I just finished watching the first 3/4ths of 2005 version of Pride and Prejudice. Quite presentable. It gives me hope someone, someday, can make a two-hour version of Jane Eyre that presents the book as a three-part epic of morality instead of a love story.
One odd thing struck me. For at least an hour I tried to think of why the actor who played Darcy was so familiar. And then it struck me, without ever having met the gentleman, he was doing a dead-on impression of a co-worker. [Co-workers name withheld. -Ed. *] Uncanny how a British actor an ocean away could mimic every gesture and glance of a computer programmer in Saint Louis. This is not to say the programmer in question is proud, or prejudiced, or less than “amiable,” just that by some coincidence a stranger has managed to impersonate him.
Then, I recalled this isn’t the first time I’ve seen this happen. Remember my Reds and pay careful attention to Jack Nicholson’s portrayal of Eugene O’Neill. Spooky.
This is on my mind because I have heard, on two entirely independent occasions, that there is something about Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada that reminds viewers of me. Now, in my twenties and thirties I heard I physically resembled Meryl Streep, at least in the opinion of drunk men in dark bars. It was only when I laughed, evidently, and when she appeared dowdy and brunette in the Dingo Ate My Baby movie, which I am sure has a name but I already have enough IMDB links in this post. At any rate, everyone now protests I don’t look at all like Meryl (ah, I age, she doesn’t) but there’s just something about her mannerisms in The Devil Wears Prada that remind them of me.
I doubt this is a good thing. I may have to dismiss these people with a wave of my hand.
*Snort of wild self-amusement.
4 responses to “Nature to Advantage Dressed”
10 points just for saying “The Dingo Ate My Baby.”Awesome.
While watching the Canadian TV show “Slings & Arrows” I couldn’t get past the nagging feeling that I *knew* the lead actor. I kept watching him more and more closely trying to figure out how I might know him, and I even looked up his IMDB page, but I still couldn’t figure out why I had this feeling. About a week or so after finishing the S&A series, I realized that the lead actor looked incredibly like a local actor-friend of mine. So much like him that they could be brothers, I swear!
Six degrees of separation, Queen M. When I was in my 20s, complete strangers would tell me I looked like Meryl Streep. (wierd Twilight Zone music here).
I snort with you.