Here on Dream Gifs we love Natalie Dormer when she plays Margaery Tyrell in HBO Series Game of Thrones, but we love Natalie even most when she is herself, like in this interview for People Magazine. Watch the video on YouTube.
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Audrey Hepburn Chocolate Commercial
What kind of world is this where the dead are being brought back thanks to computer graphics technology?
Two years ago, a very young Audrey Hepburn was brought back to the screen in a one-minute TV commercial for Galaxy Chocolate created by ad agency AMV BBDO, with visual-effects made by company Framestore. A team of four animators worked on recreating Hepburn’s infectious smile as she rides a bus on the Amalfi coast under the song “Moonriver” from the soundtrack of Audrey’s most famous movie “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”. Audrey’s co-star is the model Nick Hopper.
The Framestore artists ended up completely recreating Audrey’s face in computer graphics (CG) – a feat never before achieved at such close-up scale.
Audrey Hepburn’s sons, Sean Ferrer and Luca Dotti, said regarding the project: “Our mother often spoke about her love of chocolate and how it lifted her spirit, so we’re sure she would have been proud of her role as the face of Galaxy.”
We all love chocolate and we all love Audrey Hepburn, but is frightening to note that there seems no limits when the issue is advertising and profits. Watch the original video on YouTube. Read more clicking here.
Emma Stone
Emily Jean “Emma” Stone (born November 6, 1988) is an American actress. Emma Stone was born in Scottsdale, Arizona, the daughter of Jeff Stone, a founder and CEO of a general-contracting company, and Krista (née Yeager), a homemaker. She has a brother Spencer, who is two years younger. Stone is naturally blonde. She won her first role as a teenager after dyeing her hair dark brown. Judd Apatow, the producer of Superbad, had Stone dye her hair from dark brown to red for her role in the film. She returned to blonde for her role in The Amazing Spider-Man.
In 2007, she starred in the short-lived Fox action drama Drive as Violet Trimble, and made her feature film debut in the comedy Superbad (2007). She has appeared in The House Bunny (2008), Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009), Zombieland (2009), and Paper Man (2009). In 2010, Stone voiced Mazie in Marmaduke, and played the lead in the comedy Easy A for which she received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. In 2011, she co-starred in Crazy, Stupid, Love and The Help. In 2012, Stone co-starred as Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man, a reboot of the Spider-Man film series. In 2013, she co-starred in Gangster Squad, and voiced Eep in the animated film The Croods. Stone is set to reprise her role of Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
Read more: Wikipedia.
Jessica Alba
Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) is an American television and film actress and model. Alba was born in Pomona, California, to Catherine (née Jensen) and Mark Alba. Her mother is of Danish and French Canadian descent and her father is of Mexican ancestry. She began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack (1994). Alba rose to prominence as the lead actress in the television series Dark Angel (2000–2002). Alba later appeared in various films, including Honey (2003), Sin City (2005), Fantastic Four (2005), Into the Blue (2005), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Good Luck Chuck both in 2007.
Alba has been called a sex symbol. She appears on the “Hot 100” section of Maxim and was voted number one on AskMen.com’s list of “99 Most Desirable Women” in 2006, as well as “Sexiest Woman in the World” by FHM in 2007. In 2005, TV Guide ranked her # 45 on its “50 Sexiest Stars of All Time” list. The use of her image on the cover of the March 2006 Playboy sparked a lawsuit by her, which was later dropped. She has also won various awards for her acting, including the Choice Actress Teen Choice Award and Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television, and a Golden Globe nomination for her lead role in the television series Dark Angel. Read more on Wikipedia.
Kate Beckinsale
Published on September 28, 2013 – Dream Gifs II.
Kathrin Romary “Kate” Beckinsale (born 26 July 1973) is an English actress. After some minor television roles, she made her film debut in Much Ado About Nothing (1993) while still a student at Oxford University. She then appeared in British costume dramas such as Prince of Jutland (1994), Cold Comfort Farm (1995), Emma (1996), and The Golden Bowl (2000), in addition to various stage and radio productions. She began to seek film work in the United States in the late 1990s and, after appearing in small-scale dramas The Last Days of Disco (1998) and Brokedown Palace (1999), she had a break-out year in 2001 with starring roles in the war film Pearl Harbor and the romantic comedy Serendipity. She built on this success with appearances in the biopic The Aviator (2004) and the comedy Click (2006).
Beckinsale became known as an action star playing lead role in 2003’s Underworld and has since starred in many action films, including Van Helsing (2004), Underworld: Evolution (2006), Whiteout (2009), as well as Contraband, Underworld: Awakening, and Total Recall (all in 2012). She also makes occasional appearances in smaller dramatic projects such as Snow Angels (2007), Winged Creatures (2008), Nothing but the Truth (for which she earned a Critic’s Choice Award nomination in 2008), and Everybody’s Fine (2009).
