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redwesteinde:

Starter for 10 (2006) 

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It’s fucking cold in the alleyway, Spencer can feel the droplets of rain sneaking underneath the collar of his leather jacket, lines of ice that continue to descend. Brian is in worse condition, shivering noticeably in his soaked through clothes, his normally light hair dark from rain water and matted to his forehead.

All Spencer wants to do is bundle him up, get him warm, get him safe; his hands twitching by his sides in the effort to resist doing just that.

He does not doubt Bri’s reaction were he to get any closer than he already is, the anger and hurt evident in the other boy’s rigid stance, the clear signs of betrayal hanging in the space between them like a presence of its own.

“You’re my best friend,” Brian is saying, his mouth half curling in a sardonic smile - empty and devoid of warmth. “Or at least you’re meant to be.”

His voice is wavering, trembling almost, and Brian looks so unbearably small inside the wide walls of the alley; eyes sad, his skin a stark pallor against the darkness of the night.

It hurts Spencer to watch - what hurts more is the realization that the last time he saw Brian like this he had been years ago, his small hand in his, clutching it like a lifeline as they’d lowered Bri’s father deep into the ground.

Spencer steps forward, the need to comfort his best friend still there, buried beneath all the aggression and violence that still lingered from the happenings of the night.

When Brian takes a step back, Spence almost convinces himself that he doesn’t flinch.

“I expect girls to kick me in the heart, but you? You.” Brian looks at him then, damp locks curling delicately around his ears, and Spencer is suddenly struck dumb by the sheer amount of emotion that lay there, the blue of his eyes now dull with pain.

“You were supposed to love me enough to treat me better than that.”

I do, Spencer wants to say, to shout, to scream; to grip Brian by his shoulders and shake the words bodily into him until he understands.

 I do, I promise; I love you, I love you, I love you.

The words catch in his throat, a suffocating lump that doesn’t quite reach his lips. He says nothing - does nothing - as Brian gives him one last pained look before turning around and walking away.

“I want you gone, Spencer.”

The rain just keeps pouring.

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An amazing scene!

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peccapics:

BOYS ON FILM: PACIFIC RIM -Boys On Film goes down under to bring a fresh batch of funny and touching short films courtesy of our Aussie and Kiwi cousins, while from the USA and Hawaii to Singapore via Korea several more stories of men falling in love round out the collection.

Starring Xavier Samuel (Twilight: Eclipse) and Callan McAuliffe.

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fyeahbenedict: The NIDA graduate, who has appeared inHome and Away, Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo and in Malthouse Theatre’s Tis Pity She’s a Whore, recently wrote and directed his first short film, Sanctuary. What fascinates you so much about film and theatre?It’s the mystery that attracts me to it. I don’t think it’s formulaic in any way, shape or form. [It’s the mystery] of how they are doing it, what’s happening, how things evolve and change before your eyes, be that on film or in theatre. [As a kid] I was fascinated by it and Xavier [Samuel, his brother] started doing it and I thought this would be something really great to work together in. And that’s the striving goal, despite how far away or close we are geographically, there’s always this urge to work together. Do you enjoy working collaboratively?That’s the best way to work, because you have at least one other set of eyes and another mind working on it. I’m always interested in, not necessarily answering: “What is this about?” but asking: “What do you think it’s about, what else could it be, what is it for you?” To have that springboard to bounce backwards and forwards with someone like Xave is great, and that extends itself to the great people who we have been surrounded by. What keeps you motivated?What motivates me is not staying still. I want to be busy and I think too many good actors are left by the wayside through no fault of their own, but because there aren’t necessarilyenough opportunities out there. You don’t know when things are going to happen so I don’t think you should be waiting around for them, so I’m interested in making stuff and being in that stuff – that’s what my focus is. Do you have other ambitions in terms of writing and directing?I want to write more and direct more but only so I can keep practising my craft and be involved in the projects that really interest me. I’m exploring that with Xave and with my great friends that we work together to create our own work [to] explore what we are interested in. Do you have acting heroes?There’s a really close friend of ours, Robert Menzies, who is a well-respected Australian theatre actor. He’s always been a source of great inspiration, to see his work, as well as [being] a lovely man and a good friend. Also I really admire Mark Ruffalo and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Vincent Gallo, for example, who writes and directs and acts in his own films.

fyeahbenedict:

The NIDA graduate, who has appeared inHome and Away, Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo and in Malthouse Theatre’s Tis Pity She’s a Whore, recently wrote and directed his first short film, Sanctuary.

What fascinates you so much about film and theatre?
It’s the mystery that attracts me to it. I don’t think it’s formulaic in any way, shape or form. [It’s the mystery] of how they are doing it, what’s happening, how things evolve and change before your eyes, be that on film or in theatre.

[As a kid] I was fascinated by it and Xavier [Samuel, his brother] started doing it and I thought this would be something really great to work together in. And that’s the striving goal, despite how far away or close we are geographically, there’s always this urge to work together.

Do you enjoy working collaboratively?
That’s the best way to work, because you have at least one other set of eyes and another mind working on it. I’m always interested in, not necessarily answering: “What is this about?” but asking: “What do you think it’s about, what else could it be, what is it for you?” To have that springboard to bounce backwards and forwards with someone like Xave is great, and that extends itself to the great people who we have been surrounded by.

What keeps you motivated?
What motivates me is not staying still. I want to be busy and I think too many good actors are left by the wayside through no fault of their own, but because there aren’t necessarily
enough opportunities out there. You don’t know when things are going to happen so I don’t think you should be waiting around for them, so I’m interested in making stuff and being in that stuff – that’s what my focus is.

Do you have other ambitions in terms of writing and directing?
I want to write more and direct more but only so I can keep practising my craft and be involved in the projects that really interest me. I’m exploring that with Xave and with my great friends that we work together to create our own work [to] explore what we are interested in.

Do you have acting heroes?
There’s a really close friend of ours, Robert Menzies, who is a well-respected Australian theatre actor. He’s always been a source of great inspiration, to see his work, as well as [being] a lovely man and a good friend. Also I really admire Mark Ruffalo and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Vincent Gallo, for example, who writes and directs and acts in his own films.