I can't quite picture you being, well, a twirp, bt.(Of course I was shy in high school and cursed only reluctantly...I've gotten over both of those. Oddly enough with the same hair.)
A year and a half ago, I could have eviscerated him with my thoughts. Now I can barely hurt his feelings. Things used to be so much simpler.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
erikaj - Aug 01, 2005 3:35:14 pm PDT #8860 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Fay - Aug 01, 2005 3:38:38 pm PDT #8861 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
But - billy. Dude. Does Harry Potter go to school in Australia? No. The point isn't whether it's normal in Australia, or in America, or whether there are plenty of contexts in which swearing a blue streak wouldn't make me twitch an eyebrow. It's an 11 year old English kid addressing his teacher in the Harry Potter movie. And it's one of those book->film alterations that had me going "WTF????" (Other one being Hagrid's assertion that he bought Fluffy off 'A Greek Bloke' down the pub being changed to 'An Irish Bloke'. 'Cause Cerberus is such a well known Irish myth. Not.)
::facepalm::
erikaj - Aug 01, 2005 3:43:45 pm PDT #8862 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah, in such an environment, probably rude. But we kind of like kids to be rude in movies, for that there are editorials about the end of civility and whatnot...it's one of our weird USAian dichotomies.
Volans - Aug 01, 2005 8:29:34 pm PDT #8863 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Other one being Hagrid's assertion that he bought Fluffy off 'A Greek Bloke' down the pub being changed to 'An Irish Bloke'.
This bugged the crap out of me and my friends also. Do you think the filmmakers didn't get the reference?
Kathy A - Aug 02, 2005 3:38:59 am PDT #8864 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Not only do I think they missed the Greek mythology reference, I really think that they (Columbus and Klovis, Americans both) just believe that having Ron's catchphrase be "Bloody hell!" all the time is quaintly Brit, not unbelievably rude from an 11-year-old.
Jessica - Aug 02, 2005 5:02:19 am PDT #8865 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Not only do I think they missed the Greek mythology reference, I really think that they (Columbus and Klovis, Americans both) just believe that having Ron's catchphrase be "Bloody hell!" all the time is quaintly Brit, not unbelievably rude from an 11-year-old.
Which makes me wonder if none of the cast pointed it out to them, and why not, you know?
JZ - Aug 02, 2005 5:16:18 am PDT #8866 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I imagine the kid playing Ron just couldn't believe that he was going to get to say something totally awful like that, on purpose, to a grown-up, in front of a passel of other grown-ups, be filmed, and get paid, and if he said anything it would all curl up and vanish like a beautiful dream.
The Brit grown-ups in the cast and crew? Who knows? Irritation at having to be directed by that Home Alone git?
sumi - Aug 02, 2005 5:51:42 am PDT #8867 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Found this over at Scifi Wire:
12:00 AM, 01-AUGUST-05
Fox Cries Wolf
Fox 2000 Pictures has hired screenwriter John Fusco (Hidalgo) to adapt the novel Wolf Brother, the first installment in the Chronicles of Darkness children's book series by British author Michelle Paver, Variety reported.
The book takes place 6,000 years ago in a wild, mystical land tormented by a demon-possessed bear. The hero of the story is a 12-year-old boy named Torak who, with his wolf-cub companion at his side, sets out to defeat the bear and return a set of lost artifacts to a sacred mountain. The second book in the series, Spirit Walker, will be released in the U.K. next month and is due in the U.S. next year.
Have you guys read this book?
Aims - Aug 02, 2005 6:53:47 am PDT #8868 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
(Other one being Hagrid's assertion that he bought Fluffy off 'A Greek Bloke' down the pub being changed to 'An Irish Bloke'. 'Cause Cerberus is such a well known Irish myth. Not.)
::palmface, palmface, palmface for having JUST gotten it::
Connie Neil - Aug 02, 2005 6:56:33 am PDT #8869 of 10002
brillig
::palmface, palmface, palmface for having JUST gotten it::
YOu are not alone, Empress. I had no idea they'd changed it, and it didn't ping me as strange that an Irishman had a Cerberus. Nothing in the back of my head said, "But Cerberus is a Greek myth." I probably thought, "OK, amazing creatures are wandering about, and you can pick them up in pubs, neat."