Bloom, Wood, Oldman

[Dan Feeney]

Well, well, I'm not taken with pretty boys either, much, being, as it 
were, a so-called heterosexual male, but I did notice a certain 
fascination with the filmic Elijah Wood. This, perhaps, had more to 
do with the fact that he seemed, that is, Jackson's Frodo seemed, 
rather like me, in his concerns and responses and all. To be fair, 
however, Tolkien's Frodo felt that way too. Dare I say it? Frodo was 
my favourite character in LoTR (an amazing confession - everyone else 
just loves legolas or gimli or gandalf or aragorn or bombadil or sam 
or arwen or galadriel or eowyn etc. etc. - it's like, liking Frodo 
too much is childish or something), and any attraction I had to 
Jackson's Frodo was coloured by an already apparent attraction to the 
idea of Frodo, as it were. Though I must confess seeing non-Frodo 
Wood made me realize how tenuous this attraction, not entirely 
without a physical element, was, for Wood is, himself, not attractive 
to me in the least. No doubt it is just easier for me to entertain an 
attraction to a male "character" than to a male person, as it were. 
But there is something about it that isn't quite queer, or rather, 
what queer people I know speak of. It's almost like a body memory of 
myself, somehow, is behind it, an auto-eroticism. Does this make 
sense? I haven't really posted or written anything about this - I 
doubt most of us so-called straight men do think this is worth 
communicating at all, actually. 
But as for Oldman as Sirius - well, he looks pretty Siriusy to me. 
Looks like a man who just escaped from a dementor guarded prison and 
has been living on the lower edge. What would look more Siriusy, i 
wonder...? Really, does anyone have a picture link that might 
indicate what the heck makes Oldman so un-Siriusy? (I don't 
understand.) On Hermione, I think she's a more than a bit too cute. 
Harry looks quite like what I thought Harry would look like. Snape's 
too round, not angular enough, not even close to being sinister 
enough, by about 146 shades of grey. Ron's to0 short. Grint better 
grow, or they'll have to either get someone else (who can act, say) 
or do lots of perspective shooting.

That's it. I feel like I've just walked into the middle of a group of 
women and said something really silly.

danf