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Conde Drácula

O mais famoso vampiro cinematográfico de todos os tempos foi inspirado no personagem central da obra de Bram Stoker. Vários atores ficaram famosos com este papel no cinema, como Maximiliam Schrek, no clássico do cinema mudo “Nosferatu, uma Sinfonia de Horror”, de 1922. Até hoje, muitas pessoas acreditam que Schrek era mesmo um vampiro na vida real! Bela Lugosi, ator de origem húngara, foi o primeiro a imprimir garbo e elegância ao vampiro, marcando para sempre a imagem do personagem. Depois de Lugosi, Christopher Lee representou Drácula em mais de uma dezena de produções, sempre com total aprovação do público. Mais recentemente, Gary Oldman também entrou para este rol sinistro com a brilhante atuação em ‘Drácula de Bram Stoker’, dirigido pelo consagrado Francis Ford Coppola.

Lestat de Lioncourt

“Eu quero interferir nas coisas, fazer as coisas acontecerem!”. Este é o lema do vampiro mais famoso da literatura depois de Drácula: o sedutor Lestat de Lioncourt, narrador de quatro livros das “Crônicas Vampirescas” de Anne Rice. Nos cinemas, o personagem foi imortalizado por Tom Cruise em “Entrevista com o Vampiro”, de 1994. Lestat foi mordido ainda adolescente por Magnus, um vampiro de 300 anos, que se autodestruiu logo depois. Com isso, os poderes seculares da criatura passaram para o rapaz, e também toda sua fortuna. Apaixonado pelo jovem Louis, ele resolveu vampirizá-lo, assim como a menina Claudia. Entretanto, Lestat foi traído pelos pupilos e quase foi destruído. Séculos depois, resolveu contar a um jornalista toda a sua história, para transformá-la num livro. Nos dias de hoje, o egocêntrico Lestat decidiu se tornar uma estrela do Rock, na história que também foi levada às telas do cinema com o título de “A Rainha dos Condenados”.

Louis

Louis du Pontlac é descrito por Anne Rice, sua criadora, como um vampiro bastante suave, de cabelos negros e face inexpressiva, exceto pelos brilhantes olhos verdes… No cinema, o super galã Brad Pitt deu vida ao narrador da “Entrevista com o Vampiro”, que foi vampirizado por Lestat (Tom Cruise) aos 25 anos, depois de uma tragédia. A família de Louis prosperava com as plantações de algodão em Nova Orleans, até que seu adorado irmão mais novo veio a falecer. Louis ficou doente e se tornou uma vítima fácil para o apaixonado Lestat. Ao contrário deste, o jovem Pontlac é um vampiro contemplativo, um intelectual desesperançado em busca de respostas para sua condição maldita. Justamente por isso, o experiente Armand (Antonio Banderas), ao conhecê-lo, afirmou que Louis era o Vampiro mais fraco que ainda caminhava sobre a face da Terra…

Vlad

Em julho de 1991, o público brasileiro conheceu o terrível Conde Vladimir Polanski, um Vampiro que marcou época na televisão brasileira. Interpretado por Ney Latorraca, Vlad era o maior dos vilões da novela “Vamp”, escrita por Antônio Calmon e dirigida por Jorge Fernando, um dos maiores sucessos entre os jovens brasileiros. Na história, a cantora de rock Natasha (vivida por Cláudia Ohana) vende sua alma ao terrível Vampiro para conquistar um lugar no estrelato. Arrependida, a Vampira procura abrigo na cidade de Armação dos Anjos, onde acaba sendo perseguida pelo cruel Vlad. A atuação de Latorraca garantiu ao sarcástico Vladimir Polanski um lugar de destaque no rol dos vilões mais carismáticos da teledramaturgia brasileira, imortalizando bordões como o infantilizado “Gotooooso!”, que Vlad exclamava todas as vezes em que sugava um pescoço.

Natasha

Natasha foi a primeira vampira da dramaturgia brasileira, e deixou muitos marmanjos de queixo caído. A personagem foi interpretada pela bela Cláudia Ohana na novela Vamp, de 1991. Ela vendeu sua alma ao terrível Conde Vladimir Polanski para alcançar o sucesso como cantora de rock. No entanto, não era uma criatura do Mal: ao contrário, logo se arrependeu do pacto com Vlad e pôs-se a fugir dele, escondendo-se na cidade de Armação dos Anjos. Lá, ela reencontrou seu amor de vidas passadas, o capitão Jonas, personagem de Reginaldo Farias. Enciumado e receoso de que esse amor medieval pudesse voltar à tona, o Conde Vladimir passou a perseguir Natasha e a família do capitão, causando trapalhadas que renderam boas risadas ao público.

Angel

Este é o Vampiro mais adorado pelas adolescentes de todo o planeta… Protagonista de um seriado de TV americano, Angel é um Vampiro sedutor que usa todo o seu charme e inteligência para ajudar os oprimidos e tirar da consciência o peso de séculos praticando o Mal… Interpretado pelo galã David Boreanaz, o herói fez sua estréia em outra série televisiva, “Buffy, a Caça-Vampiros”. Depois de ser vencido pela protagonista, o Vampiro irlandês Angelus resolveu assumir o lado do Bem e a paixão pela mocinha, interpretada por Sarah Michelle Gellar. O grande sucesso do personagem lhe garantiu uma série própria, iniciada em 1999, que mostra a trajetória do Vampiro justiceiro após deixar a amada e a pequena cidade de Sunnydale para iniciar uma carreira de investigador particular em Los Angeles… Assim como Blade, Angel se tornou uma dor de cabeça ambulante para seus irmãos de sangue, e um verdadeiro colírio para as fãs mais animadas!

Jerry Dandridge

Apesar de serem monstros da escuridão, os Vampiros quase sempre foram representados no cinema como galanteadores incorrigíveis, homens elegantes que não perdem a chance de seduzir uma bela mocinha, para só depois revelar a horrível face do mal… E Jerry Dandridge, o vilão de “A Hora do Espanto”, um blockbuster de 1985, vestiu com perfeição este estereótipo marcante dos sanguessugas. Vestido sempre de modo impecável, perfumado e polido, a máscara de Jerry (interpretado por Chris Sarandon) só não foi capaz de enganar o jovem Charley, que desconfiou desde sempre da boa educação de seu novo vizinho… Com seu estilo doce e sexy, Jerry Dandrige conseguiu vampirizar a namorada do jovem, Amy, e seu melhor amigo, Ed, além de arrancar muitos suspiros da maior parte do público feminino, especialmente quando assobiava romanticamente o clássico “Strangers in the night” (tudo a ver, não é mesmo?), de Sinatra.

David

“Dormir o dia inteiro. Zoar a noite toda. Nunca crescer. Nunca morrer. É divertido ser um vampiro!”. Foi com este lema que o sensual vampiro David conquistou diversos seguidores no filme Garotos Perdidos (Lost Boys, 1987), clássico dos anos 80 estrelado por Kiefer Sutherland. As estripulias bizarras de David e sua turma vampiresca escandalizaram uma pequena cidade da Califórnia. Como em um ritual, suas vítimas precisavam beber vinho de sangue e comer vermes. Foi o caso de Emerson (Jason Patrick), que por amor a Star (Jami Gertz), aceitou o rito de passagem e se tornou um ser das trevas, passando a integrar a primeira gangue de sanguessugas bad boys do cinema!

Bento Carneiro

“Minha vingança será maligna!” – Quem já ouviu esta frase pode até não se lembrar da origem, mas os fãs de Chico Anysio jamais vão esquecer de Bento Carneiro, o Vampiro Brasileiro, o único ser das trevas que morava “aquém do além adonde que veve os mortos”… O personagem, um vampiro atrapalhado, simplório e desprestigiado, foi criado pelo humorista na década de 80 e logo se tornou um dos maiores sucessos de seu “Chico Anysio Show”. Sempre ao lado de seu fiel escudeiro, Calunga, Bento Carneiro fez do mito do Vampiro um veículo perfeito para brincar e ridicularizar, sempre com muito bom humor, as mazelas e contradições da sociedade brasileira.

Os Monstros

Na década de 60, a CBS americana produziu um seriado para a TV que marcou toda uma geração de telespectadores. A exemplo da família Addams, da rival ABC, realizada na mesma época, os Monstros faziam piada com os costumes exóticos de uma família sinistra… O pai, Herman (Fred Gwynne), era filho de um certo Dr. Frankestein. Vovô (Al Lewis), de apenas 370 anos, gastava a maior parte de seu tempo em loucas experiências de laboratório. Os filhos eram Eddie (Butch Patrick), verdadeiro monstrinho de pele verde, orelhas pontiagudas e caninos afiados, e Marilyn (Beverley Owen/Pat Priest), loira, esbelta, de olhos verdes, isto é, um verdadeiro horror para os padrões da família! A única vampira da história era a esposa de Herman, Lily Dracula, uma dona de casa sempre preocupada com a criação dos filhos… Cancelado nos EUA em 1966, o seriado foi exibido no Brasil ainda na década de 60, e reprisado em meados da década de 70, fazendo mais sucesso do que os Addams! As trapalhadas dos Monstros divertiam pessoas de todas as idades, principalmente quando Vovô resolvia dar uma voltinha com seu veículo: um caixão sobre rodas!

