Twofer.
I went to Blizzcon this past weekend, had a tremendous time, dabbled in the existence of another humanoid being, the usual. There are tons of pictures on my MySpace that I've collected from various gaming websites and random people's Flickr accounts, but most of the good ones are on the film camera I brought so when I get them developed I'll post them all (probably much much later).
Now I have to get cranking if I want to do this in time.
With this movie, it helps if you've read the book, but in that case you may as well not see the movie because Stephen King books are always better than the movies. The movie chooses to leave out a key part of the book -- the Wendigo, the evil Native American spirit that drives all the other evil forces in the story. Because of this, it seems like a mishmash of scary things that don't really connect, spooky for the sake of being a spooky shot. It's also a movie about negligent parenting.
This is not the first time the toddler is this close to a raging semi unsupervised, nor will it be the last. These parents are continually looking away, talking over their children, turning their backs, and then acting wrought with grief whenever anything bad happens.
When their older daughter begins to show concern for her beloved pet cat being so close to the busy road, their attempts to explain life and death simply make her upset at the unfairness of the world. The dad's worst fears come true when the cat does wind up dead, and he's stuck knowing his daughter can't handle it.
So his kindly old neighbor takes him to the Indian burial ground to resurrect his cat. Of course he does not mention that anything that comes back, comes back evil, a fact he knows from personal experience but chooses not to reveal until the damage is already done.
The mother in the family has always been shaky talking about death to her children and in a breakdown she finally reveals why: she had a sickly older sister her parents kept locked in a back room. The sister was deformed and mentally retarded, and the younger prettier sister often ended up taking care of her. One day they were left alone together and the older sister died calling for help, while the younger sat back and was glad not only for her sister to no longer be suffering but for her freedom from taking care of her.
The family's concerns reach a new level when their expert parenting once again results in tragedy. Their toddler son Gage is hit by a semi and killed. The wife's father loses his mind at the funeral and attacks the father, stating the obvious and calling him irresponsible, and knocking the tiny little coffin to the ground. Grief-stricken father, of course, can think of only one solution ...
But the graveyard doesn't pay favors, and even Gage comes back as evil and bloodthirsty. He makes an easy victim of the elderly neighbor with the help of the resurrected cat, and when his mother returns home she welcomes him into her arms, where he disposes of her in some nasty unspecified way.
He appears like this, looking very similar to a portrait of the mother's dead sister. The original purpose of this was to suggest that the Wendigo operated a lot like a malicious fate--families were marked for tragedy and these newest tragedies were simply a continuation of all the other bad things that had happened. The way it plays now, the mention of the older sister is simply to provide what end up being some of the spookiest shots in the movie (so spooky I couldn't bring myself to capture them).
The father, enraged at what his zombie son has done, kills the zombie baby (it's okay because he's not really a kid anymore, see) and foolishly thinks that because his wife has just died, she will be safe from the negative effects of the Indian burial ground. He buries her and waits around for her to come home. She does.
Total classic. A young actor and his wife move into an upscale New York apartmen and become the prey of Satanistic machinations. Their neighbors, who are busybodies but friendly enough, become quickly entrenched in the couple's life and encourage them to have a baby.
The former tenant of their apartment left behind some cryptic notes that don't make sense until the story begins to reveal itself. One of the notes suggests that she feels uncomfortable pretending to be friendly with people she knows are Satanists. However the note is cut off, suggesting she paid for her refusal to accept. The young wife, Rosemary, befriends a woman in the building, but it's fairly short-lived ...
The young woman was a former runaway druggie, and the same old couple took her in. She supposedly commits suicide, but she is mysteriously no longer in possession of a necklace she was wearing only the day before, a necklace which the old lady later gives to Rosemary to encourage fertility. It's a possibility that this girl was originally chosen to be the carrier of Satan's child, until a better option came along.
I can't for the life of me remember why I took that screenshot. However, it is the room in which the baby is later presented to Rosemary, so maybe that has something to do with it.
After eating a dessert from the neighbors, Rosemary has a vivid and bizarre dream where she is raped by a monster while her husband and neighbors look on, chanting. Obviously "this is no dream!" but being a rational human being, Rosemary does not give it much credence until the rest of her life begins to fall apart.
