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Post by Valkyrja on Apr 15, 2014 11:00:25 GMT -5
Sometimes, there are some characters from movies or TV Shows that make you feel a "dev thrill" but that character is not a PWD.
It could be the situations, a moment, his/her life, etc.
There is something that cry "Dev Rush" in your mind.
Can you remember some of those character? Which TV Show or movie are you talking about?
Would you like to share it with us?
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Post by dolly on Apr 15, 2014 11:20:22 GMT -5
there is a scene that lasts merely a second or two in the movie "Fight Club" when after a fight Brad Pitt is badly beaten up and weak. he sits down and lifts his leg across his other leg with his hands... it gives me a major dev-jolt every time!!
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Post by vegmama on Apr 15, 2014 12:12:36 GMT -5
Nice thread Valkyrja! There are two that I can think of off the top of my head: Owen Hunt from "Grey's Anatomy"...especially when his character was first introduced and he was suffering from PTSD. and Victor Geddes from "Dying Young"...it's the movie with Julia Roberts where he's a rich guy suffering from leukemia and hires her as his live-in caretaker. I don't really consider PTSD or leukemia to be disabilities, but both of these characters tweaked my "devniss". I know there are more, but I'll have to think on it.  |
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Post by Valkyrja on Apr 15, 2014 12:14:11 GMT -5
Oh... yeah, I remember that scene! sadly, it didn't make it for me! jajaja
About TV Shows... lately, I had one of those moments with the character "Nathan Wournos" from Haven.
The first season they made it clear everytime they could, that his "curse" was that he couldn't feel anything... only Parker's touch.
Same happens to me with "Supernatural" but I think it is because of the tons of fanfic I read about them!! jajajaja
But the characters that ALWAYS gave me that "dev thrill" are the vampires (the good ones mostly). TV shows or movies about vampires... I am there to enjoy them!
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Post by Emma on Apr 15, 2014 15:23:12 GMT -5
Yes vampires! Totally agree. I love all the medical curiosity (or freak shows as my Mom calls them) that are on TV channels like Discovery or TLC. While I'm not attracted to all those unusual conditions I find them fascinating in a devy way.
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Post by lavly on Apr 15, 2014 15:44:11 GMT -5
omg deying young so did it for me... i was devy for ever bold headed guy i saw for years after that movie
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Post by Valkyrja on Apr 15, 2014 19:18:58 GMT -5
OHH... Beauty and the Beast!... I'm lost for that!... I think I saw every tv show and movie ever made about that story!
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Post by vegmama on Apr 15, 2014 23:07:53 GMT -5
Yes vampires! Totally agree. I love all the medical curiosity (or freak shows as my Mom calls them) that are on TV channels like Discovery or TLC. While I'm not attracted to all those unusual conditions I find them fascinating in a devy way. Yep, love all the medical shows too. And I had to laugh at your mom comment...that totally sounds like my mom too! "Why do you always watch stuff like that??" And I do believe she's used the word "freaks" too. **Sigh** (I love her, but I get my open-mindedness from my dad.) |
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Post by whisperingpines on Apr 16, 2014 0:53:01 GMT -5
Victor Geddes from "Dying Young"... YES! And also the good vampires, big time! (I think I've read the Twilight books like 20 times... And all the Sookie Stackhouse books too  ) |
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Post by Pisti on Apr 16, 2014 7:52:27 GMT -5
Anything that has a tortured, troubled soul in it is devy for me. Good vampires, gentle werewolves, nice beasts,... And of course all those medical rarities Emma and vegmama told about. One of the first series i found devy without a disabled character in it was a Japaneese one on the Austrian TV, "Die Rache des Samurai" ("Aoi - The Betrayed Samurai"). Aoi was a very troubled soul. Always frowning. Plus his two upper cuspids were quite long and protruding, what I found super cute. Then all the Beauty and the Beast adaptations - starting with the fairy tale itself. I had a version written by someone Russian, and the title was "The Purple Flower", and I loved it. Then later when the fantasy TV series came up (on the German TV - nothing that fancy in the Hungarian one...) in 1987 with Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton I watched it religiously (my mom, too ). Also I remember one movie where a very young Patrick Dempsey played a boy with epilepsy who underwent an experimental surgery on his brain - that was very devy, too. And if we talk about tortured souls: the Angel series did the trick, too. |
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Post by Valkyrja on Apr 16, 2014 11:08:00 GMT -5
I totally agree with you Pisti!!!
I cried with "Bram Stoker's Dracula" while at home they were in shock (fear... or whatever).
My heart beats with those vampire/werewolves that want to be seen as "bad and evil" just because they hate themselves or the burden of their soul is way too heavy.
I watched Ron Perlmans religiously too... with my grandma. She was totally in love with "Vincent" because "he has so sad and gentle eyes" (my grandma words)
I loved Angel... but then, when Angel became a sucker... I loooved Spike. jajaja
Though, I have to confess that the first Dracula that "converted" me in a vampire lover was Frank Langella's version (1979)
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Post by tabby on Jan 20, 2015 16:25:28 GMT -5
I'm catching up from my hiatus and love this tread. This happens to me all the time. The Witness with Harrison Ford as he is recovering from a gunshot wound. I love when the hero suffers in silence then it comes to the fore. There is a scene in Mash where an officer is injured and travels in a car the the MASH station and once his men have left him he has to say to the doctors, you'll have to help me I can't move my legs - well that is typical devy but love that scene. For some reason Pacy in Dawsons Creek always seemed to awaken the Dev in me. I think it is his troubled passed and his brokeness. Some pop videos or singers do it for me too, Ryan Tedder, whom, after a bit of Mr Google research I found to actually have used a wheelchair and crutches after an injury. I think it is a sadness in his songs.
Oh and a huge yes to Owen Hunt, in fact everything Kevin McCloud has been in seems to hit my Dev zone.
And The Blood In The Sand - Sparticus, because of the real life tragedy that befell the actor - Andy Whitfield.
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Post by mwin on Jan 20, 2015 16:40:23 GMT -5
Really interesting thread! The first season of The Beauty and the beast series showing in the UK at the mo (although it's a US series) with Jay Ryan did it for me. There was a sex scene where he was struggling to control his beast. Lush!
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Post by Clair deLune on Jan 20, 2015 23:41:37 GMT -5
The scene in the first Iron Man movie where Pepper takes the arc reactor out of Tony Stark's chest
Also the scene in the Princess Bride where Westley has been recently mostly dead and is laying in Buttercup's bed threatening Prince Humperdink but can't move
Can't think of any others off the top of my head, but it's an interesting way to pin down what sets off our dev senses when we remove the "dev" element, isn't it?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2015 23:43:34 GMT -5
The Princess Bride does it to me every single time. Westley was probably my first ever encounter with being a dev. My mother, who's been aware of my preferences for a while now, brought it up at a dinner party not too long ago. I was so amused and mortified at the same time!
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