Varney

Sir Francis Varney era uma criatura literalmente repugnante. Criado pelo escritor inglês James Malcolm Rymer em 1847 (antes mesmo de Drácula!) no livro “Varney, o Vampiro ou o Banquete Sangrento”, a maior arma dessa criatura era a sua feiúra! Com sua face pálida e mórbidos olhos cor-de-lata, Varney hipnotizava suas vítimas apenas com o olhar… Com unhas e dentes pontiagudos, esse vampiro arranhava as vidraças das casas, fazendo o ruído de granizo. Por isso, também ficou conhecido como o “Vampiro das Tempestades”, agindo sempre em dias chuvosos ou com neve. Esse monstro pavoroso tinha preferência por jovens indefesas, que eram atacadas sem dó nem piedade. No entanto, Varney era um ser bastante temperamental, e se dava ao luxo de se sentir desgostoso com a imortalidade de vez em quando… Então, quando os raios da lua o acordavam e seu humor não estava dos melhores, o vampiro se escondia no Monte Vesúvio, onde nenhum feixe de luz poderia despertá-lo.

Blade

Além da Vampirella, outro herói dos quadrinhos também ficou famoso pelos seus poderes vampirescos. Ele se chama Blade e nasceu das idéias de Marv Wolfman, então roteirista da Marvel Comics. A grande diferença é que o herói negro não é bem um Vampiro de verdade, e sim uma mistura de ser humano com um Filho das Trevas… Como? A origem de Blade é espetacular: sua mãe foi atacada por um Vampiro quando ainda levava o filho no útero. Dessa forma, o bebê recebeu um pouco do sangue maldito, adquirindo alguns de seus poderes especiais. Como vingança, Blade se tornou um impiedoso caçador dos sanguessugas, e para isso utiliza as geringonças high-tech criadas por Whistler, também inventor do soro que Blade usa para poder caminhar à luz do dia sem virar pó. No cinema, o herói já mereceu dois filmes que estouraram nas bilheterias, ambos protagonizados pelo blockbuster Wesley Snipes.

O Vampiro do Brooklyn

Blade, o caçador de Vampiros vivido por Wesley Snipes, não é o único representante da galeria de sanguessugas afro-americanos… Em 1995, Eddie Murphy personificou no cinema o hilariante Maximillian, único sobrevivente de uma raça de Vampiros de uma ilha caribenha. Dirigido por Wes Craven, da série “Pânico”, “O Vampiro do Brooklyn” trouxe a verve cômica do eterno tira da pesada para o mundo dos Filhos da Noite. No filme, Eddie Murphy tem que encontrar a única mulher que pode salvar sua raça da extinção. Vivida por Angela Basset, Rita mora no Brooklyn e convive com estranhos pesadelos. Sem saber, a moça é filha de um Vampiro, e por isso carrega nas veias um destino sanguinolento. Mas uma série de contratempos acontecem (como sempre!) e Maximillian tem de mover mundos e fundos para conquistar Rita e garantir a preservação de sua espécie.

Blacula

Blacula é o personagem principal do filme de mesmo nome, dirigido por William Crain em 1972. Trata-se da versão afro-americana do maior vampiro de todos os tempos. A história começa com Manuwalde (William Marshall), um príncipe africano que é vampirizado pelo próprio Conde Drácula em 1780, e acaba trancafiado dentro de seu próprio caixão. Séculos depois, dois colecionadores de arte resolvem levar a tumba para Los Angeles, onde Blacula desperta sedento de sangue! O Vampiro conhece Tina, a reencarnação de sua falecida esposa Luva, e faz de tudo para conquistar o seu amor. Mas o caminho de Blacula está cheio de obstáculos: Gordon, o melhor amigo da moça, descobre a verdade sobre Manuwalde e inicia uma verdadeira caçada ao vampiro africano…

Zé Vampir

Quem é que nunca se divertiu com as histórias da Turma do Penadinho, escritas por Maurício de Souza? Pois essa galerinha de arrepiar não poderia deixar de ter o seu Vampiro. Ele se chama Zé Vampir e é cheio de classe… Ao contrário dos outros personagens do cemitério, como o Cranícola, Muminho, Lobisomen e a Dona Morte, que normalmente usam apenas trapos ou lençóis (afinal, são fantasmas!), o nosso menino Vampiro se inspirou nos elegantes sanguessugas do cinema para compor o seu visual: smoking, gravata borboleta e uma elegante capa! Como a maioria dos Vampiros, Zé Vampir também pode se transformar em um simpático morcego, coisa que faz sempre quando quer assustar alguém. Apesar disso, Zé Vampir é um Vampiro camarada, e nunca leva seu apetite por sangue às últimas consequências. Na verdade, o morceguinho sempre acaba preferindo alguma guloseima à base de morango ou groselha, bem vermelhinha…

Don Drácula

Protagonista de um desenho animado japonês, Don Drácula (Don Dorakyura) fez a festa de muitas crianças brasileiras durante a década de 80, quando foi exibido. Criado por Osamu Tezuka (considerado o “Deus do Mangá”) em 1979, o pano de fundo da história é a mudança de Drácula para o Japão, para fugir de seu arquiinimigo, o Dr. Rip Van Helsing… Muito desastrado, o Vampiro acaba se envolvendo em muitas confusões com sua filha, Sangria, e Igor, seu criado corcunda. Sem falar no morceguinho Yasu, que narra com muito bom humor alguns momentos da história. Além de Van Helsing, Don Drácula também se esforça para fugir dos “ataques” da apaixonada Blonda, uma gorducha cheia de sangue para dar! Um típico desenho japonês, que deixou saudades em muita gente.

Vampirella

Criada na década de 60 pelo célebre Forrest J. Ackerman (o escritor que utilizou pela primeira vez a expressão “Sci-Fi”), a curvilínea Vampirella povoa a imaginação dos marmanjos desde aquela época. Sempre vestida com um sensual maiô colante vermelho, que revela boa parte de sua invejável forma física, a Vampirella das histórias em quadrinhos já teve duas origens… Para Ackerman, a Vampira era uma alienígena de Drakulon, onde todos os habitantes são Vampiros que se alimentam do sangue que corre nos rios desse estranho planeta. Na década de 90, entretanto, Vampirella teve sua origem reescrita por Kevin Lau, e passou a ser a filha de Lilith, uma Vampira mitológica. Seja como for, Vampi (como é carinhosamente chamada pelos íntimos) continua combatendo o crime com seu peculiar estilo sexy-sangrento, e muita gente boa não ligaria nem um pouco em ser mordido pela simpática heroína…

Mirza

Criada em 1967 por Eugênio Colonnese, um dos mestres pioneiros da HQ nacional, Mirza é a personagem feminina mais conhecida do terror brasileiro. Inspirada na internacional Vampirella, a vampira brasileira povoou o imaginário de várias gerações de leitores, já que foi publicada em momentos distintos das décadas de 60, 70 e 80. O verdadeiro nome de Mirza era Mirela Zamanova, uma condessa exuberante que se tornou um ícone não só do terror como também do erotismo nos quadrinhos. Suas aventuras se davam nos ambientes glamurosos das passarelas da alta moda e nas festas da elite brasileira, já que Mirza ganhava a vida como modelo internacional, sempre vestida (ou despida, é claro!) em trajes provocantes e muito muito sensuais… Em seu reinado de terror, Mirza visitou as maiores cidades do mundo, procurando suas vítimas indiscriminadamente entre homens e mulheres, e deixando uma verdadeira legião de “órfãos”, candidatos eternos aos voluptuosos caninos da vampira.

Miriam Blaylock

A secular vampira Miriam Blaylock, interpretada por Catherine Deneuve em “Fome de viver” (The Hungers), ficou célebre na película de Tony Scott, um dos mais belos e chocantes filmes de 1983. Personagem do livro mais famoso de Whitley Strieber, Lady Miriam e seu vampiro-amante John (David Bowie) tinham uma vida sofisticada, eram apaixonados por música clássica e sobreviviam à base de sangue novo de homens e mulheres. Mas repentinamente John teve um estranho distúrbio celular e envelheceu em poucos segundos, forçando Miriam a procurar a doutora Sarah Roberts (Susan Sarandon), especialista em envelhecimento precoce. Foi a deixa para que a vampira seduzisse a médica ao som da ópera Lakmé, de Léo Delibes, em uma das cenas mais eróticas do filme. Sob o poder de Miriam, Sarah foi perdendo aos poucos sua identidade humana, mergulhando cada vez mais fundo na escuridão dos Filhos da Noite…

Carmilla

Personagem central de um conto publicado em 1872 pelo escritor irlandês Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla foi uma das primeiras criaturas da noite registradas na literatura mundial. De hábitos noturnos, cabelos e olhos castanho escuros, Carmilla logo chamou a atenção de Laura, uma jovem da nobreza austríaca com quem a Vampira manteve um relacionamento conturbado. Na história, narrada pela própria vítima, Carmilla acaba revelando ser a Condessa Karnstein, uma antepassada de Laura, falecida há mais de 150 anos! Linda, graciosa e de porte aristocrático, Carmilla influenciou toda uma geração de Vampiras fatais, e há quem diga, inclusive, que Bram Stoker teria se inspirado na obra de seu conterrâneo para criar o seu Drácula.

Philinnion

Philinnion é a personagem de um conto muito antigo atribuído ao historiador grego Phlegon de Trales, que teria vivido no primeiro ou segundo século da era cristã, e por isso pode ser considerada uma das primeiras vampiras da literatura. A história narra o drama de um jovem chamado Machates, que se apaixonou perdidamente por Philinnion, sem saber que ela já estava morta… Machates morava com os pais da moça, e recebia todas as noites a visita de sua noiva. Quando os pais de Philinnion viram a filha na cama com o hóspede, trataram de avisá-lo que aquilo era uma assombração! O jovem ficou arrasado, e Philinnion amaldiçoou seus pais por terem revelado seu pequeno segredo… Mais tarde, os habitantes da cidade perceberam que a tumba da jovem estava vazia e encontraram seu corpo em casa. O cadáver de Philinnion foi então queimado e oferecido ao Deus Hermes, para que sua alma fosse enviada ao mundo das trevas. A história de Philinnion era muito famosa na época do Império Romano, e serviu de inspiração para Goethe escrever seu famoso poema “Die Braut von Korinth”.

