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

[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.-