Shriek!! Otto Chriek!

[yakalskovich]

I was unhappy about the Oscars. I wanted Jack Sparrow to win, dammit!

But I had a pleasant surprise when the Best Actress trophy was presented - suddenly, there was Otto Chriek on my TV screen! As in ottochriek !!

It's customary to use some actor on the character icons on discworld_rpg, but I had no idea before who that charming gawky fellow on the icon for Otto was.

Turned out he's called Adrien Brody.

And is he ever Otto!! Tall and skinny, with a large nose and a big smile, slightly hyper and ever so enthusiastic. And that thing with the breath freshener was priceless. Our icons fit the characters rather well in most cases, but this Adrien Brody is Otto all the way; nobody else must be allowed to play Otto if there is ever any Discworld movie, which isn't very likely at the moment. I'd cast Alan Rickman as Havelock Vetinari (the Nazgul has a picture where he looks totally like the Patrician, minus a beard); otherwise, I have no preferences. Thank you, universe; you can go to work now and bring it all about...

In other news, I have figmented off again and am now playing pteppicymon as well in the discworld_rpg. I must be mad; now I can metapost all over the place if I get muddled. Vee (ponderstibbons) kindly explained to me what metaposting is.-

I bought the DVD of "The Thin Red Line" entirely because it has Adrien Brody in it and I want to see more of him; "The Pianist" is still too expensive. I'll see whether Falk the Metropolitan has it first. And I bought a CD everyone owns, as a rule, but I had given my copy away seven years ago. I didn't realise how much I missed Kurt Cobain singing "Lake of Fire"...

Comments

[sanguia.livejournal.com]

aughhhh!! you understand! you REALISE! thus is EXACTLY MY REASONING! i could have no otto but adrien (of course, having huge unhealthy crushes on both of them no doubt helped me to see the similarities.) i haven't seen the thin red line, but i really recommend the pianist if you ever get a chance to see it; the only word i can think of to describe it is harrowing, but you can understand why he won an oscar for the performance. but possibly the thin red line is more appropriate to making squealing noises at.

you put a huge grin on my face. you GET it! *beams madly at the screen* and now i have to run along and finish that bloody essay so otto can live again (he's very much looking forward to interaction with this interesting new foreign person who's just arrived...)

[yakalskovich]

I was bowled over!! I stood there in front of my TV (was vaccillating between TV and computer where I was getting terribly nervous with the my friend the Nazgul), went all "squee!!!" inside and squealed out loud: "Otto! There is OTTO on my TV!!!"

I have made a list off Amazon with all the movies they have with Adrien Brody in it and shall go tomorrow and compare it with the very large DVD library my friend Falk the Metropolitan has - a veritable L-Space of movies. I am sure to catch one or two, and if he doesn't have "The Pianist", I am going to order it from Amazon.

"The Thin Red Line" is supposed to be extremely bloody in the literal sense; a highly realistic war movie using CGI trickery to see the bullets fly and all (as they did in "Saving Private Ryan" and "Enemy At The Gate" as well). So perhaps no squealing here, either.

And I can't imagine how anybody ever could not see the enormous similarities between Otto Chriek and Adrien Brody. He just stood there during Oscar Night and was totally Otto!!

And yay for more Otto interaction; Margo has been missing him a bit these last few days.

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

I keep meaning to see some other Brody movies besides The Pianist, which BLEW ME AWAY. I saw that in the theater and then it was on TV around Christmastime at my parents, on some movie network. Wow. I was in total agreement with the Academy on that one!

[yakalskovich]

So, if Falk the Metropolitan doesn't have it, I am going to get it right away. That is settled now. Definitely.

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

I highly recommend it. Somewhat due to where I happened to be educated, I have seen a LOT of very hard core Holocaust movies, but I swear this is not "just one more." I think this movie is great because it is not about somebody being noble or about showing "These people are EVIL, this guy is their poor helpless victim!" but instead showing things I think more realistically.

Actually, I just found the after-the-movie review I did :)

[yakalskovich]

Huh!! Sounds totally fascinating. I am so tempted to hit the "buy" button at Amazon right away, but I really need to ask Falk first - it would be so silly to spend all that money if the movie's already in the house.

And I can only ask him tomorrow, on account of it now being half past one at night.

