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Another Lovely Meme, And Some Incoherent Musings On Leon

Comment on this post. I will choose 6 interests from your profile and you will explain what each of them means (and why you're interested in them). If you comment and don't want to do it, just let me know.

spybarbie gave me: bloody motherfucking assholes, golden spacesuits, princess mononoke, remus lupin, spartan abs, toby stephens

bloody motherfucking assholes is a reference to a gorgeous Martha Wainright song called, oddly enough, Blooedy Motherfucking Asshole. I'm a big Rufus Wainwright fan, but there's something incredibly raw about the way Martha sings that hits me right in the gut. And I love these lyrics rather a lot:
I will not pretend
I will not put on a smile
I will not say I'm all right for you
When all I wanted was to be good
To do everything in truth
To do everything in truth

golden spacesuits is a reference to the Danny Boyle film Sunshine, starring Cillian Murphy and his lovely freckled shoulders.

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I just like the spacesuits, because they are gold for seemingly no reason, and it's very glam rock.

princess mononoke is a Hayao Miyazaki film from 1997, and it's strange and wonderful and has forest spirits in. The English dub was scripted by Neil Gaiman, who I love to an unreasonable degree, and Billy Crudup and Claire Danes did some of the voices. Plus, it's Studio Ghibli, so the animation is beautiful. IMDb!

remus lupin is probably my favourite character in the Harry Potter universe (it fluctuates between Lupin and Ron, depending on my angst levels). Anyway, he's a werewolf. With issues. And ANGST. And I love him lots. He's endured horrendous things (lycanthropy, persecution, unemployment, thinking his best friend murdered his other friends, seeing his best friend die) and yet carries himself with tremendous grace and dignity. I have a major kink for 'wry smiles'. Rather than making me hate him, his struggles in Deathly Hallows only made me feel for him more. And it doesn't hurt that he's played by David Thewlis.

spartan abs is listed as a sign of respect to those poor, sweaty, ripped actors who played Spartans (AROO! AROO!) in 300. True, they may have been digitally enhanced, but there was a gratifying amount of manflesh on display.

toby stephens is a remarkable (and HOT) actor, probably best known for playing Mr Rochester in the 2006 Jane Eyre and the bad guy in Die Another Day. He is beautiful, and ginger, and the son of Dame Maggie Smith. He is actually sex on legs, and I was lucky enough to see him in Betrayal at the Donmar in June. I squeed about this rather a lot.

I watched Leon today! It is so very hardcore. And even when he's smelling people and bullying twelve year old girls, Gary Oldman *still* manages to be sexy! How is he doing this? I definitely have to see Dracula now. Anyway, I want to have a complicated relationship with Jean Reno so he can teach me how to be a hitman, and if I ever have daughters, I shall dress them like urchins and make them have haircuts like Natalie Portman's. The plant! Sting, on the end credits! Milk!

EDIT: I can't count. Or read. I gave most people five interests instead of six. Oops!

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I'll have to download that song.

See, I was pretty irritated at Remus in Deathly Hallows. But, I can see what you love about him. And David Thewlis doesn't hurt anything. ♥

Toby Stephens slays me.

Oh, you should! I'd upload it for you, but I'm on my sister's laptop until I get back to uni. :(

I can see why people would be irritated with the way he behaved in DH, but I see his actions as being motivated by guilt- he thinks he's endangering his wife and his child by being with them, so he removes himself from the situation. And clearly he's all angsty and in pain and all that, and I do think Harry was overly harsh... But, as I say, I completely understand you reaction. :) And I really hope they don't cut this stuff out in the films, because David Thewlis ♥. Have you seen Naked?

hi . why were you annoyed at him. if any thig i would have thought you were sad for him coz.... not saying why but, what bit were you annoyed at.
luv sj

sorry didn't c the post by sophieisgod.
sjx

Hooray for Toby!
(this is a way of saying "Do me!") ;)

He is a ginger love god in my pants. I want to see Betrayal again! With the eyesex! And the tight cords!

david bowie, freckles, fucking hug, ross noble, shakespeare

Yes, I always loved Remus too. He's my favourite of the Marauders, and I always wanted to know MORE about him. Unfortunately, right when his life got interesting, beautiful and good, JKR's all 'whoops he's dead!'

