Have you noticed that @RCArmitage has not posted an original tweet since the day after the Saturn awards 
June 26) and then to say thanks? There were 3 retweets, all work/promo related, for SDCC and Hannibal on June 3, July 1 and 2 respectively, but that’s been it since before he arrived home in New York City on July 3.
No. I don’t think fans scared him off with Cybersmile criticism, unwanted airport pics or for any other reason.
I think the 11 days of Twitter silence means he’s off -as in not actively working on something he has to promote.
He had a few opportunities to tweet something not directly promotion related, so slightly more personal, which he didn’t take;same sex marriage decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, July 4 greetings. Fans have come up with reasons/excuses for his forbearance (mainly that these were American topics). He’s been quiet about Urban and the Shed Crew also, which got a little buzz from Candida Brady this week. ( Love that photo!).
Perry’s not complaining or fishing for a tweet from @RCArmitage. She’s glad if he decides to take real time off from all his professional marketing/promotional/ambassador obligations. And she thinks we’ll see/hear plenty very shortly, what with another episode of Hannibal ready to air, lots of new press on the Red Dragon episodes and SDCC on the horizon.
It just says something to me about how/why/when he uses/intends to use, Twitter. Stick to business, Richard Armitage, and enjoy your time off.
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May I politely disagree?
I think he did some audition or workshop in LA, hence Aquila follow. I doubt he is just relaxing, with 3 movies to film, one perhaps co-produced. He had his week off earlier in June.
I don’t understand what the airport pics mean in this context.
Urban pic sank my hopes about the movie.
I think what happened for Cybersmile changed his twitter behavior and put a distance between him and fans. Let’s see if he will return his full twitter self for SDCC. I think something was broken and can’t be repaired. Since that unfortunate episode (just the last one in a long series) he nearly vanished. RT and promo are almost certainly done by some PA, including the reaction to the SPAM fake tweet (dot, language). By now funny happy dork RA looks gone. Let’s hope he will return. I know I wouldn’t but I don’t need to sell a product.
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Why did the Urban pic sink your hopes about the movie?
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My fear is they added an unnecessary love story to edulcorate the film. But the worst thing is the ordinary symbolism (the wall dividing Greta from Chop and Urban, with RA “defending” the kid) and the totally out of character Greta clothes. I had the same impression with the trailer, too new clothes, not in line with the squalid conditions book describes. Friel looks ready to run a catwalk, not exactly a junkie, drunk, (and I won’t add my personal moral opinion) mother of six living from hand to mouth. The image of the movie in not very plausible, it looks amateurish. Like the unnecessary pins on Chop’s coat. Like they want to remember us we are in the ’90s. Ovedone. It lacks that sense of “reality” that such a topic would need. I hope I’m wrong and these are only pessimistic feelings I’m having (as usual 😛 ), that only the costumes are out of tune.
Maybe that pic is just a promo image and it’s not part of the plot.
One thing for sure: the few of Richard I saw in the trailer is perfect, moving and captivating. Fraser looks very good too. It’s just the production that doesn’t convince me.
Sorry for the long reply 🙂
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I would have to agree with you micra1. I do like the photo in itself, but am also in the process of reading the book and that image does not match up the rawness, harshness and social landscape portrayed in the story. I am hoping the film will display the same boldness as the book, but I am not so sure it will. Nevertheless, this is a welcome diversion from most of RA roles and I for one cannot wait to see what he does with it.
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Yes exactly. I’m eager to see Richard as Chop, a role I’m sure he was great in. Just have those doubts bugging me. I deeply loved the book so I’d hate to see it ruined. Hare’s presence and collaboration to the script are a good sign, I hope.
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You say “adding unnecessary love story” – but if I remember correctly from reading the book, Chop *did* have a relationship of sorts with Greta? If anything, I would agree that they are putting more emphasis on the adult love aspect in the promotional material we have seen so far than the book would have suggested. Annoying, but – a typical strategy to garner interest from a particular target group *ahem*.
