My Dear MelancholyGaspar Noe/Cannes Film FestivalThe My Dear Melancholy era notable for being a time when The Weeknd was in proximity to a lot of serious directors. While he’s had a foot in Hollywood for awhile, 2017 through 2019 he was actively engaging with filmmakers like the Safdies Brothers, Gaspar Noe, and Claire Denis, amongst others. While he had been actively courting the Safdies since Good Time was released, he attended the 2018 Cannes Film Festival where he crossed paths Noe, whose film Climax took home a number awards at Cannes. Noe’s Enter the Void had previously served as an inspiration for Kiss Land, and for MDM (and later After Hours) seem to call back to Noe’s other films, like Irreversible and Love, which are both twisted depictions of heartbreak. On the other hand, Climax is about a French dance troupe who accidentally take LSD, and according to Noe is not a “message” movie. It is an audacious psychedelic technical exercise, with numerous long takes and highly choreographed set pieces. The idea for Noe, who had previously captured the feeling of drugs in previous films, was to do the opposite, and present the objectively reality of drugs, watching people high from a sober perspective. Noe is a rather strong advocate of film, and the opening scene of Climax features VHS boxes of a number of films that have influenced his filmmaking. Two of note are Schizophrenia, otherwise known as Angst, one of Noe’s favorite films which The Weeknd name checked to the Safdies, and Possession, which would go on to be an influence on After Hours (more on this later). He is also said to have sat next to Benicio Del Toro at Cannes, which means he likely caught some of the Un Certain Regard section, where Del Toro served as a jury member. Outside of that section, there were a few other films of interest such as The House That Jack Built from Lars Von Trier (The Weeknd has previously expressed affection for Von Trier’s Antichrist), Mandy from Pastos Costamos, and music video director Romain Gavras’s The World Is Yours, as well as a restoration of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which Noe has referred to as the film that got him into filmmaking. https://preview.redd.it/qga7a3l8ct261.png?width=910&format=png&auto=webp&s=371cf20d42ee8783cc23bfe7f2cfa16a0a927a0e Asian Cinema Later in 2018, The Weeknd continued his globetrotting with a tour of Asia. He once claimed in an interview that whenever visiting a foreign country he only watches films from there. I’ve previously written about the influence of Asian cinema on Kiss Land, and there’s not enough work from the MDM era to glean anything cinematically adjacent to this, but now would be a good time to mention that the "Call Out My Name" video was heavily inspired by the work of famed Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. The Asian tour poster seems to be a reference to Ichi the Killer, which leads us to Takashi Miike. Though he is notoriously prolific across a number of genres, his most popular works internationally are genre melding blends of horror, comedy and crime, most notably Audition, Ichi the Killer and Gozu. Another film worth mentioning is Perfect Blue, Satoshi Kon’s masterwork about a pop star’s mysterious stalker that The Weeknd posted about on Instagram before. Bloody and haunting, the film was a major influence on Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan and Requiem for a Dream. In Interviews he has also mentioned a number of Korean films, such as The Wailing, I Saw the Devil and Oldboy. While Wong Kar Wai was previously mentioned as an influence on Beauty Behind the Madness, also worth mentioning is the work of John Woo, specifically A Better Tomorrow, well known for the shot of smoking a cigar off money, and Infernal Affairs, Andrew Lau’s crime classic which served has the basis for Scorsese’s The Departed. https://preview.redd.it/fx7o9s2bct261.png?width=642&format=png&auto=webp&s=0fec2f841e9d3b09104238d0f89595daa6140faa https://preview.redd.it/n4x7fiy9ct261.png?width=1316&format=png&auto=webp&s=8a9650263272518216fc5f36913e80a10d2b0a8e After HoursMartin ScorseseWhile After Hours more so than any other Weeknd album is bursting at the seams with cinematic references, the influence of Martin Scorsese stands above all. Similar to The Weeknd’s body of work, many Scorsese’s are explorations of violence and masculinity, investigating them from a perspective that depending on who you ask (and how they’re feeling) glamorizes, condemns or just simply presents the reality of characters on the fringes of society. While there are direct references to a number of prominent Scorsese films, what’s interesting is that his influence also reverberates in other films/filmmakers that influence After Hours. Todd Phillips’s Joker is in effect an homage to Scorsese’s loner-centric New York films, and the Safdie Brothers have been putting their own millennial spin on the type of 70s gritty thriller that Scorsese trafficked in (Scorsese was also a producer on Uncut Gems). Specific Scorsese works will be discussed more in depth in the requisite sections, but it is worth mentioning upfront what a prominent role that Scorsese plays in the nucleus of After