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One of my friends told me The Count Of Monte Christo was a really good movie that I should see, so I’m watching it now.

Unfortunately I’m not even 10 minutes in and young Guy Pearce’s exquisite face has already driven all hopes of paying attention to the plot from my mind

Oh well

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Rewatching Memento right now, and yes I know the plot is very serious and emotional and intense but literally all I can think of is how lucky it is that a major part of the plot requires Guy Pearce to be shirtless for extended periods of time

Then again, I’ve seen this movie so many times I can afford to not give the plot THAT much attention

Especially when half-naked Guy Pearce is onscreen

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I just finished watching L.A. Confidential. The amount of times I said “Holy SHIT” during that movie is surprising. I haven’t seen a movie that suspenseful in a good while! (Even though I didn’t quite understand it all, the plot was very complicated, but woven together very cleverly.) Damn good movie! (Think of Cooper saying “Damn good coffee!”)

Next weekend, the Guy Pearce marathon concludes (for now) with Lockout- a movie that has space and a snarky, sarcastic asshole with a gun, which means I absolutely have to see it- and Hateship Loveship- it’s on Netflix and it got surprisingly good feedback on IMDB so, eh, why not. The trailer looked like crap but… It’s Guy Pearce so I know there’s at least one good thing about it.

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I watched Factory Girl last night and let me tell you, it was strange watching Guy Pearce play Andy Warhol. In most of his movies I’ve been able to think, say, “That’s Leonard Shelby, that’s Adam Whiteley, that’s” whatever his other characters were named, etc. etc. But seeing him play Warhol, a real-life historical figure I’m fairly familiar with, was so weird, because on one level it was Guy Pearce but on another level it was supposed to be Warhol and I just couldn’t get my mind around it for some reason. Same when I watched a clip from Genius, which has Pearce playing F. Scott Fitzgerald. I saw it more as Guy Pearce playing Fitzgerald than actually Fitzgerald. But I didn’t think of him like that in The King’s Speech, probably because I know nothing about his character as a person/historical figure in that one.

I don’t know how accurate his portrayal of Warhol was (I’m not THAT familiar with him), but I absolutely loved the speech inflections he gave him, that coolly-interested-and-yet-still-detached tone of voice, and I even loved the way he held himself in character- particularly during the art gallery scene when he met Edie, when the guy puts his arm around his shoulders but Pearce/Warhol is standing there clasping his hands, body angled away from the guy. There was something very personally familiar about that body language. And his way of speaking is frighteningly easy to rub off onto me.