Birthday song meme and Sherlock Holmes
Feb. 5th, 2010 06:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakFrom several people on my flist:
What was the #1 song the day you were born? Google the date and #1 song and then post your #1 song on your LJ - preferably with a Youtube vid if you can find one!
As this differs regionally, and we don't all hail from America or England, I went for the German charts instead of the US and the UK ones, and lo and behold, got a very fitting result for a sci fi fangirl:
If you're not in the mood for YouTube clips, it was "In the Year 2525" (Exordium & Terminus), Zager & Evans". Out of curiosity, I did check what was going on in the UK and in the US at the same time. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising and Archies - Sugar, Sugar, respectively. Not sure what the combination of all three says about me. :)
In other news, I've seen the new Sherlock Holmes. Aside from the fact the slo mo sequences went on my nerves pretty quickly (Guy Ritchie, don't take it personally, I didn't like them in Snyder's Watchmen, either), it was enjoyable fluff. Was very amused what that facial hair did to Jude Law. After an early career specializing in cold, beautiful bastards, he suddenly manages to come across as warm-hearted and attractive, and it's all due to Watson's moustache and face that was allowed to be not a young man's anymore. Go him. RDJ evidently enjoyed himself, and whoever smuggled Holmes' cocaine habit past censors in the script via "you do know what you're taking is meant for eye surgery, don't you?" is a clever man/woman. You know whom I really loved, though? The women. I cheered every time Mary Morstan got the chance to sass Holmes ("Take Watson -" "Oh, I intend to"), and while I was a bit sceptical towards MacAdams' Irene Adler at first (because Irene Adler and A Scandal in Bohemia are such firm favourites as mine, and so often films trying to include her utterly miss the point by making her a damsel in distress when the reason she became the woman for Holmes is that she outsmarted and beat him in his own game), but she won me over. The plot was completely silly, but you know, given what the late Arthur Conan Doyle could come up with (Mormons, ACD? Really?), it's not like anyone has grounds to complain on.
In conclusion: should I read movieverse based fanfiction, it would have to be either focused on or include Mary and/or Irene in prominent roles. Holmes and Watson resemble their spiritual descendants in House in that I can see why others dig the relationship but I'm merely okay with it, meaning I'm utterly content with what canon presents and have no interest reading about further exploration in fanfic. Whereas there wasn't nearly enough Mary, and there can never be enough Irene...
What was the #1 song the day you were born? Google the date and #1 song and then post your #1 song on your LJ - preferably with a Youtube vid if you can find one!
As this differs regionally, and we don't all hail from America or England, I went for the German charts instead of the US and the UK ones, and lo and behold, got a very fitting result for a sci fi fangirl:
If you're not in the mood for YouTube clips, it was "In the Year 2525" (Exordium & Terminus), Zager & Evans". Out of curiosity, I did check what was going on in the UK and in the US at the same time. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising and Archies - Sugar, Sugar, respectively. Not sure what the combination of all three says about me. :)
In other news, I've seen the new Sherlock Holmes. Aside from the fact the slo mo sequences went on my nerves pretty quickly (Guy Ritchie, don't take it personally, I didn't like them in Snyder's Watchmen, either), it was enjoyable fluff. Was very amused what that facial hair did to Jude Law. After an early career specializing in cold, beautiful bastards, he suddenly manages to come across as warm-hearted and attractive, and it's all due to Watson's moustache and face that was allowed to be not a young man's anymore. Go him. RDJ evidently enjoyed himself, and whoever smuggled Holmes' cocaine habit past censors in the script via "you do know what you're taking is meant for eye surgery, don't you?" is a clever man/woman. You know whom I really loved, though? The women. I cheered every time Mary Morstan got the chance to sass Holmes ("Take Watson -" "Oh, I intend to"), and while I was a bit sceptical towards MacAdams' Irene Adler at first (because Irene Adler and A Scandal in Bohemia are such firm favourites as mine, and so often films trying to include her utterly miss the point by making her a damsel in distress when the reason she became the woman for Holmes is that she outsmarted and beat him in his own game), but she won me over. The plot was completely silly, but you know, given what the late Arthur Conan Doyle could come up with (Mormons, ACD? Really?), it's not like anyone has grounds to complain on.
In conclusion: should I read movieverse based fanfiction, it would have to be either focused on or include Mary and/or Irene in prominent roles. Holmes and Watson resemble their spiritual descendants in House in that I can see why others dig the relationship but I'm merely okay with it, meaning I'm utterly content with what canon presents and have no interest reading about further exploration in fanfic. Whereas there wasn't nearly enough Mary, and there can never be enough Irene...
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Date: 2010-02-05 03:21 pm (UTC)Re: Sherlock Holmes -- I too was thoroughly charmed by Law's Watson, much more so than I thought I would be. RDJ's attempts to not sound like an American were amusing and slightly irritating on my first watch, but I got over that pretty quickly. And I concur -- nowhere near enough Mary (or Irene) but I was pleased with the depth of character they managed to portray in Mary's few scenes.
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Date: 2010-02-05 06:20 pm (UTC)Re: RDJ's accent: the first role I ever saw him in was as Charles Chaplin in Chaplin, i.e. another Englishman, so the transatlantic attempt sounded familiar...
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Date: 2010-02-05 06:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-05 06:40 pm (UTC)Young Chaplin, English musical hall actor, arrives in Hollywood:
Middle-aged Chaplin makes his case against sound , explaining why the tramp should never speak
Young Chaplin invents the Tramp (aka the only time Richard Attenborough deliberately creates a Chaplin-esque sequence in his biopic)
Chaplin pisses off J. Edgar Hoover (and RDJ does the breakfeast roll dance)
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Date: 2010-02-05 06:43 pm (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgHjqVu15MY