Hours. https://preview.redd.it/wcds9qpdct261.png?width=1196&format=png&auto=webp&s=246c560c72340782e26ad03b8ff63367999eaadd Urban HorroIsolation With After Hours, The Weeknd departs from the slicker sounds and influences that permeated Starboy and returns to the cinematic grittiness of Beauty Behind the Madness. While urban horror is a theme that permeates throughout The Weeknd as a project overall, there is a thorough line to be drawn here that follows a number of 70s and 80s cinematic and aesthetic references. For one thing, while the initial bandaged nose was a reference to Chinatown (previously, The Weeknd has a Kiss Land demo titled "Roman Polanski"), the full bandaged face that is so prominently featured throughout the After Hours era is a classic cinematic visual trope that was especially prominent throughout 60s and 80s, though it saw a slight re-emergence in the 2010s. The fully bandaged face is often used to remake someone in the image of another, usually against their will (The Skin I Live In, Eyes Without Face), or as a case of mistaken identity and doppelgängers (Good Night Mommy, Scalpel), themes present throughout much of After Hours. The "Too Late" video acknowledges these references, but instead presents the bandages on two Los Angeles models recovering from plastic surgery, in a nod to a famous Steven Meisel’s photoshoot for Vogue Italia. https://preview.redd.it/dtbxjc3ict261.png?width=900&format=png&auto=webp&s=66a98cc3cba73d502f8586a215a65cc41c5408a1 The “masks” people wear is another horror trope that is featured prominently on After Hours, and this is best seen in the red suit character. One important reference in the film is to Brian De Palma’s Dressed To Kill, where a serial killer is targeting the patients of a psychiatrist (any more on this film will veer towards spoiler territory). The Weeknd is on the record as saying Jim Carrey’s The Mask as being a large influence on the Red Suit character, it being one of the first film’s he watched in theaters. One of the more complex references would be to Joker. While it sort of an in-joke that the character of the Joker is commonly overanalyzed and misinterpreted, referencing Todd Phillips’s Joker is more nuanced because it is in essence a full on homage to Martin Scorsese’s New York films, most notably Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy, which focus on eccentric loners, and can both be seen as cautionary tale of urban isolation, a theme explored perhaps in songs like "Faith." The King of Comedy revolves around a would be obsessive stand up Rupert Pupkin haggling his way to perform on late night TV, with The Weeknd’s talk show appearances being a prominent part of the early After Hours marketing, most notably in the “short film”. This idea of isolated and compressed urbanites recurs throughout After Hours and it’s films. https://preview.redd.it/egap17ttdt261.png?width=900&format=png&auto=webp&s=1aab204ac0845a7df74ceeff6d1f714274f9ace0 The idea of urban repression is in the subway scene of the After Hours short film. The entire film itself is something of a reference to the subway scene to Possession (another Gaspar Noe favorite), mimicking the (also subway set) scene in which Isabelle Adjani’s Anna convulses on the subway due to a miscarriage, as well as Jacob’s Ladder, a 90s cult classic horror film starring Tim Robbins as a Vietnam vet (like Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle) who is experiencing demonic hallucinations, encountering them in the subway and later at a party he attends, splitting the scene into two. https://preview.redd.it/g53copgmct261.png?width=900&format=png&auto=webp&s=9d29e368ae695d295b36039e86125ccfd7b4eb88 Las Vegas As always, The Weeknd once again grounds After Hours with a strong sense of place, this time setting the album against a nocturnal odyssey through Las Vegas. One of the most prominent films is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Terry Gilliam’s adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s book. This is directly referenced in the "Heartless" video, which sees The Weeknd and Metro Boomin in the Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro roles as they tumble through a Las Vegas casino. The Weeknd has gone on the record to state that the famous red suit character was influenced by Sammy Davis Jr.’s character in the film Poor Devil. However, similar red suit has also been sported by a number of Vegas characters, most notably Richard Pryor and Robert De Niro’s Sam Rothstein in Martin Scorsese’s Casino. With the red suit, The Weeknd seems to be playing with the idea of a devil-ish other, another side of his personality that emerges in Las Vegas. https://preview.redd.it/gjow6hq2dt261.png?width=1992&format=png&auto=webp&s=10a379bc26df54af88064bf64813d5cdd29775d9 While the city lights are the oft discussed part of part of Las Vegas, it should be noted that similar to Beauty Behind the Madness, the desert that surrounds Las Vegas is just as important to the juxtaposition of its beauty. The "Until I Bleed Out" video ends/"Snowchild" video in the desert, similar to the confrontation between Robert De Niro’s and Joe Pesci’s showdown in the desert in Casino, as well as Joe Pesci's death in Goodfellas. The idea of a hedonistic