Jaffar doodles

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And just so I won't be a complete whiny arse, have some Jaffar crackdoodles as a fill for this character expressions meme. Cut for size and NSFW crack, click each for biggarz.

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I *did* draw the stranger as half-naked marketplace Ahmad, for some reason my conscious mind can't fathom--it just seemed natural Jaffar would recoil from him or a lookalike:)

If I had more skillz, I'd make a crack animation where a big giant pair of blue balls slowly descends on Jaffar's face and threatens to suffocate him. German Expressionist-stylee, like the giant hand that reaches out to choke Orlac:) And now I just want to doodle more Jaffars--he is a really hilarious thing to caricature. <3 I used to doodle tons of Doctor/Master stick figures in the late 00s to ward off depression, because they gave me something fun and pervy to distract myself with and I wouldn't have to feel emo about my lack of realistic drawing skillz when it was just stick figures. And now I feel like distracting myself with Jaffars because my health isn't up to ficcing right now, so if I'm not careful, you guys will be drowning in them soon.

And asldkfjkdjcj, I thought of you just now because I finally got my hands on a copy of Lebensbilder and wish my German wasn't so crap so I could read the various article snippets better, or that if I HAD YOU AROUND TO TRANSLATE. There's some nice stuff in there, and I hadn't seen some of the photos before and should totally get round to scanning them (although my back is protesting at the very idea of having to hunch around the scanner--that's how many pics we're talking about).

The book even had photos of his birth and death certificates and a school report where I couldn't make out some of the words, but it looked like he wasn't crap at *everything* and I think (I'm so tired my language centres are drooping) one bit said he was good at Religion, or then the writer was making some joke about religion and IDK. But that'd sound like our mystical Connie all right. But re: the birth certificate--now I know his name definitely wasn't spelled with a K nor his surname with a W--it says Hans Walter Conrad Veidt on the thing, no matter what some strange people on the Intarwebz are saying. (Although the school report says Konrad, which makes things even more confusing.)

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Ahahaha! Now that would be one hell of an animation sequence. I bet Jaffar has nightmares like that all the time, poor Pwinzezz deprived thing. Drawing and doodles are great fun :) especially if they serve to bring your thoughts out of any dark places. And your Jaffar caricatures are scho cute!

Oh man, I'm green with envy (Torsten cupping Laura in his hand is all to brilliant BTW)!
It's always exciting when there's new info. and never before seen pictures and what not :)) Why hasn't anyone invented beaming as a mode of transportation yet? 'Cause then I'd totally beam myself over and translate that book to joyous little pieces.

Wowza, birth and death *:'(* certificates, plus school reports!! That's pretty darn awesome, I don't think I've found much on his school years, only that little mention that he wasn't terribly interested during classes. Eeeee! It wouldn't surprise me at all if he'd been good/interested in Religion y'know, that mystic part of him he was surely born with.
This whole 'K' and 'W' theory is strange, I don't know who came up with that or why... I guess Konrad is actually pretty common German spelling, so maybe the teacher was doing that classic teacher thing in presuming. But Weidt? Doesn't make sense if a lot of people said his name was pronounced 'Feidt' which definitely means it was spelled with a 'V'. Were it 'W' that boxing match anecdote would be made pretty null and void, for instance.

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I don't know where the various misspellings in various Internet articles came from; I really don't. I guess it was just the usual assumption that actors always change their names or whatever, and because Veidt is a really rare surname that appears pretty much nowhere else. I have no idea. But it was interesting to see that even in his birth certificate (I'll post both on Tumblr at some point), they'd underlined Conrad as the name with which to address him by. So no pudgy little Hans in lederhosen being told to not molest the ducks in the park when promenading with his mother--damn it :)

I'm sure you could get the Lebensbilder book through some interlibrary loan? I did some research ages ago and remember reading about UK libraries having copies, but it would've been expensive as shit for me to get an international interlibrary loan to be sent up to Scandinavia, so I never pursued that. I was really lucky to find it on eBay for so cheap--I couldn't believe my luck. I don't really have any extra cash to treat myself with, but I went 'FUCKIT' and got it and told myself it was an early birthday present. And as it's full of pretties, it sure is worth more than the godawful Allen biography (which a financially well-off friend got me as a Christmas present because it was something ridiculous like 250 bucks on Amazon's used books section). I hate that book so much I would be tempted to burn it if it didn't have Connies in and if it wasn't so expensive--I might have to end up selling it at some point what with my money situation being what it is.

Oh, hey, what did Mary Ellis say about him in the Desert Island Discs interview? I'm crap at focusing on anything audio, so it's probably just faster to ask you:)

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Mmm! I've been meaning to go to the library for a while now actually, as I know some of the archives have a fair few books and rare journal articles on him. The only thing is I do find it all a little infuriating that, for the most part, they're all 'reference only' and so one has to read them then and there. Especially if, like me, you enjoy going over things more than once, and taking your time with various sections that are of particular interest, reading in libraries is never quite as enjoyable. And the amount of times I've been told off for scanning too many pages of things... Whoops! But it'd definitely be interesting to have a look through Lebensbilder, maybe jot down anything worth translating etc.

It's *very* cool that you were able to find it for so reasonable a price! :) The Allen biography is one I actually read at the library... what a disappointment, right?