Lord Ruthven

Personagem principal do livro “The Vampyre”, publicado em 1819, o sedutor Lord Ruthven nasceu durante uma emocionante tempestade literária… Reza a lenda que, em 1816, o grande poeta romântico Lord Byron reuniu em Genebra alguns amigos, entre eles Mary Shelley, escritora, e John Polidori, médico. Byron propôs um desafio aos demais: uma competição de histórias de terror, que foi vencida pelo Frankenstein criado na ocasião por Shelley. Foi nesse jogo que Byron idealizou o enredo para “The Vampyre”, mas logo abandonou o projeto. Polidori, que também estava naquela noite, desenvolveu a idéia de Byron e ainda se inspirou na figura do amigo para dar vida a Ruthven, um elegante Vampiro inglês que transitava com desenvoltura nas festas mais chiques da nobreza européia, onde dava vazão a seus instintos bestiais entre um gole de champagne e uma mordida certeira no pescoço de alguma linda donzela… O evento azedou a amizade dos dois, mas deu ao mundo um dos personagens vampíricos mais marcantes da literatura mundial.

Conde Saint-German

O Conde Ragoczy Saint-German é a principal criação da escritora californiana Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, que conta com uma verdadeira legião de fãs vampirescos nos Estados Unidos. Protagonista de mais de uma dezena de livros, Saint-German é um vampiro do bem, um herói que usa a experiência acumulada em 3500 anos de vida para ajudar o próximo, principalmente no caso de belas mulheres… Poliglota, rico e inteligente, Saint-German é um farmacêutico/alquimista, que precisa de sangue para se manter vivo, mas nunca mata suas vítimas, preferindo alimentar-se de suas amantes ou de estranhos que, em troca, recebem sonhos agradáveis por telepatia. Assim como os sanguessugas tradicionais, o vampiro de Yazbro também não pode se ver no espelho, carrega sempre um punhado de sua terra natal (às vezes dentro dos sapatos…), e pode se recuperar de ferimentos que levariam qualquer ser humano à morte! Um herói pra lá de charmoso, que convida o leitor para conhecer as mais fantásticas eras de nossa história.

Azzo, o Cavaleiro

Encravado em algum lugar dos Cárpatos, na Romênia, está o assombrado castelo Klatka. Este é o lar de Azzo, o Cavaleiro Vampiro que protagoniza a obra “A Mysterious Stranger”, de autor desconhecido, publicada pela primeira vez em 1860. Azzo é um Vampiro centenário, com um profundo desprezo pela humanidade, e só tem interesse pelas coisas pitorescas, incomuns. Ante sua presença, mesmo os lobos mais selvagens se tornam dóceis e inofensivos. Com a eterna aparência de um homem de 40 anos, alto e magro, o Cavaleiro tem olhos cinzas amedrontadores, e usa bigode, barba e cabelos negros e curtos. Sempre vestido em sua armadura medieval, Azzo é rude, sarcástico e monossilábico com os visitantes, guardando toda a sua elegância e cultura secular para cortejar as jovens donzelas que acompanham os viajantes. Quando convidado para um banquete, o Cavaleiro Azzo sempre recusa a comida, fazendo questão de frisar que só se alimenta de líquidos… quentes!

O Vampiro de Sussex

Em 1924, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publicou “The Sussex Vampire” (“O Vampiro de Sussex”), colocando Sherlock Holmes frente a frente com um ser das trevas. A história começa em uma manhã de novembro, com uma carta assustadora. Nela, um certo Robert Ferguson pede a ajuda de Holmes para resolver um espantoso caso de vampirismo! O detetive começa a investigar uma série de mortes ocorridas no vilarejo em questão, que parecem ligadas a um estranho fato ocorrido há um século atrás. Nessa ocasião, os habitantes do local teriam assassinado todos os integrantes de uma família, acusados de vampiros. Assustados, os novos moradores começam a acreditar que um descendente dos sanguessugas é o responsável pelas mortes, sedento de sangue e vingança. Sherlock tem de usar toda a sua miraculosa astúcia para resolver a questão, e acaba provando mais uma vez que os vivos sempre são muito mais perigosos que os mortos… Mas você não vai querer saber o final da história, certo? O negócio é ler o livro para se deliciar com o caso mais sanguinolento do maior detetive do mundo!

VAMPIROS FAMOSOS DA TV E DO CINEMA

1. Lestat – Interview With the Vampire

2. Christopher Lee’s Dracula

3. Bela Lugosi’s Dracula

4. Edward Cullen – Twilight (Crepúsculo)

5. Bill and Eric – True Blood

6. Asa Vajda, 1960’s Black Sunday

7. Angel

8. Mr. Barlow – Salem’s Lot

9. Schuyler Van Alen – Melissa de la Cruz’s Blue Bloods series

10. Gary Oldman’s Drácula

Fonte: Revista Entertainment Weekly

http://www.estadao.com.br/noticias/arteelazer,confira-os-vampiros-mais-famosos-da-literatura-e-do-cinema,466500,0.htm

Dear Buffy, Please slay Edward.

(Sarah Michelle Gellar)

Just look at him. The man is insufferable

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Sabe aquele filme que marcou sua vida e mesmo sendo uma porcaria você sempre vai acha-lo incrível?? O meu é o Segundas Intenções!

Lembro que eu deveria ter uns 14anos e locava o filme toda sexta feira, assistia mil vezes durante o final de semana e chegava ao cúmulo de anotar  as falas malditas da Katheryn pra poder humilhar meus colegas no colégio hahaha

Toda cena que aparecia o Sebastian, eu  me giletava hahaha bem teenanger assim…

Eu odeio a Reese Whinterspoon(Anette) até hoje por causa desse filme!! Achava ela muito feia songa monga, com cara de inseta louca de baygon pra ficar com o Sebastian… e hoje em dia ela tem um Oscar na pentchadera, então meu ódio só aumentou assim… bitch.

Eu era apaixonado pela Sarah Michelle Gellar(Katheryn), achava ela a melhor atriz do mundo e sempre chorava naquela sena(bjo Sasha) que ela é desmascarada na frente do colégio inteiro, tocando Bittersweet Symphony ao fundo!!

Ai gente, que dóóóó! Tinha vontade de dar um murro na cara da Legalmente Loira desgraçada que fudeu tudo na vida da Buffy hahaha, adoro essa confusão de personagens.

E eu não era viciado apenas no filme, também amava a trilha sonora! Comprei 3 vezes o CD e perdi todos os 3 hahaha não sobrou nem o encarte, uó!!

Pesquisando no youtube eu achei um canal com as músicas da trilha sonora e credo, eu sei cantar t-o-d-a-s até hoje!! Me senti super fã fanático da Hanna Montanna…
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Rodrigo Turrer

12/12/2008 – 23:43 – Atualizado em 17/12/2008 – 16:19

Foi-se o tempo em que os vampiros encarnavam o Mal. As cíclicas repaginações do personagem já criaram dentuços ridículos e apaixonantes. A última das várias releituras aconteceu em 1997. O seriado Buffy transformou uma vítima em potencial, a loiríssima atriz Sarah Michelle Gellar, em vingadora das donzelas sugadas em filmes de terror. Agora, quem vai enquadrar os vamps ao espírito dos novos tempos é Crepúsculo, versão para o cinema da saga-fenômeno Twilight, da escritora Stephenie Meyer. O filme quebrou recordes de arrecadação e bilheteria nos Estados Unidos e deve causar estrondo similar quando estrear no Brasil, no dia 19. O frenesi está atrelado ao sucesso da saga Crepúsculo, que deu sangue novo ao mercado editorial para adolescentes, vendeu 7 milhões de cópias e foi traduzido para 20 línguas.

Assim como o livro, o filme começa com a mudança de Isabella Swan (a novata Kristen Stewart) da ensolarada Phoenix para a chuvosa Fork. Retraída e ensimesmada, Bella tenta se adaptar à mudança para a cidade provinciana e para a nova escola. É quando conhece Edward Cullen (o galã emergente Robert Pattinson, que atuou em Harry Potter), um fascinante rapaz com seis palmos de topete que parece não se bronzear há séculos. A ciclotimia de Edward atormenta Bella: ora ele lhe lança olhares chamejantes, ora parece sentir repulsa. Intrigada, Bella investiga a vida do amado e o força a contar a verdade. Edward se transformou em vampiro em 1918 pelos caninos de Dr. Carlisle Cullen, uma espécie de Drácula benemérito que só mordisca moribundos para salvá-los da morte. Assim fez com sua mulher, Edward e outros quatro jovens. É a grande família Cullen, um clã de vampiros atípico: sem dentões e que não são incinerados quando expostos ao sol. Ao contrário, cintilam como diamantes. E, digamos, quase vegetarianos: renunciaram ao sangue humano para se alimentar de animais. Chupa-cabras do Bem. Por isso Edward é tão vulnerável a Bella. O apetitoso aroma de seu sangue desperta nele o desejo de abocanhá-la. Edward vive uma batalha contra a tentação – o furor hormonal próprio dos 17 anos que ele conserva, mesmo com 104 anos.

