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24 May 2008 @ 09:54 am
Virtual Sexuality  
There's this film I love, though it's admittedly a bit rubbish.
It's called Virtual Sexuality, and is about a girl who goes to a science fair, and tries out a machine where you get scanned, and then you can change the way the 3D image of you looks. She changes the image into a man, a very handsome man. Suddenly, there's an explosion, and she wakes up inside the body of the man she's created. This man is Rupert Penry-Jones. The actress who plays the girl is the love of Casanova's life in the BBC version. (which made seeing them engaged a bit funny, because I've seen him play her.)
Anyway, yes, it sounds like a rubbish film, but I can't help loving it. Why do I feel the need to post about it, you ask?
Because I decided to check out the guy who played the bastard the main character fancied, because I thought I'd seen him in something else. Turns out I have! He plays the boxer in Life on Mars 2x07. You know, the one with the broken arm. I may have squeed when I found out.
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Sytaxia: Life on Mars: Fangirl HQ[info]sytaxia on May 29th, 2008 01:31 am (UTC)
Laura Frasier - love her. She's also John Simm's love interest in the terrible "Forgive and Forget," She's Lavinia in the Julie Taymor directed version of Titus Andronicus with Anthony Hopkins and Alan Cumming, and she's Door in the BBC version of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. And the actor that played Davie McKay in LoM 2.7 was Robbie Coltrane's son in Cracker, too....

Sounds like one of those horrible films that you will admit is bad but that you still love dearly for unfathomable reasons: I've got quite a few of those in my collection, actually...
culf: john simm[info]culf on May 29th, 2008 09:32 am (UTC)
She was in Divorcing Jack and A Knight's Tale as well.
I saw her in Forgive and Forget, and you're right, that movie was pretty terrible.

You must see it!
It's really cliched and stupid, but it just makes you happy. At least it makes me happy. It was what made me fangirl Rupert Penry-Jones many years back, when absolutely no one in Norway had ever heard of him. Actually, they still haven't. Most of Norway don't even know of the existence of John Simm and Philip Glenister.

I couldn't find a trailer on youtube, but check out this vid: http://youtube.com/watch?v=TplZD286_8c
Can you say gratuitous nudity? You should probably stop watching after three minutes, unless you want to get spoiled.
Want me to make it available to you?
Sytaxia: Life on Mars: Sex Ed Class[info]sytaxia on May 29th, 2008 09:34 am (UTC)
Oooh - pretty please? Is there anything that I can make available to you? Have you seen Neverwhere yet?
culf[info]culf on May 29th, 2008 09:43 am (UTC)
I shall, then. I wont be near the DVD for a week, but as far as I'm back home, I shall fix it.
No, I've never seen Neverwhere. Is it any good?
Sytaxia: Sandman: Hope[info]sytaxia on May 29th, 2008 09:48 am (UTC)
It's fantastic! Very, very Gaiman. Basically, there is an entire world beneath London, an underworld of sorts, with people like the RatSpeakers and the Earl of Earl's Court and the order of the Black Friars and the Angel Islington... A man in "London Above," Richard Mayhew, finds an injured girl, Door, on the pavement one day, takes her home and bandages her up a bit, and suddenly, no one knows who he is or notices him, because he's become part of "London Below." He then gets set on a sort of quest to save London Below from an unknown evil that killed Door's family, and that is seeking her because she can open some sort of portal... Also includes the Marquis de Carabas (played by Patterson Joseph, the guy that played the American in "Jekyll") and a Lamia, who sucks out men's body heat, (played by an incredibly young Tamsin Grieg), and Hunter, who, well, is the underground's greatest hunter...

It's very spooky and surreal... Very, very low-budget, though.
culf: Test Card Girl[info]culf on May 29th, 2008 09:50 am (UTC)
It sounds really interesting. I'd love to see it!
Sytaxia: Jonathon Strange & Mr. Norrell[info]sytaxia on May 29th, 2008 09:52 am (UTC)
Added to my to-do list :) I should have it up for download within a day or two.