Disney Princes

Somewhat inspired by 'imSarahSnitch' on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/user/imsarahsnitch) I thought I'd have a look at the Disney princes who were prevalent in my childhood movie-watching years.
Also my brother just told me to come see something "funny" and then killed the same guy twice with a headshot on Halo... I felt a reasonable dose of Disney might send me to sleep a little easier.

So, the films I lived off (quite literally judging by home movies of me as a kid - I got a Pocahontas cake for my 4th birthday ^^ love it) were, vaguely in order of favouritism:
Beauty and the Beast
Pocahontas
The Lion King
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Cinderella
Sleeping Beauty
Aladdin
The Little Mermaid
Hercules
Snow White
Peter Pan
The Fox and the Hound

There was also Pinnochio, Bambi and Dumbo, but they don't really have Princes in.


So, shall we start with the ones I don't like?
I find the traditional 'Prince Charming' types...well, boring. Just blah. I mean they all look the same for a start...
They just dyed his hair :/

And as for the Little Mermaid's Prince Eric and Aladdin... I think it's partly their attitudes that annoy me. And that fwooshy glossy hair.


I mean it even ruins Eric Bana for me :/
As Captain Nero, he's pretty hot (you know, in a evil-psycho kind of way). But with fwooshy glossy locks... I'd run away faster than Enterprise in warp drive o_O
Just personal preference, please don't eat my face ^^;

And then there's Peter Pan.... *Sigh* I adore this story and the whole idea of never having to grow up. But the Disney version of the character.... I could strangle him sometimes. His face annoys me.



Ok, now I've got that off my chest I'll work in reverse order with what we have left.

Tod (Fox): Ok, so not really a Prince, and not really human.... but who couldn't love that mischievous fox who just wanted to be friends with the hound next door and doesn't understand why it's "wrong"?


Hercules: I like Hercules; moreso at the start when he's a slightly pathetic skinny mess who gets everything wrong. Of course when he becomes all body-building demi-god I'm certainly one of the last people to complain. However I feel he sells out a little bit when he buys into the fame - with all the merchandise and stuff. But his choice to stay with Meg in the end totally wins me over again. Gingers rock ^^

Quasimodo: (The 3rd ginger in a row >.< I love them) I just want to hug him D': I adore Quasimodo (and not just cos he's voiced by Tom Hulce who played Mozart in Amadeus <3). He's just so... understanding I suppose. Even when he doesn't get the girl he still (eventually) ends up putting other people first. And anyone who can rip chains off Notre Dame like that is epic. End of.

Simba: Again technically a lion, but I loved this guy for yeeeaaaaars. It was the first film I went to see at the cinemas. I think I like the way (fair enough after a lot of persuasion) he takes responsibility for what happened and goes back and sorts everything out.
Although I later found out it's a Disney-fied version of Hamlet. And Hamlet was the original emo O_o

So that's slightly put me off Simba :(
However I will always love his singing voice *drool*

Pocahontas: For all that I adore this film, and considering how much it shaped many of my opinions (nature freak ^^), I CAN'T STAND John Smith. Can't stand him AT ALL. Don't ask me why. I think it might be his voice. Or maybe that fwooshy glossy hair again D:

Urgh ¬¬

And finally
Beauty and the Beast: Considering that I have more or less worshiped the ground that Belle walks on since I was nearly 2, this is my all-time favourite Disney movie.
The Beast... well when I was really little I would scream and cry when he first appeared, and wouldn't stop until my mum turned the movie off. Took a while for her to convince me he was really quite nice underneath all the shouting and the pointy teeth.
For all his faults I do love the Beast. I think because he does try to change, and even in the end when he's being all mopey he still fights for Belle. And besides all that, he's kinda hot as a human... :$

You know, in a statuesque, French sort of way.


SO to sum up, I can't stand nice, proper young gentlemen with fwooshy or neat hair who will be kind to me, sing to me, and rescue me from dragons/wicked step-mothers. Instead I prefer cheeky gingers who aren't perfect (and/or shout at people) and often get in trouble, but evidently reform themselves for love.

And I wonder why I can't find anyone ^^;

Thanks for reading, feel free to tell me what you think of Disney Princes.

The Boat That Guy Built - Quotes

Because I don't have many better things to do ;) Just a collection of quotes that I liked, most of them funny, some just colloquialisms that made me smile, others neither but they made me laugh.

M is Mave, G is Guy. Obviously.


EPISODE 1

M: “We’re gonna have a bookcase. And this bookcase will hold the key to everything.”
G: -laughing- “D’yuh think?”
M: “It will be the oracle, like the oracle of everything narrowboat.”
G: -over him- “Oh no Mavis, don’t get deep Mavis, don’t get deep.”

“It’s the ‘measure twice, cut once’ job.” – Guy steering the boat into the lift.