When she wakes up, she is covered in scratches. She chides her husband and he claims he simply had sex with her while she slept and got carried away, since it was their night to try for a baby. This reasonably freaks Rosemary out, though surely not as much as the truth would.
This photo is an excellent capture of the characters' relationships to one another. Roman is in between husband and wife, dividing them and making himself central. He is watchful of both, and his look is proud but alert. Guy is wary of Rosemary, focused on her and uneasy with his involvement in the plan. Roman is doing something he is passionate about and believes in, while Guy is involved for the promise of success they give him. His guilt and uncertainty shows through in the beyond-protective-into-controlling gaze he lays on Rosemary. And Ro of course has the faint smile she is expected to have, considering she just announced her pregnancy, but she is obviously not present in the situation and has her mind on other things. She has felt ill and been losing weight, and the feelings of joy she should be having are replaced with dread. However, at this point she still feels the failing lies with her, not her kooky neighbors, so she is attempting to conceal it.
I think they actually played a game of Scrabble, because all the words match up and everything is a legitimate Scrabble entry. I like that attention to detail.
Rosemary begins to notice odd things about her neighbors, like the herbs they grow, the chanting from their apartment at night, and the fact that the elderly man has pierced ears. Guy dismisses it as paranoia but in fact Rosemary begins to find the pieces of the puzzle. She traces it back to a book on Satanists lent to her by a friend who is suspicious of the goings-on (and pays for it dearly).
I wonder if Scrabble paid for the endorsement. Rosemary plays with the tiles to discover an anagram, an awesome idea I need to keep in mind if I'm ever cracking an anagram. She finds out that her neighbors are actually ancient practicers of Satanism, but by this time the web is woven around her, and by then even the doctor she turns to is involved in the scheme to bring about the Son of Satan. Rosemary has the baby in a blur of memories and is told he was stillborn, though she hears his cries through the wall. She tears into the neighbors' house, where worshipers scold her for dishonoring Satan, when Roman reminds them that she is its mother. She takes it in her arms and hums a lullaby, as Roman comments that it has his father's eyes.
And here is a freebie because I have less screenshots uploaded than I remembered. I told someone about this, probably Adam, and now these shots have been sitting in my folder forever. So without further ado ...
Home Alone'>
The house seems perma-Christmas themed. Don't forget the forest green walls with white trim and red carpet.
P.S. My parents had that third from last wallpaper in their kitchen until the late '90s. Yikes.
Now I have to get cranking if I want to do this in time.
With this movie, it helps if you've read the book, but in that case you may as well not see the movie because Stephen King books are always better than the movies. The movie chooses to leave out a key part of the book -- the Wendigo, the evil Native American spirit that drives all the other evil forces in the story. Because of this, it seems like a mishmash of scary things that don't really connect, spooky for the sake of being a spooky shot. It's also a movie about negligent parenting.
This is not the first time the toddler is this close to a raging semi unsupervised, nor will it be the last. These parents are continually looking away, talking over their children, turning their backs, and then acting wrought with grief whenever anything bad happens.
When their older daughter begins to show concern for her beloved pet cat being so close to the busy road, their attempts to explain life and death simply make her upset at the unfairness of the world. The dad's worst fears come true when the cat does wind up dead, and he's stuck knowing his daughter can't handle it.
So his kindly old neighbor takes him to the Indian burial ground to resurrect his cat. Of course he does not mention that anything that comes back, comes back evil, a fact he knows from personal experience but chooses not to reveal until the damage is already done.
The mother in the family has always been shaky talking about death to her children and in a breakdown she finally reveals why: she had a sickly older sister her parents kept locked in a back room. The sister was deformed and mentally retarded, and the younger prettier sister often ended up taking care of her. One day they were left alone together and the older sister died calling for help, while the younger sat back and was glad not only for her sister to no longer be suffering but for her freedom from taking care of her.
The family's concerns reach a new level when their expert parenting once again results in tragedy. Their toddler son Gage is hit by a semi and killed. The wife's father loses his mind at the funeral and attacks the father, stating the obvious and calling him irresponsible, and knocking the tiny little coffin to the ground. Grief-stricken father, of course, can think of only one solution ...
But the graveyard doesn't pay favors, and even Gage comes back as evil and bloodthirsty. He makes an easy victim of the elderly neighbor with the help of the resurrected cat, and when his mother returns home she welcomes him into her arms, where he disposes of her in some nasty unspecified way.
