albarns asked: top five favourite literary characters of all time
Nick Carraway ➞ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I thought you knew, old sport. I’m afraid I’m not a very good host.”
He smiled understandingly — much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced — or seemed to face — the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
albarns asked: top five favourite literary characters of all time
Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov ➞ Crime and Punishment
So-called intro post.
Remember all those times you were reading a book thinking ‘I know exactly how to make this into a movie. I’ve already done all the casting. Design. Costumes. Sets. Who looks where, says what and how the camera moves and where go all the flashbacks.’
Remember?
Well, maybe the flashbacks thing is taking it too far, but the cast you know for sure.
So you’ve got your cast and you’ve got your photoshop, and you’re ready to let the magic begin?
You’re not alone and you’ve come to the right place.
