Movies: The Wizard of Oz and A Touch of Spice; also Sound of Music

[amedia]

I still need to write about Paprika, so consider this a placeholder. During the past week we watched Wizard of Oz and A Touch of Spice (Politiki Kouzina). More on them when I have a few minutes!

Sound of Music was on TV last week and we watched bits of it here and there. And I realized, watching the scene outside the gazebo, just before "Something Good," that Maria and the Captain are SLASHY as all get-out. I don't mean that either of them is androgynous! I mean that they have this wonderful conversation in which neither of them wants to admit to being desperately in love with the other, so they're doing this kind of tentative dance of saying as little as possible while learning as much as possible. We even get the "last-ones-to-know" element, as it's clear the Baroness figures things out long before they do.

But it's still not as good as the elderly nuns confessing to having sabotaged the Nazi cars. Hee hee!

[GIP: Speaking of the Wizard of Oz, here's Calatoria Themis of SPQR Blues as the Wicked Witch.]

Comments

[kyleen66.livejournal.com]

Love the SPQR icon.

I should make me some of those. Mmmmm..

Slashy?

[rh-andi.livejournal.com]

An odd use of the term. I see the Captain and Maria more as doing an old fashioned dance. He does know he loves her - Elsa's already made him realize that - but indeed doesn't know that she loves him. I think he suspects, though. She was happy to come back from the Abbey, but once she heard he was marrying, she said she would stay only until a new governess could be arranged for. (Can you tell I've seen this movie far too many times?) She, on the other hand, knows nothing when he comes to her - as far as she knows, he's still engaged to Princess Yvonne, sorry, Baroness Elsa (who really was based on Princess Yvonne, who the Baron really was engaged to and who pulled a similar trick on the real Maria, chasing her off, as was done in the film - yes, I've even read Maria Von Trapp's autobiography!).

But I wouldn't term the moment as slashy - like I said before, more like the
Laendler. Slashy implies something - more than what was intended on the screen (and more than was true in real life!). Implies sex, whereas applying it to the Postulant Nun Maria makes it seem - dirty. Base.

And God Bless them car-part nuns...Portia Nelson and Anna Lee rocked!

Re: Slashy?

[amedia.livejournal.com]

An odd use of the term.

Yes, I agree; I guess it would have been more precise to say that it has elements in it that are part of what I find attractive when I find them in slash, which is often. I'm not all that interested in the sex angle in slash stories, it's more the question of how the author gets the characters to that point, and a lot of them, oddly enough, have a sort of virtual dance that this scene strongly reminded me of. Perhaps slashers are old-fashioned girls at heart!!!

yes, I've even read Maria Von Trapp's autobiography!

I LOVED her autobiography! I got it through one of those book clubs when I was in junior hi, I think (remember those leaflets we would get every month or so - Tab, Arrow, Scholastic?). I must have read it a dozen times. Her account of the Captain's death is heartbreaking, and the stories about the kids are hilarious! And how she hid her pregnancy the one time by pretending to be fat! And it was great to read about people who were international celebrities and being Catholic was just a normal part of their everyday lives - I don't get enough of that. :-)