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Coming on the heels of my most recent Joe Dick obsession (I went through this for months after seeing HCL the first time as well), ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vagabondage loaned me the original Hard Core Logo book the movie was based on to read, since I hadn't before. And it's interesting. It's different in many ways from the movie that was made from it. And I'm kind of pondering my reaction to it, because...okay, I actually like Joe as a person more in the book than I do in the movie. But I don't love him with the ferocity that I love movie Joe, who I don't very much like. I'm trying to figure out why, and I think it comes down to book!Joe being so much more...I dunno...resigned than movie!Joe. He's stopped being so angry, stopped being a whirling ball of pain and rage and need and just raw, um, whatever. And yeah, it's unhealthy and wrong and, god, do not try this at home, but something about it, and the way Hugh Dillon plays it, that makes me respond on some gut level of flailing...something...it's not even sympathy, I'm not sure what it is as much as I joke about wanting to give him a kitten and a cuddle. One of these days I'm going to figure it out, because if I go through the list of characters that hit me this hard, and why they do, seeing Joe Dick on that list is just begging for a round of "One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just isn't the same."
vagabondage loaned me the original Hard Core Logo book the movie was based on to read, since I hadn't before. And it's interesting. It's different in many ways from the movie that was made from it. And I'm kind of pondering my reaction to it, because...okay, I actually like Joe as a person more in the book than I do in the movie. But I don't love him with the ferocity that I love movie Joe, who I don't very much like. I'm trying to figure out why, and I think it comes down to book!Joe being so much more...I dunno...resigned than movie!Joe. He's stopped being so angry, stopped being a whirling ball of pain and rage and need and just raw, um, whatever. And yeah, it's unhealthy and wrong and, god, do not try this at home, but something about it, and the way Hugh Dillon plays it, that makes me respond on some gut level of flailing...something...it's not even sympathy, I'm not sure what it is as much as I joke about wanting to give him a kitten and a cuddle. One of these days I'm going to figure it out, because if I go through the list of characters that hit me this hard, and why they do, seeing Joe Dick on that list is just begging for a round of "One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just isn't the same."