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I read one of them in Italy... I know you'd got them both out of library at some point, and that I'd read them too. If not... how did I know what was coming?
It was just predictable wasn't it... I'm afraid I've never seen HH, Mercutio, but I have seen The Importance of Being Ernest in different productions, and I remember thinking that the film was excellent. And Colin Firth... he seems to work in weening people of that stupid hobbit guy for LotR! ![]()
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Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton. |
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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. |
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I've read it. Just because the odds against it are astronomical doesn't mean it didn't happen.
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Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton. |
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I kind of felt sorry for Catherine. Mr. Movie-Tilney didn't look like the best catch. In the book he was described as handsome, I believe (?).
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I just saw Donnie Darko. I really liked it. I'm still trying to understand a couple parts though. >.<
And I'm watching the really long version of The Scarlet Letter in English class, but I'm not done yet, so I guess you couldn't really say I just saw it. |
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Donnie Darko actually makes no sense if you think about it hard enough, which I did. It is entertaining, makes interesting points, but on a whole makes zero sense. None of the movie would have happened if "frank" hadn't saved donnie in the first place, and thus he would not have had to sacrifice himself later - but then of course we wouldn't have a movie. Other than that, other parts of it didn't make much sense as well.
Scarlet Letter? Not a very fun book, I had to read that last year. We also saw most of the movie, or parts of it. There are two different movie versions of it though, I believe.
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If you don't think about it literally, if you think about it metaphorically, it makes sense.
If you try and think that Frank was really there it makes people go "huh? I don't get it." Stuff like that.
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There are other movies which make no sense when you think about them. The Matrix is one of them. NO!!! NOO!!! Don't just say 'if you think it makes no sense then you didn't get it!' I understood! I got it! And I didn't get it...
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Most of the ending... to be honest, it kinda faded into the incomprehensible...
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about donnie darko:
philosphical.... yes i said it had nice ideas like that. if you actually think about the plot thouhg, it makes very little sense. You should buy or rent the DVD. The dvd is pretty cheap - i borrowed it from a friend though ![]() I hear that the Director's Cut is......different, like a different movie in some ways.
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"Don't just say 'if you think it makes no sense then you didn't get it!' I understood! I got it! And I didn't get it..."
*applauds* Yes, it is this way with many movies. And yet if you say that you think part or all of it really made no sense when you analyze it and such people usually just say "you didn't understand it" as if they understood it all and you just arent as...... enlightened as them :P
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Yeah, I remember thinking really hard about something and thinking it didn't make sense, but, I still like it. I'll have to think a little harder, sorry. EDIT: I haven't seen the director's cut yet, so maybe I will consider it.
I'm really getting into the Scarlet Letter movie. I tried reading the book once and didn't finish it, but I like the movie. That's odd for me, because usually the book is better. But this particular movie follows the book almost exactly, word for word. I'm disappointed that I'll miss the end today, since I have to take some kids to the dentist, so I think I'll borrow it from my teacher. Some parts I don't understand though. It's a deeper book than I originally gave it credit for. Last edited by katya : 11-18-2004 at 08:53 AM. |
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I just saw The Alamo. Not bad. Rather good with the historical stuff, although the story lacked direction- I mean, we already know they're all going to die, but there was somthing missing... No character development, or else very little, which made the movie a little confusing. But, it did have some stirring speeches and some great camera-shots. I also liked Crockett on the wall with his fiddle. That was a great moment.
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Demi Moore version? or the version with whats-her-face with the crazy eyes.
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