100 Thoughts: Movies You Want to Fix (4/100)

[tari_roo]

Whatever your preferences around bad movies might be, this isn't the post to discuss your predilication for crappy horrors or smoochy rom coms (well, if you want to you can). No, no. This post is about movies you actually loved. Movies that you watch and enjoy and wax eloquent about.... except for 'that' scene.

I don't think I am the only one who

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[schneefink]

Westley does cry in the book! I know because I just reread the scene five hours ago. I don't remember the scene in the movie that clearly, but I thought it was a very strong scene in the book.
"In humiliation, and suffering, and frustration, and anger, and anguish so great it was dizzying, Westley cried like a baby.
"Interesting," said the Count, and carefully noted it down."

[tari_roo]

*really?* Scratches head... doesn't he fake the whole thing - just pretend Count Thingey is getting to him???? Hmmmm...

Well, then I'll have to add that book to my list too ;)

Its a tough scene, in any event.

[schneefink]

He can't, that's the whole point of the Machine. The Count tortures him for days/weeks and Westley always fakes it, but then the Count puts him on the Machine and he breaks.
I love that book, and I'd always recommend a reread :)

[tari_roo]

Hmmm, going to have to re-read then ;) Rats :)

Oh yeah, the other torture he fakes it affecting him, but the Machine breaks him. HA! Its a great book, but I must say I prefer the movie :)

[phebemarie]

I love The Princess Bride; even though I have it on DVD, I watch it any time I run across it on television. I remember a few years ago, some cable television network cut the torture scene out, and I was so mad. For some reason, that scene really works for me. When Westley breaks after the Count's torture, as a viewer (and reader), I feel more empathy for him. It's a very poignant scene, though, I agree, and probably made more jarring given the campier style of the first part of the movie.

(By the way, The Princess Bride gets my vote for best use of profanity thanks to Inigo's famous line.)

[tari_roo]

I think you have hit the nail on the head. That scene is kinda incongruous with the rest of the movie. An out of the blue serious note in a lighthearted romp of comedy.

I concur with you completely on Inigo's famous line!! That final show down with him and the Count is just pefection! The music, the timing, the dialogue! Gah! Wonderful.

[marlowe78]

This scene is not in the book. Well, ok it is. A little bit. Drawn out. Heck, Tolkien struggles to write emotion, ok. Well, I take that back. He writes Sam's emotions just fine. But the scene to which I am referring is the one, near the end where Frodo wakes from being rescued by the Eagles and Gandalf, and the lighting is all warm and glowy, and he sees Gandalf (who he thought was dead) and then Merry and Pippin and everyone else and its all slow mo, and people are laughing and it just... icks me. I want to roll my eyes and cringe - and that disppoints me, because its supposed to be a happy, relieved scene - where everyone can relish in the joy of victory and that they are all (save Boromir) back in safety.
Couldn't agree more! There is a lot that I miss in the three movies, a lot that I don't want that they added, some that was taken from the book but could have been dropped without me even pretending to cry, but THAT scene was just... puke-inducing sweetness. Too soft light, the Hobbits BOUNCING (really? Merry was half-dead himself

[tari_roo]

*High Five for Solidarity!*

Glad I'm not the only 'toomuchsmarm/urghcutsey/too icky sweet'person out there - for this scene ;)

For me, Jackson got the Hobbits 90% spot on. They are a people - an adult people, just isolated and insular. At times he portrayed that naivete/ignorance as childishness.

And also, for me, he got the Elves wrong. I personally feel that the elves (in Tolkien's books) were all etheral and mystical vulcan types with no emotions bar angst and long looks. They were full of emotion, cheer, spunk. Heck, they made huge mistakes and kept on making them. I would have preferred less vulcans with long hair and more pixish/fae type behaviour - if you get what I mean.

[marlowe78]

And also, for me, he got the Elves wrong. I personally feel that the elves (in Tolkien's books) were all etheral and mystical vulcan types with no emotions bar angst and long looks. They were full of emotion, cheer, spunk. Heck, they made huge mistakes and kept on making them. I would have preferred less vulcans with long hair and more pixish/fae type behaviour - if you get what I mean.Uhm, I don't know exactly what you mean.Did you want them to be MORE etheral, as they were in the books? Or did you want them less so, and rather a bit more cheeky

[tari_roo]

UGH