Tag: mark ruffalo

the-wordbutler:

markfluffyruffalo:

You push and you work hard, you stay positive and eventually all the stars sort of align.

Before Bruce is officially Uncle Bruce, before he’s married and a father, he’s Dot’s not-quite godfather, and they go on dates.

Tony starts it, of course, demanding biweekly goddaughter time and “allowing the dads time to screw like bunny rabbits” (his words, never uttered in Dot’s three-year-old presence). They have tea parties and go to movies, they watch cartoons and play dress-up, and one weekend, Bruce tags along to an ice cream parlor with them.

Two weeks later, he’s unshaven and in his pajamas when Tony Stark walks into his house with his goddaughter on his hip. Her face is wet. Bruce is confused.

“She wants you to come,” Tony says, flapping a hand. “She says you have to come from now on because you came last time, and she’s crying, so I think—”

“Bruce,” Dot half-whines, and reaches for him. He plucks her out of Tony’s grip, and she clings around his neck. “You hafta come too.”

Her voice is slurred from crying. Worse, Tony looks panicked.

“Can I get dressed?” he asks, and both his friend and the toddler relax before they agree.

They go to a place where you can decorate pottery, and then to lunch, and then to the park. Tony takes a million pictures, and Bruce only rolls his eyes twice.

(When Dot’s eight, she hears the story for the first time—and laughs. “I just knew you had to be together forever,” she decides.

“You’re a menace,” Tony retorts, but he also leans against Bruce like he’s glad to have a menace in their lives.)

guardiansofthegalaxys:

AU Meme: Avengers ~ Now You See Me AU

Come in close, because the more you think you see, the easier it’ll be to fool you.

Where the Avengers are a group of magicians whose shows always coincide with bank robberies and Agent Coulson is the SHIELD agent assigned to their case.

Still have to watch Now You See Me, but this fan edit photoset is awesome.

markruffalo:

Michael Anthony Spady was born in New Rochelle, New York and began acting at the age of nine.  Best known for his outstanding performance in the film The Hammer, opposite Russell Harvard and Shoshannah Stern, Spady is one of Hollywood’s most talented, motivated, determined and notable young Deaf actors working in film and television today.

Mike acted in my directorial debut, “Sympathy For Delicious”. I found him at The Stella Adler Academy in Los Angeles where he was a student at the time. He gave a beautiful performance in my movie and I found myself wanting to shoot more and more of him as I expanded each of his scenes.

I am really happy to see him making his way up in a very tough and competitive world. He is an inspiration to anyone that comes in contact with him. Not only is he a gifted actor but he also happens to be deaf. Check it out.
http://thelsheriealert.com/golden/

mcumeta:

I’ve been doing a lot of Hulk-based reading and watching (both films. Don’t even ask) lately. Taking what I’ve seen in the comics, the old TV show (my favourite when I was 10), and the little we get of the Ruffalo-Bruce-backstory, I got to thinking about the quote above.

“I’m always angry”.

I’ve seen a lot of people who were flailing that it didn’t make sense, that if Bruce was always angry, he would always be the Hulk. But this is where Bruce’s backstory is so key. He came from an abusive household, where he was weak and he was vulnerable, and I have no doubt that he was always angry about the fact he could do nothing about it.

Bruce in the comics is made of pent-up emotion. He shows nothing. Betty repeatedly comments on it, because she can’t understand him at all. And that’s because Bruce is afraid of the anger inside him, the fact that he could become like his father, that he could and might lash out. (There’s also a whole split-personality arc apparently, but I’ve not reached that yet and whoa complicated)

Because it’s contained, it builds and builds, hidden behind the calm facade. It’s always there. People talking down at him, people calling him weak, people dismissing him. It all bothers him, but he just crushes it down. But don’t believe that for a second. Bruce Banner has no patience for idiots. He calls them on their BS all the time. He pretty much says “were you always this stupid or did you have to work at it?” when someone is blatantly dumb in front of him. He’s a man with a hell of a lot of frustration and anger seeping to the surface, just waiting for an outlet.

And then I remembered this exchange in the Avengers:

STEVE: So, this Doctor Banner was trying to replicate the serum that was used on me?
AGENT PHIL COULSON: A lot of people were.

See, this makes the “I’m always angry” thing even more painful.This may only be MCU-verse, but in this context, it really makes sense.

We’ve been told way back in Captain America: The First Avenger that this serum “makes good become great, bad become worse”. So Bruce is not only affected by gamma radiation, but by a serum which takes what is at the core of him and amplifies it to the nth degree. It takes that anger, that grief, that split between placid scientist and the fury he’s contained for so long and turns it all the way up.

Everything he’s tried to hold in for so many years bursts out in the Hulk. And understandably, he hates and fears it at first. It’s everything he’s tried not to be: feral, dangerous, violent, unthinking. He only sees the surface, just like everyone else, but little by little, he comes to see that just because he’d always tried to hide those parts of him, it didn’t mean they were bad.

That wry half-smile and look back, that “I’m always angry”, is Bruce going “you know what? I am always angry, but that doesn’t have to be a bad thing”. That’s Bruce seeing what he can do with these emotions that he has smothered for so long. That’s when Bruce and the Hulk are finally on equal terms.

Guys, my upcoming marvelbang fic is literally about all of these things. This awesome meta is uncannily spot on all the stuff I’ve explored in it. So wait a couple more months, and you can read my fic about Bruce and the Hulk, with amazing art by kath-ballantyne throughout.