Movie Stars

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Hi everyone!  Sorry to be posting this a bit prematurely, but I will be getting up *way* too early tomorrow so I wanted to get the Wednesday entry up now in my less sleep-deprived state :)

I love movies, and sometimes I feel tempted to just plop Lee and Kara down into the middle of a great scene.  It doesn't matter if there's no way it could fit into the BSG universe, sometimes it would just be fun.  Or heartbreaking.  For example:

1) Fun: Jumping the Bus in Speed (1994)



Yes, I admit it.  I want to trap Lee and Kara and some civilians on a bus that's wired to explode if they drop below 55 miles per hour and then watch them jump a highway overpass.  "It might be on an incline.  Floor it!!"  I am not ashamed.  It would be awesome.  Way better than "Sacrifice."  This is the hostage situation I want for them :)

2) Heartbreaking: Trapped Together in The Abyss (1989)



I'm not sure how many of you will have seen this (it was the disaster-in-the-cruel-sea love story movie that James Cameron made *before* Titanic), but the situation is this: an estranged husband and wife, both amazing and tough as nails, wind up trapped out of range of their deep-sea home base in a small ship quickly filling with freezing water.  There is only one life suit.  The ex-wife comes up with a truly harrowing, out-of-the-box plan that might give them both a chance to survive.  The crisis and its aftermath are heartbreaking and heartwarming to watch; it's one of the most intense, traumatic, moving portrayals of love in the face of death that I've seen on film.  I want to put Kara and Lee through this exact drowning scenario, from the moment it starts to the moment it ends.  You wouldn't have to change a word of dialogue, it's perfectly them.

What movie scene would you like to drop Kara and Lee into?  Would you like to watch them swordfight in The Princess Bride?  Kiss passionately in front of the blazing horizon in Gone With the Wind?  Fly together over Metropolis in Superman?  The sky's the limit!

Comments

[indigo419.livejournal.com]

I have no movies for you, so sad! But (and this is probably the answer to a past DPP, I bet I missed the boat), I keep thinking the song Amistad (http://defininggrace.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/amistad-by-the-fray-lyrics/) is so very pilots. I don't know that the lyrics are exactly right, but it just sounds so very them. All that angst and waiting for a break that never came.

Will have to watch The Abyss again with K/L in mind, Mr!Indi always says it's the best two-thirds of a movie ever! ;P

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

it's the best two-thirds of a movie ever. . LOL. So true! I refuse to watch the theatrical release any more, because that's exactly what it is. At least the extended version makes more sense, esp. the ending.

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you for bringing up the music of Amistad, what a beautiful choice! Whenever I think of it I always have a vague image of beautiful firelight under the night sky. It is very pilots, and especially, I think, very Kara.

Mr!Indi always says it's the best two-thirds of a movie ever!

Ha ha! That is *EXACTLY* what I've always thought, how funny! I've always said to my husband that if The Abyss had stuck with being a disaster movie, and not tried to be E.T. at the same time, it would have been one of the best ever made. Great minds think alike :)

[ninety6tears.livejournal.com]

Frak, you had one of my ideas for my upcoming DPP week. XD

"I love Aaron Zak, I do, I really do." UM, nobody ever seems to have seen the version of East of Eden that has James Dean, but it just so happens to have this two-brothers-one-girl love triangle that I totally ate up. Abra and Kara are like night and day; I can't see her assailing Lee with questions about the women he's hooked up with like "What are girls like that like?", but really, why does she keep asking?
Anyway, there is a carnival. And they get on the damn ferris wheel together. The reason why this is a bad idea happens just before 10 mins:


Here's another weird one: Practical Magic, as Sandra Bullock and Aidan Quinn's characters. I could totally dig Kara in that "GET AWAY FROM ME, HORRIBLE VOODOO THINGS HAPPEN TO MEN WHO FALL IN LOVE WITH ME" situation, and of course him being the cop who, against his ethical judgment, promises he'll do anything in his power to keep her out of jail.

Jim and Selena in 28 Days Later. I don't have a particular scene in mind, but the premise of them first meeting in that kind of situation is pretty intriguing.

