A meme

[kestrell]

Alexx 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!

Comments

[alexxkay]

As I recall it, *you* said "They take over Scotland" and I said, "They *steal* Scotland!"

[kestrell]

I also left out the part about why I was a pre-schooler in a movie theatre seeing this movie in the first place, and that was because my grandmother wanted to see the movie and so she took me there, and this is another reason why I disdain adults who bring little kids to movies which are really not something little kids can fully absorb, except for the beheadings.

Also, history is just as bloody as horror fiction.

[kestrell]

Okay, I just got the Leverage reference so, yes, the tagline should be: Okay, gang, let's go steal Scotland.

[jesse_the_k]

Having gaffiated from Twitter, the only meme I can recall is the "porn star name," but I forgot the details. Let me just tell you that search engines are not my friend on that particular quest.

[kestrell]

*lol*