Comments | lulahbelle: "Young girls fall pleadin' at my feet, as I defile them one by one, devouring half of London town."

lulahbelle

"Young girls fall pleadin' at my feet, as I defile them one by one, devouring half of London town."

Feb 11, 2010 00:49

Gothic is a, sober, somber batshit Ken Russell film about the poet Lord Byron, as played by Gabriel Byrne and fellow writer Percy Bysshe Shelley, as played by Julian Sands, having sex, or at the very least trying to have sex, with everyone in their vicinity.

It is also a filmic representation of Natasha Richardson's, (who play's Percy's wife, ( Read more... )

gothic, gabriel byrne, screen snips

Comments 9

electricwitch February 11 2010, 06:34:09 UTC

My nipples enjoyed watching this post.

Though I will NEVER IN A BILLION YEARS understand why he chose an unattractive 40 year old dude to portray a sexy guy who died when he was 24 and who was A TEENIE when Byron laeped him.

lulahbelle February 11 2010, 16:12:01 UTC

LOL see there are sometimes when pasties are just no good for them. I don't really understand it either, apart from Spall's appalling, frightmare facial expressions making me lol.

Plus for some reason they went with a version of the events where Byron didn't really want to shag Polly except as a last resort. I spose if they had made him good looking/young a lot of it, the sexual repression etc might not have quite worked as well.

Still it was a stupid version to go with I think. This is why you should write fic.

electricwitch February 11 2010, 18:40:39 UTC

lol I guess they had to make up a reason for him to be randomly against everyone and not liked very well and I guess it was TOO HARD to do it with a sexy nineteen year old.

Though I mean, in Byron's correspondence, when he picked Polidori everyone was like LOL IC WUT U DID THAR BYRON HAVE FUN IN BUTTSEXLAND. I MEAN ITALY.

et_tu_lulu February 11 2010, 06:53:03 UTC

lol

This movie was insane! I watched it last year, after you posted about it and I think right after Natasha Richardson's unfortunate death. What a movie...

lulahbelle February 11 2010, 16:13:51 UTC

Lol man it is the moast batshit of all batshit. I can't get over how much I love it despite that. I mean it's not legitimately good but it pereveres in being insane for so long that I have to respect it on a deep level. I mean especially to make a film like that about Byron and Shelley of all people.

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lulahbelle February 11 2010, 16:21:10 UTC

It is on all sorts of level terrifying. Some bits are genuinely unsettling and hella spooky and moving and then it veers from that to a constant question of WHY IS HE DOING THAT? WHY? WHY? SWEET GOD WHY? I mean this is the film where there Gabriel Byrne rants about someone being afraid of their own cock.

I mean.

??

Classic isn't even approaching it's batshit awesomeness. You cannot fail to lol at it for it's audacity.

pettythief February 11 2010, 09:13:50 UTC

I've been meaning to watch this film for years but your post has finally got me to order a copy of Amazon!

Wowzers.... I'm certainly in for a treat, then! ;D

lulahbelle February 11 2010, 16:23:13 UTC

Oh you truly are it is certainly something. Like I said I think some bits are legitimately good and I very much enjoy the crazy Eighties synth soundtrack. But overwhelmingly it's astounding in it's audacity.

pettythief February 11 2010, 16:48:33 UTC

My boyfriend saw it years ago and he thought it was amazing! ;D

A synth soundtrack with Regency clothes??? This I *have* to see!!!

It's interesting that no one else has tried to tell the same story in film since - presumably it's a hard act to follow!