Top Fives: Part I

[lesbiassparrow]

1. Jason Bourne. Sure, he wouldn’t be much company what with the manpain and the Marie mourning. But he’d be good at building a log cabin even if he had to gnaw his way through the logs. And fighting bears or assorted other wild animals.

2. Gina, Duchess of Sanseverina from The Charterhouse of Parma. So what if she fell in love with her nephew - she’d be so much fun. And have fabulous frocks.

3. Dionysus. Booze. Leopards. Dancing. All round good times.

4. Queen Maeve. Because she’s bloody amazing and would whip the guys into shape. Even Dionysus.

5. Bertie Wooster + Jeeves. THEY’RE A PAIR, right? Because I would just love to see Bertie interact with Bourne. I bet God’s daisy chain and Eugene Aram (“Tum-tum, tum-tum, tum-tumty-tum, I slew him, tum-tum tum!”) would come up. He’d be useless but entertaining.




1. Capital Scandal (or, as I like to call it: awkward bookshop owners and the playboys who love them). Swing dancing and revolutionaries.
2. Hong Gil Dong. More revolution! Robin Hood in Korean historic times! It does all end sort of badly and I am not always convinced by the heroine but it is quite lovely. And tragic.
3. My Girl. Congirl meets quite nice guy. Plays his grandfather’s long lost granddaughter. Delightful heroine, hero who is, for once, stable, but has a lamentable taste in clothing. Plus girly-man as secondary hero!
4. Spring Waltz. While I still believe that Daniel Henney should have got the girl, I don’t mind too much. Plus I still get pleasure from remembering the hilarious subtitles my DVDs had. (This icon comes from there).
5. What Happened in Bali. I shall never rewatch this as it is too depressing but, boy, it was genuinely good. Plus had the worst kdrama father ever. (And, believe me, if you knew the full competition out there you would be suitably impressed.)




1. Secondary girl in Stairway to Heaven . caerbannog will bear me out on this one: HER EYES WERE CRAZY EYES OF DOOM.
2. Marc Singer as crazy mountain man immortal in Highlander. His crazy eyes were a thing of beauty. BEWARE THE CRAZY EYES
3. Sharukh Khan as Rahul Mehra in Darr. I think the crazy eyes were only fully in evidence when he danced in front of the giant picture of the object of his stalking (while singing of his mother. Or something). But I have never forgotten them.
4. The villain from Oh Darling Yeh Hai India. Especially in the scene where he is menacing the heroine on his revolving bed and there is a snake somehow involved. THE GREATEST SCENE INVOLVING A SNAKE IN ALL OF BOLLYWOOD AND I INCLUDE JOHN ABRAHAM IN KAAL IN THAT.
5. Dramatic prairie dog is dramatic!

Comments

[wistfulmemory.livejournal.com]

I think Jason Bourne is a great pick for a deserted island.

I need to watch Capital Scandal and finish Hong Gil Dong. (I know it ends badly, and I just can't force myself to face the angst that I know is waiting for me there.)

I love the fact that you included Dramatic Prairie Dog on your list of crazy eyes.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Dramatic Prairie Dog is my favourite animal video ever.

You should watch Capital Scandal after Hong Gil Dong. It also has angst but most of the people end up okay. And swing dancing!

[wistfulmemory.livejournal.com]

It makes me wonder if the Prairie Dog did that a lot or if the owner just got really lucky that one day by having a video camera ready.

The thing is, I stopped watching Hong Gil Dong over a year ago, and I'm not sure I'll ever get motivated to finish it. I love swing dancing, and I know the costumes are really nice, so I do have motivation to watch Capital Scandal, but I think both HGD and being in Japan and surrounded by the sound of the Japanese language has turned me off from Korean dramas, a little for a while.

[library-of-sex.livejournal.com]

Dude, Ben Linus on Lost is absolutely King of the Crazy Eyes! He would make up my entire Top 5!

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

He has excellent crazy eyes, but even those would fail against the girl in Stairway to Heaven. Totally mad ALL THE TIME.

[library-of-sex.livejournal.com]

That must be a frightening thing to behold!

[lycomingst.livejournal.com]

Ha, I could totally see inviting Jeeves and Wooster. Bertie for the chatter and Jeeves to manage things. But I'm dubious about Bourne. Yeah, he's energetic and would have that hut up in no time but you know how's he's always saying he wants to be left alone...I think he likes the drama. In no time he'd be saying the monkeys were conspiring against him, giving him dirty looks, saying he caught one about to throw a coconut at him.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

But you'd need him in case wild animals attack or you need to make a car out of spoons or something. And I bet he'd just off and throw things at the monkeys on his own without bothering anyone. And it would be worth it to have him and Bertie interact. Can you imagine it?

[caerbannog.livejournal.com]

I'm scared to think of what the Worst Dad in KDrama must be like. (Especially since he got a mention over the dad from Spring Waltz.) Does he set his kid on fire and back over him with a truck or something?

Capital Scandal and My Girl sound really good. I'll have to look them up.

And proof that Crazy Eyes is indeed Crazy.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

He beats his son pretty much unconscious with golf clubs as he is begging him to leave the girl he loves alone. A real gem.

CRAZY EYES! It is hard to get pictures of her that capture the craziness properly. She remains my favourite insane secondary girl in kdrama.