Richard Armitage: The Crucible Clip + Dolarhyde vs Guy + Hannibal Soundtrack & Spooks Theme + Wm Blake Tatt on Lucas & dark Dolarhyde..(.reverting quickly to sweetness & light)

Then(Guy of Gisborne) on left--Now on right..

Reallllly looking forward to new series 'Poldark' in June. The star..

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2924816/Tall-Poldark-handsome-s-biggest-treat-female-viewers-Mr-Darcy-s-wet-shirt-Actor-Aidan-Turner-sports-rippling-torso-scenes-BBC-drama.html

Talented Hannibal fan's cartoon - We need more of the same if we don't want to avoid nightmare inducing material.  Look at this cutie serial killer holding his fav set of false teeth. Would recognize those blue eyes anywhere! Cartoonist is miss lounds @Tattle_Crime

Did the spirit of Francis Dolarhyde smuggle itself along for The Hobbit's visit to Beijing? Bwhahahaha.n.n.i.b.a.l....

Inked Dolarhyde--the novel described a large dragon tatt across his back. Do you want Hannibal writers to stay with the placement or make it the chest instead?

                      
Here's Lucas North (Spooks series) with Blake tattoo..

All that is necessary now is for Dolarhyde to be suspected of international intrigue prompting MI5's Lucas North(magically rises from grave--granted a stretch:) to track him down.  Here's BBC's Spooks theme--it ran for 10yrs. RA in S7,8,9..

Richard Armitage: Selfie from Beijing, China + Fan Art for Dolarhyde, etc

and Francis Dolarhyde's first selfie..

Next 3 Hannibal themed months will feel like the spooky one - October! Therefore..

Fans don't know what the new character in Hannibal will look like so they're using their imaginations. This one is by @AnnBoudreauArt...

Do not all humans have some romance in their bones? Sincerely hope so for everyones' sake. Maybe this squeamishness about doing a rom-com is a challenge that needs to be overcome in same way as fear of deep water.

                                                 

Richard Armitage:April TV Showers + New Role--Serial Killer in Hannibal(see link) + Revists to Dibley(see Vicar news) & Milton(because we all miss JT)

In April the skies will open and much anticipated new plus returning TV series will tumble out.  Apr 4, Outlander; Apr 5 new series Wolf Hall and Apr 12, Game of Thrones new season begins. Here's a taste of Wolf Hall:

New role in Hannibal Series: Francis Dolarhyde(aka The Tooth Fairy:) really??

"hulking Dolarhyde is a serial killer with a penchant for slaughtering entire households."  Good to know he'll play a monk before or after -- helps to soften the macabre...eeeeek!! Doubtful I'll be reading the book.  News headlines are horrifying enough for me.

https://tvline.com/2015/01/13/hannibal-season-3-cast-richard-armitage-dolarhyde/

Quote:  "...Thorin is Boromir...and..Thorin takes the crown"

6. Thorin’s Personal Journey(see link below)

New Line Cinema

The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies truly is Richard Armitage’s film. In the book, Thorin’s madness and fall from grace make for a tragic conclusion to the story. In this film Thorin likewise goes through that huge personal – and destructive – journey. From a king consumed by dragon sickness, to his rallying of the dwarves at the gates of Erebor and his final battle with Azog, this is the film that proves why Armitage was chosen for the role.

If Bard is the Aragron of this film, then Thorin is Boromir – a man consumed by the duty and power who tries to do the right thing and ultimately falls. His scenes with Bilbo and Dwalin convey the madness the mountain has on him, but Armitage delivers it in a way that makes you feel sympathy for him despite the foolish decision he makes. His final scene, dying before Bilbo, humbly begging for forgiveness, is beautifully acted and brings the relationship full circle.

