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Well, I finally ordered North and South(the book) which means it should get here sometime in the next two weeks, and as I estimate it will take me about a week to read it(normally it would take 2-3 days but now with school, my reading rate has slowed down a lot) and then a couple of days for the movie to arrive from Netflix...I imagine I will be watching the movie at some point in the next three weeks. :D :D Zat makes me happy.
Not much else makes me happy these days. Oh yes-I did watch The Buccaneers and thought it was really good. It wasn't exactly overflowing with characters whom I adored, but it was still superbly done and I much enjoyed it. Nan, especially, I thought was good. From reading the book her character was a very difficult one to play, but the actress carried her off perfectly-at once her passion, her childlike mind and innocence, and her gradual maturing into love, grief, and womanhood. It really was perfectly cast-everyone, with the exception perhaps of Guy Thwaite, was exactly as I'd pictured them. I was a bit disappointed in Guy-he's absolutely LOVELY in the book, and somehow, although this makes no sense of course, I'd pictured him as being square-jawed, grey-eyed, and clean-shaven. *rolls eyes at self* Of course none of the men back then were clean-shaven! (Makes note to self to try and get over personal preferences when watching period movies.Fortunately for me, at the time of Darcy and Thornton, it was equally the fashion to be clean-shaven-:D*squee*) But he was still nice, being dark and intense and doing a good job of longing desperately for Nan. This is the first movie I've seen Mira Sorvino in, and she was AMAZING as the outgoing, warm, lovably immoral and rambunctious beautiful Spanish girl Conchita. She lit up the whole movie-she's the kind of character you want to meet in real life and have a real girl-fest with. But the best thing about the movie was all the little details-the paintings-were they Rubens?-don't know but it was lovely how they represented for her all the sensual passion and tenderness and love that was missing in the barren wasteland of her marriage. Those few scenes with she and Guy had all the missing, represses passion and reality and tenderness that was so lacking in the ridiculously overrated Age of Innocence-see my review of that here in my Amazon reviews-another of Edith Wharton's books adapted to the screen that, in spite of its high-profile actors and incredible potential, was horribly dry and clinical. Oh, it was lovely!-That scene in which she turns suddenly and puts her hand over his mouth to stop him from saying something forbidden, and in the next instant he has turned her hand and is kissing her palm passionately, and she breaks away but touches her hand to her mouth as if to hold onto something precious...lovely. I didn't love the movie, but it was very good and I would recommend it to most lovers of period drama.
Also, having become addicted to youtube recently(waves hand in fellowship to you, koala, as I know you suffer from the same addiction) I've been watching North and South and Stargate and Bones and Veronica Mars shipper vids, among others, and much enjoying them. Recently I've been revelling in the tenderness that is Jack-and-Audrey in 24-that hard-bitten, ruthless special agent Jack Baeur who turns incredibly lovely and protective and tender around Audrey, whom I adore...
http://www.youtube.com/v/10bSarCPr-s
http://www.youtube.com/v/3Gzoa16aUn4
And two clips which are just utterly lovely- I knew you would come http://www.youtube.com/v/XT4Ikr8bX7s&mode=related&search=
and one of my favorite scenes of all time, just after Audrey nearly dies and Jack saves her barely in time, when he's able to spend five minutes in her hospital room in the midst of his usual saving of the world- http://www.youtube.com/v/nN5E2Ds0GTk&search=24%20Jack%20Bauer%20Kiefer%20Sutherland%20Audrey%20Raines%20Kim%20Raver
Speaking of which, here are the people I ship, no ands, buts, maybes, or excuses-I support them wholeheartedly and will defend them to the death, although I'm not always averse to them being with other people-in the case of Mal I don't mind Mal/Kaylee either. Here goes...
-Mal/River(Firefly/Serenity)
-Sidney/Vaughn(Alias)-this is one in which no, I do not accept anyone but them. Sidney and Weiss would be fine for a fling after-well, after you-know-what happens for those who haven't seen the show, but not anyone else, and certainly not permanently)
-Veronica/Logan(Veronica Mars)-tis simple-Logan is not only about 200 times hotter than Duncan but also a hundred times more interesting as well as having all the best lines, great chemistry with Veronica, and being an incredibly charismatic and attractive bad-boy with a vulnerable side)
-Jack/Audrey(24)-y'know, I didn't even like Jack that much until his relationship with Audrey materialized-I've only watched the most recent season-and now, with the way he is with her and how incredibly lovely and moving their relationship is I just adore him. It's so rare to find either real tenderness or real delicacy in the way an onscreen romance is handled, but theirs is just incredible. Even next to Sidney/Vaughs'. In nearly every scene with the two of them interacting I'm just blown away. Love...)
-Sam/Jack(Stargate SG-1) you probably know the not-so-illustrious story of this one. In which the lovely Samantha Carter and the constantly hilarious, offbeat, and attractive Colonel Jack O'Neill do NOT get to together, having been in love/being attracted to each other for about 7 seasons straight and being a darn sweet couple, but NEVER GOING THROUGH WITH IT BECAUSE TELEVISION PRODUCERS ARE IRRITATING MORONS! (yes, I do feel strongly about this) Ah well. *sigh* I've let them go now. But it's very irritating.
