and still nicely sociopathic, which should be a disturbing combination, but is really good fun. :-)
I think you just summed up in half a sentence the film, and the fandom, and why I can't stop writing these guys XD
Sands is a very particular kind of killer, because there's always an entire chain of thought behind it, reasons and hassles and consequences. Even when he shoots Belini and the waitress, his first impulse is to cover and BS his way out - I love the way you can see it in him, that snap instant when he realises it can't work and he switches to the killer. There's scope in there for someone to sway him if it was a borderline decision, but only so much.
Poor El. I think it's interesting his response to the murder of the guitar seller, or more the lack of it - he comes out before they can kill any more, but he doesn't ever really react. All I get from him is a feeling of resignation - 'Oh, look, there goes another one.' He's pretty burned out on the whole self-sacrifice thing.
And just generally, thanks! I'm glad you liked the odd little touches of sweetness in there, because you really can't make these guys sweet together - it's all kinds of wrong to try, and Sands would just laugh at the idea of it XD But El's still El, and he has one heck of a romantic streak buried under the enforced cynicism, and I think flashes of that would creep in now and then. They just have to be small ones XD So I'm happy that balance worked for you.
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Date: 2006-11-02 06:38 pm (UTC)I think you just summed up in half a sentence the film, and the fandom, and why I can't stop writing these guys XD
Sands is a very particular kind of killer, because there's always an entire chain of thought behind it, reasons and hassles and consequences. Even when he shoots Belini and the waitress, his first impulse is to cover and BS his way out - I love the way you can see it in him, that snap instant when he realises it can't work and he switches to the killer. There's scope in there for someone to sway him if it was a borderline decision, but only so much.
Poor El. I think it's interesting his response to the murder of the guitar seller, or more the lack of it - he comes out before they can kill any more, but he doesn't ever really react. All I get from him is a feeling of resignation - 'Oh, look, there goes another one.' He's pretty burned out on the whole self-sacrifice thing.
And just generally, thanks! I'm glad you liked the odd little touches of sweetness in there, because you really can't make these guys sweet together - it's all kinds of wrong to try, and Sands would just laugh at the idea of it XD But El's still El, and he has one heck of a romantic streak buried under the enforced cynicism, and I think flashes of that would creep in now and then. They just have to be small ones XD So I'm happy that balance worked for you.