Movies movies movies!
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osprey_archerIt being finals week, my friends and I have been studying constantly, sitting up at all hours of the night staring at our textbooks until - hahahaha, who am I kidding? We've totally been sitting around watching movies. Many movies. Because movies are awesome!
Despicable Me is totally adorable. I WANT A MINION. Or maybe three minions, because one minion would probably get so bored and lonely it would accidentally blow up a small city.
We also watched The Secret of Kells, which has lovely animation, but would probably be better if they had not connected the story to history at all, because as it was I spent most of the movie going "Are they seriously arguing against building fortifications, are they seriously doing that?"
Yes, yes they were. Presumably if you have no fortifications, the invading Vikings will die laughing and therefore leave your beautiful books alone.
Also, the monastery had an inexplicable Chinese brother named Tang. I can deal with the Italian brother (clearly an emissary from Rome) and the black brother (he's from the Ethiopian church, of course) - but. Chinese? How did Tang even get to Ireland? Did Marco Polo kidnap him?
Our third movie: Treasure Planet, which is not good enough to displace The Muppet Treasure Island as the Best Treasure Island Adaptation Ever. Treasure Planet totally has its moments, though, like the cat-woman Captain Smollett voiced by Emma Thompson.
And lastly: Song of Love, in which Katherine Hepburn plays the famous pianist Clara, who marries the considerably less famous composer Schumann. Schumann acquires a student, Brahms, who of course falls madly in love with Clara. Years after Schumann's death Brahms asks Clara to marry him, but she says no, because she plans to devote her life to playing Schumann concerts in all the capitals in Europe so the world will appreciate his genius.
It's so sad! They would have been wonderful together! Personally, I think Brahms just asked too soon: Clara is obviously teetering on the brink of falling for him during that conversation (look at the way they lean in toward each other and laugh together), but he jumped the gun - so she pulled back.
And Clara could still play her Schumann concerts if they married! (Well, maybe Schumann-Brahms concerts.) Brahms is clearly much too secure in his masculinity (he acts as a nanny to Clara and Schumann's children, for goodness sake!) to be bothered that his wife has a career.
But it was not to be. If only Brahms had waited a bit longer to ask!
Despicable Me is totally adorable. I WANT A MINION. Or maybe three minions, because one minion would probably get so bored and lonely it would accidentally blow up a small city.
We also watched The Secret of Kells, which has lovely animation, but would probably be better if they had not connected the story to history at all, because as it was I spent most of the movie going "Are they seriously arguing against building fortifications, are they seriously doing that?"
Yes, yes they were. Presumably if you have no fortifications, the invading Vikings will die laughing and therefore leave your beautiful books alone.
Also, the monastery had an inexplicable Chinese brother named Tang. I can deal with the Italian brother (clearly an emissary from Rome) and the black brother (he's from the Ethiopian church, of course) - but. Chinese? How did Tang even get to Ireland? Did Marco Polo kidnap him?
Our third movie: Treasure Planet, which is not good enough to displace The Muppet Treasure Island as the Best Treasure Island Adaptation Ever. Treasure Planet totally has its moments, though, like the cat-woman Captain Smollett voiced by Emma Thompson.
And lastly: Song of Love, in which Katherine Hepburn plays the famous pianist Clara, who marries the considerably less famous composer Schumann. Schumann acquires a student, Brahms, who of course falls madly in love with Clara. Years after Schumann's death Brahms asks Clara to marry him, but she says no, because she plans to devote her life to playing Schumann concerts in all the capitals in Europe so the world will appreciate his genius.
It's so sad! They would have been wonderful together! Personally, I think Brahms just asked too soon: Clara is obviously teetering on the brink of falling for him during that conversation (look at the way they lean in toward each other and laugh together), but he jumped the gun - so she pulled back.
And Clara could still play her Schumann concerts if they married! (Well, maybe Schumann-Brahms concerts.) Brahms is clearly much too secure in his masculinity (he acts as a nanny to Clara and Schumann's children, for goodness sake!) to be bothered that his wife has a career.
But it was not to be. If only Brahms had waited a bit longer to ask!
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Date: 2011-03-09 10:07 pm (UTC)I think Treasure Island is an excellent story for adaptation, which is kind of weird, because I'm not too fond of the original book. But in adaptation it can be wonderful!