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ahahah yes 😉 Chop has a sort of very brief “relationship” before the events narrated in the book and starts his friendship with Urban after he had already “broken” with his mother. If I recall correctly there is a sex night once with all the gang of kids in the house and Greta and Chop drunk. But “love” was never involved iirc.
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I think it’s just a photo, taken by Alistair Morisson who si a photographer, not a photo from the movie. I don’t think we can deduce anything at all from this photo, about a ” love story ” or anything else. About Greta and Chop clothes I think they fit pretty well the characters.
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I hope you’re right about the photo.
Clothes aren’t appropriate to characters and situation. And too much ’90s. Forced. And too new, if I can say so.
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I agree. It’s not a photo/still from the film, but posed.
I’m British and I’d say the costumes are ‘chavvy’ enough for the film and period. People who live in difficult circumstances will still buy new clothes, sometimes, and in the various still shots, they don’t look too glamourous.(Though RA is obviously better looking than Bernard Hare, anyway!)
http://www.richardarmitagenet.com/images/gallery/Urban/album/index.html
There’s a pic, here, of Bernard Hare with some of the actual shed crew and a eight minute interview with him and Urban who is 21 at time of filming and in jail for car theft, plus some of the rest of the crew, though I don’t know if it’s available outside the UK –
http://bernardhare.wix.com/writer#!urban-grimshaw-shed-crew/c7w3
http://www.andyrobbins.info/andyrobbins.info/Films_2.html
It’s all filmed and set in a rough part of Leeds.
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I disagree about the clothes Greta is wearing. To me they look, even for the 80’s, slimy, trampy, trashy – which are right in line with her leopard print jacket. And we’ve seen the other two characters in the same costumes in BTS and promo shots.
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They are appropriate to the period but too new and too good for that kind of suburbian life. Simply not believable. You don’t depict poverty, misery and carelessly just putting wrong colors together (like a t-shirt + shirt we can see RA wearing in the trailer). Clothes should be used, faded, shapeless from the many washes. Their clothes look just taken off from the shop wrapper.
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Honestly, I don’t see anything new or good about a pair of stretch jeans and a t-top. (the boots maybe). And, they’re not in suburbia. As Carole says, even poor people buy clothes that look good, even if they are cheap.
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Ok, let’s agree to disagree. We’ll see, once the movie is out (if it won’t go straight on iTunes), if it has that sense of authenticity so relevant for a film on this topic. My impression, in watching the trailer, is of actors badly dressed as during the ’90s, not of real people during the ’90s. I can’t express myself better than this. Just watch a film like Holy Water to see what I mean. In that case you really believe you are in a little town in the heart of Ireland…
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Yes, we can disagree. I’m basing my opinion of decades of seeing people on welfare in a city, that look more or less well-dressed. Either because that’s how some of them decide to spend their money, because they are wearing cheap but stylish clothes, because young men and teens with that background are wearing sneakers that cost over $100 and leather jackets, and, in this case – for Urban -not the people I am describing- wasn’t there also a bit of shoplifting going on? I think the social/spending habits of poor people in cities, on welfare, are different from suburban or rural poor people. None of this means the film will be any better or more authentic than you’re possibly projecting.
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Shoplifting, yes. One thing is poor people on welfare, another one people spending their time drunk and doped. I think every penny the real Greya had went in those things, hardly in posh clothes. Of course I’m not an expert or a social worker, but I’d say the “image” lacks authenticity. I hope script, acting and direction will have it. Richard and Fraser are certainly stunning in the trailer and their chemistry is clear. It’s evident why he used to call him “my adoptive father” . Can’t wait for the camping scene and finger crossed they kept the moment with “that” book read by Chop 😉
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I think, too, that the constant over-analyzing and nagging of everything he says&does, his styling etc. play a part in the the fact, that he keeps much more distance than in his twitter beginnings. I don’t believe he’s scared off, just sick and tired of all of this ” white noise”- as he put it. Can’t blame him- I finde it off-putting, too. No, I don’t put him on a pedstal- but why there’s the need to overindulge in constant criticsm- that’s completely beyond me.
I miss the glimpses of funny Richard- especially after having been lucky enough to witness his wit, kooky sense of humour & cheekyness in person in London last year : -).
