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We in England are simply aghast. Please stop chopping off all those heads. (And then we could say - what? 'Best Wishes', etc etc?)I'm such a latecomer, but I needed to try my hand at that Demmed Elusive Pimpernel.
The best thing I like about Percy Blakeney is that he is completely as arrogant and smug as the facade he puts on. We all know it really.
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Why is there no one imagining the Pimpernel vs. The Black Tulip (Alain Delon)?
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oohhh god. Scarlet Pimpernel, my childhood hero. ;w;
You capture him beautifully, and yes, we all know he's as arrogant and smug as he pretends to be as Sir Percy.
(I also need to read the first four books again, cause I miss Percy. ;^; )
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Thank you!! Yes, you do need to get on those books again! Me too, actually, it has been a while since I've read any Pimpernel as well.
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I love Percy. I used to think of him as the swashbuckling hero that would come and save me when I was having a nightmare. But I was like... seven years old. what was I supposed to know about fictional characters being fictional? XD
*goes to library to get more Pimpernel*
Wait. I can just ask my mom to bring them from home. :T What am I thinking? xD
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Stupid fictional characters not being real. He is a proper swashbuckling hero though
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Ohhh, yes, he is.
I wish my favorite fictional characters were real... ffff....
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This captures the personality beautifully!
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'Smug'...well, you've pretty much captured that perfectly. Looks pretty good to me!
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(gasp gasp gasp) TOO. MUCH. AWESOMENESS. 
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haha, thank you! Yeah, I love the bits with Perce and Chauvelin, Percy is so silly!
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lol, sometimes! 
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Oh Percy, you fabulous, magnificent bastard. He's such a fop, he's one of my biggest literary crushes. This picture is just so him.
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Haha, "magnificent bastard". Best description of Sir Percy EVER.
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I stole it from my former Prime Minster, as they said "his supporters had to admit he was a bastard, and his enemies had to admit he was magnificent". I always liked that one.
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sink me, simply spectacular. quite a good portrait, from one sp fan to another
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Indeed! There isn't enough!
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*dies quietly in a corner from lack of oxygen, possibly due to laughter*
I must admit, this line in the play had me rolling -- though "our" Percy had his back to the audience when it was said. I wish he'd been facing us, for I can totally see this expression on his face during the delivery.
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Well I pretty much imagine his expression would just be smug and annoying (but in a really hillarious way!) Oh, Percy.
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COMMENTING AGAIN B/C THAT CRACKED ME UP SO MUCH.
"BEST WISHES?? LIKE IDK GUYS HOW DO WE PUT THIS?"
Oh my God everyone in that play was so good looking. If I ever see it with a different cast they had better be just as pretty if not prettier.
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Yeah I knew you would like that bit. He's so sarcastic and mean sometimes, I love it.
And then before The Creation of Man when Elton says he likes the silly outfits:
"It's quite... summery"
[pause] "Elton, you frighten me sometimes".
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LOL That was amazing! That actor had awesome deliveries on all of his lines.
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He does some great improv too. Like in that one, he drops his cane ("sometimes they have a personality all their own"). And there's a bit during The Creation of Man when somebody accidently drops their hankerchief and he goes to pick it up and gives him such an amazing feigned look of disappointment, it cracked me right up.
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I know! I was like, "This is why I love stage acting." He totally stole the show.
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Is he in heaven? Is he in hell? That demmed elusive Pimpernel?
Thank you for bringing this piece of awesome into the world. Not enough Scarlet Pimpernel in the world.
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I hope you realise this means you must bring some Pimpernel-themed awesome into this world now.
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I'll get to work on Chauvelin then. I always love a good villain.
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Yay, Chauvelin is my favourite
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He is a hottie. <3
Never got around to reading this one, either, though at the moment I'm determined to read Hunchback. I miss the huge amount of time I spent reading Les Mis and I need more Victor Hugo in my life. Me and my friends watched Disney's Hunchback to ring in the New Year (alongside WALL-E, which I now cannot stop watching) I KNOW IT'S RANDOM LOL. I think we all love Frollo just a little bit. We called him Froyo, like Frozen Yogurt...
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Well I've actually just finished the first one - it's not very long at all. You should get around to reading it sometime though! Or just watch the musical LOL.
But yes, read Hunchback! It's one of my favourites. And you'll appreciate the film even more (like that is even possible in any way shape or form).
Frollo is amazing because of Tony Jay, he's my hero.
OH MAN, and, I spent christmas watching WALL-E, what a cute film.
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Wall-E is the bomb. So is Tony Jay. If the two were ever together crazy things would happen.
As soon as I get a free minute I'm totally raiding the library of all things Hunchback.
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Excellent. XD The smug expression on his face is just perfect. I really want to get around to reading this sometime soon. >.<
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I've only just started it. But I want to finish The Count of Monte Cristo before I start anything else really, and also I need to finish The Three Musketeers too (darned Dumas). I know you know how that feels
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Unfortunately. DX I just never got a liking to the story. The Count of Monte Cristo sounded interesting; it also happens to be sitting in my "Needs to Be Read" pile. How is it?
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It's good, but I'm a lousy reader and I honestly haven't touched it since I went to Paris which was like 5 months ago or something. I absolutely love the french mini-series with Depardieu so I guess I'm also projecting some of that into the book as I read, which probably isn't good.
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Depardieu rocks. 
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He's a great actor. And, in a weird kind of way, he was quite a looker way back in the day, especially in those older Francis Veber films (particularly in Les Fugitfs)!
It was great, I went to Disneyland as well. Reckon I could have benefitted from knowing a bit more French though... the only phrase I perfected was: "je ne parle pas francais" lol.
Oh and "une biรจre, s'il vous plaรฎt" of course
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I agree! I've seen him in a few things, and he was fantastic.
Aw, I haven't been to a Disney World since I was seven. You're lucky. 
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Ah, languages in general fail me. I did a bit of Italian when I started uni but I was so terrible at it.
It was the first time I'd been to Disneyland so it was exciting, but I couldn't at all walk that day because, stupidly, I killed my feet the day before walking all around Paris hunting out Hugo-related locations!
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I seem to catch on fairly quickly, but I utterly fail at speaking them. DX
Where all did you manage to go?
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I basically went everywhere, but I was cocky! I tried to walk most places when I should have used the metro - or just spread the hunt out over a few days instead of doing it all in one!
I wrote a couple of long and boring accounts though.
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The drowning sign was priceless. And you can order a beer at McDonald's? Seriously? That's wicked. I would go to Paris just to see that myself. XD All of them were lovely pictures!
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Yeah, I know. I did know you could, but I loved being able to do it anyway.
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