And I have to name Star Trek XI, but it's not what you'd think. Kara cheating Lee's Kobayashi Maru feels like the best academy!fic I've never read.

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

Kara cheating Lee's Kobayashi Maru feels like the best academy!fic I've never read. LOL. Awesome!!! Lee's Spock to Kara's Kirk. Love it!

[ninjamonkey73.livejournal.com]

I never would have thought of Practical Magic, but OMG, that's just GREAT!

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Wow, what fun choices! Why have I never watched East of Eden? James Dean is ridiculously awkward and gorgeous, and seems to communicate almost entirely in deeply sensitive shrugs :) And you're right about the clip you chose being perfect for the Zak-Kara-Lee triangle, especially the reaction shot of the two of them after the moment of weakness. Maybe they'll shake hands now and address each other only by their full names.

I love Kara and Lee's Voodoo Cop Love. Yay!

And you're so right about Star Trek. That scene was made for them, as was the later scene on the bridge:

Kara: "I'm coming with you."
Lee: "I would cite regulations, but I know you will simply ignore them."
Kara: "See? We are getting to know each other." (slaps his shoulder obnoxiously)
Lee: (mild death glare)

Hee! (P.S. -- I know this just makes me a Trek nerd, but I love the way they stage the Kobyashi Maru with Jim munching on an apple. It seems like a deliberate call-back to the moment in Wrath of Kahn when he first tells the story of this incident to Saavik while munching on an apple in the Genesis cave. "I don't like to lose." I love it!)

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Your Practical Magic idea reminded me of a great macro that zegeekgirl made for Bamber_News, using a pic of Jamie doing his cop thing:



Hee!

[shah-of-blah.livejournal.com]

I want them to be in every movie, pretty much. The more illogical the better.

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

That's awesome! When I read this comment, I thought, "Oo, what was the last movie I watched? Could I just drop them in?" It's a bit of a challenge because the last movie I watched happened to be Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder, but Kara could be the adulterous wife who foils her husband's plans with a handy pair of scissors, and Lee could be her former lover/American mystery writer who solves two-thirds of the case completely by accident :)

Yes! They fit anywhere!

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

Hah! I was just watching the Abyss a few weeks ago and thought the EXACT same thing. This is who Kara & Lee would be if/when they had married. I love the dynamic between Bud & Lindsey and even started a mini-outline of a fic for them & K/L ... you know, Bud meets Lee at a bar and they talk about their "wives," and then Kara & Lindsey join them. *applauds your choice*

Maybe I'm biased cuz I'm writing about it now with kag523 but I'd like to see them in Pride & Prejudice Lee's such a dead-ringer for Darcy and Kara is totally Lizzy (well, minus all the period restrictions) The proposal scene in the movie is perfect for them!

I'll come back if I can think of some more movies ... What a fun post!

[ninety6tears.livejournal.com]

Guh, Pride & Prejudice. I'd definitely love them in Wright's version, cause he really amps up the romance and...hell, dumps buckets of rain on the proposal scene and tops it off with the hottest near-kiss EVER. And I could totally picture Lee delivering the most accidentally arrogant marriage proposal of all time, LOL.

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who thought The Abyss would be a perfect scenario for them! I definitely don't want to slow down your P & P writing -- I am living for the updates -- but if you ever want to write that little crossover at the bar, I would squee like there's no tomorrow! I love Bud & Lindsey.

You and kag523 are doing an *amazing* job with P & P. So fantastic. SQUEEEEEEEE!

PS - one of the conversations from the book that I find most perfect for Kara and Lee is one that never gets included in any filmed version, not even the uber-faithful Firth/Ehle miniseries. It's their after-engagement chat where Lizzy teases him for ever having fallen for someone so inappropriate as her:

Lizzy: "How could you begin? I can comprehend your going on charmingly when you had once made a beginning, but what could set you off in the first place?"
Darcy: "I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."
Lizzy: "My beauty you had early withstood, and as for my manners -- my behavior to you was at least always bordering on the uncivil...Now be sincere: did you admire me for my impertinence?"
Darcy: "For the liveliness of your mind, I did."
Lizzy: "You may as well call it impertinence at once, it was very little less."

