"What is Thisbe? Is that a chick?"; "Romanticide" (Antonio/Sebastian)
Oh hey, I watched Were the World Mine. :D I've seen a couple people talking about it lately, so, you know, what the hell. Plus, it's relevant to pretty much all of my interests. Shakespeare! Attractive manchildren! Attractive manchildren doing Shakespeare! Attractive manchildren SINGING Shakespeare! Attractive manchildren singing Shakespeare and BEING GAY!
So much relevance!
Basically if this move had a child with Bedrooms and Hallways, that would be my FAVORITE MOVIE EVER.
Speaking of Bedrooms and Hallways, I've decided that the solution is to watch it until some happy moment (I'm thinking when they're bantering about satire?), then fast-forward to the credits and ~pretend~ that was the ending. Might skip the beginning bit with the birthday party, too. Just pretend it all never happened.
*sigh*
DEAR BRITISH FILMMAKERS,
Y U DO DIS. :(
Uh, back to WtWM...
It was terribly cute, and I loved the music - I've had the soundtrack for a while, so I knew most of the songs already. My favorites are Were the World Mine and Pyramus and Thisby. :D "If we offend, we got good will, if we are crude, our measure's plain..." SO CATCHY OMG. <3
It also made me think about how the love-juice (there is no context in which that will not sound at least slightly odd, I'm sorry) worked, not only in the movie but in Midsummer as well. Not the first love-juice... the second, anti-love-juice. The one that turned everything back to "normal". I put it in quotations because that's my question: does it turn things normal, ie: back to how they were before? Not in Midsummer it didn't; Demetrius and Helena were together even though he'd loved Hermia (thus my theory that Demetrius' love for Hermia was originally induced, for whatever reason, by love-juice, and the anti-love-juice undid both of the juicings, because we know he loved Helena once... but that's a different rambling). Likewise, in WtWm some of the couples stayed together, some of the people remained in love, some didn't. (I am so glad that the two blond homophobes stayed together, because they did the most amazing/adorable 180.) I think it made them realize... who they ought to be with? I don't want to say "supposed to" be with, but that's what I'm getting at. The one thing that comes to mind was Max, who at first was so wishy-washy, then love-juiced to fall in love with Timothy, and FINALLY - after the second juice fell on the whole crowd - realizing that Frankie wants him and that he may, in fact, want her back.
IDK - food for thought, I suppose.
Speaking of Bedrooms and Hallways (which I was doing earlier...), can anyone reccomend a gay rom-com that actually ends, you know, happily? By rom-com standards? I've absolutely no idea where to start.
Oh oh oh AND. This isn't the reason I started writing this post, but I finished this in the middle of it so now it's going to be the main focus (IMO). I think I mentioned a while ago starting a fanvid set to "Romanticide", here it is! Antonio/Sebastian... well, more like Antonio being gay for Sebastian and sad for himself. :( And wondering if everything he did for Sebastian was worth it, because you know, Sebastian's quite a dick. Version used is Twelfth Night 1996, and I ought to watch a different version of Twelfth Night but I love this one so! Anyway, here it is. ENJOY!
(Elvia, if you see this, would you like a download? I wasn't sure if it would be presumptuous on my part, since it's not Caesar-related. That also applies to, uh... well, if anyone on my flist is in Germany, apparently it's blocked there. :P So it applies to you.)
Also, slightly relevant if you hail from unkindestslash: The guy who plays Sebastian here is Steven Mackintosh, who is my absolute dream Cassius. Seriously, look at him.
I believe that is all I have to say here, I am off to watch Bedrooms and Hallways again. :P
So much relevance!
Basically if this move had a child with Bedrooms and Hallways, that would be my FAVORITE MOVIE EVER.
Speaking of Bedrooms and Hallways, I've decided that the solution is to watch it until some happy moment (I'm thinking when they're bantering about satire?), then fast-forward to the credits and ~pretend~ that was the ending. Might skip the beginning bit with the birthday party, too. Just pretend it all never happened.
*sigh*
DEAR BRITISH FILMMAKERS,
Y U DO DIS. :(
Uh, back to WtWM...
It was terribly cute, and I loved the music - I've had the soundtrack for a while, so I knew most of the songs already. My favorites are Were the World Mine and Pyramus and Thisby. :D "If we offend, we got good will, if we are crude, our measure's plain..." SO CATCHY OMG. <3
It also made me think about how the love-juice (there is no context in which that will not sound at least slightly odd, I'm sorry) worked, not only in the movie but in Midsummer as well. Not the first love-juice... the second, anti-love-juice. The one that turned everything back to "normal". I put it in quotations because that's my question: does it turn things normal, ie: back to how they were before? Not in Midsummer it didn't; Demetrius and Helena were together even though he'd loved Hermia (thus my theory that Demetrius' love for Hermia was originally induced, for whatever reason, by love-juice, and the anti-love-juice undid both of the juicings, because we know he loved Helena once... but that's a different rambling). Likewise, in WtWm some of the couples stayed together, some of the people remained in love, some didn't. (I am so glad that the two blond homophobes stayed together, because they did the most amazing/adorable 180.) I think it made them realize... who they ought to be with? I don't want to say "supposed to" be with, but that's what I'm getting at. The one thing that comes to mind was Max, who at first was so wishy-washy, then love-juiced to fall in love with Timothy, and FINALLY - after the second juice fell on the whole crowd - realizing that Frankie wants him and that he may, in fact, want her back.
IDK - food for thought, I suppose.
Speaking of Bedrooms and Hallways (which I was doing earlier...), can anyone reccomend a gay rom-com that actually ends, you know, happily? By rom-com standards? I've absolutely no idea where to start.
Oh oh oh AND. This isn't the reason I started writing this post, but I finished this in the middle of it so now it's going to be the main focus (IMO). I think I mentioned a while ago starting a fanvid set to "Romanticide", here it is! Antonio/Sebastian... well, more like Antonio being gay for Sebastian and sad for himself. :( And wondering if everything he did for Sebastian was worth it, because you know, Sebastian's quite a dick. Version used is Twelfth Night 1996, and I ought to watch a different version of Twelfth Night but I love this one so! Anyway, here it is. ENJOY!
Click to view(Elvia, if you see this, would you like a download? I wasn't sure if it would be presumptuous on my part, since it's not Caesar-related. That also applies to, uh... well, if anyone on my flist is in Germany, apparently it's blocked there. :P So it applies to you.)
Also, slightly relevant if you hail from unkindestslash: The guy who plays Sebastian here is Steven Mackintosh, who is my absolute dream Cassius. Seriously, look at him.
I believe that is all I have to say here, I am off to watch Bedrooms and Hallways again. :P