Dropped Off
Having first seen the second Harry Potter film on tv (not having touched the books, I had a series of Snape dreams. I think that it made me suddenly pay attention to the whole phenom that is Harry Potter. In anycase, I love the sequence in Azkaban where Lupin asks Longbottom what he’s most afraid of… and Lupin’s response. Let’s see how Randie responds.
Wha? Randie’s dreaming of Mouse?
*ugh* An 18 hour movie marathon. I don’t know if we’ll ever do that with Harry Potter. We do it with the extended version of LoTR, but that three movies over four days on Thanksgiving Weekend, and is only just over 19 hours. Now once the Hobbit movies come out and are available, that’ll push it to 16-17 hours.
Mouse would be terrified of Prof. Snake. I should have drawn Mouse cowering a bit. But it makes sense that Mouse would be in her dream as he just dropped her off.
Tricksy Hobbitses. My favorite line in the “…Rings” movies… That and…
Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case, you were also meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought.
Oooo… nice favorites!
Mine tend to be funnier ones:
This is in the novel and the Bakshi version of LoTR, but not in the Peter Jackson version of Fellowship of the Ring. It occurs at the Prancing Pony, when Mr. Butterbur, the bartender, warns the hobbits about Strider (Aragorn). Strider emerges from the dark and proclaims:
“Then who would you take up with?” asked Strider. “A fat innkeeper who only remembers his own name because people shout it at him all day?…”
The one in the movie that always gets a laugh from me happens at Bilbo’s Farewell Birthday Party:
Frodo: Bilbo, have you been at the Gaffer’s home brew?
Bilbo: No.
[pause]
Bilbo: Well, yes, but that’s not the point…
I’m kind of tempted to do that, despite Randie demonstrating the after-effects of it. Brig, you’ve done a smashing job at handling the End-of-Potter phenom from the perspective of a non-fan :D!
If there be any other hardcore Potter fans out there, Lucy Knisley drew up some excellent posters that are availible for free download: http://lucylou.livejournal.com/
hahaha, I love Snape/Alan Rickman in the movies. Just perfect! And you really gotta read the books — they are even better than the movies!
Couldn’t she have fantasized Alan Rickman in another of his films…like Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?
Pete: This should not surprise you, but I’ve not read the books. (I know, shocking). I like your picks, too. Hee hee.
Thanks, Meghan… AND GAH! Lucy’s posters are AWESOME! or as Midge would say… WICKED! Thanks for the super cool link…(have a look, ya’ll… they are so well done!). By the way, have you read Lucy’s book “French Milk” ? … about her trip to Paris…. it is on my favorite graphic novel list!
Micki: Yah! I am so with you!
Dada… um, he wasn’t really IN it… but his incredible voice was… but he was kind of a downer.
My favorite Rickman line is… is… dang, there are just so many. I’ll go with one from “Quigley Down Under”, a little known, much under-appreciated movie. Quigley (Tom Selleck) is beaten up and is weakly standing, facing Elliot Marston (Alan Rickman). Quigley’s just been given a pistol to have a “fair” gunfight against Marston and two of his men.
Elliott Marston: [Marston starts walking backwards] I’ll just back up a few paces… And to your left a bit, that’s it… Now you’re right in front of my old pistol target.
Elliott Marston: [Marston slips his coat back to reveal his holster] Some men are born in the wrong century. I think I was born on the wrong continent. Oh, by the way, you’re fired
Matthew Quigley: This ain’t Dodge City. And you ain’t Bill Hickok.
Matthew Quigley: [Quigley shoots Dobkin, O’Flynn and Marston before they can even aim their guns, then walks up to a dying Marston] I said I never had much use for one. Never said I didn’t know how to use it.
The way that Rickman adds on – as an afterthought – “Oh, by the way, you’re fired” is priceless.
Oh, Bridgett…You MUST read the series! There’s SOOOOO much more that you get out of the books than you do in the movies (although I liked the movies for the last book more than the actual novel). Besides, the first four are astoundingly fast reads! 🙂