#mediamonday

We are once again at the start of the week and that means Alec Media Monday!

Here is Alec in a 2018 video on bilibili, a Chinese video sharing website based in Shanghai. Google says it usually hosts gaming and anime videos but this is sos on their: Alec with EPIC hair and beard talking about the God’s Own Country experience.

And this is SO Alec in the best way. His face is animated and expressive and he talks with his hands, their distinctive shape with their blunt tips and broad palms, gesturing.

Many thanks to @skm-skm who found this video that I have NEVER seen before! Thank you for reading and I hope to see you tomorrow.

The link is below:

We’ve arrived again at Alec Media Monday!

Here we have Alec in a 2008 short film by director Dorian Moldoveanu called Numele meu este…(My Name Is…). His gf Cristina Gavrus is also in the cast.

In the comment section of Vimeo Moldoveanu admits the short film is “black comedy” and it does indeed have a strange noir energy. Alec narrates the story of a narcissistic, self-absorbed boy, then man, and his journey through life. There are sub-titles in English which tell the story and Alec’s voice is like velvet and gravel, deep and rich.

He is twenty-four here, SO young. His hair is a riot of haphazard curls, a five-o’clock shadow through most of the film, and it really is a great vehicle for him! Because it’s all narration and there’s no dialogue at all, the tone and pacing hinge on the verbal storytelling. It’s obviously in Romanian but the inflection of his voice follows the story. He’s in nearly every frame for 11 minutes and 30 seconds and it’s fascinating!

Thanks for reading, stay safe, and I hope to see you tomorrow! The link to the short film is below:

Here is Alec in a short film in 2011 called Ursu- scurtmetraj by Evgeny Gromik.

Alec is part of a trio of very dudebro friends who sit on a stoop, play cards, and befriend a homeless person, whom they clean up and encourage to engage his calendar model crush. It's in Romanian so obviously I've no idea what the dialogue is but the ending is a dancing musical number and, apparently, the actor who portrays the homeless man is Costel Cascaval, a renowned comedic Romanian actor.

Alec is, of course, a baby in this, his face still with that more rounded shape. However, during this card game scene, the cameraperson seems quite fixated on Alec's eyes and NO COMPLAINTS HERE. His eyelash game is INSANE.

Check it out!

Im heutigen Media Monday #640 dreht sich heute alles rund um den Oktober, Fürchten, Horror und vieles mehr.

Der Media Monday ist ein wöchentlicher Lückentext, der sich mit diversen Medien beschäftigt. User*innen füllen den Lückentext des aus und teilen ihn mit der Film Community.

Guten Abend liebe Bücherfreunde, Wulf hat uns wieder einmal einen Lückentext zum Media Monday hinterlassen, den ich nach bestem Wissen und Gewissen ausfüllen möchte: 1. Wenn auf eine Kinoveröffentlichung schon von vornherein verzichtet wird, dann handelt es sich bestimmt um einen Film, der meinem Lieblingsgenre/trope entspricht, wie etwa Cube, Hypercube oder House of Nine. Ich weiss gar nicht,…

Here is a screen grab from another Catalin Bugean Romanian tourism video from 2011, which would make him 27.

This shows Alec hiking and ziplining and looking very happy to to do so! How cute is he in his hat with his big smile?

Here is the vid: