Air Force 1 (& a bit of random blurb)
I watched this film before I came back to University (oh yeah, did I forget to say? I'm back in Durham now) with my mum and dad, mainly because me and my mum are in love with Harrisson Ford, who plays the President.
Brief (mostly gacked from IMDB) summary: Hijackers seize the plane carrying the President of the United States and his family (Air Force One), but the president (an ex-soldier) manages to hide on the plane and works to defeat them. It's a good film! Exciting stuff! :D
Now, to the point. OK. So, uh ... we [Dad] spotted Gary Oldman on the cast list.
But this was not just Gary Oldman. This was Gary Oldman with a Russian accent. Gary Oldman, with a Russian accent, being the special kind of crazy.
By 'special kind of crazy' I mean that he says things like, "I would turn my back on God Himself for Mother Russia." And, while duct-taping the president's daughter's hands together, casually mentions that he has three kids, and asks her how come he's a bad man and her daddy isn't when they both have killed people 'for their country'. His performance earned him the nickname 'Scary Gary' on set (according to IMDB; I can believe them).
OH MAN THAT SHOULDN'T BE SEXY. Except that it kind of is. *whines*
I must admit, when he actually starts with the full on "I'm going to SHOUT IN YOUR FACE and WAVE A GUN AT YOUR FAMILY and SLAM YOUR HEAD INTO THINGS, Mr President" stuff, it's ... less sexy, because yes, he is scary and insane. But when he's being a calm, relatively 'sane' terrorist, it's ... ngh. NGH. Really.
Now, I knew before now that he was damn good at playing insane villain types. (See The Fifth Element and Lost In Space for proof.) But Russian accent?! Oh, I was not prepared for that little gem!
Mmm.
Also, he has a nice a~rse. :P
*craves OotP film, for the brief glimpses of Gary Sirius that it offers*
God, I'm such a freak. And I want to write Sirius/Remus and Arthur/Merlin. (Not both at once.)
On the subject of both Merlin and Air Force 1, the weirdest image ever popped into my head the other day. I was just walking along, minding my own business, on my way to my 9am language class, when - BAM - who should appear, but Arthur, dressed as an airline pilot stripper. Except he was almost finished with his routine by the time he arrived in my brain, so I go this:
Arthur, wearing nothing but an airline pilot's hat and a smirk. For the record, the hat was not on his head.
I texted ice_elf, who I think got it worse. She got a bonus Air Hostess Merlin, too. Thankfully, he didn't come to join Airline Pilot Arthur in my head, although the thought - spawned by ice_elf's reply texts - of what they would get up to in the cockpit (excuse me whilst I snerk like a seven-year-old boy) both amused and terrified me. They would be respoinsible for so many accidents. XD Much as I'd want to see them, I would not want to get on any plane that they were one, no matter what the opportunities for voyeurism. :P
Also, I kind of want art of that. Or at the very leasat fic. (No, it's not in my powers to do it, don't even ask.)
Alsoalso: This song. The Bad Touch - the one that goes, "You and me baby, we're nothing but mammals, so let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel ... etc." It is bad for my brain. In my head, it has become Colin and Bradley's Song. (You know; all couples have a Song, and in my head, this one is theirs. Accidentally, somehow; no one would choose it as Their Song, I don't think.) I don't even know why. I can just see them doing this freakish dance at one another at some kind of party. I'm afraid of the workings of my own brain. ; _ ;
Anyway. Enough. Now? I'm going to bed. 7am start tomorrow. Blegh.
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Brief (mostly gacked from IMDB) summary: Hijackers seize the plane carrying the President of the United States and his family (Air Force One), but the president (an ex-soldier) manages to hide on the plane and works to defeat them. It's a good film! Exciting stuff! :D
Now, to the point. OK. So, uh ... we [Dad] spotted Gary Oldman on the cast list.
But this was not just Gary Oldman. This was Gary Oldman with a Russian accent. Gary Oldman, with a Russian accent, being the special kind of crazy.
By 'special kind of crazy' I mean that he says things like, "I would turn my back on God Himself for Mother Russia." And, while duct-taping the president's daughter's hands together, casually mentions that he has three kids, and asks her how come he's a bad man and her daddy isn't when they both have killed people 'for their country'. His performance earned him the nickname 'Scary Gary' on set (according to IMDB; I can believe them).
OH MAN THAT SHOULDN'T BE SEXY. Except that it kind of is. *whines*
I must admit, when he actually starts with the full on "I'm going to SHOUT IN YOUR FACE and WAVE A GUN AT YOUR FAMILY and SLAM YOUR HEAD INTO THINGS, Mr President" stuff, it's ... less sexy, because yes, he is scary and insane. But when he's being a calm, relatively 'sane' terrorist, it's ... ngh. NGH. Really.
Now, I knew before now that he was damn good at playing insane villain types. (See The Fifth Element and Lost In Space for proof.) But Russian accent?! Oh, I was not prepared for that little gem!
Mmm.
Also, he has a nice a~rse. :P
*craves OotP film, for the brief glimpses of Gary Sirius that it offers*
God, I'm such a freak. And I want to write Sirius/Remus and Arthur/Merlin. (Not both at once.)
On the subject of both Merlin and Air Force 1, the weirdest image ever popped into my head the other day. I was just walking along, minding my own business, on my way to my 9am language class, when - BAM - who should appear, but Arthur, dressed as an airline pilot stripper. Except he was almost finished with his routine by the time he arrived in my brain, so I go this:
Arthur, wearing nothing but an airline pilot's hat and a smirk. For the record, the hat was not on his head.
I texted ice_elf, who I think got it worse. She got a bonus Air Hostess Merlin, too. Thankfully, he didn't come to join Airline Pilot Arthur in my head, although the thought - spawned by ice_elf's reply texts - of what they would get up to in the cockpit (excuse me whilst I snerk like a seven-year-old boy) both amused and terrified me. They would be respoinsible for so many accidents. XD Much as I'd want to see them, I would not want to get on any plane that they were one, no matter what the opportunities for voyeurism. :P
Also, I kind of want art of that. Or at the very leasat fic. (No, it's not in my powers to do it, don't even ask.)
Alsoalso: This song. The Bad Touch - the one that goes, "You and me baby, we're nothing but mammals, so let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel ... etc." It is bad for my brain. In my head, it has become Colin and Bradley's Song. (You know; all couples have a Song, and in my head, this one is theirs. Accidentally, somehow; no one would choose it as Their Song, I don't think.) I don't even know why. I can just see them doing this freakish dance at one another at some kind of party. I'm afraid of the workings of my own brain. ; _ ;
Anyway. Enough. Now? I'm going to bed. 7am start tomorrow. Blegh.
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