Aha! Is that from the book? Is the book good?
Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage, and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny.
Oz ,'Beneath You'
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Polter-Cow - Oct 27, 2006 9:22:55 am PDT #5178 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
beekaytee - Oct 27, 2006 9:23:52 am PDT #5179 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Is that from the book? Is the book good?
I wanna know too!
esse - Oct 27, 2006 9:24:17 am PDT #5180 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
It is from the book. And the book is excellent. I just finished reading it about a week and a half ago--I picked it up by chance long before I knew there was a movie coming out. The style is enchanting.
esse - Oct 27, 2006 9:26:56 am PDT #5181 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
continued--
I also will not be surprised if there are some things from the book not included in the movie. But from reading the WF I think the reveals are much easier to comprehend in the movie from the book. With the book I walked around for days afterwards, chewing over possibilities... you weren't sure, by the end of it, whether Borden was actually twins or not. It wasn't made explicitly clear, only Occam's Razor kind of clear. Angier's secret was both more straightforward and more diabolical at the same time. You got to the end of it and were simply horrified. I really do reccomend it.
Nutty - Oct 27, 2006 9:52:20 am PDT #5182 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Though I suppose you could make the argument that the ruse would fall apart if both of them didn't know everything, down to the most intimate details, about both lives.
Well, from what little we've seen of them, my assessment was that they just don't know how to do it any other way. Having made that commitment to a single identity, they didn't have any serious coping mechanisms for what would happen if they stopped working together.
Which was the chief thing I was wondering, as I left the theatre. What is Alfred going to do now? Aside from being be severely hampered in his career, and oh by the way officially dead in the eyes of the law, he's lost half of himself. I worried, a bit, about how lonely he would be, going forward.
sj - Oct 27, 2006 9:57:31 am PDT #5183 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Nutty I thought maybe he would take Angier's identity and money and start over somewhere else.
beekaytee - Oct 27, 2006 10:03:30 am PDT #5184 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Ooh. I hope not. Besides, isn't Angier still using his money as Count NewDaddy?
That's a very, very interesting thought Nutty. How does a psychological Siamese Twin get on in life as a singlet? Huh.
Jessica - Oct 27, 2006 10:04:55 am PDT #5185 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Well, not after being shot...
beekaytee - Oct 27, 2006 10:11:33 am PDT #5186 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Oh, sweet, weeping DUH. Of course not. I was mem-stuck on the image of him in the house with Caine and the little girl. Lalalala'ed right past the deadness in the basement with the tanks and the fire and the lead in his chest.
I think I may need a nap on this dreary, drippy Friday. All this mystery figuring out has given me a brain cramp.
But my mistake, DOES bring up on last thought. Anybody else consider for a moment there that Sarah didn't actually hang herself? After having seen that harness gag a thousand times, I really did have to take a minute to believe it was real. What with the omnipresent subterfuge.
Kathy A - Oct 27, 2006 2:41:09 pm PDT #5187 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I linked to this over in the Firefly thread, but there's a fun Serenity vs. Star Wars smackdown here!