to view the image gallery, to view the video gallery, or to view a random entry. This submission is currently being researched & evaluated! You can help confirm this entry by contributing facts, media, and other evidence of notability and mutation. Antonio Banderas’ Laptop Reaction is an animated computer reaction GIF of Spanish actor Antonio Banderas laughing smugly in front of a laptop computer in a scene from the 1995 action thriller film Assassins. On March 22nd, 2013, Redditor Salisburymistake posted the earliest known instance of the GIF in an /r/reactiongifs post titled "MRW I typed “boobs” into Google’s new animated image search." The post garnered more than 5,500 up votes and 155 comments prior to being archived. The GIF comes from an offbeat scene from the 1995 American action thriller film Assassins wherein Miguel Bain (played by Antonio Banderas), a young sociopathic contract killer, is offered a contract to kill his his competitor and rival assassin Robert Rath (played by Sylvester Stallone).
Delighted upon seeing the digitally transmitted image of Rath on his laptop screen, Bain then lets out an indiscernible noise (“ohooooooooooooo”) as to savor the moment. On March 28th, about a week after Redditor Salisburymistake submitted the reaction GIF, Redditor Shmutzical used the image in an /r/funny post titled “Logging in and finding out that it is your cake day.” On April 16th, Redditor Tman916x posted the same image in a /r/reactionGIFs post titled “When I jokingly ask a cute girl for nudie pics and she obliges,” receiving 302 up votes and 32 comments. By May 5th, the GIF had been introduced as a “you got me” reaction face on the Internet humor site I Run The Internet. On May 26th, Redditor Mushroomwig, a self-described PlayStation fan, used the GIF to convey his reaction to the backlash against Microsoft’s XBox One at the E3 convention. On June 10th, Bodybuilding Forum member BloodFireDeath shared the image from I Run The Internet in a discussion thread titled “ITT the greatest GIF of 2013,” in which many other members seconded the OP’s notion.
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For the first time, this year’s event honoring adaptations of the written word includes episodic television writing Saoirse Ronan, Kit Harington, Steve Carell, Alexa Davalos and Matt Damon, from left (Collage/Courtesy of USC Libraries) The USC Libraries have named the finalists for the 28th annual USC Libraries Scripter Award. Since 1988, the annual ceremony has honored the authors of printed works alongside the screenwriters who adapt their stories. This year, for the first time, Scripter will honor excellence in adaptation of the printed word into a television episode in addition to a feature film. The television and film finalists compete in separate categories for their own Scripter. The finalist writers for film are in alphabetical order by film title: Screenwriters Adam McKay and Charles Randolph for The Big Short, adapted from Michael Lewis’ nonfiction work The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Novelist Colm Tóibín and screenwriter Nick Hornby for Brooklyn
Screenwriter Donald Margulies for The End of the Tour, adapted from David Lipsky’s memoir “Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace” Novelist Andy Weir and screenwriter Drew Goddard for The Martian Emma Donoghue for the novel and screenplay of Room The finalist writers for television episodes are in alphabetical order by series title: Screenwriters David Benioff and D.B. Weiss for the episode “Hardhome” from Game of Thrones, adapted from the fantasy series “A Song of Ice and Fire” by George R. R. Martin Damon Lindelof and Jacqueline Hoyt for the episode “Axis Mundi” from The Leftovers, based on the novel by Tom Perrotta Frank Spotnitz for the episode “The New World” from The Man in the High Castle, based on the novel by Philip K. Dick Michelle Ashford for the episode “Full Ten Count” from Masters of Sex, based on the biography by Thomas Maier, Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love
Screenwriters William F. Zorzi and David Simon for the miniseries Show Me a Hero, based on the nonfiction book by Lisa Belkin Chaired by Howard Rodman, USC professor and president of the Writers Guild of America, West, the 2016 Scripter selection committee selected the finalists from a field of 73 film and 18 television adaptations. Serving on the selection committee, among many others, are film critics Leonard Maltin, Anne Thompson and Kenneth Turan; authors Michael Chabon, Michael Ondaatje and Mona Simpson; screenwriters Graham Moore, John Ridley and Erin Cressida Wilson; producers Gale Anne Hurd and Suzanne Todd; and USC deans Elizabeth Daley of the USC School of Cinematic Arts and Catherine Quinlan of the USC Libraries. The USC Libraries will announce the winning authors and screenwriters at a black-tie ceremony on Feb. 20 in the Doheny Memorial Library. Academy Award winners Helen Mirren and Taylor Hackford will serve as honorary dinner chairs. For more information about the Scripter — including ticket availability, additional sponsorship opportunities and a list of sponsors — email scripter@usc.edu or visit scripter.usc.edu.