posted by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
the_dala at 09:16pm on 16/05/2005
the_dala at 09:16pm on 16/05/2005I'm planning on dragging Meg out to see it on Wednesday, but just in case, perhaps some of y'all to whom it's fresh and brand new, or who perhaps have seen it three times already, can help me out.
1. Sibylla never goes to see Baldwin until he's dying, correct? And (this part's a bit fuzzier, because I can't remember if she or he mentions it in the film) presumably from the time he started to deteriorate physically and needed the mask?
2. Timeline -- is there any hard indication of how much time passes between Balian's arrival in Jerusalem and, say, the bit where he gets his ass whooped by Nasir's men?
3. Sibylla and Guy would live in the palace in Jerusalem, no?
If the script or a really detailed slot summary happens to be available online, that would probably answer all of these. And yes, in fact, I do need this information for a fic. Just ONEokay mebbe two so far. I'll give you a pirate cookie if you guess the pairing/s. Or I would if I hadn't eaten all the delicious little buggers.
And finally, because I know at least one person tagged me, those damn memes!
Owned:last watched all the way through? "A Series of Unfortunate Events" at home, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" in the theater.
Last bought -- just ordered "The Boondock Saints" and "Bend It Like Beckham" over amazon, but they haven't arrived yet, so "National Treasure," if by 'bought' you mean 'begged my mother for it and gave her the spare change in my purse as incentive.'
Five movies that mean a lot ot me/I watch a lot: I will skip the obvious answers -- PotC and the Holy Four -- because I have talked about them enough in the past, and will no doubt talk about them a lot in the future.
1. "The Elephant Man" -- falls under the first stipulation. I can't watch it often because I don't yet own it and also, it makes me cry so hard I can't breathe. And I don't really know why.
2. "Almost Famous" -- I'm always watching this movie. I'm always somewhere in the middle of it. Last time I popped it in, I ended on Penny's birthday party.
3. The "Star Wars" (original trilogy) -- because, MAN. I'm a geek and this is the holy grail of geekdom.
4. "Now and Then" -- saw this with my best friend Stephanie when it came out. We were oh, eleven, twelve, something like that, and I'm that age every single time I watch it. It also necessitates the kleenex.
5. "Love and Sex" -- my favorite romantic comedy that no one's ever heard of. Famke Jansen and Jon Favreau, and being an independent film, it's a lot racier (and, incidentally, funnier) than the mainstream. How could you not adore a movie with a box of kittens, a succinct explanation of a popular sex toy ("It's a butt plug. Some guys like to...stick 'em up their butts."), Jon Favreau doing a striptease, and Cheri Oteri shrieking, "Does anybody have any stretch marks?"
Same questions as before. These, I cannot count. Several hundred. All over the house, the bookshelves, the floor of my room...
Uhhhh...damn. How sad is it that I can't remember? It wasn't that long ago, really. Suppose it was either Girls in Pants by Ann Brasheres or Post Captain by Patrick O'brian.
The Floating Brothel, by...some guy. I dunno, it's in the trunk. Got it from the bargain shelves at the school store because it looked neat.
1. The Cat Who Came For Christmas by Cleveland Amory. Read it every year at Christmastime since I was ten or so, except the last two Christmases since losing Snake I haven't been able to get past the first page. Too painful. Maybe this year.
2. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Again, read every single year since I was ten, except in the summer instead of winter. I love my Sara Crewe, and Ermengarde, and Lottie, and Becky, and Ram Dass, and Melchisdic.
3. the Song of the Lioness and the Immortals quartets by Tamora Pierce. They all have to go together because, love love love love love. More than I can possibly express. George is on the short list of my favorite literary characters of all time, and Alanna is the best heroine a little girl (or, let's face it, a bigger girl) could have. Oh, Daine's pretty cool too, and Rikash is fabulous. If they ever film any of these and inevitably fuck them up, you will hear about it from me, at great length.
4. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis -- I just don't know how to describe what this book did to me. It, like, physically beat the stuffing out of me. I think I actually might love Passage better, but by then I was expecting something like that. The last eighty pages of Doomsday Book just...WALLOPED me. So hard that this is the only non-childhood-favorite to make the list.
5. The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Expuery (::winces at spelling) -- given to me by my cousin Beth back when I was very small and I thought she was the coolest person on the face of the earth. The "because she is my rose" passage is still one of my favorite bits of writing ever. I memorized it a couple years ago. The book has to travel back and forth from home and school with me, along with The Giving Tree, Girl Goddess #9, and my autographed copy of American Gods.
Passing the baton to anybody who hasn't filled these out yet.
