The Lost Boys

Awaiting inspiration on the writing
am watching 'The Lost Boys'
it has a lot of the same quirks that annoyed me in Flatliners and the Batman films - primary colors lighting, unsubtle backgrounds - but in this film they work. They work with the story, painting it larger than life. Like with Batman, I didn't object to comic book colors on comic book villains. But unlike Batman there is actual contrast, regular bad guys, ordinary world. Daylight scenes contrast with the fairground night time. And that suits the story.

The best thing about Lost Boys is that they don't sell vampirism - they don't try and get him to join them for the murder or even the immortality - that he finds out about later, when he's in too deep already. The attraction is belonging. Love. Not just on the vampire side either, the family has the same stuff going on (and I could get a few pages out of analysing this film in terms of the breakdown of the nuclear family and what it says from a feminist perspective. But then I would have to be annoyed at it.)

And while it might be supposed to be a love story between Michael and Star, all she ever does is exist. She looks pretty. He looks at her. End of story. But between David and Michael it is a seduction. Guy dominance hierarchy stuff, daring, pushing each other. A very bloke kind of seduction. Plus the serious eye contact kind. Star is easy to ignore. This film is all about falling for the wrong guy.

Also noticed this time through that the vampires being fearless can't just be a pose - they race their bikes towards a cliff, which is only dangerous for humans. But they also race through forest, and a wrong move there will kill a vamp just as dead.
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since I whined about no sleep
I will say
eventually I got a probable eight hours sleep
and just woke up
am in a foul mood
want to smash and stomp
had the nastiest dreams and whenever I thought it was an entirely new dream it decided it was actually continuing the really nasty one
Like I dreamed I met David Boreanaz on the bus, and he had a thing I'd sent him as a present, right before that whole thing with the arrest and years in prison. Which was the first dream. Which really intensely unpleasant was.


Now I check the news and hey, looks like RL was worse than my night. That sucks.
/inarticulate

So I have rage today. I'm hoping it wears off at some point. Or I'll only be able to write fight scenes, and I'd have to invent some first.

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I put extra shiny glitter on my nails
but then it wouldn't set
so I had to take it all off
and now I only have one nail with color on it
*sulk*

yes, my life is fascinating

Watched 'Robots of Death'
I have it taped off UK Gold but now I bought it on DVD
is still good
I, er, actually quite like the eye makeup
(this is why I should never do makeup after watching B7 or DW - pretty!)
And the silly hats
I want the one that looked like half a spiderweb, only in silver.
I love it that the future is so shiny.

Yeah, there was also plot. That part was fun.
But, shiny!