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.