On the boat lift
M: “It’s the epitome of British engineering, innit?
G: “That’s you getting deep again Mavis”
M: “I’m a bit overcome by it all again.”
G: “It is impressive.”

On smelting iron ore.
G: “Sounds easy, dunnit? I thought yeeeah, can’t be rocket science, can it? But apparently it is. Apparently it’s brain surgery. And would you put brain surgery above rocket science? Wouldja? Wouldja??”

On seeing the finished furnace.
G: “Chief I’m impressed. I’m in awe.”
“M: In ore? How very fitting.”
G: -squeals in agreement-

After casting their iron pot.
G: “We’ve earned ourselves a brew I reckon.”
M: “Gasping.”

Receiving their handmade mugs
M: “Is that a reflection of me??”
G: “What do you reckon?”
M: “Small and broken?”
-both laugh-
M: “Hang on why is yours bigger than mine??”
G: “Well, I thought Mave was a bit… small and stumpy.”

Trying the blended tea.
G: “Are we clinking before or after do you think?”
M: “I reckon clink before cos it might be the last clink we ever 'ave.”
-both laugh-

M: “Tell you what chief, it’s all come together.”
G: -squeaks in agreement with a mouthful of tea-
M: “The pot, the tea, the cups - ”
G: “The cup-maker especially I think.”
M: “Me and thee (-they clink mugs-), on a boat, in a canal, celebrating what’s the finest and best of British."
G: “Without a doubt.
M: "Cheers."
G: "Good work young man.”


EPISODE 2

In the rain
G: “She’s a bit moist boss, a bit moist. We’re not made of sugar though.”

G: “Believe this, or believe it not. In the industrial revolution, Birmingham had 174 miles of canals.”
M: “Yeah I can believe it and I’ll tell you what - ”
G: “More than Venice boy! More than Venice…”
M: “I can believe it, and I reckon we’ve hit every corner on the way round!”
G: “Haha. You’re not wrong.”

Mave on Guy: “He’s filthy. He dunt wash. Jumps in the bath there’d be an oil slick.”

After the shed explodes (demonstrating the exploding water heater)
G: -high-pitched- “Weeell….”
M: “That’d’ve ‘urt.”
G: “That’d’ve upset next door I think.”

“More tea, vicar?”

G: “I won’t even joke. That’s a life time supply of soap.”

G: “John Harrington, that’s who invented the loo, 'e was the man. Saucy godson of the Queen. That’s what they reckon. I mean, I don’t know what that means. I think maybe… 'e was a bit of a boy.”

Mave on the penny-farthing bike (shown in the opening)
M: “Wheeeeeeeeee. I wish me legs were a bit longer.”

“Hell’s teeth.”

When the shower still doesn’t work.
G: “Chief, what would Watt and Bolton do in this situation?”
M: -quietly- “I dunno.”
G: “Eh? James Watt; 'e wouldn’t go tearing around like a bull in a china shop, boy.”
M: “Well we’re not doing are we?”
G: “Cuppa tea, sit and think about it boy.”

“I love you! I love you more than chips!” – Mave to Guy after they get the shower working

After his shower.
G: “Where’s me pants?”


EPISODE 3

G: “A man without a bed - ”
M: “Is a man with no 'ome.”

Measuring the bed
G: “What sort of width are we going for? Are we making it for two people boy, can we get cozy?”
M: “What both of us?
G: “Yeah I think.”
M: “Yeah we’ll make it 4 foot so we can keep each other warm. It’s what the-“
G: “I think so.”
M: “It’s what the SAS do. If it’s good enough for them it’s good enough for us.”

M: “What do you know about making mattresses??”
G: “The thick end of not a lot, boss.”

“But he snores like a Perkins diesel.” – Mave on the fact that Guy goes out like a light.

With the bedsheets wrapped round them like capes.
G: “’I thought that cotton came from sheep.”
M: “I know mate. You do need a thrashing for that one.”

“You’re not worthy to lay on this.” – Mave on seeing the label on the mattress.

Guy sees the bedroom nearly finished.
G: “By ‘eck chief.”
M: “Now then boy, I thought I’d turn your bedroom into a bit of a workshop if you don’t mind.”
G: “Chief, chief, chief…”
M: -over him- “Chief, chief, chief…”
G: “That is a boudoir is it not?”
M: -in a french accent- “Le boudoir… for Monsieur Martin.”

“That is gonna get you out of bed. That is gonna wake ‘em up in Mongolia, chief.” – Mave about the bell alarm clock.

“I can’t believe I’m getting a lecture about being mucky off you!” – Mave after being told off for standing on the mattress.

M: “This mattress has already got a grip of me, and I don’t think I wanna get off it. It’s absolutely fabulous.”

