~~ waaahhhh movie!Siriussss
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reenkaI'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 withSirius 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-boySirius Gary in full smirking action. Has a bite, that boy.
Well. I mean, at first I was so excited-- how many English queer movies are there, really? Not enough! And with
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
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Date: 2004-11-10 02:15 am (UTC)It's not that obscure; it's a Stephen Frears film! I've seen it quite a few times.
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Date: 2004-11-10 04:13 am (UTC)it's biographical, so you know how it ends, right?
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Date: 2004-11-10 04:20 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2004-11-10 04:32 am (UTC)Gary Oldman is fantastic in the film, but Alfred Molina is just so compelling as his partner, he really almost steals the film.
Has anyone seen this movie? Probably not, I'm guessing.
It's actually fairly well-known, and given that it's about a notorious playwright, about a doomed gay love affair, is by a noted director and features these terrific actors, it's got it's cult audience requirements more than covered.
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Date: 2004-11-10 06:46 am (UTC)And yes, totally Sirius!!
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Date: 2004-11-10 09:31 am (UTC)maybe i am blind again, but why did you not watch the whole thing?
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Date: 2004-11-10 10:37 am (UTC)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 :>
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Date: 2004-11-10 10:39 am (UTC)I kept focusing on Gary's face, though, so there was always the happy. Like, 'eeeee, he's smiling again!' :> I am so easy :>
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Date: 2004-11-10 10:43 am (UTC)In retrospect, it's just that they were scary in different ways, but Gary was more fun to watch, since Alfred Molina just made me cringe (though that was great acting on his part). Ahhh, the toupee.....
Man, apparently I'm way, way out of the loop when it comes to non-teen 80s movies. But then, I wasn't about to have seen it when it came out or anything (...as I was... what... 9) and we never did have cable until my last two years of HS. And for some reason I haven't seen many Gary Oldman movies in general. Am feeling rather plebeian at the moment ^^;;
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Date: 2004-11-10 10:49 am (UTC)eh. that's just me, though.
really want to see the film all the way through, now, though. :D
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Date: 2004-11-10 10:56 am (UTC)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 :-?
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Date: 2004-11-11 05:21 am (UTC)Pointed here by <lj user=chresimos>
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