~~ 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.

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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.