Comments | naamah_darling: Movies. Swooning. Tom Welling.

naamah_darling

Movies. Swooning. Tom Welling.

Jun 23, 2006 03:34

Hay!

Who sent me ze bunny movie? Convess!Got a (wet, and thank God it was shrink wrapped) copy of Watership Down in the post late today. It's been one of my favorite movies since I was wee, though looking back on it I can't think why on earth my parents allowed me to watch it when it gave me recurring nightmares. I still love it, and find that ( Read more... )

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jenny_1981 June 23 2006, 08:44:32 UTC

the picture of him in the t shirt is attached to the link of the "that"... dunno if you want to switch them around. And I totally agree... super hottie!

Question malignen June 23 2006, 11:27:42 UTC

Um, where did you get Tom's wet tee-shirt picture?

Reason I ask is because it looks cut in three places and he's missing his left arm.

Otherwise...its a good pic :-)

Re: Question naamah_darling June 23 2006, 18:04:08 UTC

It's a composite from a pan-up or pan-down from the show; I pulled it off the 'net (naturally). It makes me happy.

elialshadowpine June 23 2006, 09:04:21 UTC

"It's been one of my favorite movies since I was wee, though looking back on it I can't think why on earth my parents allowed me to watch it when it gave me recurring nightmares."

... yeah, that'd make two of us. Heh, I don't know *anybody* else who got nightmares from that. Most everyone has looked at me like I'm odd. ^_^

"I still love it, and find that as I grow older, I identify with different characters, get different lessons from it. It's a good movie that way. Like the Last Unicorn."

YES. YESYESYESYES.

*LOVE* The Last Unicorn. I watched it again last year and came out with a totally different perspective than the first dozen or three times. Will hafta sit down and watch Watership Down again sometime soon... :)

naamah_darling June 23 2006, 19:48:10 UTC

That's interesting; most of the people I know who were kids at the time the movie came out report having been creeped the fuck out by it. I used to have nightmares, oh my GOD. Went on for YEARS. I still get the creeps remembering some of the creepy sequences.

I still have no idea why I loved the movie so much when I was little, except that it must have spoken to something in me even then.

If you've never read the book of The Last Unicorn, I recommend it. It's . . . way, way deep. I used to identify with the unicorn, and then with Lir, and then with Molly. And now it's Schmendrick half the time and Haggard half the time. Fascinating. There's an essay to be written about the whole thing as a metaphor for love, or for faith, and how the different characters represent the soul at different points in its quest, or represent different influences on us. Beautiful story.

peligrosaroja June 23 2006, 09:09:09 UTC

!!bunnies!!

I always felt the most attachment to Fiver.

I've been through 5 copies of the book in the last 20 years.
squee bunnies!

naamah_darling June 23 2006, 19:50:47 UTC

I think I wore out 3 copies of the book before I invested in a hardcover.

I was always sorta in love with Hazel, but Fiver was the one I identified with most strongly. He was a pretty good approximation of the state I spent most of my young life in. I liked Bigwig the best. He was the one I wanted as a best friend, the one I admired. And I wanted to be either Dandelion (c'mon, he was a great storyteller!) or Blackberry (brilliant rabbit).

pagan_writes June 23 2006, 09:40:48 UTC

I love this film - I knew the opening sequence by heart when I was little. In fact, knowing that our local DVD shop has it in stock for £3 a copy, I may have to go and add it to the collection tomorrow...

And Ghostbusters of course ^.^

naamah_darling June 23 2006, 19:44:18 UTC

Yes! I think I still have almost all of Ghostbusters memorized, and it's been at least 10 years since I've seen it.

never1eighty June 23 2006, 10:14:00 UTC

I live near a Watership Down, unsure if it's THE Watership Down. The hubby says so.

naamah_darling June 23 2006, 19:43:43 UTC

Neat! I always wondered if it was a real place; I figured it was, I just wasn't sure.

snakegoddess June 25 2006, 07:53:10 UTC

If it's the one sorta nearish Newbury, then it's THE Watership Down. I've been a huge fan of the book since about age seven, when I got pissed off with my mother reading it to me chapter by chapter and read the whole thing in a weekend. (How to get a child reading 'grownup' books - read it to them in utterly frustratingly small smidges.) When I visited England in my teens I tracked it down on the maps and went and visited it. Everything's there - the farm and all - just as described. I have bad disposable-camera photos to prove it ( ... )