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[the_grynne]

*clutches her brand new Deadwood season 3 box set*

Life is looking good. Well... Gale-force winds and political economy exam tomorrow (and the fact that Dae is going to all those films at the Sydney Film Festival without me) aside, life is looking pretty good.

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Comments

[the_grynne]

I couldn't help myself - even though I'll have to wait till after my exams to watch them. :) Soooo puuurrty.

[kenorland]

Damages. Wow. I'm getting a very BBC-style crime drama feeling off it, which can only be good. A nice, taut approach to the usual lawyers show.

I feel like I've been waiting forever for Rose Byrne to blow up and become a huge star a la Keira Knightley. (I hoped Troy would do it, even though the only thing I liked about that movie were the costume designs.) But as the years go on, I think she's really more of a great character actress. Not that I don't want her to become a leading lady type, but I really adore seeing her pop up here and there in random roles in movies like Marie Antoinette, The Rage in Placid Lake, Sunshine/28 Weeks Later and now this.

I hope these are signs that she's like Cate at that young Oscar & Lucinda stage in her career. She's not quite so chameleonic (her hair, weirdly, hardly ever changes role to role), but man, she is stellar.

/end gushing about Rose Byrne.

[the_grynne]

I really love Rose Byrne's character in Troy - I mean, it was still a mess of a movie (Orlando Bloom and Brad Pitt looking so out of place), but I liked that they did with Briseis. The writer made her haughty but principled, and a pacifist, which is shades more depth than she had in Homer. I don't think there's anything resembling her line, "Too many men have died today. If killing is your only talent, that's your curse. I won't have anyone die for me," in the Iliad, but I thought that was her character's best moment.

I saw her first in an Aussie film that she co-starred with Heath Ledger in, Two Hands, and I think I've been in a bit in love with her big eyes ever since. :)

Have you seen I Capture the Castle? Her hair looks very different in that. Almost unrecogniseable.

[kenorland]

Oh yeah! She had those great red Pre-Raphaelite curls. I liked that movie a lot; I think it's how I found out about Romola Garai and, whatshisface, Henry Cavill.

I'll admit, despite her character's function as the hetero soap that washed over the Achilles/Patroclus relationship, she was lovely in the role (literally -- MAN, they gave her really great robes to wear). That whole plucky princess thing is hard for me to buy 99.9% of the time, but Rose Byrne acted the hell out of the thing. I felt like she, Eric Bana, and Sean Bean (despite his weird mullet) were the only ones who were able to convey that their almost-mythical characters were actual people. (I'm not saying Brad was bad, but... he's not an actor who can disappear into the role. He was never Achilles to me, just Brad Pitt with baby oil and platonic love for his cousin.)

OOH: Rose Byrne as Hugo Weaving's lover in The Tender Hook! OMG. Excited.

[the_grynne]

YES! Jazz-age Sydney, that's not something you see often in film. I love it.

[tigertrapped]

Keira suits the period look. I wish I liked her better as an actress. Alas, I found her performance nearly as asinine as Orlando's in World's End, the main difference being the shouting she got to do.

[the_grynne]

I wish she were a better actress, for all the excellent films that she's finding her way into. But then, at least she's more interesting than Gwyneth Paltrow.

[tigertrapped]

Dry rot is more interesting that Gwyneth Paltrow. *g*

[the_grynne]

And yet she managed to win an Oscar. Stranger things...

[the_grynne]

It was $49 at JB Hi-Fi. Not bad.