I dedicate this post to my sister... ;)
Feb. 13th, 2010 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwendolyngreyLast night I watched my latest netflix DVD, Tom Brown's Schooldays.
I really enjoyed it... the sometimes annoying sentimentality and sanctimonious moralizing was countered by the cut-throat brutality and general violent anarchy of an 1830's boarding school. I had first known about Tom Brown through it's connection to the Flashman series by George McDonald Fraser, which takes the main bully and general "bad guy" from Tom Brown and follows his ignoble path through life. Harry Flashman, sometimes affectionately called Flashy, is perhaps the horridest anti-hero ever, ever conceived. The Flashman books are engaging and entertaining, but as I was reading them, there was the constant thought in the back of my mind that this character which I was following and rooting for was really utterly vile. There is nothing redeeming about Flashman... he's arrogant, cowardly, conniving, self-absorbed, a bully, a rapist, and a murderer.
But back to Tom Brown.
Tom is everything Flashman is not: noble, caring, brave, etc... and the movie chronicles his first year at Rugby school.
It was also pleasant to watch because the kid who played Tom Brown (the boy on the left), Alex Pettyfer, was frickin' adorable.
After the movie ended I said to myself, "Self. That boy will grow up very nicely... I wonder what he looks like now?"
A quick google search unearthed two facts: Alex Pettyfer will be 20 in April, and is quite stunning.
And now comes the delightful bit... my sister was recently giving me a hard time about not finding any celebrities attractive, based on the fact that I don't obsess over anyone the way she sometimes does (if I hear ANYTHING else about Mac Taylor I am going to puke). This is not true, I find some celebrities incredibly attractive. Like Alex Pettyfer... and others...
Marc-Andre Grondin, for instance:
And Ben Barnes:
Which reminds one of Prince Caspian:
Which brings us to William Moseley:
I really enjoyed it... the sometimes annoying sentimentality and sanctimonious moralizing was countered by the cut-throat brutality and general violent anarchy of an 1830's boarding school. I had first known about Tom Brown through it's connection to the Flashman series by George McDonald Fraser, which takes the main bully and general "bad guy" from Tom Brown and follows his ignoble path through life. Harry Flashman, sometimes affectionately called Flashy, is perhaps the horridest anti-hero ever, ever conceived. The Flashman books are engaging and entertaining, but as I was reading them, there was the constant thought in the back of my mind that this character which I was following and rooting for was really utterly vile. There is nothing redeeming about Flashman... he's arrogant, cowardly, conniving, self-absorbed, a bully, a rapist, and a murderer.
But back to Tom Brown.
Tom is everything Flashman is not: noble, caring, brave, etc... and the movie chronicles his first year at Rugby school.
It was also pleasant to watch because the kid who played Tom Brown (the boy on the left), Alex Pettyfer, was frickin' adorable.
After the movie ended I said to myself, "Self. That boy will grow up very nicely... I wonder what he looks like now?"
A quick google search unearthed two facts: Alex Pettyfer will be 20 in April, and is quite stunning.
And now comes the delightful bit... my sister was recently giving me a hard time about not finding any celebrities attractive, based on the fact that I don't obsess over anyone the way she sometimes does (if I hear ANYTHING else about Mac Taylor I am going to puke). This is not true, I find some celebrities incredibly attractive. Like Alex Pettyfer... and others...
Marc-Andre Grondin, for instance:
And Ben Barnes:
Which reminds one of Prince Caspian:
Which brings us to William Moseley:
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Date: 2010-02-14 01:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-16 05:51 am (UTC)gwendolyn: i highly approve! :D esp of said Alex! ;)
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Date: 2010-02-16 01:21 pm (UTC)