just re-watched Casanova...thoughts?

[sapphire_child]

WHY Russell T. Davies must you insist on ripping my heart out and squeezing it like a stress ball?! HONESTLY. I'm always fine until it gets to the end where it's just Rose Byrne and Peter O'Toole and she's telling him that Henriette sent her to look after him and just...GOD. D: The two of them are just phenomenal in that scene - especially Rose. I cry every time I watch it, it's like Doomsday all over again. The man might be a psycho angst whore to rival every other angsty fanwriter on the internet but STILL. He's definitely got me wrapped around his bloody little finger.

Other points of merit include David Tennant shagging everything in sight and then looking ridiculously pretty while he angsts (seriously, it should be illegal how pretty he looks when he angsts - ILLEGAL I tells ya!). I also just realised that Ms. Hartigan from "The Next Doctor" played baby!Casanova's mum! AWESOME. I love British TV, they just seem to circulate the same dozen actors for everything :D I love it. Nina Sosanya was also spectacular, but then she's been good in everything I've seen her in really.

I'm also currently listening to the love theme (the only frakking song I can get from the soundtrack because OH YES, IT DOESN'T ACTUALLY EXIST) and oh Murray Gold, why does your music have to be so gorgeous? As far as composers for TV in particular go, he's right up there with Michael Giacchino for me which is saying A LOT because Giacchino has done some of the most SPECTACULAR stuff on Lost (amongst other things). I love you Michael and Murray!

Right. Very tired now, must go to bed. Ciao, ciao!

xoxo sapph

Comments

[pacejunkie.livejournal.com]

Okay, that just made me want to rewatch it too. I love the duel with Grimaldi too, and any scene where they are squaring off together really. Oh, and when he was pretending to be a doctor, lawyer, astrologer, etc. It was all very Catch Me if You Can.

[sapphire-child.livejournal.com]

I love the duel too. And when they're sitting there chatting and Casanova chips in randomly with "You're just dying to kiss me..." LOL.

I've not actually seen Catch Me If You Can :P perhaps I should

[pacejunkie.livejournal.com]

I've not actually seen Catch Me If You Can :P perhaps I should

Very fun movie, I recommend it.

[teruel-a-witch.livejournal.com]

I've only watched it once and don't want to ever again, because OMG AGAIN SO UNFAIR THEY WERE SEPARATED FOR MORE THAN 4O YEARS AND NEVER SAW EACH OTHER AGAIN AND EVIL WON. I WANTED TO KILL GRIMALDI, UGH. It's just I have this oversensitive notion of justice and I think all people should get what they deserve and Grimaldi sure as hell didn't deserve Henrietta.

I love British TV, they just seem to circulate the same dozen actors for everything
Hee, me,too, I love to play game "Spot a British actor I've already seen" in endless period-dramas I watch or Doctor Who XD

[sapphire-child.livejournal.com]

Maybe he didn't deserve her but he did love her which makes it all a lot more complicated :(

Hahaha, me too!

[teruel-a-witch.livejournal.com]

Nah, if he really loved her and not just himself he would have let her go, otherwise he's just a selfish bastard.

[sapphire-child.livejournal.com]

Fair call :P

What's that saying? If you love someone, let them go and if they come back to you keep them. If they don't, they were never yours in the first place and it wasn't meant to be.

[teruel-a-witch.livejournal.com]

If you love someone, let them go and if they come back to you keep them.
This always makes me think of Rose :D

[sapphire-child.livejournal.com]

I know! Only he didn't take heed of the saying obviously :( *grumbles at Ten*

[teruel-a-witch.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it always makes me grumble at Ten, but then I remember it's all RTD's and external circumstances' fault and he is almost redeemed XD

[sapphire-child.livejournal.com]

Heh. This is true.

[janine-moony.livejournal.com]

You'd be surprised on how many people on Casanova also made an appearance on Doctor Who ;)

But I love Peter O'Toole on Casanova, I can actually imagine he was a casanova when he was younger. David... perfect, you can feel his heart breaking when Henriette leaves him.

[sapphire-child.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. There was also whosiface google who played Blon Slitheen. I rediscovered that all over again when I watched it :)

Peter O'Toole is just generally spectacular and then to have David playing his younger self...GAH. Amazing.

[bratflorida.livejournal.com]

I just finished watching Casanova for the first time yesterday...OMG I was about in tears at the end! I'm kind of curious exactly how many women Casanova had in bed, (and how many times DT had his pants around his ankles.) There were SO many funny one-liners in there, I must, must go back to watch it again!

[sapphire-child.livejournal.com]

It's very good - I've cried every time so far! I remember the first time I watched it and I'd only just started getting into Tennant's Who eps. From there on I was just going nuts trying to find stuff he's been in because I loved his work so much :P

Well, that and he spends half of Casanova with, as you said, his trousers around his ankles XD that was kind of awesome.

[dw-10rosefan.livejournal.com]

Gawd, I cannot watch the end without bawling.

On the plus side, Shaun Parkes as Rocco is just made of win! :)

[sapphire-child.livejournal.com]

I know right? Me too!

Oh is that his name?! I love him in that! I'm sure he's been in something else I've seen too, he seems very familiar.

[teruel-a-witch.livejournal.com]

I'm sure he's been in something else I've seen too
Um, Zack from the Impossible Planet? ;D

[sapphire-child.livejournal.com]

...

*MAJOR HEADDESK*

Well then, that would explain it wouldn't it?! *bangs head with fists*

[teruel-a-witch.livejournal.com]

LOL, you are adorkable *gg* I recognised him right away but it can happen with anyone :D

[dw-10rosefan.livejournal.com]

and he was in Things to Do before your 30 with Billie Piper

[sapphire-child.livejournal.com]

No, just easily frustrated :P never mind though eh?