Book I just finished(the one on insanity)-I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, which apparently was a national bestseller and has become something of a modern classic as it's featured on SparkNotes, none of which I knew when I picked it up but which makes sense now that Iv'e read it. And book I'm reading now-The Glimpses of the Moon, another Edith Wharton. So far it's really good as all her books are.
Not much else makes me happy these days. Oh yes-I did watch The Buccaneers and thought it was really good. It wasn't exactly overflowing with characters whom I adored, but it was still superbly done and I much enjoyed it. Nan, especially, I thought was good. From reading the book her character was a very difficult one to play, but the actress carried her off perfectly-at once her passion, her childlike mind and innocence, and her gradual maturing into love, grief, and womanhood. It really was perfectly cast-everyone, with the exception perhaps of Guy Thwaite, was exactly as I'd pictured them. I was a bit disappointed in Guy-he's absolutely LOVELY in the book, and somehow, although this makes no sense of course, I'd pictured him as being square-jawed, grey-eyed, and clean-shaven. *rolls eyes at self* Of course none of the men back then were clean-shaven! (Makes note to self to try and get over personal preferences when watching period movies.Fortunately for me, at the time of Darcy and Thornton, it was equally the fashion to be clean-shaven-:D*squee*) But he was still nice, being dark and intense and doing a good job of longing desperately for Nan. This is the first movie I've seen Mira Sorvino in, and she was AMAZING as the outgoing, warm, lovably immoral and rambunctious beautiful Spanish girl Conchita. She lit up the whole movie-she's the kind of character you want to meet in real life and have a real girl-fest with. But the best thing about the movie was all the little details-the paintings-were they Rubens?-don't know but it was lovely how they represented for her all the sensual passion and tenderness and love that was missing in the barren wasteland of her marriage. Those few scenes with she and Guy had all the missing, represses passion and reality and tenderness that was so lacking in the ridiculously overrated Age of Innocence-see my review of that here in my Amazon reviews-another of Edith Wharton's books adapted to the screen that, in spite of its high-profile actors and incredible potential, was horribly dry and clinical. Oh, it was lovely!-That scene in which she turns suddenly and puts her hand over his mouth to stop him from saying something forbidden, and in the next instant he has turned her hand and is kissing her palm passionately, and she breaks away but touches her hand to her mouth as if to hold onto something precious...lovely. I didn't love the movie, but it was very good and I would recommend it to most lovers of period drama.
Also, having become addicted to youtube recently(waves hand in fellowship to you, koala, as I know you suffer from the same addiction) I've been watching North and South and Stargate and Bones and Veronica Mars shipper vids, among others, and much enjoying them. Recently I've been revelling in the tenderness that is Jack-and-Audrey in 24-that hard-bitten, ruthless special agent Jack Baeur who turns incredibly lovely and protective and tender around Audrey, whom I adore...
http://www.youtube.com/v/10bSarCPr-s
http://www.youtube.com/v/3Gzoa16aUn4
And two clips which are just utterly lovely- I knew you would come http://www.youtube.com/v/XT4Ikr8bX7s&mode=related&search=
and one of my favorite scenes of all time, just after Audrey nearly dies and Jack saves her barely in time, when he's able to spend five minutes in her hospital room in the midst of his usual saving of the world- http://www.youtube.com/v/nN5E2Ds0GTk&search=24%20Jack%20Bauer%20Kiefer%20Sutherland%20Audrey%20Raines%20Kim%20Raver
Speaking of which, here are the people I ship, no ands, buts, maybes, or excuses-I support them wholeheartedly and will defend them to the death, although I'm not always averse to them being with other people-in the case of Mal I don't mind Mal/Kaylee either. Here goes...
-Mal/River(Firefly/Serenity)
-Sidney/Vaughn(Alias)-this is one in which no, I do not accept anyone but them. Sidney and Weiss would be fine for a fling after-well, after you-know-what happens for those who haven't seen the show, but not anyone else, and certainly not permanently)
-Veronica/Logan(Veronica Mars)-tis simple-Logan is not only about 200 times hotter than Duncan but also a hundred times more interesting as well as having all the best lines, great chemistry with Veronica, and being an incredibly charismatic and attractive bad-boy with a vulnerable side)
-Jack/Audrey(24)-y'know, I didn't even like Jack that much until his relationship with Audrey materialized-I've only watched the most recent season-and now, with the way he is with her and how incredibly lovely and moving their relationship is I just adore him. It's so rare to find either real tenderness or real delicacy in the way an onscreen romance is handled, but theirs is just incredible. Even next to Sidney/Vaughs'. In nearly every scene with the two of them interacting I'm just blown away. Love...)
-Sam/Jack(Stargate SG-1) you probably know the not-so-illustrious story of this one. In which the lovely Samantha Carter and the constantly hilarious, offbeat, and attractive Colonel Jack O'Neill do NOT get to together, having been in love/being attracted to each other for about 7 seasons straight and being a darn sweet couple, but NEVER GOING THROUGH WITH IT BECAUSE TELEVISION PRODUCERS ARE IRRITATING MORONS! (yes, I do feel strongly about this) Ah well. *sigh* I've let them go now. But it's very irritating.
Book I just finished(the one on insanity)-I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, which apparently was a national bestseller and has become something of a modern classic as it's featured on SparkNotes, none of which I knew when I picked it up but which makes sense now that Iv'e read it. And book I'm reading now-The Glimpses of the Moon, another Edith Wharton. So far it's really good as all her books are.