Your Cruise Director ([info]cruisedirector) wrote in [info]lupin100,
@ 2005-01-24 21:09:00
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Locks
Title: Locks
Author: [info]cruisedirector
Challenge: #27, the scars.
Word count: 100
Characters: Harry, Remus


James used to muss his hair deliberately, because he thought it looked cool to look like he'd just got off his broomstick, as Lily had once accused. And Remus thinks Harry leaves his hair deliberately messy as well. When Harry's forehead is covered, sometimes people don't gasp to see The Boy Who Lived.

It's a delusion, of course. Just as it's fantasy on Remus' own part, as he carefully grooms his moustache, to think facial hair will distract from his far more interesting scars. But it's worth it, for the few seconds when it might make him like everyone else.

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[info]good_conduct
2005-01-24 06:15 pm UTC (link)
I didn't think it could be done, but you just justified the Thlewpin 'stache. ::applauds::

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[info]cruisedirector
2005-01-25 09:53 am UTC (link)
I really like the moustache. *g* Thanks!

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[info]good_conduct
2005-01-25 02:49 pm UTC (link)
I guess I'm just biased because I don't normally like facial hair, it's not necessarily canon and... well, David Thewlis, while a wonderful actor, is not my Remus.

Anyway, I still love this; I especially love how James was used. Bravo!

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[info]cruisedirector
2005-01-25 04:09 pm UTC (link)
Thewlis is SO my Remus. *g* I didn't have any strong visual image of him before the film -- I am not a terribly visual person, and I rarely "cast" books in my head if I know they're being filmed so I don't end up with cognitive dissonance. But I really adored him.

Thank you again!

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[info]good_conduct
2005-01-25 04:43 pm UTC (link)
I have such a problem with that, hehe, and it just makes the movie more difficult for me because my Remus doesn't seem to exist in reality. No actors, no one I know... makes me sad, really. I actually saw the first movie before I ravaged the five books two summers ago, so the majority of the actors wouldn't leave my head, and Branagh made me forget any image I had of Lockhart. But then Gary Oldman (who is one of my favorites) is not my Sirius and Thewlis isn't my Remus, and I'm slowly beginning to not think of Rickman when faced with literary!Snape. I think it's the age thing. So while the movies have dictated much of what I imagine while reading, the wizarding world is like a big, weird collage in my mind.

(I do adore Thewlis. Have you seen Besieged? He's amazing.)

Why I felt the need to divulge that, I've no idea. Oh wait. That's right. I'm trying to not do my homework. :-P

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[info]cruisedirector
2005-01-25 05:27 pm UTC (link)
I saw the first movie before I read the books too, and I've always pictured the people of Snape's generation as older than they are in the books...kids tend to think of everyone over 30 as ancient anyway, so it never seemed odd to me that he'd be so much older, and once they had Rickman cast I think Lupin and Black both had to be cast closer to his age. So it really all worked for me.

My favorite Thewlis film is probably Divorcing Jack...well, that or Total Eclipse, when I am in the mood for incandescent DiCaprio and Thewlis being a selfish bastard. *g*

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[info]good_conduct
2005-01-25 05:56 pm UTC (link)
"and once they had Rickman cast I think Lupin and Black both had to be cast closer to his age."

I completely agree, and though I may be contradicting myself here, I think it does work really well. Oldman and Thewlis are great, and I especially love Oldman as Sirius, even if they don't fit my Harry Potter world. I appreciate the performances from my point of view as an actress, and I've learned to appreciate the movies as adaptations and separate entities, but I think my weirdest moment came when watching Dragonheart a few months ago. I sat staring with my jaw dropped... there was pasty, malicious Remus Lupin atop a horse, murdering a blind old man with a bow and arrow as bearded Lucius Malfoy and the alien bounty hunter from The X-Files looked on. That's when I realized I had to separate myself from, pardon the term, movie contamination.

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[info]cruisedirector
2005-01-25 06:07 pm UTC (link)
...I will not even mention the RPS bunnies the combination of Dragonheart and Divorcing Jack gave me. *g*

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[info]good_conduct
2005-01-25 06:35 pm UTC (link)
Tease. ;-)

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[info]cruisedirector
2005-01-26 01:33 pm UTC (link)
No, really. The fact that Jason plays David's lackey in the one and guy with whom he shares a wife and a girlfriend in the other would never make me think, well, anything.

Except that Rowling should write a scene where Lupin shags bites Malfoy, or something!

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[info]good_conduct
2005-01-26 06:18 pm UTC (link)
Or something. Of course. Or... something. Teeheehee.

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[info]sapphiretragedy
2005-01-24 06:43 pm UTC (link)
This was cute. Good job!

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[info]cruisedirector
2005-01-25 09:53 am UTC (link)
Thank you -- glad you enjoyed!

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[info]katzk
2005-01-24 06:49 pm UTC (link)
♥ ♥ ♥

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[info]cruisedirector
2005-01-25 09:53 am UTC (link)
*g* Thanks!

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[info]karasu_hime
2005-01-24 07:14 pm UTC (link)
Lovely!!

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[info]cruisedirector
2005-01-25 09:53 am UTC (link)
Thanks so much!

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[info]betareject
2005-01-24 09:49 pm UTC (link)
Aww this is such a sad but touching scene. It is such a unique metaphor for putting on the mask so to speak and how everyone hides behind them. Beautifully done!

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[info]cruisedirector
2005-01-25 09:54 am UTC (link)
...you WANT me to have Phantom of the Opera bunnies. Admit it! *bites you* Thanks so much!

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[info]betareject
2005-01-25 09:00 pm UTC (link)
*whistles innocently, until biten* >.> hee okay you found me out ;) I'd love to see a Phantom tale (something with Giry and Phantom *hint hint*) so if you do ever come up with anything you have to let me peek! ^^ I'd love to see it!

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[info]cruisedirector
2005-01-26 02:58 pm UTC (link)
What do we think Mme. Giry's first name is? Margaret, if her daughter is Meg? *g*

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[info]betareject
2005-01-27 10:01 pm UTC (link)
You know I don't think they ever say...I wonder why...Although it would make sense seeing her daughter is Meg that she would have a name like Margaret =)

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[info]dark_cygnet
2005-01-25 01:11 pm UTC (link)
<3 <3 <3

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[info]cruisedirector
2005-01-25 04:07 pm UTC (link)
Thank you! *g*

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[info]cdkobasiuk
2005-01-25 05:26 pm UTC (link)
Very well concieved.

cdk

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[info]cruisedirector
2005-01-25 05:27 pm UTC (link)
Thank you! Harry's is generally the first scar I think of in this series.

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[info]cordeliadelayne
2005-01-25 05:32 pm UTC (link)
This is really good. And for the record, Thewlis is definitely my Lupin now too :) Not that I had a vision of him when I read the book, but on first view I thought he stole the movie from the other cast.

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[info]cruisedirector
2005-01-25 06:10 pm UTC (link)
Thank you! Oh, I did too -- the scene with him and Harry on the bridge, the scene where Lupin leaves (Kloves' screenplay missing the word "werewolf," that entire scene is about being gay to me) and the scene in the corridor with the map ("Llllluuuupin...out for a little stroll in the moonlight?") were the highlights of the film for me!

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