PETER DELUISE IS AWESOME
Jan. 13th, 2012 11:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slemslempikeLast weekend I went to stay with Jen, and we watched all the Peter Deluise I could find. It was great. I love that he still acts. He's mostly a director now, but he clearly loves acting because he has all these little roles in things (and sometimes bigger roles in littler things), and sometimes he even gets to act in things he doesn't direct!
Children of the Night
Two girls go swimming in the flooded crypt of an old church, and in doing so inadvertently wake up a paedophile vampire. Then we go forward a little bit (I think?) and Peter Deluise is a very kind teacher who has a priest friend who has clearly never got over losing Peter Deluise's love. The priest keeps a vampire woman and her lungs-outside-the-body daughter (one of the swimming girls) in his attic. Peter Deluise goes to rescue the other girl from her vampire grandmother. They have to team up to fight the town, who have all turned into vampires, some of whom have sex in cocoons. The day is mostly saved by an old man in a van with a cross on the front. In the morning everything is magically okay again.
Sanctuary
We watched one and a half episodes of this before realising that imdb had LIED and he wasn't in those. Then we watched the one in which he does appear, as a somewhat dodgy purveyor of weird creatures in fridges after the cryochamber broke. He was beautiful, and helpful, as he sold an audio file that could be used to calm the escaped creature. He directed that.
Painkiller Jane
Painkiller Jane has a healing superpower. I think she uses it to solve crime, somehow? In the episode we watched, models were getting ready to go on a catwalk, then one of them collapsed on a catwalk, and the paramedics came. One of the paramedics was Peter Deluise! Again beautiful, and again presumeably helpful as he is in the medical profession, though we stopped watching after that as he wasn't going to be in it any more. Actually, I think the model might have died, but I bet that wasn't his fault. Her last moments were spent in his company, I'd like that. He directed this episode too.
Engaged to Kill
He didn't direct this! This is a film (based on a true story) where a woman is kidnapped for money, and then later after she is free she is stalked more and it's fairly obvious to everyone except those in the film that it's her daughter's boyfriend, who is the original kidnapper in disguise. Peter Deluise plays a boat-selling douche who takes advantage of the kidnapped family's new penury to hike up his cut of a boat. He wears a bright shirt, and later he gets hit on the head with a metal implement on a dock and ends up in a coma. THE FILM NEVER TELLS US IF HE RECOVERED. I bet he did though. Peter Deluise's wife is in this too, as a hypochondriac woman who is convinced to make a complaint about the kidnapped woman's doctoring skils.
Bloodsuckers
This is about vampires in space, and I thought it was pretty good, actually. We actually watched this because Michael Deluise (Deluise mi) was billed as one of the main stars, with his name on the poster and everything. Having seen the film, we have NO idea why his name got to be anywhere near the poster. He is lovely, of course (he's Jen's Deluise), but his role is very small. None of the four main people get to be on the poster. Peter Deluise has an uncredited cameo as Vondi the German Space Tourist, who leaves what seems to be a brothel called "Hard Eight" leading a man on a leash and saying "disappointing, ladies! not very hard at all". He is a funny man and does this VERY WELL.
Highlander
Peter Deluise is in the second episode of this, as a man called Clinch who is the hired bully of a woman who runs a casino, and breaks fingers and threatens to beat people up after they get fired for not cheating. He does this quite well at first, but then the Highlander comes and defeats him effortlessly, which is a bit embarrassing. But it's necessary for the narrative, it's not Peter Deluise's fault.
I now have an episode of Andromeda to watch, and once I have worked out whether the video player I got from my parents worked, I can work my way through his early oeuvre that is only available on tape.
A few weeks ago I commented on a Guardian article about baby products (I'm not entirely sure how I ended up there). The first line of it read "Everyone wants to give their wriggly pink new baby the best".
My comment was: The first line of this article took me aback rather - what about people whose wriggly new babies aren't pink? I don't get the impression that Amy Fleming was deliberately focusing her article on white babies' products, but it's rather a slap in the face for her to use "pink" as if it were a universal description for babies.
(Not the best-worded comment, but I hate commenting anyway, so I just wanted to get it out.) I then got distracted (maybe I did some work? unlikely, it was my last day before Christmas) and only realised today that the author had replied.
Hello, you're right, this article is for anyone who is interested, but I can totally see your point re my use of "pink" and I'm really sorry.
Got caught in the trap of focussing so much on the issues in the piece that I just described my own baby in the intro, then moved on. I'll see if the ed thinks we should/can take pink out at this point.
I mention all this partly, of course, to attempt to show that I am just an all-round great person for noticing such things (a lesser person might have been too busy with actual anti-racist activism), but also because I was pleased that Amy Fleming accepted the criticism and then took out the problematic phrasing.
