Dodgy attempts at cross-selling of our time

[brixtonbrood]

BBC2 announcer, 10:40pm last night.
"And if you enjoyed watching Chiwetel Ejiofor in Kinky Boots, you might want to switch over to BBC1 to watch him in Amistad, starting in five minutes."

My admiration for Mr Ejiofor's talents knows few bounds, but somehow I found that trail deeply resistable.

Comments

[gingerelanor.livejournal.com]

Amistad was on telly in an American hotel room once when I was... um.. on holiday in America. I was all *ooooh, Amistad, that's meant to be really good, yay!* but my mum fell asleep after about 20 minutes, and I fell asleep just after that.

[pureofthought.livejournal.com]

Do you remember the old I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue round about making new films from pairs of old ones? I watched Kinky Boots too, and the announcer's comment made me wonder what a remake of it and Amistad together would be like...

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Hard to imagine anyone wanting to watch either film unless they were real fans of his, so maybe not all that unreasonable.

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

Kinky Boots yes, if you don't like him then you're not going to like the film at all - but he's about tenth on the cast list in Amistad (which admittedly I haven't seen; maybe he gets killed off during the revolt, so I could have just watched the first quarter hour and then gone to bed).

Start writing the crossover fanfic now

[oxyrhynchite.livejournal.com]

When 'verses collide: hot Ejiofor-on-Ejiofor action. And can we get his Operative from Serenity in at the end?