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Las ([personal profile] whynot) wrote2004-05-26 04:24 am
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Banky!

I just watched Chasing Amy for the first time.

WAAAAAAAAAAAH BANKY LOVE. BANKY LOVE. FEEL THE BANKY LOVE. I love you Banky LIKE A LOT. BANKY LOOOOVE.

Ahaha. Aww. Banky.

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW BANKYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. I heart you like THIS MUCH. Like just... love. Like heart. Like Ma-Ti from the Planeteers all heart and love and talking to animals and stuff, except for that last one.

BANKY EDWARDS I LOVE YOU A LOT.


LIKE.

"And the time's gonna come when I throw down the gauntlet and say it's me or her, then what are you gonna do?"
"I say you should let this one go."
"No, what would you say? Would you trash twenty years of fucking friendship because you've got some idiotic notion that this chick would even let you sniff her panties, let alone fuck her?"
"Look, fucking asshole, I'm telling you, let it go!"
"What the fuck, man!? What the fuck makes this bitch all that important?"
"'Cos I'm fucking in love with her, okay?"

AND THEN HE JUST GOES QUIET. AND THEN HE JUST LOOKS AT HOLDEN LIKE... AND THEN HE JUST LEAVES. OH MY GOSH HE JUST LEAVES. And the look on his face before he leaves... and... and oh Banky.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

"Everybody has an agenda, alright? Everyone."
"Yourself?"
"My agenda is to watch your back."
"To what end?"
"To ensure that all this time we spent building something isn't wasted."
"Hey, she's not going to ruin the comic."
"I wasn't talking about the comic."

Totally WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

"Since you like chicks, right, do you just look at yourself naked in the mirror all the time?"
XD!, for a change.

And like hey you know that part when he and Holden were arguing? And then Holden shoves him against the wall and is basically all Banky better lay off or he'll put his teeth down his throat? Then Banky says like in this small quiet defiant voice that's like SQUEE, "I'll put your fucking teeth down your throat." And then to an empty room he's like, "I've been working out, you know. You better be ready to make that deal." And I squee some more.

"You make it sound like him and me are dating."
"Don't kid yourself. That boy loves you in a way he ain't ready to deal with."

WAHSQUEE. WAAAAAHSQUEEEEEE. WAHSQUEEWAHSQUEEWAHSQUEEWAHSQUEEWAHSQUEEWAHSQUEEWAHSQUEE. Wahsquee.

Oh hey! And that part when he walked in on Holden and Alyssa. I was just thinking, like just as Banky was unlocking the door I was thinking that if I were writing this, if this was a story I was writing, then I would have Banky just walk back out and not say a word. (Then I was thinking but I wouldn't want to write it, I'd want to act it out, because it would be such an awesome moment to act out, yeah, acting's cool, and lucks ducks are Kevin Smith and Quentin Tarantino for appearing in like all their movies just 'cos they're the big kahuna. What was I saying?)

And what do you know, walking out without saying a word was exactly what Banky did. :)

BUT OH MY GOSH. That scene at the end with the three of them? Banky and Holden and Alyssa? And Holden's just so steadfastly going through his painfully stupid reasoning and his painfully stupid plan, and I really did feel kind of squirmy watching this part because omg Holden can you not be an idiot? It was my embarrassment squick kicking in, but there was such honesty in the scene that I was totally riveted. Holden kept on right on being an idiot, AND THEN. Then when Holden says, "You're in love with me," AND THE LOOK ON BANKY'S FACE. Oh my gosh. If I continue listing my favorite Banky moments, I would end up analyzing this scene to you in minute fucking detail. Everything he does in this scene is just... wah. This scene is a big wahfest. From the broken-sounding, defensive "Sure" to the differently broken-sounding, defensive "Thank Christ" to, like, the way he leans forward and brings his hands up to his mouth, looking all shell-shocked, and then how at the end of everything, he just wordlessly gets up and walks away. Oh Banky. Banky, sweetheart. Banky looks so shell-shocked throughout this scene. It... it makes me go wah. FUCKING BRILLIANT PERFORMANCE.

One of the biggest reasons I love Banky? He just hits all my character kinks, at least in fanfic, particularly slash fanfic. I like Banky-like characters in slash fic. Like, he's a jerk who says jerky things. He's got a moral ambiguity going on, stemming from constantly wanting what's best for himself and what's best for himself and Holden, and also he has gay issues. Hee. Not only that, he has gay issues with his best friend and is in a total snit about it. HEE. And the kind of friendship they have is the kind where they insult each other a fucking lot and get away with it, 'cos they still love each other or whatever. That kind of chemistry appeals to me. AND OH THE DRAMA. OH THE DRAMA. DRAMA.

Alyssa as a character is great. Seriously, there are just no truly awesome female characters like her anymore. There's like, Alyssa Jones, Rayanne Graff from My So-Called Life, and Skylar from Good Will Hunting. I just love characters like them. Fun-loving, free-spirited wild cards with a lot of love to give. There aren't enough female characters like that in the world. I love it when, not only do I not dislike the female protagonist, I actually think she's fucking awesomer than your mother and her dog. Because a lot of female protagonists I see just irritate me. Fuck all that Spice Girls bullshit, man. Alyssa, Rayanne, and Skylar have got it going on, real deal McCoy, fo' sho'. Chicks with moxeh! ...Bridget Jones can be an honorary member of this club, or at least be someone fun to have a drink with on Fridays.

And, oh, by the way, Banky is my heart.

I have to watch Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back again.

...Banky!

...You guys read any good Banky fics lately?

a dearth! a dearth in the family!

[identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com 2004-05-27 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
Ooooh, that makes sense. Stanford movie! Aww. The only other ones of those I watched was Hollywood Ending and 25th Hour. Which so don't count. 'Cos he appears for like fifty seconds in both, like, combined.
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[personal profile] jb_slasher 2004-05-28 11:46 am (UTC)(link)
But at least in the 25th Hour there was Norton. And Pepper. But I haven't seen Hollywood Ending and I'd gladly see it just for two seconds of the Stanfordness but I don't know where to find it. So, I guess I'm not missing much.. yet.

[identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com 2004-05-28 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Naw, I don't think you're missing much either. He says like, "Do you want me to use this gun or this gun?" And then he pretends to ad lib in the background while Woody Allen has a seizure delivers his lines.
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[personal profile] jb_slasher 2004-05-28 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Interesting. Yeah, I think I'd be happy to just see that scene. Yea. I need to see some Stanford thing now, me thinks. Err. I have nothing. ERR.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaron...!

[identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com 2004-05-28 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I have nothing. ERR.
Like. ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR(samehere)RRRRRRRR.

Oh well. We can always just sit here and make sad faces at the world.
Like. :-(.
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[personal profile] jb_slasher 2004-05-28 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Or drool. *sets earlier Aaron!layout as wallpaper. Drooling ensues*