Happy birthday to Tim Curry – proven by ACTUAL SCIENCE to have given the pre-eminent screen portrayal of Long John Silver
From Braemar to Hollywood: The American Appropriation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pirates
—Richard J. Hill & Laura Eidam, Humanities 2020, 9(1)
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https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/9/1/10
#Scottish #literature #RobertLouisStevenson #cinema #adaptation #TreasureIsland #Muppets #MuppetTreasureIsland #TimCurry
And this one hurts worse for me. I got through high school thanks to Rocky Horror. RIP, #TimCurry. Again, universe, you got the wrong 80 year-old. 💔 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yd92gkk7vo
Er war grenzenlos.
Er war das Böse.
Er war schlimmer als das Böse.
Er war wundervoll!
Maybe this week WAS the Rapture, and only three people made the cut...
#dolly #timcurry #petercullen #transformers #optimusprime #obits
Everyone seems to know #TimCurry through the visual arts, but I know him explicitly through the audiobook world. He’s the narrator for the series of unfortunate events audiobooks and others. Book 1 of this 14 book series is https://www.audible.com/pd/B002V1BPIM?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=library_overflow #Books #Bookstodon
Just 24 hours after our last post, everyone at the Convention is extremely saddened by the loss of Tim Curry. Tim played Trymon in the 2008 Sky One TV adaptation of Sir Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic.
In a nod to one of Tim's most famous roles, in 2010 the #DiscworldConvention staged the (never to be forgotten) Rocky Horror Discworld Show!
Tim and his magnificent voice will be very much missed.
#DiscworldConvention #TimCurry #TheColourOfMagic #TerryPratchett #Discworld #GNUTimCurry
![One obvious obstacle to physical authenticity is Silver’s leg: cut “close by the hip” in the text, all the actors to play him are bipedal; therefore, they all had to fold and secure their left legs in what must presumably be a very uncomfortable position, making the role physically challenging (Stevenson [1883] 2012, p. 85). Such an arrangement must also make moving like Stevenson’s Silver very difficult. Fleming accounts for this by using an action double for Beery, most clearly in his murder of Tom, allowing the audience to believe in his physical prowess. Newton maneuvers impressively on the crutch but does little to convince the viewer of any physical threat. This fact allows for film adaptations to further soften the Silver character as we will discuss in the next two sections: where Stevenson’s Silver appears to use his disfigurement to disguise his physical abilities, making him dangerous, film adaptations often use it to blunt any real threat. Charlton Heston, for example, is a menacing presence in the 1990 Turner Pictures adaptation, but his age and awkwardness of movement are a clear contrast with Wyeth’s dynamic, nimble Silver. With the possible exception of Tim Curry—who is younger and more agile than his cinematic counterparts—in the playful 1996 film Muppet Treasure Island, the Silver of the screen must rely more on his wits, his charm, and his presence of character, than on any physical threat he poses, in order to manipulate his crew, Jim, or Jim’s friends.](/proxy/post_attachment/1039505/19318b1c30.webp "One obvious obstacle to physical authenticity is Silver’s leg: cut “close by the hip” in the text, all the actors to play him are bipedal; therefore, they all had to fold and secure their left legs in what must presumably be a very uncomfortable position, making the role physically challenging (Stevenson [1883] 2012, p. 85). Such an arrangement must also make moving like Stevenson’s Silver very difficult. Fleming accounts for this by using an action double for Beery, most clearly in his murder of Tom, allowing the audience to believe in his physical prowess. Newton maneuvers impressively on the crutch but does little to convince the viewer of any physical threat. This fact allows for film adaptations to further soften the Silver character as we will discuss in the next two sections: where Stevenson’s Silver appears to use his disfigurement to disguise his physical abilities, making him dangerous, film adaptations often use it to blunt any real threat. Charlton Heston, for example, is a menacing presence in the 1990 Turner Pictures adaptation, but his age and awkwardness of movement are a clear contrast with Wyeth’s dynamic, nimble Silver. With the possible exception of Tim Curry—who is younger and more agile than his cinematic counterparts—in the playful 1996 film Muppet Treasure Island, the Silver of the screen must rely more on his wits, his charm, and his presence of character, than on any physical threat he poses, in order to manipulate his crew, Jim, or Jim’s friends.")
