Ralph is one suave mother effer

It’s kind of odd how my mind works sometimes… I was watching a movie recently that starred Ralph Fiennes and Natasha Richardson (The White Countess) and I thought – that’s odd, did I put this in my queue when the sad news of Richardson’s accident came up? I had to think about it for a while and realized the movie that I had just sent back to Netflix had similar themes… or settings rather.

I had watched The Painted Veil (w/ Edward Norton,  Naomi Watts & Liev Schreiber) just the week before- so months back, I must have had 1930s China on my mind and put both in my queue. I just wish I remembered what I had been reading back then that triggered the rentals. That’s the downside of having a netflix queue that’s so long.

I’ll save the reviews for later- but let’s just say both movies are good, but very different. I liked the cinematography in The Painted Veil  more- but then again, it’s hard to film that locale and wind up with a bad shot. But I liked the story and acting of The White Countess more (even though some montages bugged the crap out of me)…

But that’s not my point today… I wanted to talk about Ralph Fiennes’ tuxedo jackets in the movie- yeah, nerdy I know. But check them out though- I took some screencaps.

I want to get jackets like these made and wear them to Angie & Mike’s wedding or some other event… (they’re *just* a bit  classier than my standard guayaveras no?)

Ralph Fiennes’ character owns a swanky nightclub in Shanghai and if he’s not wearing the standard black dinner jacket, he has on this green plaid number:

And then later in the movie when he’s entertaining Red Chinese, Japanese Navy, and European Ex-pats he has on this fancy chinese-brocade(?)/embroidered jacket:

(check out the back too)

I want one of those just to wear to Cory’s or Marc & Jen’s for bbqs and cigars! Granted, I’m not sure I can pull off that look as smoothly as the suave Fiennes, but I’ll try…

Of course in the movie, the jackets and Ralph are all upstaged whenever Natasha’s on screen

Maybe this will be my “adam savage dodo bird/maltese falcon” project.