:::PANIC!!! I need to get up at six tomorrow:::

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

It's interesting to see how other people visualize the characters. I thought of dear Otto as rather Nosferatu looking, but with an engaging twinkle in his eye and quite charismatic. Someone you'd be quite happy to share a cup of cocoa with, conventionally good looking or not. ; )

I also seem to visualize the Patrician as WAY older than anybody else does. I see him as a dead ringer for Ian Richardson(?) in _House of Cards_. Especially the Voice.

[yakalskovich]

Huh. I don't find Adrien Brody conventionally good-looking either, while Max Schreck (Nosferatu) is actively ugly, and people would get frightened looking at him for the first time, twinkle and cocoa or no.

I'll have to look up Ian Richardson and "House of Cards" on IMDB, but I find Alan Rickman is quite old. :::ducking from the hurled objects, as I know you like Snape a lot:: At least he was when I got to see him in London two years ago. And Terry Pratchett himself said he might imagine Vetinari looking like AR:
http://www.ie.lspace.org/books/apf/sourcery.html#p7569

And there's a drawing of him by Paul Kidby, too:


Of course, everybody visualises characters from a book quite differently. And as you mention the voice of that other fellow, I'll make sure to have a look or rather listen - Falk the Metropolitan might have that movie. He has most movies one can think of, somehow.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Dude!

I so spent that entire segment going "OMG it's Otto on my TV!"

Great minds?

Or just great-places-where-minds-were-before-the-RPG-ate-them?

[yakalskovich]

Yes, great-hollow-echoing-spaces-where-sense-used-to-be...

Well, my mind deserved being eaten; it wasn't doing much these last few months and has now whizzed into hectic activity, albeit within the digestive system of the RPG.-

And I want more Otto on my TV, hence that movie I bought.-

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

And time-that-used-to-be-spent-sleeping, I bet...

That was the first time I've seen him since he became Otto in my head. Before he was just That Guy. You Know-the One With The Nose.

[yakalskovich]

Yes, and all that stuff about argh-I'm-not-really-a-morning-person, too.

Before Otto, Adrien Brody did not exist in my bay off the meme pool. He was "somebody who'd won an Oscar for some very deep and meaningful movie I would probably not really want to see", actually, as I like to avoid Deep and Meaningful, and he was being it somewhere far out at the memetic sea, too.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

That is a very good policy! *lauds*

[yakalskovich]

Anything that needs to sell itself by its Depth and Meaningfulness points is not worth having, be it book or movie or whatever. Any piece of art worth the name will have some element of lightness and beauty to catch your imagination before it goes and applies the Depth and Meaning.

("The oracle has spoken", as my friend from Vienna says when I categorically announce such principal statements without fishing for any approval in the process.)

"The Thin Red Line" which I watched on account of Adrien Brody as well did that captivating part beautifully, by the way. It catches you by pretending to be a war movie (most people; it caught me by containing "Otto"). It then dazzles you with a very laconic, almost documentary narrative slowness. Then it goes for your guts. I'll never forget that thing with the treeful of fruitbats.-

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

And when I saw Adrien Brody, the first thing *I* thought was "Hey, there's Severus Snape!" because wikdsushi drew an absolutely beautiful portrait of her Civil War universe Snape based on Mr. Brody.

Then I thought, "Dang, he *does* have a crooked nose." It's very cute on him though.

[yakalskovich]

Yes, he's much closer to the book version of Snape than Alan Rickman is, actually. (I hope the Nazgul doesn't see me committing this blasphemy.)

I'm sure Adrien Brody is able to do "permanently angry" and "sudden and unjust" (which is how Snape is supposed to be) just as well as Alan Rickman is. But then, there's that Only British Actors rule in the movies, so the point is moot.

Is there a link for that picture of Brody!Snape?

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Could you kindly convey to Mr Teppic my condolences congratulations upon joining the Century of the Fruitbat, and if he has any spare statues of Hat the Vulture-Headed God (I hear they're quite reasonably priced these days) I will be happy to find a sucker suitable purchaser for them.

Thank you!

[pteppicymon.livejournal.com]

Do we ever have spare statues! How about a forest of spare statues? Chidder's ship is much to small to take them.

Perhaps one or two of the very smallest ones. If he doesn't have any other freight apart from Ade.

Have a look at my journal from time to time, Miss, and give me another shout when he's there and I'm ready to go.

For such a nasty country, people want a lot of stuff from Djelibeybi