Know why I never post on fandomsecrets? I like sharing my shame.

[amanuensis1]

From the trailer, I wanted rather badly to see this film:



...and then I learned the one on the right is not a boy. Now I'm no longer interested.

Migod, could I get any more shallow.

Comments

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

They're not two girls?

[aquila1nz.livejournal.com]

Nooooo!

Actually Eli is a boy - a castrated one. You have to see this film, I've seen it twice, it is brilliant! I guarantee you will love it.

[noveltynovelist.livejournal.com]

I still want to see that movie anyway, not just because it's Swedish and about vampires, but because I was promised violence. Bloody, bloody violence.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

But they say he's a girl in all the summaries??

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Boy and a girl, so the summaries say. (The blond's the boy)

[pennswoods.livejournal.com]

According to the book this based on, the one on the right is a boy. In the film, this is never stated directly, but the one on the right explains several times to the other that "I am not a girl."

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Hee, you're comfortable with your genres!

(Why isn't Phoenix Wright a movie? Why do I have to PLAY it to get all the goody?)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Whoa, I'm starting to get interested again! Why do all the summaries of this film say the character's a girl?

[ladysorka]

Eli actually is a boy.

He/She (I'm honestly not sure on pronoun) has just been castrated. There's a brief scene were we see the results of this as Oskar looks through a door and watches Eli dress. Eli is played by a female actress, though.

So. Yes.

[vissy.livejournal.com]

It actually still seemed quite slashy to me, in that unconventional relationship-type way.

[ladysorka]

A lot of the reviews seem to have interpreted the "I'm not a girl" to mean "I'm a vampire."

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Ha, if I hadn't seen the email comment notification for this I wouldn't have realized you had hidden text in this comment!

Well, guess what's going back on my Netflix list right NOW, then!

[pennswoods.livejournal.com]

Probably because they haven't read the book and are relying on the clothing that the character, Eli, wears as well as the fact that the character is being portrayed, I think, by a female.

I just saw this film last week, and I think it's quite easy to see Eli as a long-haired unkempt boy in cast-off clothing, some of which may be rather unusual for a boy to wear. But he is a rather unusual boy.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I won't argue how "unconventional relationship" doesn't always equal "slashy" for me because you've seen it and I haven't and I can see how that would work.

From what I'm being told, though, the character actually IS a boy, so I want to see it now!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Watching the trailer I never though for a moment it was anything except two boys, which is why the summaries startled me.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Oh, I could see how that could happen. Is Eli a female name in Swedish?

[noveltynovelist.livejournal.com]

... I'm not sure what you were referring to?

(I have no idea, but that would probably turn out better than all the Death Note fail. I think most people can figure out the cases right off the bat and I just played for the sweet lulz. Oh, Phoenix. I love how even a Nintendo game has porn. It gives me faith in humanity.)

[ariadneelda.livejournal.com]

Oh, you have to see it! It's a great movie, dark and twisted and very, very slashy. I was confused about Eli's gender till the end and let me tell you I was disappointed, too, thinking he was a girl. But then I found out that in the book (which I haven't read) Eli is a boy and I was happy. *g*

[vissy.livejournal.com]

Wait, that's a boy? I could've sworn from the movie that it was a girl.

"Unconventional relationship" doesn't always equal "slashy" for me either, but I did find that this movie fell into that ever-shifting overlap area of my id that pings for certain values of mmmyes.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Oh, I just meant you know what you like--bloody horror, all that. ^_^

I just can't make time for games--they'd take all my attention, and I'm anal about doing everything in order (had a total shit fit when the S.O. picked up one of my Crash Bandicoots and went on TO THE NEXT LEVEL WITHOUT MASTERING THE BONUS THINGIES ON THE FIRST LEVEL. I gave him all kinds of HOW CAN YOU DO THAT hell).

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

If I can go into it knowing that, yes, it's a boy, I'm gonna be happy.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

certain values of mmmyes

That should be someone's journal title. ^_^

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

But if I were writing those summaries I would be all vague about it! "the lovely Eli" "the mysterious neighbor Eli" Not "a beautiful but peculiar girl, Eli"!

[breakism.livejournal.com]

LOL, the actress who plays that character is a girl, but the character is a boy who dresses like a girl, because he was castrated.

And the movie is great.

[noveltynovelist.livejournal.com]

I'm a total sucker for B-horror/sci-fi buckets of blood flicks. Off the top of my head, Lady Frankenstein? Fucking genius. The tagline was: ONLY THE MONSTER SHE MADE COULD SATISFY HER STRANGE DESIRES! That's comedy gold waiting to happen.

Haha, I'm the same way. I don't want to BEAT the game, I want to COMPLETE it, and lord help the poor sod that fucks up my save. XD