OH, jerry! i love the fact that, even with numerous reservations about the project, callum STILL gave such a beautiful, nuanced performance, one that makes me sob like a child each and every time.
fabulous post, nos!!!
&hearts
ETA: i'm not sure if you want to include this, but sli sent me a jerry bines valentine's day snippet: here.
Ooh, yes, thank you very much for the link! I shall add it post-haste! (And really, slidellra should get some kind of special award for all her contributions to the FTWHtWD fanfic library. I think it's, like, 99% her, with some assistance from omphale23.)
And the movie is definitely sob-worthy. And yet I still find it cheerier than Flower and Garnet or Men With Guns. Oh Callum. Always with the tragic.
You are a sap, it's true :-) But I think his assessment of the film was kind of hash. It's an excellent translation of the novel! And wow, it's a made for TV movie. I just can't get past that. It's so violent and bleak and sad and the CBC aired it for us. (Our country is messed up sometimes, Meres, but look how ballsy our cultural producers can be!)
And thank you SO much for putting that picspam together! I took shameless advantage, as you can see. \meres/
Urgh, I have this, but I haven't dared watch it yet, 'cause ow, the ending! (see Zabira's comment about sobbing like a child, OMG!!) I'm just not mentally equipped for that right now.
Unless awesome fangirls I can figure out how to make a NotDead!Jerry and then give him a nice crossover. I'm thinking Gus Knickel, but since I haven't even seen the movie yet, I have no idea whether that'll work. *looks shifty*
Awww, Brig, you should watch it! It's good, and it's really sad and bleak and tragic but in a watchable way. (I mean, seriously. Made for TV).
I, um, kinda wrote a Jerry/Fraser fic? Or started one? And I just *handwaved* the whole issue of the ending. The pairing works shockingly well. So Gus/Jerry would DEFINITELY work. Maritimes shenanigans FTW!
Oh, sorry, it's not actually done. And I got your hopes up and everything! But I'll post some of it as a WiP whenever I get my act together and jumpstart that meme. (We did it last year and it was SO MUCH FUN to see what people were working on).
Callum is on the money when he says Canadians "don't know how to myth-make." After all, we're not a nation raised on campfire stories about our own heroics.
I wonder why that is? Canadians and Americans share similar early cultural roots; the Native, and the British/European, so I wonder why our settlers created a frontier mythology, like Paul Bunyan, and Davy Crockett, but Canadian settlers didn't? Lord knows, they faced similar challenges, as far as landscape goes - even more so, given the extreme weather up north. You'd think there'd be campfire heroics all over the place.
Yeah, it's a puzzle! I think we did try to myth-make, but we don't have the cultural engine necessary to widely disseminate the stories. And our media producers aren't exactly interested in making movies about Sam Steele, y'know?
There's a graduate thesis in this. I can just smell it.
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fabulous post, nos!!!
&hearts
ETA: i'm not sure if you want to include this, but sli sent me a jerry bines valentine's day snippet: here.
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And the movie is definitely sob-worthy. And yet I still find it cheerier than Flower and Garnet or Men With Guns. Oh Callum. Always with the tragic.
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I didn't know/remember that Callum wasn't pleased with it. He did such a great job. I cared what happened to the characters. But then again I'm a sap.
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And thank you SO much for putting that picspam together! I took shameless advantage, as you can see. \meres/
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And, well, hey, it's picspam. If you can't take advantage of it, what's the point? ;)
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Unless awesome fangirls I can figure out how to make a NotDead!Jerry and then give him a nice crossover. I'm thinking Gus Knickel, but since I haven't even seen the movie yet, I have no idea whether that'll work. *looks shifty*
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I, um, kinda wrote a Jerry/Fraser fic? Or started one? And I just *handwaved* the whole issue of the ending. The pairing works shockingly well. So Gus/Jerry would DEFINITELY work. Maritimes shenanigans FTW!
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I haz stalked ur lj, and it's not there.
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Excellent post, missy.
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Callum is on the money when he says Canadians "don't know how to myth-make." After all, we're not a nation raised on campfire stories about our own heroics.
I wonder why that is? Canadians and Americans share similar early cultural roots; the Native, and the British/European, so I wonder why our settlers created a frontier mythology, like Paul Bunyan, and Davy Crockett, but Canadian settlers didn't? Lord knows, they faced similar challenges, as far as landscape goes - even more so, given the extreme weather up north. You'd think there'd be campfire heroics all over the place.
So curious, I am!
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There's a graduate thesis in this. I can just smell it.
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