"No, I expect you to talk"

[selenak]

Tell me I'm not going to write pretentious meta on the three last Bond movies, using phrases like "fire and water imagery", "the queen and her champion" and how Vesper is Eurydike but Bond isn't Orpheus, he's Persephone while Felix Leiter, Camille in Quantum of Solace and Eve in Skyfall are fellow knights who are also reflections of who Bond is at the respective points and that the fact the later two are women fits with the change that making M one brought to the overall narrative. I mean. Bond movies! You don't write pretentious meta about Bond movies, self!

Meanwhile, have fifteen adorable and extremely funny minutes of Judi Dench, Daniel Craig and Javier Bardem getting interviewed by Graham Norton (no spoilers):

Representative excerpt:

Graham Norton: "So, Judi, there's a lot of you being in charge. You like that?"
Judi Dench: "You bet. I love keeping naughty boys in order."
Daniel Craig and Judi Dench: crack up and clutch each other in hysterics


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Meanwhile, in the Renaissance:

The Borgias:

The Borgias video of my dreams was made, and it is called Savages. There they are, the family plus Giulia and Micheletto, in their messed up beautiful glory. Spoiliers for both seasons!

Comments

[lotesse]

(I'm no help at all) you should totally write that.

[selenak]

I totally blame you for what just went up, then. :)

[lakrids404]

I would read yours pretentious meta on the three last Bond movies, and isn't all meta a little pretentious?.

[selenak]

True enough. I gave into temptation and posted.

[squirelawrence]

No, no - WE don't write pretentious meta about Bond movies - YOU should TOTALLY write it. *grin*

You find the best Youtube vids, too - the bit where Javier Bardem is describing what it's like to discover you're in a James Bond movie cracked me up. It was very much like the vid of Samuel L. Jackson, after he was cast in the Star Wars movies, describing what it was like when he got issued his own lightsaber - very funny.

[selenak]

*caves and posts pretentious meta*

[pollyanna]

Thanks for posting the video link, that was a delight. I think my favourite was Dame Judi's ringtone :-)

[selenak]

I'm still giggling over that one as well. :)

[d_generate_girl]

Oh my goodness, you recced Savages! For some reason, I didn't connect you with "Selena" on AO3 and "Selenak" here. Thank you so much for the lovely comments, I'm really pleased to hear the vid did everything I wanted it to do.

[selenak]

Back when I first got an lj account, "Selena" was already taken, so I added the first letter of my last name for lj and dw but kept "Selena" for fanfiction.

Savages was truly fabulous, and I'm so happy you made it!

[kalypso]

Currently listening to In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg's discussion programme, on the (historical) Borgias.

[selenak]

I'll try my luck when I'm back home (am in Bonn this morning).