Clearly I'm going to have to rewatch Splash. I last saw it in piecemeal at a friend's house.
It's one of the formative movies of my childhood: we taped it off the television when I was four or five and by the time I was twelve, I had lost count of the number of times I'd watched it. (And I wasn't a particularly movie-watching child. This one just rang on all the right frequencies.) Then the tape got misplaced or drowned or God knows what and I didn't see the film again until grad school, when I was given the DVD for my birthday; and then I watched it on Wednesday and this post is the result. I have never written extensively about Splash; I'm not sure I could be coherent about it. I can be critical—it's not a perfect film. There's a tonal shift toward the end that is particularly huh? But it corrects itself; and the shape of the story is right. And Daryl Hannah's Madison is perhaps the best mermaid put on film.
The world has room for both the 1938 Graumont Pictures Magician's Nephew with the haughty, entitled Uncle Andrew, and the 1969 Hammer Films Magician's Nephew with Uncle Andrew the beaten, self-pitying martyr to Science.
Well, the book was published in 1955. That said, I'll take one of each, please.
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It's one of the formative movies of my childhood: we taped it off the television when I was four or five and by the time I was twelve, I had lost count of the number of times I'd watched it. (And I wasn't a particularly movie-watching child. This one just rang on all the right frequencies.) Then the tape got misplaced or drowned or God knows what and I didn't see the film again until grad school, when I was given the DVD for my birthday; and then I watched it on Wednesday and this post is the result. I have never written extensively about Splash; I'm not sure I could be coherent about it. I can be critical—it's not a perfect film. There's a tonal shift toward the end that is particularly huh? But it corrects itself; and the shape of the story is right. And Daryl Hannah's Madison is perhaps the best mermaid put on film.
The world has room for both the 1938 Graumont Pictures Magician's Nephew with the haughty, entitled Uncle Andrew, and the 1969 Hammer Films Magician's Nephew with Uncle Andrew the beaten, self-pitying martyr to Science.
Well, the book was published in 1955. That said, I'll take one of each, please.