ANOTHER POINTLESS LIST!

[libertina]

My 5 most crushworthy cinematic characters (in no particular order):

--Nino Quincampoix in Amelie (need I explain?):

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The passionate, the vulnerable, the flawed, the feral, and the gaunt

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WOW I'm so with you on ALL of these. (Okay, mebbey not Neville but when Roller Derby was going through and giving all the girls their Harry Potter alter-egos, I *was* Neville, so it's okay.) Anyway, here are mine:

Ralph Fiennes in "Quiz Show" (favorite shot of him leaning against the wall of isolation booth sweating not available, you know, the one where he cracks a smile...)



Toshiro Mifune in "Drunken Angel" - again, not the vulnerable shot I remember, but more the publicity still of the hardened gangster...



Gregory Peck in "Spellbound" - okay, this one is a little *too* vulnerable, but awesome.



Viggo Mortensen in "History of Violence" - ugh, these pics are awful!



Jimmy Stewart in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"



But Cort in "Harold and Maude"



Kim Novak in "Vertigo" as Madeleine



Monica Vitti in "L'Eclisse"



Eric Stoltz in "Some Kind of Wonderful"



And to be really obvious, James Spader in "Secretary" - I just love 'em when they're damaged... and frankly Spader is damaged in almost everything he's in.



There are more but I've got an appointment and you took all the geeky ones... :-/

Re: The passionate, the vulnerable, the flawed, the feral, and the gaunt

[libertina]

Awesome list. Funny, I was thinking of including Maude! She's just so inspiring.

James Spader is perfectly cast in Secretary, and I can't imagine any other actor pulling off Graham in sex, lies and videotape. Also, have I ever expounded here on my adolescent Some Kind of Wonderful fixation? I totally wanted to be Watts, and when I turned 18 I cut & bleached my hair to look just like hers.

Re: The passionate, the vulnerable, the flawed, the feral, and the gaunt

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To tell the truth, Watts basically inspired my obsession with a girl in my high school with her absolute delicious tomboyishness that, although the men in the movie suggested cancelled out her femininity, only seemed to highlight the best parts of what femininity can be. I mean, honestly, now that I think of it, I was more into her than Eric. Although Eric had the eyes and the passion. Okay they both had passion. Okay, I'm going to cry a little now.

*sigh*

Anyway, if I had tried to cut my hair like that I would have ended up with this:



... and I would have looked about as happy with the result.

Re: The passionate, the vulnerable, the flawed, the feral, and the gaunt

[libertina]

I should mention that the Neville thing is as much due to his previously bumbling, still-waters-run-deep nature as his magnificent malocclusion. It don't hurt that, like Krakow, he ALSO reminds me of a very young Boy Wonder! (whose photo I was going to include here but thought better of it), athough Brian & Neville don't really resemble each other at all.

Re: The passionate, the vulnerable, the flawed, the feral, and the gaunt

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Boy Wonder?

[libertina]

Looky there, the Boy Wonder! (a seminal ex-boyfriend from my college years) doesn't even have his own tag. You can follow the "ex-boyfriends", "love", or "peep-hole" tags from here:

http://libertina.livejournal.com/110160.html#cutid1