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Saturday, 11 August 2007

Stardust - best movie of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 year

Before I go into details, let me say that you should go and see Stardust tomorrow. Take friends and loved ones; you'll thank me for it later.

We watched Edward Scissorhands in San Jose's St James Park on Friday night, which has a magic realism of it's own, what with cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 light rail passing eicá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r side of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 park, cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 planes and nightclub searchlights in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 sky, and cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 audience mixing cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 homeless who sleep in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 park with a throng of our friends picnicking. I called Edward Scissorhands a geek parable before, but its screenwriter Caroline Thompson describes it as a fable - a story you know isn't true but care about anyway. It takes a fantastic character and brings him into cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 mundane world to try to cope.

Stardust is in some ways cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 opposite of this - Tristan escapes from his conforming world to a fantastic one, a world of danger that tests him. That he can't resist returning to show himself off is a pivotal moment in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 plot; cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 world of Stronghold has a very sharply drawn medieval conflict over succession, that echoes and parodies many we have seen. Tristan's lovestruck quest is pithily skewered by Yvaine, cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 star who is its object. It is a picaresque story, but Vaughn brings some of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 English subcultural texture from Snatch and Layer Cake to it too, with archetypically English small time crooks and fences represented.

What is different from those works, and which owes more to Gaiman than Vaughn, is cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 underlying morality of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 story. I have been strongly impressed by this current within British fantasy work recently - cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 revived Doctor Who is exemplary this way, as is cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Dangerous Book for Boys, and even Christopher Hitchens can see it in Harry Potter.

In each case cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365re is an acknowledgment that cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365re is evil in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 world, but a consistent message that it is best fought through love, through integrity and through striving to transcend our recognised flaws. Though secular in tone and style cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365y echo for me cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 sublimated Anglicanism of Lewis and Tolkein; doing cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 right thing for cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 sake of this world, not cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 next.

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Labels: Doctor Who, Fantasy, Gaiman, Harry Potter, Layer Cake, Morality, Snatch, Stardust, Tim Burton, Tolkein, Vaughn
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