Before this film, none of the dwarves had yet matched the wonder of John Rhys-Davies’s Gimli, but in The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies, Richard Armitage took the crown.http://whatculture.com/film/the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies-10-reasons-its-a-great-adaptation.php/6

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Recent NEWS that Gerry, the Vicar of Dibley, will become Bishop of Dibley. Will her hubby, Harry Kennedy (played by Richard Armitage) join her?

dailym.ai/1tWdvDl 

While I locate photo of Harry & Gerry together, here are a couple of another RA co-star, Sarah Wayne Callies, 2014's Into The Storm:

and gentlemanly Harry kissing the vicar Geraldine's hand..

and the kiss heard round the world - John Thornton with Margaret Hale in 2004's magnificent BBC series North and South(novel written by Eliz Gaskell)

Why the Hating on Wise Rupert Murdoch is Constantly Renewed - He Speaks Truth

Richard Armitage: Hits 100,000 Followers on Twitter(since Aug) + Synopsis of Upcoming Film 'Pilgrimage'

Message from the World to the uncivilized, evil barbarians who tried to stifle free speech yesterday in Paris:

SYNOPSIS

Ireland, 1209. An island on the edge of the world.

A small group of monks begin a reluctant pilgrimage across an island torn between centuries of tribal warfare and the growing power of Norman invaders.

Escorting their monastery's holiest relic - a rock used in the martyrdom of St. Mathias, the thirteenth apostle - to Rome, the monks' progress is seen through the eyes of a pious young novice and a mute lay-brother with a violent past.
As the true material, political and religious significance of the bejewelled relic becomes dangerously apparent, their path to the east coast becomes increasingly fraught with danger. 

The monks belatedly realise that in this wild land of ancient superstitions, the faith that binds them together may ultimately lead to their destruction

CREW

DIRECTOR

BRENDAN MULDOWNEY

SCENARIST

JAMIE HANNIGAN

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

TOM COMERFORD

PRODUCERS

CONOR BARRY, JOHN KEVILLE (SP FILMS)

COPRODUCER

BENOIT ROLAND (WRONG MEN)

IN COPRODUCTION WITH THE IRISH FILM BOARD AND WALLIMAGE

WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE CENTRE DU CINÉMA ET DE L'AUDIOVISUEL DE LA FÉDÉRATION WALLONIE-BRUXELLES 

WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF CINEFINANCE ET XYZ FILMS 

http://www.wrongmen.be/film-wrongmen-20-movies-en.html

                Brendan Muldowney's last film, 'Love Eternal' is visually stunning.  Expectations 'Pilgrimage' will take our breath away...

Richard Armitage Posts Last 2014 Selfie & New Years Greeting on Twitter. HAPPY 2015!!

His message:

Happy New Year. Thanks for your support through 2014. Here is to a year full of joy, industry and fulfilment in 2015

My choice for a movie remake starring RA. This time it's the Tom Berenger NYPD officer in Ridley Scott's film 'Someone to Watch Over Me' The character is assigned to protect a wealthy woman 24/7 at her penthouse aptm. The trailer..

Richard Armitage:Anticipation of the New Year Half the Fun + 2014 Christmas Message via Tweet + New Movie 'Pilgrimage' Starts Filming in April

Thorin's reaction "hahaha"..

Richard ArmitageVerified account‏@RCArmitage

@TheHobbitMovie @wbpictures Hahaha Happy Christmas https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UUsZImHB8xU …

http://irisharchaeology.ie/2013/07/early-medieval-ireland-in-photos/

http://www.filmfestival.nl/profs_en/news//news/npp-project-pilgrimage.aspx

NPP 2012 Project: Pilgrimage

 The film, written by Jamie Hannigan and to be directed by Brendan Muldowney..tells of how a group of 13th Century monks must escort a sacred relic across an Irish landscape fraught with peril..

..Barry explains of his film which will be shot in English, Irish, French and Latin, as well as 13th Century Gaelic. "That whole world of pilgrimage with aspects of faith, the church..it's a really interesting backdrop to tell that story."

