#the league of extraordinary gentlemen 2003

[lgbt-cishet-movie-tournament]

The loser is either too queer to be a cishet movie or too cishet to be queer...

How is it cishet media?

LXG: Okay listen. League of extraordinary gentlemen is a very cishet movie I ADMIT IT. A chunk of the plot consists of like three (four?) men competing to fuck the female lead. Which btw is so very funny to me. Reverse harem.

VP: Cishet romance good vs evil plot AND the main character is a priest. The movie I'm talking about is The Velocipastor (2018) of course

How is it lgbt?

LXG: Let’s see: Dorian Gray is in it, being fabulous as always, and he’s bi in the original book (and in the movie novelization, he admits to having fucked Oscar Wilde). Mina Harker is in it, and she’s bi in the comics, also she serves so much cunt because when she’s not dressing lowkey masc she’s dressing highkey goth. Henry Jekyll is in it and he’s the wettest drenchedest little slut as always ofc. My brain automatically edits top surgery scars onto Mr. Hyde’s tits whenever hes onscreen (hes never not shirtless) (hes never not a whore) . Your honor theyre all bi and slutty!!!!!

VP: It's camp to me. The only sex scene is a montage of the main characters (a sex worker and titular velocipastor) bonding over the course of the movie. MAJOR FLASH WARNING but you can find it here https://youtu.be/Wp9hcCFEgOw . It's a low budget film (some of the FX is literally just text on a screen telling you what's there) where you can tell everyone involved is having fun with it and it's one of my favorite things ever. I've heard white gay people on tumblr love subverting christian imagery soooo there's that too

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

FUN/LXG FACT: PETA WILSON'S BREASTS WERE ENHANCED ON THE PROMOTIONAL POSTERS.

^NOTE: Not gonna lie, I was extremely disappointed upon finding this out, but with cleavage this perfect-looking, should it really come as a surprise to anyone?

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on promotional materials (in English and German languages) of Peta Wilson as Mina Harker in the sci-fi/action/fantasy film "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" (2003), directed by Stephen Norrington, and written by James Dale Robinson. 20th Century Fox.

MINA HARKER: "My husband was Jonathan Harker. Together, with a professor named Van Helsing, we fought a dangerous evil. It had a name: Dracula. He was Transylvanian."

Rodney Skinner (The Invisible Man): "European? One of those radicals the newspapers love to report on?"

MINA: "I don't know, Mr. Skinner. [pulls her scarf aside to reveal two small punctures]. Is the vampiric sucking of people's blood radical behavior?"

Source: www.imdb.com/title/tt0311429/characters/nm0933959.

[strangestcase]

I see a lot of commentary in the 2003 LXG fandom about Mina seeing Jon in Henry but what if she sees Lucy in him. So demure, constantly hiding true feelings behind a false face of sweetness, never satisfied, never married, never “normal”. He stares at the mirror in the corridor for a little too long and she remembers how Lucy would sit before the glass and practice looking like something she isn’t. And Mina remembers how Lucy could only be freed in true death- repressed as a human, hollow as a monster.

[spider-xan]

Poor little meow meow Jekyll confirmed canon!! 🥺

[nemeyuko]

If I a had a nickel for every time an adaptation had Dorian Gray fuck Oscar Wilde, I would have two nickels. It’s not a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

[mourningmaybells]

[night-unfurls-its-splendour]

Say what you like about the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), but I'm firmly convinced that Mina Harker saying "You're sweet... and you're young; neither are traits I hold in high regard," to Tom Sawyer permanently altered my brain chemistry in my formative years. That stuck with me. That and Jason Flemyng as Dr. Jekyll.

And now my biggest fictional crush is a fucked up, middle-aged cistern man with a deformed face.

[tenebris-lux]

When I first read Dracula as a teenager, it set off an extreme vampire obsession in me. I started researching folklore, looked up stuff vaguely connected to vampires, read a ton of vampire fiction, made lists of everything I hadn’t gotten to as kind of a to-look-at list (naturally I didn’t get to most of it), watched a few movies and tv shows, etc.

One of the folklore things I learned about was that after staking a vampire, you leave the stake in. Otherwise it could get up again.

