Sexiness. In General.

[lord1912 <Lord1912@juno.com>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "charisjulia 
<charisjulia at h...>" <charisjulia at h...> wrote:

> Wendy wrote:
> > I won't go so far as to say that evil=sexy. But evil characters 
can 
> > certainly be incredibly sexy. Lucius Malfoy comes to mind.

I just about melted in my seat when Lucius first appeared on 
screen.  But I was primed to do so, because Jason Isaacs was the one 
playing the role.  It was the fact that Jason would be playing 
Lucius in the first place that got me started on Potter fandom. (It 
was to my delight to discover that I would have liked the 
Potterverse, with or without Jason, though, but it *was* Jason who 
made me take the first look.)  I first fell for Jason as Colonel 
William Tavington in The Patriot, who was another magnificent 
bastard.
 
> Which seems to be the accepted position of the list. Whether 
people 
> crush on Crouch Sr, Jr, Lucius Malfoy, Draco, Tom Riddle or 
Rookwood 
> (Really. I ask you!) it's always the bad guys who get the girls. 

It isn't just the badness; if a bad guy is butt ugly, then we can 
boo hiss them along with everyone else.  It's the gorgeous bastards 
that get us going.  If it had been Jason Alexander instead of Jason 
Isaacs playing Lucius, women all over the planet would most 
definitely not be having this droolfest over "Luscious Lucius".


And, 
> well, let's face it, even Lupin and Sirius owe their sizable 
> followings mainly to their more, err, "bad" qualities. Werewolf. 
> Escaped half--crazed prisoner. Edge. Hot—Headedness.  Evilness
is 
> intriguing, interesting, * naughty* and therefore -- Sexy.

You mustn't forget Severus Snape here, who is the second most sexy 
character after Lucius in my opinion.  He's an ambiguous character, 
which is eminently irresistible.  And, of course, the wonderfully 
sexy Alan Rickman is the one who makes Snape so attractive.  

What makes the bad guys and the ambiguous ones so hot is that these 
men play by their own rules, they are not part of the "herd 
mentality", they allow us women to indulge our own "bad girl" 
fantasies, and so on.  Well written bad guys are usually so 
multifacted and that is irresistible.
> 
> 
> Charis shakes her head sadly... "So tell me please: am I really 
the * 
> only* female on this list that does not find evilness Ever So 
Sexy? 
> Is there nobody else out there? No—one???" <begins to look 
seriously 
> worried> "I mean, is there something wrong with me? There is, 
isn't 
> there? Am * I* the one who's sick? Twisted? Bent? Because I really 
> don't and never have liked the bad guys of any sort in any way. 
They 
> don't do anything for me. But goodness on the other hand
 Now, 
ohhh
 

"Wholesome" (ick!) guys don't do a thing for me.  A lot of teenage 
girls loved Heath Ledger, who played Gabriel in the Patriot, who was 
the typical blond haired, blue eyed, wholesome, golly gee whiz type 
of good guy.  I just saw him as a cute little boy and to entertain 
lustful thoughts about such a character would be like doing so about 
one's kid brother.  Ick!
 
> No seriously though. I like goodness. And I mean that I * like * 
like 
> goodness. Kindness turns me on. I get horny over politeness. Err, 
can 
> I put this more bluntly?

Well, one thing with me that gets me going about some bad guys, is 
the one who is a total bastard to the rest of the world, but who 
saves the good parts of himself for his significant other and any 
children and other family they might have.  

I like well rounded characters, either bad or good.  Cardboard 
cutout, one note heroes or bad guys fall flat.  To use the Patriot 
again, Mel Gibson played the hero, but one with a very questionable 
past.  There is one scene in the movie where after Tavington kills 
his son and takes the other prisoner, Mel goes after the ones who 
have Gabriel in custody, with two other sons, both preteens.  He 
ends up hacking one soldier to bits, long after he is dead and no 
longer a threat to anyone....and in full view of his two young sons, 
who end up having nightmares about seeing their father covered from 
head to toe in blood hacking away.  And this is the hero?  
Tavington, the "bad guy", kills quickly and efficiently as a means 
to and end and has to compunctions doing so, but never do you see 
him "getting off" on it.  In many ways, these two characters were 
two sides of the same coin, which was one of the factors that made 
this movie so compelling.
> 
> 
> So. I don't suppose I'd get a roaring trade if I started marketing 
> Arthur Weasley thongs, would I? 

<Ghaaaaaaaaackkkkkkkk!>
> 
> 
> Sigh. No, didn't think so.

No buyer here.


Lady Tavington-Malfoy