Klaus and John.
I'm having a hard time getting to sleep because I am eager to know how the presidental election in America turns out. In some regards this is good because I've been writing -- on the other hand it's bad because I have to be awake in seven hours for work. I'm sure I will finish this entry and turn in to bed -- the election results won't change
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I can't say I was surprised, just disappointed. I think I told you before that I thought this would happen. Sigh. It's gonna be a long four years.
I do understand the wanting to be accurate, at least as much as humanly possible, even if it is a slash story. If I get even one little thing wrong and find out about it later, it absolutely gnaws at me. So then I have to go and fix it, somehow, although occasionally the facts end up destroying the entire plot I had so carefully constructed. *groan*
How did you actually like Backbeat, though? Astrid had a lot of input into the movie, from what I've read (and from what the director mentioned in the commentary on the DVD). Klaus, George, and Pete were almost non-entities (the part with George's mother and the scones was cringe-inducing!), and Paul came off pretty poorly. Maybe this is accurate and justified, but the character doesn't have any depth. He rags on John and Stu the whole film, until toward the end he thinks--or the scriptwriters think--that he can wipe it clean by just saying he "didn't mean it." But I did like the way they portrayed the Stu/Astrid/John triangle, and the subtle hints of possible homosexual love between John and Stu (I really liked that!) I thought Stephen Dorff was quite good as Stu, as were Ian Hart as John and Sheryl Lee as Astrid.
One thing I've always wanted to know is, how much English did Astrid know when she and Stu met? In the biographies, they talk about how they barely knew twenty words to say to each other, but in the film Astrid is fluent in English from the start and they have no problem communicating. And since Astrid was a consultant on the movie, I wonder if this isn't closer to the truth. I just don't know.
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