a knight's tale

[cimorene]

a knight's tale: cute despite cheap mercury-less version of 'we are the champions' and a bit too much het romance. if left to my own devices i'd go for more money shots of rufus sewell and fewer of heath ledger--which i'd have thought a no-brainer, actually, but i suppose everyone can't share my exquisite taste.

pardon me while i think about rufus sewell and purr.

ahem. okay, so, paul is just ruddy adorable. he did chaucer so well! he's really a fabulous actor, which you see, i think, only after having watched two very different movies. proves his versatility, don't you know. right, so, i dislike blonde men, in general, but he has more of that impossible, white-freckled-translucent redhead's complexion, with his hair practically free of melanin so his face turns far redder all the time--and his adorable blond eyelashes and eyebrows! ahh, his stance and his walk, though, or should i say swagger? in my view he totally steals the show.

Comments

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

i adore that movie. despite it's chick-flick qualities and bad romance.

mainly because of chaucer. but heath is good too. though, i really don't like the girl.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

me either.

but the blacksmith girl i like!

and RUFUS!

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

oh yes, the blacksmith girl is awesome.

and who does rufus play?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

the bad guy.

i mean, count alb-something.

mmh.

he's my and wax's pick for our sirius.

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

oh, hell. hot. but an asshole. but hot. i'm torn. heh.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

well, i'm not sure if he's an asshole IRL or no. paul and the director seem to like him. apparently his house in prague is so partyful that he's a byword with the prague police.

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

:D
in that case, he's alright. but i'm so easily effected by the characters actors play, it's sad.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i know what you mean. although in his case he plays it with an alan rickman-like relish for doing bad guys which makes clear to me, at least, that he's... not really bad.

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

i tend to like bad guys, actually. like holy hell ian mckellen as richard iii? yeahh.... and a lot of others. alan rickman as snape. :D i'm a fangirl, i'll admit it. i always like the baddies. especially when the goodies are shallow and boring.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

me too.

and when i was little i always wished i could play them in a play because they always looked like the most fun. like, for instance, maleficent or scar. or lina lamont in singin in the rain.

i've not seen richard the iii, but yeah, sir ian is up there in my list of sexy old men, and so is alan rickman. (rufus sewell is a generation younger than them, which is to say, the right age for sirius and remus. and rickman is perfect for his part except for being too old.) anyway, his magneto definitely made a fangirl of me. 'she's good.' 'you have no idea.' aahahaha SQUEE.

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

i totally squeed at that point too. mystique's powers leave SO MUCH GOODNESS to the imagination, and mine likes to go into things like that. i adored magneto, so so much. that was my other example that i forgot. magneto all the way.

i recommend watching richard iii. sir ian was so deliciously evil, and there is asides, so he lets the audience in on it! i love that. made me feel evil, too.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

hee! i think i will. watch it i mean.

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

let me know what you think! :)

Rufus!

[xylohypha.livejournal.com]

Dark City. Cold Comfort Farm. Whee!

Loved Ashes and Catch Fire, btw (read 'em long ago, still think fondly of them), and never dropped a line to mention it.

Xylo

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Re: Rufus!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

are 'dark city' etc sewell movies? cause i've never heard of 'em.

Re: Rufus!

[xylohypha.livejournal.com]

So sorry. Didn't mean to be cryptic. Dark City is a woefully underappreciated SF flick, with RS in one of the major roles. Also featuring Kiefer Sutherland in a pre-24 part.

Cold Comfort Farm is...er...not necessarily to everyone's taste, but it suited mine. It's really funny, if your funny bone runs that way; RS as lusty rustic lad (not a big role, but he's way pretty) is almost worth the price of a rental. Think kind of Jane Austin for the 90's (1990's, that is), though the setting is a half-century or more earlier. It may be an acquired taste: I don't guarantee its amusement quotient for anyone but me.

Xylo

Re: Rufus!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

well, if i were to look for them at blockbuster, would they both be drama, do you think? or the former action? the latter comedy?

Re: Rufus!

[xylohypha.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Drama, SF or maybe even horror for Dark City. Cold Comfort Farm ought to be under comedy, though as it's British, it might be located over somewhere random, given the way shelving preferences vary sometimes.

Re: Rufus!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

our blockbuster has no sf or horror categories, so i'll try drama. but if it's at all rare they won't have it at all. it's a very sad blockbuster.