've been given our parts in the nativity play. And I'm the lobster.
KAREN: The lobster?
DAISY: Yeah!
KAREN: In the nativity play?
DAISY: Yeah, first lobster.
KAREN: There was more than one lobster present at the birth of Jesus?
DAISY: Duh.
WHITE (because I couldn't find an orange!)
She rocks Shakespeare in Much Ado About Nothing.
BEATRICE: Why then, God forgive me.
BENEDICK: What offence, sweet Beatrice?
BEATRICE: You have stayed me in a happy hour, I was about to protest I loved you.
BENEDICK: And do it, with all thy heart.
BEATRICE: I love you with so much of my heart, that none is left to protest.
RED
She won't can't spoil you for Harry Potter movies.
ELLEN: My question is, will Professor Trelawney make it to book number 7, the final book in the series?
EMMA: Well now, it's interesting, because I can (suddenly winces in pain and leans forward, clutching her neck) ah! oh!
ELLEN: Oh, you can't talk? That's weird.
EMMA: (still holding her neck) No, so sorry. I really want to tell you, but they put a chip in your neck.
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She can terrify Stephen Fry with her breasts. No, really.
STEPHEN: She used to show me her breasts.
EMMA: ...this fanastic effect I used to have on him. I could do it now - I'm not going to (Stephen cries out) but I could make him scream....a real, actual scream of fright, just by appearing nude at the top of his stairs. (Stephen cowers) And locking all the doors at the bottom, so that when you tried to get away...
GREEN
Not only can she act, she can write. She wrote the screenplays both for Sense and Sensibility and Nanny McPhee.
EMMA:...when I was shooting Nanny McPhee, I was doing a few changes on Joe Wright's script for Pride and Prejudice. So he would rush in to the studio, and I'd be sitting there in a fat suit and a big fat nose, writing new lines for Jane Austen.
Writing can have the same therapeutically creative effect upon you as performing.
BLUE
She starred in the remarkable Wit. I must admit I have never seen it, but this clip (and the script) were quite amazing. Emma's delivery, and her reactions, too. She adapted the screenplay from the original script for theatre performance.
E. M. ASHFORD: Do you think that the punctuation of the last line of this sonnet is merely an insignificant detail?
In the edition you choose, this profoundly simple meaning is sacrificed to hysterical punctuation. And Death, Capital D, shall be no more, semi-colon. Death, Capital D comma, thou shalt die, exclamation mark! If you go in for this sort of thing I suggest you take up Shakespeare.
Gardner's edition of the Holy Sonnets returns to the Westmoreland manuscript of 1610, not for sentimental reasons I assure you, but because Helen Gardner is a scholar. It reads, "And death shall be no more", comma, "death, thou shalt die." Nothing but a breath, a comma separates life from life everlasting. Very simple, really. With the original punctuation restored Death is no longer something to act out on a stage with exclamation marks. It is a comma. A pause.
In this way, the uncompromising way one learns something from the poem, wouldn't you say? Life, death, soul, God, past present. Not insuperable barriers. Not semi-colons. Just a comma.
INDIGO PINK
She plays Elizabeth Barrett to Stephen Fry's Robert Browning. And is blimmin' hilarious. (She, Stephen Fry, and Hugh Laurie were all in 'Cambridge Footlights' together.)
ROBERT: I read some more of your poems last night. They're so rare. So fine. So absolutely fantastic.
ELIZABETH: Fantastic?
ROBERT: Absolutely fantastic.
ELIZABETH: How fantastic?
ROBERT: Fantastically fantastic.
VIOLET
Brilliant, brilliant comic delivery.
KAREN: So what's this big news, then?
DAISY: We've been given our parts in the nativity play. And I'm the lobster.
KAREN: The lobster?
DAISY: Yeah!
KAREN: In the nativity play?
DAISY: Yeah, first lobster.
KAREN: There was more than one lobster present at the birth of Jesus?
DAISY: Duh.
WHITE (because I couldn't find an orange!)
She rocks Shakespeare in Much Ado About Nothing.
BEATRICE: Why then, God forgive me.
BENEDICK: What offence, sweet Beatrice?
BEATRICE: You have stayed me in a happy hour, I was about to protest I loved you.
BENEDICK: And do it, with all thy heart.
BEATRICE: I love you with so much of my heart, that none is left to protest.