Thoughts of an Ice Princess

FRIDAY MORNING - OFFICE OF NELSON AND MURDOCK, ATTORNEYS AT LAW



Foggy: Sure, dude, I'll give you that. What's it for?

Matt: Something you said earlier gave me an idea for this case.



Foggy: Well, spill it! I need a longer list of stuff I can take credit for!

Matt: You mentioned her obsession with Batman.



Foggy: Right. But it's important to note that it's not just any Batman. It's--

Both: Nolan's Batman.

Matt: Yes, yes I remember she made that key point very clearly.

Foggy: But seriously, who wouldn't love Batman? He's awesome. He runs around at night pounding on bad guys in a noble, yet futile effort to improve his beloved city.




Foggy: And he's smart enough to wear body armor and NOT be a blind guy when he does it.




Karen: [comes out of the kitchen] What's going on? Who's blind?



Matt: [turns to Foggy] It's the Nolan piece that's a key point.

Foggy: ...because...

Matt: I just checked the list of tenants in that building where the bomb went off. It happens to be the building where Jonah and Chris Nolan rent out an apartment to use while they're filming in town.

Foggy: So...?

Matt: She would never try to blow up the Nolan brothers.

Foggy: Hm. [shrugs] Well...maybe she didn't know they lived there.



Matt: [smiling quietly] Have you met her?

Foggy: [shakes his head] Never mind. You're right, what could I have been thinking? But what's that got to do with anything?

Matt: [calmly] As everyone knows, Ben Affleck's current bachelor pad is in an apartment building only two blocks East of the one that got blown up. If anything, she would have set the bomb in his building.



Foggy: She would? Why?

Matt: [still very calm] Because obviously Ben Affleck is a horrible choice to play Batman after Christian Bale's tour de force of a performance in the Nolan trilogy.

Foggy: Woah. Ok there, dude, we've been friends for years and I didn't know you had such strong feelings about Batman. Is there, ah, anything else I should know? Hm??

Matt: [doesn't answer]





Matt: [clears throat] Um, no. No. That should be the last bombshell of this friendship. Ha, uh, no pun intended.

Foggy: [rolling his eyes] Riiight. I see what you did there.

Karen: [loudly] Matt, you know that isn't the truth! You guys can't possibly know everything about each other. [slaps Matt playfully on the shoulder and giggles]














Foggy: [turns back to Matt] So let me get this straight. What you're saying is that we're going to prove she's not guilty because if she WERE going to blow someone up she would have blown up someone she believed to be much more deserving of being blown up?



Matt: That's exactly what I'm saying.



Foggy: I like it. Let's go for it! We'll have her home in time for her birthday.

Matt: Wait, her birthday?

Foggy: It's on Wednesday. I noticed it in the file.

Matt: Right. Ok, four days.

Foggy: We got this.



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WEDNESDAY MORNING - PHONE RINGS IN MATT'S APARTMENT

Matt: [answers phone] Foggy...

Foggy: Good morning! How does it feel to be a kick-ass defense lawyer the morning after another win for the cause of righteousness?

Matt: [chuckles] Great, Foggy. It feels good.



Foggy: See you in a few?

Matt: Yeah. I'll be a little late. I have to make a stop first.




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Happy Birthday, Laura! Looks like Matt's ready for a party!! Glad you got out of jail!

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Tags: birthday, daredevil, dialogue, laura

I finally finished Return of the King (and not my filing project, BTW) and I am a blubbering mess. As usual. There is just something about the story and the movie that is so...it's too much for me to handle. In fact, I was just about to write a blithering post about it when I remembered that I have already DONE that. Several times.

November 7, 2012 (referencing the movie):

Oh man. I'd forgotten how all of it just ruins me. Theoden's death and the epic scene with Eowyn and the Witch King. Pippin finding Merry on the battlefield. Their final decision to give Frodo one more shot at it by mustering for a completely suicidal fight. The final battle at the black gate while Frodo and Sam fight their own battle in Mount Doom. When Aragorn turns around and says "for Frodo", and then when they all realize that Frodo did it...the looks on their faces. And then that scene with Sam and Frodo on the rock. Oh my gosh, I could die.

And then, when the fellowship reunites, that look that passes between Sam and Frodo. Then there's the very end...It breaks my heart that Frodo ends up so broken and tonight, i'm crying my eyes out about it at 1 in the morning a full day after watching the movie. Just the thought of Frodo finally getting some rest and then that final voice over at the end when Frodo says to Sam, "you have so much to live for, and to be, and to do..." as Sam comes home to his sweet family. Ugh. I snot.