Have you not seen Dracula? I watched that for Keanu Reeves (another of my misplaced crushes), but I all I seem to remember of Gary Oldman is his being creepy and wearing purple tinted glasses whilst being creepy.

Ahh, Remus is elusive as the smoke, appearing occasionally to look angsty in a cardigan, and then abandoning us again. I'm telling you, there better be DETAIL (and lots of it) in this encyclopedia thing. Heh, to your presentation of his death. It was a little... rushed.

No, never! I don't know how I avoided it in my post-Matrix Keanu lusting phase. The Oldman verdicts do seem to veer wildly between 'creepy', 'sexy', and 'creepily sexy'.

Oh, I forgot, did you want the interest meme thing? If not, just stop reading now. :)

egypt, footloose, harry and ginny, leonardo dicaprio, winter

TOBY STEPHENS IS DAME MAGGIE SMITH'S SON? AS IN....MCGONAGALL'S SON?? HOW DID I NOT KNOW THAT?

Interest meme me! =D I need something to do cause I am dying of boredom right now.

Having watched PoA again today, I love David Thewlis as Lupin. It's just his costume that I have a mjaor issue with. I really want to fancy him, but I just can't, because he has a dodgy moustache, weird hair and baggy clothes that aren't even "shabby" like they're supposed to be. And it's not David Thewlis's fault, cause I think he is good-looking, it's just the clothes they put him in. I'm hoping he has a new, shabby wardrobe / hairdo for thr 6th and 7th films

Somehow, though, I doubt it. Although his hair was different in 3rd and 5th. Although not enough.

Anyway, I think you described Lupin very well there. GRACE AND DIGNITY FTW.

LUPIN 4EVA, YO.

(Why the eff do I not have a Lupin icon. I need to make one pronto.)

I'm gonna look up that song now. I <3 Martha Wainwright's song w/ Snow Patrol. Guuuuh it was sex.

being british, happiness, moulin rouge, nymphadora tonks, photography

See how I very subtly included Tonks as opposed to Lupin? Otherwise we'd just look crazy and obsessive...

I really want to fancy him, but I just can't
BWAH! He is lovely. Not even after the doorway leaning in OotP? Bless you for trying, though. It's funny, when I read the books my imaginary!Lupin is more conventionally attractive (and younger), but Thewlis works for me in the films. Re: baggy vs shabby... It's weird because there's no reason for them not to fit. He's a wizard, yo, he could probably shrink them or whatever if he needed to. However, I do love muchly David Thewlis' logic that Lupin's cardigans = Kurt Cobain's cardigans.

LUPIN OWNS MY SOUL

Set The Fire To The Third Bar is magnifique. I loves the video. And it is indeed sex.

See how I very subtly included Tonks as opposed to Lupin? Otherwise we'd just look crazy and obsessive...

Yes, I did. And, yes, because we were so far from running that risk anyway ;)

Not even after the doorway leaning in OotP?
Oh, I forgot about that. That was a good moment. My thought process was basically "Aww that's a really good hug" to "Omg, David Thewlis needs to lean on doorframes way, way more often." I can't wait for the DVD to come out. I can just replay that two seconds of film again and again and again. I sense animated icons too. Many of them.

Okay, scrap everything I said, I do fancy him. I don't know what I was thinking in that last comment, actually. Because I do fancy him. I would fancy Remus Lupin if he was covered in warts and looked like a garden gnome. Or Homer Simpson. Or a giant mushroom. Or Anything At All That Looks Entirely Unpleasant.

Meh. Is he going to be in the 6th film at all? I just...isn't he in the 5th book quite a lot?? And he was hardly in the film at all. He should at least be in the 7th film a lot. He was in DH much more than I expected him to be, if I'm honest. And we got a lot more R/T than I expected us to get. I can't complain, really, can I? OH. EXCEPT THAT I CAN. BECAUSE SHE KILLED THEM. *humph*

Forgot the Doorway Lean Of Lust? Away with you. I think someone should be empoyed to follow him around with a doorframe so that whenever he pauses, he has somewhere to lean, and I think that person should be me. Because SEX is what that man is.

