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Jane Louise or Louise Jane?
Apr. 1st, 2016 09:53 pmToday has been a very interesting day. It started off as a day where GrayDad and I were going to go off and do amazing creative things out in a coffee shop somewhere until we needed food. However on our way to the coffeeshop, he got a call and it turned from a day out to A Day.
To make a very long story very short, we've been dealing with the curveballs hurled our way the best way we know how when we're in the "hurry up and wait" place. With movies. So Dad got me to sit down and watch Dracula Untold which was a lot better and a lot different from the movie that I had thought it was.
If you haven't seen it, I urge you to. I don't like horror films and this isn't so much of one really. It's a very fascinating story they've spun out and the plausiblity of something like that is very intriguing to complicate.
It addresses certain historical mysteries - why the Ottomans stopped when and where they did. Why there are exceedingly rare images of Vlad on coinage, stuff like that.
Now we've got Undercover Blues on and I'm in a weird nostalgic place. I've grown up with this movie, my parents and I have been watching it pretty much since it came out on VHS. This movie, Princess Bride, and Sneakers make up the core of movies that I grew up watching, still watch, and can quote backwards, forwards, and seven ways from Sunday. The acting is amazing, the plotline is hilarious, and I relate to this movie on a lot of levels.
Mostly because my parents are just like Jefferson and Jane Blue. If you've seen the movie, that scene with the trumpet? That is exactly my father. I have lost count of the number of languages he speaks and how many instruments he can play and the man has forgotten more than I will ever know (at least it feels like that sometimes). My parents flirt the exact same way as Jeff and Jane do in the movie (and it's just that disgustingly sweet sometimes in real life) and Dad's good with the BS just like he is.
The fact that the movie came out when I was seven is probably the only reason why my name isn't actually Jane Louise - my family loves the movie that much.
I also love that this movie while kind of dated in some parts does feature an incredibly badass main female lead, who doesn't get fridged for manpain, does have a lot of agency in the movie, and pretty much winds up saving the day.
The running gags are also some of my absolute favorites.
To make a very long story very short, we've been dealing with the curveballs hurled our way the best way we know how when we're in the "hurry up and wait" place. With movies. So Dad got me to sit down and watch Dracula Untold which was a lot better and a lot different from the movie that I had thought it was.
If you haven't seen it, I urge you to. I don't like horror films and this isn't so much of one really. It's a very fascinating story they've spun out and the plausiblity of something like that is very intriguing to complicate.
It addresses certain historical mysteries - why the Ottomans stopped when and where they did. Why there are exceedingly rare images of Vlad on coinage, stuff like that.
Now we've got Undercover Blues on and I'm in a weird nostalgic place. I've grown up with this movie, my parents and I have been watching it pretty much since it came out on VHS. This movie, Princess Bride, and Sneakers make up the core of movies that I grew up watching, still watch, and can quote backwards, forwards, and seven ways from Sunday. The acting is amazing, the plotline is hilarious, and I relate to this movie on a lot of levels.
Mostly because my parents are just like Jefferson and Jane Blue. If you've seen the movie, that scene with the trumpet? That is exactly my father. I have lost count of the number of languages he speaks and how many instruments he can play and the man has forgotten more than I will ever know (at least it feels like that sometimes). My parents flirt the exact same way as Jeff and Jane do in the movie (and it's just that disgustingly sweet sometimes in real life) and Dad's good with the BS just like he is.
The fact that the movie came out when I was seven is probably the only reason why my name isn't actually Jane Louise - my family loves the movie that much.
I also love that this movie while kind of dated in some parts does feature an incredibly badass main female lead, who doesn't get fridged for manpain, does have a lot of agency in the movie, and pretty much winds up saving the day.
The running gags are also some of my absolute favorites.