EEK! I'm finally going to see it tomorrow!

So, I'll leave you a more informed comment later. :P

Yay! Then the playlist should also make more sense to you, instead of looking like the soundtrack to a John Hughes film.

And I may barrage you with all of the Tarantino interview excerpts I've saved wherein he gushes about these two (which is basically every interview).

Above all, IB is a beautiful film with many memorable performances and characters.

So I can take it that you found the film pleasing?

Why yes I did! I wonder what gave you that idea. :P

I think it was Tarantino's best movie since Reservoir Dogs.. maybe even better than Reservoir Dogs, but I'll have to think about that because that would be saying a lot.

It really was beautiful. And a lot more human than I thought it was going to be. I especially loved Shoshanna's storyline... and Hans Landa. Hans Landa is amazing. Christoph Waltz should get a best supporting actor nomination, but I don't think he will.

YES.

I think it's his best since Reservoir Dogs, too. I love everything Tarantino's done and I'm very close to thinking IB is his best work.

Shosanna was the reason I went to see IB, based off of the quick clip of her running and sobbing in the trailer (of course, when I was in the hospital in July, I was transfixed by the sight of Fassbender in fancy suits in GQ, so he helped, too).

I love that so many people were basically tricked into seeing IB because of the way it was marketed; it's so human and touching with this resilient, damaged woman at the heart of it. Mélanie considers Shosanna to essentially be the walking dead, which is why she is so understandably guarded; therefore, the scenes where she's showing vulnerability are so powerful. And the bar scene is one of my favorite parts of the film, aside from those involving Shosanna and Fredrick.

Christoph is excellent as Landa! I started to feel bad for him when he panics at the end in the forest and I had to stop myself and remember how vile he really was. He and Mélanie deserve many awards for IB, as does Quentin.

You might enjoy this:
http://community.livejournal.com/un_amico/7944.html

I just came home sick. Awww.

THEN THIS WAS HERE AND I FEEL BETTER :D

EDIT: SUICIDE BLONDE! yeessssssssssss

Edited 2009-10-25 05:45 am (UTC)

SHOSANNA/FREDRICK HAVE HEALING POWERS DUE TO THEIR COMBINED POWERS OF AWESOME!

THERE'S SO MUCH TO GET EXCITED ABOUT OVER THIS FANMIX AND I CAN'T STOP LISTENING TO HEAL IT UP.

I'M DOING A SITTING DOWN JIG I'M SO EXCITED (then I got kind of faint)

YOU ARE THE BEST AND SO ARE THEY

IF YOU PASS OUT THEN YOU CANNOT ENJOY THIS FANMIX I PAIN-STAKINGLY ASSEMBLED FOR THE ENJOYMENT OF ALL.

FINALLY, MY GENIUS IS APPRECIATED!

I HAVE GIVEN INSTRUCTIONS TO THE ROOMMATES TO PLAY THE FANMIX IF I DO PASS OUT TO RAISE ME FROM MY FEVER-INDUCED COMA

"I'm watching TV! And you need to nap!"
"BUT BUTCHIE MADE A S/F FANMIX!"
"..."
"*criez* *gets earphones*"

SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK. YOU SHOW THAT FEVER WHO'S BOSS.

ULTRAVOX WILL SAVE YOU BECAUSE NEW WAVE HAS MAGICAL POWERS.

I AGREE WITH THIS STATEMENT

AND MATTHEW GOODE, WHO SEEMS TO BE WILLING ME TO A) FIGHT THE FEVER AND B) STRIP

THIS IS ALL SERIOUS TO HIM. NOW HE'S CONTEMPLATING FREE NUDITY HE CAN GET FROM GIRLS ON THE INTERNET. BUT YOU SEE, HE'S CLASSY, SO HE'LL KINDLY COMPLIMENT YOU AND DRINK TEA.

ALSO, I HOPE YOU ENJOY HOW I SET UP THE LYRICS. NO LINKING TO SHODDY LYRIC SITES FOR THIS FANMIX, NO SIR.

WHEN HE READ ABOUT ELI ROTH, HE JUST SHOOK HIS HEAD AND READ THE GUARDIAN. ~CLASS ACT~

OOOH No, I didn't see that with the lyrics! Man, you have gone to so much work, it's just amazing. JOHN FARNHAM

HIS MONOCLE FELL OUT IN HIS TEA CUP.

I'm so stupidly enamored with them and it's all QT's fault. He's laughing that wonderfully obnoxious laugh of his and rubbing his hands with glee over ruining my brain. It was a good brain, too.

JOHN FARNHAM TOURETTES. YOU ALSO KNOW QT LIKES TO LISTEN TO THE SAVAGE STREETS SOUNDTRACK AND PRETEND HE'S LINDA BLAIR.

He's an Australian ~national treasure~, you know. A larrikin!

If he's ruined your brain, he's after mine next. Because, seriously? I have not been so into something in a LONG time.

