1) Mmmmmmh. If we really want to be literal, it was the Italian translation that my favorite Italian singer did of Suzanne in like the seventies. Considering that my parents had the record it has to be that one, but at the time I don't think I had an idea that it was his. XD (and it was a good translation actually - meaning it didn't change anything XD) But then when I checked his stuff out the first I heard was Suzanne anyway so I'll go for that one on a general basis.
2) Premise: the best of Faramir is in the books and not the movies, and TTT-The Movie utterly fucked him up for pretty much the entire length of the movie, because in the book Faramir never tried to take the ring and he never really even wanted it. I ended up liking the treatment overall especially considering ROTK (movie), but book!Faramir >>>> everything else.
3 I like BBC!John a lot! With the premise that my interest perked a lot when I realized that Rupert Graves was in it therefore as usual I'm mostly in for the character that I'll see less, but John is awesome. I like what they took from canon and re-used, and I kind of might want to hug him most of the time because if I was in his place I'd go crazy. That said the actor doesn't really do much for me on the 'omg attractive' side (then again neither does Benedict Cumberbatch, which is why if I wrote Sherlock/John it'd be the feast of platonic) but I think that he's excellent at the part. (Same for Benedict Cumberbatch. I just wouldn't want to ravish either of them differently from 99% of my friends who watch Sherlock. XD)
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Date: 2011-01-19 07:43 pm (UTC)2) Premise: the best of Faramir is in the books and not the movies, and TTT-The Movie utterly fucked him up for pretty much the entire length of the movie, because in the book Faramir never tried to take the ring and he never really even wanted it. I ended up liking the treatment overall especially considering ROTK (movie), but book!Faramir >>>> everything else.
That said. So I'm reading the books and being like 'Jesus but EVERYONE is after this ring? Isn't there like SOMEONE not affected by it?' not all the time but a fair amount. Also beware that I had just seen the first movie which was just out and I had no idea what happened next. Also I was fairly sure that after Rohan all the major players were introduced, so I wasn't expecting another one to turn up. Anyway so Faramir shows up and I'm like 'wait, this guy is actually SANE and wants to TALK to them before anything. NICE!'. Then he starts talking and he actually makes sense. Then we find out he's Boromir's brother and I'm like 'OH GOD PLEASE LET HIM BE DIFFERENT'. Then he's like 'wait, the Ring? Nope. Not interested, dnw, and by the way can I help you? Sure thing' and I'm like 'WAIT THERE'S SOMEONE SANE WHO ISN'T TEMPTED BY THAT THING.' I tend to like sane people. Then we also find out that he's a pacifist at heart (or well, for LOTR levels) and I'm like 'oh god YES a guy who doesn't necessarily like fighting'. Then we find out that he has a bunch of unresolved sibling issues and that his dad is an idiot. Cliché #392738 that will make me like a character: no one sees his potential and he gets talked down by people he loves all the time. And I go like 'OMG POOR YOU'. Then in ROTK (book) he was pretty much awesome until he basically killed himself because of that idiot that was Denethor, and I was like 'NOOO I'M ATTACHED WHY DOES HE HAVE TO DIE'. Then I might have half-cried when he and Eowyn got together because she was my favorite of the girls and I really wanted her not to be miserable, and of course I didn't want him to be either and then I was like 'OMG MADE FOR EACH OTHER SO MUCH, PLEASE WIN HER OVER' and he does even if he's really nothing like Aragorn. I think I have a thing for sane people who are overlooked because they don't fit the general standard, which it's pretty much him. He probably won me over when in TTT book he flat out refused to have to do with the Ring, which according to Peter Jackson was boring but according to me was the reason he was so different from everyone else. <3 uhm. I might have written you a novel. Sorry, he's my favorite. XD
3 I like BBC!John a lot! With the premise that my interest perked a lot when I realized that Rupert Graves was in it therefore as usual I'm mostly in for the character that I'll see less, but John is awesome. I like what they took from canon and re-used, and I kind of might want to hug him most of the time because if I was in his place I'd go crazy. That said the actor doesn't really do much for me on the 'omg attractive' side (
then again neither does Benedict Cumberbatch, which is why if I wrote Sherlock/John it'd be the feast of platonic) but I think that he's excellent at the part. (Same for Benedict Cumberbatch. I just wouldn't want to ravish either of them differently from 99% of my friends who watch Sherlock. XD)