Day 2: Favorite Role–

For Christopher, it’s his role as Nicholas, Duc de Richleau from The Devil Rides Out.  I caught the movie on TCM last Halloween and, ohhh boy, it was creepy and intense, and yet very good.  For me, though, the appeal was in seeing Christopher playing a good guy/hero role, and dealing with a high-stakes situation.

He’s up against a formidable adversary in Mocata, played by Charles Gray (aka Granada’s Mycroft).  And it’s an interesting enmity they have going--Mocata has forbidden magic while Nicholas is basically limited with what he can do in a head-to-head confrontation, so he has to be a guile hero instead, and as Mocata raises the stakes as the movie goes on, Nicholas more or less improvises his way through based on what he knows.

(Also, Nicholas saves two chickens from being offered up as a sacrifice.  Anyone who saves the life of birbs gets bonus points from me automatically.)

For Vincent, I absolutely have to go with Vincent Van Ghoul from The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo.  This is largely out of nostalgia--I was introduced to this character when I was 4 and caught the show on reruns, and my 4-year-old self’s reaction was basically, “Oooh, a warlock!!  And he’s basically adopted the Scooby gang!!”

That was the first and only time I’d seen the series for a while, and about six years later, when I was 10, I had a few memories of the show and the character, and basically took to the internet to see if I’d imagined the whole thing.  Not only did I learn that I had, indeed, seen it, but that was how I found out about Vincent Price, and my reaction then was basically “WHAT?? HE’S REAL!?”

I did manage to rewatch 13 Ghosts a couple times after that, but, last year, two months into lockdown, I rewatched it, and it hit me more than it ever as to just how heartwarming a character Vincent Van Ghoul is--he tries to remain aloof from the Scooby gang, and it lasts all of two episodes before, in episode 3, he flies halfway around the world to bail them out of trouble, which is just the start (eventually, in episode 9, he puts the entire space-time continuum in stasis and has Scooby rewrite the future in order to save the rest of the gang).  And just... the all-around Found Family aspect he has with the gang was exactly what I needed.

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