'Lessons'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Awesome thoughts, y'all! Thank you, and I shall pass them on.
Ooh - good one from DH - The Matrix
Heh. That and Ocean's 11 were the first ones out of my mouth. Then, I said Blade Runner , but she probably wouldn't have time to pick apart BR (it's due Monday, I get my procrastination tendencies honestly).
Though I'd probably call Willy Wonka more of a morality play.
Oh, yeah. With the Oompa-Loompas' preachy little songs? Totally.
The part in the tunnel was my favorite part as a kid! That and Veruca's song.
Oh my god, the tunnel is SO jacked-up!!!
...and it's been pointed out to me more than once that Veruca's song ought to be my theme song. Particularly when I was a little girl, when I was even more of a self-entitled instant gratification junkie than I am now.
t edit Although I don't know if "bean feast" is to be taken literally, because despite the fact that I enjoy a good legume, I don't really want, like, a banquet table of beans. That line always bugged me.
At the end of the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and Wonka look down from the elevator to see the other four kids lined up at the factory exit with their trucks of chocolate (even though they broke the rules, Wonka gave them their lifetime supplies). Veruca is covered in garbage (in the book, she went down the garbage chute, not to the boiler), Augustus is squeezed thinner, Violet is violet but no longer blueberry-shaped, and Mike Teevee is about seven feet tall (they stretched him too much).
Bean-Feast!! [link]
Empress! That was awesome! I had no idea.
"bean feast"
Doesn't it refer to Ye Olden Times tradition of baking a small bean in one of the Christmas dishes, and whoever got the bean was crowned King? (And then subsequently killed when the sun went away again?)
eta: And Aims come through with the actual Googling
That's WAY better than a banquet table full of legumes!
Doesn't it refer to Ye Olden Times tradition of baking a small bean in one of the Christmas dishes, and whoever got the bean was crowned King? (And then subsequently killed when the sun went away again?)
Nowadays, instead of being killed you just have to bring the next King Cake. Civilized.