“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.“

Benedict Cumberbatch reads 19-year-old Rifleman Cyrus Thatcher’s letter.

(For a better read, I´m leaving the complete letter under the cut.)

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"The Power of the Dog"(2021)

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LAMDA President Cumberbatch visits the school to talk with the students and watch one of their shows 🎭

Benedict Cumberbatch reads a letter from Sir Archibald Clark Kerr to Lord Reginald Pembroke. At the height of WWII, this was an effort to brighten up his day. (Letters Live Oct. 2022)

So today I had lunch with a very nice older lady at work (she's in her 70's) and I was telling her a bit about my stories (and that since I became homeless, I've barely been able to write). I ended up showing her a few moodboards people had made for my fics--and her favorite was this one for She Wore Gardenias In Her Hair...

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Her eyes went very wide, and she gave a low, appreciate whistle, and then said:

What a hunk!

Proving that Strangebatch has an ageless appeal 🥰🥰

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“ A 221B scene. Done with dip pen and ink in my sketchbook
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A 221B scene. Done with dip pen and ink in my sketchbook

UGH. I just accidentally read a post where the OP said the most disparaging things about Benedict's performance as Alan Turing. Said he played Turing as an arrogant asshole genius, instead of the shy, kind man with a huge heart capable of loving deeply, which he was in real life. Good god, I have to wonder what hallucinagen they were on when they saw 'The Imitation Game'!! Because I sat in my car for over a half hour after seeing TIG the first time, WEEPING--ugly weeping--for the real Alan. For how unfairly he was treated; for how he saved the world and no one knew. For how he was so very alone and too often lonely, but carried on beautifully, and carried the young man he fell in love with in his heart as a comfort and a shield against a world that couldn't understand him.

Of course, I'll never interact with that OP, but if I were to, I would assure them that it was Benedict's nuanced, heartfelt, and LOVINGLY RENDERRED portrayal of Alan Turing that evoked my response. And I'd advise them to take the chip off their shoulder and watch the film again with open eyes and an open heart, and perhaps they'd come to redefine their idea of what an 'asshole' is.


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I'm following you for that description

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