Rome

[moon_custafer]

Watched both seasons of Rome, AKA “the reason Milch made Deadwood,/i> instead of the cop-show-set-in-the-time-of-Nero he initially suggested.” Didn’t love it quite as much as Deadwood, but it had a more satisfying ending. Initial thoughts:

-- Titus Pollo is probably the sanest person on the show, and he still flips out and kills people with disturbing regularity.

-- He still needs to have his own advice column.

-- I haven’t looked yet, but there must be so. much. slashfic. about this show.

-- It took me to the last ep to figure out who Attia reminded me of – Catherine O’Hara in Beetlejuice.
-- The actor playing grown-up Octavian did a fabulous job of starting out teeth-achingly pretty and then, without changing physically, going all sort of frozen and scary-looking. He’d be a brilliant Dorian Gray.

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Dorian Grey

[crankydon.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

My favourite Grey is still the one in the 30s black-and-white film. This was the one where they cut the portrait out of every film cell by hand with a razor-blade and then glued in a colour transparency of the painting. (They won an Oscar for this!) The guy somehow simultaneously seemed to be totally calm and yet on the verge of flipping out. I think he did it by being *way* too calm.

Re: Dorian Grey

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Way *too* calm is always a good technique (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7euZIVMQYo&feature=PlayList&p=794A7C88AE4450A8&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=3) (fast-forward to 8:27) , but that I always thought that Dorian was good-looking in the wrong way - it was all based on bone structure, and you could tell he needn't have bothered mortgaging his soul, since he was obviously still going to look terrific into his eighties.