Today I was thinking about Jon Stewart and how much I AM IN LOVE WITH THE GUY, MY GOD. SO MUCH. And then I got to thinking about how the first time I ever saw him he wasn’t on the Daily Show, he was in a movie that I went to see with my best friend in high school, called Playing by Heart, and he was totally making out with Gillian Anderson in it, and it was adorable. Gillian Anderson and Jon Stewart! Both of whom I love to pieces! In the same movie! Making out! I thought the movie was rather over-written and going a little too much for Zeitgeist Emotional Impact all the time in a very 90s way, what with the multiple AIDS storylines and all, (and I hated Angelina Jolie in it. Her character reminded me of several annoying and loud attention-whorish women I’ve known in my life, and I had no sympathy for her and did not see why Ryan Philippe’s character would even be interested in her), but it was worth it just to see Stewart woo Anderson. Oh, and Sean Connery, who was probably my biggest teenage crush, was also in the movie (playing Gillian Anderson’s dad!), so that was great, too.
Anyway. Tonight I went to youtube in search of a clip from the movie with Jon Stewart in it, and look what I found!
Dude! Did you see that? At 0:14! In the ugly vest! It is Ben Linus! Ben Linus is looking on as Gillian Anderson and Jon Stewart tentatively fall for each other! Creepy and awesome at the same time!
I just wanted to share that with you. Oh, and here is the clip where Stewart & Anderson make out to some 90s easy-listening, in case you’re into that sort of thing:
Jeg er ikke decideret i Stewart, men forstår hans appeal. Mit egentlig formål er – naturligvis – afstedkommet af klippet af Ben (hvorfor får hun dog en reol i hovedet? Er det mon et Dharma trick?). Altså, hvad lavede Lost stjernerne egentlig før Lost:
Kate lavede telefonsex:
Ben fik bank af Zorro:
Sayid lavede bollywood dans:
Oh, that’s just too good to be true! And he just can’t look like anyone but Ben Linus can he? With the vest and the glasses and the dry little joke and all. It sort of makes up for the lousy, lousy dialogue in the rest of the clip…
/anna
@ Kåre: Imponerende Lost-relateret research! Stakkels, stakkels Evangeline Lilly. Og ja, jeg er sikker på, at det med reolen må være et Dharma-trick fra Ben Linus’ side. Og hvorfor nævner han straks det med at lægge sag an? Mon ikke han prøver at manipulere psykisk med Anderson & Stewart for at spille dem ud mod hinanden?
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@ Anna, yes, it seems the man was simply born to play Ben Linus, and everything he did before was just a prelude! Also yes, that dialogue… It really is terrible. Terrible and clunky. (“You strike me as someone who’s been burned romantically.” Gee, you think, Trent? What tipped you off? Perhaps the oh-so-subtle line “I just know you’ll turn out to be involved with someone else, or crazy, or gay”?) The writers are shoving their points down our throats, like farmers forcing feed into foie gras geese. Too bad, with a cast like that!