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Post by marcy on Dec 11, 2009 17:01:17 GMT -5
Dino-language Have you seen my column in this week’s Chippewa Herald-Telegram? It’s about The Hangover, and how I’m really hoping that movie turns the tide of upcoming comedies. In other entertainment news, I saw “Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” tonight at work, and noticed something kind of weird. (Amazingly enough, it turns out you can understand the movie without having seen the second one. Fascinating.) The movie steals a few details from the Jurassic Park movies: first, that the T-Rex’s vision is based on movement (yawn), a theory which is unlikely at best, and second, the introduction of the Spinosaurus as dino-villain. It always amazes me how some movies or TV shows pick up little quirks from other movies or shows. Sometimes it’s like a wink-wink homage for observant viewers: there’s an episode of Grey’s Anatomy, for example, when Dr. Owen Hunt (played by Kevin McKidd) mentions using superglue to seal up a wound. He saw he “saw it in a werewolf movie once.” The werewolf movie in question is “Dog Soldiers,” starring…Kevin McKidd..Other times these repeated details seem almost unconscious, like repeating a phrase that you heard somewhere, or as though you just have accepted something as fact. Of course T-rexes can’t see movement. That happened in that one movie that one time, and it was super successful, so it must be true. Therefore, we’ll write it into “Ice Age 3.” Crazy. Now that I think about it, this is also kind of the way language works. Someone makes up a word, or a new meaning for an old word, and it spreads and spreads until soon everyone is saying “cool” and “sweet” and, my least favorite ever, “baller.” Isn’t it neat how language and movies can work the same way? I’ve always felt that art is a language in itself: the language of little things that mean big things. It’s cool to see how it works, even if it gets kind of annoying having every movie repeat the same completely theoretical characteristic for T-rexes. Also, spinosaurus is a stupid dinosaur, and I hate it. www.melissaolson.net/blog/index.php/2009/12/10/dino-language?blog=8
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Post by dutchie on Dec 11, 2009 17:14:55 GMT -5
Yay, I finally got round to watching Dog Soldiers. So for the questions: 1. How many hours away from Fort William are they, and why is that funny? 4,5 hours. And that´s funny, because the nearest place to Fort William is absolutely much closer. Scotland´s just not that big. There's just no place so remote that it's a 4,5 hours drive either way to the nearest town. 2. What tune is Megan playing on the piano, and why is it funny? 'Claire de lune' Claude Debussy, which means 'moonlight'. And we all know what that does to wherewolves. ;D 3. What does Cooper say he's afraid of? Spiders, women and spiderwomen. (Hilarious, that last one! ;D ) 4. What's your favorite line in the film? The kebob-thing mentioned before was pretty funny, but there were also some other lines (which I can't remember now) that cracked me up. 5. Why do you like the film? Although I'm absolutely not into horror movies or anything similar, I really had fun watching this one. It's so over the top, it's hilarious! And there are some really funny lines in it. And I don't know how he does it, but K.still manages to look very yummy in the middle of al that mess.
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Post by marcy on Dec 11, 2009 20:31:59 GMT -5
Yay! Dutchie got them all right!!
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Post by marcy on Dec 11, 2009 20:37:11 GMT -5
Movie of the Week:
GUNPOWDER, TREASON, AND PLOT
Trivia and Discussion Questions:
1.) Why was Bothwell shot with the arrow?...because he slept with the soldier's wife.
2.) Why did Mary leave Bothwell?...to spare his life.
3.) When/Which city did Mary and Bothwell meet?...Leith, Scotland 1561
4.) How many of the actors in GTP have we seen in Kevin's other work?...13
5.) What were your favorite parts of the film?
6.) What was your favorite line? (I'm sure I know the answer LOL)
*Anybody know what happened to Bothwell?