desert playground also bears semblance to Westworld, both the film and the TV show. The desert seems to represent some sort of freedom to The Weeknd, as the "Snowchild" video portrays the desert as a pensive location for reflection, as well as the "In Your Eyes" video showing the girl prominently dancing with the dismembered head out in the open, in reference to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, another prominent desert film. https://preview.redd.it/98ec10wxct261.png?width=1168&format=png&auto=webp&s=45e29aa361fa41ff74e2a6017e203015bdcbc6c3 New York/The Safdies Despite it’s Las Vegas setting, After Hours also takes a good amount from films set in New York, most notably Martin Scorsese’s 1983 film After Hours. Besides the title, After Hours is similarly about a twisting and turning nighttime odyssey. The film stars Griffin Dunne as Paul, a working class stiff who heads downtown to rendezvous with a woman he met at a diner earlier that night. Of course, things don’t turn out the way they should, chaos ensues, and Paul is set on a dangerous trek back uptown. Like the film, the album After Hours is set off by a woman (though the album takes more stock in romantic endeavors), seems to be set over a single night (or at least a condensed period of time), and involves similar chaos and misadventures (sirens at night at the end of Faith). Tonally, After Hours the film is more comedic perhaps than After Hours the album, however The Weeknd is on the record as having said that "Heartless" and "Blinding Lights" placement on the album is intended to be somewhat comedic, reflecting exaggerated machismo and ecstasy, respectively (to comedic effect). https://preview.redd.it/f3w7yz4pdt261.png?width=1346&format=png&auto=webp&s=fe7e4f003987fd843020a42a5b53f94092984267 Another of the most prominent filmmakers of After Hours are the Safdies, who featured The Weeknd in Uncut Gems. They also served as a link to Oneohtrix Point Never, who scored their last two films and later worked After Hours. I believe there are three major film tropes (not genres) that inspired After Hours, all of which the Safdies’s have engaged with. There is the one-long-night films, in which a character spends one-long-night on the run from whatever chaos and forces may be that they left in their path. This can be seen in the Good Time, as well as After Hours (the movie). Then, there is the descent-into-madness type, where a character slowly loses grip with reality and ends up in over their head (something like Scarface or Breaking Bad, but for our purposes Jacob’s Ladder can be categorized here as well), which the Safdies did with Uncut Gems. Lastly, but maybe most importantly, the Safdies also explored toxic romance (more on this later) in their less seen film Heaven Knows What, about two heroin addicts and the destructiveness their love brings out in each other, an idea that recurs throughout After Hours on songs like "Until I Bleed Out" and "Nothing Compares." A recurring song throughout Heaven Knows What is Isao Tomita’s synth version of Debussy’s "Claire De Lune", which is featured in some episodes of Memento Mori and bears some resemblance to the start of "Alone Again". https://preview.redd.it/em255b5qdt261.png?width=1344&format=png&auto=webp&s=a5226c9496d0ae5c14b6d6c05e16f5ea18678a9a Obsession/Toxic Romance While love and lust and the ups and downs with it have been a formative part of The Weeknd’s ideology and themes, I don’t think it would be remiss to say that After Hours is perhaps his most outwardly romantic album. Despite this, one of the major arcs of the album is toxicity that comes with it, which a number of already mentioned films deal with. While "In Your Eyes" is one of the more romantic and accessible songs on the album, a re-assessment of it Ala Sting’s “Every Breathe You Take” could frame it as lonely obsessing, such as Travis Bickle’s infatuation with Jodie Foster’s teenage prostitute Iris, Joker's fixation on Murray Franklin, Rupert Pupkin’s obsession with Jerry Langford. Casino also deals with toxic romance, another prominent theme in After Hours, best seen in the love triangle that forms between Sam, his partner Nicky and his wife Ginger, played by Joe Pesci and Sharon Stone respectively. https://preview.redd.it/eq1ioijvdt261.png?width=898&format=png&auto=webp&s=f9e4b781ee60762ae767c4dbd92066357ebc24b0 In almost all of the After Hours’s video content, The Weeknd seems to constantly meet his demise at the hands of women. Another interesting reference that may be something of a reach is to Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson’s film about Reynolds Woodcock, a couture dressmaker loosely based on Cristobal Balenciaga and his muse Alma, played by Daniel Day Lewis and Vicky Krieps, respectively. The film delves into their dysfunctional relationship, with Woodcock berating her and Alma poisoning his tea to keep him dependent on her. One of the highpoint of the film is a New Years Eve Party that bears strong resemblance to the "Until I Bleed Out" video. While the balloons may just be a callback to his earlier work, there is something about the color grading/temperature and the production design of the "Until I Bleed Out" video (as well as parts of