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mundensLast night a group of us, organized by tyellas. went to see Terry Gilliams's The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. It was a lovely little story, notable for being Heath Ledger's actual last film, and unlike Dark Knight which he actually finished, this one he didn't and the film was instead completed by Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell all playing Ledger's role, which works perfectly because of the film itself.
Seeing as the latter are some of my favourite pieces of male eye-candy it was an especially enjoyable film from that point of view. You could see, in some of the scenes, the same brilliance that made The Joker the star of Dark Knight, and with Depp playing the same role, you could see many similarities between Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow & Ledger's equally piratical Tony. Depp, of course, tried not to be Captain Jack, so we had Ledger being Captain Jack, and Depp not being captain Jack, with both playing the same role. Colin Farrel and Jude Law were equally adept at being Tony, so much so that while it was easy to pick which scenes were definitely played by Ledger, and which were definitely played by Depp, it was not quite so easy, at least to me, to pick those played by Law & Farrel.
Chistopher Plummer played the title role adequately, but often reminded me of Dumbledore, or even Gandalf, it seemed he even wore Dumbledore's robes at points through the film. Tom Waits was perfect as a rather friendly Devil who was more interested in the game than winning, whose character was perhaps summed up by one line : "Damn! I think I've won!"
But the title of this post is "Ruined" and that is because I am now completely in lust with
Lily Cole, who played both Parnassus' wife (in flashback) and daughter Valentina. Not only is she a perfect pale-skinned redhead, with a fae-like Audrey Kawasaki look to her, but she's smart, with five A-levels, and a first class from Kings College Cambridge, environmentally and socially aware, working with anti-mining groups, and writing the foreword for Tansin Blanchard's Green is the new Black. Gilliam made full use of her physicality throughout the film, drifting her mermaid-like through some of the imaginary scenes, posing her in a Lady Godiva manner during one sequence, enhancing her other-wordly facial look in other, and, in the aftermath of the one sex scene just having her breathing heavily in a mauve bra.
I shall now forever be doomed to live a life of unrequited lust, unless I, like Parnassus, can also make a deal with the Devil for Ms. Cole's attention.
This morning I woke drained and migrainy, maybe there is a succubus or vampire at work in the neighbourhood?
tyellas. went to see Terry Gilliams's The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. It was a lovely little story, notable for being Heath Ledger's actual last film, and unlike Dark Knight which he actually finished, this one he didn't and the film was instead completed by Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell all playing Ledger's role, which works perfectly because of the film itself. Seeing as the latter are some of my favourite pieces of male eye-candy it was an especially enjoyable film from that point of view. You could see, in some of the scenes, the same brilliance that made The Joker the star of Dark Knight, and with Depp playing the same role, you could see many similarities between Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow & Ledger's equally piratical Tony. Depp, of course, tried not to be Captain Jack, so we had Ledger being Captain Jack, and Depp not being captain Jack, with both playing the same role. Colin Farrel and Jude Law were equally adept at being Tony, so much so that while it was easy to pick which scenes were definitely played by Ledger, and which were definitely played by Depp, it was not quite so easy, at least to me, to pick those played by Law & Farrel.
Chistopher Plummer played the title role adequately, but often reminded me of Dumbledore, or even Gandalf, it seemed he even wore Dumbledore's robes at points through the film. Tom Waits was perfect as a rather friendly Devil who was more interested in the game than winning, whose character was perhaps summed up by one line : "Damn! I think I've won!"
But the title of this post is "Ruined" and that is because I am now completely in lust with
Lily Cole, who played both Parnassus' wife (in flashback) and daughter Valentina. Not only is she a perfect pale-skinned redhead, with a fae-like Audrey Kawasaki look to her, but she's smart, with five A-levels, and a first class from Kings College Cambridge, environmentally and socially aware, working with anti-mining groups, and writing the foreword for Tansin Blanchard's Green is the new Black. Gilliam made full use of her physicality throughout the film, drifting her mermaid-like through some of the imaginary scenes, posing her in a Lady Godiva manner during one sequence, enhancing her other-wordly facial look in other, and, in the aftermath of the one sex scene just having her breathing heavily in a mauve bra.
I shall now forever be doomed to live a life of unrequited lust, unless I, like Parnassus, can also make a deal with the Devil for Ms. Cole's attention.
This morning I woke drained and migrainy, maybe there is a succubus or vampire at work in the neighbourhood?