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Post by Geniusmentis on Dec 12, 2009 7:20:48 GMT -5
Movie of the Week:GUNPOWDER, TREASON, AND PLOT
5.) What were your favorite parts of the film? 6.) What was your favorite line? (I'm sure I know the answer LOL) *Anybody know what happened to Bothwell? LOL Sure you know what is our favourite line!!! "I WANT YA NAKED IN MA BED" LOL There are a lot of favourite parts, all the scenes with the Queen... James Hepburn, 1st Duke of Orkney (c. 1534 – 14 April 1578), better known by his inherited title as 4th Earl of Bothwell, was Hereditary Lord High Admiral of Scotland. He is best known for his association with and subsequent marriage to Mary, Queen of Scots, as her third husband. On 12 May 1567 the Queen created him Duke of Orkney, and he married Mary in the Great Hall at Holyrood on 15 May 1567, eight days after his divorce was decreed. Within three days, Sir William Drury wrote to London that although the manner of things appeared to be forcible, it was known to be otherwise. The marriage divided the country into two camps, and on 16 June, the Lords opposed to Mary and Bothwell signed a Bond denouncing them. A showdown between the two opposing sides followed at Carberry Hill on 15 June 1567, from which Bothwell fled, after one final embrace, never to be seen again by Mary. In December that year, Bothwell's titles and estates were forfeited by Act of Parliament for treason. He escaped from Scotland and travelled to Scandinavia in the hope of raising an army to put Mary back on the throne. Unfortunately he was caught off the coast of Norway (then ruled by Denmark) without proper papers, and was escorted to the port of Bergen. This was the native home of Anna Rustung. Anna raised a complaint against Bothwell, which was enforced by her powerful family; her cousin Erik Rosenkrantz, a high-level official in Norway, remanded Bothwell to a local prison whilst Anna sued him for abandonment and return of her dowry. Reports of the court case are impressive, with Anna having been described as wearing a majestic red dress and impressive jewels. Anna must have had a soft spot in her heart for Bothwell, as he persuaded her to take custody of his ship, as compensation. Bothwell would have been released, but the King of Denmark, Frederick, had heard that the English crown were seeking Bothwell for the alleged murder of King Henry and decided to take him into custody in Denmark. King Frederick II of Denmark at first treated Bothwell with respect but later sent him to the notorious Dragsholm Castle, Denmark, where he was held in what was said to be appalling conditions. A pillar to which he was chained can still be seen, with a circular groove in the floor around the pillar where Bothwell purportedly remained for the last ten years of his life and where he died. His mummified body could supposedly be seen in Fårevejle, in the church near the castle, until a few decades ago. However, the identity of the body has never been conclusively proven.
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Post by marcy on Dec 14, 2009 19:07:27 GMT -5
Anybody know the answers to the rest of the trivia questions, or have anything else to say about the film?
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Post by ladyvi on Dec 14, 2009 19:52:35 GMT -5
I don't really have time to watch the film again during all this Christmas preparation, so I can't really answer the first few questions, but Bothwell is one of my favourite KMK rolls. There are so many powerful scenes that it's hard to pick favourites. Of course, I like the one when Mary comes to him after he's been shot with the arrow (who wouldn't?). I really like the scene when they are arguing and she slaps him on the neck. I enjoy Mary's line...."Go somewhere dark and lonely and toss your caber, Scottish man." The scene where Bothwell stews and stews and then blows up at dinner is amazing....love angry KMK (I don't know why I enjoy him acting angry so much). I absolutely love the next morning when Mary says that he has called Lord Darnley a long streak of English piss and Bothwell says, "Well, then I must apologize..........to English Pish!" The look on his face and the way he says the line is just perfect. In the scene when Mary tells him he may have whatever he wishes....I really enjoyed the part when Mary says, " You are beneath me!" and Bothwell says, "I want you beneath me!" All of the acting in GTP is outstanding and the quality of the camera work and the cinematgraphy is amazing. I was so happy to be able to get this DVD. It has gone on the list of my favourite historical dramas.
I did watch the part with King James, since it was first on my DVD and it was also very good, but the one thing I didn't like about it was how they had various actors speak directly to the camera. I would have preferred a voice over if they needed to have us know a character's background or a character's thoughts at that moment. In the part with Mary and Bothwell, they had a voice over by Mary at the beginnning. I preferred that over the talking to the camera.
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Post by Geniusmentis on Dec 14, 2009 20:22:45 GMT -5
I don't really have time to watch the film again during all this Christmas preparation, so I can't really answer the first few questions, but Bothwell is one of my favourite KMK rolls. There are so many powerful scenes that it's hard to pick favourites. Of course, I like the one when Mary comes to him after he's been shot with the arrow (who wouldn't?). I really like the scene when they are arguing and she slaps him on the neck. I enjoy Mary's line...."Go somewhere dark and lonely and toss your caber, Scottish man." The scene where Bothwell stews and stews and then blows up at dinner is amazing....love angry KMK (I don't know why I enjoy him acting angry so much). I absolutely love the next morning when Mary says that he has called Lord Darnley a long streak of English piss and Bothwell says, "Well, then I must apologize..........to English Pish!" The look on his face and the way he says the line is just perfect. In the scene when Mary tells him he may have whatever he wishes....I really enjoyed the part when Mary says, " You are beneath me!" and Bothwell says, "I want you beneath me!" All of the acting in GTP is outstanding and the quality of the camera work and the cinematgraphy is amazing. I was so happy to be able to get this DVD. It has gone on the list of my favourite historical dramas. I agree!!!
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Post by marcy on Jan 3, 2010 3:22:02 GMT -5
Movie of the Week:
BEDROOMS AND HALLWAYS
1. What are the names of Leo's two best friends?
2. How old is Leo?
3. What book did Leo read that prompts his dream?
4. What's the title of the book Leo gets for his birthday?
5. So is it just a "phase" as Leo's roommate says?
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