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posted by [personal profile] the_dala at 11:07pm on 04/07/2007
::flails:: My love for "1776" is just unparalleled.

Hancock: Mr. Wilson, in your need to be liked you have once again forgotten that Delaware cannot second its own motion!
(ten minutes later)
Wilson: Delaware seconds!
Hancock:...
Wilson: Oh my god!

I love Hancock's shouting. He's an angry emo president of Congress, and who can blame him.

Thomas Jefferson is truly our hottest founding figure. Not that Washington doesn't have his charms. Washington, Washington, six-foot-eight, weighs a fucking ton...Seriously, if anyone hasn't seen this yet? Click! (A bit unsafe for work.)



Aww crap, now I'm gonna have it stuck in my head for two days ago. Also must point out that blame should be laid at [livejournal.com profile] doolabug's feet for showing it to me.

Oooh, oooh, my favorite song! "Mr. Adams, leave me alooooone!" "But life is more than sexual combustability! (Bustability! Bustability! Com-bust-a-bil-ityyyy!)" And the one thing you get in the movie that's missing from the cast recording is the dancing. The revival cast recording is pretty great, though - Brent Spiner plays Adams and, while he can't approach the awesomeness that is William Daniels, he does have a better voice. And Rutledge's voice is incredible.

....Okay, I'll shut up. At least I don't have to cut for spoilers! Psssst, the resolution on independency passes!

I desperately need a 1776 icon.

Adams: May I present myself - Mr. Adams.
The Jeffersons: ::make out::
Adams: ..John Adams?
The Jeffersons: ::snoggage::
Adams: And Mr. Franklin - the inventor of the stove?
The Jeffersons: ::suck face::

Incredible

ETA: Just one more! "A committee dedicated to the keeping of secrets, designated as the...Secrets Committee." We pirates don't have much imagination and all that. And McKean has the most beautiful overdone Scots accent since Jacques in "Lady and the Tramp." It's the messenger boy! I love how he just clomps in,, all bowlegged, drops his message on the table, and clomps right back out. And Washington's sad sack, Eeyore dispatches. "That man would depress a hyena," indeed.

Okay, I'm going to bed now, for reals. We just watched it a couple of months ago in the underground film club - biggest success of the semester, actually - and I'm going to have to buy it before I go to England anyway.
Mood:: 'silly' silly
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posted by [identity profile] mrs-norrington.livejournal.com at 03:14am on 05/07/2007
I'm watching it too. I love Adams and if that Adams in between Jefferson's arms during "But Mr. Adams" isn't fodder for Adams/Jefferson slash I don't know what is! lol

1776 is awesome.
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posted by [identity profile] mrs-norrington.livejournal.com at 03:18am on 05/07/2007
Oh God, I'm watching the vid you posted. This will be in my brain for days. "Save the children but not the British children."
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posted by [identity profile] the-dala.livejournal.com at 03:27am on 05/07/2007
Muahaha. "He's coming, he's coming, he's coming..." There's also a Jefferson parody of this one, which isn't very funny except for "He'll bone women, but not the white women..."
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posted by [identity profile] the-dala.livejournal.com at 03:20am on 05/07/2007
Heeeee! I don't care how pretty Martha Jefferson is or how historically OTP John/Abigail may be, Adams and Jefferson are so gay for each other. This movie should be required viewing in every American History class. AND IN LIFE.
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posted by [identity profile] mrs-norrington.livejournal.com at 03:25am on 05/07/2007
I agree. ;)

And Ben Franklin would watch.
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posted by [identity profile] mrs-norrington.livejournal.com at 03:41am on 05/07/2007
"Cool, Cool Considerate Men" is THE slash ball of the 18th century. A whole cast of men dancing with each other. *gA*
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posted by [identity profile] the-dala.livejournal.com at 02:55am on 06/07/2007
I was so glad they kept it in! I was afraid they'd cut it.
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posted by [identity profile] mrs-norrington.livejournal.com at 02:59am on 06/07/2007
Speaking of slash, I noticed last night at the end of the song, Dickinson gets in the carriage with Wilson and puts his arm around him!

