okay, I think I have a crush . . .

[chelseagirl]

So embarrassing. I was introducing the idea of the male gaze, from Laura Mulvey's "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," to my class today (in connection a feminist crit essay on Marlowe's Doctor Faustus) . . . for my example I was like, "Well, James Bond has always been a male fantasy, with the women presented as sex objects and Bond as a kind of male ideal, but the newest actor is presented as erotic object for the female gaze . . . " and then I blushed. Luckily we meet in a rather dark room.

First I want to fic him having sex with Judi Dench, and then I blush in front of my class. I think I have given in to the charms of Daniel Craig.

Also, caught two of my colleagues (a gay man and a straight woman) giggling about how *cute* Christopher Marlowe was. I love academic fan-girl/boy-ing!

Comments

[cliosfolly.livejournal.com]

Have you read astolat's Queen of Spades? If not, you might like it. It's well-written M/Bond.

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Yes, I've been told about it several times now, and read it, and read the meta, to the point that I'm terrified to write my projected story . . . ;-)

[cliosfolly.livejournal.com]

I guess it stands to reason you've heard about it before--it has to be a pretty high-profile story for me to have read it, given that I've read nothing else in that fandom.

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

When I posted earlier about wanting to fic them, I got several links to it! Of course, then I heard a rumor . . .

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

I knew there was a reason I said, "Now, THIS is a Bond I can get on board with," the first time I saw Daniel Craig play the character. And it's funny, he's the least pretty of all the Bonds. But yeah, what you said.

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Pierce Brosnan is a truly beautiful man, but I don't really find any of the others that attractive. (Maybe Timothy Dalton but I'm not supposed to admit that . . . ) But yeah, Craig is just presented as this total object of desire and . . .

it's working. *fans self*

M. (not Judi Dench) and I were talking about how very many movies we saw Daniel Craig in before he really broke out in Layercake. You just turn around and . . . there he is. M. used to just think of him as "that guy who was in that episode of Sharpe" and I used to say "yes dear" and pretend I remembered what he was talking about.

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

Brosnan, Dalton, and Moore are unabashedly pretty, which is just wrong casting for Bond as written. And I suppose one can be pretty w/o being attractive: for indeed, Lazenby is pretty, but I don't find him attractive. Sean Connery may not be "pretty", but he's a damned sight prettier, esp. in the earlier movies, than the rough trade that is Daniel Craig. And yet it is Craig who is the object of desire. Go figure! I'd have been interested to attend your class.

Did you see this thing he did with Catherine Tate for Comic Relief? He's adorable, she's a hoot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4AgzQvFNZs

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Women definitely respond to men in a less, er, obvious way than viceversa, I'd say. ;-)

Will definitely check out the link -- Catherine Tate and *anyone* is good!

[mortalwombat731.livejournal.com]

Daniel Craig Bond--totally hot.

Christopher Marlowe--smokin' hot. I have a HUGE crush on him.

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

And apparently very squeeworthy. I was just like "you guys are macking on Marlowe, aren't you?" and they were all sheepish and "yeaaaah . . ."

Surely someone must have written Marlowe/Shakespeare slash, what with Marlowe being canonically gay (or bi?) and Shakespeare being canoncially bi . . .

Saw B. at Victorian Seminar last night and we cheered for you! (Felt bad because I was trying to somehow talk to her and Julia-who-I-hadn't-seen-in-ages-either and thank someone from Columbia who'd been going over my job market stuff via email pretty much simultaneously . . . )

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

We've already got our tickets for Friday night at the Ziegfeld. Can't wait!

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well now that my husband is Won't Go to the Movies Guy I'm not sure when I'm actually going to get to see it. With in-laws and then my concert coming up, movie plans are going to be problematic, and I may have to just sneak off on my own over the long Thanksgiving weekend.

[studiesinlight.livejournal.com]

>"I think I have given in to the charms of Daniel Craig."

I saw Quantum of Solace with tv_elf yesterday, and I think I must be the only person -- woman? -- not thus affected by Mr. Craig. Connery's Bond is still the archetype for me, and I'm missing Q, even though Dench's M is definitive, and I'm all for the new Felix.