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shady_heaven

Anne Rice & Queen of the Damned Rant

Mar 14, 2008 15:54

I was watching the extras and deleted scenes from "Queen of the Damned" yesterday and it left me with this lingering question: why the hell does Anne Rice get so bent out of shape over fanfiction when she let filmmakers butcher the living crap out of her characters and storyline?

Seriously.

There was this one deleted scene where Marius calls out ( Read more... )

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lycan_master750 March 19 2008, 23:36:37 UTC

The actor is Irish and...they don't look a bit alike. The movie was great and all.

The President, I hope is either Hillary or Obama because McCain has that Bush mentality. If he gets elected, this country is going down the hole and we'll be in Iraq another 5 years. He could also go to war with Iran which this country doesn't need. Sure we'd beat the hell out of them with this army and all but too much bloodshed.

Columbine? ex_squashy880 March 28 2008, 10:57:29 UTC

Hi, Shady. I found your journal via the Reb&VoDKa community although i notice you haven’t posted there in a while. I haven't ever posted in that community (only found it a couple of weeks ago) and don’t know that i ever will. However, your posts were/are interesting & well-reasoned and i wondered if you would like to chat or correspond. (You seem very approachable ( ... )

COLUMBINE! ex_squashy880 April 10 2008, 14:14:43 UTC

Hi, i am at work and bored, so i thought i would send you a 'taster' question. (I hope it's ok that i posted to your journal, as it's the only way i can contact you when i'm at work). Here goes:

Imagine that you could be the proverbial 'fly on the wall'. What ONE moment would you choose between, say, 1st January 1998 and 20th April 1999?

The one i keep coming back to is when Eric first mentions his NBK plan to Dylan. (We know that it was Eric's idea because Dylan says as much in his journal). Was Eric serious the first time he mentioned it, or did the idea grow on him? Did he mention it jokingly at first, and they both laughed about it? Might he then have said something along the lines of, "you know, VoDKa, we actually could do this" ?

And then, how might Dylan have reacted? Perhaps he demurred a bit. Perhaps he hummed and hawed. Or did he agree (whilst not being 100% certain in his own mind) because he didn't want to offend Eric?

Intriguing, isn't it? I wish i knew.

Re: COLUMBINE! shady_heaven April 20 2008, 00:54:30 UTC

I don't know for sure, but I highly suspect it started out as a half-serious joke that grew on both of them. Eric and Dylan were good friends, and they'd known each other for a few years, but certainly not all their lives. I think Eric might have been testing the waters to see whether Dylan might actually help him do something like that. It's far easier to go through with a plan of that magnitude with a partner than it is to fly solo, for both logical and emotional reasons ( ... )

Re: COLUMBINE! ex_squashy880 April 20 2008, 19:24:58 UTC

Hello there. Good to hear from you. :-) I've split this into two, because it came out rather long.

(Did you get my other e-mail by the way? The one i called an 'interim' e-mail? I sent it to your MSN address).

"It's far easier to go through with a plan of that magnitude with a partner than it is to fly solo, for both logical and emotional reasons."

Absolutely. It makes a world of difference. What also fascinates me is that it's so much the more unlikely that you have *2* people working together on a thing of such magnitude & to the same ends... given that people's personalities are so very different.

"Or did he just keep it to himself, getting his "courage" to follow through from watching his partner in crime?"I wonder. Shy, less confident characters will sometimes pretend a confidence they don't feel and no-one on the outside can tell that it's feigned. (It's a psychological trick that does actually work). Dylan could have done the same thing - certainly he could have 'held it together' for the last hour or so of his ( ... )

Re: COLUMBINE! ex_squashy880 April 20 2008, 19:34:59 UTC

Reply, part two: :-)

"The thing I find the most interesting about the Columbine massacre is that Eric and Dylan had planned to kill the vast majority of their victims via bombs going off and collapsing the ceiling in on the cafeteria."

Yes and i find it really irritating that even now people persist in saying that they 'targeted' their victims when they obviously didn't, they were going for 'numbers'. You raise a very interesting point here and one i hadn't thought about. Initially i went with the idea that they were playing god and letting people live because they could. I now wonder how they really felt about killing at such close range? It wasn't what they'd intended, after all, and i wonder how prepared they were. I know they carried knives, but even so... I wonder if they'd really considered how it would feel to be in such close range of their victims, ie, face-to face. It was a *completely* different scenario to the one they'd envisaged. Maybe after the adrenalin rush wore off they just couldn't do it any more. ( ... )

you know what weird carl_kirby21 May 8 2008, 19:31:01 UTC

You know whats weird about that movie the star of that movie die from a plane crush right before that movie came out
maybe you don't so think the same thing but i think i lil weird