sovay: (Claude Rains)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote 2025-04-09 10:13 pm (UTC)

I'm sure it will shock you disproportionately to find out that Schmendrick the Magician was also my favorite.

SHOCKED. SHOCKED.

(I read the book a long, long time ago, I think as a library book when I was a teen or tween. I'm not sure if I've ever seen the movie.)

I was shown the movie for the first and only time that I can remember in college, by a high school friend, but we can prove that I glanced off it in childhood because despite direct textual contradiction I associated Schmendrick for years with the color blue. It has a fabulous voice cast, a distinctive animation style, is remarkably close to the novel thanks to Beagle doing the screenplay, and I really imprinted on the book.

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