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hermionesviolinMy brother and i went to church on Sunday and god, it was so gorgeous out -- everything covered in white, including fluffy trees. Yeah, this is so my season.
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Went to Kate’s Sunday afternoon. We started with the much-talked-about 10th Kingdom. I much approve. Plus, yay for more material for my seminar paper :)
Then we watched Legend. Um, yeah. Kate spent a lot of it thinking about German Romanticism, and i spent a lot of it thinking about C. S. Lewis’ idea that evil is only a perversion of good. The idea that the unicorns have hearts of pure goodness and light in combination with the absolutist yet ostensibly balance-driven world of the movie was also interesting. I thought about the idea that knowledge brings lack of innocence, that becoming an adult means losing your childlike connection with nature etc. and how that’s in tension with the traditional idea that unicorns are both pure and good and also wise and ancient, and i thought about Lewis’ idea (particularly as expressed in Perelandra) that one can learn about sin through sinning but there is also God’s way of knowing about sin which is beyond or outside or something of sin.
The dance scene is hott, but not necessarily worth watching the rest of the movie for.
IMDb Trivia: The sound of the unicorns at play is actually a recording of humpback whales.
The next day we watched Evita, which i liked a lot more than i had expected to. I was expecting a paean like unto Princess Diana and was much pleased at the undercutting. Narrative interloper! "Falling over ourselves to get all of the misery right." Yeah, i was in heart (with him) from early on. In the credits, he’s named Ché, which worried me, because he’s totally written so that you love him, and if he’s supposed to be Che Guevara, then that encourages you to automatically transfer your love of the character to love for the historical personage, which is troubling. Apparently in the stage musical, it is the famous Guevara, but not in the film, that in Argentina "Che" is a commonly used slang, so in the film he’s just an ordinary Argentine.
Kate says i’m a bad person to watch sad movies with. Dude, i’m That Bitch who hates everything, but i totally cry at the drop of a hat. I just didn’t cry at this. I actually was teary at the beginning, but not at the end.
Emma insisted that we watch a happy movie afterward. We were gonna watch the Faerie Tale Theatre Sleeping Beauty for the flamingly gay fairy, but Kate didn’t have it, so we watched The Emperor's New Groove, which i fully expected to hate, but which i actually ended up enjoying. During much of the previous movies, Kate an/dor Emma would say “S/he’s awesome,” and i would say, “But s/he’s evil.” However, in this movie, i was all, “Why do people have to be so damn moral? Please get rid of the schmuck already.” Also: “Dude, all you do is dance and be self-centered? Why not let her run your kingdom?” The answer was “Because she’s evil,” and i get that, but honestly, she’s just coded as evil by being (a) in opposition to the protagonist, (b) skinny and old and in dark clothes. (Why yes, i did retain things from my Grimms to Disney class ;) ) Yeah, she shows herself to be evil as it goes on, but at the beginning she’s just coded as “scary beyond all reason” and i was far more keen to get rid of the “annoying and obnoxious beyond all reason.” I did in fact cease hating him at some point during the movie, though, and i enjoyed a lot of the early movie because he gets what he deserves.
IMDb Trivia: According to the DVD Commentary, this is the first Disney Animated Feature to show a pregnant woman.
Kate says i’m “a movie curmudgeon.” :P
Hmm, i was gonna go visit the high school today, but now i kinda don’t feel like it. Think i may stay home and try to finish my ficathon fics (and figure out what i want for lunch). I’m probably going to go to Class Act tonight, and then it’s off to Virginia tomorrow morning, back late Saturday night.
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Went to Kate’s Sunday afternoon. We started with the much-talked-about 10th Kingdom. I much approve. Plus, yay for more material for my seminar paper :)
Then we watched Legend. Um, yeah. Kate spent a lot of it thinking about German Romanticism, and i spent a lot of it thinking about C. S. Lewis’ idea that evil is only a perversion of good. The idea that the unicorns have hearts of pure goodness and light in combination with the absolutist yet ostensibly balance-driven world of the movie was also interesting. I thought about the idea that knowledge brings lack of innocence, that becoming an adult means losing your childlike connection with nature etc. and how that’s in tension with the traditional idea that unicorns are both pure and good and also wise and ancient, and i thought about Lewis’ idea (particularly as expressed in Perelandra) that one can learn about sin through sinning but there is also God’s way of knowing about sin which is beyond or outside or something of sin.
