"It's extremely vulgar. I like it a lot."
So I watched this movie tonight. It's called Metropolitan, and it came out in 1990. Here is the trailer:
If it looks like anothe low-budget indie movie where some witty, over-educated rich kids hang out and make funny but pretentious comments and emote a lot about their (figuratively) incestuous romantic lives, that would be because that's true. It's also funny, sweet, and pretty self-deprecating, and I'm really quite fond of it.
Now, when I watched it the most recent time, at this screening earlier tonight, I realized something. Nick has a really massive, obvious crush on Tom, and that, more than anything else, is the thing that gets the plot moving from the very beginning.
When they all get out of the party at the beginning of the movie, Nick notices Tom leaving and basically strong-arms him into sharing a taxi with them, despite the fact that Tom had intended on walking, to an after-party which Nick had not been invited to and did not want to attend. He does this by ignoring everything Nick says and herding him into the cab.
At the end of the after-party, it is Nick who guilt trips Tom into coming out with them next week. Nick, who takes a cynical view of everyone else in the movie, defends Tom as a good person when that dark haired girl doubts him. After every party Tom is shown going to, there is a scene of him and Nick walking home together, despite the fact that Nick lives in the opposite side of town. NICK. BB. YOUR CRUSH, IT IS SHOWING.
And then Rick Von Slonecker shows up, and Tom hates him with a burning and firey passion.. He spends a lot of time talking about how Rick takes advantage of girls, tells a specific story that he later admits to Tom is a made up name, but based of real events that happened to several people. When Tom finally runs into Von Slonacker in a social setting, Rick brings the story up says it's a fabricated name, and dares Tom to name one girl he's actually taken advantage of, and seriously, I had this lightning bolt moment--it was Nick. He was talking about himself, and that is why he looks like he's about to cry when Rick is facing him down.
And he really does have a thing for Tom, who is as oblivious about him as he is about Audrey, though, like Audrey, when Nick leaves, Tom misses him, and really, I want fic where something works out for Nick, because right now I really just want to give him a hug.
Click to viewIf it looks like anothe low-budget indie movie where some witty, over-educated rich kids hang out and make funny but pretentious comments and emote a lot about their (figuratively) incestuous romantic lives, that would be because that's true. It's also funny, sweet, and pretty self-deprecating, and I'm really quite fond of it.
Now, when I watched it the most recent time, at this screening earlier tonight, I realized something. Nick has a really massive, obvious crush on Tom, and that, more than anything else, is the thing that gets the plot moving from the very beginning.
When they all get out of the party at the beginning of the movie, Nick notices Tom leaving and basically strong-arms him into sharing a taxi with them, despite the fact that Tom had intended on walking, to an after-party which Nick had not been invited to and did not want to attend. He does this by ignoring everything Nick says and herding him into the cab.
At the end of the after-party, it is Nick who guilt trips Tom into coming out with them next week. Nick, who takes a cynical view of everyone else in the movie, defends Tom as a good person when that dark haired girl doubts him. After every party Tom is shown going to, there is a scene of him and Nick walking home together, despite the fact that Nick lives in the opposite side of town. NICK. BB. YOUR CRUSH, IT IS SHOWING.
And then Rick Von Slonecker shows up, and Tom hates him with a burning and firey passion.. He spends a lot of time talking about how Rick takes advantage of girls, tells a specific story that he later admits to Tom is a made up name, but based of real events that happened to several people. When Tom finally runs into Von Slonacker in a social setting, Rick brings the story up says it's a fabricated name, and dares Tom to name one girl he's actually taken advantage of, and seriously, I had this lightning bolt moment--it was Nick. He was talking about himself, and that is why he looks like he's about to cry when Rick is facing him down.
And he really does have a thing for Tom, who is as oblivious about him as he is about Audrey, though, like Audrey, when Nick leaves, Tom misses him, and really, I want fic where something works out for Nick, because right now I really just want to give him a hug.