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30-day movie meme
Aug. 9th, 2010 03:15 pmWell, here's my last two days. This weekend got away from me, somehow...
( Previous days )
Day 29 - A movie from your childhood - The only movie I really remember from my childhood is The Sound of Music. I know there are others, like The Wizard of Oz, which I only saw on TV, and some of Disney's lesser efforts (I grew up between the first and second Golden Ages of Disney, so what I saw in the theater were things like The Aristocats, not the good stuff). I still like The Sound of Music, or, rather, I should say I like it again. I liked it as a kid -- my mother and one of my sisters and I saw it when I was five or six at the Fox Fullerton, which was one of those enormous red velvet and gilt palace theaters from back in the day. But somewhere along about adolescence I started thinking of it as silly (I went through a stage where I felt that way about all musicals, beginning about the time my parents and I went to see that horrible, horrible musical version of Hilton's Lost Horizon with the guy from Network and Olivia Hussey, and lasting for several decades), and it's only been in the last few years that I've liked it again. I've read the book it's based on, too, which I suspect has increased my appreciation of it as well. And I do love Julie Andrews [g].
Day 30 - Your favorite movie of all time -- Okay, okay, now I finally get to mention it. My alltime favorite movie, which has held that position for about sixteen years now, is [drumroll] Much Ado About Nothing. The Branagh version, of course, although I don't think there's another talkie version of Much Ado to confuse it with. What's not to love? Benedick is why Branagh fandom is my oldest and most cherished fandom, and then there's the script [g], and Emma Thompson and Richard Briers and Brian Blessed and an adorably young and stupid (well, his character is) Robert Sean Leonard and adorably young and not stupid Kate Beckinsale. And Denzel Washington's Southern accent creeping in at the most delightful moments ("cupid is no longer an archer, his glory shall be ours!"). I even like glowery Keanu. Not so much with Michael Keaton's Beetlejuice/Dogberry, but, hey, nothing is perfect. And the score, and the scenery...
"I will live in thy lap, die in thy arms, and be buried in thy eyes. And, moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle's." Sigh. Best. Movie. Ever.
So there.
( Previous days )
Day 29 - A movie from your childhood - The only movie I really remember from my childhood is The Sound of Music. I know there are others, like The Wizard of Oz, which I only saw on TV, and some of Disney's lesser efforts (I grew up between the first and second Golden Ages of Disney, so what I saw in the theater were things like The Aristocats, not the good stuff). I still like The Sound of Music, or, rather, I should say I like it again. I liked it as a kid -- my mother and one of my sisters and I saw it when I was five or six at the Fox Fullerton, which was one of those enormous red velvet and gilt palace theaters from back in the day. But somewhere along about adolescence I started thinking of it as silly (I went through a stage where I felt that way about all musicals, beginning about the time my parents and I went to see that horrible, horrible musical version of Hilton's Lost Horizon with the guy from Network and Olivia Hussey, and lasting for several decades), and it's only been in the last few years that I've liked it again. I've read the book it's based on, too, which I suspect has increased my appreciation of it as well. And I do love Julie Andrews [g].
Day 30 - Your favorite movie of all time -- Okay, okay, now I finally get to mention it. My alltime favorite movie, which has held that position for about sixteen years now, is [drumroll] Much Ado About Nothing. The Branagh version, of course, although I don't think there's another talkie version of Much Ado to confuse it with. What's not to love? Benedick is why Branagh fandom is my oldest and most cherished fandom, and then there's the script [g], and Emma Thompson and Richard Briers and Brian Blessed and an adorably young and stupid (well, his character is) Robert Sean Leonard and adorably young and not stupid Kate Beckinsale. And Denzel Washington's Southern accent creeping in at the most delightful moments ("cupid is no longer an archer, his glory shall be ours!"). I even like glowery Keanu. Not so much with Michael Keaton's Beetlejuice/Dogberry, but, hey, nothing is perfect. And the score, and the scenery...
"I will live in thy lap, die in thy arms, and be buried in thy eyes. And, moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle's." Sigh. Best. Movie. Ever.
So there.
