I sit here in the thunder, the green on the grey

[sovay]

Me: I should rewatch Sense and Sensibility (1995). It might pair illuminatingly with Persuasion (1995); I haven't seen it in nine years and I've never written about it; I saw it for the first time in 1996 with someone who didn't like it. That was a point in my life when I saw very few movies and did not think critically about them if I did. Those can be interesting to revisit.

*half an hour of movie later*

My critical faculties: FUCK, Alan Rickman is BEAUTIFUL.

Ladies and gentlepeople, that may be the review.

Comments

[sovay]

Oh yes on Alan Rickman. I totally swooned over him in the movie.

He's pretty swoonworthy. It was my introduction to him as an actor, too, so I had to catch up to the idea of him as a saturnine villain rather than a deeply romantic and slightly, touchingly awkward leading man with a voice like a cynical cello.

[kenjari]

But such a sexy cynical cello!
Back when I worked in biotech, there was a British man in the Amsterdam office who sounded almost exactly like Alan Rickman over the phone (the effect was enhanced by the fact that I never met him in person or saw a photo of him). My group had regular conference calls with him, and I confess to spending a couple of these calls thinking up questions to ask him just so I could hear him talk.

[sovay]

But such a sexy cynical cello!

Hell, yes!

Back when I worked in biotech, there was a British man in the Amsterdam office who sounded almost exactly like Alan Rickman over the phone (the effect was enhanced by the fact that I never met him in person or saw a photo of him).

Alan Rickman's biotech doppelgänger. That's amazing.

[kore]

a deeply romantic and slightly, touchingly awkward leading man with a voice like a cynical cello.

That is perfect.