fan_elune | Ahoy, lads and lassies!

Ahoy, lads and lassies!

A pretty uneventful weekend gone by. On Friday we went to the pub with a couple
of teachers, it was nice to do a bit of socialising for once and just hang out.
However, I just hate being in the closet. You always have to watch what you’re
saying and I don’t care overly much for lying to people either. Grrr. Last
night’s episode of Teachers (a very bad TV show about, yes, teachers) dealt
with homosexuality, so I watched it, and did it suck or what. Couldn’t have
expected anything else from that show, granted, but still. It was full of
clichés and I’m really not sure what the message was supposed to be. Or rather,
I think the message wasn’t half bad, but the way they tried to put it across
negated it.

On another note altogether,

greenie_breizh and I are putting the
final touches to our article about Buffy for Martin Winckler’s Miroirs de la
Vie 2. I think I’ll feel both proud (well, hopefully) and relieved when
we’re done. So much thought to put into it.

Yesterday night Etienne, Julia and I went to a pop quiz again at the pub, and
splendidly lost. It was quite magnificent. We had the lowest score and
consequently won a bottle of wine, so it was ultimately quite good, though.
*wine-loving grin* Though granted, we’ll be lucky if it turns out to be
drinkable. It's French, but even in France we have some terrible wines.
On a sad note,

cgwriting, I couldn’t get those files in properly, so
I’m still PtD-less. Christmas break will be like a breath of fresh air after
being locked in a room for a couple of months, fanfic-wise.

Otherwise, the one thing I did go out for this weekend was Finding Neverland.
It was some measure of good, but I can’t say
that I’m a big fan. I can see why Johnny chose to be in this movie, because the
character of JM Barrie is interesting, but I think the whole thing has been
underdeveloped, as was said character. Yes, imagination has good points, I
agree – I mean, look what I wish I could do for a living. But they didn’t
linger on the negative aspects of Barrie’s refusal to grow up and stopped the
film way too early in his life to show that. It’s a very optimistic film that
suggests running away in your imagination, into Neverland, to cope with life.

From what

heikki_cheren has told me, it looks like they could
totally have stuck to Barrie’s life to show the rather negative aspects of such
a philosophy of life. I haven’t read the book it’s inspired from, so I don’t
have a clue how it was, but after watching the film I wanted to rewrite the
script into something much darker. This simply wasn’t a film I wanted to see.
It was too simple.

On a more positive note, the actors are all perfect. Johnny and Kate were
givens, of course, but all of them really. Spot-on. I particularly enjoyed
Michael, for some reason, I love the way the kid speaks. Also, I refrained from
bouncing in glee when Mackenzie Crook showed up on screen. I have a very bad
case of fangirling going on with the guy ever since I saw him in The Office in
addition to Pirates. Also another Pirates actor was Angus Barnett barking
around. Whee! And I’d forgotten that Kelly Macdonald played Peter Pan. She
looks very, very good with short hair. I was rather saddened that she’d toned
down her accent though.

Speaking of, Johnny’s accent isn’t terribly bad. It’s just not a true Scottish
accent. Oh well. The fun part was when James was playing the pirate... no
Captain Jack Sparrow, mind you, but at one point Johnny did use the
ever-so-Sparrowesque "'ey?", I was filled with fangirly glee.
Watched Peter Pan again yesterday, if only to remind me of the dark aspects of
it all. That movie nailed it down perfectly. Plus, Jason Isaacs goodness.
*dreamy sigh*