Sean Bean smells of elderberries

[pjthompson]

Quote of the day:

"It is always best and safest to count on nothing from the Americans but words."

—Neville Chamberlain


For all you Sean Bean fans out there...The Field. I think you have to be pretty hardcore to put up with this one. I saw it at the height of my Sean Bean obsession, and for some reason it popped into my brain today on the drive into work.

This film was clearly designed to be an Important Film, a dramatic high at the end of Richard Harris's career, and consequently has much High Drama and Serious Acting. It also has one of the most ridiculous endings ever which, despite the seriousness I was supposed to be feeling, made me laugh my socks off. Any Monty Python fan would probably feel the same. There is livestock involved. Unfortunately, no French Taunters.

But Seanie has a nice Irish brogue, is gorgeous (of course), is partly a bad boy, partly a lover. Don't get me wrong, this is a seriously droopy film, and although it got some positive critical blah-blah at the time, I thought it mostly overdone and, ultimately, ridiculous. Fast forward through all the bits without Seanie in. But be sure to watch the end.

Oh, and for Sting fans and trivia collectors, Frances Tomelty, his first wife for whom he wrote his stalker song, "I'll Be Watching You," plays a young widow in this flick.


Writingness of the day: I managed to cut only 500 more words yesterday (and sweated to do that much). This portion of saggy middle wasn't as saggy as I remembered. I may have to take another pass through this monster once I finish this one. *sigh* I'll soldier on tomorrow, but I'm going to spend the lunch hour rereading "Eudora" one last time.

Comments

[frigg.livejournal.com]

I forgot Sean Bean was in The Field. I forgot most of the movie, actually. I must have been blinded by Richard Harris' acting. I still get goosebumps thinking of it.

[pjthompson]

Wasn't it horrific? Bleh. And the flying cows at the end...

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

ahh Nev, we must be friends...

[pjthompson]

And we know how right he was about Hitler.

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

...um, what?

[pjthompson]

Chamberlain was the guy who thought it was better to negotiate with Hitler and allowed him to seize huge chunks of Czechoslovakia because Hitler promised that he wouldn't invade the rest of Poland. He thought if he gave Hitler what he wanted Britain & Co. could avoid war with him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain

[oohrejected.livejournal.com]

That's what I thought.

so...sarcasm then?

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

um, that was me, on my other account...

[pjthompson]

ooh Ilike rejected

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

Yeah, so do the agents. They keep rejecting me

[pjthompson]

Me, too. Dey got no taste.

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

true dat

[pjthompson]

Either that or irony. Actually, it was just the quote that popped up for that day, but given the current Blitzkrieg Fuhrer in the White House, it's highly ironic.

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

I love irony. Just not in politics

[pjthompson]

Some politicians only have to breathe to be ironic.