A few Strongbows in and mid-movie later...

[ink_n_imp]

I wish I understood why starving actors/singers/musicians who are forced by circumstance to cross-dress is such a bullet proof kink of mine. I mean, someone was either very smart, or very cruel when they didn't introduce me to Some Like It Hot in the formative days of my youth. They probably looked at my cross-dressing tendencies and thought it would be for the best, damn them. But God Damn. Much like when I first watched Some Like It Hot, as soon as I've finished watching Victor Victoria, I may have to go out and get my hands on it.

Damnit. I don't have the money to feed this goddamn kink.

In other news: GODDAMN, Victoria's love interest in this movie is FUGLY. GO WITH HIS BLONDE, VICTORIA. JUST GO WITH THE BLONDE!

Comments

[mosellegreen.livejournal.com]

I have a homemade DVD of Victor/Victoria. I'll be happy to send it to you. BTW, did you get the novel I sent you a month or so ago?

[mellifluous-ink.livejournal.com]

I <3 that movie. I need to watch it with someone new, though, because the first time I saw it it was with my exgf and... bad memories.

[merelyn.livejournal.com]

Some Like It Hot is one of my top five favorite movies of all time. DRAG IS ALWAYS THE SOLUTION.

And YES to Victor/Victoria. James Gardner never did it for me either. (Though OMG did you just ship Victoria/Norma?? ILU!!)

[innocentsmith.livejournal.com]

1. Julie Andrews is painfully hot in Victor/Victoria. I mean, wow. Also with the vintage setting and all the banter and yes. ♥ ♥ ♥

2. One of the most interesting things about that movie, for me, though, is that the real emotional core of it is the relationship between Victoria and Toddy. Which is so loving and affectionate and buddyish that I always watch it thinking "OTP!" about them, especially in comparison with Victoria's relationship with the gangster dude who is, as you say, fugly, and has to be constantly worked upon just to be remotely tolerant. Their bond seems to be based wholly on sex, while Victoria and Toddy understand each other. And yet you can't just say, oh, well, Victoria/Toddy then, because sexual orientation doesn't work that way, not in this story. So Victoria gets a shallow, heteronormative relationship in the end, which I could never really see lasting, and Toddy gets to save the day but end up alone. It's sort of tragic. Though I like to think that it didn't stay that way.

3. Some Like It Hot is my favorite movie EVER, OMG.

4. I might, possibly, have a half-finished fic manuscript somewhere around entitled "Five Joints Where Sugar Kane Never Sang (Or Maybe She Did)," crossing SLIH over with V/V, along with J&W, Chicago, Casablanca, and The Great Gasby.

[merelyn.livejournal.com]

Might? I hope that means HELL YES I WILL. \o/