Sexual tension between Mal and Inara
POSTED BY: thirdmonkey
UPDATED: Friday, January 13, 2006 20:44
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On a side note with Mal and Inara...did anyone else (Im sure I cant be the only one) notice the scene in the BDM where right after Mal askes Zoe if shes "here" and she tells him to go to the transmitter....as he rushes past the crew to the elevator he turns and looks straight at Inara. Its in the background and a half a second long but I notice it evertime and it slays me! I wonder if it was in the script...or just a great little idea from Nathan or Joss on set?
Ahhh....the TRAGEDY (deep sigh!)
I'm in a hurry reading this, so I'm stuck with... huh? Where's that scene? At the end before the final battle ? ( mind races as I leave the keyboard...in a hurry )
Gonna check that out.
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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I think it happens right after Mal asks Zoe if she is there. It is in the foyer right after they throw a few grenades and they are getting ready to battle the Reavers.
Does anyone have the shooting script book? Don't you love the photo of Nathan and Morena talking to Joss on the Companion house set? Great lighting!
Back to the whore/Companion thing...interesting that Companion is capitalized, n'est-ce pas?
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Originally posted by Jetgirl23:
On a side note with Mal and Inara...did anyone else (Im sure I cant be the only one) notice the scene in the BDM where right after Mal askes Zoe if shes "here" and she tells him to go to the transmitter....as he rushes past the crew to the elevator he turns and looks straight at Inara. Its in the background and a half a second long but I notice it evertime and it slays me! I wonder if it was in the script...or just a great little idea from Nathan or Joss on set?
Oh, I love that bit - especially how Mal is looking back as he's walking away. It reminds me of the moment in the pilot when Mal tells Inara to take the civilians into her shuttle to escape the reavers... That embracing push-away that said all that needed to be said about how much they cared. *sigh*
But the scene from the movie is indeed in the script.
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From the Visual Companion Shooting Script:
MAL: You hold. Hold till I'm back.
He takes off - passes Inara, the two of them holding a look for as long as they can. Then he's in the elevator and gone.
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Ain't. We. Just.
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A little aside here.
At the recent Flanvention (during the banquet) I happened to use the expression "UST" within earshot of Nathan. He perked up his ears and said, "UST? What's that?"
I was almost laughing too hard to explain that it stood for "unresolved sexual tension".
Sorry for the interruption. i just thought it was hi-larious that Nathan Fillion, portrayer of Mal Reynolds, had never heard that acronym.
... Darn it, I'd forgotten that little moment and never put it in my reports from Flan I. Well, better late than never.
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Originally posted by nosadseven:
But the scene from the movie is indeed in the script.Quote:
From the Visual Companion Shooting Script:
MAL: You hold. Hold till I'm back.
He takes off - passes Inara, the two of them holding a look for as long as they can. Then he's in the elevator and gone.
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Ain't. We. Just.
Ahhhhh...where do i get the VISUAL COMPANION you speak of!!!???
I am ordering the Firefly Soundtrack from Amazon as we speak. Gotta have that music on my Ipod
"Faster would be better"
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Quote:Well, you're already in the right place. Just search for Serenity Visual Companion in Books on Amazon.
Originally posted by Jetgirl23:
Ahhhhh...where do i get the VISUAL COMPANION you speak of!!!???
I am ordering the Firefly Soundtrack from Amazon as we speak. Gotta have that music on my Ipod
Or follow the link on the main page of this site :-)
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I'm kinda shocked that no one has mentioned Companion were very heavily influenced by Geishas. Geisha, while they did sell their virginity and took on patrons, were not prostitutes. Geisha means 'artist'. They were highly respected and valued for their art of converation, elegance, talents at dance and music, amoung other attributes. They worked long and hard from an early age to attain these skills in training that as seems very much like Companion training. Being a geisha as I imagine being a companion is a very hard life. They can't marry and lead a very isolated life high on a pedistal. Not everyone can cut it. Nandi couldn't take the continuous training and practice.
I think Thirdmonkey is taking an aweful black and white view of Companions. Irana doesn't open her legs for anyone that flashed a couple of bucks her way. She chooses her clients very carefully. There's a big difference between Inara and Nandi and her girls.
Thirdmonkey, you seem to be taking the same stance as Atherton Wing and not able to see who Inara is beyond her profession. Mal's sees the real Inara. To paraphrase what he said in Shindig, Mal may disrespect her profession, but he respects her as a person.
Look at the flipside of it. Irara is a highly respected member of Alliance society. Mal is a thief, a smuggler, and murderer. Wouldn't that be kind of 'icky' to her? But she sees past that to who he really is.
Inara/Mal ship is my favorite in Firefly. I like the grand epicness of it. It could either go into tradgedy or fairly happily ever after and that's the fun of it. I never felt any sexual tension with Kaylee and Simon other than Simon's different than any man she's had the oppertunity to come in contact with. She wants the rich pretty boy. If I've felt any UST with Kaylee and anyone else is with Jayne. The way he was peeking into the infirmary when Kaylee was being operated on. I really think that's why he doesn't like Simon, because he's jealous of the big fuss Kaylee makes of it. I so don't see the River/Jayne thing so many people seem to see. I see abosolutely nothing there. Not to mention he's like 40 and she's 17.
Wow, look at how I rambled on. I hardly ever post.
Vicky
"Shoot first, send flowers later. It works."
Colonel Jack O'Neill
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People see a River/Jayne thing? Where? At first he just considers her a nut, after "Trash" he's almost afraid of her.
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I got to get away from this thread....
But did y'all notice in Out of Gas that there is a nice link between Mal and Inara. She tells Simon that she loves Serenity and has from the moment she saw her just as, at the end of the episode, we see Mal as he falls in love with Serenity at first sight.
You spin me about
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Originally posted by EmpXenu:
People see a River/Jayne thing? Where? At first he just considers her a nut, after "Trash" he's almost afraid of her.
People see every damn thing, and sometimes they give 'em cute names too:
River/Jayne - "Rayne"
Jayne/Kaylee - "Jaylee"
River/Simon - "CSI" (Crazy Space Incest)
Mal/Simon (or any m/m) - "HoYay" (Homoeroticism Yay!), or the general fanfic term, "slash"
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Ain't. We. Just.
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