Friday Eye Candy: Literary Men On Film

So basically what I keep doing here is taking all y'all's great ideas and putting them on the (virtual) page. You wanted more bad boys? I gave you more bad boys. You wanted hot celebrity chefs? I gave you hot celebrity chefs. Now, it seems, you want Hot Literary Men on Film.

So Hot Literary Men On Film you shall have.

Ewan McGregor as Julien Sorel. Stendhal's The Red and The Black is one of my favorite novels of all time, and Julien Sorel one of my favorite characters, and Ewan McGregor one of my favorite hotties. PERFECT STORM OF LITERARY-SLASH-CINEMATIC HOTNESS OMG.

Jeremy Northam as Mr. Knightley in Jane Austen's Emma. One of the sexiest characters in the Jane Austen oeuvre, I think, with the exception of Mr. Darcy. And Jeremy Northam nails that sexy, hard. Who knew that cravats were so hawt?

Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy. DUH.

James McAvoy as Tom Lefroy in Becoming Jane.  James McAvoy could play Jane Austen herself and I'd still drool over him.

Ralph Fiennes as Heathcliff in the 1995 version of Wuthering Heights. Men just don't get much broodier than this.

Joseph Fiennes as William Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love. Dark and intense and smeared in ink: just how I like 'em.

Paul Rudd as Josh, the latter-day Mr. Knightley in Clueless. Is this cheating? I just really think that Paul Rudd is sex-ay beyond imagining, and it all began with this riff on Jane Austen, didn't it? So it counts, right? RIGHT?

Other suggestions?

Comments

[Amber]

If you're going to throw in Paul Rudd for Clueless, you must also include Heath Ledger in Ten Things I Hate About You (aka The Taming of the Shrew) for it to count. :)

[Nic]

Colin Firth makes me swoon, but not nearly as much as Paul Rudd, good choice on including him.

[Heather Z]

How about Julian Sands in A Room With a View? An oldie, but a goodie!

[Lori]

toby stephens as mr rochester in the recent bbc (?) miniseries of Jane Eyre ... not conventionally good looking but he sure played mr rochester sexy -

[Her Bad Mother]

oooh, Julian Sands! Forgot him! BAD HBM!

[jayme]

Good job! Only how could you forget Greg Wise in PBS's The Buccaneers and Sense & Sensability? That man makes me swoon...

[AmyC65]

And Colin Firth again for Mr. Darcy (again) in Bridget Jones - a Pride & Prejudice redux.

[tae]

I totally second the Toby Stephens from Jane Eyre...and can I add Richard Armitage from North and South? Lovely.

[RuthWells]

Daniel Day Lewis in "Remains of the Day", yo!

[Kimm]

Julian Sands! Totally! And A Room with a View shows ALL of him:) Daniel Day Lewis is in it too. I love that book and movie. It's old, but it's out on DVD.

[RuthWells]

Even better, Daniel Day Lewis in "Last of the Mohicans."

Okay, I'll stop now.

[nikki]

hello Matthew macfayden as Mr. Darcy in new Pride and Prejudice and Ewan McGregor in any thing or nothing either way good with me. Hes so hot he makes my teeth sweat

[rednexmama]

Oh MAN am I proud!!! If I knew I could get my ideas up here in such delicious style so quickly I'd be doing it EVERY FREAKING DAY!! Woot! Woot! Thanks for using my suggestion! Want more? Oh, I gotz mo! And my bf Ralph Fiennes?? Need to go swoon... please wake me with smelling salts, the only appropriate way. ;)

[Lori]

and lawrence olivier in the 1939 wuthering heights, gregory peck in to kill a mockingbird...

[Rhi]

I LOVED Ciaran Hinds as Captain Wentworth in Persuasion and also we can't forget Hugh Grant as Edward in Sense and Sensibility.

[Karen (Miscmum)]

I think Mel, back 'in the day', played a very good Hamlet and scrumptious to boot.

[Lisalisa]

Yes yes on Ciaran Hinds in Persuasion, and Jeremy Northam in Emma... but mostly, thanks for including my other husband Joseph Fiennes... sigh...

[noholzbarred]

Well done, well done. As an English teacher, this is the hottest one yet. :) I'm going to second Gregory Peck in TKAM. And there hasn't been much Shakespeare mentioned: what about Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet? Most of the time, he does nothing for me, but that shirtless swordfight at the end between Hamlet and Laertes was sweaty and awesome, and then Rufus Sewell smoldered in as Fortinbras...

[Caroline]

Okay, I'M OLD goddamnit!!! I admit it! And I like the scary ones!

And with this confession, I submit for your kind consideration:

* John Malkovich in Dangerous Liaisons
* Oliver Reed in Three Musketeers, and then Four Musketeers
* Omar Sharif in Dr. Zhivago
* Gene Wilder in Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (TELL ME YOU DON'T AGREE. GO AHEAD. TELL ME THIS MAN WAS NOT THE SEXIEST WONKA EVER. TELL ME THIS WAS NOT A LITERARY MASTERPIECE!!! See? You CANNOT.)
* [ducking] Harvey Keitel in The Piano BUT NOT HIS PENIS

[Caroline]

Okay, I'M OLD goddamnit!!! I admit it! And I like the scary ones!

And with this confession, I submit for your kind consideration:

* John Malkovich in Dangerous Liaisons
* Oliver Reed in Three Musketeers, and then Four Musketeers
* Omar Sharif in Dr. Zhivago
* Gene Wilder in Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (TELL ME YOU DON'T AGREE. GO AHEAD. TELL ME THIS MAN WAS NOT THE SEXIEST WONKA EVER. TELL ME THIS WAS NOT A LITERARY MASTERPIECE!!! See? You CANNOT.)
* [ducking] Harvey Keitel in The Piano BUT NOT HIS PENIS

[helenel]

How about Richard Armitage as John Thornton from Elizabeth Gaskell's novel "North and South"? (Recently a BBC miniseries) He also plays Guy of Gisbourne on BBC's "Robin Hood" which is folklore/literature-ish, no?

Photos at:
http://www.richardarmitageonline.com/

As for John Malkovich in 'Dangerous Liaisons' - seeing that movie gave me my first experience with being both attracted and repelled by a character. Sexy, but slimey!

Harrison Ford in Blade Runner ("Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"). Hell, Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner.

[helenel]

Oh yes, and I second Oliver Reed in the Musketeers movies! GOD, I love those movies!

[helenel]

Sorry - one more...

Mel Gibson was in a movie YEARS ago called 'Tim' which was based on a book by Colleeen McCullough. It was quite honestly the most sincere performance I've ever seen him give. And he was gorgeous! :^)

[A]

Ohhhhh thank you for spreading the word on Jeremy Northam as Mr. Knightley. He was my first movie-star crush and I remember _Emma_ and that *exact* photo inspiring my young love.

Also, I second Ciaran Hinds as Captain Wentworth in _Persuasion_. Also Alan Rickman as Colonel Brandon in _Sense and Sensibility_. And of course le Firth.

Oh my. A pattern. It emerges.

[crazyfilmcat]

You can't forget Richard Armitage as John Thornton from North and South. Amazing film and he is just so damn hot.