O roteiro do filme dá substância à prosa anêmica e prolixa de Stephenie Meyer. Salpica aventura e suspense, mas o que importa mesmo é o amor dos protagonistas – uma versão abstinente de Leonardo Di Caprio e Kate Winslet em Titanic. Tanto o filme quanto os livros da saga exalam sensualidade enquanto parecem dizer que a negação dos desejos é uma virtude. “Cresci num ambiente em que não era exceção ser boa moça, e meus namorados eram respeitosos”, disse Stephenie a ÉPOCA. “Isso afeta a maneira como escrevo.” Crepúsculo é uma fábula de paixão proibida, privação e provação. Responde aos anseios das garotas da geração W (também chamada de geração do milênio, dos nascidos entre 1980 e 2000): adolescentes e pré-adolescentes ultraconectadas na internet, antenadas e um tanto puritanas. É um conto de fadas sob medida para quem outro dia sonhava com o mundo de Harry Potter e suspirava pelo galã Zac Efron, de High School Musical.

Edward Cullen personifica esses desejos. É romântico, meigo, carinhoso… e recatado. Protege sem exigir nada em troca, nem as típicas apalpadelas dos rapazes. Na única cena de beijo do filme (e do livro), Edward diz: “Não posso ir longe demais com você, tenho de me controlar”. Ambos estão no quarto dela, deitados na cama. Ela adormece. Ele passa a madrugada adorando o rosto de Bella – só o rosto. Edward é um amante à moda antiga talhado para as novas gerações de adolescentes românticas. Sensível e com poderes sobrenaturais, é o perfeito vampiro emo. Alguma dúvida de que o filme vai virar uma febre?

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6 ans après l’arret de la série qui a fait son succès, Sarah Michelle Gellar reste un modèle pour toute une génération.
Née en 1977 à New-York, c’est en 1981 qu’elle est remarquée par un directeur de casting dans un restaurant. Deux semaines plus tard, elle obtient son premier rôle.  Après quelques petits rôles, c’est en 1997 qu’elle connaît le succès en interprétant Buffy dans la série « Buffy contre les vampires », créée par Joss Whedon et adaptée du film éponyme. Depuis, ses apparitions se font moindres et surtout moins remarquables.

Après l’arrêt de Buffy contre les vampires en 2003, Sarah Michelle Gellar n’a pas réussi à crever l’écran. Pourtant, quand on prononce son nom, le succès est toujours au rendez-vous. Depuis la fin de la série, les vampires sont encore présent, plus que jamais dans cette période précédent la sortie du deuxième film de la saga Twilight, où Stephenie Meyer n’a pas hésité à revoir les origines des descendants de Dracula ainsi que celles des loups-garous. L’écrivaine crée d’ailleurs des remous dans l’océan (car au vu du nombre de personnes, c’est comme ça qu’on pourrait le qualifier) de fans de la chasseuse, en effet, ici, dans Twilight, les vampires ont leur peau qui brille au soleil et peuvent se nourrir de sang d’animal (à se propos, le créateur de la série a lancé lors d’une interview que Angel battrait à plate couture Edward (puisque ce sont les noms des vampires principaux de Buffy et Twilight).
De plus, on a aussi pu noter l’apparition de pas moins de 3 séries consacrées aux vampires ces dernières années : Moonlight (annulée à la saison 2), de Ron Koslow et Trevor Munson, True Blood, de Alan Ball et The Vampire Diaries de Kevin Williamson et Julie Plec.

Et ce n’est pas tout. The vampire slayer (car tel est le titre dans sa version originale) reste très présent dans notre vie. Régulièrement sort de nombreux jeux vidéo ou romans, intégrale et rééditions, tout ceci avec un succès qui n’est pas à démontrer. Mais surtout, le gros coup marketing de Joss Whedon a été de continué la série sous une forme que les aficionados apprécient plus que particulièrement, le comics. La saison 8 a déjà été éditée au complet aux Etats-Unis et commence à arriver en France, et celle-ci va d’ailleurs faire l’objet d’une série animée. Au vu du succès, l’annonce faite par Whedon a eu l’effet d’une bombe car il décide de tout rééditer, soit donc de sortir « Buffy, l’intégrale » qui reprend toutes les saisons. A noté aussi l’existence d’une série « Angel », basé sur le même vampire, où Sarah a fait quelques apparitions qui a connu cependant en France un succès moindre et qui s’est arrêté en 2004.

Sarah Michelle Gellar est malgré tout toujours l’objet de culte, des soirées sont souvent organisées, des nuits Buffy et bien sûr, tous les 31 octobre, de nombreuses personnes n’hésitent pas à revêtir leurs plus beaux costumes de la chasseuse. En parallèle avec sa carrière, elle s’occupe de de nombreuses associations qui luttent comme Make-A-Wish contre le cancer.  Icône de toute une époque, son personnage reste graver pour longtemps dans la mémoire des enfants de 1990.

W Magazine has released their latest issue with Demi Moore on the cover

It’s alarming how easily bad photoshops aren’t picked up by the creative team before they are sent out for publication. What I can’t fathom is why they’d be shrinking that part of her hip. Demi Moore is a gorgeous woman, but this photo that is suppose to sizzle doesn’t even have a spark.

Unlike Sarah Michelle Gellar’s zombie arm on Seventeen Magazine, I find this kind of poor photoshopping rediculous. Atleast Seventeen Magazine just looks like a slap bang, cut-paste, lets make everything purple (also where is her belly button?). It’s almost excusable. Almost.

But W Magazine are continuing on this destructive self image path by making Demi Moore look imacciated and semi hipless.

 We need to start accepting who we are, what size we are and okay, maybe photoshop a pimple or two out.

Stupid pimples.

Aqui podeis ver algunas de las actrices mas guapas de la tv….muchas os sonaran por sus papeles…

kate, claire, sun, juliet y shannon (de LOST) buffy, gabrielle (mujeres desesperadas)…

Click here for the review of Season 2

The third season of Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer was marked by the arrival in Sunnydale of renegade slayer Faith (Eliza Dushku), a moody loner who seemed to like her demon-staking calling just a little too much. While Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) was always wary of Faith, the two developed a deep friendship and appreciative rapport – that is, until the evil mayor of Sunnydale (Harry Groener) tapped into Faith’s dark side and lured her into his plot to take over the world, first as a double agent spying on Buffy, then as out-and-out nemesis. And as the mayor’s ascension approached – which happened to fall on Sunnydale High’s graduation day – Buffy and Faith’s battles got nastier and nastier, as Buffy attempted to wrestle with her dark side, save the world and her friends (again), and keep her lover Angel (David Boreanaz) out of Faith’s evil clutches – and out of evil’s evil clutches.

Episode 01: Anne
It was a good episode. Buffy is dealing with past happenings, coming around Angel’s death and trying to turn away from her old life. At least her disappearance from the last episode didn’t get a shitty conclusion, but took a whole episode to deal with this topic – good. And it was good that the other characters in Sunnydale didn’t get much screentime, and only one vampire and their first day of school. Even though the talk Giles (Anthony Steward Head) and with Joyce (Kristine Sutherland) was pretty interesting and full of character moments. Not only tries Joyce to accept Buffy being the slayer, she still looks for excuses, why Buffy moves far and far away from her. And she has kind of right. Giles really is a big father figure in Buffy’s life and he sometimes took most of her time.
The demon story was alright, it gave a nice conflict for Buffy and a reason to return. And with the appearance of Lily (Julia Lee) we have a character from season two back for one episode and another little conflict for Buffy.
Just the fact that Buffy must have been sad all summer long gets a bit on my nerves – nobody can be that sad all the time – she shut herself out from life all the time, didn’t meet people, did nothing? Kind of unreliable. To run away from life means you have to live another life and not think about it… 7,5/10

Episode 02: Dead Man’s Party
An average episode, even though the most interesting story, Buffy’s efforts to reinstate herself into her old life, was the best here, but cut way too short. Buffy had some discussions with her friends in here (despite the cheesiness of the verbal fight during the party, especially Xander’s (Nicholas Brendon) behavior), but the real aftermath was kind of missing in this episode. Instead the writers had to deal big with a Nigerian mask, which rises the dead. Not really interesting and of course full of cliches: The zombies behaved like real zombies from classic monster movies. To be honest, the whole zombie/mask/whatever story was completely useless, uninteresting and dull. But all the scenes involving Buffy and her friends getting back to their old life were great. 5,5/10

Episode 03: Faith, Hope and Trick
Finally the season really begins. With Faith’s introduction. Buffy’s grieve is over after she told the truth what really happened (great scene) and she even tries to get a date. Joyce is finally living with the fact that her daughter is the slayer and even learns that she died for a couple of minutes. So pretty much nice development in all of the characters. Even Faith’s introduction into the Buffyverse was pretty much good. She succeeded Kendra and she is a troubled person (which lets me ask the following: Who is choosing the slayers at all?). And at least she came to Sunnydale with a backstory (pissing off a fishy vampire with three fingers), even though it would have been better, when the story actually was a bit better. A watcher was killed and nobody really cared.
Faith in the Summers house was nice, this is what makes her to a likable character, and how she beat the crap out of one of the vampires was just nice, this promises some more action in this season and it promises that Faith will have some problems to deal with.
The cliffhanger seems nice, though I wished not to see it: Angel is back from hell (or wherever he was). I still wish the writers chose letting him in hell, but WB wanted to have a spin-off with him, so he had to come back… 7,5/10

