The lady with the cart... she took my duo-tang

[ciroccoj]

Subject line is something that I once said to Chris while in a half-awake state. I have no earthly idea what I was dreaming that led me to make that statement. Chris and I still use it as shorthand for "random stuff is in my brain at this moment in time; do not adjust your set."

You know how people said the kids who play the characters in the Harry Potter movies would eventually have to be replaced as they got older? Well, the guy who played Tom Riddle is 27. And the girl who plays Moaning Myrtle is 39. Hee.

I guess it makes a difference, though, when you're playing a ghost. And I never did really buy Tom Riddle as a teenager.

It's astonishing how many of my very favourite movie moments in the world are in the LOTR movies. Just in The Return of the King, there's the lighting of the beacons from Gondor to Rohan, the scene where King Theoden says "And Rohan will answer!", Eowyn's "I am no MAN!", Aragorn's speech "But it is not THIS day!", and, one of my favourite bathos-moments evah:

Denethor: Abandon your post!! Flee! Flee for your life!!!
Gandalf: ::whack::
Denethor: ::crumple::
Gandalf: Prepare for battle!

Comments

[ladystarstruck.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, lighting the beacons has to be my most favourite moment in just about any movie (nothing else comes to mind at all right now). So powerful an image!

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Mulan has a beautiful beacon-lighting sequence at the beginning. Nowhere near as neat as ROTK, but still pretty cool :)