Anne Hathaway
Anne Jacqueline Hathaway (born November 12, 1982) is an American actress. After several stage roles, she appeared in the 1999 television series Get Real. She came to prominence after playing Mia Thermopolis in the Disney film The Princess Diaries (2001) and in its 2004 sequel. Since then, Hathaway has starred in dramatic films such as Havoc and Brokeback Mountain, in 2005. She has also starred in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) with Meryl Streep and in Becoming Jane (2007) as Jane Austen.
In 2008, she won several awards for her performance in Rachel Getting Married and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. In 2010, she starred in the box office hits Valentine’s Day, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, and Love and Other Drugs and won an Emmy Award for her voice-over performance on The Simpsons. In 2012, she portrayed Selina Kyle in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises and Fantine in Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables. Her performance in the latter earned her rave reviews and several accolades, including the Golden Globe Award, the Screen Actors Guild Award, the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones
Daenerys Targaryen is a principal character in the fantasy novel series “A Song of Ice and Fire” by George R. R. Martin. She is played by Emilia Clarke in the television adaptation “Game of Thrones”. The role was originally portrayed by Tamzin Merchant in the pilot, but the first episode was re-shot with Clarke.
Actress Emilia Clarke (left) plays Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO series Game of Thrones.
History:
Name: Daenerys Targaryen
Aliases: Dany, Daenerys Stormborn, Mother of Dragons, Khaleesi.
Nationality: Westerosi (of House Targaryen).
Family: Aerys Targaryen (father, deceased), Rhaella Targaryen (mother, deceased), Rhaegar Targaryen (brother, deceased), Viserys Targaryen (brother, deceased), Khal Drogo (husband, deceased), Rhaego (son, deceased).
Daenerys Targaryen, the “Mother of Dragons”, is the daughter of King Aerys II Targaryen and is one of the last surviving members of House Targaryen. She serves as the third-person narrator for thirty-one chapters throughout “A Game of Thrones”, “A Clash of Kings”, “A Storm of Swords”, and “A Dance with Dragons”. Thirteen years before the events of the series, she was born on Dragonstone in the midst of a storm, earning her the nickname Daenerys Stormborn. Shortly after, Dragonstone fell to the forces of rebel Robert Baratheon, and Daenerys and her brother Viserys were smuggled away to Braavos, where they spent the following years wandering the Free Cities looking for help to retake the Iron Throne of Westeros.
In “A Game of Thrones”, shy and meek while terrified of her brother’s temper, Daenerys was brought to Pentos as both a guest of Illyrio Mopatis and forced into an arranged marriage to Khal Drogo, a powerful Dothraki warlord who has gained his power by continuously winning in battles. Viserys set up the wedding in the hopes of buying Drogo’s Khalasar of 40,000 strong to conquer of Westeros. At first Daenerys feared her new husband and his people, but came to learn their language and embrace their custom as she accepts her new role as Khaleesi, Drogo’s queen, and gains enough confidence in herself to stand up to Viserys. At that time, Daenerys befriends Jorah Mormont, an exiled Westerosi knight who becomes one of her most trusted companions. Daenerys eventually conceives a child with Drogo, believed to be the long-prophesied Dothraki conqueror, and she plans to name him Rhaego after her brother Rhaegar. After Drogo eventually kills Viserys for threatening her and their unborn child, feeling no sadness for her brother’s death, Daenerys sees herself as the blood of the dragon and true heir to the Targaryen dynasty, and is thus responsible for reclaiming the throne for herself.
Above Daenerys Targaryen through the Game of Thrones four seasons.
Shortly after, while Drogo’s Khalasar were raiding a village, Drogo is wounded in a fight with one of his warriors who challenged him over Daenerys saving the women from being ravaged. Daenerys requests Mirri Maz Duur, a Maegi or priestess of a temple the Dothraki have just sacked, to heal him. However, the wound becomes infected and, as the dying Drogo’s Khalasar begin deserting, Daenerys asks the maegi to use blood magic to save him. However, learning too late that Maz Duur knew what was to happen yet acted out of revenge, Daenerys learns that the magic killed the unborn Rhaego and left Drogo in a catatonic state. Realizing that this form of ‘life’ is not worth living, Daenerys smothers Drogo and has a funeral pyre prepared for him with the three petrified dragon eggs she received as a wedding present placed on him. Having Maz Duur tied to a pyre pole to die, Daenerys climbed up the pyre with her dragon eggs to join Drogo. However, when the flames burn out, Daenerys emerges alive and unharmed with three hatched dragons, which she names Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion. Because of this, the remainder of Drogo’s Khalasar swear allegiance to her and she becomes the first female Dothraki leader.