Episode 04: Beauty and the Beasts
Pretty much a boring episode, even though it is Angel’s first episode back after his death in the second season finale. I am stunned that Angel might have been a monster in here, but he was able to style his hair… Funny.
The story about the high school couple, the Jekyll & Hyde theme, was really boring and didn’t interest me a bit. Scott (Fab Filippo) brings some new characters into the game and it was so damn obvious that they are important for the story. Platt (Phill Lewis) as school psychiatrist would have been interesting, but he was killed in his first episode. Bummer. At best the story about Oz (Seth Green) probably being the killer of the student was interesting, but this was pretty much solved during the second half.
Well, I still don’t like the fact that the writers had to bring back Angel. Not only will his love story with Buffy starts from the beginning (again), but Angel is not that interesting in here. Really. Maybe his return from wherever he came from could be interesting, because of the “wherever he came from” – where was he? 4,5/10

Episode 05: Homecoming
A good and interesting episode, not only because of the Mayor’s introduction. Apart from the questionable storylines (what does the Mayor want from Trick (K. Todd Freeman), or why is it always so difficult to hunt down Buffy and finally kill her – even the Germans were really stupid enemies) and the Buffy/Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) feud (even though they seem to be friends at the end, but they will ever “hate” each other) I liked the episode. Okay, the fight about being the homecoming queen was funny and so, but the series doesn’t need typical high school, stories for only one episode, when I already know the ending won’t develop any of the main characters.
The ending was funny – for the first time a tie, Buffy and Cordy are about to hear their names and then the other contestants win. Totally hilarious in my eyes. And like I said, I don’t know what the Mayor has to do with Trick – it is obvious that the writers wanted to keep Trick as a temporary enemy for Buffy, but the real reason is missing. It was nice though to see one of the Texan vampires from season two back again. I had to laugh, when he ran away from Cordy. 7,5/10

Episode 06: Band Candy
Pretty boring episode, but at least a funny one. Even though we find out more about the Mayor; Ethan’s (Robin Sachs) return and Giles and Joyce making out without stopping, this episode was just a filler, like the last two episodes, just to waste some time until the next episode.
Well, like I said, the episode was hilarious. Giles a teenager again, making out with Buffy’s mom in front of Buffy and Buffy herself trying to be the adult was nice and had a bit of a character development – this
all was cool, but I can’t think of any more than this episode just being a filler. Not only Angel has no screentime in here, and I am not talking about Faith.
And getting the newborn was just a lame excuse for this story, the vampires simply could have gone into the hospital, made a little kill spree and got the newborn – what’s so difficult to do this and why the deal with the cursed chocolate?
Yeah, it was funny, but one of the most useless episodes in Buffy history. 5,5/10

Episode 07: Revelations
This is an episode I wanted to see during the last six episodes. Finally no filler, instead great stories, developments and ideas of what’s to come this season.
Faith getting a new watcher was a good idea (and it was necessary after all to give Faith a new watcher), but her being the bad one was pretty obvious. And finally the scooby gang finds out that Angel is alive again (only their reaction was a bit over the top – even Giles cannot only see the things Angel did to him; as a watcher he has to see the whole picture), so Angel can be integrated more into the story in future episodes.
The first Buffy vs Faith was awesome and it was not the last. It is great to see that the writers planned this storyline from the beginning. I just find it amusing that Faith knocked out Angel and he was unconscious for, like, ten minutes and then wakes up to save Willow (Alyson Hannigan) (that was more funny than surprising).
The deal about the glove was boring though, and the finale came a bit too fast; and I wished to see the scooby gang dealing more about Angel actually being the good guy again.
But the fights were really good. Finally some classic slayer vs slayer (I know, Kendra and Buffy fought in season two, but Kendra is almost forgotten, and dead, while Faith is in the story right now). 8,5/10

Episode 08: Lover’s Walk
Funny and serious episode, and a test balloon, how the writers can deal with Spike (James Marsters), even though his story is over and he already was the main enemy. There are already many parallels with later seasons and the ending of the episode is pretty much awesome.
Sure, the story around Spike ain’t great and nothing is happening (he doesn’t get Drusilla back, he doesn’t get killed, he is the same old Spike from season two with the exception of his love talk), but how the scooby gang is dealing with him is awesome. Even though I couldn’t believe that all of them were believing really fast that Spike returned, especially Buffy while on the phone with Joyce.
Funny moments were Spike talking his soul out with Willow, while she is scared of him killing her and definitely Spike talking to Joyce; I was short before laughing very hard. Just the fact that Angel was “accidentally” at the Summers house and seeing Spike, thinking he wants to kill Joyce was laughable in a negative way; such coincidences are just stupid and unintentionally funny. But what the hell.
The little relationship drama Willow/Oz/Xander/Cordy growing to its highest point was awesome, though it was (unintentionally) funny, that Cordy and Oz ran into Willow and Xander while kissing. And I wouldn’t know what to begin with Cordy’s accident right after that (probably, just to show the funeral scene and have the gag in it), when I wouldn’t know the next episode.
And how good would it be, when the friendship of the gang is broken, while they are saving the world? The end of the episode was a good start. 8/10

Episode 09: The Wish
Great episode. Cordy is still dealing with the “break-up” and wished practically hell on Earth. The introduction to that story was already settled in the last episode, while Cordy was thinking about her life in the hospital (still a scene in which Charisma Carpenter looked really great and really serious for the first time in the show). And this episode gives us the introduction of Anya (Emma Caulfield), a well-known character in later episodes.
It was obvious that the alternate reality story was coming in Buffy sooner or later and even though the setting of the alternate reality wasn’t a surprise (because there had something to come), but what happened during the 42 minutes was awesome. Cordy killed by Xander-vamp and Willow-vamp in the middle of the episode (so the actual reason, why we are in this reality isn’t there anymore, it is like Psycho: Mill the main character, before the movie hits half time); Xander and Willow being creepy vampires (which gives Alyson Hannigan a cool opportunity to play outside of her sweet Willow character, now she is the sweet and cold-blooded vampire – awesome); the Master (Mark Metcalf) risen from the Harvest and developing technology for sucking up blood in a better and more “human” way (LOL); and Angel is the puppet for everyone, especially Willow (great scenes between the two).
For me, it came just a bit too fast how Giles figured out the Anyanka deal, and Buffy came really fast to Sunnydale, without even asking a question – she was so cold in her role here, I was asking me why she even bothered to go to Sunnydale. But the final fight was awesome. Half of the gang gets killed and the Master even won over Buffy, and with that great score playing in the background, the scene had a few goosebumps effects. I just wished the scene would be a bit longer or we actually would see Buffy hit the ground after she was killed.
One of my highlights. 9,5/10

Episode 10: Amends
Another great episode, when you look under the surface of it. You don’t see it, but here are battling the good and the evil against each other, and Angel is only their playing ball. It is only a shame that the writers didn’t plan to show it more in the story. Instead we only learn about the First, and we only know that it actually exists (it is interesting that Giles didn’t know about it before; it comes a bit illogical, when he and the gang is learning everything about their enemies, when they are actually in Sunnydale and threatening lives), for more you have to wait four more seasons.
At least Angel got a story of his own, after he was barely a main character these last episodes, and together with his flashbacks the episode had a nice touch and brought us Angel a bit closer again. Even though I didn’t need his flashbacks, but they were necessary for the First to appear in the people Angel killed in the past. His doubts were interesting, though bad acted (I had to laugh, when he was touching his head and trying to play craziness, because that totally didn’t work out) and Buffy’s first standoff with the First was hilarious (“All right. I get it, you’re evil. Do we have to chat about it all day?” – “You have no idea what you are dealing with.” “Let me guess, is it… evil?”). Haha, I was laughing.
I just don’t believe that Angel would kill himself to save Buffy. Not only out of character, but the scene in which Buffy tries to bring Angel the word “strong” closer looked good, but at the end it was way too much, because I couldn’t buy the situation. And on top of it the sun didn’t rise, it didn’t even go bright. It stayed night the complete day. I am laughing. I know, it was highly possible that the Powers That Be were responsible for the snow to save Angel, but at least the writers could have shown that it was actually DAYTIME and not in the middle of the night.
The return of Robia LaMorte was awesome though. I miss her since Angel killed Jenny. A shame that she never did anything good after Buffy. 8,5/10

Episode 11: Gingerbread
Another one of those filler episodes and a pretty boring one, too. The story seemed interesting, but it got boring, after the ghosts were revealed, because it was a real mystery before, without actually being a real big mystery. The witch hunt of course reminded me of Salem and all the other witch and religious hunts in the history of mankind, but the writers could have done more.
It would have been nice to see Joyce possessed or something and let her be the main enemy of the episode; Buffy fighting against her mother to save her, but it never came to that, bummer. And the final “fight” was a bit lame – Buffy trying the whole time to free herself and then suddenly she manages to break the pole and stabs the demon? Muhaha, I was laughing. Well, at least the scene was intended to be funny.
Cordy to Giles was funny, too: “How often are you knocked out anyway?” I already can’t count the times Giles was knocked out and this was indeed a funny scene…
By the way: Is it just me or didn’t the writers conclude the ritual sign things. Willow said they were for protection, but why were they on the kids’ hands? 5/10

Episode 12: Helpless
A good episode. And the start of a new little story, even though the story of the episode was filler. At least we learn something more about the Watcher’s council and how they are practically the bosses of the slayers and their watchers.
The vampire of the week was kind of funny. Jeff Kober can always play the bad guy (I only know him as the bad guy anyway), but his actions were just… stupid. He kills one of his guards, makes him to a vampire, but actually can’t free himself and has to wait? And how did he know where Buffy lived to take her mother? And how did he even know that Buffy was the one to “play” with and not any other girl on the street?
Buffy without her superpowers was a good idea, and I really liked Giles in this one, but for a better episode the writers have to build around the plot holes, not actually on it. 7,5/10

