Maisie rides again
28 November 2003 23:27![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandragoraPaul Bettany and Russel Crowe were on 'Jonathan Ross' tonight promoting 'Master and Commander'.
Bettany was in fine form, alluding to the sexual chemistry between him and Crowe in the film, and commenting that 'it was easier second time around' (he co-starred with Crowe in 'A Beautiful Mind'). Lots of jokes about seamen, and how the voyage lasted a loooooooong time. And then he commented about the sex scene with the goat...
Good smutty fun.
Master Bates made an appearance when Crowe was on, as well.
Must go see movie, now it's finally opened in the UK. Crowe commented that he was really looking forward to it opening in Britain, because every British person who went to see it would come out feeling inches taller. As opposed to the Old Enemy, I suppose...(cue obligatory English/French joke. Because the Scots, at least, were never really enemies of France).
Bettany was in fine form, alluding to the sexual chemistry between him and Crowe in the film, and commenting that 'it was easier second time around' (he co-starred with Crowe in 'A Beautiful Mind'). Lots of jokes about seamen, and how the voyage lasted a loooooooong time. And then he commented about the sex scene with the goat...
Good smutty fun.
Master Bates made an appearance when Crowe was on, as well.
Must go see movie, now it's finally opened in the UK. Crowe commented that he was really looking forward to it opening in Britain, because every British person who went to see it would come out feeling inches taller. As opposed to the Old Enemy, I suppose...(cue obligatory English/French joke. Because the Scots, at least, were never really enemies of France).
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Date: 28 November 2003 23:16 (UTC)Of course, in the book, the enemy is the Americans.
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Date: 29 November 2003 01:42 (UTC)Of course, in the book, the enemy is the Americans.
They are? I read some of the books many years ago. It was so long ago that I couldn't even remember that I'd read them but when people started describing the Aubrey/Maturin relationship, especially with Maturin being a spy/undercover then it clicked that I had read some of the books. Think they belong to my father. So, now I'm wondering why I ended up with the impression that the enemy is the French.
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Date: 29 November 2003 12:23 (UTC)Well in many of the books (and there are over 20 in all) the enemy unsurprisingly *is* French. But in the book 'The Far Side of the World', which is actually the 10th in the series, the boat they are chasing is an American frigate. (When questioned about the change, Paul Bettany said the film would never have got funding had this remained the case).
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Date: 29 November 2003 13:20 (UTC)When questioned about the change, Paul Bettany said the film would never have got funding had this remained the case
Of course not. I think a culture only truly comes of age when it can cast itself as the enemy. Or maybe this only happens when said culture has passed its height. I can't imagine a popular play during the zenith of the British Empire casting the sons of Empire as the enemy, either. Nowadays, riddled with post-colonial guilt, we don't have any problems in this respect.