~~ waaahhhh movie!Siriussss

[reenka]

I've just had the really somewhat disturbing experience of watching the latter half of a Gary Oldman 80s movie, Prick Up Your Ears. It had Alfred Malina in it as The Best Friend, except he was also his lover.

Well. I mean, at first I was so excited-- how many English queer movies are there, really? Not enough! And with Sirius Gary Oldman! Starts off with him being 17 and his best friend 23-- both aspiring novelists. John (Gary Oldman) is the smirky deceptive arsehole one who actually gets a break as a playwright-- and Kenneth (Alfred Malina) is the awkward unbalanced emotional basketcase one who loves him too much.

Man, I was eating it up and dreading watching more at the same time, 'cause I -knew- it couldn't end well-- and remember how much I liked `The Liar' (probably not)-- well, this is much more depressing.

I was going to squee and be like, Omg pre-Azkaban queer Sirius, on screen! And Gary is of course a complete natural at the role, it's really freaky-- and he seriously does act quite a lot like Sirius, except if he never made it to Gryffindor (which lands him somewhere halfway to Brian Kinney, it seems) . I just couldn't stop looking at all those beautiful half-smirks and devilish smiles he had and thinking wah Sirius waaahhhh and then he'd do something really bastardy again and... well, I was still Siriusssss. He wrote his first play about how he fell in love with his best friend. And it all went downhill from there.

Ahhhhh. I think I just realized just how hard it is to have happy endings with assholes in complete denial as characters, man.

Has anyone seen this movie? Probably not, I'm guessing. It's probably worth it just to see 20-something queer-boy Sirius Gary in full smirking action. Has a bite, that boy.

Comments

[bookshop.livejournal.com]

Well, it helps if you know it's a true story and you know how their relationship ends before you watch it. Which I did before I saw the first half you saw. I'd like to see the rest some time, I was really enjoying it.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Y'know, in a way I almost liked the utter and complete "!!!" moment of not knowing. Usually you can kind of see it coming in a movie 'cause that'd be the -point-, and this was the first (only?) time the murder seemed rather... more minor. o_0
I saw the second half, though ;) Man, it just gets more and more depressing. I think I really wasn't watching it right, 'cause I was having all this extraneous attachment 'cause I was all OMG SIRIUS. Which probably messed with its intended effect :>

[bookshop.livejournal.com]

See, that's why I never allow myself to let my opinion of one character an actor plays carry over into another. As tempting as it would be to go "Awwww, ikkle Draco!" when tom felton is all, "I didn't push you--i SHOVED you!" in Anna and the King, it's just really a boundary that doesn't get crossed for me easily. Like the whole thing with using actor icons to represent the character you think they look like, or the character they play, even, when the actor is out of character or in another film. My disbelief won't suspend that far.

eh. that's just me, though.

really want to see the film all the way through, now, though. :D

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Well, that was the surpring bit-- 'cause I don't really associate Gary Oldman with Sirius at all-- except I see all these young!Gary manips which seem different from movie!Sirius ('cause it actually seems he's more like Sirius 'au naturale' or in other roles). Anyway, the reason it 'clicked' wasn't just because it was Gary, but because he was smirky and assholish and queer and in 60s England omg and just all of it together... I mean, for a little bit, when they were on a college campus (I think?) I was really almost totally pretending this was Sirius just because I -could- and his expressions totally worked. It was unusual for me, really.

But uh, eventually I did get over that and just get drawn into the movie, which was actually more depressing :> But at least their ashes were scattered together :-?

[pinkfinity.livejournal.com]

Just had to cut in & note that I'm off to see The King & I's touring production in about 2 hours... Bit of a nonsequitor, but at least it's not a musical version of The Borrowers.