Dating the enemy in Persopolis

[alias_sqbr]

Not feeling at all review-y but I keep meaning to post about these. So:

A review I did of the graphic novel Persepolis. Very good autobiography of a girl growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.

Also I finally got around to watching the 90s movie Dating the Enemy. I have a major soft spot for body swap/change stories, especially genderswap, but it is so often done badly I've kind of given up on the genre. This isn't a fantastic film (the writing/directing etc is...ok. For an aussie film. From the 90s) but it did manage to have some clever/insightful touches, and most importantly made the central couple's differences largely a function of who they were as people rather than their gender. Also the characters have a refreshingly fluid attitude to their sexuality for a mainstream film :)

Hmm. Dating the Enemy and Wives and Daughters are about the only two romantic movies/tv shows with a female science nerd lead I can think of (And no Roxanne, The world is not enough and any other films with hot "physicists" don't count :P) There need to be more!

Comments

[livelurker.livejournal.com]

NCIS? Ok, Abby's not a lead, but is a major character...

[alias_sqbr]

Abby is cool, but I specifically mean the lead in a romance. (I'm not sure I made that very clear)

[livelurker.livejournal.com]

Scully?

[alias_sqbr]

Maybe, I never got past one or two episodes of X-files so can't say :)

[mothwentbad.livejournal.com]

Huh, Persepolis looks crazy have to see.

[alias_sqbr]

It's pretty good.

[loic.livejournal.com]

I think the book is far better than the movie.

[nephron.livejournal.com]

I have Persepolis 2: the story of a return if you want to borrow it. I bought both from Amazon some time ago.

[alias_sqbr]

Oooh. Should I ever see you again in person in any organised way, I would greatly appreciate borrowing it :)

[kadeton.livejournal.com]

Bones has a female scientist lead.

[alias_sqbr]

That's true. Does she get a decent romantic plotline? I never managed to get into the show.

[kadeton.livejournal.com]

The entire show is an excuse for romantic tension between her and her partner. :)

[greteldragon.livejournal.com]

That is true. Don't forget the hilarious dialogue though.

The show is actually very cute in that the male lead is a very catholic romantic, with a child. While the lead woman, very firmly believes in more casual relationships for sex (to deal with biological 'imperatives') not in one true love or anything romantic.

[alias_sqbr]

Huh. Maybe I should give it another go, all I saw was the pilot.

[baby-elvis.livejournal.com]

Oh, I loved Persepolis, but also found it very upsetting - such horrors and sadness. thank you for reminding me of the film, which I had completely forgotten about.

[alias_sqbr]

Apparently it's quite good, too.

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

Dating the Enemy - Guy Pierce reading New Scientist - WIN!

[alias_sqbr]

That was pretty cute :)

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

Samantha Carter, again, and again, and again? ;)

[alias_sqbr]

Heh, technically yes :) I do love her little physics expositiony scenes.

[kitsune-iii.livejournal.com]

Yay Elizabeth Gaskell! I liked Wives and Daughters and North and South enough that I'm trying Cranford on Audiobook. I'll let you know how I go...

[alias_sqbr]

Cool! I must get around to reading them, adaptations are all well and good but they're not the original.

[kitsune-iii.livejournal.com]

I read North and South, but only got as far as the TV series of Wives and Daughters. Just being lazy, I guess...

[alias_sqbr]

No, no, you're just saving it for a special occasion :)