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May. 14th, 2004 12:41 pmSaw rest of Amnesty DVD - was funny. And the 4 Yorkshiremen sketch was a) horribly scarily accurate in parts, b) funny as all get out.
Alan Rickman does one of the greatest yorkshire accents a londoner has ever managed. Eddie Izzard trying and failing to keep a straight face is also great fun.
Really excited about Van Helsing. There was a making off thing on late last night which made me even more excited. Stephen Sommers is such a film geek, he's like a family friendly Tarantino.
Finally heard what David Wenham sounds like when he's not Faramir.
And Richard Roxburgh. (giggles) He sounds like he's one step away from saying "stick another shrimp on the barbie, Sheila."
Oh and the most fantastic paragraph of film reviewery - "If you ask an American teenager what a Trojan is, chances are they'll tell you it's a rubber - 'Trojan' being the brand name of the States' most popular prophylactic. Call me puerile, but the unsafe connotations of the word 'Trojan' in relation to the sale of condoms has always seemed to me a source of some hilarity. For, as any fule kno, while the seductive Helen of Troy may have possessed the face that launched a thousand ships, the Trojans themselves were notable for foolishly allowing an apparently innocuous package through their impenetrable gates which promptly burst open, spilling Greek seamen everywhere, with disastrous consequences."
Mark Kermode on Troy (here - http://www.channel4.com/film/newsfeatures/kermode.html), there are many reasons I love him.
His review also informs me that Achillies gets no credit for the horse. I am astonishingly happy about this.
I am about this far from buying a magazine just for a Sean Bean article. And a picture of Odysseus that is so absolutely right I have expect his son to come running down and hugging him.
Since I have sorted my finances I think I might stretch to that.
Alan Rickman does one of the greatest yorkshire accents a londoner has ever managed. Eddie Izzard trying and failing to keep a straight face is also great fun.
Really excited about Van Helsing. There was a making off thing on late last night which made me even more excited. Stephen Sommers is such a film geek, he's like a family friendly Tarantino.
Finally heard what David Wenham sounds like when he's not Faramir.
And Richard Roxburgh. (giggles) He sounds like he's one step away from saying "stick another shrimp on the barbie, Sheila."
Oh and the most fantastic paragraph of film reviewery - "If you ask an American teenager what a Trojan is, chances are they'll tell you it's a rubber - 'Trojan' being the brand name of the States' most popular prophylactic. Call me puerile, but the unsafe connotations of the word 'Trojan' in relation to the sale of condoms has always seemed to me a source of some hilarity. For, as any fule kno, while the seductive Helen of Troy may have possessed the face that launched a thousand ships, the Trojans themselves were notable for foolishly allowing an apparently innocuous package through their impenetrable gates which promptly burst open, spilling Greek seamen everywhere, with disastrous consequences."
Mark Kermode on Troy (here - http://www.channel4.com/film/newsfeatures/kermode.html), there are many reasons I love him.
His review also informs me that Achillies gets no credit for the horse. I am astonishingly happy about this.
I am about this far from buying a magazine just for a Sean Bean article. And a picture of Odysseus that is so absolutely right I have expect his son to come running down and hugging him.
Since I have sorted my finances I think I might stretch to that.
