On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Richard Baker wrote:

>Kim said:
>> Chow Yun Fat?
>
>Oooh. Or perhaps he could be the head Swiss Guard and we could get some
>scarily intense old dude as the Cardinal. Or maybe Sean Connery?

Sean Connery's getting on a bit - maybe Harrison Ford (old, but still
got a bit of life left in him).

>> Seeing as they're quite short tracks and we want a mega long sequence
>> of epic proportions, may as well just use the first half of _twilight
>> to starlight_.
>
>"Thirty-three", "In the arms of sleep" and "1979" might be a bit odd;
>and of course there's "XYU" a bit later too... 

Nothing wrong with odd =)

>> All the action would have to be timed to the music , as
>> in the abbatoir bit in _Blade_. It also must be a struggle to hold the
>> fort (which holds the world destroying relic) until the sun rises
>> (signalled by the uplifting chords of _Thru the Eyes of Ruby_).
>
>Ah yes, I'd forgotten the world-destroying relic. How lax of me.

It has to be activated by the blood of a virgin too. Hence
entirely-necessary-to-the-plot bit where heroine is, er, y'know...

>The rising water level forcing the vampires to redouble their attacks on
>the good guys... the clock ticking down towards apocalypse... the bit
>where Leo gets eviscerated... Rutger striding forward through a hail of
>bullets... a pall of smoke hanging over the ship... the sea a
>conflagration of flaming entrails...

... one really long panning shot following a soldier running bravely
through all the carnage, ducking swords, leaping over carcasses,
sidestepping lances, and finally diving in front of a bullet to save his
leader.

>Or maybe we could have one of those ultra-cheap, late night shows on
>Channel Four. Just us and Lauren Laverne or someone talking about
>eviscerations and gunfights and exploding vampires and showing clips of
>"Iron Chef" and "Chile's Most Notorious Serial Killers" and Cambodian
>sit-coms and Korean Death-Pop videos to a total audience of about
>seventeen people.

Yep. It'd be 'cult'.

-Kim Randell

ROU Why is 'eviscerated' such a satisfying word?

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