Queen of the Night (2011-SVS): Fear your mother!

For promotional purposes, Spyglass View put out images depicting the scene where the Queen tells her daughter to kill her father. As a purely technical issue, the scene depicted in the publicity photos is not as it was staged in the film (or, indeed, in any version of "The Magic Flute"): Tamino, Papagena and Papageno -- Papagena's confusingly named lover -- are never in that scene with the Queen and her daughter.

Cassia Monique, of the far-flung and surprisingly numerous family Monique, played the Queen and thereby became another of the Spyglass View overnight success stories, or, as she put it:

    I've been acting for 15 years, put out five albums, but somehow I'm an 'undiscovered talent' and 'an overnight sensation'. Whatever. You do you, boo, you know? I'll still be here and working hard, whether or not you notice.

Liz bounced straight from production on "Last Midnight" into pre-production and filming for "Queen".

You could not have asked for two more different experiences. Both films were about queens and their daughters, but very very different otherwise. I was the main character in 'Last Midnight', so I had a lot more to do, but we were on a shoestring budget, so things like multiple takes, for example, were very rare, and it took much less time to film, because we didn't have the money. On 'Queen of the Night', I was a minor character and it had a much bigger budget, so everything could be allowed to take longer, and there were more takes. Just a very different approach.

Odd thing: I've now played all of the female roles in this story, one way and another. When I started in opera, quite a few years ago, the first time, I was one of the Queen's attendants. A few years later, I was Pamina in my first big role. Then a few more years later, I was the queen. And now that I'm older, I get a really weird Papagena. And one of my costars from when I was the queen also came out to do film, and went from playing Tamino in our opera to Sarastro in this. Everything goes around, I guess.

-- I. Noah Lott, professor of current history, comparative and modern mythology and modern media studies, Serenity Falls University, Hollywood Roars, book 2: the story of one little studio and how it couldn't before it could.

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Technically, the title is "fear your mother's curse" but it wouldn't all fit.

A version of this image, without the film logo and "promotional" info, was done for a Platinum Club contest, which it will be losing any second now. Again, GIS Project with Andromeda texture. The Queen's daughter played by Kelly V7 HD, with additions from the Genesis 2 Legacy shapes by SloshWerks to pull in some Olympia and Monique; NeoIndia hair by Arki; Hooded Cloak G3M by Daz. (Also incorporates the Classic Pinup Standing Poses, which I bought purely because they were a Club item, and then thought, "What on earth do I do with those?"). And I think that the cloak is using the DG Sci-Fi Iray Surface Lights (which, being Iray, are shaders, no matter what their name -- and even more confusingly, not all of them are technically lights).

And, of course, we have the Queen in her full queenly queenliness. Somewhere under all that is a combination of Angel of Retribution and GIS Empress, with a raft of so many shaders that I have no idea. The armor, bodice, and crowns (yes, there are two) are all using Destiny's Garden's Iray Art Deco Metal Shaders; somewhere in there.

Liz, Atlas, and Henryk are way back back back in the background. (Seriously, you have no idea how deep GIS Project is.) Liz is wearing the simple version of the Ultra Bodysuit and Elements hair; Atlas has the Galactic force uniform, also by SloshWerks ... and Henryk is wearing this. (Certain types of skimpwear, I clearly cannot resist.)