Perfect Malcolm and movies Wot I Love
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Am grooving on the awesomeness that is Jurassic Park, and had me a Revelation TM.
During the very excellent electric car ride scene early in the movie, wherein Jeff Goldblum (as Chaotician Dr. Ian Malcolm) banters and flirts with Laura Dern (Paleobotanist Dr. Ellie Satler), I am making with the yum of Jeff's determined sexiness in this movie. Oh yes, indeed. He is a Hotness here, with the black leather and the shades and the casual big cat energy. In this film he embodies what I consider to be the Supreme Sexy Type - a truly well-educated smartass. And that's when it hit me.
Goddess knows why it never occurred to me before but, as wonderful as Goldblum is in the role, there's a guy who would be even more perfect. Like 200% more, the role could easily have been written for him. You know who. Come on, you know.
David Duchovny, of course.
I don't think there's a guy in Hollywood who more closely fits the mold of on-the-make brainiac Malcolm, the sexually voracious scientist, the off-the-wall genius with a ready wisecrack, the...well-educated smartass. (He'd have to lose the shades, though. His eyes aren't strong enough.)
And just like that, I've got a new bedtime fantasy. Ain't life grand?
So, thinking about this film, I find a topic on which I shall briefly expound, that of "favorite". What does that mean, exactly? It's a term that changes, isn't it? In thinking about how Duchovny had "never occurred" to me before, I realized that in order to have that thought about a supporting character, I must have seen the film more than once, which I have. Then I realized that actually I've seen it many times. And yet it's not necessarily a film that I'd usually list among my "favorites" if asked.
So I looked at my collection, trying to pick out the film I've watched most often, as opposed to the films I immediately say I love. And I came up with this list:
The Big Lebowski
Contact
The Devil Wears Prada
Evolution
Jurassic Park
Red Shoe Diaries
Time After Time
The Usual Suspects
with the hands-down winner being Galaxy Quest. Without a doubt, I watch that one more than any other film I have.
This list surprises me. I've got more than 500 films in my collection, but when I go to watch one, more likely than not it'll be one of the films on that list, and probably it'll be GQ. I hadn't really thought about that before. It seems the film that I extol the most are not the films I actually want to see. I appear to have different criteria for actual viewing than for admiration.
Characters seem to be among them. I think the reason films like Jurassic Park and Galaxy Quest keep drawing me back is the actual players in the story. For the first, the draw would be mostly the dinosaurs. (To my eyes, they still beat the pants off any other CGI creature I've ever seen. They still convince me completely.) But I'm also very fond of Malcolm, as you can see, as well as Mr. Hammond the park owner, Dennis Nedry the snarky computer guy, and the Big White Hunter game warden whose name escapes me at the moment.
For Galaxy Quest, it's the whole package. I'm a lifelong Star Trek TOS fan, and this is the most gloriously geeky fan fic ever. In fact, I've read this fic - the group of actors find themselves in the place of the actual crew and must deal with some galactic wangdoodle. But it's perfection in GQ, and I just adore the characters all the way around. The actors are brilliant, the aliens are genius, the script...there are few films for me that are realized this well. It's just that, as a sci-fi comedy, there's no way it would ever get on anyone's Top Ten list. Its "watchability" is what counts here, though.
So I ask, which are the films you actually watch more, rather than love more? Is there a discrepancy between them for you? If so, what is it that makes you want to see a film more, even if it's not your "favorite"?
Am grooving on the awesomeness that is Jurassic Park, and had me a Revelation TM.
During the very excellent electric car ride scene early in the movie, wherein Jeff Goldblum (as Chaotician Dr. Ian Malcolm) banters and flirts with Laura Dern (Paleobotanist Dr. Ellie Satler), I am making with the yum of Jeff's determined sexiness in this movie. Oh yes, indeed. He is a Hotness here, with the black leather and the shades and the casual big cat energy. In this film he embodies what I consider to be the Supreme Sexy Type - a truly well-educated smartass. And that's when it hit me.
Goddess knows why it never occurred to me before but, as wonderful as Goldblum is in the role, there's a guy who would be even more perfect. Like 200% more, the role could easily have been written for him. You know who. Come on, you know.
David Duchovny, of course.
I don't think there's a guy in Hollywood who more closely fits the mold of on-the-make brainiac Malcolm, the sexually voracious scientist, the off-the-wall genius with a ready wisecrack, the...well-educated smartass. (He'd have to lose the shades, though. His eyes aren't strong enough.)
And just like that, I've got a new bedtime fantasy. Ain't life grand?
So, thinking about this film, I find a topic on which I shall briefly expound, that of "favorite". What does that mean, exactly? It's a term that changes, isn't it? In thinking about how Duchovny had "never occurred" to me before, I realized that in order to have that thought about a supporting character, I must have seen the film more than once, which I have. Then I realized that actually I've seen it many times. And yet it's not necessarily a film that I'd usually list among my "favorites" if asked.
So I looked at my collection, trying to pick out the film I've watched most often, as opposed to the films I immediately say I love. And I came up with this list:
The Big Lebowski
Contact
The Devil Wears Prada
Evolution
Jurassic Park
Red Shoe Diaries
Time After Time
The Usual Suspects
with the hands-down winner being Galaxy Quest. Without a doubt, I watch that one more than any other film I have.
This list surprises me. I've got more than 500 films in my collection, but when I go to watch one, more likely than not it'll be one of the films on that list, and probably it'll be GQ. I hadn't really thought about that before. It seems the film that I extol the most are not the films I actually want to see. I appear to have different criteria for actual viewing than for admiration.
Characters seem to be among them. I think the reason films like Jurassic Park and Galaxy Quest keep drawing me back is the actual players in the story. For the first, the draw would be mostly the dinosaurs. (To my eyes, they still beat the pants off any other CGI creature I've ever seen. They still convince me completely.) But I'm also very fond of Malcolm, as you can see, as well as Mr. Hammond the park owner, Dennis Nedry the snarky computer guy, and the Big White Hunter game warden whose name escapes me at the moment.
For Galaxy Quest, it's the whole package. I'm a lifelong Star Trek TOS fan, and this is the most gloriously geeky fan fic ever. In fact, I've read this fic - the group of actors find themselves in the place of the actual crew and must deal with some galactic wangdoodle. But it's perfection in GQ, and I just adore the characters all the way around. The actors are brilliant, the aliens are genius, the script...there are few films for me that are realized this well. It's just that, as a sci-fi comedy, there's no way it would ever get on anyone's Top Ten list. Its "watchability" is what counts here, though.
So I ask, which are the films you actually watch more, rather than love more? Is there a discrepancy between them for you? If so, what is it that makes you want to see a film more, even if it's not your "favorite"?
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Date: Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 11:34 pm (UTC)