I'll forever love John for writing songs specifically for a grindhouse film and then singing the hell out of them. Exploding Bullets is from Savage Streets, too, but I wanted John to have all of that glory.

Shosanna and Fredrick are my favorite Tarantino characters and I haven't loved characters of his like this since obsessively watching Reservoir Dogs when I was 17 (and then going as Mr. Orange for Halloween that year). And as far as women characters are concerned, I haven't been so impressed with one since Beatrix Kiddo and GoGo Yubari (Chiaki Kuriyama is basically my muse).

And Fredrick reminds me so much of Steven Shorter that I just love him to pieces.

I'm guessing you know the Farnham song, "You're The Voice"? There was a call for that to become our national anthem a while back. I'm completely serious.

Wow, Chiaki has grown up (that sounds more patronising than I meant it - you know what I mean)! She's beautiful - I love this photo here. Her hair! I'd kill for it.

I know we talk a lot about film in our emails, but yeah, Shosanna and Fredrick are the first characters I've given a crap about in a long time. QT has such a way with relationships, and women in particular. I JUST LOVE HIM AND THEM, OKAY

That's actually kind of awesome. It's such a "FUCK YEAH, AUSTRALIA!" attitude.

Chiaki turned 25 on October 10. She has such stunningly unusual features that get better and better as she gets older (sort of weird, but I can generally pin-point her age in photographs based off of her facial features). Her acting career hasn't been terribly stellar and she's not considered very attractive or marketable in Japan, either. She wants to work more in America, but her management agency sucks. I need to get a copy of GS wandârando, which takes place in the '60s and focuses on the Japanese mod scene; she plays a girl who poses as a boy. And other than smut posts, I could also post pictures from her Princess photobook where she posed as princesses from European and Japanese fairy tales. I could ramble about her for ages, but I'll refrain for now.

YES. Before Fredrick came strolling in, Adrian Veidt was the only awesome German character in my life (though I do like mimicking Hans Grubers' "OH GAHD!") And cinema has been lacking in great women for a long time and Shosanna fills that void spectacularly.

I never did tell you about an acquaintance of mine who is friends with QT. Said person runs an annual horror film marathon at this little theater (original film prints and everything) and QT has helped him and the organizers out many a time. Long before meeting this fellow, he escorted QT around the city and QT then proceeded to max out his credit card on vinyl records and laserdiscs.

I saw that she was 25 - why did I think she was so much younger? Maybe the hype surrounding the character, maybe? Her nose is very Western - if I can say that - but yeah, going through some sites today, I noticed her features did change a lot in her late teens-twenties. Which I suppose they do - I hope she gets more work, because she looks like a really versatile actress/model. (Like Diane, I think)

I really have to rip Richy Guitar for you (the sort-of Die Ärzte film), because Fredrick reminds me of Richy, and not just because a) they're both German and b) I want to do them both.

See, we need to escort QT around a city (any city) and have tea and max out credit cards. How good would that be?

And I just finished watching Privilege - yes.



YES!

Chiaki has such a unique beauty to her and in general, I don't think people know how to deal with someone who doesn't fit the typical mold. She was 17 when filming Kill Bill and 19 when it came out in 2003, so it is strange to think of the film being 6 years old (and because I was a teen in the late '90s, 1998 doesn't feel like it's 11 years ago).
She really is quite talented, but has been cast far too often as a tragic character; at this rate, I'd love to see Chiaki in a romantice comedy. She and Diane should team up together and QT should write something awesome for them.

We should! I'd talk his ear off, even though according to Daniel, you just can't win in a film discussion with QT. However, I'd love to have QT and my dad talk about spaghetti westerns and other film oddities from the late '60s - early '70s. My dad has seen many films from that period when stationed in Okinawa, but has forgotten titles; many film nerds have been stumped by him.

HOW AWESOME IS PRIVILEGE? Oh, Steven ♥

I cannot get over Privilege, seriously. It was EXCELLENT - the way it was filmed gets me all picspammy and excited. I think I capped about three hundred caps while watching it - like a twitch!

It's almost spooky how relevant it is, considering the Disney kids. And the music! *downloadz*

(I just checked your profile [~stalker~] because you said you were a teenager in the 1990's, and we're the same age. The More You Know!)

Nearly every frame of the film is worthy of being framed. And Paul Jones was so heart-breaking (some critics actually thought he couldn't act).
I had quite a few bootleg dvd sites bookmarked a few years ago and I loved going through them and seeing what would catch my eye; it was this still of Steven Shorter, followed by the film's description that intrigued me:

After getting a copy from videobeat, I watched it twice in one day and I could not and still cannot believe that there isn't a wider audience and more acclaim for Privilege. Whenever I talk with other filmbuffs who adore the obscure, this one still stumps them; Privilege is still too obscure (and there's only one surviving film print, which can be rented for showings, so that means that not even QT has a copy).

