“The
Dressmaker” movie was released to the world on different dates and even
different years. In the USA, Amazon Studios with Broad Green Pictures released
the movie in September 2016.
During
the last 12 months, my 2 write-ups about the movie have become popular posts.
So I thought I’d search the web for some snippets of news about “The Dressmaker”.
Justin
Chang of Variety gave the film a positive review,
saying, "Moorhouse's adaptation of
Rosalie Ham's 2000 novel may lead audiences to expect a primmer, more
well-behaved movie based on its title alone, but that doesn't mean it won't
have them in stitches." (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dressmaker_(2015_film)
Here’s
a featurette video about the story.
Actor,
Liam Hemsworth (brother of Chris) was nervous about his undressing scene in the
movie.
From an article over at news.com.au (which
doesn’t have a repost button for the Blogger site)....
“I didn’t
eat for weeks,” he admitted to E! News about preparing for his shirtless
scene in the flick. “I did some push-ups in my trailer. Anytime you’re going to
come out and take your top off, it’s good to do a couple of push-ups … It’s
very difficult to come out and just take your clothes off.”
Liam Hemsworth, "Teddy" from "The Dressmaker" movie. Teddy is about to be measured up for his wedding suit.
source: news.com.au
From Hemsworth’s co-star, Kate Winslet, “When I would get to the point [in the scene] where I had to measure his waist, I would actually hear his stomach growling,” she said. “I would think, ‘Poor darling. Let’s get the scene done.’” Looking handsome, here's Teddy wearing his finished wedding suit.
The character, Gertrude is a shop girl and she casts her eyes over the most eligible
bachelor in the district and decides she wants him for herself. Here is a
picture of Gertrude in her ball gown, with commentary from; http://www.townandcountrymag.com/
“In
Gertrude's break-out moment, she wears a stunning, three-layered silk dress adorned
with vintage jewelry. After she makes her debut in this gown, a flock of
townsfolk run to Tilly for one of her creations.
Even before I hired a costume designer, I
was doing intense amounts of research on the golden age of couture," said
Moorhouse. "I studied Dior, Balenciaga and Balmain, and Jacque Fath—I
loved his stuff.”
I liked this photograph of rustic charm and
glamorous Gertrude so much I had to include it.
copyright Universal Pictures
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Documentary
The movie sweeps across genres with
vintage fashion flair, and if you’d like to watch some behind the cameras
action, a documentary has been released.
BEHIND THE SEAMS: THE MAKING OF THE DRESSMAKER
Available on DVD everywhere from
Wednesday 23rd November, 2016.
The
Spring Horse Racing Carnival is underway in Australia. For the second year in a
row, the winner in the fashion competition at the Melbourne Cup horse race was a
homemade dress sewn by a mother for her daughter. Olivia Moor from Auckland,
New Zealand won the women's racewear final of Fashions in the Field. Here she
is in her homemade dress.
Olivia Moor in her winning dress
source: nine.com.au
In a family coup, Olivia’s sister, Charlotte,
was this year's runner-up in the fashion competition along with Yvette Hardy. I wonder if Charlotte wore a homemade dress made by her mother too?
Charlotte Moor,
Olivia Moor and Yvette Hardy
source: nine.com.au
Last year, Emily Hunter won the
Fashion in the Fields competition at the Melbourne Cup Horse Race in a
vintage-inspired black dress, sewn by her mother. Here’s Emily in her homemade dress that upstaged the
fashion elite.
Emily Hunter, 2015 winner of Fashion in the Fields
source: news.com.au
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After
the 2016 Melbourne Cup Horse Race, the homemade success continued with another
fashion competition at the Oaks Day Horses races. Courtney Moore won the
Fashion in the Fields in a navy and white outfit. Her mother, a milliner, made
her hat which is a hand-wired 3D head piece. Here she is,
Courtney
Moore, winner of Fashion in the Fields-Oaks Day
source: www.dailymail.co.uk
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Last October/November I blogged
about “The Dressmaker” movie and since then, two mother’s rocked their sewing
machines and made their daughter’s winning racewear. It’s wonderful that the
homemade dresses were recognized as quality fashion.
There’s a lot of tradition and
history associated with women’s sewing. Once upon a time, in country Australia, grandmothers, mothers, aunties, sisters and friends made wedding dresses for young women. Sometimes daughters wore their mother’s wedding dresses to be married. Ready-to-wear clothes made in factories
and purchased in shops is a relatively new occurrence of about one hundred
years. Before then, a lot of women sewed clothes for the whole family, darned
the socks, stitched patches over worn knees and elbows areas in clothes. The
last destination for tatty, threadbare clothes was the ragbag. Rags were used
for cleaning and made into rag rugs for the floor. Thriftiness was needed in
working class families, and also during the years of the two world wars and the
Great Depression.