Of course, the whole movie has instances of Dickinson/Wilson slash. lol

I love the song too. Especially Hancock: "What? The British Crown? or the British half-crown?"
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posted by [identity profile] veronica-rich.livejournal.com at 03:02am on 06/07/2007
Many, many years ago, someone I knew wrote an Adams/Jefferson story. It was long before LOTR and the term RPS hadn't even been invented. I never read it, but I'm sure that knowing her, it was appropriately filthy.
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posted by [identity profile] gryphons-lair.livejournal.com at 03:23am on 05/07/2007
I desperately need a 1776 icon.

I own it on DVD and screencapping software. What scene in particular were you thinking of? :)
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posted by [identity profile] the-dala.livejournal.com at 03:29am on 05/07/2007
Oooooh! That would be so neat! I'm not picky - just something of Adams when he's haranguing :) Or perhaps that bit of "But Mr. Adams" where he and Jefferson are face to face?
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posted by [identity profile] erinya.livejournal.com at 03:25am on 05/07/2007
I'll have you know that I put it on just now and this is all your fault.

I am very amused.

Missed the first hour though. :-(
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posted by [identity profile] the-dala.livejournal.com at 03:28am on 05/07/2007
Muaha! My evil plan is working! Have you seen it before? If not, must rent - there's great Congress-stuff in the first hour.
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posted by [identity profile] erinya.livejournal.com at 03:32am on 05/07/2007
Nooo I haven't seen it before. Where has it been all my life?!
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posted by [identity profile] the-dala.livejournal.com at 03:40am on 05/07/2007
I have no idea why it's been so neglected over the years, both the musical and the movie. I only saw it because I had a funny history teacher in 8th grade who had us watch it in class.


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posted by [identity profile] veronica-rich.livejournal.com at 05:38am on 05/07/2007
Man, you'd love Abigail Adams. You'd probably also love Martha, a 19-year-old constantly seducing her husband away from the deliberations ...
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posted by [identity profile] veronica-rich.livejournal.com at 05:36am on 05/07/2007
You should listen to the soundtrack, sometime, of the Brent Spiner version on Broadway. Seriously.
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posted by [identity profile] the-dala.livejournal.com at 02:57am on 06/07/2007
::points above:: I have it. Listen to it obsessively. Spiner is a much better singer than Daniels, although I miss the original Franklin.
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posted by [identity profile] veronica-rich.livejournal.com at 03:00am on 06/07/2007
Gimme a break, man. I only have an English degree; they haven't taught us to read yet. (I did skip over that part in favor of skimming the parts about Daniels and slash, I confess.)

I went to an off-Broadway performance several years ago and the actor who played Adams sounded EXACTLY like Bill Daniels. Looked nothing like him, but sounded like him. Holy cow.
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posted by [identity profile] aeeee.livejournal.com at 02:43am on 06/07/2007
Hello! I've been a fan of yours for quite a while. May I friend you? Sorry to start fangirling on your journal about this already, but I don't know anyone else who likes 1776 (or would go see dead plasticized bodies, really):

1776! That's my favorite song too: "Homicide! Homicide!"

I get chills when Rutledge sings the triangular trade song.

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Er, do you want an icon? Of something? I extend the hand of friendship in icon form.

HOLY SHIT THAT VIDEO :D
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posted by [identity profile] the-dala.livejournal.com at 02:58am on 06/07/2007
::stares at picture for several minutes:: Oh, you were saying something...? Yes, by all means, friend away! :) This journal's a bit quiet on the fic front lately, but I do blather on on a fairly regular basis. And oooh! Oooh! I would love an icon! That's a gorgeous cap.
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posted by [identity profile] aeeee.livejournal.com at 03:07am on 06/07/2007
Hooray!
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posted by [identity profile] kimmie-b.livejournal.com at 03:53am on 07/07/2007
Hi! I came across your journal through one of your fics [which I loved :)], and I had to comment because I saw 1776 for the first time this week as I was channel surfing. It was not something I thought I would like, but it was silly and adorable and I loved it :)

(and I also went to see the bodies exhibit - really cool!)

Mind if I friend you?
-Kim
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posted by [identity profile] sinister-beauty.livejournal.com at 08:23pm on 09/07/2007
Jefferson is a total dreamboat.

But then again, I likeses redheads.
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