yes, my family is geeks
Went out to dinner with the family earlier (teppanyaki ftw!) and I found myself telling my brother and sister-in-law about the RSC producing Hamlet and how more than a couple of people I know of in fandom are going off to watch it. And that got us to talking about what shows and with which actors we would be willing to spend a helluva lot of money on just to go see. Which went like:
Me: "I dunno, it would have to be something really, really...something like... If Julie Andrews was in My Fair Lady again."
Brother: "Oh yeah, like that's going to happen."
Me: "With Rex Harrison."
Brother: "...yeah, you're going to need a time machine for that."
(And, you know what? That's one of those regrets, that My Fair Lady with Julie Andrews isn't on tape anywhere, because my god, I would kill to see that. Also, I couln't help but laugh when "On the Street Where You Live" played on the radio on the way home after.)
My sister-in-law decided that it would be Rent with the original cast (me: "You can just watch the movie again...:D" Her: "Yeah, really not the same thing.") or Phantom of the Opera with someone-or-other, I don't remember who since I don't follow it. My brother was lame and couldn't decide what he would really want to see and went off on a tangent about how a new King Lear movie was in production.
Oh brothers.
(This tangent went off into a tangent about how the closest I've ever come to watching King Lear is Ran, which is, you know, awesome, and I should really rewatch it one of these days. Also, Lear in the new movie is played by Anthony Hopkins, who was awesome in Titus Andronicus, which holds the distinction of being the only movie to have ever made me want to leave the theater so that I could go and, umm, yeah, that is all...)
And then, somehow, we got into that age-old discussion of: "And if your life was made into a movie, who would direct it?" Mine would be (and always has been, or at least since Romeo and Juliet) by Baz Luhrmann. It's the all-singing, all-dancing version of my life, as I told my friend a while back. :D And I told my brother who I saw playing him: Neil Patrick Harris. Totally wrong ethnicity to play my brother, but even he admitted that he could totally see that.
I think "who would direct the movie of your life?" is an important discussion topic when getting to know people, right up there with "who is your favorite Ninja Turtle?" (Mine is Donatello, for those who were wondering.) Really, things like these can tell you a lot about a person and how they see themselves.
Honestly.
Me: "I dunno, it would have to be something really, really...something like... If Julie Andrews was in My Fair Lady again."
Brother: "Oh yeah, like that's going to happen."
Me: "With Rex Harrison."
Brother: "...yeah, you're going to need a time machine for that."
(And, you know what? That's one of those regrets, that My Fair Lady with Julie Andrews isn't on tape anywhere, because my god, I would kill to see that. Also, I couln't help but laugh when "On the Street Where You Live" played on the radio on the way home after.)
My sister-in-law decided that it would be Rent with the original cast (me: "You can just watch the movie again...:D" Her: "Yeah, really not the same thing.") or Phantom of the Opera with someone-or-other, I don't remember who since I don't follow it. My brother was lame and couldn't decide what he would really want to see and went off on a tangent about how a new King Lear movie was in production.
Oh brothers.
(This tangent went off into a tangent about how the closest I've ever come to watching King Lear is Ran, which is, you know, awesome, and I should really rewatch it one of these days. Also, Lear in the new movie is played by Anthony Hopkins, who was awesome in Titus Andronicus, which holds the distinction of being the only movie to have ever made me want to leave the theater so that I could go and, umm, yeah, that is all...)
And then, somehow, we got into that age-old discussion of: "And if your life was made into a movie, who would direct it?" Mine would be (and always has been, or at least since Romeo and Juliet) by Baz Luhrmann. It's the all-singing, all-dancing version of my life, as I told my friend a while back. :D And I told my brother who I saw playing him: Neil Patrick Harris. Totally wrong ethnicity to play my brother, but even he admitted that he could totally see that.
I think "who would direct the movie of your life?" is an important discussion topic when getting to know people, right up there with "who is your favorite Ninja Turtle?" (Mine is Donatello, for those who were wondering.) Really, things like these can tell you a lot about a person and how they see themselves.
Honestly.