Ah yes, Miss. Ellis. Well they just briefly mention her film career, and it is a terribly fleeting moment but she mentions Bella Donna being her first film, and how awful she thought it was, but that Conrad Veidt was someone she admired greatly...

Interviewer: And you made your first film here.
Mary: Oh yes, dreadful film called Bella Donna *laughs* It had Conrad Veidt who I admired very much [interviewer agrees], and also Cedric Hardwicke before he was knighted, and er, was the most terrible script.

And it's probably me romanticising a little, but it did make me wonder just how much a factor Connie played in her taking the part, especially as she was, and remained predominantly a singer/stage actress.

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You could sneakily snap photos with your phone, IDK? At least the sources are there. Let me know if you ever find Merle Oberon's piece she wrote about the filming of ToB somewhere in... uh... 1939, the spring, I think, and probably in The Daily Fail... or something. Fuck. I can't remember where it was, now, but apparently she mentioned Connie.

I basically hope Mary and Connie were fucking like beasts :P The sexual chemistry they had just oozed off the screen, really. I know Connie was loudly complaining about how old-fashioned it was, but they didn't listen to him either, poor thing. But hey, at least we got some good ravishments out of it, and I'm not complaining at all. Like, the shit he does in that film, seriously?

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GDI I really hope they were fucking like beasts too... Because UNF WOULD YOU LOOK AT THOSE SEXY BASTARDS. It's just not right.

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I'd love to 'shop porn of them, you know? But nope. No chance with that quality of film and I don't really like to use promotional photos, as the faces are instantly recognisable from them because they're so popular and that'll always ruin the effect, I find. But I'm *so* fucking happy we do have HD versions of ToB and AWF, anyway, because it allows for so much HD Connie whorefaceage. I'm 'shopping Jaffar/Princess again and I'm just astounded at the amount of pornfaces June makes--thank all the gods for all those scenes of her moaning in bed, and that gasp she makes when she wakes up from the blue rose trance. And Connie, well. When *isn't* he making porn faces? So often, I've had to give up on manips simply because I haven't been able to find just the right headshots in decent enough quality, but I don't think I've *ever* had it so easy as I have with ToB, I swear. (Now if I could only find pornfaces of Bunny that weren't of shite quality or where she wasn't underage, dammit... that's the only reason your dashes aren't full of Laura gapeshots.)

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Aiieee it's such a shame the film quality is what it is, that porn would be so freakin' hot *mewls* but to be honest, they were both so sexual in it that the fantasies they've given me are pretty satisfactory :P
June does make some pretty pornable faces in ToB! Exactly that scene of her moaning in bed when he stands over her, all I can ever think about is: he's clearly gone down on her, devouring her pussy like there's no tomorrow, y'know? And Jaffar's every move could probably be converted into sex, to be honest. He's just *unreal* with the way he conducts his body. More Grouse Jaffar/Princess 'shopping is an exciting prospect indeed.
'Tis a darn shame about the lack of pornface Bunnies, but man, the ones you've done of Torsten/Laura already are fucking wonderful.

It's always a blessing when they bring these films out in HD. Any HD close-up of Connie is a thing of devastating beauty. I can barely deal with ToB... I think I was genuinely, physically stunned when I first saw colour Connie.

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I feel you. I damn near had a heart attack when they zoomed in on that fucker squinting on his ship because THOSE EYES. Swathing his face in that scarlet turban was the WORST because then you could only see those eyes and *sob* It was terrifying and erotic and I'm still a whimpering wreck. The HD is *awful* because you can see all the wibbles in the blue rose scene as well, as if it wasn't unbearable already :( Finally seeing AWF in HD got me pretty bad as well, though, because of all the emotional stuff going on on Joanie's face and Connie's smoothness being even worse, of course. Fuck those whore eyes and those whore lashes in the piano scene, fuck them to hell.

I do hope that there is indeed an AU where Jaffar does go down on her while she sleeps and he makes her his by his sheer pussynomming skillz. Considering it was the most horrid of taboos in that society, worse than sodomy, Ahmad totally wouldn't have been into it, but Jaffar, the pervert he is, totally would've been. Seriously, 'clitoris-sucker' was the worst insult around back then. But of course, Jaffar would know all about how to nom one. I always seem to write him--because of his engineering and his magical skills--as this sort of sexual supernerd who finds out everything about the art of love and does loads of experiments and research and wants to figure out the exact ways of turning his women nuts. I don't know, it somehow fits him perfectly?

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I *adore* that Jaffar would have been a sexual supernerd. You're right, it absolutely fits him perfectly! What with that capacity for knowledge and innovation, as well as the general physical command that he has (like I get the impression he'd instinctively know how and where to touch, and the perfect kind of pressure to give and so on, just from being super intelligent and creative), it'd be more surprising if he *hadn't* researched sex and pleasure giving to hell and back and put it all into practise. Plus he was clearly capable of giving the most amazing orgasms with his mouth. You only have to look at him to know that.

Wow, I didn't realise it was *such* a taboo thing in those days. Was there any particular reason for that? Like, to be so specific to women... WHY.

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I love that we are in 100% agreement about this :D That mouth was always so hungry and whoring at everything; Connie must've been a fucking GOD of oral sex itself. Hnnfgnghmngh.

Oh, and it wasn't woman-specific, BTW; it was about oral sex in general being disgusting. The same way it was in Greece and Rome; probably because everyone greeted each other with a kiss on the mouth. IDK. But it's still very silly.