"At the Pictures" - Rated PG13 - SPN/Buffyverse/Film History/Femme's Brain Crossover

[femmenerd]

omg, I am a HUGE NERD. This, whatever it is, is inspired by last week's SPN in combination with uh, my Film Studies education and general cinephilia? Dedicated to eyesofmyeyes who is a geek like me but less chatty and considerably more fond of Quentin Tarantino and Sergei Eisenstein (films)--for reasons that will, I think, be clear to her. The rest of you

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[makd]

Jeez, but I love this!!

[femmenerd]

Thank you! :)

[eyesofmyeyes]

Um, I LOVED this...I think Angel's was my favorite, but that could be because of the aforementioned affinity for Eisenstein. Dude loved a good crowd scene. I absolutely love thinking about Angel/Spike/Dru as experiencing the birth of cinema--to Spike it would have been something new, but easily adjusted to, while Angel would have found it more foreign and unnerving. Industrialism and vampires. Someone should write a fic about Angel, Spike, and Dru at the Chicago World's Fair in 1892. Devil in the White City meets BTVS...

Your characterization across the board, as usual, feels true and organic to me. Or maybe I'm just used to discerning personality through taste in movies...

[femmenerd]

Yay! Dude, as soon as I started thinking about Angel and Spike and the fact that they both lived through the birth of cinema, I about had a geekgasm about it all.

What you say about Angel and Spike's different reactions is EXACTLY the way I see it also, but didn't say that directly here, so either I am AMAZING at implying things or else we are just in synch about, you know, the way things ARE.

Haha! I wonder what S. would think about this. I am, you know, applying my knowledge. :P

Heh, ALSO, on the nerd front, if I'd known how to do it in an LJ post, I fully would have footnoted this instead of just imbedding links throughout.

P.S. Also, Buffy and Spike are together in Glimpses (it's mentioned/implied in passing) but I thought of you when I wrote that bit.

Industrialism and vampires. Someone should write a fic about Angel, Spike, and Dru at the Chicago World's Fair in 1892. Devil in the White City meets BTVS...

*pokes*

[rahirah]

Tres cool!

[femmenerd]

Thank you! :)

[lynnenne]

Oh, AWESOME. Every one of these is so poignant and insightful.

Just like him, they still looked the same after all these years. Except that no matter how many times you rewind the reel, the people up there are still going through the same motions: Chaplin tramping about and the Great Train Robbery repeating itself ad infinitum.

Oh, Angel. *sniffle*

they’d share just like lovers with two straws in a disposable soda cup, buttery fingers touching in the popcorn tub.

Beautiful, perfect simile! How I have missed your Buffyverse fic. *loves*

[femmenerd]

Thank you, thank you! I'm so glad you liked it and it worked even with the people you don't know in it.

Seriously, I have to confess that when I started thinking about the fact that Angel and Spike lived through the birth of cinema I went so deeply into dork mode it was out of control. And I started thinking about vampirism in general in relation to the way that film suspends time and image./geek

[lynnenne]

And I started thinking about vampirism in general in relation to the way that film suspends time and image.

Well, you captured the parallel beautifully. Great job. *hugs*

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[untitleddemo]

Dude. How weird that LJ sent this blank comment in too when I submitted the other. Weird LJ.

[femmenerd]

LJ is on CRACK right now.