the "Blinding Lights" video) that made me immediately think of Phantom Thread. A similar relationship is seen in the German horror film Der Fan, which The Weeknd has mentioned in a recent interview. In Der Fan, a young girl Simone spends her days obsessing over popstar R, until she finally encounters him outside his studio. The film is similar to the aforementioned Takashi Miike’s Audition in its exploration of obsession and idealization. In the film, an older man puts up a fake casting call to search for the perfect girlfriend. While Audition explores these themes from an Eastern perspective of societal pressure, Der Fan explores it through a Western lens of pop idolization and idealization. Both films deal with the idea that despite outward appearances, the perfect partner does not exist, and anyone that claims to be (or has the expectations put on them) is not who they seem. https://preview.redd.it/3m661q62et261.png?width=1342&format=png&auto=webp&s=c9377018cb53f67cf7ce95b24392afb471e4aec1 One film he has spoken at length about is Trouble Everyday, Claire Denis’s arthouse vampire movie. The film stars Vincent Gallo as Shane, a scientist who travels to Paris under the guise of his honeymoon to track down core, a woman who he was once obsessed with who has now become a vampire. Core is locked up in a basement but sometimes sneaks out to seduce and consume unwilling victims. This seems to be where some of the bloody face stuff comes from, but I believe it’s influence is a little more conceptual. To me, a good companion film to Trouble Everyday is American Psycho, which seems to also have been a thematic influence on After Hours. Both films concern idealized version of masculinity and femininity, both very sexual and physical, but hostile as well. American Psycho ends with Patrick Bateman confessing to the killing of a prostitute, but no one believe him. Trouble Everyday ends with Shane killing Core, but Shane is unable to arouse himself after that except through violence. Koji Wakamatsu, a former Yakuza turned prominent extreme Japanese filmmaker (and a major influence on Gaspar Noe) is quoted as saying “For me, violence, the body and sex are an integral part of life.” Despite being hollow, idealized impressions of the self, a vampire and as a banker (cold, seductive bloodsuckers = monsters), Patrick Bateman and Core represent the Frankenstein-ian relationship between sexuality and violence, which I believe is the main theme of After Hours. Truly, we hurt the ones we love. https://preview.redd.it/zfllbd83et261.png?width=900&format=png&auto=webp&s=9c048ee98d86d7bbb9db67fa8302d34c36214c4f PostscriptTo cap things off, I would just like to illuminate some key takeaways. As a filmmaker myself, this has been an extremely helpful exercise in understanding other artists process and ideas.Steeped in the history of the medium… It’s clear that The Weeknd is not your typical “I’m influenced by cinema” artist but an extremely legit film buff with serious credentials. The Weeknd’s film taste leans towards 70s-00s genre works, mostly horror, drama and thriller, and is well versed in the classics but also has the nose to sniff out deeper cuts and obscurities. The mantra of “good artists borrow, great artists steal” works even better if not many people know where you’re stealing from! What is impressive to me is that he is not just versed in “mainstream” obscurities, but also serious deep cuts. Films like Possession and Phantom of the Paradise may not stick out to the average person on the street but are well known in most film circles. Films like Inland Empire and New Rose Hotel (Der Fan was especially impressive to me, it is one of my favorite films) however are not as well known and it is very impressive to me that he can come across films like that, and really get enough out of it to bring into his own work. …is able to interpolate contemporary/mainstream films… This perhaps is one of the most impressive aspects of his integration of film into The Weeknd’s work. It is very easy for film buffs to get lost within their own obscure taste, living in a world where everyone is an idiot for not knowing who Shinya Tsukamoto. Trilogy and Kiss Land had a lot of contemporary obscurities, like Stalker, David Lynch etc., well known but they still existed as artifacts, not of the time we live in. However, perhaps picking something from his work on Fifty Shades of Grey, of late he has kept his finger on the zeitgeist and anticipated/integrated what the filmmakers of today are doing, such as his work on Black Panther and Game of Thrones, general appreciation of Tarantino, the works of Nicolas Winding Refn in Starboy, and his use of the Joker and Uncut Gems on After Hours, both of which came out just a few months before the album. It feels Jackson-esque, and I believe this is one thing that will help him further in his quest for pop stardom. …while also being fully in tune to the works of modern transgressive auteurs… In addition to keeping up with the mainstream is in touch with, The Weeknd also makes it a point to seek out and learn from the cutting edge filmmakers of today. While the Safdies were always going to blow up, I don’t doubt that a Weeknd co-sign accelerated their rise. Gaspar