I went to see The Iron Lady with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
katlinel this week. We did not like it. I wasn't really expecting to, what with the politics, but that was the least of it. The film is so anxious to be apolitical that it ends up being nothing. Whatever her (many!) faults, you can't deny that Margaret Thatcher was an intensely political woman, and the failure to represent this at all was ridiculous. We get flashbacks into critical events in her life (her father making a speech while she has to wash up cups, the selection board, losing her first election, Denis proposing, speaking up as Education Secretary, deciding to run for leader, becoming PM, Falklands, Bright bomb, Poll tax riots, losing the respect of her Cabinet, getting ousted), but they are all disjointed, with no sense of how significant they were outside of one woman's life. And actually, I don't think we saw much of them having an impact on her. Meryl Streep's portrayal was pretty good, but for a film that is adamant that it's about a woman not a politician, I don't think we really got any sense of her as herself, rather than as someone for us to be told about.
I also felt it was very intrusive for a film to represent the dementia and possible intimate relationships of a living person as it did. I sometimes read a blog about women and ageing in films (google reader no longer loads properly on my ancient work browser so I haven't been able to procrastinate in my usual ways recently) and - leaving aside the biographical aspects for a moment - The Iron Lady is a film about a dynamic, driven woman being incapable in her older age. It's a showy part for an actor, though, but this is done with a much younger woman in make-up, rather than an older woman playing the role.
gair very lovelily sent me a HUGE box of teen fic, so I am reading my way through the Sweet Dreams series. They take me almost an exact 30 minutes to read, which is perfect for lunch breaks and bus rides. They are all exactly the same so far - girl feels she is somehow a bit rubbish, meets a boy, thinks he doesn't like her, falls in love with him, is sad that she's not good enough for him, then it turns out he totally likes her after all, they kiss, the end. It's very soothing. Though there's one called Kiss Me, Creep coming up, which might work slightly differently.
Children of the Night
Two girls go swimming in the flooded crypt of an old church, and in doing so inadvertently wake up a paedophile vampire. Then we go forward a little bit (I think?) and Peter Deluise is a very kind teacher who has a priest friend who has clearly never got over losing Peter Deluise's love. The priest keeps a vampire woman and her lungs-outside-the-body daughter (one of the swimming girls) in his attic. Peter Deluise goes to rescue the other girl from her vampire grandmother. They have to team up to fight the town, who have all turned into vampires, some of whom have sex in cocoons. The day is mostly saved by an old man in a van with a cross on the front. In the morning everything is magically okay again.
Sanctuary
We watched one and a half episodes of this before realising that imdb had LIED and he wasn't in those. Then we watched the one in which he does appear, as a somewhat dodgy purveyor of weird creatures in fridges after the cryochamber broke. He was beautiful, and helpful, as he sold an audio file that could be used to calm the escaped creature. He directed that.
Painkiller Jane
Painkiller Jane has a healing superpower. I think she uses it to solve crime, somehow? In the episode we watched, models were getting ready to go on a catwalk, then one of them collapsed on a catwalk, and the paramedics came. One of the paramedics was Peter Deluise! Again beautiful, and again presumeably helpful as he is in the medical profession, though we stopped watching after that as he wasn't going to be in it any more. Actually, I think the model might have died, but I bet that wasn't his fault. Her last moments were spent in his company, I'd like that. He directed this episode too.
Engaged to Kill
He didn't direct this! This is a film (based on a true story) where a woman is kidnapped for money, and then later after she is free she is stalked more and it's fairly obvious to everyone except those in the film that it's her daughter's boyfriend, who is the original kidnapper in disguise. Peter Deluise plays a boat-selling douche who takes advantage of the kidnapped family's new penury to hike up his cut of a boat. He wears a bright shirt, and later he gets hit on the head with a metal implement on a dock and ends up in a coma. THE FILM NEVER TELLS US IF HE RECOVERED. I bet he did though. Peter Deluise's wife is in this too, as a hypochondriac woman who is convinced to make a complaint about the kidnapped woman's doctoring skils.
Bloodsuckers
This is about vampires in space, and I thought it was pretty good, actually. We actually watched this because Michael Deluise (Deluise mi) was billed as one of the main stars, with his name on the poster and everything. Having seen the film, we have NO idea why his name got to be anywhere near the poster. He is lovely, of course (he's Jen's Deluise), but his role is very small. None of the four main people get to be on the poster. Peter Deluise has an uncredited cameo as Vondi the German Space Tourist, who leaves what seems to be a brothel called "Hard Eight" leading a man on a leash and saying "disappointing, ladies! not very hard at all". He is a funny man and does this VERY WELL.
Highlander
Peter Deluise is in the second episode of this, as a man called Clinch who is the hired bully of a woman who runs a casino, and breaks fingers and threatens to beat people up after they get fired for not cheating. He does this quite well at first, but then the Highlander comes and defeats him effortlessly, which is a bit embarrassing. But it's necessary for the narrative, it's not Peter Deluise's fault.