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BTW- this was meant as a reply to Micra’s 1st comment on top.
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Totally agree with you.
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Wouldn’t you agree that the percentage of criticism or negative responses to some of his tweets is minuscule compared to the gushing and approval? I doubt that a small group of fans who care to express their opinions would scare him off or make him “tired” of Twitter, on its own. Why is it OK for thousands of fans to approve and commend every thing he does and says,a and how he looks, but not for a handful of fans to express disappointment or criticism – especially with respect to Cybersmile, which was a false step.
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In the Cybersmile case the criticsm came across as very loud and rather relentless, some didn’t seem to be able to stop putting the boots in. Everybody has the right to voice his/her opinion- but that should pertain to Richard as well. Nothing against objective criticsm- but criticizing someone’s style of expression/ grammar etc. is rather unfair in my opinion. Also he’s only an ambassador to the cause, not a psychologist- his task was/ is to create more awareness of the problem, not to write a scientifically founded thesis on the subject.And of cause he can’t solve such a difficult problem single-handedly- as some seem to have expected. He participated whole – heartedly in this campaign and told us openly about his own bad experiences of being bullied, the subject seems important to him and he did it all with the best intentions-yet if you read some of the criticsm, you could have thought he had committed a major crime.
Granted, there were also many positive comments, but it is all the negative or even sometimes vitriolic, sarcastic stuff, that stays in mind. Richard himself once said in an interview that he can get a lot of positive comments but it is the one negative reply that he takes to heart.
I’m sure he has learnt to cope with critcism- but I found this criticism-shitstorm too much and undeserved for someone who only had the best of intentions. He instigated many heated discussions and even if you can’t change people maybe some good seeds have been sowed.
Of course I don’t know what he thought of the criticsm deluge- but if I were in his shoes I’d surely be disappointed by the many negative reactions which, even if they were in the minority, at least came across as much louder than the positive ones.
Sorry, for the long comment, but this is a topic that really bothers me -APR-mode over now ;-).
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The airport pic was simply to document his return from LA to NY. And also, another excuse to post it.
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Just as a photo on its own, I like the long legs in jeans and Converse shoes 🙂
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Me too. I like the whole photo.
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Whether or not he is working (I suspect he was working while in LA), it is not that unusual for him to go this long between tweets, or to only have promotional tweets for a while. I don’t think too much should be read into this. I do sense he’s gotten a little bored with twitter. Like Nimue, it would be nice to see more of Richard’s humor because it was fun.
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That’s part of my point. Whether he’s bored with Twitter or not, I think he is using it primarily for marketing purposes – and that’s fine with me.
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I think it is unusual. Other dry spells happened while we knew he was shooting.
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I’m certainly not surprised he didn’t comment on gay marriage, regardless of his sexuality – I can just imagine the storm that would have provoked in cyberland! Doesn’t bear thinking about. 😦
I love that Urban pic. And I’m sure I’m going to love the film, though I agree it may not look as gritty as the book felt.
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Many other celebrities on twitter, regardless of nationality and sexual orientation commented – and he, himself did on the Ireland vote.
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I’m really glad that he doesn’t comment on every holiday or makes statements to every occasion just because every fan expects it. He should feel free to decide whether the subject is worth commenting or not. And if he doesn’t want to let out his private opinion about political or social themes I can fully understand.
The less he reveals the less he has to defend and to explain over and over.
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He also commented on the Charlie tragedy. All I’m saying is that he had an opportunity to tweet a non-marketing tweet, and didn’t take it.
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Oh, fair enough – I missed the comment on Ireland.
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Always impossible to know what he’s up to when not filming; could be relaxation, could be prep for upcoming roles, could be auditions/negotiations for new roles (given that he just followed two high-profile actresses this a.m. – including Charlize Theron! – the latter is certainly possible, since he mostly only follows people he’s working with). Personally, I don’t think the silence has been especially long, but I do agree with you that both his use of Twitter for marketing and the periodic breaks from Twitter – for whatever reason – are just fine.
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Yes, thanks. See new post.
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