I love that he falls for her because she's marvellously rude, and she calls him on it! **hugs my fictional peeps**

[ninjamonkey73.livejournal.com]

I'ma throw some crazy ones out there:



Yup, 10 Things I Hate About You (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147800/). Kara is the moody Kat, Lee does his best badboy routine as Patrick. There is quiet smolder and angry words and Shakespeare.



Uh-huh. Titanic (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120338/). Only Kara is Jack and Lee is Rose.

And for the trifecta of yeah-she-went-there:



OMG, you guys! Fast planes! Tight uniforms! A chippy, short actor with chiselled good looks and something to prove! I went there. Top Gun (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092099/)

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

I love them all!

Fast planes! Tight uniforms! A chippy, short actor with chiselled good looks and something to prove!

So perfect! LOL!

And kudos for bringing in James Cameron's other love-and-disaster-at-sea epic. The angst! The romance! The way Kara knows that she's going to die and still says being a part of this disaster was the luckiest thing that ever happened to her, because he was worth it. The way that Lee goes on after her death but never forgets. **hugs**

I feel like I should bring in Aliens and make it a Cameron kind of day. Can't you see the alien monster busting in after Kacey, and Kara stepping out in that loading machine thing and saying "Stay away from her, you bitch!"

[indigo419.livejournal.com]

Oh, I just saw 10 Things, for the first time!! But I would cast Lee as Kat, Zak as Bianca, and Kara as Patrick! ;P

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha ... I love that Lee is Rose and Kara is Jack. But, can Kara not die at the end please?

[damao2010.livejournal.com]

Great suggestions. I couldn't agree more about The Abyss. That's my favorite scene in the whole movie. And it totally fits Kara and Lee to a T.

And I really must read Pride and Prejudice, right? I know the story, of course. I have seen the movie. I even started reading the book once but my English was not very good and I gave up. *adds it to list of "to read" books - the one that gets bigger and bigger everyday*

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

I love Pride & Prejudice a lot -- it's one of those books I discovered on my own when I was about fifteen or so, and I fell in love with the language and wit and arch, intellectual romance. My favorite version of it is the A&E miniseries starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth that came out in the 1990s; it's quite faithful to the book and uses a lot of the original dialogue, which the movie tended to change around more.

Yes, there are so many great books out there I've never read. It's just fun to pick up more as I go, but I also love going back to old favorites :)

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

Um, yes please. Read P&P because you'll love it and then I can lead you to the massive rabbit hole of P&P fanfic which is amazing and beyond hot.

And when you're done with that, read our fic and tell us what you think *pimps some more*

xoxo

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

I'm going to show my age and recommend one of my favorite romance movies of the 80s. :) ROMANCING THE STONE!

I see a role-reversal of Lee as the non-adventurous writer and Kara as the fortune-hunter. It would be so fun! *giggles*

(http://s784.photobucket.com/albums/yy126/scifishipper/?action=view&current=romancingthestone.jpg)

[indigo419.livejournal.com]

Heeeee!! Me! I want to see this remake!! *claps delightedly*

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

You know, I'm really glad you recommended this. I know a few people who love it, but I've never seen it myself. **makes note to rent it** Thank you!

[ninjamonkey73.livejournal.com]

Ha! I had it pulled up and everything, but bailed at the last minute. Oh, when Kathleen and Michael were still sexy and not the trainwrecks they became!

[acsgrlie.livejournal.com]

Oh I LOVE Speed!!

You're not going to get mushy on me, are you?
Maybe. I might.
I hope not, 'cause you know, relationships that start under intense circumstances, they never last.
Oh yeah?
Yeah, I've done extensive study on this.

I second Star Trek too. Kara + Sulu FTW!

I would also pick....

I'm getting a bit mushy but I love it so much. Sweet Home Alabama.



What do you want to be married to me for, anyhow?
So I can kiss you anytime I want.

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Aw, so sweet!!!

I love the quotes you chose, they're perfect for Kara and Lee :)