Comments | tempestsarekind: various mental meanderings

tempestsarekind

various mental meanderings

Oct 23, 2009 18:35

1. Went to the bookstore yesterday: the local's having its members' sale soon, which requires me to stake out the place and figure out what I want ahead of time, because it'll be too crowded on the day for serious, comfortable browsing. (Set aside the fact that I do not need any more books, have no place to put them, and have not yet read all the ( Read more... )

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cristin_terrill October 23 2009, 22:56:01 UTC

Also, gracious, but Robert Sean Leonard looks young in that movie.

Word. Robert Sean Leonard got old overnight. When I saw him in Long Day's Journey Into Night, he still looked about twelve and then the next year he was an old man on House. Also, I misred Neil Perry's character for years because RSL just had to sweet and sensitive an air about him when he was younger for me to get how much Neil was the alpha dog of the group. (See also: Edmund, in Long Day's Journey Into Night).

tempestsarekind October 23 2009, 23:03:55 UTC

I know what you mean about RSL, and I think I had the same problem with that film and how I saw Neil. Plus I still think they gave him an ending that's not really suited to the take-charge, buoyant character that Neil actually *is*.

the_merope October 24 2009, 18:32:56 UTC

I remember falling utterly in love with Mr Keating, when I watched the movie for the first time. So much so that I even wrote a thinly veiled autobiographical story with myself in the part of Robert Sean Leonard's character. Who commits suicide in much the same mood that he does, leaving behind extremely regretful parents and family. I thought it was terribly moving, and that I must be a tragic heroine at heart, if I could imagine myself as such! The last time I watched it, it sort of fell flat. Most disappointing. The only thing that I coninued to love about it as much as I ever did was Ethan Hawke's character. And I liked Nuwanda rather better than before!

tempestsarekind October 24 2009, 22:17:21 UTC

I actually haven't seen the film all the way through since high school, precisely *because* I'm not sure how it would play to me today. (Especially after the other evening's outburst about textbooks! Definitely not in the proper romantic spirit.)

All of my thinly veiled autobiographical stories were about girls who found best friends. Clearly this was a major concern of mine for many years!

ajodasso October 24 2009, 20:08:36 UTC

Although I'm in my third year of teaching and nearly finished with my Ph.D., I still have a healthy disrespect for textbooks that don't belong to me. I was copying a piece of criticism out of NATC last week, and the photocopier stalled out on me with two pages left to go. I admitted to briefly considering just tearing them out and absconding with them ;)

tempestsarekind October 24 2009, 22:20:45 UTC

I'd feel guilty if I ever did something like that! My brain tends to invent these ridiculously sad narratives about people checking out books in desperate circumstances (the night before a paper's due, say), only to find that part of the chapter they need is missing... I don't think I'm precious about my own books, and have gotten less so over the years, but other people's books still engender a fair amount of reverence. :)