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I watched the movie Prick Up Your Ears (starring Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, and Vanessa Redgrave) tonight. It's the tragic love story/biopic about playwright Joe Orton (Oldman) and his lover Kenneth Halliwell (Molina). Google/Wikipedia Orton for the story. Or watch the movie. Cause it was AMAZING.
Which brings me to my point: Megan's thoughts on Prick Up Your Ears (in no particular order):
- First of all, it's a move about gay men. Gay British men. What's not to love?
- I appreciate a movie that knows when a lack of background music is just as effective, if not even more so, than using it.
- Biopics usually bore me to tears. This is because most of them feel the need to show the subject's entire life, in chronological order, and try to keep the ending a secret. As if the audience doesn't already know how it turns out. This one, however, begins with the discovering of the dead bodies, is not in chronological order, only shows the interesting bits of Orton's life, and is all held together with a biographer's attempts to write Orton's post-mortem biography. Whic not only works, but makes the plot far more interesting.
- The biographer in question is played by the guy from The Princess Bride. The Sicilian.
- GARY OLDMAN IS AMAZING. His facial expressions? Perfect. Body language? Exquisite. Line delivery? Superb.
- Also, Gary Oldman IS SIRIUS. He just... is. Watch this movie, then try to disagree with me. He wears a leather jacket (with matching hat), and purposely takes off his underwear before he goes out. He likes to take risks, he's young and hot and confident, he doesn't really like his family, he's British, and, most of all, he's flamingly gay. And likes to meet other hot young men for illicit trysts in public restrooms. He's rude and impetuous and sometimes careless. And I loved every second of watching him.
- Final thought on Gary: Taking the amount of time he spent wearing them in this movie as a sign of how comfortable he is without them, I have concluded that Gary Oldman should stop wearing pants. He looks just fine without them.
- Gary may be Sirius, but the paranoid, neurotic, obsessive wreck of a man that Alfred Molina plays is not Remus. Not by a long shot.
- The two of them have a very Brian/Justin dynamic, with the sleeping with lots of other men, and knowing about it, but still living/sleeping together.
- Men kissing is beautiful. I don't know what it is about watching two guys kiss that pushes my "God that's GORGEOUS" button, but something does. And it's been that way since I saw a movie about Matthew Shepard on MTV when I was in middle school and they showed him kissing another guy and it made me go all tingly.
- I admire actors that can play, quite convincingly, a sexuality other than their own. Complete with kissing and nuzzling and such. I think it must be really hard to do that, no matter how good of an actor you are.
- Much as I love both this movie and Brokeback Mountain, can't we make a passionate story about gay men that ends happily?
- The line where the manager of the Beatles said, "these boys don't take drugs. They never have taken drugs, and they never will take drugs," may be the most ironic line in all of cinema history.
- It was such a witty movie! And I love that! Some of the best lines include:
"I always wanted to be an orphan. I could've been, except for my parents."
"Can you spell?"
"Yes, but not accurately."
"Who was the father of Oedipus?"
"Laius."
"Who is his mother?"
"Fuck his mother."
"He's probably a policeman."
"I know, isn't it wonderful?"
And... That's all. I know this was a lot of info to process all at once, but it was all the shit that went through my mind while I was watching it, and I thought I might inspire more of you to watch it by sharing. :) Did it work?
In conclusion, it was a very good movie. I highly recommend it.
Which brings me to my point: Megan's thoughts on Prick Up Your Ears (in no particular order):
- First of all, it's a move about gay men. Gay British men. What's not to love?
- I appreciate a movie that knows when a lack of background music is just as effective, if not even more so, than using it.
- Biopics usually bore me to tears. This is because most of them feel the need to show the subject's entire life, in chronological order, and try to keep the ending a secret. As if the audience doesn't already know how it turns out. This one, however, begins with the discovering of the dead bodies, is not in chronological order, only shows the interesting bits of Orton's life, and is all held together with a biographer's attempts to write Orton's post-mortem biography. Whic not only works, but makes the plot far more interesting.
- The biographer in question is played by the guy from The Princess Bride. The Sicilian.
- GARY OLDMAN IS AMAZING. His facial expressions? Perfect. Body language? Exquisite. Line delivery? Superb.
- Also, Gary Oldman IS SIRIUS. He just... is. Watch this movie, then try to disagree with me. He wears a leather jacket (with matching hat), and purposely takes off his underwear before he goes out. He likes to take risks, he's young and hot and confident, he doesn't really like his family, he's British, and, most of all, he's flamingly gay. And likes to meet other hot young men for illicit trysts in public restrooms. He's rude and impetuous and sometimes careless. And I loved every second of watching him.
- Final thought on Gary: Taking the amount of time he spent wearing them in this movie as a sign of how comfortable he is without them, I have concluded that Gary Oldman should stop wearing pants. He looks just fine without them.
- Gary may be Sirius, but the paranoid, neurotic, obsessive wreck of a man that Alfred Molina plays is not Remus. Not by a long shot.
- The two of them have a very Brian/Justin dynamic, with the sleeping with lots of other men, and knowing about it, but still living/sleeping together.
- Men kissing is beautiful. I don't know what it is about watching two guys kiss that pushes my "God that's GORGEOUS" button, but something does. And it's been that way since I saw a movie about Matthew Shepard on MTV when I was in middle school and they showed him kissing another guy and it made me go all tingly.
- I admire actors that can play, quite convincingly, a sexuality other than their own. Complete with kissing and nuzzling and such. I think it must be really hard to do that, no matter how good of an actor you are.
- Much as I love both this movie and Brokeback Mountain, can't we make a passionate story about gay men that ends happily?
- The line where the manager of the Beatles said, "these boys don't take drugs. They never have taken drugs, and they never will take drugs," may be the most ironic line in all of cinema history.
- It was such a witty movie! And I love that! Some of the best lines include:
"I always wanted to be an orphan. I could've been, except for my parents."
"Can you spell?"
"Yes, but not accurately."
"Who was the father of Oedipus?"
"Laius."
"Who is his mother?"
"Fuck his mother."
"He's probably a policeman."
"I know, isn't it wonderful?"
And... That's all. I know this was a lot of info to process all at once, but it was all the shit that went through my mind while I was watching it, and I thought I might inspire more of you to watch it by sharing. :) Did it work?
In conclusion, it was a very good movie. I highly recommend it.