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boofadil, we are officially fannish about two of the same things at once. Commence sky falling!
Um, in case that is cryptic to anyone else, I really enjoyed
I have to be in bed for a long day at work tomorrow, BUT a few quick thoughts:
- Absolutely hands-down my favorite thing about the movie: they didn't resolve the love triangle. There is enough speculative room there to drive a fleet of 18-wheelers through, and I love it. Which is not usually me! Usually I am all canon pairing or go home, but this? I can see Snow/William, I can see Snow/Huntsman, hell, I can see a nice jucy Snow/William/Huntsman and I love them all. They didn't make William stupid, or cookie-cutter, or useless; they didn't make the Huntsman anything but his own person who clearly loves Snow by the end, but is it romantic love, or is it a deep faith and loyalty? For storyline purposes it doesn't really matter. It's never stated in the movie that her curse was lifted with true love's kiss, as in the fairy tale; that's all audience interpretation. They clearly toyed with that meaning, but also just as clearly kept from mentioning the L-word throughout.
- I loved the expansive sense of the world, how much there was there. Some things we only saw briefly, some were explored more fully, but I got a pervasive sense of a fully realized background that they just didn't feel the need to infodump on us at all times.
- Overall, I felt like the movie did a nice job of subverting the things you expected. There was no chance we'd get stereotyped dwarves, right? They were going to be some kind of reworked type, and I think the way they handled it worked well. I deeply appreciated that sense of dignity and of tradition and history - all lost - and their decisions in the face of that.
- Gosh, Chris Hemsworth is good looking.
- I have Personal Canon and you will not shake it from me. That horse that Snow found at the very beginning? Not really a horse. Spirit of the Sanctuary temporarily incarnated as a horse, who simply ceased existence when trapped in the bog, his purpose at an end. He was promptly re-incarnated and wandered into the stables at Duke Hammond's castle a few days before Snow arrived, and then waited. This is fact. (I can even bear this out a bit; there was more than a passing resemblance between that horse and the horse Snow rides at the end of the film, and it wouldn't surprise me if they were the same stunt horse.)
- High five to Kristin Stewart's riding double. Exasperated sigh for Stewart herself.
- I had no idea about the William storyline at all, and it pleased me to no end that he got to have his own motivations, and that he was a badass. Also that he didn't turn out to be the Huntsman, 'cause, yawn.
- Kristin Stewart was definitely the weak link in this movie, but her blandness kind of worked for the character, for the most part. The only scene that fell deafeningly, painfully flat for me was her motivational speech, because iron what? Which was a shame, really.
- The Queen's death scene = perfect.
- There were some really, really nice parallels in the movie, in symbol and action. It worked without being hit-you-over-the-head obvious.
- The blind dwarf = Doc. Nicely done, movie.
- Oh, and in conclusion: AWESOME.
Um, in case that is cryptic to anyone else, I really enjoyed
I have to be in bed for a long day at work tomorrow, BUT a few quick thoughts:
- Absolutely hands-down my favorite thing about the movie: they didn't resolve the love triangle. There is enough speculative room there to drive a fleet of 18-wheelers through, and I love it. Which is not usually me! Usually I am all canon pairing or go home, but this? I can see Snow/William, I can see Snow/Huntsman, hell, I can see a nice jucy Snow/William/Huntsman and I love them all. They didn't make William stupid, or cookie-cutter, or useless; they didn't make the Huntsman anything but his own person who clearly loves Snow by the end, but is it romantic love, or is it a deep faith and loyalty? For storyline purposes it doesn't really matter. It's never stated in the movie that her curse was lifted with true love's kiss, as in the fairy tale; that's all audience interpretation. They clearly toyed with that meaning, but also just as clearly kept from mentioning the L-word throughout.
- I loved the expansive sense of the world, how much there was there. Some things we only saw briefly, some were explored more fully, but I got a pervasive sense of a fully realized background that they just didn't feel the need to infodump on us at all times.
- Overall, I felt like the movie did a nice job of subverting the things you expected. There was no chance we'd get stereotyped dwarves, right? They were going to be some kind of reworked type, and I think the way they handled it worked well. I deeply appreciated that sense of dignity and of tradition and history - all lost - and their decisions in the face of that.
- Gosh, Chris Hemsworth is good looking.
- I have Personal Canon and you will not shake it from me. That horse that Snow found at the very beginning? Not really a horse. Spirit of the Sanctuary temporarily incarnated as a horse, who simply ceased existence when trapped in the bog, his purpose at an end. He was promptly re-incarnated and wandered into the stables at Duke Hammond's castle a few days before Snow arrived, and then waited. This is fact. (I can even bear this out a bit; there was more than a passing resemblance between that horse and the horse Snow rides at the end of the film, and it wouldn't surprise me if they were the same stunt horse.)
- High five to Kristin Stewart's riding double. Exasperated sigh for Stewart herself.
- I had no idea about the William storyline at all, and it pleased me to no end that he got to have his own motivations, and that he was a badass. Also that he didn't turn out to be the Huntsman, 'cause, yawn.
- Kristin Stewart was definitely the weak link in this movie, but her blandness kind of worked for the character, for the most part. The only scene that fell deafeningly, painfully flat for me was her motivational speech, because iron what? Which was a shame, really.
- The Queen's death scene = perfect.
- There were some really, really nice parallels in the movie, in symbol and action. It worked without being hit-you-over-the-head obvious.
- The blind dwarf = Doc. Nicely done, movie.
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- Oh, and in conclusion: AWESOME.