Episode 13: The Zeppo
It is interesting that the writers once dealt with the story of “Nobody will ever know what happened”, and that’s why this episode is good. And funny. Buffy and the rest of the scooby gang fight their biggest fight yet, and Xander has other problems to fight, just because the gang didn’t want him in their fight. Another example that the series is for an ensemble cast. Buffy was not even a second-row character in this one; with her five-minute screentime she almost had nothing to do.
Xander’s zombie story was old, but cool and funny. It is nice how he develops as a character here, even though he had one too many one liner. At least zombies just want to have fun is something new, I didn’t see that all the time. And Xander having sex with Faith… ROFL. I don’t even know why the writers put that in the episode, it seems so unimportant. And funny (here is it again).
And the apocalypse problems of the gang? I almost was surprised how much screentime that story got; with a little less screentime (Buffy’s scene in the bar
could have been cut out) it would have been better, especially when Xander’s story crossed with the apocalypse (saving Faith, meeting Giles and Willow, running from the demons). 8/10

Episode 14: Bad Girls
Finally, the season story arc can really begin now, after the writers included everything they want to have included for the episodes. The Mayor is invincible now (pretty lame for just a one-episode arc), Faith is about to change sides, a new watcher is in town and we had the fattest vampire ever in vampire television history.
Wesley’s (Alexis Denisof) introduction was very nice and I was laughing when he and Giles simultaneously cleaned their glasses. Funny as well was how all of them handled Wesley as the new watcher, especially Giles with his snippy one liner.
Buffy and Faith on an action trip was very nice, at least we had some nice vampire action for a change; how they entered the nest by daylight looked really cool. And with Faith’s murder we have a new story starting (finally I would say); there isn’t much time left until she and the Mayor meet – but first Faith has to be separated from the scooby gang (which had enormously lots of screentime here. Not).
Important episode for the season, but actually not a great one. Just good. 7/10

Episode 15: Consequences
Basically the second part of the Bad Girls episode with all the aftermath of Faith’s murder. Buffy has nightmares, Faith still doesn’t care about what she did and everybody tries to get Faith back to her old manners (if she had any from the start). And even though the cliffhanger was necessary for the story arc, I just don’t know why Faith would go to the Mayor to work for him. What is her reason for that? She never was really that bad, she only had bad influence in the life she lived, but that was never a reason, why she changed sides.
It was nice of the writers to give Xander another chance to help without his superpowers, and like in The Zeppo, he almost died trying to help Faith (here as well: How did Angel enter the motel room? Faith never invited him in). By the way: Faith trying to seduce Xander is again way over the top. Sure, she plays with men like they are her boytoys, but Faith’s actions here are mostly unreliable, and this is what pulls the episode down.
Wesley is another topic: He is too much outside of the scooby gang to have that much screentime. Though it is interesting to see a watcher really living the watcher rules, but in this moment Wesley isn’t really interesting.
Still a good episode, but the writers suddenly pushed Faith to the bad side without giving any plausible explanations why she would work for the bad side. 7/10

Episode 16: Doppelgangland
Almost a genius episode. Joss Whedon did exactly the right thing: He totally didn’t take the episode serious and put lots of gags in it. Not only am I surprised that the story needed 14 minutes to get to its first climax (vampire Willow entering this reality), but the story actually was funny. Alyson Hannigan has again lots of fun playing the dominatrix vampire and even has a nice action scene (this would be her first in the show, if I didn’t forget anything); Anya is back to introduce her to the audience and showing that she will be a recurring character; the scene in which Willow sees that her evil doppelganger seems to be gay (very important if you consider the next season) and especially good Willow amongst vampires in the Bronze – the complete scene was very hilarious. Even the scenes in which the characters were truly shocked about Willow’s “death” were almost hilarious, because totally unbelievable. I don’t know if that was on purpose or really bad acting.
From start to finish a real highlight of the show, another one of those examples that the writers always have irony in their ideas. 9,5/10

Episode 17: Enemies
A good episode with a nice, but obvious twist at the end. I still can’t buy the fact that Faith is working for the Mayor, but I have to live with that, and fortunately the writers didn’t hang on the story of Faith working undercover for the Mayor in the scooby gang – this one is ending right here.
Buffy’s play to trick Faith was really nice and, like I said, the twist was nice, but everybody should have seen it coming. The writers couldn’t turn Angel again, after they did it in the last season; and the situation with Buffy in cuffs and Faith being the player could just end in Buffy winning (and therefor knowing what is going on), because every other exit would be dumb and idiotic. Only one scene was missing: The scooby gang learning that everything was a hoax to let Faith believe she is ahead of the game. The gang comes into the crypt and they just “watch” Buffy fighting against Faith? Hm, there is really a little scene missing.
By the way: The story with the books is really… ehm, lame.
Interesting is the fact that Faith was the first to use the phrase “scooby gang” during the run of the show. 7/10

Episode 18: Earshot
Interesting stand-alone episode and again injoke Jonathan (Danny Strong) with some appearances. And surprisingly he is in the center of the story, even though the plot about somebody killing all the students began directly at the end of the first half of the episode. The idea of giving somebody new superpowers is not new, but I loved it how Buffy was curious about what is happening to her, and then totally happy when it was mind reading. The writers could have played with that story plot more, but they wanted to make her crazy and the school assassination had to be a big plot in here. But, hey, when Danny Strong has more screentime…
The mind reading scenes were full of cliches, everybody thought exactly that what was funny (though Oz was seriously thinking about a serious topic, which was LOL). And the ending surprise was really one, and a funny one, too. First the emotional scene with Buffy and Jonathan in the clock tower, which really showed some similarities between these two characters, and then the kitchen woman poisoning the food in front of Xander’s eyes – very hilarious. More hilarious was the fight Buffy had with her afterward. Seriously, did the producers really do that? Muhaha.
Funny as hell was Buffy learning about Joyce’s and Gile’s tete-a-tete. Damn, I was laughing. 7,5/10

Episode 19: Choices
For the main enemy episode before the season finale a really lame episode. The most interesting part was the standoff between the Mayor/Faith and the scooby gang with Snyder (Armin Shimerman) and two boring cops in the middle of it. But the rest wasn’t really that interesting, because it didn’t really looked like the writers were preparing the season finale. It felt more like a filler story to get the recurring characters (Mayor, Faith) involved again, before they don’t have any screentime. The story with the box really felt like a filler though, but at least it gave Willow some great moments as hostage and character development at the end. She is not only becoming a real powerful witch, but she is staying in Sunnydale to help Buffy out.
I have a problem how the writers deal with Wesley. He is still too much of a laughing-stock in the show, nobody takes him serious, which follows in the viewers don’t taking him serious. Especially for the first season of Angel this will be the biggest problem the writers have to deal with.
The standoff was great; even the Mayor had some character development and it was great to see that he isn’t really an enemy, he still wants to help in some way (how he talked to Angel) – even this talk was the next stone to prepare Angel to leave Sunnydale. 7/10

Episode 20: The Prom
Just a stand-alone episode, but how it prepared for the season finale… The episode is really unimportant for the rest of the series, but I find it pretty much genius. Sure, the hell dogs, or whatever they were, were really boring (fortunately this story didn’t have much screentime), but I loved how the writers let Buffy think about everything she lived through the episode and let her react in the way she was supposed to react in the series: She is only a lone warrior. Like every other slayer she fights alone, and
this episode showed how she would fight when she was alone and didn’t have any friends on her side – a really great way to show this. And I loved the complete prom sequences, in addition Buffy trying to kill the dogs and saving the school once again.
And then the real highlight: the last award. This has to be the prettiest moment in the series. It was really a great feeling to see Buffy awarded for what she did during the last three years; even I had a little tear in my eye, especially with Jonathan giving out the award – very sweet.
That Angel broke up with Buffy was obvious after the happenings of last episode and what’s to come for him (a spin-off). And it was another one of those great character moments; full of cliche, but still good acted and with emotions.
The little side plot with Cordelia and her family being broke seems just like a filler story though to not only give her screentime, after she was kind of cut in the story these last episodes, but to give Xander a final moment with her. By the way: Xander and Anya are really sweet together, no wonder why Emma Caulfield was promoted to the main cast. 8,5/10