February 7, 2005 (referencing the book):

I finished Lord of the Rings again on Saturday. *sigh* It just doesn't get old (3rd time through). The ending is so amazingly satisfying in every way. I mean, the reader is just like Sam when he wondered about the minstrels putting " The nine fingered Frodo and the Ring of Doom" into a song. Wouldn't that be great? he asked. As the reader we think things like "Wouldn't it be great if Aragorn came back and visited the Shire? Wouldn't it be great if Faramir married Eowyn? Wouldn't it be great if they could all have a lot of time to spend together at the end? Wouldn't it be great....?" And it ALL happens. Just exactly as I wished it would. Every time. :) It's so great. My favorite characters have changed slightly. I still hold Sam near and dear to my heart, but up there with him I shall now place Faramir and Gimli. I fell in love with both of them this time around. Gimli has the best "lines" in my opinion and Faramir...well, he's my Lord of the Rings love match. *sigh*

September 14, 2004 (thoughts on Meditations On Middle Earth):

Diane Duane noted in her article that Tolkien's work spawned a whole new age of fantasy--some of it crap, some of it wonderful. She pointed out that most people she spoke with began writing as SOON as they had read Lord of the Rings for the first time. She said that Tolkien's power lies in the fact that his world is so delicately and thoroughly developed, that we as readers have a desire to jump in and create something of our own that has to do with Middle Earth. (Hence the plethera of fan fiction that exists--most of it crap.) She said when we finish reading those books, the artists feel like drawing, the writers feel like writing, the musicians feel like singing/playing and composing...and the movie makers...well, they feel like making movies. :-) That was such an accurate statement, and something that I've never quite been able to put my finger on until now. To pull something from OSC and Alvin Maker, J.R.R. Tolkien was a "maker" in this way. His writing inspires all of us to be about our making and building up. Can this be said of any other writer?

You know, when I read the books, I think my actress self emerged and I desperately wanted to be IN Middle Earth. I associate everywhere I go with Middle Earth somehow. When I visited Estonia for instance, "That vista is stunning. I'm in Middle Earth. This is the Shire!!" When I drive by the little hollow on my way into downtown Portland that's so well hidden and spanned with the most beautiful old bridge, I think "If Middle Earth were right here, THAT would be Rivendell." When I see the beautiful craggy cliffs of Athens, Greece on TV during the Olympics, I think "Those must be the Grey Havens." Really . I'm a dork in my own way. I suppose I would be a Middle Earth travel agent. :)

But, reading this book has definitely made me want to write my OWN "meditation on middle earth." Am I doing that now? No, I guess not. I'm writing a "meditation on Mediations on Middle Earth." (Laugh, I'm funny.)

There was one more comment that I'm remembering right now by another one of the authors in that book. She talked about how we feel when we finish the trilogy. She said we feel a void, and we're deeply attached because, it seems that when we close the cover of the book, Middle Earth STILL EXISTS somewhere in time and space. The Lord of the Rings books are just a window into that world. Isn't that great? I feel exactly that way, not only about Middle Earth, but about the characters in those stories. I am a complete nerd and I want to meet them, to ask them questions, to watch how they react to the world around them...yeah. It may be silly, but I did feel better in finding out that I'm not the only one that feels that way.

May 26, 2004:

It's the charge of the Rohirrim that always slays me in that movie. This is the fifth time that I've seen it, and that's one of the only parts that STILL makes me cry...that and the grey havens part at the end. :) It seems so lame to see it on a tiny TV. Oh that I had a projector. :)

February 29, 2004:

I just love Return of the King. Such a weepy movie-watching experience this was for me. I'm heart glad that it won all 11 of its Oscars tonight. I know it's not important in the grand scheme, but I sure think they deserved it. Woohoo!!!

