Musings of the Obsessive Kind

I am so looking forward to seeing this over the weekend! Ralph Fiennes is one of my favorite actors, and I am rather glad he is making a more serious yet also mainstream film, when for many years he was doing such tiny films like Sunshine or Onegin or very Hollywood films like that Maid in Manhattan crap. I didn't know about the director connection (City of God was mindblowing), so that is good, and the topic is very interesting to me.

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I first saw him in "Schindler's List" and I thought that I could bever watch this actor again in anything because i'd be forever terrified and repulsed by him. I couldn't even look at his pictures. And then I saw "Quiz Show" and surprisingly didn't cower. And then I saw "The English Patient" (first movie I saw more than once in the theater) and fell utterly in love.

And after that little trio of experiences he went firmly on my favorite actor list.

He also has "The White Countess" coming out in December, which also has good buzz. It's a Merchant-Ivory film costarring Natasha Richardson. It's set in the 1930s Shanghai and he is a blind upperclass man and she is (I think) a Russian con-artist.

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Oh, wow, that makes 2 more Ralph flicks before year's end (Harry Potter being the other)!

I first saw him in The English Patient, and yes, much love. I love that whole film, and the book and virtually everyone involved in making that film. So I went back and checked out his catalogue including Wuthering Heights with Juliette Binoche; his Heathcliff was quite dark and taciturn--in other words, very Heathcliffy. He's almost always good in anything he's in, except the vile and utterly inexcusable The Avengers which is one of the worst films I've ever seen. (I haven't seen some of his more recent films, though, like Red Dragon and Maid in Manhattan)

I'm very hopeful for The Constant Gardner!

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Ohhhh, The Avengers. I don't even want to think about that one. Stay away from MiM. Not that he is hideous in it, but any bland stand in could have done that role with his eyes closed. Haven't seen Red dragon because...wuss.

I loved him in "The End of the Affair" and "Spider" though. And I adore "Strange Days" even though it's bizarre. Haven't seen Onegin though.

Yes, I was crazy about The English Patient. It was the first time I felt I was watching a movie that was pulled out of my head, as if someone knew what movie would be perfect for me and made it, vivid as dreams sometimes are.

I think I need a Ralph icon.

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Yes, I was crazy about The English Patient.

For a long time, I didn't know anyone else who was so obsessed with it, LOL!

I think I need a Ralph icon.

Ah, I was just thinking the same thing. The only one I have in storage is a Voldemort icon, which I'm not in the mood for yet...

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I would love to get a TEP icon. *sigh*

Yes, I was severely obssessed with that movie!

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I've been looking for some for a while now. If you ever find any let me know!

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Here are some. I'd suggest the ralph fiennes community for icons and such. You've got to sift through picture spam to get to them sometimes, but Fiennes picture spam never hurt anyone.
http://www.livejournal.com/community/ralph_fiennes/22132.html#cutid1

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*is very very grateful*

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I'm personally partial to #2 and #8.

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I love Ralph. He's so bizarrely magnetic even when he's scaring the daylights out of you (which he does frequently). His looks are so that gorgeous, arrogant upper class English type. I loved him from Wuthering Heights and Quiz Show. He's just elegant. I always pictured Sherlock Holmes looking like him.

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Actually, now that you mention it, I can totally see him as Sherlock. He certainly got the cerebral part down pat.

His looks are so that gorgeous, arrogant upper class English type.

*Nods fervently* Oh yesssss. I think he and Christian Bale should make a movie together, about two messed-up angsty upperclass British brothers or something.

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I'm game for any pretty guy in a smart movie with the Bale. He and Fiennes would be great together though. They'd be great together in something dark and cereberal. They both have that intensity to them (Christensen has it too but it's not as developed or channeled yet).

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Hmmmm...*starts thinking of a suitable British novel*

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I couldn't think of anything since my literary tastes generally don't run that way. They're both at their best when they're intense and almost feral. And period pieces, they do period pieces well.

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I think the thing with the angst is that the guy and his wife are drifting apart, and then she turns up dead, and he tries to find out how she died and falls in love with her all over again in retrospect.

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