Your Cruise Director ([info]cruisedirector) wrote in [info]perfect_duet,
@ 2004-03-11 22:03:00
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I had never seen this pic before today
And just had to post it, because it's lovely...solicitous Jack and Stephen in the banyan, smiling so nicely!


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[info]sparowe
2004-03-11 07:15 pm UTC (link)
Oh, that's a nice one. I wonder if that's what Stephen looks like first thing out of bed...? -cough-

BTW, the pic for your icon is great, too!

Anon

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[info]cruisedirector
2004-03-11 07:22 pm UTC (link)


I'm pretty sure this was actually a screen cap from a production video rather than Russell in character as Jack Aubrey but I could not resist it. *g*

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[info]ghazalah
2004-03-12 06:47 am UTC (link)
Well now. That's a happy thing to see, first thing on a Friday morn!

*smooch for Jack, smooch for Cruise Director*

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[info]cruisedirector
2004-03-12 09:48 am UTC (link)
*smooches you back, and tries to be a good sport about sharing Jack with all the women in all the other ports in the world, heh*

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[info]klia
2004-03-11 07:16 pm UTC (link)
The banyan coat was *so* gorgeous up close. *sigh*

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[info]amedia
2004-03-11 08:16 pm UTC (link)
This is just too yummy. I love Jack's hand under Stephen's arm. It's solicitous, yet restrained. (scrolls up to look at picture again) Happy sigh.

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[info]firiel77
2004-03-11 08:44 pm UTC (link)
Um, is Russell Crowe short? He always seems so larger than life.

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[info]klia
2004-03-11 08:50 pm UTC (link)
From the man, himself: "I'm five-eleven, and a half, and a bit." So, not really. Paul Bettany is pretty tall (I think his bio says 6'3"), so Russell just looks short by comparison.

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[info]firiel77
2004-03-12 07:36 am UTC (link)
Ah. That's what it is.

I wonder why they cast Paul Bettany (not that I'm complaining)? I always got the impression Maturin was smaller than Aubrey from the books, and not good looking at all.

After seeing the movie though, I can't imagine anyone being Aubrey other than RC.

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[info]cruisedirector
2004-03-12 09:53 am UTC (link)
It sounds like Russell Crowe twisted Peter Weir's arm a little. *g* At least, that is how Bettany tells the story; Weir insists that Bettany was the best actor he read for the role. I think they figured they were better off casting Stephen too good-looking rather than not good-looking enough when it came to publicity and such (only in Hollywood would Janeane Garofalo be considered an UGLY girl in a cats and dogs equation). I'm sure the fact that they had good screen chemistry in ABM didn't hurt, though Weir said he was wary of people being too reminded of that at first.

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[info]klia
2004-03-12 10:14 am UTC (link)
I wonder why they cast Paul Bettany (not that I'm complaining)? I always got the impression Maturin was smaller than Aubrey from the books, and not good looking at all.

I think it was Peter Weir who said something like, if they'd cast the two leads according to how the characters are described in the books, they would've looked like Laurel and Hardy, or, I keep thinking, Allen and Hollum. It really takes reading the books to find Stephen's appeal, and it would've been close to impossible to cast someone short and ugly in a film version without him being caricatured and unsympathetic, IMO.

Plus, since Stephen was supposed to be sort of representative of O'Brian, himself, I always thought the descriptions were self-depricating and exaggerated, just as Stephen's referring to Jack as obese are (if you consider his height and weight, he's not).

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[info]firiel77
2004-03-13 07:14 am UTC (link)
Laurel and Hardy! Hehehehe, that's good. And he has a point.

It's funny though, reading the books I like both characters a lot. But it's Stephen that I find the more intriging, despite the fact that he's supposed to be *ill-favored* and kind of a slob.

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[info]peak_in_darien
2004-03-11 11:50 pm UTC (link)
Yeeeeeah! Thankyou so much, cruisedirector, lovely pic!
I love the hand!!!

Yes, Paul is definitely tall. He is so suited to being tall and thin.

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[info]cruisedirector
2004-03-12 09:49 am UTC (link)
Loooooooooong fingers. *dies*

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Thanks!
[info]syredronning
2004-03-12 12:54 am UTC (link)
For the yummy pictures :)))))

I watched the vid "Duende" in the meantime, btw (darn, who made it, help me folks *searching websites*) and while it's very nice with a very well-chosen music, I realized only there that a fanon with only one movie base is (sigh) quite limited in the visual material. It's much easier to compile ambigious scenes from long-running series.

(Did they ever plan on making a sequel to M&C?)

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Re: Thanks!
[info]mizaki_san
2004-03-12 04:21 am UTC (link)
A vid??? Where?
(sorry for the short post, running to work now)

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Vid-Link
[info]lovis
2004-03-12 05:56 am UTC (link)
The "Duende" MV is by shalott and you can find it here: http://www.intimations.org/vidding/

*hehe*

Google is your friend. *G*

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[info]painispretty
2004-03-12 06:50 am UTC (link)
*squeak* The smile!

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