The "Brit a Day" series

What does a months-long parade of attractive British men have to do with fiction, you might well ask? These gentlemen have inspired some lovely scenes, part of the life I live in my head. Over time, some of these scenes reach out to one another and begin to form a story. For the present, each one of these pictures provides a writing prompt for me, a way to keep me writing with a sense of passion and narrative, even when the stories are not yet fully formed.



Sunday, June 27, 2010

A Brit a Day [#142]

This week I'd like to show off the cast at The Top of Their Game. This will be a thoroughly disorganized and unofficially applied theme as I have not seen each of these actors in every one of their roles. But...

Here is Alan Rickman as Judge Turpin in 'Sweeney Todd'. It was so hard to pick one character as Rickman's top contender. My mind always runs to Rasputin, for which he won an Emmy, and his melancholy/quirky part in 'An Awfully Big Adventure.' But singing "Pretty Women" with Johnny Depp pushed Judge Turpin into the top spot. [Good work on the part of the make-up department here too. Those fingernails make him almost completely disgusting.]

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