Iβve had to catch myself a few times about to correct people into saying it like Donald Pleasance, Iβm sure they would have thought I was crazy. Anyone else have something like this happen to them?
So yesterday when I was playing RDR2 I was nosing around the old abandoned town of Pleasance. I was at a point between the old well outside the plague barn and the little graveyard when I heard a woman talking. Saying something about the weather or something like that? It might have been a person riding by but I don't remember anyone being there. I couldn't find anything about ghost voices... anyone else ever hear anything?
(Also wondered if some of the graves in the graveyard might be a reference to the Hawes murders - there's about three people named Hawson - in the late 1800s in Birmingham, Alabama a family named Hawes was killed. I think it was three or four people.)
Coming out swinging with this one. I know people are gonna point at Spectre and be like βbut Christoph Waltzβ but I like his performance, he just got handed a poor script. Charles Gray is my second favorite to the two actors in Thunderball, because heβs hilarious and Diamonds is a comedy. Donald Pleasance isnβt bad, heβs quite good as Blofeld, I just feel he gets too much credit over Waltz in peticular.
He soundtracked some of Australia's best loved TV shows such as Sea Change and Wentworth, which was picked up in the US.
Pleasance is a very interesting place. I read that it seems to be a reference to Boston, Massachusetts; the wiki does a good job of listing all of the comparisons. https://reddead.fandom.com/wiki/Pleasance
However, the graves are incredibly suspicious. Obviously it seems to be a massacre and probable witch hunt. But what makes me suspicious about them is the wording on the tombstones. 3 of the inhabitants deaths are referred to as murders. The others just say "death by gunshot" or something equivalent.
So what the heck happened?
Well, if you look at Curtis Baines tombstone it says
"His Love Has Taken From Him by Hate"
Curtis Baines was roughly 60 years old at the time of his death.
Then there is Jessie Yeatman, 14 yrs old, who appears to be the daughter and sister of Leora and Reginald Yeatman, Son Glen Yeatman. They are the only whole family involved in this. This seems important.
Very interesting are the Hawsons. Seemingly, a mother or father and a son. The parent was murdered, though the son died by "knife wounds". He was fifteen years old and Asa Hawson lacks enough information to identify age and gender. Possibly even a sibling of Jimmy Hawson.
Last, you have 4 people who seem to share no relation to anyone else. Tobin, Curle, Curley and Baines. Baines is one of the "murdered". Were they possibly homeless and given shelter by the Yeatmans?
I know that many people have come to the conclusion of Satanic worship, due to the references to Boston and the writings on the buildings. However, I think that could very well be a cover up for what really happened. Was there possibly a love triangle between the 3 murdered? Who is in the barn? If everyone was buried in this graves, then why is the barn locked due to "plague"? Could there be proof of something in that barn?
Anyway, I was hoping this might drum up some good discussion in regards to this. I would like to hear everyone's theories in regards to this place. Thanks!
Edit to fix: it is not a reference to Boston. But a reference to Helltown, Ohio.
This is something I was thinking about while playing the other day, bored out of my mind on the edge of the bayou during another long ride. There's a lot of emptiness in Red Dead 2's world - which, don't get me wrong, is a good thing. However, it's only good for single player, where you're interacting with this world as Arthur/John and have an overarching story and content to keep you occupied. Red Dead Online doesn't have that. I think a huge problem of the game world in RDO is that none of it is new: we're all just riding round a far less engaging carbon-copy of Story Mode's world with our friends. And rather than add new pink hats or a new Outlaw Pass, I think Rockstar needs to actually develop some meaningful content for online, exclusively. RDO is technically a prequel, right? I mean Jake Adler, Sean and the other name characters being alive at least suggests that. So if R* actually wanted to commit to adding more content, this would be a cool way to do it: restore the abandoned towns. Here's my pitch for each one.
Colter: The northern mining town would give players a great reason to actually explore Ambarino, beyond it being cold and pretty. It's one of the coolest parts of the map, and it has nothing up there at the moment. Add a handful of NPCs, a Bounty Board, and maybe a general store/saloon and you have a great gameplay addition. Naturalists and Traders could take game and samples in to sell there, the handful of northern bounties could be posted, and Collectors could pick up clues and trinkets here. Give players an actual strategic choice: it's harder to survive up in the snow, but Colter bounties could be slightly more valuable. Wagons travel half as quickly through the snow, but there's higher quality game in the mountains... I think you get the idea.
