Bedknobs & Broomsticks & cim cant post storees

[cimorene]

I feel a little boring, fandom-wise, which is frustrating. I don't have things to post about, even though I just finished a 15 000-word smut bomb (except the end needs to be rewritten, but I don't know how) of Frank/Gerard pon farr fic, and it's amazing I was able to write it at all, because I'm extremely compulsive about writing in order and, with rare exceptions, working on one thing at a time. And of course... weeks ago I finished the second Ray/Bob story in the Nesty Verse but I can't post it, yet, because Open Office Ate Wax's Homework (no, really - she saved the file with her proofreading in and then she opened it again, on her own computer, and all her changes were gone) and she's been working non-stop and too tired to make them over again. I can usually never write anything new in between finishing a story and posting it - I can feel it hovering over my shoulder like a raincloud.

We cleaned the flat today and I vacuumed up about two cats' worth of cat fuzz. Wax's buddy Aki was as dubious as Wax of the concept of Bedknobs & Broomsticks, but his (wee, American) boyfriend wanted to see it so the Finns were both forced to watch with us. Oscar-nominated for special effects, dude - and you know that magic looks just like disco. Also, the list of things I never noticed about this movie as a kid is getting amusingly long, like

• Emelius Browne is a con man! Like, not just in that he was conning Miss Price - he's a full-time hustler. He has holes in his socks.


• "Why you got the curtains closed?" "So that we may enjoy the gentle glow of candlelight." "More like it's so a copper won't come by and see you messin' around in here."


• Least. Violent. Nazi invasion. Ever.


• The ethnically diverse groups on Portobello Road who nonetheless manage to basically dance only with each other. The West Indians come out with their steel drums en masse for Negro Ten Minutes and then vanish again just as suddenly when it's over.


• The hookers in Portobello Road who a) try to pick up Browne when he's got a kid in each hand; b) are sent on their way immediately; c) with a conscious glance at Miss Price; who d) looks totally oblivious.


• The classically-trained Navy ballerinas.


• The fact that the villain is an old bookseller / the concept that there might be anything odd about this.


• Um, no mention is ever made of the childrens' actual parents - are they already orphaned? Or what?


• Browne saying "soccer" instead of football.


• The 'happy ending' is that the romantic lead goes off to war after a baffling kiss on the mouth with Miss Price. Are they married already? Or did she give it up a bit since she knew he was going to be KILLED and never come back at all, which... hahaha, yay. I mean. Going away to war =/= a happy ending. How in the world did I miss that as a kid? I think I thought the army was kind of like a day job. Or I didn't realise that a war was actually ongoing during the movie, somehow.

Comments

[morningfine]

So now I'm properly curious about the movie! I imagine you wouldn't mind watching it again at some point soonish? And anyway it'd be nice to hang out. I'm starting my stretch of days off tomorrow morning; Saturday night is kinda-sorta spoken for, but other than that.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Sugar wanted to, too, but she says she has the flu or something. Wax is working the morning shift tomorrow. I could actually watch it once a day for like... a long time, so I wouldn't mind tomorrow too, even if Sugar couldn't make it.

[morningfine]

Yay! I'll probably be awake after 14 or so. Do you have a time preference?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Around then should be fine. I intend to wake up before noon to walk the dog, and the sooner the better, because Wax, having the morning shift, will probably want to go to bed at 18:00 or so at the latest. Also, she srsly won't want to see it again - she didn't want to watch today. If you wanted to come somewhat earlier than that on Saturday, instead, we could do that.

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

I could do either tomorrow or Saturday. I'm feeling a bit better and at least the fever seems to have gone down.

My doctor thinks I have a bacterial infection in my lungs (which would be contagious) but I'm not so sure because I haven't been coughing much at all. Go figure. Want to take the chance? :P

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe Chi will be contacting us tomorrow? We could see how you feel then. I'm not immediately opposed to the idea, but if you start feeling phlegmy it might be better to postpone. :)

[morningfine]

I'm voting for Saturday now! I kinda just really want to go back to bed for a couple more hours now but we could start noon-ish tomorrow so we'd definitely be done before Wax gets home, and everybody's happy!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Haha, well, I was asleep when you sent this comment, but I'm awake now, if you guys still wanna.

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

*wakes up*

Did you guys watch the movie? I overslept because I stayed up all night having a massively prolonged panic attack. :(

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Nope, I'm just chillin' here eating breakfast slowly. Too late now though, Wax is about to come home. :/ I don't think she would stand for the same movie twice in four days.

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

Great, that means we can reschedule and I get to see the movie after all. :)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

she has morning shift monday and tuesday, evening shift wednesday and thursday and ... friday off. so not friday then.

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

During the evening shifts, maybe? Depending on Chi's schedule.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i think this all started because she was saying she had a long weekend though...

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

at one point i tried to figure out how many movies actually used the technique of animation and live action together (by which of course i mean flat, 2-d animation, since so many movies used computer animation for special effects, etc etc); i think there were something like five that i knew of, including bedknobs and broomsticks and who framed roger rabbit.

in other news: i really loved that movie as a kid. i'm trying to convince my roommate to get it for me for christmas. xD

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Mary Poppins, too... The Phantom Tollbooth never combines them in the same image, but it has a magical world where the character turns into a cartoon. I've probably seen it before, but I can't think of any other examples.

[aynatonal.livejournal.com]

I think that they are orphans? Maybe there's something at the beginning about how they're actually coming from a London orphanage? It's been a few years since I saw it, but I think the implication is that they don't have any parents.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Nope. There's nothing of the kind. The only place that implication comes in is that they don't mention any parents or anyone at all. They have two suitcases, though, at least one change of clothes, but definitely not very much - about which Charlie says "Travel light, that's us", and that's all. When they want to run away all they say is "Back to London" and that sort of thing.

[aynatonal.livejournal.com]

How odd! I guess I assumed. Time to watch it again, clearly.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Aren't the kids evacuees? I mean, isn't that why they go to stay with Miss Price in the first place?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Yes, but that doesn't have to mean they don't have any parents/family to (eventually) go back to, surely. It wouldn't have happened before the end of the movie, or anything, but it also wouldn't really be a question of forming a new family with a 'mother' and 'father'. At least not, I'd think, so soon. Even if they are orphans and the only hint of that is the way they ask if Mr. Browne will be their father at the end, it still seems rather odd and sudden, to me.