Noe is one thing, Enter the Void and Irreversible exist as masterpieces of the mainstream obscurities I’ve been mentioning, but he really truly tries to understand the heart of Noe’s work, even going so far back as to understand Noe’s influences (I sincerely hope he is tuned in to the work of Koji Wakamatsu). But most of all, to be a fan of Claire Denis is one thing, but to seek her out and make her an offer that she ACCEPTED is absolutely astounding to me. Just spitballing but it would be like if Michael Jackson shot a music video with Rainer Werner Fassbinder (who I’d bet good money that The Weeknd was put on to by Noe). We can only PRAY that one day we will be blessed with a David Lynch Weeknd video. --------------------------- …and that just about does it. Hope you enjoyed this and thanks for being patient with me. I got quite busy after the first two and had my own projects/work going that kept me occupied. As we’re still technically in the After Hours era, I also wanted to wait until a few more videos and interviews came out to aid me in my research. I also wanted to find enough time to make the Letterboxd for this. I personally don’t love Letterboxd culture, I find the popular culture surrounding the site a bit snobbish and exclusive, but I’ve gotten a number of requests for one and you gotta give the people what they want. Throughout the list are a few films that he hasn’t mentioned but are some of my personal favorites and I believe Weeknd fans will like, I encourage you to accidentally stumble upon things on it. Don't overthink, just pick something and watch! If you’d like to follow me further, you can find me on Instagram here, where I post about film reviews Letterboxd style. I prefer Instagram so that more average people see it instead of an echo chamber of film snobs. I am also a filmmaker myself, I just recently wrapped this short film and am currently in the process of putting together my next project. The main reason I did this however, besides a general appreciation of The Weeknd’s work, was to put more people on to the beautiful art form that is cinema. One thing I learned from Scorsese is that one must be an advocate and truly champion your medium. I hope that this encourages to check out more interesting movies than they wouldn’t normally come across, and I hope this will inspire more people to create more as well, whether it be to write, make films, music, anything. If even one person picks up a pencil, a camera or a keyboard because of these posts, I will be satisfied. Thanks all! |
Apologies for the lateness. Real life getting in the way again (I mean, surely I should prioritise!) but hopefully this will be entertaining enough. I will attempt to do D2 later today rather than put it all into the one post. submitted by AutonInvasion to CelebBattleLeague [link] [comments] So, we're on the last few days of Season 3 and La Lega - these are the headlines doe the final round - day 1: I'd Gadot that Premier League Margot Robbie and Ana De Armas, prior to this match placed in 3 and 5th respectively, drew the first blood in the challenge for 2nd place in the Premier League. Ana needed a very strong win to claim it, but this battle was so closely fought that it ended in a draw with Margot having the 3 vote advantage. Margot's score has barely changed, but Ana De Armas has gained a ranking place currently sitting in 4th. u/radrican420 This is gonna be such a close matchup that I didn't even bother betting on it because I know I would end up picking the wrong winner. Either way, we all win with these two. Ana by a slight edge. The eyes.........I didn't bet for the very same reason! This was always going to be one of the closest matches. League 2 Arguably DC's hottest, Gal Gadot, vs one of 'Throne's hottest, Natalie Dormer, in what I expected to have been another equally close match. Gal Gadot must have wrapped that lasso of truth around voters Gal Gonads as she won 95-50! Gal climbs 6 places to 14th but also knocks Natalie Dormer out of the top ten, dropping 8 places into 17th! u/JustSoGinger Gal is seriously gorgeous and I don't feel Natalie has much of a backing from the people anymore, no where near Gal's support anyway, so it'll be an easy Gadot win imoYour prediction was far more accurate than mine! I hope you placed a bet! League 3 Arguably Throne's least popular -but in her prime- star, Sophie Turner, takes on the best thing about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies, Megan Fox, in a battle for honour. Both are guaranteed relegation, but they don't want to go down with nil-points. Fox managed to out-manoeuvre her opponent by 33 points, putting Sophie bottom of the league. Turner drops 2 to 373 on the WR whilst Megan Fox climbs 4 to 359th. u/TheSnickerdoodleKid Sophie has gotten better with age and at the right angle in the right setting she can appear to be quite attractive. That being said, Megan should win this handily. She has a much sharper sex appeal to Sophie's subtle elegance.I'm not a huge fan of Fox, but I can't argue against this at all. League 4 Brie Larson and Olivia Munn draw battle. Munn has the power to ruin Larson's chance of promotion, whilst Brie needed to win to stay in that fight with Blake Lively and