Not-Pros-Watch - The Scarlet Pimpernel
I'm missing ProsWatch, so I did Not-ProsWatch instead... The Scarlet Pimpernel with MS as Paul Chauvelin, the baddie! So as a bonus we get to imagine the lads dressed up for Regency times... *g*
It really is absolutely beautifully filmed too, even the credits...
Now, I haven't figured out who the children are yet, watching their parents hung by the bourgousie...
Oh, and our first glimpse of Chauvelin, stepping furiously from a carriage... Into the palace... Oh and those boots, that flowing coat... there is something rather lush about Regency get up... *g*
He's being rather the elegant baddie...Wish he didn't smoke though... Hey, look who's behind him! It's Moxie B-for-Billy Fumier!
Oh he does look good, mind... gorgeous lighting... Sorry, I may have to gush about MS in Regency kit for a while, even if he is the absolute villain... although... revolutionary... really the bad guys? Weren't those aristos who hung the poor parents the bad guys? Hmmn... we're into the world of Pros-y grey already!
Ah, and there's there Scarlet Pimpernel, various hooded ne'er-do-wells - sorry, the good guys... Much gorgeous lighting and rescuing of tortured Danby...
Chauvelin marches through the dim light of the palace... There's disruption outside - Chauvelin shoots, he wings the Pimpernel, it doesn't stop him... Chauvelin tries to chase them in his carriage - but the wheels have been tied to something immobile... Hee - love fuming Chauvelin - MS does angry very well!
Of course he is interrogating some poor sod he's just had tortured in the scene above where he smiles so prettily...
Ooh, Chauvelin up against The Committee - being all... apologetic (ooh, can you see Doyle in that position...? *g*), and yet boldly demanding to be sent to England... and The Committee says yes...
Oooh - ship! Very pretty... bound across the Channel... Danby and the Pimpernel on board... Danby not looking... oh dear... A sinister whisper of final words if I ever heard one though - Don't trust her...
Oh and the elegance of dancing... can I imagine our lads dancing away like this - dressed in their brocades and velvets... We need the rest of Mistress Beaufort's Masquerade Ball, that's what we need! The other rest of it, not just Whilst All the World is at Mistress Beaufort's Ball!
And Blakeney is amusing the Prince... (Richard E. Grant, especially for Jaycat!) What do you think, Bodie in that outfit? *g*
Chauvelin! Chauvelin is at Percy's ball, chatting up Percy's wife!
Oh... is he in love with Lady Blakeney? Ah, it's Prinny's birthday... Hee - Percy throws wine over Chauvelin, and how gorgeous is Chauvelin as he politely says "It is only a cravat..." It's the flashing Doyle eyes... *g*
Oh, I do rather like the way he bows...
Chauvelin is invited to the Blakeney's for the weekend... oooh...
Oh dear, and back in France, somone is brought before Madame Guillotine... (I don't know who it is though... it's not Armand...)
The Blakeneys are home... all is not well... I love the colour of their room, it's a gorgeous red...
Ah, Chauvelin at the Blakeneys! The revolution became revenge, Marguerite Blakeney turned her back on it... Chauvelin intends to recruit her... He bribes her with the life of her brother...
Blakeney taunts Chauvelin, who is not amused...
Percy, taking part in Earth Hour reading by candlelight...
Ah, the children were Marguerite Blakeney and Armand... Chauvelin helped Marguerite get her revenge on the Sancerre family - but he was too enthusiastic...
Percy rides out for the day - now I can imagine our lads riding out like that...
Chauvelin at breakfast! I wonder if the ridiculously rich still invite each other to visit for the weekend, and sort of let them generally wander the estate until they fancy leaving again..?
Ah, strawberries for breakfast...
...and slurps of coffee? Chocolate? *g*
Percy in France... ah, the debaucheries of Paris... *g*
Marguerite runs to Paris looking for her husband - the Pimpernel, her brother... But Chauvelin finds her first... Oh, Chauvelin is breathing... just like Doyle did! *vbg*
Oh gosh, Minette, the Pimpernel's confidante, is visiting Chauvelin... She has strangely short hair for a woman of that time... Very pretty, but...
