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[serai]

OK, as promised, here are some hot and slashy pics of David Duchovny and Billy Wirth. These are screencaps from the two-hour pilot of Red Show Diaries. That show was a lot of fun, if a bit tamer than the producers liked to boast, and the pilot gave us the setup for the series framework (Duchovny receives letters from women detailing their sexual adventures).

So here you go. There are a lot of pics behind the cut, and you're welcome to take whatever you like and use it (credit would be nice). Some of these shots were very fast-moving so I picked the best I could get for you. Have fun!


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Ya gotta love Zalman King. In his insistence on presenting everyone in his Hot Fantasy movies in as gorgeous a light as possible, he creates some great unintentional slash. Or maybe it is intentional. Probably it is. Since the series was produced about ten years ago, there wasn't anything really openly gay going on even on the pay channels. (RSD was on Showtime.) So in a series devoted to providing women with Excellent Food For Thought, you would have to cloak Hot Guys Fucking (which King is clearly smart enough to understand as a turnon for a lot of women) in the guise of other physical activities, thus getting past the guys at Standards and Practices (and getting straight actors to do it in the first place - some of them can be a bit skittish about that sort of thing). In this case, the situation is a basketball game that devolves into a fight. Lots of chesty pushing around, grabbing and throwing, but no punches or really harmful violence. 'Cause you know, it's supposed to be sexy. And it is. Oh yeah.

I would recommend this film as a piece of Sex Fluff. The story is quite angsty in a tragic romance kinda way, thus giving the sex a lot of undercurrents of sekrit hotness and guilt, a Classic Romance Combo. Basically Duchovny plays Jake the Prince and Wirth plays Tom the Ploughman, and Brigitte Bako (who looks all of 14 to my eyes, not my type at all) plays the Alex, the Lady caught between them. Practically troubadourial story, actually. It's all photographed in this very smooth, luxurious, sensual style. All the locations are beautiful, all the clothes are perfectly fitted. The skin is smooth and the features are attractive. The lighting and camera work constantly play with the actors, bringing out the lushest and most lickable aspects of their faces and bodies. Everyone is fuckable (well, almost everyone; Brenda Vaccaro isn't looking too cute these days). It's quite a feast.

Unfortunately, it's rather a limited one, as I mentioned. Pity King couldn't have cast a wider net for the tales in the show. It's all het sex, with an occasional dash of the kind of thing we see in these pics. But I think the story sets up a very interesting situation for slash, given that it gives these two guys something fundamentally in common, and sets up the possibility of a continuing connection between them. Even though the end of the film seems to say that's it, they never see each other again, there really isn't anything that definiately states it. Hmm...

Comments

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

Jeez, I conked out too soon last night. I checked my friendspage for the last time about midnight, and nothing was up then, and I had to give up and lie down. Which is okay, really, cause I got to wake up to this. What gorgeous photograqhy and lighting. And I'm with Annwyn, the director had to know just what he was doing. Those two guys are beautiful and the faces are not showing anger as far as I can see.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Looking at the pics, I can see what you mean. But keep in mind that I picked the best and sexiest pics for this spam. There were shots where Wirth looked much more pissed off. Duchovny plays the whole role very cool, very internalized, so his facial expressions don't go much farther than this. (That also makes the few moments when he does explode much more effective. He only cries once in the film, when he's talking to one of Bako's friends during an interlude in the middle of this scene with Wirth, and the tears kind of burst out for a few seconds and then he yanks it all back in to go back after his rival again. So there's a great contrast between Wirth's impetuous, explosive nature and Duchovny's calmer, more introspective mien.

Which plays into the romance, of course. Bako is Tragically Sensitive and A Wounded Soul. Duchovny offers her Peace and Stability and Unconditional Love, which she naturally distrusts in her heart, because of her Sorrowful Past. So she goes out and finds herself a Rough And Ready Man to Entice Her Wild Side. It's all so completely classic!

But yes, there is quite a lot of anger going on. However, as with the cloaking-the-gay-sex issue, the anger has to be the right kind. This series was made specifically to appeal to women, and you can only go so far with things like anger and stay enjoyably sexy. So these guys are really, really mad, but they don't do all of the things you'd expect guys in this situation to do. I'd expect Wirth to pound Duchovny's head in, given the kind of guy he is. But that wouldn't be any fun to watch, so it doesn't happen. It's all about the yummy in this series; only so much bitter as will add a nice tang.

Wow, sorry about that. *rant off*

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

No, don't be sorry. It's really cool. I've never seen the series, and now I will be on the lookout to see if it ever shows up again. It sounds really good, in a campy way that I like. I don't usually go for what television calls "women's entertainment" because it all seems to involve spousal abuse, rape, or a disease of the week kind of thing. The girls in "Sin City" are my kind of girls. I used to watch Zena because the women were allowed to be strong and kick ass, instead of waiting around for some man to take care of them. But I do love the kind of thing you're describing here.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

It's out on DVD, both the pilot and a lot of the episodes. I know what you mean about that kind of Lifetime sob-story stuff. This is definitely not that. Look out for it - well worth the rent.