Hailee Steinfeld close behind. Fortunately for Brie, she managed the win by 38 votes helping her to climb 7 places into 22nd, whilst Munn drops 58 places into 333rd. u/Turtle123712 I voted Munn,League 5A Both Dove Cameron and Taylor Swift seem to have had a popularity injection this season, but Taylor's seems to have had far more nitro in it, seeing her zoom up the WR table. The voting form for Monday seemed to match that trend with Taylor winning 84-56. It seems the 'goofy glasses' are putting people off Dove's photo. Swift remains static at 21st whilst Dove actually performed slightly better than anticipated and climbs 2 places into 366th. u/Dojo_Casino Love the disco ball dress on Taylor and that picture of Dove just makes her look like a thousand other Instagram thots. Not particularly a fan of either, but this one's an easy choice for me.I've seen that term used a lot lately...I'm going to have to look up 'thot' - perhaps I'm getting old? League 5B Chloe Bennet vs the impossible girl, Jenna Coleman in this final season 3 match for the pair. My Auton-sense wanted the Who-Girl to win, but she was outclassed this round by Bennet who won by 8 points. Jenna drops 2 to 300th, whilst Bennet climbs 1 to 41. u/hsikrut Ahhhhhh, I can't. Two hot/cute masters here. Both receiving votes from this guy. One of the most even matchups of the whole season, for me. I'm fairly certain that Chloe will win though.Transitional League Two of the consistently least popular celebs on CBL, Alexa Bliss takes on Amber Heard. Both hot as lunk but don't seem to get any luck on CBL for various reasons, but the trend continued today as they ended on a 66-66 score draw. This caused Heard to drop 1 to 371st, whilst Bliss has benefited by two places climbing to 374th. u_Rainmaker4_ Purely on looks, Heard's got a slight edge, especially in the dress she's wearing...but I'm more familiar with Alexa and I don't mind her so I've gotta go Alexa here - and that's without factoring in Heard's...indiscretionsConference Premier A Two of the lower leagues' hottest celebs fight for supremacy in their season finale. Both have quality assets that will surely take them through to a higher league next season, but alas Kelly Brook has beaten them both, so this game is very important. It was a tough battle and ended up in a draw with 2 votes in Lima's favour. With the lower than expected scoring, Lima drops 5 into 13th place. Arterton climbs 2 into 24th place. u/Dojo_Casino I'm voting [Arterton], based on the pics submitted.Conference Premier B Finally for day 1 it's Madison Beer vs Miranda Kerr. Whilst Beer has done well for most of the season, comparing the two pictures was like comparing classy fine wine with swigging a half drank beer left that you found discarded on a table at a sleazy club. I'm sure that's not how Madison intended to be portrayed, but that's how CBL voted with Kerr winning 109-31! Kerr climbs 6 points into 7th whilst Beer drops 8 into 369th. u/JustSoGinger Seeing as Kerr has already won comfortably I'll be voting Beer, I tried doing my part to get Beer promoted but it wasn't to be, hopefully next season she can do better Quote of the Day There were so many more quality posts that should have opened it up for discussion - however I assume most of you agreed with each other as there were very few replies. For observation that could have lead to discussion, and for being a little different on the day, the 50 tokens goes to u/Dojo_Casino for his TED talk! Top 10 Here is the top 10 following Monday's results. Tuesday hasn't been updated on the WR yet so a further update will follow later today. How are your favourite celebs faring? https://preview.redd.it/36jj8wnf8vo51.png?width=454&format=png&auto=webp&s=c2362826a8d0cfc3764c887beb5aad762ee9c5c0 |
What a fantastic season we have had. Brand new celebs (well, celebs brand new to CLB), a new champion, a new betting system, a new ranking system, and tokens just for posting your thoughts! What more could you ask for? submitted by AutonInvasion to CelebBattleLeague [link] [comments] Whilst we're waiting on the La Lega finale result, which may still create a mini-drama on the WR, here are the final headlines covering days 3 and 4 of the week. Scarlett may have lost her championship, but she is still the highest ranked celeb on CBL Premier League Natalie Portman has found herself fighting some tough battles in this season, and there was no doubt that it would be tough against Alexandra Daddario. Scoring 56 to Alexandra's 103, Natalie clearly lost this round and has been relegated to league 2 in season 4. Portman drops 10 to 48 whilst Daddario climbs 1 into 5th place. u/JustSoGinger Daddario's youtube channel has been a shining light in these dark times we live in right now, thank the lord 🙏The final Premier League battle of the season saw Scarlett Johansson and Anna Kendrick square up against each other. Scarlett managed to draw more votes in this battle, winning 98-54. Scarlett remains in 1st place on the World Rankings whilst Anna Kendrick have been knocked down 7 places into 14th, mainly due to the performances of others this week. u/Dugonginae Scarlett's had more losses than she deserves in my eyes, hopefully time for a late comeback. League 2 