Movie fluff

[max_und_moritz]

The Top Ten British Villains In Movie HistoryCouldn´t agree more, especially to Nr 1, Laurence Olivier as Richard III (though Basil Rathbone topped his Richard in "The Tower Of London"); Nr 2, Peter Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin in "Star Wars" (ÜBERSQUEE and swoon galore, oh yes. Bite me), Nr 3: Christopher Lee as Dracula, and Nr 5: Basil Rathbone *

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[esteven]

*sniggers*
Whoever played Robin...*g* He's the bad guy this time.

*adores Rickman's sheriff*

Sing well today. :D

[max_und_moritz]

I wondered that he didn´t make it for "Gangster Nr 1" o.O

(Tee hee, shall do, just as long as you don´t catcall us down the phone :D We start roughly at 7 pm and the Agnus is near the end ;) )

[esteven]

I wondered that he didn´t make it for "Gangster Nr 1"
Funny how a lot of people think that gentleman ought to play Robin to RC's Sheriff. But nobody has a clue...

We start roughly at 7 pm and the Agnus is near the end ;)
That is what I remember. *sniggers*

For something completely OT:
The dear dear lady sailed on a short cruise on October 28th. You will find pictures
here, here, here, here and here
:D

[max_und_moritz]

SHE IS SAILING AGAIN?? Oh joy, JOY!!!

(but damn, all I see is a blank screen saying I need Adobe Flash, which we can´t download here am Schufteplatz :p I can´t wait to see them when I get home again on Friday!)

Swiv saw her docked last year, and I SO wished she´d be out again sometime in the future - they must have done those repairs really fast!!

(and if she´s seaworthy, that could have a lot of possibly very happy implications and we still can hope, can´t we??)

[max_und_moritz]

Spake the Tolkienist and West Country expert - amen!

I really wish I had the ear to appreciate the enormous work that goes into faking accents convincingly, but I can´t tell Cockney from a hole in the throat. Like most foreigners, probably, I´m happy if I can say Yep, it´s English - and actually grok what they´re saying *shuffles feet*

[max_und_moritz]

LOL!! Yes, Wood´s accent was kind of familiar and old-fashioned (to my untrained ears). Funny that I understood McKellen, Lee, Weaving and Holm best (and the guy who played Théoden best of all!) but had a very tough time following Boyd and Sean Bean. Aragorn´s a bit of a fantasy equivalent of the Wild West frontier halfblood, so maybe the pioneer/Indian thing was a stroke of genius on his part? :p (he spoke purest classic Castilian in "Alatriste", it was bliss to listen to him)

East of the Alps, whoever manages to speak like Lugosi deserves a medal *g* It´s really, really hard on the teeth and the lips of guttural-used Bohunks to articulate properly in English.

[ozfille]

Of course Bettany should play Robin Hood, especially if he is not to be the pristine knight in shining armour that he is presented in the old movies and tv shows. An ambivalent Robin, though I would hope they wouldn't tog him out in an awful green jumpsuit thingy. *g*

[max_und_moritz]

Much as I don´t especially like Bettany, there are few who can provide the much-needed presence to counterbalance Crowe´s overwhelming power *g* Whoever plays Robin needs more than a pretty face and some acrobatic ability.

Oh no, not an awful green jumpsuit! He´ll probably get caught with his pants down again - as he usually is in nearly all his movies *rolls eyes*

[ozfille]

I still have memories of the awful 1960's or was that 1950's tv series. We only got tv in 1957 in Oz, so it could have been produced in the '50's and the theme song still replays in my head. The main actor's name I don't recall. He was a cheap version of Errol Flynn. I think PB would be much better. Oh you don't appreciate Paul's buns a la A Knight's Tale? I thought you would have liked the cheeky Chaucer, even though the film was hardly historically accurate. *g*

[max_und_moritz]

I haven´t seen AKT - because I heard it was a bit like Plunkett & Macleane, a punk-Disney costumed swashbuckling romp with videoclip aesthetics, and it sounded just an impossible combo :p

There´s a series of the 50s-60s? I knew about the 90s one, which was camp enough (all wigs and no personality; the Muppets´d have done a far better job). I still love the old one to pieces, especially Rathbone and Claude Rains´ juicy King John, it can´t really be topped so I wonder Crowe got baited into doing a remake (*if* it´s meant to be a remake?).

[rantipole6]

Excellent choices, though could we fit Vincent Price in there somewhere?

[max_und_moritz]

Ohhh yes... "for the love of God, Montresor!" *eg* And his Richelieu was exquisite, too, of course, though not exactly a "villain".