Seth, drain the well. There's a neighbor missing

[sovay]

It is a good thing Ian McKellen followed up his turn in Cold Comfort Farm (1995) with roles as monumentally pop-cultural as Gandalf or Magneto, because otherwise I suspect people would still be accosting him in the street and shouting, "THERE'LL BE NO BUTTER IN HELL!"

. . . Actually, I really hope they still do.

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[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

I would! I adore that movie.

Nine

[sovay]

I adore that movie.

Well, I own it now!

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

worst fears realized darling, Seth and Reuben too, send gumboots

[sovay]

worst fears realized darling, Seth and Reuben too, send gumboots

You should subtitle some part of your memoir-book of reviews "Send Gumboots" and see how many readers get it.

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

Was that before he did the movie Richard III (he was in the play a few years before the movie - I saw a traveling show in Minnesota and even though he was great, the rest of the actors were not that great.)

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

Right? Why were Annette Bening and Robert Downey Jr. even there? Worse, why were they so awful?

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

IIRC Edward IV's wife was something of an outsider at court (she was from their former enemies the Lancasters), and she created some resentment by getting her relatives into high positions - this is emphasised in the movie by casting them all as Americans.

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

I figured that was the casting choice. I just wish they had brought their acting chops with them to the set and not ... whatever other thing that was.

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

They were much better than the stage actors.

[sovay]

Was that before he did the movie Richard III

The films came out in the same year; IMDb tells me Cold Comfort Farm was released first, but that tells me nothing about the shooting schedule.

Was there any overlap between stage and film cast besides McKellen?

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

"Drain the well, there's a neighbor missing" is so utterly plausible in my family, I had an eyebrow-raising moment.

I am at work on a Friday. Please bash me repeatedly with hard blunt things to dull the pain.

(I am wearing a lesbian social activism t-shirt, jeans, and Keens, which taken together make me look butch on a stevedore level; I can only hope it pisses the execs off just a little. Hey, you make me wake up at five, you reap what's been sown...)

In closing, mmmm, Ian McKellen. Now I need to google that film.

[sovay]

(I am wearing a lesbian social activism t-shirt, jeans, and Keens, which taken together make me look butch on a stevedore level; I can only hope it pisses the execs off just a little. Hey, you make me wake up at five, you reap what's been sown...)

Photographs! I still haven't seen your new haircut!

In closing, mmmm, Ian McKellen. Now I need to google that film.

You will really like it, I think. The satire is in all the right places, i.e., everywhere.

[csecooney.livejournal.com]

I love that movie. After I watched it the first three times (in a week), I'd invite bunches of friends over to see it too, just to have an excuse to watch it again. And to spread the good news. It's one of those rarer movies that stands up to the book and trades blow for blow. They both survive with honors at the end.

[sovay]

It's one of those rarer movies that stands up to the book and trades blow for blow. They both survive with honors at the end.

I haven't read the book in years! I don't even own a copy. Fortunately, I suspect I know people I can hit up for one.

What other films do you like as well as their books?

[csecooney.livejournal.com]

Mmn. The 1995 Persuasion, but not the 2007. The 1999 Wives and Daughters.

Atonement and Perfume came close, mostly because they succeeded in conveying a particularly strong artificial synæsthesia so beautifully. Atonement recreated migraine conditions through its soundtrack, the smallest sounds -- like the typewriter and the squeak of shoes -- being heightened. And Perfume doing with color what the author did with scent, which was, I thought, extremely important.

Forrest Gump the film was better than the book. Likewise the fifth Harry Potter movie.

Dang. I wanted to give you more, but it's 7:30 in the morning and my brain's not working. I'll think about it. I don't actually watch a lot of movies, although more now that I don't have a job and my mom's living with me. (I stopped watching movies alone a few years ago mostly. It had lost a lot of its flavor. I still do it occasionally but mostly only with guilty pleasure movies.)

Do you have movies you prefer to their bookish counterparts?

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

yesssss

ETA: When my family went to Scotland several years ago, I had high hopes that the rental vehicle would allow me to yell "We're goin to go all about in a FARHD VAN."

Alas, it was a Volkswagen.

[spatch]

Waitaminnit... Owlet? Izzat you?! What toga have you?

This has been a cryptic cry of recognition; we apologize for the inconvenience.

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

Dear Spatch, this is the moment when we run toward one another in a sunlit field while music swells.

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

A Mounds moment? (Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't...)

*is totally betraying her age*

[sovay]

Alas, it was a Volkswagen.

That's heartrending!

[larryhammer]

*blink* That was McKellen, wasn't it. I'd forgotten that. Clearly, it's been too long since I watched it.

---L.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

yeah, that was me, too.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

I heard that when they were casting for Apt Pupil, the director worried that McKellen wouldn't look old enough for the role, and began asking if anyone knew that name of "that wonderful old actor who played the preacher in Cold
Comfort Farm." I think it's McKellen who tells this story....

[sovay]

I think it's McKellen who tells this story....

I'd never heard that. Hah. Awesome.

[sovay]

That was McKellen, wasn't it.

He's very recognizable by voice.

[farwing.livejournal.com]

...I really need to watch that movie again. It's been ages and ages.

[lauradi7.livejournal.com]

Do you hve the wherewithal to watch at VHS tape? I could bring it to Tai Chi in the morning.

[farwing.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if the VCR works, to tell you the truth. And I am playing hooky from tai chi to go to Boskone. But thank you!

[kerrickadrian.livejournal.com]

I really want to start a local goat dairy called "No Butter In Hell" now. We would make everything but butter.

(See, goat milk doesn't make butter very easily because the cream doesn't separate... oh blast. It sounded good in my head.)

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

A++ WOULD BUY FROM THIS DAIRY

You could have a demonic-looking goat face on the label, staring down the customers.

[sovay]

A++ WOULD BUY FROM THIS DAIRY

I don't know what it says about the great minds in this particular case . . .

[sovay]

I really want to start a local goat dairy called "No Butter In Hell" now. We would make everything but butter.

WOULD BUY FROM SELLER AGAIN.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Damn, where do I start: the novel, or this film?

[sovay]

Damn, where do I start: the novel, or this film?

I haven't (embarrassingly) read the book recently enough to be able to evaluate the one against the other, so I will enthusiastically point you in the direction of the film and yell incoherent Lawrentian or hellfire-blazing things at you in the meanwhile.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

*and yell incoherent Lawrentian or hell-blazing things at you in the meantime.*


Please do; it has been that sort of day.