Jessica Alba and Kristen Bell in a battle of the boobage here. Alba looking mighty fine and nippy whilst Kristen's cleavage is enhanced by a tight red wet outfit. The real winners were clearly us voters who were treated to such a battle. There were only 10 votes in it and the win went to Kristen Bell. Despite her win, Bell drops 3 on the WR into 26th whilst Alba drops 1 into 45th. u/Dojo_Casino Voting Kristen here. Tough decision- I'm a fan of both ladies, but Kristen's sparkling personality andFinal League 2 battle is the Mother of Dragons, known for various nude scenes throughout the Game of Thrones series, versus the Scarlet Witch, known for being a badass hero in the MCU. The nudity only assisted Clarke in achieving a 17 vote lead to win this round. Clarke climbs 4 into 11th, whilst Olsen also climbs 57 into 59th! u/OTT_4TT I voted for Emilia because I just think she is more attractive. If it had been Elizabeth's sister, Ashley, had been up for a vote versus Emilia, I would have voted for Ashley.OTT, perhaps consider nominating Ashley Olsen for Season 4. We may end up with an Olsen-v-Olsen battle at some point! League 3 KB vs KC for D3-L3's battle. Kate Beckinsale vs Kaley Cuoco. I don't think many would be surprised given how the season has played out so far that Beckinsale not only won, but won by quite a bit. 64 votes in fact! Beckinsale retains her 4th place position whereas Cuoco drops 16 places into 355th. u/TheSnickerdoodleKid Kaley is not getting relegated or promoted regardless of the result which should be at least some consolation since Kate is winning this. As age-defying as ever, Kate will wrap up an undefeated Season 3 campaign.Ruby Roundhouse, better known as Karen Gillan, took on fellow Disney star Vanessa Hudgens on the final battle of League 3 this season. Despite very different appearances and appeal, this one ended up in a league draw with a single vote giving Gillan the lead. Karen Gillan drops 2 into 24th this week whilst Hudgens climbs 7 into 39th. u/TheClockwork0 I love matchups like this that make me choose between very different assets. Karen is so tight, but she has softer features overall. Vanessa rocks a more badass look with thicker features. I voted Vanessa today, but I could vote Karen any day. League 4 Katherine McNamara vs Hailee Steinfeld, one with the appearance of a girl next door beauty vs a swimsuit beauty. This was another closely fought battle that ended up in a league draw. McNamara managed to swing the extra few votes to end this battle with a slight lead. McNamara ends this week in 53rd place whilst Steinfeld drops 9 into 70th. u/AutonInvasion Hailee has the better outfit here, and if I ignore the man with the weird back triangle next to her butt then it’s even better.(I don't want the 20 tokens, but this one generated the most discussion - which is the criteria I set - so whilst no tokens for me, don't forget to interact with each other if you can!) Ariana Grande and Camilla Cabello both started this season fairly low down on the WR, so it would have been fair to have assumed that they would have ended low in the rankings. Cabello, with those amazing thighs...has stayed down the bottom, whilst Grande has managed a slow climb. With the match ended at 46-83 it's no surprise that Grande finishes up 5 this week in 353rd whilst Cabello is last but one in 378th place. In response to u/Sharpus89 suggesting that u/willrelf1992 votes for both, Will decided his devotion was enough for him to decide who his winner was: As much as I would like to do that, I have to stick with Ari and vote for her solely. I love Camila but not as much as I love my bae. 😍 League 5A A young bottle blonde with an inviting expression and her legs on display vs a slightly older bottle blonde with an inviting expression and her boobs on display. That's the battle Chloe Grace Moretz and Alice Eve gave us this week. The majority decided they wanted to learn how to park an 18 Wheeler in that massive gap between Eve's airbags which sees Alice climb 9 places into 49th. Moretz drops 25 into 76th place. u/hbkedge3 They're both giving me the "come hither" look, so I guess I have to vote for both! :)Neither Melissa Benoist nor Emma Roberts have had much support this season, and perhaps compared to some of the other season competitors they perhaps don't stand out, but I would still happily have them on each arm giving me their unfettered attention. Melissa wins this one by 38 votes and climbs 3 into 359th whilst Emma sits at third from last in 377th. u/hsikrut I think both are beautiful and adorable, but Melissa is the prettier of the two. Not sure why shes not more appreciate around here, especially with a body like that! League 5B Here's another pairing I could go wild about: Olivia Wilde vs Cobie Smulders. This is the last time I'll get to say it for a short while, but that outfit of Wilde's just wins my eyes over every time. It seems that a majority of you felt the same way as Wilde beat Smulders by 23 votes. Wilde sits in a very respectable 56th place this week whilst Smulders, although climbing 1 to 363rd, is far too low on the table for my liking. Another for u/hsikrut here, for an interesting take that defies my own thinking: I think I'm the only