The dance scene is hott, but not necessarily worth watching the rest of the movie for.
IMDb Trivia: The sound of the unicorns at play is actually a recording of humpback whales.
The next day we watched Evita, which i liked a lot more than i had expected to. I was expecting a paean like unto Princess Diana and was much pleased at the undercutting. Narrative interloper! "Falling over ourselves to get all of the misery right." Yeah, i was in heart (with him) from early on. In the credits, he’s named Ché, which worried me, because he’s totally written so that you love him, and if he’s supposed to be Che Guevara, then that encourages you to automatically transfer your love of the character to love for the historical personage, which is troubling. Apparently in the stage musical, it is the famous Guevara, but not in the film, that in Argentina "Che" is a commonly used slang, so in the film he’s just an ordinary Argentine.
Kate says i’m a bad person to watch sad movies with. Dude, i’m That Bitch who hates everything, but i totally cry at the drop of a hat. I just didn’t cry at this. I actually was teary at the beginning, but not at the end.
Emma insisted that we watch a happy movie afterward. We were gonna watch the Faerie Tale Theatre Sleeping Beauty for the flamingly gay fairy, but Kate didn’t have it, so we watched The Emperor's New Groove, which i fully expected to hate, but which i actually ended up enjoying. During much of the previous movies, Kate an/dor Emma would say “S/he’s awesome,” and i would say, “But s/he’s evil.” However, in this movie, i was all, “Why do people have to be so damn moral? Please get rid of the schmuck already.” Also: “Dude, all you do is dance and be self-centered? Why not let her run your kingdom?” The answer was “Because she’s evil,” and i get that, but honestly, she’s just coded as evil by being (a) in opposition to the protagonist, (b) skinny and old and in dark clothes. (Why yes, i did retain things from my Grimms to Disney class ;) ) Yeah, she shows herself to be evil as it goes on, but at the beginning she’s just coded as “scary beyond all reason” and i was far more keen to get rid of the “annoying and obnoxious beyond all reason.” I did in fact cease hating him at some point during the movie, though, and i enjoyed a lot of the early movie because he gets what he deserves.
IMDb Trivia: According to the DVD Commentary, this is the first Disney Animated Feature to show a pregnant woman.
Kate says i’m “a movie curmudgeon.” :P
Hmm, i was gonna go visit the high school today, but now i kinda don’t feel like it. Think i may stay home and try to finish my ficathon fics (and figure out what i want for lunch). I’m probably going to go to Class Act tonight, and then it’s off to Virginia tomorrow morning, back late Saturday night.
"Is Hollins ready for
hermionesviolin? :D :D :D Ohmygosh, I'm so excited. Yay for running with crazy whims on occasion. And for chaplain networking and, just, GLEE!"-sk8eeyore
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Date: 2005-03-18 07:29 am (UTC)I suppose the turning everything dark, returning to how it used to be, has parallels with Dr. F. wanting to turn this place into a big perverted orgy like back on Transsexual.
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Date: 2006-11-20 03:19 am (UTC)What I found hilarious is that the people of Argentina didn't seem to have a problem with the musical itself, but they were all up-in-arms when it was announced that Madonna would play Maria Eva Duarte Peron. Because Madonna is a slut (unlike the "spiritual leader of the nation"--her actual title at the time of her death--*eye roll*) Give me a break, people. It is beyond obvious that Evita slept her way to the top.
Also of interest: Evita died of cervical cancer at the age of 33. Cervical cancer is the one that can be/often is caused by HPV. And isn't HPV a sexually-transmitted disease? *goes off to check the Wiki* Hah! It *can* be a sexually transmitted disease (although it isn't always). Which makes me think of Eva's final song:
"The choice was mine and mine completely
I could have any prize that I desired
I could burn with the splendor of the brightest fire
Or else, or else I could choose time
Remember, that I was very young then
And a year was forever and a day
So what use would fifty, sixty, seventy be?
I saw the lights and I was on my way
How I lived, how I shone
But how soon, how soon the lights were gone."
I think the fact that she seems to recognize that it was her choice, that she could have either a life of fame and splendor or a long, but quiet life, recognizes that she could have/probably did have a hand in her own demise. Or maybe I'm reading too much into it. ;)
Also, The 10th Kingdom is totally made of heart. I love it when fairy tales are re-invented/re-interpreted. Were it a book, it would be called something along the lines of "After Happily Ever After: Life in the 9 Kingdoms after Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and all the rest."