I fear him.
Aren't you supposed to?
How old is he in the books, when he gets all empowered?
Buffy: Dancing with you is way better than trying to hook up with some good-looking guy. Xander: I think I liked it more when you were kicking me in my puffy groin.
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§ ita § - Aug 02, 2004 5:37:13 am PDT #1889 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jessica - Aug 02, 2004 5:42:14 am PDT #1890 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
BTW, a friend of mine is v. worried (not having seen any of his work except Hulk) that Eric Bana will be Timothy Daltonish as Bond. I think she is wrong, but still think that it should be Clive Owen. Clearly.
The picture of Clive Owen in the lastest EW under the "Who Will Be The Next Bond?" column is awful. Honestly, I didn't know it was possible to make him look bad, but they managed it.
Yes, perhaps I went a little far with one particular hypothetical scenario, but it amuses me to no end.
Now I'm imagining Manchurian Candidate 2: The Revenge, starring Carrot Top as The Candidate.
Polter-Cow - Aug 02, 2004 5:44:51 am PDT #1891 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Now I'm imagining Manchurian Candidate 2: The Revenge, starring Carrot Top as The Candidate.
See, that wouldn't work, cause 1-800-COLLECT would take him out almost immediately.
Fred Pete - Aug 02, 2004 5:52:06 am PDT #1892 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
The problem in casting Bond is that he has to be rugged enough to be an action adventure hero, be sophisticated enough to make the tux/baccarat scenes work, and have enough charisma for the women to fall all over him. Not easy to find that combo.
I only know Bana's work from Troy. He has the rugged and the charisma, but not so certain about the sophisticated.
Nutty - Aug 02, 2004 5:52:20 am PDT #1893 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Aren't you supposed to?
No, you're supposed to swoon and want to be him/do him. The villains are supposed to fear him. I don't think they give an age in the books, except that he's probably been all the way through the war. I don't think the character actually ages at all in the books -- AFAIK time doesn't pass for him.
Jessica - Aug 02, 2004 5:56:00 am PDT #1894 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
He has the rugged and the charisma, but not so certain about the sophisticated.
I'm not even sure he has the charisma. At least, I've never found him particularly compelling to watch.
Fred Pete - Aug 02, 2004 6:09:27 am PDT #1895 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
I'm not even sure he has the charisma.
I'll give you that. I'm not the best judge on the type of man that would appeal to women....
Hayden - Aug 02, 2004 6:12:04 am PDT #1896 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
unless Hearst and Marion Wassname were having loud, vocal sex in public, how did people know what body parts had pet names?
In that book that Welles did with Peter Bogdonovich, IIRC, Welles said that the rosebud story was pretty well-known when CK came out because a disgruntled servant had passed it to the gossip magazines. Although, now that I think about it, I may have read that somewhere else.
I'm a big fan of the original Manchurian Candidate. Y'all think it's worth seeing the remake?
tommyrot - Aug 02, 2004 6:21:27 am PDT #1897 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Welles said that the rosebud story was pretty well-known when CK came out because a disgruntled servant had passed it to the gossip magazines.
::makes note to be sure that all servants that know intimate details of my sex-life are gruntled::
sumi - Aug 02, 2004 6:26:34 am PDT #1898 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I sent her a picture of Clive Owen from Croupier thinking that it ought to work. (He was in the tux -- but with dark rather than blond hair.)
Still -- thinks he looks too thuggish. Well, it doesn't really matter -- since he doesn't want to be Bond.