DanRad Appreciation Society

[birdsofshore]

I notice young Mr Radcliffe has been quite busy of late. I will say up front that he is not my Harry, although I am terribly fond of the HP films. But he seems an absolute sweetheart, and unlike certain actors we know, whenever he opens his mouth (as himself) to speak about anything of note, something really fabulous usually comes out. I also thought he was actually bloody good in Kill Your Darlings.

Anyway, here are the trailers for his two latest films. What do you think? Will you be going to see either of these? He does seem to avoid with a vengeance the possibility of being typecast in his roles, and these two films seem in particular contrast. I can easily see him in a romantic comedy, being a sort of self-deprecating, funny, adorable chap, because I think that's who he actually IS. I'm not at all sure yet about seeing him with the US accent and the raunchy edginess of Horns. But I'm perfectly happy to be convinced.

Trailer for What If...  Awkward jokes! Kooking around! Changing room shenanigans! Laughing at someone who fell out of a window!

Geeky note: The guy whose girlfriend Dan appears to be trying to steal (BAD Dan!) is played by Rafe Spall, Timothy Spall's son. An AU where Harry is in love with Peter Pettigrew's son's girlfriend, anyone? Er, perhaps not.

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And, here's the trailer for Horns. Moodiness! Raunchy kissing! Laughing demonically at people fist-fighting! A pitchfork! A big fuck off snake!

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I also heard that Dan had some fun going incognito at Comic-Con by wearing a Spiderman outfit and talking in a US accent. Quite a few people stopped and had their photo taken with him, not having a clue who was under the suit.



Mr Radcliffe! So mischievous! Can you imagine getting home and finding out on the internet who the friendly neighbourhood Spiderman actually was?

Comments

[kedavranox.livejournal.com]

Ohmigosh his peen in that Spiderman suit though.


Eta: Horns!! I tried so hard to read that book once, but I lost interest. So weird that it's a movie now!

glad I'm not the only one that couldn't stomach Horns (apologies for the mini rant)

[nevrafire.livejournal.com]

I forced myself to finish it (but I skipped a lot) and it Really Messed Me Up- Badly. Also Hate that it got made into a movie with Dan in it. (although from what I heard they toned down/cut off most of the really unpalatable stuff from the book so there's that at least. *you can't really have a "heartbreaking love story if the protagonist goes into a rant of what a B*** the girlfriend was for dumping him and how she/women deserve to end like (she did aka raped/dead) because they "play loose with their body/lead you on"- No joking that was in the book and it pissed me off)

that and... other things, I'm not going to go into details because it would give me anxiety again. (i'm willing to elaborate on a pm so as not to sour the post more)

so yeah, Not looking forward to that coming out at all. I can't wait for it to come out then for it to go away so It's not keeping me on edge anymore.

(from what I seen from the reception it got in TIFF most people didn't liked it. [as in, Dan gets heaped on praises (althought the "Best role of his Career" is BS because Equus and Kill Your Darlings were 100% better) and that it's "visually beautiful" but the movie itself gets criticized A LOT for being choppy and all over the place and not coherent at all].

if we're going by horror I liked The Woman in Black way better and "Frankenstein" looks way more promising.

Re: glad I'm not the only one that couldn't stomach Horns (apologies for the mini rant)

[birdsofshore]

Ah, that message would have upset me as well. Was it meant to be an unreliable / unsympathetic narrator then? We weren't meant to agree with his beliefs, surely? I agree it can still be very upsetting to read that even if the author is actually trying to give a different message in the long term.

Re: glad I'm not the only one that couldn't stomach Horns (apologies for the mini rant)

[nevrafire.livejournal.com]

oh that was just ONE thing of the MANY that upset me. But the others ones upset me too much to talk about them too much.

to answer your question, From what I remember --Ig said that because the Horns were beginning to mess him up and really turning him bad and make him lose hope in people.