I've got my fingers crossed for some Lupin action in the deleted scenes, but the problem is a lot of the scenes he's prominent in in the book are there, but he's just been cut. Grrr. The only thing that I think has a real chance is Harry angsting to Lupin and Sirius in the fireplace about Snape's Worst Memory. The flashback itself will be on the DVD, so fingers crossed! Maybe some extended fight scene, but I think that's our lot. AND LUPIN AND TONKS DIDN'T EVEN TALK TO EACH OTHER OR SHARE A GLANCE OR ANYTHING. *humph*

And the sheer Lupin-ness in HBP makes me really hope for more Lupin in the fillums, because the Lupin/Tonks/Teddy plot offers family-type human emotional stuff all the way through, whereas we don't really see the Weasleys except at the beginning and the end. AND YET SHE STILL KILLED THEM! AND THEY HAD A TINY TURQUOISE-HAIRED BABY!

The only thing that I think has a real chance is Harry angsting to Lupin and Sirius in the fireplace about Snape's Worst Memory.

Yes! And I think that might have been my favourite Lupin scene in OoTP, except for Privet Drive.

Do you know how much of the flashback is going to be in the deleted scenes? LIke, are we getting "One: he's sitting in my chair...Two: he's wearing my clothes...Three: his name's Remus Lupin"?? I mean, I can't believe they went to all of the trouble of casting those six actors to play the young characters, and yet they included all of five seconds of what appears in the book. Surely, surely they atleast FILMED the whole thing?

so that whenever he pauses, he has somewhere to lean
You made me cackle again.

Privet Drive vs The Lean... Controversial *is conflicted*

I hope they filmed it, because it seems like something that would be in early drafts, but not actually get shot, because of the special effects needed for Fireplace!head or whatever. Why am I trying to talk myself out of this? I just don't want to care anymore, because when you care about stuff you lose everything!

Ohh, the only proper canon Young!Remus moment... He's all dry and wonderful and self-deprecating even then! I don't know about the exam, I reckon it's probably just the lakeside stuff.

No, by "Privet Drive" I meant in the book. The Lean was BY FAR the best part of the film, and he wasn't even in The Advance Guard at Privet Drive in the film, anyway.

Actually, what am I talking about? My favourite Lupin moment in OoTP the book is SO BADLY the pulling Harry back from the veil and "He's...gone" HOW ON EARTH DID I NOT REMEMBER THAT? Well, I suppose it is 4am.

I don't know about the exam, I reckon it's probably just the lakeside stuff. Isn't the discussion about the exam as they are walking to the lake, though? It couldbe in there *clings to hope* Rough deal for Young Lupin actor if he goes through all the casting and doesn't even get a line to say.

I just don't want to care anymore, because when you care about stuff you lose everything!
Tell me about it. I honestly think that all of my favourite characters die in ALL of my fandoms. Still, if I didn't care about them, then I would never be into the fandom in the first place, so it's a bit of a viscious cycle, really.

Oops, I meant 'Lupin not being in Privet Drive' vs 'Lupin leaning in doorway'. Fair trade? And I love that you say 'best part of the film', like those five seconds > the rest of the two hours. I NEED an animated doorway icon. Although we should not forget his almighty wand flourish in the Ministry battle. It reminds me of a whip-cracking motion...

THE VEIL! *dies like Sirius*

I am doing this meme now, and have only just realised that you gave me five only. Did you want to pick another one? Or not.

I suck, I did that to everybody!

rugby

Leon/The Proffesional is freaking hardcore. I need to watch that again. And Princess Mononoke is the bestest ever. The big forest spirit deer thing always creeps me out, with it's human face *shudders*, but that movie is still incredibly awesome. I love Studio Ghibli!

Oooh, I want to do the meme =).

eowyn/faramir, last of the mohicans, penguins, the red jumpsuit apparatus, tristan and isolde

I was blown away by how incredibly awesome it was! One of my friends has been telling me to watch it, like, all year, and now I realise that I was a FOOL! A FOOL! It freaks me out that Natalie Portman was so good so young. I mean, she balanced it out with Phantom Menace, but still.

