Any answers?

[eduard_green]

Referring back to this entry:

1a Ed wanted to be Luke Skywalker

2a Ed likes stripes more than dots

3a Ed likes black ink more than blue ink

6a Ed likes kidnappers more than assassins

7a Ed wanted to survive a plane crash more than a train crash

8a Ed wanted to be Peter Venkman more than Raymond Stanz

9a Ed likes Lupin more than Sirius

10a Ed is more

Comments

[octopoid_horror]

I think I know what me, scott and Andy would say for the rorschach tests:

1] Looks like Rorshach.
2] Looks like Rorshach.
3] Looks like Rorshach.

etc ;-)

Curious

[eharris]

I'm slightly puzzled by 7.

I'd rather not be involved in either. If I was involved in either I would like to survive....?

Re: Curious

[eduard_green]

Yes, I would like to survive, definately, no question. And definately definately it is one of those unrealistic fantasies, like living in the middle ages or being a double agent for the KGB or hanging out with hunter S thompson, where the reality is probably awful but you love to think about it anyway. I often seem to want to escape from something cataclysmic- its the walking away from it thats key. Climbing out through a broken window of a train carriage. Walking across a burning cornfield. Its ridiculous really, I don't know where it comes from.

Re: Curious

[eharris]

I see now. It's the imagery really?

Walking across a burning cornfield. With moody music in the background? ;-)

Re: Curious

[eduard_green]

Yeah, the imagery, the story of it all. And the immense unknowing of what the experience would be like.

I watched some episodes of 'aircrash investigation' last year to learn a bit more about the whole thing- what is incredible about areoplanes is how isolated the pilots are. So in one plane there was a small explosion that blew off some of the wing- everyone on the plane apart from the pilots could look out the window and see it, but all that happened in the cockpit is a light went on. The pilots thought it was a fault with the light so they ignored it. A few minutes later there was another explosion that took out nine rows of seats, like something had taken a bite out of the plane. And still the pilots had no way of knowing until several minutes later when they had felt a bump and hadn't heard from the flight attendents, so thought they ought to take a look! Its horrendous!

[laserboy]

Kidnapping is so high maintenance. :)

[eduard_green]

Thats why I love it- it forces the kidnappers into this ridiculous relationship with their victim. There was once an episode of he-man- the cartoon version- where skeletor kidnaps cringer and hikes across frozen wastelands- cringer gets tired and cold and skeletor backs down and carries him! something like that. Gets really mad at going soft over a cat!

[laserboy]

:-)

Assassins make great character studies. So much potential angst and plenty of places to go with it. See James Bond and the female character in Munich. Maybe I just like the bad uns.

[eduard_green]

I agree. It was terry practchett that made me see the potential of assassins- and generally they get the better film roles. Solitary and dressed in black and all those cool gadgets! And so many variations- munich, leon, grosse point blank- all very different personalities.

But kidnapping couples are character pairs- I loved Mr and Mrs Smith- pairs of characters do it for me usually.