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May. 13th, 2006 10:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
titusnowlThe Princess Bride is on. I haven't seen this movie since I was a kid. My Nana had it on VHS, and I would go to visit her while Mom was at work; in the morning I'd watch Nickelodeon and see the Elephant Show* and David the Gnome**, have a jelly sandwich for lunch, and then in the afternoon we'd put The Princess Bride in the VCR, she'd sit on the couch and read her magazines, and I'd color in the coloring books she bought especially for me (they were fairy tale characters, and if I didn't know the story I would ask her and she would tell me; I learned more fairy tales than any other kid I know, and to this day I'll make references to stories like Thumbkin and Rose Red and people won't get it), and eat those vanilla wafer cookies that are like what is inside of a Kit-Kat bar, and watch the movie.
That "never go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line" guy just called Andre the Giant (is the character's name Fezzik?) "hippopotamic." As in "resembling a hippopotamus." That's genius. I shall use that word.
* If I hear Sharon, Lois and Bram now, I am automatically transported to my preschool days - I attended the Vo-Tec school in the afternoons, and would eat my jelly sandwich while watching "Ephalent" and leave for school as soon as it was done, where I would promptly get knocked upside the head with a cardboard brick by a kid named Scott.
** And the theme from David the Gnome - a tune I can summon up in my head to this day - makes me so nostalgic I want to cry, remembering Nana's house and the sunshine of my early childhood. Look around you, there are many things to see...
That "never go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line" guy just called Andre the Giant (is the character's name Fezzik?) "hippopotamic." As in "resembling a hippopotamus." That's genius. I shall use that word.
* If I hear Sharon, Lois and Bram now, I am automatically transported to my preschool days - I attended the Vo-Tec school in the afternoons, and would eat my jelly sandwich while watching "Ephalent" and leave for school as soon as it was done, where I would promptly get knocked upside the head with a cardboard brick by a kid named Scott.
** And the theme from David the Gnome - a tune I can summon up in my head to this day - makes me so nostalgic I want to cry, remembering Nana's house and the sunshine of my early childhood. Look around you, there are many things to see...
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Date: 2006-05-14 03:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-14 03:38 am (UTC)::hand gestures::
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Date: 2006-05-14 03:47 am (UTC)I was trying to remember the title a few weeks ago and couldn't but that was it I LOVED that show.
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Date: 2006-05-14 10:49 am (UTC)On the Special Features of the Princess Bride DVD, Rob Reiner refers to the film as the Wizard of Oz for a new generation. I think he's right. It's that kind of a movie.
And even though Wallace Shawn has done many things as an actor (not the least of which is being the voice of Rex in both Toy Story films), Vezzini will always be one of the best things he ever does. Just think...he has so little actual camera time in that film, yet he's absolutely unforgettable. It's a brilliant movie overall. Just brilliant.