The person who would be my future S.O. told me about the movie League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. And they convinced me to see it because it had a vampire in it. Easy hook. And yeah, I enjoyed it at the time. A lot, actually. There was also one detail late in the film that had me all excited too.

The vampire gets into a fight with another character. Swords and knives flashing and slashing. Two people with extreme healing factors. The other character stabbed the vampire. At the time, I wasn’t sure if it was the heart, but it seemed serious from the way she was reacting, and she went down.

Then the scene cuts away to some other stuff. When it cuts back, the other character took his sword out of her body, and my attention sharpened. Nowadays, even without the vampire research, it would be easy to tell from the whole setup that she was still alive. But at the time, I was so freakin’ excited that she only started moving again AFTER the sword was taken out of her body. Just like unstaking a vampire. I was convinced back then that that was the fatal goof the other character made. “He should never have taken it out!” I kept saying.

I don’t know if it was intentional or not, but it’s still a thing that makes me smile in that so goofy movie. I haven’t seen it in years, but I used to watch it a lot. I was crazy about it.

[chocolatemicenwhiskey]

So I watched LXG/League of Extraordinary Gentlemen for the first time since it came out and not only did it reawaken a 20-year old ship (Mina/Skinner brainrot incoming) but it also lead to a few questions:

How long was it from the Final Battle to Quartemain's funeral back in Africa? How the hell did Skinner heal from those burns so damn fast? I get they couldn't bandage him up, as that may cause Claude Rains to rise from the grave, but still.

Granted, I know they took liberty with the original Invisible Man novel (and I haven't read it since high school) but I don't recall Griffin having a healing factor to the invisibility serum.

[butcherb1rd]

when you watch a really bad movie with your family and as the credits roll you have to quietly admit that you liked it

[aenslem]

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 2003 | dir. Stephen Norrington

[ruanbaijie]

𝔳𝔞𝔪𝔭𝔦𝔯𝔢𝔰

SELECTED VAMPIRE* SHOWS WATCHED IN THE PAST 15 YEARS for @userphotoshop​ event 6 ✦ halloween

*including dhampirs and it-was-never-specified-they-were-vampires-but-hey-they-drink-blood characters

the lost boys (1987)

forever knight (1992-1996)

interview with the vampire (1994)

vampire hunter d: bloodlust (2000)

queen of the damned (2002)

the league of extraordinary gentlemen (2003)

underworld (2003-2016)

van helsing (2004)

supernatural (2005-2020)

30 days of night (2007)

blood ties (2007)

moonlight (2007-2008)

being human uk (2008-2013)

the twilight saga (2008-2013)

true blood (2008-2014)

let the right one in (2008)

vampire knight (2008)

daybreakers (2009)

thirst (2009)

the vampire diaries (2009-2017)

the gates (2010)

let me in (2010)

shiki (2010)

fright night (2011)

priest (2011)

vampire prosecutor (2011-2012)

being human us (2011-2014)

abraham lincoln vampire hunter (2012)

byzantium (2012)

only lovers left alive (2013)

dracula (2013-2014)

hemlock grove (2013-2015)

the originals (2013-2018)

dracula untold (2014)

what we do in the shadows (2014)

the strain (2014-2017)

blood (2015)

scholar who walks the night (2015)

seraph of the end (2015)

the vampire lives next door to us (2015)

shadowhunters (2016-2019)

eat locals (2017)

castlevania (2017-2021)

devils line (2018)

tenrou: sirius the jaeger (2018)

a discovery of witches (2018-2022)

the passage (2019)

dracula (2020)

noblesse (2020)

blood red sky (2021)

happiness (2021)

mars red (2021)

midnight mass (2021)

the case study of vanitas (2021-?)

first kill (2022)

the invitation (2022)

morbius (2022)

vampire in the garden (2022)

interview with the vampire (2022-?)

vampire academy (2022-?)

[strangestcase]

specifically about League comic/movie versions. Movie-exclusive characters marked with 🎬, comic-exclusive characters marked with 💥

[crisisofinfinitemultiverses]

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) by Alex Ross

[nemeyuko]

Streamed “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)” with friends and I made this.