You call yourselves pervy fangirls and fanboys, yet...

[mollyringle]

...none of you posted about Robert Pattinson kissing another man and doing gay sex scenes for an upcoming movie. It's called Little Ashes, and (making matters substantially odder) he plays a young Salvador Dali, and I bet I'll be able to keep from snickering right up to the moment when he starts wearing the crazy up-swooped mustache. But in that kiss photo linked above, at least, and thus presumably in some of the film, he's clean-shaven.

I just have to chuckle, since a role like that is such a perfect way to discombobulate shallow teen fans. They're used to their heartthrobs doing predictable chick-flicks, action films, and heartwarming family dramas, not moving straight from Twilight to a biopic about an eccentric Spanish painter. For that, RPattz, I give you bonus points.

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Re: Everybody gets a Weasley

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

Good points. There's a weirdly old-fashioned British cliquishness/patriotism to the HP books, which is especially weird since she also tries to make a point of denouncing such cliquishness if (and only if) it occurs in the upper classes. Then again, "Malfoy," "LeStrange"...those names look suspiciously FRENCH. Ah ha!

The "all British" casting request rubbed me the wrong way too. Can you *imagine* the cries of imperialism/racism/etc. if some American said something similar? Say, if Stephenie Meyer insisted that the Twilight cast be "all American"? (Which, as a Mormon from a red state, she might have secretly wished, but at least she's been smart enough to embrace British RPattz as her Edward.) Granted, I get the impression Meyer had little to no say in the movie production, unlike Rowling, so she probably had lawyers explain the situation quite thoroughly to her beforehand--and I imagine it involved a remark like, "Do you want to look like that nutjob Anne Rice, hollering her head off about the casting of Tom Cruise as Lestat? Did that do her any favors? Nooo."

Got a bit off track there, but still. Good points. :)

Re: Everybody gets a Weasley

[naill-renfro.livejournal.com]

LJ rejected my first attempt to post this, demonstrating the long reach of the Rowlingists:

It seems odd that the UK, given its rather distressing histroy in those areas, should get a pass on imperialism and racism... But I don;t think it does. I think it's just JKR who does, because if anyone dares call her on it too loudly or publicly, her fans will crush that person like a Rita Skeeter Animagus Beetle. But now that it's over and she has no sword to hold over our favorite characters' heads, her powers of fandom control may be waning.

Re: Everybody gets a Weasley

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I bet there was more outcry in the UK itself about JKR's remark; it possibly just didn't filter to my ears over here. From my visits there, I recall they did as much self-flagellation (if not more) than America does regarding Rather Big Mistakes Of History.

It will be interesting to see if her future writings gain anywhere near the foothold and influence of the HP verse...