10 things you hate about me

[andrewducker]

LJ Interests meme results

1. atheist spirituality:
   Stolen gleefully from brandnewgun - this describes the feelings I get associated with the world, but nevertheless associate with nothing mystical.
2. chasing amy:
   My favourite Kevin Smith film, and the only one that feels at all adult to me.
3. david lynch:
   While I don't worship David Lynch, I am fascinated by him - people that show the strangeness in the universe and imply that there's more going on, but we can't quite comprehend it really grab me.
4. geeks:
   Geeks?  Wouldn't know anything about that :->
5. la story:
   One of my 5 favourite films, and the only one that might be called happy (although I still maintain that Brazil has a happy ending).  I'm just touched by it every time I see it.
6. optimism:
   I remain optimistic, despite the best efforts of certain sections of mankind to destroy the planet out from under me, and other sections to bring drama to every moment of their waking lives.
7. roleplaying:
   Because there's nothing quite like being attacked by a 8 foot tall Spider to get my adrenaline pumping
8. stirling:
   Lived there for 13 years, before sadly abandoning it to live, ooh, 40 miles away.  Still love the place though.
9. thomas covenant:
   He's so dreeeeamy.
10. writing:
    Not that I've been doing nearly enough of it recently.

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Comments

Re: LA Story

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

I bought LA Story for someone a long while back and before I could give it to them, I needed to watch it, so I bought them another copy. It's one of my favorite films too...

Brazil, a happy ending? Can you point to where you wrote up how that works? I guess happy in the way that 1984 had a happy ending...

*Spoiler for Brazil*

[andrewducker]

(from interviews with Terry Gilliam)
And so then there was 'how do you escape from that world?' and Sam escapes by going insane. I actually started this film with that idea of 'can one make a film where the happy ending is a man going insane?'"

Re: *Spoiler for Brazil*

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly! I didn't know that Gilliam had discussed it, though--my friend B and I figured it out for ourselves. I don't know if it's a POV thing (we're very dark sometimes, she and I), but we've gotten lots of blank looks.

I suppose that it helps that he escaped into a positive-outcome fantasy rather than one even worse than Reel Life.