Comments | cleolinda: Tuesday night, rainy

cleolinda

Tuesday night, rainy

Aug 28, 2007 19:55

It's not even September yet, and here my thoughts are already turning to Halloween. This is probably for the best, as I associate Black Ribbon most with Halloween--it's just that whole gothic Victorian thing. Not Hot Topic gothic, but rather English ghost story gothic. I've let rosehannah languish a bit while the Harry Potter-Stardust summer fantasy ( Read more... )

cleoland, bpal, stardust, star wars, black ribbon, bond, oscars, movies, pirates of the caribbean, sweeney todd, lost, batman, halloween

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lotusbiosm August 29 2007, 13:14:49 UTC

Yeah, that's kinda how I read it. I mean, I can see that maybe there might be men who used that relationship as a cover for homosexual unions, but even as late as the 19th century men used incredibly passionate language to describe their non-sexual friendships. The fact that they called it "brotherment" means that it wasn't necessarily seen as romantic. Plus, they didn't necessarily think of marriage and romance and love in the same terms as contemporary westerners do.

marginaliana August 29 2007, 02:50:54 UTC

Oh, man, I am SO dubious about a remake of Escape to Witch Mountain. I mean, on the one hand, awesome! On the other hand, Disney has managed to badly remake so many movies. And The Rock? Hmmm...

agatha_mandrake August 29 2007, 02:52:08 UTC

Greek fires reach ancient Olympics site

Oh god, that makes me so sad. I was there in 2005, and it's spectacular.

trash_addict August 29 2007, 03:04:20 UTC

If Lost Boys 2 ends up going ahead, and I'm not for this at all, but if it does, it MUST have both Coreys.

duncanatrix August 29 2007, 04:10:32 UTC

I just realized: I bet you that "Mistress Cheng" in Pirates is based on Cheng I Sao. She had the red flag and was a crazy Chinese pirate lady. Sounds right to me.