January 1, 2004 (exactly 11 years ago today!):

We went to see RotK again today. Well, it was again for me and Laura and the first time for the rest of my family. I even think my parents liked it. (My mom has taken an especial fancy to Viggo Mortensen which is rather shocking to us all.) That movie is SO much better the second time around. I came into it the first time expecting so much that I was disappointed and a little cantakerous by the time it was all over. But the second time...well. I bawled even MORE and fell madly in love with it again. What a beautiful movie. I'm naming my first son Sam...and I'll call him Samwise until he's old enough to tell me to knock it off. :)

That's 11 years of a severe emotional attachment to a story (a bit longer because I read the book two years before it came out and cried through the whole thing). I get the exposure more often now through the movie, which works, because the movie is SO GOOD. Honestly. I sat there again today, vowing to put this movie on every 'favorite movie' list I'll make until I die. It just affects me too much to ignore it. But then again, is it the movie that's good? Or is the source material just so good that kind of radiates through the movie to smack me around some more? I have to give the movie some credit though. The music, the casting, the pacing, the epic shouts and moving death scenes. The amazing scenery and set-pieces, and the killer meaningful looks that pass between the characters. The stunning costumes and amazing weaponry, and the visual evidence of love and deep friendship...As much as I adore the book, the movie definitely has it's place in the 'reason I am a complete mess' list.

I'll never figure out why it leaves me with an achy heart when it's all over. I've tried to explain it over the years (see above) and I'm still not sure. It's all just a bit too much, especially when you see the trilogy all together. I guess that's why I can only watch it once every couple years.

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I've been looking forward to this movie and now it's showing on BBC1. It's 5 parts, I think? Anyway, this clip made me take a step back and chew on my knuckles. I don't know if I can handle David so upset...



If he wasn't so adorable and SO GOOD at looking utterly bereft....jeez. *sniffle* I have to just steel myself. I can do it.

EDIT - 2 Hours later. I was telling Laura about this over chat and the following conversation ensued. This MUST be preserved for posterity.

Cecily: That David tennant thing still has me all twitchy. Seriously. All of my nurturing instincts are going a little haywire to see someone in that much pain (even fictional). My eye is probably twitching and it's been a couple hours since I watched it.

Goody is like 'NO man cries like that. I call foul!"
LOL
Olivia said 'I'll just distract myself from his pain by thinking of all the women who are stampeding to comfort him.
"Get back, you wench! I have tissues!!"
Laura tissues, fuzzy socks, chicken noodle soup, and a good costume drama
LOL
Cecily: Seriously!! He is so good and he really just blubbers and snots all over her.
Laura: Come and bury yourself in my bosom! lol
...
Cecily: I know. My bosom is definitely more ample than that girl's is.
Laura: LOL
Cecily: Mine would be MUCH more comforting.
and I'd wear shoulder pads.
just for him
Laura: I'm silently exploding over here
LOL
Cecily: well, don't explode.
even if it's silent.
it's DANGEROUS.
Laura: not to mention messy
Yeah. I can't stand to see to really skinny people hugging.
Like in top model, those girls hugging each other when they made the top 14
It didn't look at all comforting. In fact, it looked downright dangerous.
That's why David Tennant needs to end up with a plump sort of woman.
Cecily:we're much more likely to be punctured though
Laura: Yeah, but at least we have some padding
two boney people is just not comfy at all
just think of two skeletons hugging
me: *clack clack clack*
Laura: LOL yeah

I know! We crack ourselves UP!

*hugs LJ* I only had to stall for three hours until the server switch let me back on. How nice. :)

To celebrate, I bring you my top 10 TNG episodes in count-down order from 10 to the most fabulous: ( Beginning with #10...Collapse )

That was enormous amounts of fun.

What else is enormous amounts of fun? Last night's episodes of The Big Bang Theory and, yea even of HIMYM, though the latter wasn't as funny as it's ever been. Who would like to play "Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock" with me?

"Star Trek 1 is orders of magnitude more awful than Star Trek 5!"
"Star Trek 5 is the standard by which all badness is measured!"

Fabulous nerdy goodness. I have to agree with Raj on that one though. Star Trek 5 is the worst movie in the world.

Now that I'm cheerful, I won't talk about anything that's depressing. There's nothing new to report anyway.

I went to bed really early last night (9:30!!) and so now I'm up really early. I figured I'd use the time to type up my ramblings from last Thursday night. Now, these ramblings cover the whole entire day because it was a day unlike any other I've experienced in my life...in a bad way and in a good way. So, remember that I'm not writing it now, just typing it. Forgive my mixed tenses and terrible grammar. This is very VERY long. :)

( Thursday and Hamlet review, complete with pictures and video!Collapse )

That took me a solid 90 minutes to type. It's now time to go get ready for work! 7:05 this morning. :)