Warped Movies

[eredien]

If you didn't get this emailed to you, you can get it here now too. Partly because I don't know what people will check first, LJ or email, and partly because it's easier than typing up an exhaustive email list of anyone who might ever want to see this.

There was a general discussion about movies and Alice in Wonderland and childhood over lunch, which is what the following email developed from. Enjoy.

I've found that Alice in Wonderland movie on Amazon...

On the little sidebar, incidentally, I found a guide that made me laugh so hard. You know, the kind that's like, "So...you'd like to learn more about Art History", etc? This one is "So...you'd like to Warp the Minds of your Children."

I've seen almost everything on the list, and read most of it, except for the fact that I had Return to Oz as a book-with-casette-tape-set instead of seeing the movie. (I still want to see the movie).

If I think hard enough, I can still remember what the cars sing when the toaster almost gets crushed by the junkyard machinery in The Brave Little Toaster. (I remember being wholly suprised when I came across the story that inspired the movie in a SF award anthology from the mid 1950's to late '60's, and musing on the fact that it had a subtitle: "A Morality Tale for Household Appliances.")

A suggestion for Rush-that-Speaks: How about next year we have a series of "movies that warped us unspeakably as children"? There'd be a lot. I can think of at least four more off the top of my head. (I was terrified of Elrond in the animated version of The Hobbit.)

Going off to sew.

Comments

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Ooh! We need to watch Return to Oz! It's such a great movie. It has nothing, repeat nothing, to do with the book, and L. Frank Baum would have had them all taken out and shot, but I approve of it in the same manner I approve of sick and twisted versions of Alice in Wonderland. I saw Return to Oz at my great-aunt's hundred-year-old house, in sweltering summer heat, with a hundred-degree-fever, in a room made dark at midday with the blinds down, when I was about nine years old and the adults had gone to a video store just to get me something, anything, children's movie related to give me something to do. They came back with Return to Oz, Labyrinth (which I had neither seen nor heard of), and The Care Bears In Wonderland (which, scarily enough, is a very good movie as well). This was one of the formative illnesses of my childhood. Return to Oz caused me to construct many of my ideas about the nature of insanity and sent me on a thirteen-year Fairuza Balk kick that hasn't ended yet. Plus it scared the absolute daylights out of me. Still does in memory and I haven't seen it since. It was the only movie I've ever seen that was frightening in exactly the same way as a nightmare. Man, I need to see that again.

Lila

[jcfiala.livejournal.com]

Return to Oz is a classic! It must be seen! It's better than the 'Wizard of Oz' movie. *sniff* Much goodness.