In “A Clash of Kings”, Daenerys’s Khalasar follows a comet into the Red Waste, a stretch of barren land. On the journey, she learns that Jorah, who has become her adviser, has fallen in love with her, and she is saddened by the fact that she does not return his feelings. She and her Khalasar eventually make it to the merchant city of Qarth. As the Qartheen are more interested in her dragons than her conquest of Westeros, she visits the House of the Undying in the hopes of gaining wisdom from knowing her future. But, though she sees visions of various things past and future, Daenerys learns that the Warlocks of the House of the Undying intend to keep her prisoner. Luckily, having brought her dragon Drogon with her, it defends her and burns the tower to the ground. Eventually deciding to follow the advice of a masked woman to go east to reach west, Daenerys searches for a ship and is saved from an assassination attempt by an older Westerosi man called Arstan Whitebeard, who was sent by Illyrio. Illyrio also sent three ships to take Daenerys back to Pentos. Instead, she claims the ships as her own.
In “A Storm of Swords”, she goes to Slaver’s Bay to purchase an army of Unsullied, highly trained slave soldiers. She agrees to buy every Unsullied in Astapor in exchange for her dragon Drogon. However, she reclaims Drogon and uses the Unsullied to conquer the city. She frees every slave in Astapor and decides to end the slave trade. She sets out for the slave city Yunkai, and conquers the city with the help of Daario Naharis, a mercenary who betrays the Yunkish. As she marches on the slave city Meereen, she learns that Arstan is actually Barristan Selmy, a knight who betrayed her father, and discovers that Jorah had been spying on her for Robert Baratheon. She feels betrayed and sends them on a near-suicidal mission to capture Meereen, nearly hoping that they will die in the attempt. The two survive, and the mission succeeds. When Barristan asks to be forgiven, she pardons him and names him Lord Commander of her Queensguard. Although Jorah defends his actions and believes he has committed no wrong, Daenerys cannot find it in herself to forgive him, and banishes him. With the fall of Meereen, she decides to make for Westeros. However, she learns that Astapor and Yunkai cannot maintain the peace she hoped to bring and decides to stay in Meereen and learn to be a queen.
Throughout “A Dance with Dragons”, she struggles to rule. There are nightly killings, the Free Cities march against her to restore the slave trade, and the armies outside her gates have brought a plague. In addition, Drogon has allegedly killed a little girl. She is forced to lock her dragons away; Rhaegal and Viserion are captured, but Drogon escapes. Her advisers suggest she marry Hizdahr zo Loraq to bring peace, and she agrees to the marriage if he can stop the killings for ninety days. During those ninety days, she takes Daario as a lover, knowing she cannot marry him because of his low birth and uncontrollable temper. Hizdahr successfully ends the killings, and Daenerys marries him. At his request, she reluctantly agrees to stop disrupting the slave trade on the condition that those already freed are not enslaved again. She also agrees to reopen Meereen’s fighting pits and attends the opening day’s fights. The blood and noise of the pits attracts Drogon, who is immediately attacked. She realizes that the fighters are trying to kill Drogon, and she climbs onto him and flies away. She lives with Drogon, who has made a lair in the Dothraki Sea. She decides to return to Meereen and sets off toward the city. On the way, she falls ill and begins to hallucinate. Through the hallucinations, she realizes that she has been ignoring who she was. She manages to remount Drogon, and she is taken to the Dothraki Sea. There, she is found by Khal Jhaqo, formerly a captain of Drogo’s Khalasar.
Text: Wikipedia.
Movies and more movies
Here are the answers for the Quiz Post Movie Couples:
1. Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman, Moulin Rouge, 2001
2. Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway, Love and Other Drugs, 2010
3. Michael Cera and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Scott Pilgrin Vs. the World,
4. Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel, Life as We Know It, 2010.
5. Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried, Dear John, 2010.
6. James McAvoy and Keira Knightley, Atonement, 2007.
7. Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon, Water for Elephants, 2011.
8. Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek, Desperado, 1995.
9. Audrey Tautou and Gaspard Ulliel, A Very Long Engagement, 2004.
10. Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, Titanic, 1997.
11. Ryan Phillippe and Selma Blair, Cruel Intentions, 1999.
12. Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook, 2012.
13. Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale, Van Helsing, 2004.
14. Liv Tyler and Ben Affleck, Armageddon, 1998.
15. Javier Bardem and Scarlett Johansson, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, 2008.
16. Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, Breakfast at Tifanny’s, 1961.
17. Matthew Broderick and Mia Sara, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, 1986.
18. Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter, Fight Club, 1999.
19. Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson, Lost in Translation, 2003.
20. WALL-E and EVE, WALL-E, 2008.
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Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975) is an American actress, film director, screenwriter, and author. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was named Hollywood’s highest-paid actress by Forbes in 2009, 2011, and 2013. Angelina Jolie promotes humanitarian causes, and is noted for her work with refugees as a Special Envoy and former Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has often been cited as the world’s “most beautiful” woman, a title for which she has received substantial media attention.
Angelina made her screen debut as a child alongside her father, Jon Voight, in “Lookin’ to Get Out” (1982), but her film career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production “Cyborg 2” (1993). Her first leading role in a major film was in the cyber-thriller “Hackers” (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical television films “George Wallace” (1997) and “Gia” (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama “Girl, Interrupted” (1999).
Angelina achieved wide fame after her portrayal of the video game heroine Lara Croft in “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider” (2001), and established herself among the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood with the sequel “The Cradle of Life” (2003). She continued her action star career with “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” (2005), “Wanted” (2008), “Salt” (2010) and “The Tourist” (2010) — her biggest live-action commercial successes to date with international revenues of US$478 million, $341 million, $293 million and $278 million respectively — and she received further critical acclaim for her performances in the dramas “A Mighty Heart” (2007) and “Changeling” (2008), which earned her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Jolie made her directorial debut with the wartime drama “In the Land of Blood and Honey” (2011).
Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, she now lives with actor Brad Pitt, in a relationship notable for fervent media attention. Angelina and Brad Pitt have three biological children and three adopted children. Source: Wikipedia.
There never was a woman like Rita Hayworth
“Every man I have ever known has fallen in love with Gilda and awakened with me.”
Rita Hayworth (17 October 1918 – 14 May 1987)
Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino; October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987) was an American dancer and film actress who achieved fame during the 1940s as one of the era’s top stars. Appearing first as Rita Cansino, she agreed to change her name to Rita Hayworth and her natural dark brown hair color to dark red to attract a greater range of roles. Her appeal led to her being featured on the cover of Life magazine five times, beginning in 1940.
Rita Hayworth appeared in a total of 61 films over 37 years. She is one of six women who have the distinction of having danced on screen with both Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. She is listed by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 Greatest Stars of All Time. Read more: Wikipedia.
There never was a woman like Gilda
I love old movies, especially in black and white with noir theme. Gilda, 1946, is the pinnacle of these films. I would write something about this movie as some information to the gifs of Rita Hayworth performing Gilda when I found this great review of the movie, from Bette’s Classic Movies Blog:
Gilda, directed by Charles Vidor, is the quintessential film noir in every sense. It features a wonderfully adventurous performance from Rita Hayworth in one of the most iconic screen performances ever, Glenn Ford’s quietly disturbed portrayal of Gilda’s spurned lover, and some of the most beautiful lighting ever to grace the silver screen.
The story is fairly simple. Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) is hired by shady casino runner Ballin Mundson (George Macready) to front the casino. He is taken under Mundson’s wing and treated as his companion and henchman. Mundson comes back from a holiday, quite unexpectedly, with a new wife. When Farrell and Mundson open the door to her boudoir, one of the most iconic scenes in cinema history is created.
We see in Johnny and Gilda’s eyes that there is a history there. The rest of the film is spent with Johnny trying to control the passionate and wild Gilda – under orders from his boss – and the two of them struggling with their suppressed love/hate relationship.
Charles Vidor, director of films “Love Me Or Leave Me” and “Cover Girl”, masterfully directs this classic. His use of shadows to portray the development of characters is incredible. We first see Gilda in a light off-the-shoulder dressing gown, lit in a white wash that makes her skin seem incandescent. As the film progresses, not only the lighting for her, but also her costumes (by Jean Louis), become more seductive and dark.
Glenn Ford gives a sterling performance as the fundamentally flawed and unlikeable Johnny Farrell. From the beginning he is a downright cheat and a gambler. You get the strong impression he has driven Gilda slightly insane with his uncertainty and his mood swings. The way that Glenn Ford’s face often shows little or no emotion, gives you the exact impression you want from this character.
Rita Hayworth’s performance is historic. She was made to play this part of the temptress, Gilda. It’s one of the most unapologetically free performances of a woman on film, and the overall impression of her is inescapably of a powerful woman who isn’t suppressed by the men around her. Everyone knows that Rita Hayworth is no Ingrid Bergman, she has nowhere near that versatility, but she has the capability to be awe-inspiring in the right thing.
One thing most people seem to remember from this film is the “Put The Blame On Mame” scene, in which Rita Hayworth performs a very subtle striptease number which only involves the stripping of her glove. The dress and the slinky black gloves have gone down in history for their influence on fashion.
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