Long procrastination entry is long
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tilly_stratfordOkay so I've been gone for a couple of days. The reasons for this are: I've been freaking out over my upcoming exams (the first one of which is on Thursday), I've been watching various vintage scifi with Maria (Come on Undiscovered Country, you were made in the nineties, how hard can split screen effects be?) and the fact that yesterday was Norway's birthday (Hooray!)
So, catching up on the movie meme:
Day 12 - The movie you’ve watched the most
and
Day 13 - Favorite childhood movie
These can efficiently be answered with the same movie: The Lion King. I was six years old when it premiered and there's a special kind of obsessive behaviour I think only children below ten really understand. Me and my sister would watch it again and again and again, we'd memorize the lines, we'd play with our Lion King toys and listen to our Lion King CD. My mum was even groovy enough to let me have curtains adorned with Simba and Nala.
I still think it's a great movie too. Hamlet with an all-animal cast.
Day 14 - Favorite male character
I've been giving this some thought for the last couple of days. My first instinct was to say Harry Lime from The Third Man (as portrayed by Orson Welles) - but how could I know I hadn't been influenced by the spinoff radio series, where Harry Lime is less of a unscrupoulus villain and more of a charming anti-hero?
I have also decided I shall keep a zither player with me at all
times in case I make eye contact with someone.
I was trying to think of someone else when I happened upon the movie blog Sunset Gun where writer Kim Morgan evocatively reflects on Harry Lime's entrance in the movie:
So, catching up on the movie meme:
Day 12 - The movie you’ve watched the most
and
Day 13 - Favorite childhood movie
These can efficiently be answered with the same movie: The Lion King. I was six years old when it premiered and there's a special kind of obsessive behaviour I think only children below ten really understand. Me and my sister would watch it again and again and again, we'd memorize the lines, we'd play with our Lion King toys and listen to our Lion King CD. My mum was even groovy enough to let me have curtains adorned with Simba and Nala.
I still think it's a great movie too. Hamlet with an all-animal cast.
Day 14 - Favorite male character
I've been giving this some thought for the last couple of days. My first instinct was to say Harry Lime from The Third Man (as portrayed by Orson Welles) - but how could I know I hadn't been influenced by the spinoff radio series, where Harry Lime is less of a unscrupoulus villain and more of a charming anti-hero?
I have also decided I shall keep a zither player with me at all
times in case I make eye contact with someone.
I was trying to think of someone else when I happened upon the movie blog Sunset Gun where writer Kim Morgan evocatively reflects on Harry Lime's entrance in the movie:
A window opens, and light flickers on Lime, and the camera holds a mysterious, mischievous and disarmingly smiling face. Welles (as Lime) looks back at Holly with eyes that [...] makes you understand what Anna later says about Lime: "Harry never grew up. The world grew up around him." You forget about the terrible things he's done. You just want to follow him, anywhere, no matter what the repercussions.YES. Harry Lime it is. Unscrupulous and the culprit of gruesome, heart-wrenching crimes, and yet so irresistibly charming, so disarmingly jovial.
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Date: 2010-05-18 06:34 pm (UTC)See, I have been wanting to do this meme, but honestly? I think it's too hard. I can't make these hierarchical choices!
Also Scar is awesome.
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Date: 2010-05-19 10:29 am (UTC)I can't make these hierarchical choices!
Honestly neither can I. I feel cheap every time I do, but knowing me my opinion will change within a day or two anyway. The meme is just an excuse to splurge about movies!
And yes, Scar is the best thing about that movie.