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kestrellAlexx feeds me the choicest twitter posts over dinner every evening, and tonight's was a meme that suggests you take the first movie you remember seeing in a movie theatre and the last movie you saw in a movie theatre and combine them and see what you get.
I vividly remember the first movie I saw in a theatre because it totally traumatized me: it was this version of Mary Queen of Scots (1971)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067402/
starring Vanessa Redgrave--and you should check out the cast list because it is impressive--but what I remember is the beheading scene which, okay, *maybe* the movie didn't actually *show* the beheading, but I saw Redgrave slowly moving toward the executioner, and then there was this chop and a thunk, and it doesn't *matter* whether I physically saw it or not, I *saw it*. And I can still see it in my mind's eye. (It's an interesting thing: having grown up visually impaired, there is not a strong distinction between my mind's eye and and what I actually physically saw.)
The last movie I saw in a theatre was the Oceans 11 remake with a female cast.
So this is what I excitedly told Alexx: My movie would feature mary Queen of Scots getting beheaded, and then this gang of female theieves/con artists show up *wearing kilts and swords (hopefully historically accurate), and wreck their revenge--
Alexx (completing the sentence): And they take over Scotland!
Kes: That sounds so cool! Now I want to see it!
I vividly remember the first movie I saw in a theatre because it totally traumatized me: it was this version of Mary Queen of Scots (1971)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067402/
starring Vanessa Redgrave--and you should check out the cast list because it is impressive--but what I remember is the beheading scene which, okay, *maybe* the movie didn't actually *show* the beheading, but I saw Redgrave slowly moving toward the executioner, and then there was this chop and a thunk, and it doesn't *matter* whether I physically saw it or not, I *saw it*. And I can still see it in my mind's eye. (It's an interesting thing: having grown up visually impaired, there is not a strong distinction between my mind's eye and and what I actually physically saw.)
The last movie I saw in a theatre was the Oceans 11 remake with a female cast.
So this is what I excitedly told Alexx: My movie would feature mary Queen of Scots getting beheaded, and then this gang of female theieves/con artists show up *wearing kilts and swords (hopefully historically accurate), and wreck their revenge--
Alexx (completing the sentence): And they take over Scotland!
Kes: That sounds so cool! Now I want to see it!
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Date: 2020-07-23 10:46 am (UTC)Also, history is just as bloody as horror fiction.
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