Harry Potter and Gary Oldman
Gary Oldman. Prisoner of Azkaban. Sizzling.
Maybe it’s the Eddie Vedder/Viggo as Aragorn/Jim Morrison beard thing combined with the dirty grimy bad boy posturing and rock’n’roll swagger, I don’t know. I’m smitten.
Always have been, really, but I’d forgotten. My first Gary Oldman movie was Sid and Nancy, which I originally watched because of my fascination with Sid Vicious, with whom I was not, thankfully, in love. Sid Vicious seemed a good symbol for my obsession with dark despair, somehow even trumping Heathcliff in my adolescent mind (not sure why). I even named my leather jacket Sid. Heck, for a while, I even called my mother Sid. Luckily, she understood that I was being affectionate.
After I watched the movie, though, I fell in love with Sid Vicious because Gary Oldman portrayed him. The real Sid, I suspect, was more like Frankenstein’s monster in both looks and intellect. I found every Gary Oldman movie I could, rarely falling in love again as Mr. Oldman tends to choose some shady, if complex, characters, Sid included (shady, that is – certainly not complex).
But that man can act! He has the very rare gift to lose Gary Oldman and become the part. Johnny Depp can do that as well; unfortunately, Johnny is too hot to ever really lose the Deppness, but who can really hold that against him?
One of my favorite Oldman characters is the pimp from True Romance (great movie) and although Dracula was horrible, I can't think of a better Dracula. Then there’s Prick Up Your Ears, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, JFK, Immortal Beloved…so many more. But Sirius Black. Sigh!
Speaking of Azkaban…I’m a little late coming into the Harry Potter craze but I’m tearing through the books now. Just waiting for Netflix to deliver Goblet before I start reading Order of the Phoenix. Escapism at its best.
On My Nightstand: High Noon by Nora Roberts (another great author of escapist fiction)
Quote of the Day: “I sit like a night alive with witches.” (Ben Hecht)
Daily blessing: October is almost here. No more humidity.
Maybe it’s the Eddie Vedder/Viggo as Aragorn/Jim Morrison beard thing combined with the dirty grimy bad boy posturing and rock’n’roll swagger, I don’t know. I’m smitten.
Always have been, really, but I’d forgotten. My first Gary Oldman movie was Sid and Nancy, which I originally watched because of my fascination with Sid Vicious, with whom I was not, thankfully, in love. Sid Vicious seemed a good symbol for my obsession with dark despair, somehow even trumping Heathcliff in my adolescent mind (not sure why). I even named my leather jacket Sid. Heck, for a while, I even called my mother Sid. Luckily, she understood that I was being affectionate.
After I watched the movie, though, I fell in love with Sid Vicious because Gary Oldman portrayed him. The real Sid, I suspect, was more like Frankenstein’s monster in both looks and intellect. I found every Gary Oldman movie I could, rarely falling in love again as Mr. Oldman tends to choose some shady, if complex, characters, Sid included (shady, that is – certainly not complex).
But that man can act! He has the very rare gift to lose Gary Oldman and become the part. Johnny Depp can do that as well; unfortunately, Johnny is too hot to ever really lose the Deppness, but who can really hold that against him?
One of my favorite Oldman characters is the pimp from True Romance (great movie) and although Dracula was horrible, I can't think of a better Dracula. Then there’s Prick Up Your Ears, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, JFK, Immortal Beloved…so many more. But Sirius Black. Sigh!
Speaking of Azkaban…I’m a little late coming into the Harry Potter craze but I’m tearing through the books now. Just waiting for Netflix to deliver Goblet before I start reading Order of the Phoenix. Escapism at its best.
On My Nightstand: High Noon by Nora Roberts (another great author of escapist fiction)
Quote of the Day: “I sit like a night alive with witches.” (Ben Hecht)
Daily blessing: October is almost here. No more humidity.
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