come and fill my lungs

i relate to addie larue because i would, too, live 300 dull years because i’m petty

#when Bae is being stubborn

Before the computing era, ILM was the master of oil matte painting, making audiences believe that some of the sets in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogy were real when they weren’t. They were the work of geniuses like Chris Evans, Michael Pangrazio, Frank Ordaz, Harrison Ellenshaw and Ralph McQuarrie ! Forever thank you, to their handmade art and the work of their colleagues, that made us dream of impossible worlds and fantastic places across Earth and the Universe.

There are more background paintings on this article, featuring comments by the masters/artists themselves ! 

Some of the following pieces were made by other artists 2:

exCUSE ME?!?!!??!??! TheYRE PAINTINGS?!??!!?!

SHUT UP I thought they were miniatures!!!!

It’s too beautiful. I could cry.

I love this because I’ll be watching a movie and think “how did they do that? Is that a building they built for this movie? Was it there beforehand? Is it cardboard or CGI? Is that actually some place on Earth that they’re filming?” And the answer to all of these now is “nope, that’s a painting”. I can’t believe some of the most iconic, familiar shots were paintings!

Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton for Cosmopolitan Magazine (May 2019)

“The movies were a form of escapism for me. I could live my life through someone else’s shoes on the big screen and that was special. You go into a room and no one’s looking at you and it’s completely dark and the screen’s massive and you get lost in people’s stories. There’s something comforting and refreshing about that, watching someone else’s life and finding parts of yourself that you connect with. It’s magical to be able to be a part of that, to be on the other side of it while still getting lost in movies.” — Charles Melton for The Last Magazine, 2019, photographed by Clément Pascal.

By FDASuarez

We used to come here. She’d wait for hours for me, when I couldn’t make it. And I’d wait for her, if her family kept her in. Who? Some girl. Some girl before France. I’ve not been back here since. But I wanted to come here with you.

Carnival Row (2019) + title sequence visuals

Indira Varma in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996)