Limpany: With a saloon, sheriff's office and general store... this is already a prime spot to add more life to. For Heartlands players who don't want to get insta-griefed walking into Valentine, this could be the solution. With the implied Cornwall connection, this could also open up NPC missions for more "corporate" players: protecting oil shipments and hunting down wagon thieves. It's quite close to Valentine, but I think that's a good thing - make the Heartlands the "heart" of where players go to earn money.
Pleasance: This is much closer in size to the smaller settlements like Emerald Ranch, so there's not much wiggle-room here. I'd still throw in a Fence or a Trapper, something to cl
... keep reading on reddit β‘Hey all! I think I experienced a glitch but Iβm unsureβ¦ Iβm on my 3rd or 4th play through today. I know of the Pleasance ghost, Iβve been through before and have heard the womanβs voice make a comment about the weather. Well today..I was in the middle of the βHeβs British, Of Course!β side quest. I had just killed the lion and was making my way back over to the barn area where he came from. I heard the female voice make a comment about the weatherβ¦I looked around and there werenβt any NPCβs around, let alone a woman! Has this happened to anyone before?? Was this a glitch, or something else? I thought it only happened in the town of Pleasance where everyone had died..
Not much of a huge mystery just looking for a few answers. Was riding through and took my time to actually look around and survey the environment. I noticed the gravestones and every single person either died by gunshot wound or stab wound. Iβm not sure what the scribbling on the barn door could mean, maybe someone killed the entire town to stop the spread of a potential plague?
When riding by Pleasance at night I met an NPC with a shovel digging up a grave with a lantern standing next to the grave. When I approached she said she didn't want any trouble, asked me if I had a bit of time and wanted to make some money. She put down the shovel and started walking away. There was no option to accept a mission or anything else and she just kept walking around the area aimlessly after that. I ride by there a lot but this has never happened to me. Sadly I didn't record it. With the upcoming graverobbing content I was wondering if this was just a random encounter I haven't had yet and if anyone can explain.
I was passing through the abandoned town on a horse and i heard a lady's voice saying something which i couldn't understand. I thought it was some npc so i looked around but there was none. I had visited this town earlier but nothing like this happened before. Then i just started to roam around the town to see if i had missed something just out of curiosity. When i was reading the gravestones i again heard a lady's voice say something like "what a lovely weather". I looked and it came from the white coloured house just beside the graveyard and again i didn't find anyone. After some time i heard some faint screams but they sounded like they came from a distance and maybe unrelated. Is this solved or heard of before? I read the wiki but there was nothing mentioned about such voices.
Donald Pleasance was and is an amazing actor and was fantastic in the Halloween series.
However, purely from a hypothetical standpoint, just imagine if Charles Bronson was there instead. Not as Dr Loomis, just literally replace the character with Charles Bronson.
With this in mind, how would you rate just how badly screwed Michael Myers is if he were to go up against the Badassery of Bronson and the 475. Wildey?
I'm starting a new regular series of posts that we hopefully all will find interesting and engaging. Each "Actor Showcase" will look at a different actor or actress from the Bond series, and examine both their role within that series as well as their larger acting career outside of it. We can then discuss our thoughts on the actor, their characters, and anything else related to them. These aren't meant to be biographies, so I won't generally be delving into their childhoods, personal lives, or substance addictions (although you can feel free to discuss them in your reactions). I'm focusing mainly on their filmographies.
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And I thought we'd kick things off with British character actor Donald Pleasance, the first actor to portray Ernst Stavro Blofeld completely unobscured. His portrayal in You Only Live Twice, while quite different from the megalomaniac in Ian Fleming's novels, became iconic, and has oft been imitated and parodied in other works, most notably the Austin Powers movies. He was not initially cast, but actually came on to replace Czech actor Jan Werich, who, it was ultimately decided, looked too much like Santa Claus to play Blofeld convincingly.
As in You Only Live Twice, Pleasance's bald head, piercing blue eyes, and soft-spoken demeanor lent themselves well to a career playing sinister and/or devious characters, such as Oracle Jones in Hallelujah Trail, Dr. Michaels in Fantastic Voyage, Quint in Will Penny, and Heinrich Himmler in The Eagle Has Landed. He even played the devil who tempts Christ in the wilderness in the star-studded Gospel epic The Greatest Story Ever Told. Other notable roles of his include forger Colin Blythe in The Great Escape, the President in Escape From New York, and Dr. Loomis in Halloween and several of its sequels.
Okay, now it's your turn. Talk about Donald Pleasance.
