More on A Woman's Face

[snowgrouse]

For all my gushing about Thief of Bagdad and all my "unf unf Veidt" stuff, I still can't get A Woman's Face out of my head. The themes of that damn film keep haunting me. The scarred woman deemed "ugly", her personality, her struggles with power and the temptations she's offered, both for good and for evil. I say "good and evil" because it's that

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[snowgrouse]

IT IS AN AWESOME FILM <3 Thank you so much for chatting to me about it. I'm sorry I haven't been around on IM more, because I've been trying to kick myself into polishing the current Thief of Bagdad fic thing I've got going. Of course, that movie hasn't got nearly as many layers, but Connie's Masterliness more than makes up for it and I have no choice but to obey and serve him with porn. *nods firmly* I was just about to make some sort of gratitude post of having had my historical period fetishes served by both Simmy in The Devil's Whore and Connie in Bagdad.

Also, since I'm rambling anyway, I heard they were remaking The Man Who Laughs (with some actors I don't know much about) and then I went "NOOOOO!" and then started thinking of what sort of modern version I could accept (if it could even be made to work with sound, which... er... I doubt). And then I realised that oh shit, John would probably be one of the few actors who could pull Gwynplaine off because of the whole having-to-act-only-with-your-eyes thing. Holy shit, he'd be good o_O

[sandsdream]

My pleasure. :3 And no worries; I've been off and on at bizarre times myself (more bizarre than usual, that is). And when I finally get around to seeing that film, I'm sure I will have a full appreciation of the Masterliness.

Are they really? How odd. :| It wouldn't bear much resemblance to the original, I imagine, since the sensibility of a modern film would be totally different. But OMG, John would be pretty fantastic in that role. God, why can't that happen? *sadness*

[snowgrouse]

DO NOT MAKE ME PHOTOSHOP JOHN WITH THOSE DENTURES. He was obsessed with the Joker when he was a kid, wasn't he? Shit, man, that could be enough to draw him to a project like that. Also, I was just thinking how great *Dave* would be in a silent--imagine it! All that staring and flailing silent movies stars had to do! And Dave is an expert at both! It'd be so epic. Basically, we just need to become millionaires and make this shit happen.

[sandsdream]

Wait, was he? :O I do remember him mentioning that he thought about the Joker while playing the Master, I think. And Dave totally would rock that style of acting, it's true. Dave dressed up as the Joker himself once, didn't he? So he would dig that, too. He could be in the same film and fanboy John playing a Joker-esque character. When we're rich, we shall pool our money and make a silent film co-starring Tennant and Simm. *solemn nod*

[snowgrouse]

He had the Joker painted on the back of his leather jacket, presumably in his mullet years:3 And yes. We must make that movie happen. Auuugh, now I'm already wondering what sort of filters and framerates I could slap on them to make it happen at least in the world of gifs, if not reality...

*squishes*