The vintage couture in “The
Dressmaker” movie is gorgeous. It’s worth watching the movie for the fashion
alone. I recently saw the movie again on satellite T.V. and enjoyed the story
of the heroine seeking truth, justice and slow revenge. So sad, I don’t think I’ll
get over the romance in jeopardy between Tilly and Teddy.
If you’re interested in reading my 2015
blog posts about “The Dressmaker” movie, here’s the 2 links.
Maybe I should pull that shirt out
of the mending pile, and sew on the missing button. Or restitch the hems on a
pair of trousers. But I’d prefer to be sewing dancing costumes or making a
quilt. Or writing a book!
Hello Friends, this week
I’m taking a different direction with the Aliens and Great Pyramid theme. I’ve
been writing about the external or outside
characteristics of the Great Pyramid. This week I’m writing about Napoleon
Bonaparte’s mysterious encounter inside
the Great Pyramid.
In
1798, during the time of the French Revolution, General Napoleon Bonaparte led
a scientific and military expedition to Egypt. Lost treasures were discovered,
uncovered and studied by his scholars. One of Napoleon’s soldiers made a
significant find, or some say, the most important Egyptian artifact was
recovered in modern history—the Rosetta
Stone found in the town of Rosetta (Rashid) in the Nile delta area.
The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum photographed by Matija Podhraski
source: wiki commons
The
slab of black rock had the same message carved in 3 different languages which
allowed scholars to compare and finally translate the meaning of Egyptian
hieroglyphics. The world of dynastic Egypt inscribed on the walls of buildings,
artifacts and written on papyrus scrolls could now be interpreted.
Napoleon
didn’t succeed in overthrowing the Turkish rule of Egypt or thwarting England’s
access to its colonies. But Napoleon’s campaign in Egypt changed his life, and
he returned to France to overthrow the government and become Emperor. (In my recent Paris Bone Crypt 2 post I wrote about Napoleon’s grand ambitions to transform Paris into a modern,
beautiful city.)
In
August of 1799, before Napoleon left Egypt, he made a special visit to the
Great Pyramid. Military leaders from the ancient world like Alexander the Great
and Julius Caesar had reportedly spent a night in the King’s Chamber of the
Great Pyramid. Napoleon Bonaparte wanted the same experience for himself.
Back
then, access inside the Great Pyramid was a challenge with low ceilings and the
blocks of stone to climb around. While his soldiers waited outside, Napoleon
reportedly spent 7 hours alone inside the King’s Chamber. When he emerged, he
was said to be pale and visibly shaken. He refused to speak of what he’d
experienced inside the Great Pyramid, and never wanted it mentioned again.
On
Napoleon’s death bed, a friend asked him about the mysterious night he’d spent
inside the King’s Chamber.
He
hesitated, and then replied, “No what’s the use. You’d never believe me.”
Speculation
remains over what Napoleon experienced inside the King’s Chamber. Was it a bad
dream? Contact with aliens? Hallucinations? Or prophetic visions of himself and
his future?
Emperor
Napoleon Bonaparte, a leader with significant achievements took his secrets to
the grave. “The scholars' research in
Egypt gave rise to the Description de l’Egypte, published on Napoleon's orders
between 1809 and 1821. Napoleon’s discoveries in Egypt gave rise to fascination
with Ancient Egyptian culture and the birth of Egyptology in Europe.”source: wikipedia
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Well
friends, writing about Aliens and The Great Pyramid was something that came out
of the blue and caught me by surprise. I find myself wanting to do more
research but the end of the year is fast approaching. So in 2017, I intend to
come back with more Egypt posts and I hope you can join me again. In the meantime, I
have more romance writing to complete before the holiday season, and some posts
influenced by “The Dressmaker” movie to plan.
Enjoy
your weekend.
♥ Ashlyn
P.S.
After I wrote this blog post, I did more research and published a short book.
One man’s nightmare led to a major turning point in history…
Hello Friends, this week I’m back in the
armchair and travelling to Egypt for Part 2 of Aliens & the Great Pyramid.
In my Part 1 blog, I
raised a few questions.Is the Great Pyramid a destination on a Galactic highway? Is
there a reason for the alien connection or a mysterious purpose as to why the
Great Pyramid was originally built?
I found some more images of aliens visiting the Great Pyramid? Around 2013, tourists
recorded two short videos of an alien mothership hovering near the Great
Pyramid. The videos were taken of the same mothership by different people from
different angles. I’ll leave it to you to decide if the film footage is real or fake.
Video #1
Video #2
The
building statistics for the Great Pyramid are astonishing. Experts have made
lists about the mathematical and geometric principles employed in the
construction, the accuracy of leveling the Giza plateau upon which the Great
Pyramid was built, and the precision of the millimeter wide joints between the blocks
of stones.
