Because Everything Reminds Me of Saiyuki
Sep. 17th, 2007 11:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chomijiIt's probably just me, but somehow, everytime I see a still of Jodie Foster in her new journalist-turned-vigilante flick The Brave One, she seems to be channeling her inner Sanzo - at least enough that she could do a helluva job cosplaying him ... .
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Separated at birth, perhaps?
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Date: 2007-09-17 03:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-17 03:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-17 04:00 pm (UTC)But yes, I see your point in the second set...
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Date: 2007-09-17 04:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-17 05:25 pm (UTC)This is something that could be seen on the FHM magazine's lookalike page^^
wow
Date: 2007-09-17 06:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-17 07:16 pm (UTC)This is what happens when you let your reading material cross-pollinate ... I was reading Newsweeks's review of the movie in the can, where there's a stack of manga, and I stared at the pic of her (it was the one on the lower-right in my display here), went "Huh?," and grabbed Saiyuki Reload vol. 7. Gee - not identical, but ... .
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Date: 2007-09-17 07:40 pm (UTC)She looks like his long-lost sister ... why should Gojyo and Hakkai be the only ones with relatives?
The Inner Sanzo is very useful. I can speak very patiently and politely to people who are being stupid because inside my head, Sanzo is growling "Waste of skin ... that's a pretty tacky decoration, your head ... hey, Team Braintrust ... !" and taking care of all that sort of thing for me.
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Date: 2007-09-17 07:52 pm (UTC)The pic I would have really wanted to use as a comparison to her with the gun was the one in the original Saiyuki, in the Kami-sama arc, where the other three have finally turned back to get Gojyo. He's about to get seriously pwned by Kami-sama when the others burst through the doorway, with Sanzo in the front sneering "You pathetic little tart!" at Gojyo. His expression would have been more like hers in that one ... .
It's kind of spooky how young she looks ... I keep feeling that there's an ooky, aged-looking portrait of her stashed away somewhere .... .
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Date: 2007-09-18 02:26 am (UTC)It must be all that time I spent making some Sanzo icons recently - his face is branded in my brain!
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Date: 2007-09-18 02:31 am (UTC)I never heard of that magazine before! I'm glad I waited to look it up here at home - even Wikipedia's article about it had a photo of a curvaceous girl wearing not much ... !
People magazine, which I get from time to time, does that type of feature too.
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Date: 2007-09-18 02:34 am (UTC)Well, maybe a little! Actually, I think it's kind of fun ... I like looking at kids and their parents and other relatives, seeing where their features come from. This is just more of the same!
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Date: 2007-09-18 05:11 am (UTC)Well, it is a men's magazine, mostly centered around girls, so those girls kinda belong on the cover, but at least it's tasteful pictures.(on both magazines, BTW)
People Mag has it too? I think it's a feature that should be more used, since it's always fun^^
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Date: 2007-11-19 02:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-20 03:49 am (UTC)Hee! Someone's reading my back catalog! I'm so tickled ...!
Yeah, that was a shocker! "Why does this 45-year-old Western actress look just like Saiyuki's pissy ice princess, Sanzo?"
(I like that icon, but like so many of them, I wish people knew more about font selection and handling. The image and choice of text are excellent, but the font doesn't do much for them.)
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Date: 2007-11-20 04:45 pm (UTC)You're very welcome.
And SO HOT as well! I love seeing actresses like that who age and just get more and more attractive. And then I tell myself that I have whatever look-hot-at-whatever-age genes they do.
This is actually the first icon I found with Sanzo that I was like... wow, pretty... and apropos text! What about the font gets you? What would you have chosen? I have to admit, the main thing that bugs me is when the text is really unreadable, or actively ugly.
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Date: 2007-11-22 01:25 am (UTC);-) There are moments when it's a challenge to look at myself in a mirror, I gotta say ... .
Re the font: the artist actually had room to go up a point size or two, or to use a slightly greater letter spacing, either of which would have made the text more readable. Also, a font with strong verticals like that can fall down where it has diagonals, at that small a size - as this one does, with those lowercase w's.
Oddly enough, my PC at work (the one that died, anyway) had better font-handling in Photoshop than this Mac does. I thought it was supposed to be the other way around. It may be the versions of some of the fonts that are the issue. There are some reasonable sites for downloading free fonts on the web, and icon makers ought to experiment a bit more to find fonts that work well at small sizes.
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Date: 2007-11-22 04:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-21 05:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-21 09:49 am (UTC)at a movie theater, and it immeadiately reminded me of Sanzo.
The friend who was with me was a bit bemused thought, when I
started frothing at the mouthexplained it to her XDno subject
Date: 2008-03-21 11:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-22 12:55 am (UTC)Hee! Someone's poking through the back-catalog ... that always makes me happy.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. XD When I first posted it, most of my friends were either too logical to get excited or not Saiyuki fans and so didn't really get it!
(Oh ... on the off-chance you were looking for fic ... it's all on opalmatrix.)
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Date: 2008-03-22 01:25 am (UTC)I'm so glad it's not my imagination alone!
XD
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Date: 2008-03-22 01:27 am (UTC)Isn't it wonderful when real life gets almost as crack-filled as manga?
XD
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Date: 2008-03-24 01:58 pm (UTC)Cheers!
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Date: 2008-03-24 10:35 pm (UTC)Oh, it was definitely a little unreal! Glad you enjoyed it ... ;-)