“They are not people who sit around and talk about how they feel, or articulate particularly expansively on their emotions, position, or space,” he told TIFF in 2017. The impoverished blue-collar subject requires an embodied approach, as Lee empathizes. The connection, beautiful and wary, is both articulated by and contrasted with the graphic (and at times nauseating) nature of the work. In God’s Own Country (2017), the director’s first feature, two male farm hands fall in love during lambing season in the filmmaker’s own West Yorkshire. A male-identified filmmaker, Francis Lee visually appreciates passions that can be portrayed through physical interactions with nature work, in other words. Mary’s discoveries would only be recognized after her death. Yet no recognition was paid to scientific contributions by women in the Victorian era, and particularly women without institutional affiliation. She was a provincial woman among affluent men seeking the origins of prehistoric life. In 18th-century England, Mary furiously pawed through the mud. Existing centuries apart, the two are made for one another like mollusk and shell. Occasionally golden ammonites fed on the fallen carcass of another creature.That Francis Lee, a self-taught filmmaker of rural providence, would consider the autodidact fossil hunter Mary Anning a worthwhile subject comes as little surprise. Their body pulled gold from their digestive system and transferred it to their shell. Golden ammonites fed directly on the ocean floor, absorbing nutrients and minerals. Their lifespan was unknown but it was speculated to be up to several hundred years. Juvenile golden ammonites have never been encountered, only mature specimens. The shell of a golden ammonite was extremely valuable, with an intact shell selling for up to 80,000 gp at markets on the surface. Some acted as servants of the marid Kalbari al-Durrat al-Amwaj ibn Jari in her Citadel of Ten Thousand Pearls. Golden ammonites lived in abyssal canyons and trenches far below the surface of Toril's oceans. It was also known that they did not collect treasure from fallen opponents. What was known was that their thought process was so alien to humanoids that psionics, telepathy and telepathic spells such as ESP were useless. It was speculated by some that their language may be based on sound or touch. Their society and language, if it existed, was equally unknown. It was unknown if they were sentient or mundane animals. Society ĭue to their natural habitat being so deep underwater, little was known about golden ammonites. Its shell was incredibly strong, and it was capable of self-healing any damage to it, with the most sever damage taking up to a year to regenerate. If hurt, it immediately withdrew itself into its shell, remaining there until they were healed. It began constricting its target, and sucker along the inside of the tentacles began draining the target's bodily fluids. In combat, golden ammonites used their long, powerful tentacles to grab onto an opponent within range. Each eye could independently launch a brilliant ball of light, to a range of up to 90 ft (27 m). įrom their eyes, a golden ammonite had the innate ability to duplicate the effects of the light ball spell. It was immune to charm, enchantment, psionic and telepathic-based effects and spells. It was capable of detecting motion and sounds in a radius of 600 ft (180 m), making it extremely difficult to surprise or sneak up on the mollusk. Golden ammonites were nearsighted but were capable of detecting heat and light sources up to 120 ft (37 m) away. Both the eye stalks and tentacles were hidden within the shell when not in use. They had two large eyes on flexible stalks and several flexible tentacles, each up to 12 ft (3.7 m) in length. Their body within the shell, like all mollusks, was soft and vulnerable, and dark brown in color. Golden ammonites were large mollusks with a brilliant gold shell.
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