On the face of it, religious devotion in the Dark Ages is not a subject that many European filmmakers have plundered for source material. Barry, however, defines the film very neatly within genre terms and identifies very unique selling points that he believes makes the project suitable for co-production. 

"While it is a story about 13th Century monks in Ireland, on another level it actually fits a template," he comments. "It is very straightforward in terms of an action/adventure story and also it is a very simple, almost mythical, western in terms of a group of people bound together with an objective to achieve a purpose. So it kind of fits into genre definition on one level and from an audience point of view I think it is quite definable who he audience should be for this.

"At the end of the day this is a historical period action story. They might be monks fighting but that still fits into the broad church of action adventure. And specifically there is the mystique of religion and Celtic mythology, and there are audiences who have a very strong interest in that."

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Richard Armitage: Latest EW Mag Compares RA as Thorin to Humphrey Bogart in Treasure of Sierra Madre + Blogger Compiles Thorin Review Quotes(see excerpts & link)

It doesn’t help matters that the dwarf prince Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage), presumptive heir to Erebor’s throne, is not long inside these hallowed walls when he succumbs to a familiar Tolkeinian malady — a lust for gold and jewels that renders its victims void of reason or empathy. And if “The Battle of the Five Armies” feels psychologically weightier than the previous “Hobbit” films, that’s largely a credit to Armitage, who plays Thorin with the paranoid despotic rage of a Shakespearean king, his heavy-lidded eyes ablaze with a private madness. 
– Variety 

As both hero and antagonist at various points, this is in large part Armitage’s film. Thorin’s descent into madness under the dragon’s taint is played out with maniacal intensity. His grim rebuff of Luke Evans’ diplomatic overtures (the exchange framed beautifully by a hole in Erebor’s barricade) and final, hallucinatory epiphany upon a floor of burnished gold are as masterfully shot as they are powerfully delivered.
– Empire

Maddened by greed, the dwarf king Thorin (Richard Armitage, a dramatic standout in all three films) refuses to honor agreements to share his treasure with his elvish and human allies. Who then decides to fight for what’s owed them.
– Sun Times

From their prominent position front-and-center in An Unexpected Journey, the dwarves slowly recede into the background during Five Armies, arguably to the story’s benefit; in the pitched battle of the climax, they’d be of little use, and they collectively manage to survive the carnage largely by staying out of harm’s way. The exception is their leader, Thorin, and the formerly little-known actor who plays him, Armitage, who emerges as perhaps the dominant actor in this very large ensemble. 
– Hollywoodreporter.com   Current StarMeter standing at imdb board:

 
If there was one performance that stands out the most in the film however it would belong to Richard Armitage, dominating proceedings utterly, as the arc of the plot circles around Thorin’s redemptive path from madness to heroic end, all delivered with a thundering, Shakespearian presence. Despite the demise of the dragon, in a genius touch, composer Howard Shore’s shifting and creeping theme for Smaug shifts to Thorin as the greed threatens to overwhelm him, with Armitage’s voice manipulated in a similar way as Cumberbatch’s. It is a fearless, dangerous display from him, as he risks losing the sympathies of the audience utterly, and so when he does emerge from his stupor, it is a triumphant moment. 
– sherlockology.com 

In fact, your heart is put through more strain here than compared to any of the previous Middle-earth instalments, and it’s mainly down to Jackson’s love of the material, but also down to the cast, in particular, Martin Freeman (as Bilbo Baggins) and Richard Armitage, who are both equally brilliant, but in such different ways. 
(…) As Thorin falls to ‘dragon sickness’, Armitage takes, what was once a heroic character, and brings him to the depths of greed, to the point where he becomes close to villainous and, at times, downright menacing – his incredible performance is frightening, frustrating, sympathetic, heartbreaking, but ultimately inspiring. It’s hard to believe that this is the same guy that starred in the final episode of THE VICAR OF DIBLEY. 
But, what makes the combination of these two actors so outstanding is that you have Armitage playing Thorin as though he has just come fresh from THE LORD OF THE RINGS series. And, on the other side to that, you have Freeman playing Bilbo as the rational, down-to-earth character, who has just come fresh from THE OFFICE (and I don’t mean that as a criticism). What this leads to is Armitage retaining what the fans held, and still hold, so dearly to the trilogy: grand speeches of honour and betrayal, male ego, warriors and so on, along with Freeman, who acts as the audience’s eyes into this warring world, making us truly involved in Middle-earth, in a way with which I initially struggled in THE LORD OF THE RINGS series. Thanks to these two actors’ performances, this film is for everyone, fans or otherwise. 
– Screenrelish.com 

And once again Richard Armitage is a powerful presence, with Thorin’s journey both touching and heartbreaking. 
– ign.com 

If all those names are so much gibberish, “Five Armies” is likely to leave you cold. But the cast, especially Armitage and Bloom, play it all like Shakespearean historical drama, which helps overcome some of the baked-in twee-ness. Also of aid there is Freeman’s wry performance as Bilbo. 
– nydailynews.com 

In a film with universally strong performances and one that is supposed to focus on the titular Hobbit, the now complete trilogy is dominated by the mesmerising presence of Richard Armitage’s Thorin Oakenshield, whose story arc finally sees the heroic leader get his big moments in the spotlight. I really can’t say enough good things about Armitage’s work here – from the moment he first arrived in Bag End he managed to immediately capture what makes Thorin such a compelling and charismatic leader and his work in The Battle Of The Five Armies is excellent. 
– Denofgeek.com 

Remember how it was mentioned earlier that the hobbits were the emotional core of the original trilogy of films? Jackson has tried time and again to provide the dwarves with a similar function, but their large quantity has often made many indecipherable from one another. And yet this is the story in which Thorin Oakenshield is finally the centerpiece of the narrative and helps to put the film back on its feet. There were seeds of his selfishness planted in earlier films, but they finally bear dramatic fruit in this one. His lust for power has turned him into a violent monster who distrusts his own kin and is obsessed with finding the infamous Arkenstone. Richard Armitage, who plays Thorin, continues to steal the show as the omnipotent and omnipresent dwarf. One must forgive some of the exaggerated speech (unfortunately Jackson, who was solid at using slow-motion technique in his first trilogy for poetic depiction, has overstepped the boundaries of indulgence at times) in which he tells Bilbo of his desire to destroy the traitor because it is the only pitfall in his performance. Once he eventually goes through his emotional trial and reaches his epiphany, Thorin retains the heroic stature that made him the trilogy’s true hero. 
– latinpost.com 

However, it’s Thorin’s movie, as Richard Armitage takes his Dwarf king character to the edge of madness. With the “Dragon Sickness” that plagued his grandfather taking hold, Thorin is a danger to everyone under his rule, yet Armitage never allows him to become a monster, allowing glimpses of the good man he was before to shine through. 
– gamesradar.com 

As a bonus, “Armies” is armed with one of the best performances in the entire Jackson Middle-earth series, and that’s saying a lot when the cast includes Cate Blanchett and Ian McKellen. As Dwarf Lord Thorin Oakenshield, Richard Armitage perfectly embodies one of Tolkien’s steady themes about man’s eternal war with his own inner demons. Even when the showy director can’t restrain himself and allows that epic battle sequence to run on too long, Armitage’s performance brings the film back to its classic literary firmament. He taps into his character’s “dragon-sickness” — coveting riches at the expense of the soul — and does it with a mad glint in his eye one instance, a conflicted expression the next. His performance is a highlight, as is the presence of Martin Freeman, whose hobbit Bilbo Baggins feels the tug of his own dark side. And, yes, “Ring” veterans Blanchett, McKellen and Christopher Lee contribute as well. 
– mercurynews.com 