I can never decide whether I prefer Princess Mononoke or Spirited Away. I really love the plot of Mononoke, and all the ecological message type stuff, but Spirited Away is so freaking pretty. Gah.

I knoooow! Dakota Fanning can be freakishly good, too. Well, she was back before she turned into the Hollywood It Kid. Like in I Am Sam and Man on Fire.

I haven't seen Spirited Away in a couple years, I need to re-watch it soon! I only saw My Neighbor Totoro for the first time this year. I know: madness! That was brilliant and adorable, of course. My sister and I loooooove Howl's Moving Castle, it's so romantic and cute =D. Oh, and there's Castle in the Sky, that one was alright, but deffinitely not one of my favorites. Oh and Nausicaä, but I've only seen that once.

Oh, oh, meme meeeeeeeee please.

I must must must see Princess Mononoke, it looks wonderful. I'm not sure I've *ever* seen any Studio Ghibli films, and I've been meaning to for absolutely ages.

Also Cillian Murphy = sexxxx.

+ Toby Stephens = sexxxx.

baroque pop, guinness marmite, lush, mathieu kassovitz, sugar rush

See it, see it now! That is all.

Sexxxx indeed. It must be the freckles.

See, this is why I had to friend you, you have such great interests.

There was a shocking amount of hating-on-Lupin after DH, of which I do not approve. >:(

I know! I came online, and was like "You hate... Lupin?" *frowns upon haters*

Do you want the meme thing? If so: accents, etymology, japan, mythology, red hair and freckles
If not, ignore the above :)

Haha, I loved your comments on Leon :) Gary Oldman is like HAWT all the time in any given situation. Death is... whimsical today. and

Stan:Bring me everyone
The other one: What do you mean everyone?
Stan fucking field: EVERYONE
are so much love. Well, everything is love in that movie.

Oh, and I'm commenting ;)

art history, celtic, french revolution, october, the romanovs

The only other person I can think of who can make me fancy him no matter what he's doing is Jeremy Irons. Man, I had a complicated time watching Lolita...

And you have to tell me where that picture in your icon is from. It owns everything, ever.

Interesting choices!

OHMAN, we have very similar tates. JEREMY FTW &hearts ;D

:DDDD I saw someone with an icon of that picture, and although I thought the icon was ugly I realized that such a photo existed so I just googled it and did my own icon xD It's evidently from the set and it's SO MUCH LOVE :)) The original picture was so friggin yellow I had a hard time getting turn into an alright, more natural colour. It's a little too redish still, but I like it overall.

Ooh, me! :)

bears, cia, ice skating, ninth doctor, red wigs, walk the line :)

I've never really been attracted to David Thewlis much, but that first picture of him is actually really hot.

Me please! XD

Aha! His power is irresistible! I'll just say what I to everyone, even people in the street, and that is "Watch Naked, because he is a sexy bastard." Although it is a very awkward film to Google.

alex rider, his dark materials, jaffa cakes, malcolm in the middle, mobly, snow

I've been digging in my inbox :D

Yeah... maybe I won't be Googling that at any point. Unless any Phelps twins links happen to show up. XD

*will do meme soon*

You have TO WARN ME before you go posting pictures like that Toby Stephens one, ALRIGHT????? *ded*

Oooooh...Cillian Murphy has freckled shoulders, too?? You know Toby does, too right? He's covered with freckles and it's quite lovely. I have loads of freckles, too but not quite as many.

Ah, Remus Lupin. <3

I've done this meme, but I guess it would be possible to pick 6 different interests...but whatever, it's ok. :)

See Sunshine. Cillian wears a VEST.

Brace yourself (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r48/sophiethestudent/Imaginary%20Boyfriends/betrayal.jpg) for some Toby hotness...

And if you can be bothered with the meme thing: band of brothers, banksy, glasgow, jack davenport, master and commander

If not, don't stress about it :D

Ok, I think I will. I wonder if it's out here yet...*goes to look*

Toby. Yes, that's nice. (Of course, this is an understatement.)

You managed to pick all different ones! Of course, I'm not bovvered. ^^;

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