Oh dear - and Chauvelin has raided the tea house where Blakeney is meeting Minette... and oh, is looking beautifully... slightly ruffled somehow... Blakeney is away, Chauvelin following him down cobbled streets on horseback... Oh, he's all leather boots and long swirling coat... Off the horse, through a doorway... Blakeney turns him around, steals his horse, rides past with a cheery wave...
Oh, Chauvelin though... he's very cross indeed... He does that damn it! gesture with his fist, a la Doyle!
His temper is... nearly worse than Doyle's?
But he still has Marguerite to taunt...
Ah, but Marguerite knows that it's Chauvelin who is "in prison"... Oh, what happened to Chauvelin to make him so bitter... (Yes, I know I'm not supposed to be sympathising with him!)
Chauvelin breaks into their house, but is foiled again... The Pimpernel kindly leaves him another note...
Oh... Chauvelin in bed...
And then out into the night... the Pimpernel has been captured...
Oh gawd - the big make-up scene between the Blakeneys... I think they're serious...
Dissolute - Chauvelin is just unshaved enough, and his hair just out of place enough, to look eternally dissolute... *g*
Percy has lockpicks just like B/D do! And a knife in his boot... He's quite the James Bond, in fact...
Uh-oh, the sound of the mob... How much do I want to read Rediscovered in a Graveyard again now, too! Oh, where's Bodie amidst that lot! And Doyle, blind Doyle, who was taken away by the gaoler!
Marguerite has been saved just in time - to stand trial in front of Robespierre... Chauvelin speaks up for her! He tries to save her! It doesn't seem to work...
And it displeases Robespierre...
Ah, Marguerite's hair is cut short for Madame Guillotine - was that what happened to Minnette? Only she saved herself at the last minute by...?
Chauvelin leads Madame Blakeney through the streets of Paris, to where she will be executed...
But no! Of course not! There is gunfire, and there is attack, and oh, then there is swordfighting!
Our Chauvelin is shoved out of the fight... he falls, lies dazed on the ground...
Minette does not survive... and a ship sails back to England via peached skies...
Oh gawd, and there is more soppiness between the Blakeneys... It's so good, apart from that! Is it any wonder I prefer the villain - anything to avoid these two fawning over each other... ewww!
Well that was a romp and a half! Pity I had to imagine where Bodie was all the way through... *g* And now I'm sooooo sleepy - an hour and a half's worth of screen caps take forever to do! But... pretty. *g*
It really is absolutely beautifully filmed too, even the credits...
Now, I haven't figured out who the children are yet, watching their parents hung by the bourgousie...
Oh, and our first glimpse of Chauvelin, stepping furiously from a carriage... Into the palace... Oh and those boots, that flowing coat... there is something rather lush about Regency get up... *g*
He's being rather the elegant baddie...Wish he didn't smoke though... Hey, look who's behind him! It's Moxie B-for-Billy Fumier!
Oh he does look good, mind... gorgeous lighting... Sorry, I may have to gush about MS in Regency kit for a while, even if he is the absolute villain... although... revolutionary... really the bad guys? Weren't those aristos who hung the poor parents the bad guys? Hmmn... we're into the world of Pros-y grey already!
Ah, and there's there Scarlet Pimpernel, various hooded ne'er-do-wells - sorry, the good guys... Much gorgeous lighting and rescuing of tortured Danby...
Chauvelin marches through the dim light of the palace... There's disruption outside - Chauvelin shoots, he wings the Pimpernel, it doesn't stop him... Chauvelin tries to chase them in his carriage - but the wheels have been tied to something immobile... Hee - love fuming Chauvelin - MS does angry very well!
Of course he is interrogating some poor sod he's just had tortured in the scene above where he smiles so prettily...
Ooh, Chauvelin up against The Committee - being all... apologetic (ooh, can you see Doyle in that position...? *g*), and yet boldly demanding to be sent to England... and The Committee says yes...
Oooh - ship! Very pretty... bound across the Channel... Danby and the Pimpernel on board... Danby not looking... oh dear... A sinister whisper of final words if I ever heard one though - Don't trust her...
Oh and the elegance of dancing... can I imagine our lads dancing away like this - dressed in their brocades and velvets... We need the rest of Mistress Beaufort's Masquerade Ball, that's what we need! The other rest of it, not just Whilst All the World is at Mistress Beaufort's Ball!