one, but I really cant stand this photo of Wilde. Its off-putting for me. She'll garner my vote because I know how much of a smoke show she naturally is, regardless. Apologies to the beautiful Cobie (although that's not her strongest photo either)Having just re-watched The Amazing Spider-man 2 tonight, I can't help but feel a little biased here. Although I've consistently said that this is one of Rihanna's hottest photos, I would have still voted for the stunning Emma Stone this round, and the majority did with Stone winning by 41 votes. Stone climbs 7 and finishes in 40th. Rihanna climbs 1 to 376th. u/alisonbrie78 joined in discussion about Rihanna's performances and future standings: Bliss vs Rhianna in particular could be interesting. The WWE girls have really struggled. Transitional League Another pair of celebs who have both separately struggled this season. Eva Green vs Lily James. I'm not sure why both have struggled so badly but can only put it down to them being outclassed in the transitional league. Fighting a close battle, Eva Green won by 9 votes seeing her climb 2 places into 370th, whilst Luly James stays put in 375th. u/alisonbrie78 created discussion with this: Eva Green is criminally underrated. I have a feeling a lot of people haven't admired her in The Dreamers which is admittedly an odd movie.Mary Elizabeth Winstead vs Nina Dobrev for the TL's final match of the season. MEW has had quite a following, however Nina has had more wins this season. So, who took the win? By 10 points it was Nina Dobrev who climbs 4 into 51st. Winstead also climbs 21 into 296th. u/RazorbackBuckeye The only few people I can think of i'd probably vote over Mary Elizabeth Winstead would be :Keira Knightley, Natalie Portman and Lacey Chabert.... So sorry Nina Dobrev.I don't recall Lacey Chabert appearing on the WR so far. Perhaps another to suggest for season 4? We could end up with a Meg-off: The original voice of Meg Griffin vs the current voice of Meg Griffin. Keep an eye out on how you can get your favourite celebs into the next season as we near the end of the Card Battle Tournament. Conference Premier A Rebel Wilson vs Kristin Kreuk. Vote Rebel! Vote Rebel. Vote Rebel. Vote Reeeebel.😥 Rebel remains in last place whilst Kreuk climbs 11 places into 271st. u/Dojo_Casino I'm going with Rebel here, and it's not even a sympathy vote. Kristin does have an interesting look to her, but I honestly like the new Rebel.Whilst I'm sure this can be said about many matches, being a teen in the 2000s, the match up between Elle Fanning and Kelly Brook is like voting between a girl and a real woman. Elle Fanning can stand up to many, but Kelly Brook is an all rounder and I feel that went a long way to her winning by 35 votes. Brook narrowly misses out from a top-10 slot by 1.1 WR points, whereas Fanning drops 9 places into 342nd. For making me laugh, u/COFFEE_BROOM Elle Fanning’s face says “shit it’s the one who beat Lima” 😂 Conference Premier B In what for me was one of the toughest non-PL votes in the competition, Camila Mendes and Julia Fox battled this last but one CPB match. Both celebs are sex on legs in these photos, one in a stunning dress, and another in a stunning manner of undress. This was another where there were only 10 votes between them, and in this case the win went to Mendes in the red dress. Mendes climbs 2 to 365th, whilst Julia Fox drops 2 to 367th. u/Dugonginae Had barely heard of Camila at the start of this tournament but that red dress has won more than a couple votes from me, and it does it again here.And the final match of the season, Alejandra Guilmant vs Doutzen Kroes. Both stunning and both worthy of getting the finger...on the touchscreen (or mouse click) to vote for. It seems that the spread of Guilmant took in the most votes over Kroes's fine rear, but only by 9 votes. Alejandra climbs 4 places into 362nd whilst Kroes drops 4, sitting 2 below her opponent in 364th. u/JustSoGinger Surprised Doutzen hasn't done better this season, sad to see her relegated, she's super hot imo Quote of the Day I've noticed a great decline in comment numbers this week, and a lot of the humour is missing. However, it's been great to see that whilst comments are down, the discussion is on the rise. The winner of the 50 tokens for Day 3 goes to u/DojoCasino for the League 2 comment. Mom-boobs are great. All boobs are great! Well, perhaps with few exceptions...but most boobs are great! The winner for Day 4 is u/TheClockwork0 for his comment in the League 3 battle that redeemed itself at the end with positivity for Karen Gillan. World Rankings Chart Emma Watson has taken the championship from Scarlett Johansson and takes the ten bonus points. However, there's still a large gap between Emma and Scarlett which may not be challenged until season 4. Although I think the biggest changes are that Anna Kendrick have been knocked out of the top 10! I wonder how the non-league celebs will fare in the Ajuste de Rango tournament starting next week? Time will tell. What do you think of the season results? How did your favourite celebs do? Anyone dealt a harsher blow than they should have? Adjustments still to be made for La Lega finale |
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