Should I do some kind of thing where like if you can prove to me that you've gone to see Slumdog Millionaire I will give you a cookie? Write you a drabble? Pose for pictures naked on the wing of a plane? (I will not do that. Unless Dev Patel asks me personally, in which case I WILL HAVE THE PLANE AND CAMERAS READY.)
(And by the way, the three musketeers are Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. D'Artagnan is the fourth. WHY AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO SEEMS TO HAVE ACTUALLY READ THIS BOOK???!!! We push Faulkner in our schools, and not Dumas? Blasphemy.)
P.S. If you've seen/made any super-exciting Slumdog Millionaire icons you should point me to them. :)
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And by the way, the three musketeers are Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. D'Artagnan is the fourth.
DUH. It's like- OK everyone remembers seeing the movie at least if they never actually READ the book so why can't they remember that THERE WERE ALREADY THREE MUSTKETEERS? If someone is going to be confused about D'Artagnan you might as well entertain that maybe THE CARDINAL is the fourth musketeer! NO! It's just plain LOGIC. Astounding, I know. Stand back while I work.
DUH. It's like- OK everyone remembers seeing the movie at least if they never actually READ the book so why can't they remember that THERE WERE ALREADY THREE MUSTKETEERS?
OhGod, THANK YOU. I felt like I was being unreasonable about this because every time I have gone the WHOLE THEATRE like erupts and is like "oh, it's D'Artagnan!" and I'm like "NOOOOO HE IS THE OUTSIDE/NARRATING PROTAGONIST YOU WONKS."
I wonder if the moviemakers meant for us to know, or not. I guess there was less suspense, but after all the massive suspense that had just occurred, I was okay with that. :P
I could tell that everyone in the theater wasn't sure, too, so I think the directors, while they may have meant for us to know, but not the characters, overestimated how well-read an American audience IS.
FIE on American audiences, I say. FIE.
But DEV PATEL is on The Daily Show RIGHT NOW!!! WHAT.
I know about the Musketeers!
Well, obviously you do. ;) I NEVER DOUBTED YOU FOR A MOMENT, MY LOVE.
I AM LITERARY.
It's all about the way you correct people, and what you correct them about. About what you correct them. Oh, this is a stupid language; isn't that why we love it?
Speaking of being literary.
I do love it. Mmm.
also is that proof i went?
And OMFGBBQ I LOVE YOUR ICON.
And ahahahaha that is totally proof! WANT ME TO WRITE YOU A DRABBLE?! We have overlapping fandoms, right? :)
But then I forgot to post about it. Something about some Math Smith guy.
And OMGYAAAAAAAAAY. I AM SO GLAD YOU SAW IT AND LOVED IT! OH THE WONDERFULNESS! ♥ (I was inspired enough after the first time to do a Dev Patel picspam, and I don't think I've done a real picspam since Firefly.)
P.S. I think the best thing about the casting is that IT IS TOTALLY AN EXCUSE TO REWATCH THE PHILIP PULLMAN SERIES. Does that make me a bad person? :P
Edited 2009-01-05 01:11 am (UTC)
P.S. I think the best thing about the casting is that IT IS TOTALLY AN EXCUSE TO REWATCH THE PHILIP PULLMAN SERIES. Does that make me a bad person? :P
I feel an urge to re-watch 1x06 of SDoaCG, so I'm right there with you.
omg why is he 18 and not my boyfriend. :P
I feel an urge to re-watch 1x06 of SDoaCG, so I'm right there with you.
WOOHOO. I should definitely do that, because, um, I do not remember him! LOL. I BLAME BILLIE'S BOOBS.
I rarely wonder why I normally assume a movie is not worth watching, since everything I see is a pile of crap. BUT THIS WAS AMAZING.
And — omg SERIOUSLY. SO WHAT I NEEDED AT THIS TIME IN MY LIFE. ♥ I wish I could buy it already and snuggle it close to my chest!
About the movie, I'm a little meh. Is it really all it's cracked up to be? Because I've read the novel it was based on and that was a deadly bore. :/
Really?! Wow, well, that's good to know, but the movie is anything but a deadly bore. I could fangirl every aspect of the production. I think you'll like it. :D
Hmm. Will have to put it on my must-watch list, then?
Also, hell to the yeah with the Faulkner bashing. Him, I do not like.
What is Slumdog Millionaire about? I have only heard about it from your journal.
And yeah, Faulker just drives me crazy. Not least because I'm pretty sure he came up with that whole "little death" thing to describe orgasms (wtf?) and women are barely even present in his books. And also he belongs to that if-it's-depressing-it-MUST-be-good school of literary thought.
Slumdog Millionaire sounds really lame if I just try to explain the plot to people — like, when my cousins told me what it was about I was like "??? oh, whatever." but it is SO well done in every respect that it ends up being really profound. And it's a feel-good movie and there is a sweet, sweet OTP and all this hotness! It's really worth discovering the story for yourself, in the theater.
♥ ♥!
(Except I left MIT because it was the smart thing to do. :P)
As it turns out, I left MIT too! In, um, November 2007? The current plan is that I'll go back this fall, but it sort of all depends on my mental health state and whether or not I can either (a) suffer through the incompetence and discrimination that is the Aero/Astro department (b) find something else to major in.
It looks like you found yourself an awesome new academic program — that is an astounding feat! If you have any advice ... ;)
It's hilarious...I even wanted to do course 16. :D But if I went back I'd probably do either 8 or 9.
I wouldn't take advice from me. I manage to frak something up...well, frequently. But Hope College is a lot of fun! (And you can double major in physics and English and people respect you for it instead of thinking you're a freak!)
Anyway, friending now. :)
Dude, I KNEW that freaking answer too!! (book nerds unite!)
Luv you dear, talk to you soon!