Maybe
five thousand years ago, the Great Pyramid was designed by expert stone masons.
The Great Pyramid is the only one of the seven wonders of the ancient world
that wasn’t destroyed. The structure was built to last and it has withstood the
elements, earthquakes and earth movements for millennia. So let’s take a closer
look at the marvelous mansion of eternity.
Location
Starship
Earth – was exact center of continents but the land masses have moved since construction. Built on a platform of limestone rock on the Giza Plateau (☺ Last month I wrote about
the old Roman limestone mines in the Paris Bone Crypts).
Geometry
The
Great Pyramid has eight not four sides. The walls are also concave or indented
which adds to the wonder of its engineering. The 8 sides are not easy to see
without getting above the Great Pyramid and observing the shadows from the sun
as it passes over. The eight-sided geometry also lends itself to seeing smaller
3D shapes within the larger. I can see 4 pyramid shapes on each corner, and so
on. Shapes within shapes, the overall geometry seems more complex than a basic
pyramid.
The
northern side of the Great Pyramid faces toward the North or more accurately
toward earth’s magnetic north pole. The earth’s magnetic north changes over
time and since the Great Pyramid was built, magnetic north has deviated toward
the east. Interestingly, if a line was drawn through the earth, north-south,
and another line was drawn east-west, one place where the two lines intersect
would be at the Great Pyramid. It’s another example of the ancient engineering
wow factor. I can’t help wondering what the coincidence means.
I
wanted to see the north-south, east-west alignment in action, and also the
easterly deviation of mag north so I went to Google Earth. I drew a north-south
line through the image of the pyramid, along the middle seam of the north and
south faces (the join line in the 8 sided geometry), and then drew an east-west
line in the same way. The north pointing compass on Google Earth and the
orientation of the Great Pyramid closely mirrors the four main directions of
the compass.
“Ikhet” means
the “Glorious Light”
Ikhet
is an ancient Egyptian name for the Great Pyramid.
The
Great Pyramid was built to be a highly visibly structure that could be seen from
a great distance. It was originally capped with polished white
limestone, which would have acted as mirrors of the sun’s rays. Greek
historian, Herodotus, born 484 B.C, wrote the Great Pyramid had a metallic apex
of electrum—an alloy of gold and silver, which also reflected sunlight. Some
people speculate that the intact Great Pyramid would have been a powerful
beacon of light that could be seen from the moon.
Purpose
Egyptologists
believe the Great Pyramid was built as a tomb for Pharaoh Khufu from the Old
Kingdom and his grave was robbed thousands of years ago. Perhaps the building
had more than one purpose. Studies are ongoing, and from time to time new
theories are put forward. Like the ideas about the Great Pyramid amplifying,
and or producing energy.
Earth Energy
The
earth’s electro-magnetic field is generated by its inner core of turning
metals—mainly iron and nickel. The field extends into space where it interacts
with solar winds made of charged particles that stream from the powerhouse
generator of energy—the Sun. The human body has its own electro-magnetic field
which is generated by its moving metallic core-the iron in the blood pumped
around the body by the heart. Nerve impulses in the cells and the firing of
neurons in the brain generate electricity.
Ancient
wonders, megalithic stone circles and sacred sites align with lines of the earth’s
electro-magnetic energy. Some other examples include Stonehenge which aligns
with the Michael line. The dragon lines of China. The song lines of the
Australian Aboriginal people.
Lines
of earth energy are said to cross-over at the Great Pyramid. Intersecting ley
lines are places of heightened energy. We don’t know why such sites were
significant to ancient people, but modern people like visiting them too.
A Giant Power
Plant
The
second idea is that the Great Pyramid was built as a giant power plant for
microwave energy. The energy was made from a chemical reaction and vibrations
from the earth. When the layer of salt—hydrated Zinc on the walls and dilute hydrochloric
acid were combined in the Queen’s Chamber, they produced hydrogen in a
microwave that could go on for centuries. Watch the next video to see how the
giant power plant idea works.
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No
one has put forward an explanation which fully describes the purpose of the
Great Pyramid. Is it an empty tomb for a pharaoh and his queen? A mansion of
eternity. A museum of earth science that showcases in stone, the principles of
physics, mathematical relationships and advanced geometry. A construction that
harnesses the energy of intersecting ley lines and magnifies earth energy through
the apex. Is it an energy generating plant in its own right?
The
Great Pyramid marks the high point of a civilization now lost.
The
extraordinary intelligence of the buildersandthe connection with Aliens, past
and present, remains a mystery, but I don’t think it will stay an enigma forever. Especially not in the age of smartphones and people's interest in paranormal activities, UFO's and ancient mysteries.
