Bloody Russell Crowe
Tuesday, October 21st, 2003 12:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tamaranthAt the weekend I was in Plymouth again on another brief family visit. I'd taken last month's Empire with me, because it had stills from the Peter Weir movie based (extremely loosely) on a couple of Patrick O'Brian's novels. My father introduced me to O'Brian when I was about 13 (it was a reciprocal deal: 'so what's so wonderful about your favourite author?' I got him reading and liking Zelazny ...).
Anyway, I've mentioned the movie to my father on the last few visits, but seldom got much of a response. This time, though, the photos worked wonders, even if (a) they do make bloody Russell Crowe look remarkably like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
reddragdiva and (b) bloody Russell Crowe is All Wrong as Jack Aubrey.
My father and I had a conversation. About whether bloody Russell Crowe matched our inner images of Jack Aubrey, and what those images included, and whether Aubrey is quintessentially English (unlike Russell Crowe). We ended up agreeing to differ.
I can't remember the last time we had a proper conversation, i.e. the call-and-response variety rather than the "How are you? Are you well? Have you been anywhere nice?" or the hallucination-narratives. (Actually, we had some of that as well, after Russell Crowe).
Determined to get the DVD as soon as it's available. And desperately hoping that my father lasts long enough to see the movie.
The trailer does look good, but I didn't see any close ups of Paul Bettany, so cannot yet determine whether casting him as Maturin was genius or madness. (Apparently there's a fine line between the two.)
Anyway, I've mentioned the movie to my father on the last few visits, but seldom got much of a response. This time, though, the photos worked wonders, even if (a) they do make bloody Russell Crowe look remarkably like
reddragdiva and (b) bloody Russell Crowe is All Wrong as Jack Aubrey.My father and I had a conversation. About whether bloody Russell Crowe matched our inner images of Jack Aubrey, and what those images included, and whether Aubrey is quintessentially English (unlike Russell Crowe). We ended up agreeing to differ.
I can't remember the last time we had a proper conversation, i.e. the call-and-response variety rather than the "How are you? Are you well? Have you been anywhere nice?" or the hallucination-narratives. (Actually, we had some of that as well, after Russell Crowe).
Determined to get the DVD as soon as it's available. And desperately hoping that my father lasts long enough to see the movie.
The trailer does look good, but I didn't see any close ups of Paul Bettany, so cannot yet determine whether casting him as Maturin was genius or madness. (Apparently there's a fine line between the two.)
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Date: Tuesday, October 21st, 2003 05:16 am (UTC)Just a thought: I could lend you my laptop with the trailer on for your next trip down there, if you like?
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Date: Tuesday, October 21st, 2003 05:41 am (UTC)I was looking at pics of the movie just yesterday. No Paul Bettany in sight, though. Hmmm... Maybe Maturin is classified 'super-sekkrit', like, you know, Shelob in Lord of the Rings? Er. Scary parallel. Sorry. *toddles off* ;)
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Date: Tuesday, October 21st, 2003 06:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, October 21st, 2003 07:49 am (UTC)Wonder if we'll get our collective act together enough for another sail this year?
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Date: Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003 11:47 am (UTC)