I now have an episode of Andromeda to watch, and once I have worked out whether the video player I got from my parents worked, I can work my way through his early oeuvre that is only available on tape.
A few weeks ago I commented on a Guardian article about baby products (I'm not entirely sure how I ended up there). The first line of it read "Everyone wants to give their wriggly pink new baby the best".
My comment was: The first line of this article took me aback rather - what about people whose wriggly new babies aren't pink? I don't get the impression that Amy Fleming was deliberately focusing her article on white babies' products, but it's rather a slap in the face for her to use "pink" as if it were a universal description for babies.
(Not the best-worded comment, but I hate commenting anyway, so I just wanted to get it out.) I then got distracted (maybe I did some work? unlikely, it was my last day before Christmas) and only realised today that the author had replied.
Hello, you're right, this article is for anyone who is interested, but I can totally see your point re my use of "pink" and I'm really sorry.
Got caught in the trap of focussing so much on the issues in the piece that I just described my own baby in the intro, then moved on. I'll see if the ed thinks we should/can take pink out at this point.
I mention all this partly, of course, to attempt to show that I am just an all-round great person for noticing such things (a lesser person might have been too busy with actual anti-racist activism), but also because I was pleased that Amy Fleming accepted the criticism and then took out the problematic phrasing.
I went to see The Iron Lady with
katlinel this week. We did not like it. I wasn't really expecting to, what with the politics, but that was the least of it. The film is so anxious to be apolitical that it ends up being nothing. Whatever her (many!) faults, you can't deny that Margaret Thatcher was an intensely political woman, and the failure to represent this at all was ridiculous. We get flashbacks into critical events in her life (her father making a speech while she has to wash up cups, the selection board, losing her first election, Denis proposing, speaking up as Education Secretary, deciding to run for leader, becoming PM, Falklands, Bright bomb, Poll tax riots, losing the respect of her Cabinet, getting ousted), but they are all disjointed, with no sense of how significant they were outside of one woman's life. And actually, I don't think we saw much of them having an impact on her. Meryl Streep's portrayal was pretty good, but for a film that is adamant that it's about a woman not a politician, I don't think we really got any sense of her as herself, rather than as someone for us to be told about. I also felt it was very intrusive for a film to represent the dementia and possible intimate relationships of a living person as it did. I sometimes read a blog about women and ageing in films (google reader no longer loads properly on my ancient work browser so I haven't been able to procrastinate in my usual ways recently) and - leaving aside the biographical aspects for a moment - The Iron Lady is a film about a dynamic, driven woman being incapable in her older age. It's a showy part for an actor, though, but this is done with a much younger woman in make-up, rather than an older woman playing the role.
gair very lovelily sent me a HUGE box of teen fic, so I am reading my way through the Sweet Dreams series. They take me almost an exact 30 minutes to read, which is perfect for lunch breaks and bus rides. They are all exactly the same so far - girl feels she is somehow a bit rubbish, meets a boy, thinks he doesn't like her, falls in love with him, is sad that she's not good enough for him, then it turns out he totally likes her after all, they kiss, the end. It's very soothing. Though there's one called Kiss Me, Creep coming up, which might work slightly differently.
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Date: 2012-01-13 12:05 pm (UTC)It sounds like they've done that thing that seems to crop up in a lot of places (sorry for incoherence - it's lunchtime and I've got lots to do) where someone points to a woman as the first female to do X, but you don't actually see her Xing, and all of the discussion of how you X is about men.
Have you seen Iris? How does the treatment of dementia compare?
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Date: 2012-01-13 12:11 pm (UTC)(OTOH, thank you - you've possibly saved me from seeing a film which would annoy me intensely!)
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Date: 2012-01-13 12:15 pm (UTC)Yes - first woman to be prime minister, but the huge historical imaprct of that is ignored! And Kat pointed out that all the shots of parliament had no other women in at all. There weren't many other women, but there certainly were some, and they wer excluded in favour of showing The One Woman.
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Date: 2012-01-13 12:16 pm (UTC)And on films about political women
Date: 2012-01-13 01:29 pm (UTC)Sigh.
Re: And on films about political women
Date: 2012-01-13 01:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-13 01:55 pm (UTC)I blame you, of course, but I may watch the two vampire films you mention, and possibly dream of him again.
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Date: 2012-01-13 02:00 pm (UTC)I would recommend Bloodsuckers over Children of the Night. Children of the Night was...bizarre.
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Date: 2012-01-13 06:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-13 08:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-19 12:52 am (UTC)Glad you are enjoying the Sweet Dreamses! And glad they arrived - sorry, I shoved a bunch of things in the post to various people in the insanity of the last few days/weeks packing up the flat and didn't warn them/include cheerful notes/anything. It was MAYHEM.
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Date: 2012-01-19 11:19 am (UTC)I have heard that other people enjoyed the film (who are not remotely raging Tories either), so it may be just me! But it is definitely depoliticised. LIKE HITLER.