By Gar! Eet ees JULES ET JIM

[thehefner]

First off, a very happy birthday to Jay!

After you die... Purgatory After death, you will exist in purgatory. It's so-so, I heard.

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

I think these people are mistaking purgatory for limbo. Purgatory is Heaven's waiting room, just with a lot more, y'know, painful sin-cleansing while you wait.

Woke up at 4 AM today and decided to watch Harold Lloyd's THE FRESHMAN. Well, it's true, he's not Chaplin or Keaton, but he's still fucking brilliant. Also, this movie had the best silent movie title cards EVER. "Harold arrived at Tate, a large football stadium with a college attatched." So much brilliance, in a very "Gee willickers, fellows, I must say!" kind of way.

A couple days ago I watched Truffaut's legendary film JULES ET JIM. Anyone else see this one? And if you have, can you maybe guess why I have only just recently decided to check it out? See if you can guess, it's fun!

I think I liked JULES ET JIM, but I'm not sure. I mean, it really wanted to be a novel more than a film at times. For a "New Wave" art film, I was surprised by how fast-paced MTV Baz Luhrmann short-attention-span-theatre it was. I would think the French would have hated it. Then again, you have interactions like this:

CATHERINE: I 'ave been read-eeng a book where ze au-sor sez zat ve all come from zee Earth and ve are all bee-eeng pulled ever downvard back to eet.
JULES: Zut alors! And 'ow does 'ee explain zis?
CATHERINE: I shall nevah tell you.
JULES: Zen I shall ask you again every single year on your birthday.
CATHERINE: By Gar!
JIM: I love-a you guys.

Comments

[disc-sophist.livejournal.com]

4am is a wonderful time for silent movies, especially Harold Lloyd.

I'm trying to remember if I've seen Jules & Jim... I think they showed it at SJC, but my movie-watching mostly consisted of sitting in the waaay back, stoned and giggling at the crappiness of the print. Hmm... nope.

So, while trying to Jog my memory, I went to mecca IMDB:
Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.
Ah, well, that would do it.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Not just a love triangle, but something of a pure love triangle, where everyone is shared and there's not much jealousy. Then of course, it all falls apart, which was sorta comforting in a way. I wanted to see if maybe one of my alternate universe Heffies was any happier with his situation. Probably not. At least I didn't end up driving off a bridge with my girl.

I am so making a Harold Lloyd LJ icon with the kitten peeking out from his sweater collar.

[disc-sophist.livejournal.com]

harold! kitten! sweater! *covets*

No bridges for you, my good man. It's panoramic cliffs and a polaroid camera or nothing!

Um.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Wait, is that a refference to Harold and Maude or something?

[disc-sophist.livejournal.com]

oooh- Harold & Maude would have been good! Actually, it was Thelma & Louise. heh.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

As long as we're all agreed upon driving off of some kind of ledge.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I got Purgatory, too. :/