Also- SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER

and then he finds out that the girl didn't really cheated on him at all that it was A. someone lying to cover themselves (spoiler: the guy who killed her said it to cover himself) and B. the girl let him believe that because she really was dying of a form of really aggresive cancer, like her sister did who got really aggressive and mean and fatalist in the cancer progression, and she wanted to cut off Ig completely that way he wouldn't suffer when she died of cancer, like she did when the sister died. ) so Ig regain his "goodness"/good memories of her.

(but then the ending implied that they both end in Hell and WTF? I hope the movie changes that too- even If Im not going to see it, that was a shitty thing to do to the girl's soul- cause the book implied she became like- a reward for Ig in hell.) but that's all I'm going to talk about after all because I just realized that even this little bit is getting me upset from remembering the book.

Re: glad I'm not the only one that couldn't stomach Horns (apologies for the mini rant)

[birdsofshore]

Ah, at least it was clear that those views were as a result of him changing for the worse because of the horns.

I won't read the spoiler for now, because I think I'd like to watch this one, and I prefer not to know much about the story first, really. Thank you for putting it under a cut, that was very considerate.

And I'm sorry that talking about this upset you :(

Re: glad I'm not the only one that couldn't stomach Horns (apologies for the mini rant)

[nevrafire.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

As much as I Hate the book/movie and wish people not go see it, that's bound to happen (probably one of the reasons why they chose to cast Dan and plaster his face all over the promotion of this- so his fans would all go see it *eyeroll* althought at least the big R rating will stop the large teen crowd from adding numbers to the viewageship [yes I know I'm being terribly petty- I just hate this book/movie that much)

But spoiling people would not only be a Mean thing to do (I'm angry at the author & the book/movie Not Dan or the people who read/see this, so taking out on them would be bad), it would get people upset at me and I don't want that.

I mean on top of me dumping a rant on here (which I hope you forgive me for)



yes, I don't think a book before this one has upset/mess me up this much in.... ever.
But at least, regardless of the author's credentials, this book/movie is sort of fad-y so it's not like it's going to go up in history as amazing piece of literature/cinema. people are probably going to forget about it soon.

(not like any of the author's father stuff, and Harry Potter/any of Dan's future projects is going to forever overshadow this so...)

and hey, at least now I have someone who I know that I can ask wether or not the awful awful stuff that upset me stayed in the movie, without actually seeing the darn thing. so there's that.

okay I'll stop now I promise. I don't want to sound bratty.

if anything, thanks for being open and understanding to let me talk about this.

It took a lot of weight off my chest. so thanks.

Re: glad I'm not the only one that couldn't stomach Horns (apologies for the mini rant)

[birdsofshore]

I hope you feel better after venting!

I had no idea this could be a provoking subject, so I'm sorry to hear it stirred up a lot of issues for you.

Re: glad I'm not the only one that couldn't stomach Horns (apologies for the mini rant)

[nevrafire.livejournal.com]

It's okay, thanks for listening.


and don't feel bad- the movie is in full promotion all over the place and you like Dan and didn't know about how messy the book was- so how could you have known?

plus, other than you I haven't really talking about it with anyone- because I don't want people to think i'm being a drama queen.

but I'm all vent/rant-out. there's piling evidence that movie got toned wayyyyyy down so that's really lifted the weight off and I'm ready to move on.

(If annoyed you with it I'm really sorry & I also hope I didn't soured your post? :S )

(at least there's What If? & Frankenstein in the future too- when that comes out i'm more than happy to geek out over that. ;)

[birdsofshore]

Ah, c'mon, we've all seen that penis waggling wild and free after Equus, surely? ;-)

That's interesting you gave the book a try and didn't like it. The film looks like it could be fabulous or just pretentious, perhaps.

[kedavranox.livejournal.com]

I refused to look at any of the Equus things because it creeped me out. I still see him as a teenager for some reason.

The book just got a little weird and uniteresting to me. But it was summer in New York and I was doing many other things and having crushes, so I might have been distracted :P