Ben Daniels picspam - NOT dial up friendly...
So my boxset for S2 of Cutting It *finally* arrived today, and I managed to persuade the DVD drive on my laptop to function long enough to let me screencap Ben as Finn Bevan wearing nothing but a towel. Rawr! These four pics are NOT for the faint-hearted!
Now, if anyone fancies doing a manip of one of these pics of Ben with one of Freema as Alesha - well, I'll think I've died and gone to heaven! :P
I also watched Ben in Who Killed Mrs De Ropp?, which is an hour long film adapation of three of Saki's short stories ('The Storyteller', 'The Lumber Room' and 'Sredni Vashtar'). Ben plays Saki narrating the stories, which feature animated drawings in addition to the live action. There are 10 pics of Ben as Saki below the cut.
The first section is set on a train. Saki is travelling in a First Class carriage with three fairly obnoxious children and their aunt. The aunt tells them a tedious story about a girl who's very good and whom everyone loves. And it bores them rigid (obviously!). Saki objects to the aunt's tale so she challenges him to tell a more interesting one - which, of course, he does!
Facial hair, a cape and a hat? *is so very dead*
The next story features Nicolas, a small boy who's punished by his aunt (the same woman as in the first story - the eponymous Mrs De Ropp) for refusing to eat his bowl of bread and milk because there's a frog in it. She objects that he's talking nonsense, but in fact there was a frog in the bowl of bread and milk (admittedly he'd put it there, but he felt that was beside the point!) His cousins are sent off to the beach for a treat (which falls flat because the tide's in so there is no beach on which they can play), but the boy remains at home, investigating the contents of the lumber room while his aunt keeps watch on the Gooseberry Garden, which she's forbidden him to enter.
The third story is about a small boy called Conradin, who's not expected to live for more than a few years. His life is pretty miserable since his guardian, Mrs De Ropp, takes great pleasure in his illness, but he has two guards against his misery - a hen, and a polecat ferret named Sredni Vashtar. He begins to worship the ferret as a god, and after his guardian notices his frequent visits to the old tool shed where the hen and the ferret live, and has the hen killed in consequence (she doesn't find the ferret on her first foray), he begs the ferret to do one thing for him. On Mrs De Ropp's next visit to the tool shed (she thinks Conradin has a hutch of guinea pigs out there), he stands by the window and prays continually to his god - and when the maid goes to find Mrs De Ropp, who's been in the shed for some time, she finds her dead, killed by Sredni Vashtar.
If you're interested, you can read Sredni Vashtar here, The Storyteller here and The Lumber Room here. And there are many more stories by Saki here.
Now, if anyone fancies doing a manip of one of these pics of Ben with one of Freema as Alesha - well, I'll think I've died and gone to heaven! :P
I also watched Ben in Who Killed Mrs De Ropp?, which is an hour long film adapation of three of Saki's short stories ('The Storyteller', 'The Lumber Room' and 'Sredni Vashtar'). Ben plays Saki narrating the stories, which feature animated drawings in addition to the live action. There are 10 pics of Ben as Saki below the cut.
The first section is set on a train. Saki is travelling in a First Class carriage with three fairly obnoxious children and their aunt. The aunt tells them a tedious story about a girl who's very good and whom everyone loves. And it bores them rigid (obviously!). Saki objects to the aunt's tale so she challenges him to tell a more interesting one - which, of course, he does!
Facial hair, a cape and a hat? *is so very dead*
The next story features Nicolas, a small boy who's punished by his aunt (the same woman as in the first story - the eponymous Mrs De Ropp) for refusing to eat his bowl of bread and milk because there's a frog in it. She objects that he's talking nonsense, but in fact there was a frog in the bowl of bread and milk (admittedly he'd put it there, but he felt that was beside the point!) His cousins are sent off to the beach for a treat (which falls flat because the tide's in so there is no beach on which they can play), but the boy remains at home, investigating the contents of the lumber room while his aunt keeps watch on the Gooseberry Garden, which she's forbidden him to enter.
The third story is about a small boy called Conradin, who's not expected to live for more than a few years. His life is pretty miserable since his guardian, Mrs De Ropp, takes great pleasure in his illness, but he has two guards against his misery - a hen, and a polecat ferret named Sredni Vashtar. He begins to worship the ferret as a god, and after his guardian notices his frequent visits to the old tool shed where the hen and the ferret live, and has the hen killed in consequence (she doesn't find the ferret on her first foray), he begs the ferret to do one thing for him. On Mrs De Ropp's next visit to the tool shed (she thinks Conradin has a hutch of guinea pigs out there), he stands by the window and prays continually to his god - and when the maid goes to find Mrs De Ropp, who's been in the shed for some time, she finds her dead, killed by Sredni Vashtar.
If you're interested, you can read Sredni Vashtar here, The Storyteller here and The Lumber Room here. And there are many more stories by Saki here.