[fandom] The Lost Boys

[escritoireazul]

Awhile ago I posted a link to a very funny review of that great 80s vampire movie, The Lost Boys. When I did, I said I would give a prize to anyone who guessed where I squeaked from laughter.

Unfortunately, I've since forgotten what that part was, though thestalkycop may remember, because I was talking to her when I did it, and she has this uncanny knack for remembering everything silly I do.

I do know that, when everyone made their guesses, no one got it(1).

I reread it again, and have a new squeak moment, so I'll tell you that instead.



The first time had something to do with Sam, I think probably something to do with his clothes, and it was on the first page, I believe. When I reread it, none of the parts leapt out to me. The squeak-moment occured much later in the review this time.

I'll post the entire paragraph here, and bold the section which really did me in.

Grandpa comes crashing through his own house and impales Max with some giant stakes that he attached to his car. What I don't get is how grandpa knew where Max was going to be OR how he was so sure that he wouldn't kill anybody else by accident in the process. I guess when you're as cocksure as grandpa, you don't have to worry about minor details such as "destroying your own house" and "accidentally killing members of your own family". He's a root beer drinking badass and that's all that matters to him.

I love Grandpa.

However, I really appreciate you guys playing, so if santacarlagypsy, invisionary, schizoauthoress, and buffyfan30 will give me a prompt, a fandom, characters, theme, whatever, I'll either write a short story for them or make them some sort of art. (nikitangel, too, because she found me fabulous icons from the movie.)

On a similar topic, today Sarah and I were talking about how the director called all the male vampires beautiful. (Well, with the exception of Laddie, I suppose.) Neither of us agree with that assessment, and as we each have our favorites, that isn't us being difficult.

In the rush to leave work before I was iced in for the day, I didn't save the conversation, but we both came up with something a little like this.

Why the Vampires in The Lost Boys Aren't Actually Beautiful, But Are ...:

David: Not beautiful. Icily attractive in the beginning and sweetly cute at the end, but not beautiful.
Paul: Not beautiful. His attractiveness grows on you, much like a fungus. Pot head attractive.
Marko: Not beautiful. Cherubic and cute.
Dwayne: The closest to beautiful, but still not. He's more comely than beautiful.
Michael: (Sarah and I actually didn't talk about Michael, he's a nonentity in many of our conversations about the movie.) Not beautiful. Wanna-be rebel attractive, sort of, but the big hair kind of takes away from it.

Speaking of the big hair, if you have never read Sarah's "The Secret Diaries of the Lost Boys" you are really missing out on the hair jokes.


1. How convenient for me, eh?

Comments

[nikitangel.livejournal.com]

Whee! Good deed karma!

I am going to request something in the Fast and the Furious or Blue Crush verses (think real hard and see if you can find some kind of pattern there *g*).

[escritoireazul.livejournal.com]

I know nothing of your patterns.

I--

Oh, well, I just had an idea which will either turn out to be clever and I'll be terribly pleased with myself, or it will be utter crap and I'll feel ridiculous for thinking it.

Either way, you'll get to see it. I need to go make notes on it now.

[ausmac.livejournal.com]

One aspect of Rice's vampire that I liked was the idea that the bug or whatever it was that made them vampires also made them beautiful, because it made them better hunters, because the prey were attracted to that beauty. Like a glamour or a siren. I thought that was a neat idea.

[escritoireazul.livejournal.com]

I agree, that is a neat idea, that prey is attracted to beauty. I can definitely see why people who write about vampires would want to use it. My problem is, in a visual media, it's hard to show beautiful vampires where all the viewers will agree on the beauty, and I think, if he was going to push how beautiful he made his male vampires, he might want to stick with a more classic beauty in all the actors. If he hadn't gone on and on about how beautiful they were, I wouldn't have batted an eye at the casting, but I just don't understand how he thinks he did what he says he did.

[schizoauthoress.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...prompt. ::thinks:: Could you possibly write me some Season Seven Xander/Anya? That would rock. I won't give you any guidelines other than that, 'cause I wanna see how you run with it.

Thank you!

[escritoireazul.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I've never written a lot of Xander, and no Anya, so this will be interesting. I'll see what I can do.

[random-serious.livejournal.com]

You're right. They were not that pretty. Inteview with a Vampire had beautiful vampires in it.

[santacarlagypsy.livejournal.com]

Cool! Thank you for the offer. ♥

I'm tempted to ask for Supernatural, but I think I'll ask for The Lost Boys instead because I miss seeing them around. I would love to see you do something with Marko, Dwayne and Paul.

: )

[It's silly how excited I got when magickly made this
icon. A poster for The Lost Boys is in the background between the boys.]

[escritoireazul.livejournal.com]

Hey, it's an awesome icon, it makes me excited and fills me with glee. Glee, I say!

It's been awhile since I wrote any Lost Boys, but I'll see what I can do with Marko, Dwayne, and Paul.

...

Oh, I think I've just had a bit of an idea. Hmmm. Must go make notes.

[santacarlagypsy.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think I've just had a bit of an idea. Hmmm. Must go make notes. ~ Yay! :-)