movies make with teh weird
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freckles_and_doubtYou know the LJ bug has bitten hard when you can go out for supper and a movie with a bevy of lady friends, and then proceed to list them as ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wolverine_nun, first_fallen and tsukikoneko. I feel like I should be writing boy-band slash and fangirling Orli!!111!, or something.
Anyway. Moving right along from that slightly surreal image, the movie was, in fact, The Libertine, in which Johnny Depp succeeds, against all odds and with the assistance of death by syphilis, in making himself look almost as creepy and disgusting as he did in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. (Although I may be biased here). I really enjoyed the film, not just for its cheerful 17th-century filth, in both senses of the word, but for the aforementioned Mr. Depp's performance (in the strictly thespian sense of the word), which was intense, intelligent, desperate, edged and utterly convincing. He tends to waft around a lot of his movies playing a slightly fey, eccentric type with far more inner life than out; it was illuminating, to watch the difference here, the externalisation of far too much thought into wanton physical excess pursued intently despite the fact that such a pursuit is clearly futile as a distraction from too much intelligence. Also, Johnny Depp with a sneer? Oh my!*
Freeway II was, incidentally, not much fun, although not actually as bad as I'd expected: more like Verse 2 of Freeway, in exactly the same mood, tone and idiom, only without the good actors. And with more transvestite cannibal nuns.
In fact, all things considered, what with the transvestite cannibal nuns this morning and the giant, wheeled paper-mache penises ridden by dwarves this evening, I think I'm going to bed now and hoping desperately that, for once, I won't remember the dreams.
* Additional movie bonus: an entirely unexpected, although minimal, Jack Davenport! (small Ultraviolet fangirl-yay - the Brit vampire TV show, not the movie).
wolverine_nun, first_fallen and tsukikoneko. I feel like I should be writing boy-band slash and fangirling Orli!!111!, or something.Anyway. Moving right along from that slightly surreal image, the movie was, in fact, The Libertine, in which Johnny Depp succeeds, against all odds and with the assistance of death by syphilis, in making himself look almost as creepy and disgusting as he did in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. (Although I may be biased here). I really enjoyed the film, not just for its cheerful 17th-century filth, in both senses of the word, but for the aforementioned Mr. Depp's performance (in the strictly thespian sense of the word), which was intense, intelligent, desperate, edged and utterly convincing. He tends to waft around a lot of his movies playing a slightly fey, eccentric type with far more inner life than out; it was illuminating, to watch the difference here, the externalisation of far too much thought into wanton physical excess pursued intently despite the fact that such a pursuit is clearly futile as a distraction from too much intelligence. Also, Johnny Depp with a sneer? Oh my!*
Freeway II was, incidentally, not much fun, although not actually as bad as I'd expected: more like Verse 2 of Freeway, in exactly the same mood, tone and idiom, only without the good actors. And with more transvestite cannibal nuns.
In fact, all things considered, what with the transvestite cannibal nuns this morning and the giant, wheeled paper-mache penises ridden by dwarves this evening, I think I'm going to bed now and hoping desperately that, for once, I won't remember the dreams.
* Additional movie bonus: an entirely unexpected, although minimal, Jack Davenport! (small Ultraviolet fangirl-yay - the Brit vampire TV show, not the movie).
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Date: Wednesday, 26 July 2006 10:33 pm (UTC)The Libertine was otherwise good, if a little OTT, IMO. :)
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Date: Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:40 am (UTC)Libertine was totally OTT, and necessarily so: the central character was someone who had to push a boundary whenever one was presented, so it's inevitable things would have got a little out of hand. I found it a remarkably compelling performance in psychological terms, actually. He kept reminding me of people I know, although none of them take boundary-pushing quite as definitively into the realms of sex and booze :>.
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Date: Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:02 pm (UTC)Also I found Malkovich's fake nose in the Libertine totally compelling!
Must see Ultraviolet some time.
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Date: Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:19 pm (UTC)I recommend Ultraviolet - slow, intense, compelling. Make sure you get the British TV series, not the recent movie, which was (a) unrelated, and (b) very bad, by all accounts.
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