Movies
| I was telling Pauli on the phone that I went to see Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit. I liked it, a lot of fun. Should have seen the twist coming, seeing as how mush I have thought about Lupin ... that the monster is always the man transformed down rather than the beast transformed up. But I was in a sleepy mood that day. It's been a while since I watched the original 3 episodes from 1990 so it was a good dose of W&G, I thoroughly enjoyed it. (Interesting though that there were a few "adult"/adolescent jokes - such as Wallace naked when the female lead comes in [SPOILER: he had just transformed back from his huge rabbit mode, in which his clothes would not have him so they are shredded off: END SPOILER] and Gromit handing him a box to cover up with and the box was from some food item and has a red label "contains nuts" And a really odd one that I'm not sure if it was really there or not. In college for a course in 20th century American novel we read The Centaur by John Updike. Updike is a sort of gritty psychological surrealist, a number of the scenes deal in fairly erotic language with a woman's obsession with a man whom she visualizes/fantasizes about as a centaur. Another series by Updike along the same themes deals with a guy whose name is Rabbit. There are several in the series and I can only remember the name of one, Rabbit Run. The female lead in Were-Rabbit says this at one point ... not sure if it was a reference to Updike's Rabbit novel or not ... seems kind of out of place to me, probably just coincidence) Other Movie News: Harry Potter 4 on Nov 18th Batman Begins is out on DVD Charlie and the Chocolate Factory comes out on DVD Nov 8th Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is out on DVD |
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Pauli said ... (October 21, 2005 11:25 AM)
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Merlin said ... (October 21, 2005 12:12 PM)
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Pauli said ... (October 21, 2005 1:17 PM)
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post a commentWe must both have movies on the brain right now. What do you think about my latest blog on the Incredibles and the Quintessence?
Just doing me best, sir, to "accomplish the mysteries of the one thing...."
Just read the post.
Really good stuff ... I had read Granger using the Incredibles and fantastic 4 but only a cursory glnace.
As I was going down your post and you said "the family dynamic if the ..." I though, wait a minute, what about Jack Jack? and then you went and stole my thunder.
Note Syndrome's name - it is usually used for maladies/disorders.
I loved Jack Jack ... and epsecially the film short "The Jack Jack Attack" ... I was rolling on the floor at the scene of the baby sitter in the morning sitting there with all the necessaries such as a fire extinguisher and a mirror.
Basically the same thing happened to me... I'm writing about the fifth element and the family harmony and I thought "Wait - there is a fifth member of the family!" I was going to suggest that "Incredibles" is kind of a New Testament version of fantastic 4 with Baby JJ as the Incarnation of the Family Spirit, but I thought that was possibly a stretch. The demoralization of the family when they realize that JJ has been taken is operative at many levels - first horrific as any baby-stealing is but also a symbol for the destruction of the family spirit or morale.