Episode 21/22: Graduation Day
The perfect finale for the high school era of the series. Graduation Day for everybody, and everybody has to fight to survive the next day. And with it the high school is completely destroyed. Like Giles said, this is pretty ironic.
The first part of the finale was more of a normal episode. Faith trying to hurt Buffy through killing Angel with a poison, the scooby gang out to find a cure for him. Which results in the big and awaited fight Buffy versus Faith. It was a good and long fight, but I couldn’t prevent to see the stunt women all the time; their faces were clearly visible. And I couldn’t think that Angel’s cure was only the blood of a slayer. I don’t know, but isn’t this pretty dumb from the Mayor to give this poison to Faith? He should have known that Buffy would find out and probably get to Faith to cure Angel. Or this is one of the storylines Joss Whedon didn’t really think through. But the scene in which Angel feeds on Buffy was great. This is the second time Buffy was fed on by a vampire (the first time being the Master in the first season finale). It really looked like Angel wouldn’t stop, and the scene had a strong sexual meaning (just look at Buffy destroying things and touching Angel while lying on the ground and being sucked on).
Other than that the aftermath of Buffy beating Faith in a coma (interesting: A slayer with supernatural powers can heal pretty fast, but from a coma she doesn’t wake up) was interesting: the Mayor grieving in the hospital, having a little standoff with Angel. And suddenly the Mayor has a human weakness? And it is Faith? Well, I can’t think of the Mayor being a father figure for Faith, this just didn’t come too fast (even though they were signs all over the last episodes), but this story is seriously unreliable. This makes the final fight (Buffy running around with the knife she put in Faith) a bit laughable – negatively speaking.
But the fight itself was good. The scooby gang recruits the whole class of 1999 to fight (this scene has a special meaning after Buffy got the “Class Protector” in The Prom) and even Wesley has a reason to fight behind the council’s back. At least one scene he was serious in; during the fight he was the laughing-stock again, which unfortunately wasn’t funny anymore.
Well, the high school is over, with the next season Buffy goes to college – a new life will begin, another one ended here. Angel had the perfect send-off, and now he can have his own show. Only Cordelia didn’t have the proper good bye. At least Harmony died (hm… she got bitten by a vampire; the writers wanted to make her a vampire, it is obvious after this particular scene). And Anya learned that she is in love with Xander.
By the way: The story with Buffy quitting the council is an interesting story, but the writers never really concentrate on this. Sure, the show is still called Buffy, but I wished to see something about a slayer quitting her job, because this seems “important” – a slayer quitting her job is unique and definitely interesting. And this would have been the latest perfect moment to introduce us to the council a bit more. But the producers didn’t, which is a shame.
And another BTW: The episode had some clues about the fifth season – Faith said something about a big sister, before she started to fight with Buffy. And not to forget the dream sequence with Buffy and Faith. Interesting how Joss Whedon planned ahead.
Good season finale. An era ended, and it ended really hard – the scooby gang survived high school. 8,5/10

Season average is 7,43. It probably won’t look that way, but the third season is my second favorite (after the fifth season). If the writers wouldn’t have pulled off so much filler episodes, the season definitely would be better and more interesting.

I missed this one the first time round.

Thanks to Moviegrrl for pointing this one out.

J’observe la fin du monde du fond de mon hamac, un verre à la main et l’autre sur tes reins.

À vouloir toujours et encore changer les choses, j’en ai oublié les gens, ces mêmes gens qui font de moi un puzzle ou une pièce unique.

Par habitude, on apprend à vivre dans un musée et l’on se croise les uns les autres un peu gêné, alors on regarde ses pieds, mais plus ses objectifs !

Trop de pieds, de pas, d’histoires, de chemins pour je puisse suivre quoi que ce soit, mais je comprends et peut-être j’apprends ce que je suis en voyant qui je fuis.

Depuis je préfère les miroirs à la psychanalyse !

Les hommes de plomb tremblent, les murs frémissent, la terre défaille et c’est à mon tour de jouir.

Aujourd’hui, c’est la fête du chaos, les instincts débridés des uns construisent en toute hâte la peur du néant des autres, alors disparaissons ensemble !

Pour une fois, pour cette fois, donnons-nous la main – pas pour une cause perdante ou un jeu d’enfant – mais pour se rappeler à quoi cette dernière servait, avant que nous perdions tout notre temps à nous applaudir les uns les autres.

Dites merci à cette peur animale qui vous traverse et aimez vous…

J’ai vu mourir le World Trade Center, l’A.S. St Étienne et la télé hertzienne, qui nous pleura donc ?

Personne, ou peut-être notre créateur et vendeur en nous lisant sur sa pile de publicités démodées dans ses toilettes capitonnées.

Mais sous ses pieds, la ville court à sa perte comme chaque jour sans penser un instant que celui-ci serait le dernier !

Le dernier meurtre de masse au nom de la démocratie côtoie les derniers adultères d’un excès de monogamie dans la plus pure des logiques, puisque tout est lié, acceptons nos liens !

Les chantages d’une nuit se conjuguent aux complots d’une vie.

Et après cela, le monde bascule d’une folie ordinaire à une résignation exceptionnelle sous le joug d’une foule ivre de se regarder dans le blanc des yeux sans avoir aucune raison de se parler.

Une minute de silence pour tout ceux qui ne le connaissent pas !

Je me fabrique des idylles copiant celles de nos idoles pour nos vies sans idéal.

J’ai perdu pied le jour où je me suis senti pousser des elles, gangrené par un bonheur sur mesure.

Nuit après nuit, lit après lit, je me réveille avec un arrière-goût de progrès dans la bouche, puis j’effrite le reste de la matinée entre la chambre et la douche, en évitant soigneusement de penser, le visage concentré en fixant la poignée de la porte.

À force de courage ou de fainéantise, je tire des plans sur la comète, du canapé au téléviseur, moralité je crois en ce que je dois, rien d’autre.

On m’a dit d’aimer, de procréer, de ne pas tuer et tout le reste, pour être sûr que nous savons obéir !

On voudrait me faire croire que j’ai le choix, que mon avis compte et surtout que quelqu’un se souviendra de tout ça, sans savoir pourquoi.

Les pertes de mémoires valent bien ces vérités de toujours.

Alors, je voudrais m’envoyer en l’air jusqu’au 7^ème ciel, tutoyer le nirvana, mais le plafond m’en empêche, si vous saviez, d’aussi bas que vous êtes, en attendant pieusement que ce même ciel ne vous tombe sur un coin de la tête, parce que c’est comme ça, parce que c’est écrit.

…

J’aimerais être vaguement humain le temps de la Fin et arrêter à ce moment de prier la technologie. Moi, le moyen de la chaîne alimentaire, je réalise que je ne suis qu’un animal de compagnie, plus domestiqué que civilisé.

Rien ne se perd tout se revend, je ferai de l’apocalypse le dernier hit sur ton téléphone portable où se reflètent ton teint artificiel, ton sourire en image de synthèse et ta dentition de carnassier végétarien.

L’homme moderne sait qu’il sera le dernier, mais il préfère railler le passé et prendre le peu d’oxygène qu’il reste du globe en otage.

La ville, elle, elle sait, elle le sent, elle se décompose peu à peu, au fur et à mesure que l’heure sonne et qu’elle oublie les morceaux de vie qui l’anime.

A vrai dire, je me suis souvent demandé en disparaissant progressivement dans la foule désorientée des grands jours de consommation, ce qui distinguait un kamikaze d’un suicide collectif ?

C’est peut-être que l’un des deux se pose encore des questions, alors que l’autre a arrêté pour aménager son emploi du temps !

Quand il n’y a pas plus de cris que de bruit, on peut s’attendre à ce qu’il y ait plus d’absences que de silence.

I liked The Grudge when I first saw it, in 2004. Coming off The Ring, I was in the mood for another good adaptation of a Japanese horror film — in this case, Ju-On. I loved Ju-On. I liked The Grudge.

Seeing it again now, years later, I wonder why.

Aside from a few spooky moments (mostly involving whiteface makeup and quick edits), this isn’t a very frightening film. An attempt is made to focus on the American characters’ fish-out-of-water situation in Tokyo, but it fails; there are so, so many Americans in this movie that it seems like it was filmed in a neighbourhood next to Chinatown in San Francisco.

It’s a good story. I’d even say it’s an excellent story. And this movie is very, very well constructed. It just doesn’t hold my attention. It tries hard, but you can actually see the moments when director Takashi Shimizu — imported from the Ju-On series to helm the American remake — decided to throw in a gross-out scene to amp up the action. These scenes don’t further the story and serve only to highlight the inadequacies of Sarah Michelle Gellar and the actor who plays her boyfriend, who was in Roswell and whose name escapes me.

The Grudge comes close, but fails, to scare, relying on scenes of mutilation rather than building suspense through mood. I don’t think I’ll be watching it again anytime soon.

If memory serves, I liked The Grudge 2 better, but I haven’t seen it in ages. Maybe I’ll do that soon. But to be honest, I’m glad this month of horror DVD reviews is wrapping up. I might watch The Sound of Music for a while to cleanse the palate.

Wait, it’s Jason Behr. I just remembered. Also, Ted Raimi is in this, which is always good. So there’s that.

The second unaired pilot came in 2001 and it was for a proposed animated series where Whedon got the cast, except Sarah Michelle Gellar, to be voice actors for the series.

The series was proposed to Fox Kids but didn’t see the light of day when Fox Kids ceased operations. Fox tried to sell it to other networks but nothing materialized.

The series was supposed to take place between season one, episodes 7 and 8 so that no contradiction in future events or a disruption in the continuity of the show would occur. Thirteen scripts were written for the series with various Buffy writers contributing including Jane Espensen, Steven DeKnight and Doug Petrie. The pilot was written by comic book writer Jeph Loeb and Joss Whedon.

The series style would be vastly influenced by the Batman: The Aminated Series style, one of Whedon’s favorite cartoons, and co-creator of that series Bruce Timm was even brought in to do concept sketches.

It took almost seven years, August 2008, before fans were able to catch a glimpse of the animated version of Buffy. An almost 4 minute version of the pilot leaked onto the Internet and Buffy fans went wild as they thought new life had come to the franchise.

Why they never took another run at this concept recently I don’t know. Joss Whedon is having huge success with his Buffy Season 8 comics at Dark Horse Comics and if Mel Brooks can get Cartoon Network to make a Spaceballs animated series they would lap this series up like a cat to cream.

We need a Buffy animated series and who cares when it takes place in continuity. One idea might be to take the Dark Horse comics and turn them into scripts or revisit the 13 lost scripts from this series. At least give us an animated movie? Actually that is an untapped market that Fox hasnt looked into yet, taking their franchises and turning them into DVD animated movies. (ie: Buffy, Serenity, Alien, Predator, etc) Warner Bros and Disney are making money hand over fist that way.

