• LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org
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    3 months ago

    I’m going to break the rules a little bit and share four.

    In order:

    1. Dolores Claiborne (1995)

    2. Misery (1990)

    3. Elf (2003)

    4. The Lego Movie (2015)

    Here is my fan theory (possible spoilers):

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    A traumatized and desperate woman is driven nearly to insanity dealing with a rough life in north eastern America. After losing her family life, she retreats to a mountain cabin to live out her days alone and at no risk of ever being taken advantage of again. As a coping mechanism, she develops and unhealthy relationship with written fiction.

    <Events of Misery unfold>

    The writer who escapes moves far away and takes on a new identity working as a publisher of children’s books in New York city (no chance of crazies kidnapping you over children’s books, right?). He thought he was finished dealing with crazy people until a man claiming to be both his son and a christmas elf are thrust into his life.

    <Events of Elf unfold>

    Reconnecting with family and assimilating back into society has turned Buddy, who has since dropped that moniker, into a respectable, hard working family man. He wants to give his children the normal childhood he was never allowed to have. Although he still clings to some old habits. After suffering the trauma of having his custom built Lego city crushed by his manager back in Gimbels department store years prior, he is now healing by constructing an elaborately crafted Lego city in the basement of his home. Only this time meticulously cementing each piece into place.

    His now wife, knowing his past, is accepting of the hobby. But his own children, with whom he hasn’t shared his upbringing, aren’t so understanding.

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    3 months ago

    There will be blood

    Unforgiven

    No country for old men

    This is a trilogy that’ll give you a good idea about America’s relationship with violence. At least until they make a (good) Blood Meridian movie

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      3 months ago

      At least until they make a (good) Blood Meridian movie

      The Judge is just going to be impossible to cast unless The Big Show is willing to shave everything and play the part

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        Film is a different medium than literature. If I were a casting director, I’d be laser focused on finding an actor with the chops, and let the makeup/effects guys worry about physical appearance. Have you seen Barron Harkonnen in the new Dune films?

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          Yeah, if they had the body shape… but The Judge is like 7 foot 280lbs. When I read it the second time I though, oh who might have that same build so I can imagine how it works… Those big fucking wrestlers like The Big Show are the right size, except if they were bald and look like a baby/man

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      I like the flow of the second group, but I worry it’ll be entirely forgettable. Hyuk.

      No, I like it: serious, sappy, happy, but always a love story.

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      If Dark City is the lynchpin (and an inspired choice, I agree) I might put it with the Matrix and … Gunkata. Or maybe V for Vendetta.

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      the rumor around hollywood is that a party was trying to come up with a movie impossible to make a sequel to, and then titanic came up and then someone said they could do it and started writing inception.

      so maybe titanic then inception and then maybe strange days?

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        Inception is almost 100% someone remembering someone else’s trying to describe The Neuromancer. The link is the top, but it is a throwing star in The Neuromancer. The Matrix is also trying to do it but they did it in a more personal way

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    Animated Rock Fantasy

    • Heavy Metal 1981
    • Rock & Rule 1983
    • Transformers 1986

    Dark Fantasy

    • Beastmaster 1982
    • Krull 1983
    • Legend 1985
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    I’m pretty sure Charles Foster Kane was gay, only married beards, & couldn’t come to terms with his attraction to Leland, leading to heart break…

    As a fan of happy endings, I suggest:

    • Citizen Kane
    • The Proposal
    • Grumpy Old Men