Audiences back then were horrified by and I looked up the ridiculous review for it in Time, as they found the premise absurd. Seventeen magazine hated it because their demographic was ridiculed in the film. Privilege came out right on the verge of Beatlemania and if it had perhaps come out in the early '70s it may have done better (though people found Brian DePalma's Phantom of the Paradise ridiculous in 1973, too). For years Privilege was classified as science-fiction because the notion of celebrity-worship was considered ludicrous.

What really inspired Watkins to make the film was the short documentary Lonely Boy with Paul Anka and something his friend and actor Terrence Stamp said, "All celebrities think they're God."

As for music from the film: http://www.box.net/shared/7lz5qgnnf7

Also, note to self: Must make double-feature out of Privilege and Phantom of the Paradise.

One last note; my dad recommended the film A Face in the Crowd starring Andy Griffith, similar to Privilege but the character becomes the opposite of Steven: he instead becomes drunk on the fame and power.

OH OH

AND

THE MIX IS AMAZING AND YOU HAVE TO EMAIL ME SO I CAN EMAIL BACK AND BE EXCITED ABOUT THIS MIX BECAUSE IT'S LIKE A CRAZY ALTERNATE ANACHRONISTIC AWESOME AU MIX THAT'S JUST PERFECT.

PERFECT!

I AM TYPING RIGHT NOW ♥

Thank you so much for the Un Amico tracks!! That's my favorite song on the soundtrack, and these lyrics are lovely. :D Awesome job on the mix!

You're welcome! Un Amico is so beautiful and I like that in both Revolver and IB, it's used for scenes where the characters suffer personal loss.

Thank you ♥ I spent far too much time compiling it because I wanted all of the songs to be as fitting as possible.

Amazing choices! Awesome work on this! There's a special place in my heart for Concrete Blonde.

BTW, any idea when we can look for IB on dvd? I'm really excited for it (and my brain could use the refresher).

Thank you ♥ When I'm in love with something, I tend to get carried away (but they deserve it).

December 15! I already pre-ordered it. It was first expected to come out early next year, which would have done me in.

That's such good news!!! Yay! Now I have something to look forward to! So... only a little over a month in a half.

Thankyou, bb. <3

You're welcome! I'm excited for it too! I am going to screencap the hell outta Shosanna/Fredrick scenes, along with Fassbender every time he smiles.

And Stiglitz's shirtless whipping scene will be played repeatedly.

OMG, yes. *drolling in happy anticipation*

For real. I looked all over for an IB film companion, but they never made one (which seems really, really silly, considering all the artistic shots). This is the most I've looked forward to a dvd in ages Even moreso than Watchmen.

I would have loved for IB to have a film companion; I suppose it's something Tarantino just doesn't do (he didn't even storyboard the fight scenes in Kill Bill).

I haven't been so enamored with a film and its characters (Shosanna and Fredrick in particular) in a long time, other than Watchmen (which almost doesn't count since the novel has been around for over 20 years now). Tarantino's love for his work really shows in every detail of his films and seeing his excitement over film gets me excited.

I'm finishing up an S/F fic currently and have another multi-chapter fic centering on Fredrick planned, and while I certainly intend to get them up before December 15, having the film on hand will help keep me on my toes.

Yeah, I think that's just it. While I was waiting for Watchmen, I still had the GN at home, and the film companion, so the wait wasn't so terrible.

Awesome! Can't wait! I have a few pages of fluff written myself, and I started to write something unrelated for the kinkmeme, but procrastinated until ladyofspring beat me to the punch, so it's only a beginning really. I think I've just been waiting until I've felt the proper inspiration, because you're right, we're in a really nice niche here, and the pressure is on to keep the writing good.

I've been stuck on the smutty end to my current fic. I probably take longer than necessary to write, but S/F require some care and consideration to keep in character (as does Landa, which is why he's so far been relegated to guest appearances and mentions in my fic so far). And it's always best not to force your muse, which I've tried to do before. I do salute you for writing for the kinkmeme as I have difficulty with writing on the fly like that.

Our lovely niche has been worth it as we're very fortunate to have had nothing but good fic and talented writers, which not many fandom folks can claim to have. In short, we're awesome.

I do what I can ♥

Un Amico was absolutely necessary and 21 Guns is just too perfect that to not include it would've been foolish of me.

That Bowie song, OMFG, it's perfect... and oh my, oh my, I don't know what else to say! ♥

The lyrics with Fredrick and Shosanna on the background - totallly amazing. Great job! I'm saving to the memories! :)

Aw, you don't to have to say much, I'm just really happy that you like it! ♥

Putting the fanmix together was a real labor of love, as I revised it about three times, wanting to get it just right. And because the lyrics are extremely important, I decided to copy/paste/transcribe them and using an image of Fredrick and Shosanna would only contribute to the lyrics' value.

I was so excited when I found David Bowie's Because You're Young; that song, along with Heal It Up by Concrete Blonde urged me to post this fanmix.

I LOVE your mixes! Very good job :)

Thank you!

I love these kids and if I'm not writing for them, I'm making fanmixes ♥

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