1. God, the undershirt, omg. I was one of those people who was mainly familiar with her from painfully wholesome family movies, so while I always thought she was pretty, hotness hadn't really entered my concept of her before I saw V/V. Zowie.
2. I support the continuing adventures of Victoria and Toddy, and wish to subscribe to that newsletter! And I do agree about King trying to get over stuff; it's just...I don't know, maybe it's partly just my lack of attraction to him, and I'm not giving a fair look at how much progress he makes, especially considering time period and his macho background.
3. Well, there was only ever one Curtis and one Lemmon and one Monroe. And one Billy Wilder, for that matter. And they were all doing possibly their best work ever. If you ask me it's one of the perfect movies ever made, so of course compared to a lot of dreck today...but they made a lot of dreck back then, too.
Nevertheless, yes, it is spectacularly awesome and very much its own thing: a farce and a parody and a period movie and an action movie and a romance and a buddy movie. It is ♥, pure and simple.
4. XD I will try and see if I can dig it out? Actually, not to be too spoilery, but my idea was that Sugar would manage to get Bertie OUT of an engagement, having had it explained to her that he doesn't want to be in it, basically by smooching him suddenly and without warning in front of his fiancee. Ta-da, he's dumped.
But now I want to read/write your idea too. Because the thing is, I could aaaaaaallllmost ship Sugar/Bertie/Jeeves: both Sugar and Bertie are such utter sweethearts, and have been so kicked around by the people they care about; I think Sugar would uncritically adore Bertie and Jeeves, and take anything Jeeves said as gospel. And very possibly not have any objection to Bertie/Jeeves, especially if we're post-movie, here. Also it would give Aunt Agatha an aneurysm, while meeting with the hearty approval of the Drones, so those are plusses. But Sugar and Bertie seem to be each other's type for friendship, maybe, but very much not each other's type for love, so ... I don't know. And Sugar's a rather more tragic character than you usually see in Wodehouse, and that's a big part of what makes her interesting to me, so... hmm. *ponders*
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Date: 2009-07-17 08:51 pm (UTC)2. I support the continuing adventures of Victoria and Toddy, and wish to subscribe to that newsletter! And I do agree about King trying to get over stuff; it's just...I don't know, maybe it's partly just my lack of attraction to him, and I'm not giving a fair look at how much progress he makes, especially considering time period and his macho background.
3. Well, there was only ever one Curtis and one Lemmon and one Monroe. And one Billy Wilder, for that matter. And they were all doing possibly their best work ever. If you ask me it's one of the perfect movies ever made, so of course compared to a lot of dreck today...but they made a lot of dreck back then, too.
Nevertheless, yes, it is spectacularly awesome and very much its own thing: a farce and a parody and a period movie and an action movie and a romance and a buddy movie. It is ♥, pure and simple.
4. XD I will try and see if I can dig it out? Actually, not to be too spoilery, but my idea was that Sugar would manage to get Bertie OUT of an engagement, having had it explained to her that he doesn't want to be in it, basically by smooching him suddenly and without warning in front of his fiancee. Ta-da, he's dumped.
But now I want to read/write your idea too. Because the thing is, I could aaaaaaallllmost ship Sugar/Bertie/Jeeves: both Sugar and Bertie are such utter sweethearts, and have been so kicked around by the people they care about; I think Sugar would uncritically adore Bertie and Jeeves, and take anything Jeeves said as gospel. And very possibly not have any objection to Bertie/Jeeves, especially if we're post-movie, here. Also it would give Aunt Agatha an aneurysm, while meeting with the hearty approval of the Drones, so those are plusses. But Sugar and Bertie seem to be each other's type for friendship, maybe, but very much not each other's type for love, so ... I don't know. And Sugar's a rather more tragic character than you usually see in Wodehouse, and that's a big part of what makes her interesting to me, so... hmm. *ponders*