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Rupert S. Graves (born 30 June 1963) is an English film, television, and theatre actor. He is known for his roles in A Room with a View (1985), Maurice (1987), The Madness of King George (1984), and The Forsyte Saga (2002). Since 2010, he has starred as DI Lestrade in the BBC television series Sherlock. Graves first came to prominence in costume-drama adaptations of E. M. Forster's novels A Room with a View (1985), and Maurice (1987), before going on to appear in films including A Handful of Dust (1988), The Madness of King George (1994), Different for Girls (1996), and Intimate Relations (1996). Graves's role in Intimate Relations won him the Best Actor award at the 1996 Montreal World Film Festival. He was also acclaimed for his portrayal of Young Jolyon Forsyte in the television miniseries The Forsyte Saga. Later, he appeared in films such as V for Vendetta (2005), Death at a Funeral (2007), Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans (2019), and Emma (2020), and in TV series such as Charles II: The Power & the Passion (2003), A Waste of Shame (2005), Sherlock (2010–), The Crimson Field (2014), and The Family (2016).
This live-action remake of Corpse Bride, directed by Guillermo del Toro, reimagines the stop-motion classic as a breathtakingly macabre, practical-effects-heavy gothic fairy tale (Guillermo del Toro). The film masterfully splits its visual identity into two contrasting worlds. The Land of the Living is a rigid, suffocating Victorian town rendered in an ultra-matte, bloodless color palette of chalky white skin tones, charcoal tailcoats, and suffocating, high-collared gowns that mirror the social desperation of the nouveau-riche Van Dorts and the icy, aristocratic decay of the Everglots. Here, the repressed, melancholic Victor (Connor Storrie) accidentally binds himself to the afterlife during a botched rehearsal when he places a wedding band onto what he believes is a gnarled tree branch.In stark contrast, the Land of the Dead explodes onto the screen in a vibrant, bioluminescent spectacle. Bathed in a stark green cinematic glow, the underworld is a chaotic cabaret of hyper-realistic skeletal prosthetics and eccentric, larger-than-life characters. Olivia Rodrigo delivers a tragic, magnetic performance as Emily, the Corpse Bride, cascading in vibrant turquoise locks and a tattered, water-logged wedding gown. This world thrives on theatrical dark comedy, populated by a jazz-club big band led by the bare-boned Bonejangles (Sterling K. Brown) belting out brassy anthems, alongside a miniature, dueling military duo composed of a bombastic royal blue General Bonesapart (Ralph Fiennes) and a comically slow-witted, red-coated General Wellington (Gary Oldman). Driven by Jane Goldman’s sharp, emotionally sincere screenplay and Danny Elfman’s indispensable, whimsical score, the film evolves from a spooky comedy of errors into a visually stunning, bittersweet romance. It balances the suffocating prisons of high-society greed against the joyful, liberated chaos of the underworld, culminating in a spectacular, heartbreaking sacrifice.