Anyway of the almost 4 minutes I saw, I am drooling for more especially if they could coax someone like Bruce Timm to show-run the series.

Pilot Score: 4 out of 5 (based on potential)

Four-minutes of the series can be seen on HERE.

After Buffy the Vampire Slayer feature film failed to generate any box office, Joss Whedon took the concept to the newly formed WB network. His first pilot for the proposed series had the same snappy dialogue, a new stronger leading lady (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and a new mentor (Anthony Head).

What was gone from feature version was the overly silly humor, a laughable high school boyfriend and well taskmaster Donald Sutherland.

The first pilot also introduced the Scooby Gang but with noticeable differences, well, Alyson Hannigan wasnt in the original pilot and Joss Whedon directed this pilot opposed to the one that actually aired.

The pilot opens with two high school students breaking into their school’s theatre. One of those students would become very well known to Buffy fans later on as Darla, or actress Julie Benz. The whole plot of the pilot revolves around Darla coming to Sunnydale.

The pilot then shifts to Buffy walking up the steps at the high school where she meets the principal (Stephen Tobolowsky). Its quite funny as he keeps screwing up her name and there is so much foreshadowing to where the series is going. Tobolowsky would be replaced later with Armin Shimerman.

Riff Regan, the original Willow

The next scene is of Willow and Xander. Original Willow is played by Riff Regan, was over-weight, brainy, awkward and insecure. (even more than the Hannigan version) The actress playing Willow didn’t really bring any depth to the character in the pilot and you can see why she was recast. In every scene, she just smiles and drops her chin shyly. Other than Willow you have all the regular cast in the pilot Cordelia, Rupert Giles, Harmony, etc.

One hysterical line comes when the girls in the locker room complaining about the new girl’s name “Buffy, what kind of name is that?” Then the girl turns around and says, “Hi Aphrodisia.” It was that kind of writing that made Joss Whedon huge and its all evident in this pilot.

The unaired pilot is only 25 minutes but it does show the brilliance of the show before it even really emerged. The tweaking with the concept and how Joss Whedon moved the tone of the whole concept makes this pilot way, way superior than the feature film. But a lot of that recognition can be awarded to Joss Whedon taking a chance on a cast unknowns. That is the brilliance of this pilot as you can see just how raw Buffy was in the beginning and how it all paid off.

I am not sure why this pilot never ended up on the Buffy DVD sets. Maybe we will see it when Buffy moves to Blu-Ray.

Pilot Score: 4.5 out of 5

The pilot can be seen here:

Sarah Michelle Gellar was seen out in Beverly Hills on Friday getting her nails done sporting some skinny jeans and a loose fitting tank top.

The Buffy The Vampire Slayer star looks fabulous less than a month after giving birth to Charlotte Grace – her first baby with hubby Freddie Prinze Junior.

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Another fab post baby miracle body. SMG looks terrific and I am digging her cute/casual outfit (but with kickass heels!) AND, she gave her baby a normal name (Charlotte Grace)…look out, Aniston…SMG is rising on my girl crush list! LOL (nah, she seems a bit bitchy, no?)

Wait she’s not Gellar anymore!  So, SMP!

Sarah Michelle Prinze: Post-Baby Body!

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Сара Мишель Геллар посетила маникюрный салон салон в Беверли Хиллс, 16 октября.
Актриса недавно стала мамой , у нее родилась дочь Шарлотта Грэйс в сентябре месяце.

aka Eiskalte Engel

Es gibt wohl kaum jemanden, der den Soundtrack zu diesem Film nicht kennt. Gefühlt besitzt jedes Mädel im Teenage-Alter mindestens zwei original CDs davon und es kommt einem vor, als ob sie ständig im Player ihre Runden drehen.
Nachdem der Film nun zehn Jahre alt wird, musste ich mich ja auch mal davon überzeugen, was denn hinter dem Soundtrack eigentlich so passiert.

Als Hintergrund dient die Jugend der High-Societey, die gelangweilt ihren Spaß in Intrigen und Sex sucht. Sarah Michelle Gellar als Kathrin, Ryan Phillippe als Sebastian und Reese Witherspoon als Annette (sortiert von Böse nach Gut) spielen dabei die Hauptrollen. Die Besetzung ist also hochkarätig und Sarah Michelle Gellar sowie Ryan Phillipe testen sich in einem größeren Projekt außerhalb des Horror-Genres (I Know What You Did Last Summer)

Die Story rund um Sebastians Wandel vom Flachleger-of-the-Year zum verliebten, kleinen Jungen ist im Großen und Ganzen nachvollziehbar, jedoch gibt es immer wieder Momente, in denen es wirkt, als wäre hier eine wichtige Szene der Cutter-Schere zum Opfer gefallen. Dadurch gibt es immer wieder kleinere Stolperer, die die Charakterentwicklung sabotieren. Daher ist es kein wundern, dass, zumindest bei mir, die Schlüsselszenen des Films, die Heulszenen, nichts ausgelöst haben. Auch die wirklich gut ausgewählte Musik konnte da nicht viel dran ändern. Es fehlte einfach die Zeit, so richtig mit den Charakteren warm zu werden. Vielleicht bin ich auch nur zu sehr von diversen TV Serien verwöhnt, die doch viel mehr auslösen können.

Das Ende war interessant und sorgte für einen versöhnlichen Abschluss. Alles in allem ein guter Film, dem jedoch einfach ein paar Szenen gefehlt haben.

6/10

IMDB

(Season 1, Episode 4)

So … Joanna was pretty stupid this episode, huh? Yeah, she’s got this great thing going with the photographer but then she has to go and screw it up over– I have a hard time believing that women can be that stupid? I know not all of them, but still.

Let’s look at Kat. I know she has 37 kids with this guy, but he’s proven that he’ll never be more than an insecure child. He’s controlling and dangerously angry and yet she keeps thinking it will work.

At least Roxie has a slightly better head on her shoulders, though she’s really getting snowed in by her new neighbor’s nice guy act. By the way I liked the reveal of his connection to the town.

I wondered what was going to become of Bun; she’s spent virtually the entire series in the hospital. Now she’s amnesiac and out, but suddenly she remembers that Jamie (neighbor boy) is her son and that book with the weird symbol she’s been drawing is hers. Jamie had it but then Roxie took it but then Roxie gave it back because it was a family heirloom. Maybe that was stupid.

But no, Joanna takes home the stupid award for the week. Not only does she sleep with the guy who left her at the altar, but then she gets into it with him at the office and in enough detail that everyone there now knows her business. Including the photographer.

You know, I’m getting to where I’m on the fence with this show, too. Maybe I’m just the wrong demographic for these shows. I feel bad that I’m teetering on this, Cougar Town and The Good Wife. It makes me feel like a woman hater, but I don’t think I am.

I actually like these women. I just want them to gain some confidence, I guess, and embrace the strong women that they can be if they’d just let themselves. I’m not out yet, but things need to start connecting fast or they’re going to lose me.

SaneN85 submitted the following:

While commenting on the news of Greg Vaughn being let go from GH, I made a comment about the connection between him, BAG, and Jonathon Jackson. This had me thinking about the many connections that you can find to the main teen dramas. I’d think it be fun to have like a weekly post naming one celebrity and challenging the readers to find how they connect to the shows, some actors would have multiple connections. For instance, let’s say Angelina Jolie…..

Angeline Jolie starred in Gia with Elizabeth Mitchell, who starred on Lost with Matthew Fox. Matthew Fox starred on Party of Five with Neve Campbell and Jennifer Love Hewitt. Neve Campbell starred in Scream with Rose McGowan, Jennifer Love Hewitt starred in I Know What You Did Last Summer with Sarah Michelle Gellar. Rose McGowan replaced Shannon Doherty on Charmed, and Sarah Michelle Gellar starred on Buffy with Michelle Trachtenberg (Gossip Girl). This doesn’t even mention that Rose McGowan starred in Jawbreaker with Rebecca Gayheart (who played Dylan’s wife on 90210). There are at least 2 more ways I can connect Angelina to our favorite dramas. I work at Blockbuster part-time and have an overwhelmingly silly amount of knowledge regarding actor’s careers. I just thought this would be like a fun weekly quiz.

I think Sane’s idea is great and we’ll start doing it under the name Six Degrees of Teen Dramas.  Starting today, each Saturday I’ll post a new person.  From there, it’s your job to connect that person to at least one of the teen dramas.  Here’s the first one:

Will Smith

Ready, set, go!

Sarah Michelle Gellar gave birth to her beautiful baby on the 19th September this year, and just two months later is the talk of the media as she stepped out looking slim and svelte already. At 32 years old, how did she do it?

According to US Magazine:

“No official word on how she shed the pounds, but she did 55-minute Pilates sessions up to three times a week with trainer Alycea Ungaro to stay fit while pregnant.”

Now Sarah Michelle Prinze, the actress is the wife of Freddie Prinze and is reported to have attended regular pre-natal Pilates classes and is apparently continuing the regime with post-natal Pilates now.

She is by no means the only celebrity to have appeared in the media recently looking toned and fit and declaring Pilates is the answer; she is in good company with the likes of Megan Fox and Naomi Campbell, and sports people such as David Beckham also reporting to have found Pilates great for their health and fitness.

Women should certainly not feel pressured to rush into keeping fit whilst pregnant or losing their baby weight straight away, but we do seem to. Doing Pilates classes is a form of exercise that most people can manage and many GPs recommend, but you should always speak to your GP if looking to exercise during pregnancy and be sure to use a reputable Pilates instructor.

- Live Pilates