He appears like this, looking very similar to a portrait of the mother's dead sister. The original purpose of this was to suggest that the Wendigo operated a lot like a malicious fate--families were marked for tragedy and these newest tragedies were simply a continuation of all the other bad things that had happened. The way it plays now, the mention of the older sister is simply to provide what end up being some of the spookiest shots in the movie (so spooky I couldn't bring myself to capture them).
The father, enraged at what his zombie son has done, kills the zombie baby (it's okay because he's not really a kid anymore, see) and foolishly thinks that because his wife has just died, she will be safe from the negative effects of the Indian burial ground. He buries her and waits around for her to come home. She does.
Total classic. A young actor and his wife move into an upscale New York apartmen and become the prey of Satanistic machinations. Their neighbors, who are busybodies but friendly enough, become quickly entrenched in the couple's life and encourage them to have a baby.
The former tenant of their apartment left behind some cryptic notes that don't make sense until the story begins to reveal itself. One of the notes suggests that she feels uncomfortable pretending to be friendly with people she knows are Satanists. However the note is cut off, suggesting she paid for her refusal to accept. The young wife, Rosemary, befriends a woman in the building, but it's fairly short-lived ...
The young woman was a former runaway druggie, and the same old couple took her in. She supposedly commits suicide, but she is mysteriously no longer in possession of a necklace she was wearing only the day before, a necklace which the old lady later gives to Rosemary to encourage fertility. It's a possibility that this girl was originally chosen to be the carrier of Satan's child, until a better option came along.
I can't for the life of me remember why I took that screenshot. However, it is the room in which the baby is later presented to Rosemary, so maybe that has something to do with it.
After eating a dessert from the neighbors, Rosemary has a vivid and bizarre dream where she is raped by a monster while her husband and neighbors look on, chanting. Obviously "this is no dream!" but being a rational human being, Rosemary does not give it much credence until the rest of her life begins to fall apart.
When she wakes up, she is covered in scratches. She chides her husband and he claims he simply had sex with her while she slept and got carried away, since it was their night to try for a baby. This reasonably freaks Rosemary out, though surely not as much as the truth would.
This photo is an excellent capture of the characters' relationships to one another. Roman is in between husband and wife, dividing them and making himself central. He is watchful of both, and his look is proud but alert. Guy is wary of Rosemary, focused on her and uneasy with his involvement in the plan. Roman is doing something he is passionate about and believes in, while Guy is involved for the promise of success they give him. His guilt and uncertainty shows through in the beyond-protective-into-controlling gaze he lays on Rosemary. And Ro of course has the faint smile she is expected to have, considering she just announced her pregnancy, but she is obviously not present in the situation and has her mind on other things. She has felt ill and been losing weight, and the feelings of joy she should be having are replaced with dread. However, at this point she still feels the failing lies with her, not her kooky neighbors, so she is attempting to conceal it.
I think they actually played a game of Scrabble, because all the words match up and everything is a legitimate Scrabble entry. I like that attention to detail.
Rosemary begins to notice odd things about her neighbors, like the herbs they grow, the chanting from their apartment at night, and the fact that the elderly man has pierced ears. Guy dismisses it as paranoia but in fact Rosemary begins to find the pieces of the puzzle. She traces it back to a book on Satanists lent to her by a friend who is suspicious of the goings-on (and pays for it dearly).
I wonder if Scrabble paid for the endorsement. Rosemary plays with the tiles to discover an anagram, an awesome idea I need to keep in mind if I'm ever cracking an anagram. She finds out that her neighbors are actually ancient practicers of Satanism, but by this time the web is woven around her, and by then even the doctor she turns to is involved in the scheme to bring about the Son of Satan. Rosemary has the baby in a blur of memories and is told he was stillborn, though she hears his cries through the wall. She tears into the neighbors' house, where worshipers scold her for dishonoring Satan, when Roman reminds them that she is its mother. She takes it in her arms and hums a lullaby, as Roman comments that it has his father's eyes.
And here is a freebie because I have less screenshots uploaded than I remembered. I told someone about this, probably Adam, and now these shots have been sitting in my folder forever. So without further ado ...
Home Alone'>
The house seems perma-Christmas themed. Don't forget the forest green walls with white trim and red carpet.
P.S. My parents had that third from last wallpaper in their kitchen until the late '90s. Yikes.