And Blakeney is amusing the Prince... (Richard E. Grant, especially for Jaycat!) What do you think, Bodie in that outfit? *g*
Chauvelin! Chauvelin is at Percy's ball, chatting up Percy's wife!
Oh... is he in love with Lady Blakeney? Ah, it's Prinny's birthday... Hee - Percy throws wine over Chauvelin, and how gorgeous is Chauvelin as he politely says "It is only a cravat..." It's the flashing Doyle eyes... *g*
Oh, I do rather like the way he bows...
Chauvelin is invited to the Blakeney's for the weekend... oooh...
Oh dear, and back in France, somone is brought before Madame Guillotine... (I don't know who it is though... it's not Armand...)
The Blakeneys are home... all is not well... I love the colour of their room, it's a gorgeous red...
Ah, Chauvelin at the Blakeneys! The revolution became revenge, Marguerite Blakeney turned her back on it... Chauvelin intends to recruit her... He bribes her with the life of her brother...
Blakeney taunts Chauvelin, who is not amused...
Percy, taking part in Earth Hour reading by candlelight...
Ah, the children were Marguerite Blakeney and Armand... Chauvelin helped Marguerite get her revenge on the Sancerre family - but he was too enthusiastic...
Percy rides out for the day - now I can imagine our lads riding out like that...
Chauvelin at breakfast! I wonder if the ridiculously rich still invite each other to visit for the weekend, and sort of let them generally wander the estate until they fancy leaving again..?
Ah, strawberries for breakfast...
...and slurps of coffee? Chocolate? *g*
Percy in France... ah, the debaucheries of Paris... *g*
Marguerite runs to Paris looking for her husband - the Pimpernel, her brother... But Chauvelin finds her first... Oh, Chauvelin is breathing... just like Doyle did! *vbg*
Oh gosh, Minette, the Pimpernel's confidante, is visiting Chauvelin... She has strangely short hair for a woman of that time... Very pretty, but...
Oh dear - and Chauvelin has raided the tea house where Blakeney is meeting Minette... and oh, is looking beautifully... slightly ruffled somehow... Blakeney is away, Chauvelin following him down cobbled streets on horseback... Oh, he's all leather boots and long swirling coat... Off the horse, through a doorway... Blakeney turns him around, steals his horse, rides past with a cheery wave...
Oh, Chauvelin though... he's very cross indeed... He does that damn it! gesture with his fist, a la Doyle!
His temper is... nearly worse than Doyle's?
But he still has Marguerite to taunt...
Ah, but Marguerite knows that it's Chauvelin who is "in prison"... Oh, what happened to Chauvelin to make him so bitter... (Yes, I know I'm not supposed to be sympathising with him!)
Chauvelin breaks into their house, but is foiled again... The Pimpernel kindly leaves him another note...
Oh... Chauvelin in bed...
And then out into the night... the Pimpernel has been captured...
Oh gawd - the big make-up scene between the Blakeneys... I think they're serious...
Dissolute - Chauvelin is just unshaved enough, and his hair just out of place enough, to look eternally dissolute... *g*
Percy has lockpicks just like B/D do! And a knife in his boot... He's quite the James Bond, in fact...
Uh-oh, the sound of the mob... How much do I want to read Rediscovered in a Graveyard again now, too! Oh, where's Bodie amidst that lot! And Doyle, blind Doyle, who was taken away by the gaoler!
Marguerite has been saved just in time - to stand trial in front of Robespierre... Chauvelin speaks up for her! He tries to save her! It doesn't seem to work...
And it displeases Robespierre...
Ah, Marguerite's hair is cut short for Madame Guillotine - was that what happened to Minnette? Only she saved herself at the last minute by...?
Chauvelin leads Madame Blakeney through the streets of Paris, to where she will be executed...
But no! Of course not! There is gunfire, and there is attack, and oh, then there is swordfighting!
Our Chauvelin is shoved out of the fight... he falls, lies dazed on the ground...
Minette does not survive... and a ship sails back to England via peached skies...
Oh gawd, and there is more soppiness between the Blakeneys... It's so good, apart from that! Is it any wonder I prefer the villain - anything to avoid these two fawning over each other... ewww!
Well that was a romp and a half! Pity I had to imagine where Bodie was all the way through... *g* And now I'm sooooo sleepy - an hour and a half's worth of screen caps take forever to do! But... pretty. *g*