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However, connecting to the net only via cell phone has its distinct disadvantages. I could only skim my friends list, and go through my mail at top speed. The result looks something like this:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hobsonphile writes a Five Things Which Never Happened To Vir - yay!; honorh wrote plausible Faith/Dawn - wow; bimo has a livejournal now - hooray, and everyone please welcome her, she's in all the fandoms I'm involved in and a lot more besides, and created the first and best multifandom German-language fanfic archive singlehandedly; andrastewhite bought some spy show instead of the second season of Babylon 5 - curses!; otoh, this might mean I'll get my Andrew and Buffy story sooner or later; oh, and something I forgot to mention in my last journal entry, of interest only if you're a) into Star Wars and b) among the minority, who, like me, is fond of Anakin Skywalker - a good Episode III pic featuring him is here.
Walking through woods and on beaches leaves one time to reminesce, so rather than go into more boring landscape raptures, I thought I'd justify my fannish existence by exploiting the current taste for Johnny Depp and bringing up my favourite movie featuring him, which unjustly never was very popular at the box office: Ed Wood. It's a love declaration to all losers in Hollywood, the anti-great-man picture as the screenwriters called it, a wonderful recreation of the early 50s, and funny and touching. Ed Wood, declared the worst director of all time (having seen the films he's famous for, I have to say this is unfair - I saw much worse stuff on TV), and played by Johnny Depp as an (almost) irrepressible optimist, is one character one wouldn't dare to invent - fond of horror movies and angora in equal measure, a heterosexual transvestite, coming up with ideas like getting a group of Baptists to finance his movie Plan Nine from Outer Space by somehow persuading them this would provide them with enough cash to get a series of religious pictures made... And he's just one of many endearing, captivating characters in this film. There is, above all others, Martin Landau as classic horror icon Bela Lugosi (Landau got an Oscar for this role, justly so), whose relationship with Ed provides the emotional core of this movie. His daughter Juliet, known to all Buffy fans as Drusilla, made her big screen debut here as Loretta King ("no liquids - I'm terribly allergic to them!"), one of Ed's quirky, hopeful and hopeless actors. There is Sarah Jessica Parker as Ed's acerbic girlfriend Dolores. And there are Swedish wrestlers, colour-blind camera men, psychics without a single accurate prediction... and the amazing thing is that except for one scene, the scriptwriters did't make any of this stuff (or people) up. The scene in question lets Ed meet another of his idols, Orson Welles, who certainly would have appreciated the invention. Incidentally, Vincent D'Onofrio, wo plays Welles in that one scene, does so to perfection and made me wish he could have played him in an O.W. biopic. Preferrably written by the same gifted duo who wrote Ed Wood, and directed by Tim Burton.
However, connecting to the net only via cell phone has its distinct disadvantages. I could only skim my friends list, and go through my mail at top speed. The result looks something like this:
hobsonphile writes a Five Things Which Never Happened To Vir - yay!; honorh wrote plausible Faith/Dawn - wow; bimo has a livejournal now - hooray, and everyone please welcome her, she's in all the fandoms I'm involved in and a lot more besides, and created the first and best multifandom German-language fanfic archive singlehandedly; andrastewhite bought some spy show instead of the second season of Babylon 5 - curses!; otoh, this might mean I'll get my Andrew and Buffy story sooner or later; oh, and something I forgot to mention in my last journal entry, of interest only if you're a) into Star Wars and b) among the minority, who, like me, is fond of Anakin Skywalker - a good Episode III pic featuring him is here.Walking through woods and on beaches leaves one time to reminesce, so rather than go into more boring landscape raptures, I thought I'd justify my fannish existence by exploiting the current taste for Johnny Depp and bringing up my favourite movie featuring him, which unjustly never was very popular at the box office: Ed Wood. It's a love declaration to all losers in Hollywood, the anti-great-man picture as the screenwriters called it, a wonderful recreation of the early 50s, and funny and touching. Ed Wood, declared the worst director of all time (having seen the films he's famous for, I have to say this is unfair - I saw much worse stuff on TV), and played by Johnny Depp as an (almost) irrepressible optimist, is one character one wouldn't dare to invent - fond of horror movies and angora in equal measure, a heterosexual transvestite, coming up with ideas like getting a group of Baptists to finance his movie Plan Nine from Outer Space by somehow persuading them this would provide them with enough cash to get a series of religious pictures made... And he's just one of many endearing, captivating characters in this film. There is, above all others, Martin Landau as classic horror icon Bela Lugosi (Landau got an Oscar for this role, justly so), whose relationship with Ed provides the emotional core of this movie. His daughter Juliet, known to all Buffy fans as Drusilla, made her big screen debut here as Loretta King ("no liquids - I'm terribly allergic to them!"), one of Ed's quirky, hopeful and hopeless actors. There is Sarah Jessica Parker as Ed's acerbic girlfriend Dolores. And there are Swedish wrestlers, colour-blind camera men, psychics without a single accurate prediction... and the amazing thing is that except for one scene, the scriptwriters did't make any of this stuff (or people) up. The scene in question lets Ed meet another of his idols, Orson Welles, who certainly would have appreciated the invention. Incidentally, Vincent D'Onofrio, wo plays Welles in that one scene, does so to perfection and made me wish he could have played him in an O.W. biopic. Preferrably written by the same gifted duo who wrote Ed Wood, and directed by Tim Burton.
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Gilbert Grape was when I started noticing him, too
Date: 2003-09-23 06:50 am (UTC)Humble beginnings - amazing career
Date: 2003-09-22 01:29 pm (UTC)As much as I enjoy all of his Tim Burton movies, my favourite Johnny Depp performance clearly is in Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man . There is this one perfect scene that will probably be stuck in my head forever. "I'm William Blake. Hear my poetry" And then, the other guy is gone. Just like this...
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Date: 2003-09-23 12:35 am (UTC)Don't worry, you're winning. I was, after all, in the DVD section - had they had the boxed set instead of just Season One, I'd have been a goner *g*.
otoh, this might mean I'll get my Andrew and Buffy story sooner or later
Oh, you shall - although for the moment I seem to be on a Farscape kick. The B5 thoughts haven't gone away, mind, just joined the usual din - last I saw G'Kar he was attempting to chat up Jean Grey. It can't end well ...
G'Kar/Jean Grey...
Date: 2003-09-23 04:21 am (UTC)