His mother's name was Moonchild? What? Very confused.
Have you not seen the movie or read the book, dear?
His mother was a hippie, then?
I would say her parents were hippies and smoking everything including their underwear when they named her.
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Aims - Sep 14, 2005 11:13:42 am PDT #7639 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Daisy Jane - Sep 14, 2005 11:14:36 am PDT #7640 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Actually, that would make his mother's parents hippies. So, really really confusing.
Zenkitty - Sep 14, 2005 11:15:32 am PDT #7641 of 10002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Saw the movie, never read the book. Couldn't understand what the kid was yelling.
Yes, parents hippies, then. Mother maybe not, considering, Bastian.
Can't... sentence... properly...
Emily - Sep 14, 2005 11:16:25 am PDT #7642 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Have you not seen the movie or read the book, dear?
It's been, like, 15 years! A little slack here, okay? That part of my brain was overwritten at some point by your husband's insistence that everyone instantly recognize the quote about the Montgolfier Brothers going up in their first ballon.
(Er, just a little defensive, I suppose. Loved that movie.)
Kate P. - Sep 14, 2005 11:20:54 am PDT #7643 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I never knew anyone who could understand the name he yells out into the storm. I always thought it had three syllables, actually. But just now I sent the link to my friend who loves the book and the movie, and read the book (in German) before seeing the movie, and he was all confused to find out that most people don't know her name.
Aims - Sep 14, 2005 11:21:26 am PDT #7644 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
husband's insistence that everyone instantly recognize the quote about the Montgolfier Brothers going up in their first ballon.
WTF? I've never heard about this.
Ok, The Empress is going to die unless Atreyu (hot Plains People boy) finds her a new name. In reading the story, Bastian realizes that he's got to name her or Fantasia is going to explode go boom. He yells it out of the window of the attic, but it's all stormy and no one understands it. Turns out, it's "Moonchild", which is dumb.
Jessica - Sep 14, 2005 11:23:45 am PDT #7645 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Emily - Sep 14, 2005 11:24:43 am PDT #7646 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Most of that sounds familiar. I just had never heard the "Moonchild" thing. Bee-zar.
Sean K - Sep 14, 2005 11:24:43 am PDT #7647 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Turns out, it's "Moonchild", which is dumb.
Seriously? Seriously, seriously?
I saw that movie a bunch, and while I never quite understood what Bastian (wow, a whole family of dumb names...) was saying, I never thought it was something like frelling Moonchild.
Aims - Sep 14, 2005 11:25:25 am PDT #7648 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I believe the whole line is, "Moonchild, my mom!"