P.S. I Love You
Starring…
Gerard Butler.
Now I’m sure most of you will be going ‘Who?’.. but some of you - those of you who are the movie enthusiasts and watch modern films, paying attention to their stars, will know Gerard Butler is the one and only, King Leonidas, from Frank Miller’s “300“.
This… IS…. LOVE!
Nope, just doesn’t work does it.
I’m not one to typecast any actor or actress - and I have absolutely no problem whatsoever disassociating previous roles to enjoy new films.
But how do I watch a film when the whole time, I know.. I just KNOW, I’d be sitting there waiting for him to crack out the sword, and yell “TONIGHT, WE DINE IN.. Maricios’ Italian Restaurant my dear”.
There’s simply too many Internet parodies about the Leonidas character. I rarely go a day without seeing one of them.
It was just yesterday I was reading up about the new eSata external HDD’s, when someone in the thread had posted this:
Hilarious.
See the problem is that 300 was so well received by the ‘general masses’ and is so much part of popular culture, like all things popular, its everywhere. So the face of Gerard Butler is permanently a reminder of King Leonidas’ legacy.
While I’ve no doubt he can act a role like this brilliantly - after all, he played the The Phantom in the 2004 version of The Phantom of the Opera, so I’m sure a romantic role would be within the realm of possibility - it would be very difficult to shed the links and watch P.S. I Love You without picking a line, or a scene, where he can be transformed once again into King Leonidas.
Ahh how the Internet has changed our World forever.
Link: P.S. I Love You
Link: Gerard Butler @ IMDB
Kate said,
September 6, 2007 @ 9:42 pm
Ohhh wow!!! It’s a movie!! I have read the book and it’s so sweet! In fact I do remember crying. I’ll have you know that the book is written by Cecelia Ahern, none other than Bertie Aherns daughter (I believe he is the Irish Prime Minister) the same author whose sister is called Georgina Ahern who is married to Nicky from Westlife!!! Ahhh it’s a small world eh!
We have to go see it. Can we can we?
ScottyB said,
September 7, 2007 @ 12:49 am
haha cool that you’ve read the book…
Yeah, I’ll see it with you!
Phanny said,
October 4, 2007 @ 1:41 am
Finally catching up with your blog, Scotty
I have read the book P.S I love you, too! It’s sooooo lovely
Jane m said,
October 5, 2007 @ 7:53 am
I’m a huge Butler fan predating 300. He is extremely versatile in his acting and will not be typecast. However, Leonidas will probably be his culturally defining role simply due to the film’s huge success and wide acceptance just as other actors who are indelibly imprinted on the public’s mind due to one particular role
ie…Clark Gable/Rhett Butler, Faye Dunnaway/Bonnie (and Clyde),Russell Crowe/Gladiator-Maximus, and on and on.
An actor in demand has no trouble avoiding type casting and right now Gerry Butler is in demand big time with about 4 or 5 very diverse films lined up either in post production, filiming, soon to be released or projects signed to do. PSILY is just one of many films we’ll be seeing Butler in in the next two years and rest assured he’ll probably look quite different in all of them - he does that so well.