1. Sibylla never goes to see Baldwin until he's dying, correct? And (this part's a bit fuzzier, because I can't remember if she or he mentions it in the film) presumably from the time he started to deteriorate physically and needed the mask?
2. Timeline -- is there any hard indication of how much time passes between Balian's arrival in Jerusalem and, say, the bit where he gets his ass whooped by Nasir's men?
3. Sibylla and Guy would live in the palace in Jerusalem, no?
If the script or a really detailed slot summary happens to be available online, that would probably answer all of these. And yes, in fact, I do need this information for a fic. Just ONE
And finally, because I know at least one person tagged me, those damn memes!
Owned:last watched all the way through? "A Series of Unfortunate Events" at home, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" in the theater.
Last bought -- just ordered "The Boondock Saints" and "Bend It Like Beckham" over amazon, but they haven't arrived yet, so "National Treasure," if by 'bought' you mean 'begged my mother for it and gave her the spare change in my purse as incentive.'
Five movies that mean a lot ot me/I watch a lot: I will skip the obvious answers -- PotC and the Holy Four -- because I have talked about them enough in the past, and will no doubt talk about them a lot in the future.
1. "The Elephant Man" -- falls under the first stipulation. I can't watch it often because I don't yet own it and also, it makes me cry so hard I can't breathe. And I don't really know why.
2. "Almost Famous" -- I'm always watching this movie. I'm always somewhere in the middle of it. Last time I popped it in, I ended on Penny's birthday party.
3. The "Star Wars" (original trilogy) -- because, MAN. I'm a geek and this is the holy grail of geekdom.
4. "Now and Then" -- saw this with my best friend Stephanie when it came out. We were oh, eleven, twelve, something like that, and I'm that age every single time I watch it. It also necessitates the kleenex.
5. "Love and Sex" -- my favorite romantic comedy that no one's ever heard of. Famke Jansen and Jon Favreau, and being an independent film, it's a lot racier (and, incidentally, funnier) than the mainstream. How could you not adore a movie with a box of kittens, a succinct explanation of a popular sex toy ("It's a butt plug. Some guys like to...stick 'em up their butts."), Jon Favreau doing a striptease, and Cheri Oteri shrieking, "Does anybody have any stretch marks?"
Same questions as before. These, I cannot count. Several hundred. All over the house, the bookshelves, the floor of my room...
Uhhhh...damn. How sad is it that I can't remember? It wasn't that long ago, really. Suppose it was either Girls in Pants by Ann Brasheres or Post Captain by Patrick O'brian.
The Floating Brothel, by...some guy. I dunno, it's in the trunk. Got it from the bargain shelves at the school store because it looked neat.
1. The Cat Who Came For Christmas by Cleveland Amory. Read it every year at Christmastime since I was ten or so, except the last two Christmases since losing Snake I haven't been able to get past the first page. Too painful. Maybe this year.
2. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Again, read every single year since I was ten, except in the summer instead of winter. I love my Sara Crewe, and Ermengarde, and Lottie, and Becky, and Ram Dass, and Melchisdic.
3. the Song of the Lioness and the Immortals quartets by Tamora Pierce. They all have to go together because, love love love love love. More than I can possibly express. George is on the short list of my favorite literary characters of all time, and Alanna is the best heroine a little girl (or, let's face it, a bigger girl) could have. Oh, Daine's pretty cool too, and Rikash is fabulous. If they ever film any of these and inevitably fuck them up, you will hear about it from me, at great length.
4. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis -- I just don't know how to describe what this book did to me. It, like, physically beat the stuffing out of me. I think I actually might love Passage better, but by then I was expecting something like that. The last eighty pages of Doomsday Book just...WALLOPED me. So hard that this is the only non-childhood-favorite to make the list.
5. The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Expuery (::winces at spelling) -- given to me by my cousin Beth back when I was very small and I thought she was the coolest person on the face of the earth. The "because she is my rose" passage is still one of my favorite bits of writing ever. I memorized it a couple years ago. The book has to travel back and forth from home and school with me, along with The Giving Tree, Girl Goddess #9, and my autographed copy of American Gods.
Passing the baton to anybody who hasn't filled these out yet.
mellow
(no subject)
(no subject)
2. No idea.
3. I'd imagine so. He'd have his own estate though. Half and half perhaps.
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
...the music's quite nice, though...
(no subject)
(no subject)
2. As I said earlier, I'd say there's about six years between the beginning and end of the movie, according to the date given at the beginning and historical reading on my own
3. In all fairness, don't know. Though I'd guess one or both would have lands elsewhere, too. Jerusalem's like D.C., just a central point for the area government
(no subject)