Bill Sykes was sexy

[PrincessHoneysuckle]

Wasn't he? Oliver Reed 1968.
Just watching Oliver! and I think i would

Yes. Gabriel Oak was the salt of the Earth solid, dependable good guy. Troy was a womaniser who got a girl pregnant and left her to die in the work house then married Bathsheba for her money.

It's the same person. If you're basing it purely on looks then they are one and the same.

He is terrifying and had an even more terrifying dog IIRC. The red flags would be hanging off him if they hadn't also flown away in terror. No no no no!!!!

In the film

Im not sure about the book, is that also what happens?

He was an abused child wasnt he, victim of CCE and probably CSE

But he’s NOT REAL!!!

Oh no ! He looks like he smells really really bad. 🤢

When I engage with films, TV, novels or audio plays, the characters are real for the duration of the production. That's the point of watching/listening/reading.

Doesn't he just! Although must say I admired Nancy's dress which had its own ventilation system (ripped at the armpits)

Victorian London. So I imagine everyone who was poor smelled bad and they are near the river that is probably full of sewage. They probably all slept in what they were wearing. Unlike Mr Brownlows house with its clean linens, fresh chamber pot/indoor plumbing and maid service!

You can always cover one til he blacks the other one, but you don't dare cry!

I hope someone gets this reference! I'm not saying anyone should put up with getting a black eye!

You know he would never wash his hands and if he did would wipe them on his trousers. Those expensive kerchiefs were to be sold not to be used as snotrags

Oliver Reed was so handsome , a great sense of humour and a really good actor . I can see why you like him and find him sexy.

Okay …but that doesn’t mean others are wrong for seeing a fictional character as just that ..fictional.So OPs comments are in that light , not a reflection of how she feels about abusers in general.

I get you completely.

I'm not sure this is entirely true. Lots of people would find Charlize Theron attractive, but not in character as Aileen Wuornos, for example.

Also, I'm happy to be corrected, but I don't think the OP specified that we were only allowed to consider his looks. In fact, I think by saying the character name it's quite the opposite. Otherwise she would have just said Oliver Reed. I think she meant Oliver Reed as Bill Sykes was sexy. I have to say, not for me. He's grubby as Bill Sykes and that's not a look I'm into.

Can imagine he was a nightmare to live with. Probably v.funny and charming at the start of the night but once on a bender or roistering with Keith Moon or Richard Harris you would be in a taxi home and told don't wait up and that would be it for a couple of days

But she didn't ask 'was Oliver Reed sexy as all hell in that film?l'

She asked 'was Bill Sykes sexy as all hell?' And he wasn't. He was a scary, violent man.

And she found him sexy. And thats okay because she knows he’s not real.

I usually fancy vampires but I wouldnt fancy someone in real life who did that.

who cares though, it’s a character??

Oliver Reed was so attractive always had an edge to him

he should have played Heathcliff the part almost seems written for him right looks, swagger and that danger about him so hot but so wrong

I think Oliver Reed was attractive what ever part he played

a bit like Marilyn Monroe looked good in anything even a potato sack

Flutters indeed.

I liked Daryl in Walking dead. Even when he was considered a racist redneck. It’s the dirty, unkempt look i assume. Tom Hardy in Peaky Blinders. Perfect to me!

Daryl was never a racist red neck. Merv, yes, Daryl, no. That was the juxtaposition with the two of them.