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rmI posted this awesome giddy audioblog post about the new HP movie, and it decided not to show up. Feh.
Anyway, the film is fantastic. Funny as hell, and scary. And really moving in a lot of places. Like the books (and unlike the first two films) it really works on two levels -- both the actual story and all the wink-wink nudge-nudge inuendo. Emotionally, it even works better in the book in places.
And for all you Remus fans (and I was always fond of him but never got what the fuss was about), David Thewlis is ridiculously charming in the role. Simply lovely. Now I get it.
And talk about hearing 10,000 keyboards clicking through the whole thing. You know that whole "werewolf is a metaphor for gay" theory, that I've always been like "hey, sure, that works, whatever, but that's fannon not cannon" about? Well, I take that back. Remus is gay gay gay gay gay gay. Gay! I'm sorry, but the music and the shoes alone. Trust me, when you see it, you'll know what the hell I'm talking about.
Also, all the kids are way too good looking. It's sort of bizarre. And Draco is such a girl!
Also, that page 394 business is the funniest shit ever.
Anyway, Curon is a genius. And Chris Columbus should be ashamed of himself for not having the faintest clue what to do with the first two films.
Finally -- the music is soooooo much better in this one.
Anyway, the film is fantastic. Funny as hell, and scary. And really moving in a lot of places. Like the books (and unlike the first two films) it really works on two levels -- both the actual story and all the wink-wink nudge-nudge inuendo. Emotionally, it even works better in the book in places.
And for all you Remus fans (and I was always fond of him but never got what the fuss was about), David Thewlis is ridiculously charming in the role. Simply lovely. Now I get it.
And talk about hearing 10,000 keyboards clicking through the whole thing. You know that whole "werewolf is a metaphor for gay" theory, that I've always been like "hey, sure, that works, whatever, but that's fannon not cannon" about? Well, I take that back. Remus is gay gay gay gay gay gay. Gay! I'm sorry, but the music and the shoes alone. Trust me, when you see it, you'll know what the hell I'm talking about.
Also, all the kids are way too good looking. It's sort of bizarre. And Draco is such a girl!
Also, that page 394 business is the funniest shit ever.
Anyway, Curon is a genius. And Chris Columbus should be ashamed of himself for not having the faintest clue what to do with the first two films.
Finally -- the music is soooooo much better in this one.
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Date: 2004-06-23 09:39 pm (UTC)I thought the book Lupin was rather gay, but the found the movie Lupin to not only be more gay, but differently so.
And really, the scenes where he was alone with Harry creeped me out. Not because I read the character as gay, but because he is so fucking attentive to Harry, and Harry isn't really a kid anymore, but is a young adult, and thus becoming a sexual being. It was creepy, and I felt like there was an undercurrent there that made me very, very uncomfortable. It really did feel like Lupin was trying to seduce Harry in the manner of those "boy-lover" type of molestors. When Lupin made the comment to the effect that the Ministry wouldn't allow "someone like me" to tech young children, my though twas "Of course not, you're a boy-loving perv."
So after seeing the movie (we saw it weeks ago but I'm just now getting around to coming back here and writing this) I don't just see Lupin as gay; I see him as a kindly chicken hawk. I see him as a guy who wants boys but never acts upon it and will never have happiness.
It freaks me out.