Man, Pullings, with the scar across is face, i'm all, whoo let's bang. He's in a BBC version of Nicholas Nickleby, too, IIRC, with the guy that played Hollam as Smike. OMG HOLLAM'S SUICIDE.
And Blakeney, man, at the end when he's all, "WE MUST BOARD THEM!" and jumps through the hole in the side of the ship and starts blowing people away one-handedly, god. The first time through i think that was the most striking thing to me, how differently people viewed children at the time--the boys all smoking and getting shitcanned and diving into battle killing people, and everyone accepts that as normal and isn't like, "We must shelter the perfect innocent children." I mean, i'm not saying that's preferable--i'm glad i didn't grow up working in a factory from age 5 or fighting in wars as a preteen or whatev, just that our culture now is so far from that.
Actually, the icon is a photograph i took standing on deck looking upward aboard the Exy Johnson, which i used to be volunteer crew on when i lived in LA. It's one of the few things i really, really miss about LA, was volunteering at the maritime institute and crewing that ship.
Also, i recommend the books that the film's based on, too, but with the caveat that, if you get into them, it's a big chunk of your life that you'll spend with them, since there are 21 volumes. But, then again, everyone i know who's read them and liked them has been more than glad to devote the time--my mother said to me when she finished the last one, "Reading the Jack and Stephen books is the singlemost excellent literary experience of my life." And she reads a LOT. If you're reading (rereading?) Shogun, clearly you can make the big commitment to a story, though these are like, Shogun exponentially.
You do have to get into a sort of nautical headspace and either be willing to look up terms like topgallants and taffrails and such or resolve to just accept them as part of the atmosphere and move on. AND you have to get into a similar naturalist headspace and look up all the weird animals and plants Stephen talks about in their travels, or do the same acceptance thing and keep moving. It's kind of like when you watch Trainspotting and you have to ease into the dialect and the slang, but once you do, it's fine.
And my GOD the double entendres in the books are off the hook, and there's so much more stuff that they couldn't even put into the movies, like [i just thought maybe the rest of this sentence would be spoilers you wouldn't want to hear, but OMG, Stephen is SO AWESOME EVEN MORESO IN THEM].
IF you start reading them, you mos def have to start with the first and go through; i mean, you COULD start in the middle but it's best to go from the first in which you see how Jack and Stephen meet each other.
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And Blakeney, man, at the end when he's all, "WE MUST BOARD THEM!" and jumps through the hole in the side of the ship and starts blowing people away one-handedly, god. The first time through i think that was the most striking thing to me, how differently people viewed children at the time--the boys all smoking and getting shitcanned and diving into battle killing people, and everyone accepts that as normal and isn't like, "We must shelter the perfect innocent children." I mean, i'm not saying that's preferable--i'm glad i didn't grow up working in a factory from age 5 or fighting in wars as a preteen or whatev, just that our culture now is so far from that.
Actually, the icon is a photograph i took standing on deck looking upward aboard the Exy Johnson, which i used to be volunteer crew on when i lived in LA. It's one of the few things i really, really miss about LA, was volunteering at the maritime institute and crewing that ship.
Also, i recommend the books that the film's based on, too, but with the caveat that, if you get into them, it's a big chunk of your life that you'll spend with them, since there are 21 volumes. But, then again, everyone i know who's read them and liked them has been more than glad to devote the time--my mother said to me when she finished the last one, "Reading the Jack and Stephen books is the singlemost excellent literary experience of my life." And she reads a LOT. If you're reading (rereading?) Shogun, clearly you can make the big commitment to a story, though these are like, Shogun exponentially.
You do have to get into a sort of nautical headspace and either be willing to look up terms like topgallants and taffrails and such or resolve to just accept them as part of the atmosphere and move on. AND you have to get into a similar naturalist headspace and look up all the weird animals and plants Stephen talks about in their travels, or do the same acceptance thing and keep moving. It's kind of like when you watch Trainspotting and you have to ease into the dialect and the slang, but once you do, it's fine.
And my GOD the double entendres in the books are off the hook, and there's so much more stuff that they couldn't even put into the movies, like [i just thought maybe the rest of this sentence would be spoilers you wouldn't want to hear, but OMG, Stephen is SO AWESOME EVEN MORESO IN THEM].
IF you start reading them, you mos def have to start with the first and go through; i mean, you COULD start in the middle but it's best to go from the first in which you see how Jack and Stephen meet each other.