Please feel free to tell me what is "in" right now so that I know what I’ll be getting into in 2008.
I live perpetually behind the 8 ball.
Case in point. Over the incredibly cold, rainy and miserable holiday weekend, I read Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. I’ve read the 6 HP books in the past 6 months and I’m now up to date on the book that everybody else read last year.
What I discovered is that there are two tales in these books: the story for the kids where Harry is the hero and the story for adults where Snape is the hero, anti-hero, protagonist, etc. In these books good and evil are clearly defined. Overall there’s no mistaking the good guys and the baddies. But smack in the centre of it all, sits the mysterious, endlessly fascinating Snape.
Here I was reading Half Blood Prince enthralled by the story of Snape, his history, the wholeness of his character, his inner conflicts, his insecurity, his deception, his courage, his pain and his sacrifice. And foolishly thinking I was the only person who saw all this.
So I go on the Internet, and whoa, it’s Snapeworld out there. Everybody loves Severus. Essays galore and fan fiction. Adult fan fiction. Very adult fan fiction. About Snape! I blush.
(An aside. Fan fiction. I don’t get it. What’s the point? The first time I ever came across fan fiction was on a web site about the show "Oz" and I thought holy smoke, a lot people like to write pornography about Chris Meloni. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. But I dunno. I still don’t get fan fiction.)
So people write fan fic about Snape. Bondage Snape fan fic. This is just plain wrong.
Apparently a major reason behind all this Snape-appeal comes from the fact that he is portrayed in the movies by the wonderful Alan Rickman. I got no problem with that. I like Alan Rickman as much as the next girl. (Except in Love, Actually, but that’s another post. I didn’t hate Rickman personally in Love, Actually, but god how I hated his character. What a lying so-and-so. Oooh, I’m still mad at him.) But really it’s Snape as he is written in the books, particularly HBP, that I love. So complex and mean and cold and delightful, in all his greasy, miserable, yellow-teethed bitterness. What’s not to love.
7 comments:
here's to snape-love
Fan fiction puzzles me too. Whilst I will watch Chris Meloni from Oz with real purient interest, "Oh boy he's goin' to solitary!" I have no real need to make up pornagraphic stories and put them on the web.
Not totally on the Snape love, but I do see what you mean. I adore Alan Rickman. Truly Madly Deeply! Heh. Don't get me started on Love, Actually. I thought it was a stupid movie, AA loved it. I mean why is Alan Rickman cheating on that nice Emma Thompson? Does he not see he is a sad, sad cliche? Plus why does that guy make such a fuss over Kiera Knightly? I thought he was an ass to act that way over a good friend's wife at all.
Sorry apparently I really hate that movie...
the only good thing about LOVE ACTUALLY are the "billy mack" scenes
(and this comes from a big alan richman fan)
LLJ, you made me laugh out loud with that "oh boy he's going to solitary" remark.
Did he ever do anything else but lie around naked in solitary or hang out in the showers? I can't remember anything else.
Ms Mushrooms, this factoid might be of interest to you.
Apparently, Alan Rickman is good friends with Adrienne Clarkson and visited her when she was at Rideau Hall. Is that weird or what?
I thought Love Actually was just one big cliche - yuk!
Love Alan Rickman as an actor - a 'scenery chewer' one of friends calls him - I think thats a acting term for someone who tends to dominate every scene they're in.
alan richman at rideau hall!!?
"adrienne clarkson presents" indeed
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