Richard Armitage delivered an intense and commanding performance as Thorin Oakenshield, and is arguably the true star of the film. Armitage was also very skillful at portraying the subtle and the heightened aspects of Thorin’s internal struggles. But with Thorin being the star of the film, this also means that Bilbo Baggins plays more of a secondary role (in a film that’s named after him). This is unfortunate since Freeman’s sympathetic and caring Bilbo Baggins delivers much of the touching moments in the film. 
– nerdreactor.com 

The tragic figure here is the Dwarf king Thorin (a splendidly conflicted Richard Armitage) who, having recaptured his people’s ancestral cave of gold, is tainted and maddened by it. 
– time.com 

Though they’re both good actors with a gift for subtlety and pathos, Freeman and Armitage are a bit swallowed up by the action surrounding them, only really allowed to shine near Battle’s end once the warring ceases and their characters’ bond is finally allowed to be addressed. 
In truth, Thorin is Battle’s main character with the greater arc: Early on in Battle, the noble Dwarf succumbs to madness, his lust to keep all of Erebor’s gold prompting him to declare war on Middle-earth’s other tribes, even those who are the Dwarves’ comrades. Thorin’s eventual change of heart may be simplistically dramatised, but Armitage gives it a punch, showing us how a good Dwarf can let greed temporarily blind him. 
– screendaily.com 

Richard Armitage is perhaps the best thing about ‘The Battle of the Five Armies’. He’s utterly brilliant as Thorin and the way in which he plays the character is tremendous. 
– derryjournal.com 

Maddened by greed, the dwarf king Thorin (Richard Armitage, a dramatic standout in all three films) refuses to honor agreements to share his treasure with his elvish and human allies. 
– Chicago Sun Times 

In the series as a whole and in this movie, Armitage provides fine work. As the stoic and increasingly mad Thorin, he is ever compelling. 
– News-herald.com 

The real standout is undoubtedly Richard Armitage. His portrayal of Thorin, as he descends into madness, provides a real gravitas to this final chapter. There is real depth to his character’s story that is brought out beautifully. 
– atolkienistperspective.wordpress.com 

Martin Freeman as Bilbo is as charmingly aloof and plucky as ever, but he’s (somewhat awkwardly) replaced as the protagonist by Richard Armitage’s Thorin, who has the most well-defined character arc of the many players in Battle of the Five Armies. The two actors not only play their respective parts well, their scenes together are, by far, the most engaging when it comes to the non-action-driven material. Battle of the Five Armies doesn’t have a huge “heart,” but the one it does posses comes from the Bilbo/Thorin relationship. 
– screenrant.com 

Jackson also carves out some more room for Armitage to show what the dwarf king is made of. With the actor’s flare for making dark, brooding introspection magnetic, Thorin’s battle with himself and his legacy is by far the film’s most interesting fight. 
– latimes.com 

On the other side of the wall, Richard Armitage’s Thorin is more interesting than ever, glowering through hallucinatory sequences that illustrate how much of a hold the treasure has on him. Armitage is unafraid to take the character to dark places, repelling his friends with his Arkenstone obsession and his paranoia. It’s to the film’s credit that you’re not sure if he’ll be able to pull himself out of the spell; we may have never really been invested in him the way we were with Aragorn or any LOTR character, but this final film goes a long way to humanize (dwarvenize?) him, and the conclusion of his arc is entirely earned. 
– screenfellows.com 

Watching Thorin succumb to the dragon sickness and turn his back on his dwarves, Bilbo, and those who helped them reclaim his throne is powerful in relating the troubles of greed and its affects on those who hold power over others. Richard Armitage does a fine job recreating Thorin’s madness and the destruction and death it brings to those around him, making you feel for him and want him to be a better dwarf than he is because you know he has the ability to redeem himself. His scenes with Martin Freeman (Bilbo) are definitely the most touching, and they honor the rocky relationship these two characters have in the book perfectly. 
– entertainmentbuddha.com https://bookesther.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/the-hobbit-the-battle-of-t he-five-armies-and-richard-armitage/ 
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