screencaps: "meantime" and "a dangerous man". and a kitty video.

[cimorene]

secret message to hollsk and isilya:  i'm very sorry about not returning from my absence, but company showed up abruptly to watch movies.

the movie-watching today was sort of like delayed birthday festivities, because a birthday isn't really a proper one without both a family dinner and having some people over.  chi and sugar and i watched a dangerous man and meantime and drank glögg without any rum and ate not entirely politically correct candy¹ and discussed postmodernism and sociology a bit. 

speaking of that i have some presents for you, dear friendslist everyone (not locking the post).  first, more low-quality home videos of my pets: 

chi holding lily [narrated by cim, guest appearances by perry and tea] [avi], right click save, ≈2,6 mb.  there are instances of me talking for the pets in a squeaky voice.  i totally got this habit from wax.

and i also have two galleries of screencaps.

meantime (1984), starring tim roth and gary oldman (these are the same caps i posted last spring when i first got the movie, but they weren't ever in lj gallery form).  270 caps.

a dangerous man (1990), starring ralph fiennes (in his screen debut!) and siddig el fadil (of ds9).  (this was even slashier than i remembered, and it's only been a couple of weeks since i watched it.  also, i need to make more caps of certain scenes, but that's not going to happen today.)  321 caps.



loving looks at their first reunion after years of separation:





frolicking in a field:


lawrence writing poetry about feisal (no... really):
(no... really)

"i signed up for sonnets100."

"i'm going to write 100 poems about feisal!"*

*okay, captions:  not really.  but the poetry, yes.  i swear on tim/gary slash.


meaningful cigarette-lighting:



the wedding (no, sorry.  not really):




"with this scroll of paper i thee wed."



an angsty hug:





from the last scene:







1. they're like flavoured poofy marshmallows covered in chocolate, big ones, and until recently they were called (in finnish) "nigger kisses". uh... huh. so they had to change the title but the box still features some cartoony black characters, mostly naked, with a bongo drum and gold jewelry, kissing.

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[guinevere33.livejournal.com]

One of the Swedish grad students here informed us that there's also a round chocolate candy that used to be called "nigger balls". The name was recently changed to the more PC "chocolate balls", and you'll never guess what the catalyst was - it was the South Park sketch about Chef's "salty chocolate balls" Christmas candy.

[wax-jism.livejournal.com]

Yes, the balls. Common people still call them that, of course, because it's really hard to remember that kind of old ingrained offensiveness. (Common people = I, also.)

Fortunately I don't have to talk much about them in day-to-day conversation.

Also, it's not so much 'nigger balls' as 'negro balls' -- I mean, it's archaic and offensive but not deliberately so, you know?

[morningfine]

I know it's archaic and arguably not offensive at all, but since it takes at least a semi-educated person to consider that, I kind of think of 'neekeri' as 'nigger' now anyway. I mean, that's the way it's going to sound to a lot of people, or am I being too pessimistic?

That said, yeah, I call them by the old (proper, dammit!) name.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

hahah. i'm so amused by that icon.

[heartofslash.livejournal.com]

Oh lord, you've killed me dead with the dangerous man caps. I mustmustmust see that. Siddig slays me in the best possible ways. *writhes*

[cimness.livejournal.com]

it's out on region 1 but no region 2 dvd. mine came from amazon.ca, but perhael got a copy from ebay.de.

they're really both incredibly good in this movie. there's so so so so much facial acting and eyefucking, and i had to leave some of the slashiest scenes out of the sample caps because without a ton of explaining the plot the significance wouldn't have been apparent. but basically, i love reallyreally good eyefucking actors who create tense sexual vibes together oh, so much.