Now I wish that they'd done something with a totem being compromised.
it's for the fanfic.
Or the sequel.
River: They weren't cows inside. They were waiting to be, but they forgot. Now they see the sky and they remember what they are. Mal: Is it bad that what she said made perfect sense to me?
'Safe'
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le nubian - Oct 12, 2010 4:13:07 pm PDT #11564 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
§ ita § - Oct 12, 2010 4:14:21 pm PDT #11565 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm not seeing how the totem would act differently in your own dream or someone else's.
The knowledge of the totem had to count for something, didn't it? I mean, otherwise why would it matter if someone else knew the details of your totem?
Juliebird - Oct 12, 2010 4:15:25 pm PDT #11566 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Okay, I think that makes sense.
smonster - Oct 12, 2010 4:17:50 pm PDT #11567 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Ha! PASIV xpost.
The totem behaves differently in someone else's dream because that someone doesn't know the details of your totem. So they get It wrong, like he rug in Saito's apartment . The top is weird, by that logic. Maybe it was an image and concept nolan couldn't resist.
ita, I hope I'm whitefonting enough, but if not can you fix it? I'm stupid tired and on my iPhone.
As for the Bechdel test, it's kind of like the BMI in that it is a simple tool that can show a trend if applied widely across a number of films and other media. It doesn't prove that a movie is good or bad (Bar Girls, anyone?). It's one indicator, and needs to be taken in context. Not that I'm saying any Buffista isn't.
Jessica - Oct 12, 2010 5:08:56 pm PDT #11568 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Now I'm curious, what do other people think the mechanic for shared dreaming is?
Flobutnum.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 12, 2010 6:15:55 pm PDT #11569 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
It struck me as pretty silly that people are being trained to defend themselves against extraction when, to get you in a shared dream in the first place, someone has to have you at their mercy physically, sedate you, and hook you up to a machine linking you all together. If they can do that they can kill or kidnap you and do whatever they want in your absence anyway .
tommyrot - Oct 13, 2010 5:42:28 am PDT #11570 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Slate discusses David Bowie's acting career:
By this point, Bowie seemed on the cusp of a full-fledged acting career. In 1983, in addition to Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Bowie appeared in The Hunger as (typecasting again!) the 400-year-old lover of vampire goddess Catherine Deneuve. The movie is a schlockfest of early-MTV flourishes (flash cuts, flapping birds) and it's most noteworthy for a demure love scene between Deneuve and Susan Sarandon. But the opening credit sequence is irresistible: While Bauhaus perform the sinuous goth standard "Bela Lugosi's Dead," Deneuve and Bowie prowl a cavernous nightclub in search of fresh blood, smirking hotly at each other and blowing pheromones with their cigarette smoke.
Jars - Oct 13, 2010 5:53:07 am PDT #11571 of 30000
The Hunger as (typecasting again!) the 400-year-old lover of vampire goddess Catherine Deneuve. The movie is a schlockfest of early-MTV flourishes (flash cuts, flapping birds) and it's most noteworthy for a demure love scene between Deneuve and Susan Sarandon.
How did I not know that this existed?
tommyrot - Oct 13, 2010 5:55:18 am PDT #11572 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
How did I not know that this existed?
You're too young?
It was sorta' a big deal when the movie came out in '83-ish....
Amy - Oct 13, 2010 5:57:51 am PDT #11573 of 30000
Because books.
God, now I have a craving to watch it again. All kinds of nice soft-focus vampiness.