#rushies

On to sketch #6 in my GR Sketch-a-thon challenge, where I’m counting down to Geoffrey Rush’s 70th birthday in July by trying to doodle as many of his roles as possible: this is another request from a Rushie friend of mine: here’s Inspector Javert from “Les Miserables” (1998, dir. Bille August).

I have a slightly love-hate relationship with this role because Geoffrey nearly didn’t accept the role of Walsingham in “Elizabeth” because he had just played Javert and he felt the parts might be too similar. I would like to say I’d never forgive Javert for this, but if Geoff hadn’t played Wals, I may never have fallen down another leg of the trousers of time and become a fan of his since Wals was my entry point, so I would probably never have watched this film, or discovered Geoff’s work. The horror. But I digress...

I’m not a big fan of Les Mis, it’s a bit of an overlong shuffle-along movie, but I have no quarrels with Geoff’s Javert. (Apart from the fact he nearly prevented my Walsingham from existing. Let’s not get me started again.)

The previous sketches in the “Countdown to the Big 7-0″ so far:

Stephen Price (House on Haunted Hill, 1999)

Leon Trotsky (Frida, 2002)

The Marquis de Sade (Quills, 2000)

Harry Pendel (Tailor of Panama, 2001)

David Helfgott (Shine, 1996)

I’m at sketch #7 in my GR Sketch-a-thon challenge, where I’m counting down to Geoffrey Rush’s 70th birthday in July by trying to doodle as many of his roles as possible: here’s a rather bedraggled Virgil Oldman from nearer the end of  “The Best Offer” (2013, dir.Giuseppe Tornatore). That film breaks my heart but he puts in a sensational performance. 

I decided to do something different with the colours so we’re all blue today, but thought I’d post the basic sketch as well. I need to work on da nose but this turned out alright for a spur-of-the-moment doodle! I have a list of chars to do next after further banter with one of my old-skool Rushie pals on Twitter, so expect some of the late nineties/early noughties crowd next.

And the previous sketches in the “Countdown to the Big 7-0″ so far:

Inspector Javert (Les Miserables, 1998)

Stephen Price (House on Haunted Hill, 1999)

Leon Trotsky (Frida, 2002)

The Marquis de Sade (Quills, 2000)

Harry Pendel (Tailor of Panama, 2001)

David Helfgott (Shine, 1996)

Here’s the first of my planned sketches for my GR big 7-0 countdown. I hope to do one for each of his many film/TV roles (though perhaps not the really obscure ones), and I may squeeze in some theatre roles if I can. This is ofc Rush as David Helfgott in “Shine” (1996), the film role which landed him an Oscar and catapulted him to international stardom.

I’ve found it guys, the moment I became a Rushie and a Walsie Girl. The date was January 25th 2006  and this was my Live Journal entry:

I've had a "spring clean" of my LJ user pictures and have deleted about 15 or 20 or them; I have too many that I don't ever use, so off they've gone. I've added a few new ones, too - my default one is a plain Jurious one, with paws walking all over it, (isn't it cute?), and I've added four of Geoffrey Rush's Sir Francis Walsingham from the Elizabeth 1998 film. Why? Because I re-watched the movie yesterday and fell in love with the guy! ^_^ LOL. Forget Norfolk, Walsingham rocks! It just didn't quite hit me as to how "Vetinari-ishly" awesome he was till now! An assassin, seducer, protector of the Queen and spy-master all in one. I look forward to seeing how they portray Walsingham in the second part of the BBC drama on Sunday. (He won't be as cool and attractive as Rush's Sir Francis, though, I'm sure...) I really need to do some research on the real Walsingham... Along with everything else on my to-do, to-read, and to-get-bloody-well-finished list. ^_^ Oh, and it was three years since I first publish "Eclipse" to the Fanfic.Net on Monday! Three damn years!

This is the best thing about having had an LJ, I can literally time travel and go, “Oh look, “The Virgin Queen” was on TV, I was still in “Discworld” mode because I compare Walsie to Vetinari, Eccleston was out and Rush was in, and it was only 3 years since I’d started writing that God-awful “Star Wars” fanfic of mine...” 

This does mean I have missed my “Rushie-fan-versary” of 15 years... I  could have had a child as old as that! Lol. But fandom is my baby, ofc.