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[cimorene]

willem dafoe is my new infatuation, if i have failed to mention.

i can't decide whether writing hilary and brice (lara croft's pet gay sidekicks) is more or less urgent than writing sherlock holmes.

i need some master and commander recs.

Comments

[bookshop.livejournal.com]

I love Willem Dafoe. If you haven't seen them already I recommend Auto-Focus and Boondock Saints.

Also, I assume when you say M&C recs, you've already read astolat?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

nope, i haven't read shalott's. i didn't know she was doing it. although i believe wax will provide some recs if she can be bothered to remember where she read them.

i saw bds and am starting to look for others, so thank you for the recs.

[kemelios.livejournal.com]

Guh. The Last Temptation of Christ!Dafoe was the star of my nightly dreams for weeks after viewing...

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i might not be able to get that around here, sadly. ::makes a note::

[hisgreyeyes.livejournal.com]

Yes, obviously astolat, and also I like Prizes Over Discovery (http://www.trickster.org/~sakana17/am/) very much.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

thankee.

[wax-jism.livejournal.com]

Boo. I'm alive! Amazingly.

Before I fall into bed to remain unconscious for the next sixteen hours or so, I must ask you to delete my email details and whatnot off your computer, or I won't get all my mail. Which would be silly!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

baby! i missed you! so much! and i only cried a little TINY bit, not even twenty minutes i think. maybe five in the car and five at home. mom kept me non-weepy by being irritating and babbling about the car, the house, the insurance company, and her family woes for a good two and a half hours.

and i'm way ahead of you; i deleted the account as soon as i'd made myself a cuppa.

[ljash.livejournal.com]

Oh, no. Now I've dragged myself mostly back out of the Defoe infatuation. If the Brett & Hardwicke thing is any indication, you're going to suck me back in again.

Oh well. What's gotten to you with Defoe? Personally for me it was a combination of Platoon, Last Temptation of Christ, Shadow of the Vampire, and Spider-Man. He's just excellent. He plays better opposite men than women, too, and somehow just brings out the slash even when I think he might not be intending to.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

heh. i was hooked from finding nemo i suppose. i haven't seen most movies. actually, in spider-man i was just sort of amused. he was clearly having a great time, though. it was boondock saints that made me squeal and squeeze hard enough to bruise wax's ribs.

[ljash.livejournal.com]

Hmm I haven't seen Boondock Saints but it's been recommended enough times that I suppose I have to. There's also another one of his that's been strongly recommended, To Live and Die in LA but I don't know anything about that. Hmm. I'm up for a descent into Defoe-squeeing.

(I find it hilarious that you're hooked from Finding Nemo--while they did make Gil look quite a lot like him, it's really just not the same. But I guess when you're that far into the slash you can make it the same.) :)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

his voice! his manner of expression. it's obviously not the same missing an element, but it's not alien, it's partial.

[ljash.livejournal.com]

Well.. I did only see Finding Nemo the one time. I keep meaning to see it again. (Though it'll definitly be a different experience after your story!)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

well, i've seen it... um... one, two, three, four, five, six... seven times. ahem.

it's a great movie.

[ljash.livejournal.com]

Ahem. I just saw it again last night.

I take it back. You can definitly be attracted to Defoe just from that movie.

And yeah, it is a great movie. I wanted to see it again right away. I don't really see the slash, though, which is kind of a relief. Nemo just acts too young. But I can see the kind like you wrote, a post-movie story. Though the idea is still scary...

:)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

don't you see that the movie is about adolescence, though, about his growing up, and that gill helps catalyze that? indeed, that gill is not really a father figure but a friend?

[ljash.livejournal.com]

Oh I definitly think that Gil is not a father figure, but a friend. However I still don't think Nemo goes through much of adolescence... he certainly does grow up quite a bit, and become stronger and more independent, but he still acts much like a kid.

Even if he does act like a kid, I agree that Gil is not a father figure. And I can easily see a meet-up-again-later slash like the kind you wrote. And, of course, for a fish to grow up a little is not far from growing up entirely. But they did so many little things to anthropomorphize him and make him out to be like a human kid that I couldn't see him as an adult or even an adolescent by the end.

Or maybe it's just his voice. I never said I was reasonable. :)