Buffy: I was regrouping. Spike: You were about to be regrouped into separate piles.

'Potential'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


§ ita § - Mar 18, 2008 8:10:28 pm PDT #5328 of 28344
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Does that make any kind of sense or am I just Bullshit in a Sweater?

You gotta do what you gotta do. I'm chronically incapable of disengaging, so I intend to avoid the subject matter entirely. Can't imagine what would make me watch Schindler's List, for instance.


Sophia Brooks - Mar 19, 2008 2:56:16 am PDT #5329 of 28344
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

When I was researching the Holocaust, I watched Schindler's list two times. And couldn't sleep for days.

But ultimately, that movie relates back to the SS officer pictures. The people doing evil and the people doing good could be anyone, could be us. The two men, Schindler and Ralph Feinnes charcter are sort of the same kind of men-- weak, liking nice things, and decent enough blokes in fair weather, but not too evil and not too good. What makes one do very evil thhings and one do very good things? Either one of them, in a way, could be us.


Jessica - Mar 19, 2008 3:42:43 am PDT #5330 of 28344
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

When I was a kid, it was pretty graphic -- we were shown films of bulldozers pushing over piles of naked dead bodies when we were around fourth grade or so.

I didn't cry at Schindler's List, and I think a lot of it had to do with being overexposed to real Holocaust footage throughout years of Hebrew school before the movie came out. There was just nothing in there quite as graphic as the stuff I'd been seeing for years already.


Amy - Mar 19, 2008 3:50:28 am PDT #5331 of 28344
Because books.

I don't remember a lot of education about the Holocaust as a kid. When I saw Schindler's List, it really broke me. It's one of those I wish I could watch again because it's such a good film (the performances, the cinematography especially) but I just can't.

I will say it was quite an experience to be in a theater and see it, though. The silence and the sounds of crying were really powerful.


Aims - Mar 19, 2008 3:56:23 am PDT #5332 of 28344
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Schindler's List destroyed me. It's on that list of movies I can never ever see again, even though it's a magnificent film.


Steph L. - Mar 19, 2008 5:28:14 am PDT #5333 of 28344
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I will say it was quite an experience to be in a theater and see it, though. The silence and the sounds of crying were really powerful.

Yes, this. When it was over, and I could talk again, I looked at my best friend (who saw it with me), and said "I feel like everyone in this theater should go out for a drink together."

t edit And I'm with Amy and Aimee on never seeing it again. I'm glad I saw it, and it was stunning and powerful (and I'm always amazed that Spielberg made it in the same year that he made Jurassic Park), but I never want to see it again.


Aims - Mar 19, 2008 5:43:46 am PDT #5334 of 28344
Shit's all sorts of different now.

I will also never buy Em a red coat.


Sue - Mar 19, 2008 5:46:11 am PDT #5335 of 28344
hip deep in pie

Schindler's List made me angry. The more emotionally manipulative and anvilicious it got, the angrier I got. I couldn't believe that Steven Speilberg was turning the Holocaust into entertainment. I am not a Steven Speilberg fan, and I probably should never have gone in the first place.


Aims - Mar 19, 2008 5:51:39 am PDT #5336 of 28344
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Sue, the movie followed the book, Schindler's Ark pretty closely. The book is classified as fiction, but was based on the real events that were depicted in the movie.

Which doesn't negate your feelings about it at all.


Sue - Mar 19, 2008 5:57:15 am PDT #5337 of 28344
hip deep in pie

Sue, the movie followed the book, Schindler's Ark pretty closely. The book is classified as fiction, but was based on the real events that were depicted in the movie.

It wasn't the story, Aimee, as much as how it was told. That red coated girl made me practically roll my eyeballs out of my head. I so saw where that was going and couldn't believe that Speilberg would be so obvious. Anyway, that's why cranky young theatre geeks shouldn't go to Speilberg movies.