Getting into bed.
G: “Right Mave, are you coming for the duration?
M: “Uh…”
G: “Eh?”
M: “Uh nah I don’t think so. I mean, I like your bed. And I know you’re me mate and everything but, you don’t -”
G: “Go on.”
M: “You don’t wash, and you’re not particularly handsome. I reckon I might go ‘ome.”
G: “What?” –chuckles-

EPISODE 4

M: “We’re getting quite domesticated boy.”
G: “Tell you what chief, we’re getting there aren’t we?”
M: “We’re gonna get laughed at.”
G: “D’you reckon?”
M: “Oh aye.”
G: “Get laughed at...... Whatever, chief.”
M: “Whatever.”

Mave, being badgered by Guy whilst making baked beans.
M: “I’m in the kitchen, you’re interrupting my creative flow.”

G: “Mave what are you doing??”
M: -defensively- “I’m just putting a pinch of salt in.”
G: “’ave you- A PINCH OF SALT?? A PINCH OF SALT????”

When discussing that baked beans were originally sold only in posh grocers.
M: “Probably one of them shops that you go to.”
G: “You what?? I’ve ‘eard of it Mavis. I’ve ‘eard of it. But no more than that. It’s in that, um, village, London village.”
M: “That funny place downtown where everything’s dear?”

When funnelling the beans into the tin.
G: “That noise doesn’t fill me wi' confidence Mave.”
M: “It’s like standing behind the back of a horse, innit.”

Making electricity with the Faraday spinning discs.
G: “Magnet either side, we’ll spin this, we’ll get a bit of electric.”
M: “Electrickery…”
G: “Electrikity. Go on say that again?”
M: “Electrickery.”
G: “Electrickery…”

After using his sleeve as a napkin.
M: “Me mother’d kill me.”
G: -laughs- “She’d be reet.”

EPISODE 5

In the Harecastle Tunnel.
M: “It took 3 years to build this and I reckon one trip through we’ll’ve about demolished it. It’s like being in a dodgem.”

G: “I’m losing me concentration, you’re getting me all of a dither wi’ your bread and cheese.”
M: “I know mate, you’re getting all giddy aren’t ya? Look at that.” – gives him cheese-
G: “Thank you very much young man.”

G: “We’re gonna make Reckless a domestic palace. A domestic palace with flames.”

G: “16-tonne of boat and you can move it yourself, the man mountain that is Mavis!”

Dum Spiro Spero – While I breathe, I hope.

M: “’ere we are ladies and gentlemen, getting attacked by a swan. And I am actually a little bit nervous because I ‘aven’t got any food to bribe its affections with.”

Whilst painting lettering on Reckless.
Meg(Painter): “What’s this stick doing?”
Mave: “I don’t know but I’m ‘anging onto it for security.”

About interior designer William Morris.
G: “Do we know 'im well enough? We know 'im well enough don’t we? We can call 'im Bill can’t we?”

After reading Morris’ poetry
G: “Ooh I could get quite emotional. Eh. Maybe that’s me new – Maybe - maybe we’ve found summat. D’you think we ‘ave? Guy Martin – poet….... Nah.”

When told off by Meg for having a dirty mug.
G: “It’s not for looking at chief, it’s for drinking tea.”

On his painting.
G: “I’m thinking, when I’ve got someone’s backside there as the clouds, and that’s a bit wonky… It’s not looking good is it?”


EPISODE 6

Mave poses on top of the boat while it’s travelling through ice
“I feel like an explorer!”

G: "Gonna have a bit of a party. Few shandies, bit of a shindig. But, we need a bit of food don’t we. When I left school, I always fancied meself as a bit of a chef. Mustard at making carrot cakes I was, mustard.”

ChefMan: “She [Queen Victoria] had a curry every Friday night.”
M: “D’you think she’d be a Jalfrezi or - Every Friday night??”
CM: “Every Friday apparently, she had a - ”
G: “Good lass! Eh? We like her don’t we?!”

After shoving ¼ of a cake into his mouth.
M: “I’ll let you into a little secret now; I don’t really like Victoria Sponge.”

On completely fresh milk
M: “That’s fairly mega, innit.”

Photographer: “You do realise that, in this light, you’re gonna have to be still for about… I dunno… one or two minutes.”
G: “That ain’t gonna ‘appen ‘tween me and ‘im.”
M: “You are joking.”
G: “Not in a month of Sundays boss.”
M: “Seriously, like dead still??”

Setting up the old-fashioned camera.
M: “This is taking a lot of fiddling and I’ll tell you what this is just driving ‘ome to me ‘ow difficult it is, cos you know, we can wander round with a camera going ‘click click click click click click click that’s rubbish that’s rubbish that’s rubbish oh I like that one.’ We ain’t got that luxury with this. This ‘as to be set up right before ‘e nods off.”
G: “Pull your finger out boy, I’m nithered.”

While Guy’s photo is being taken.
M: “Aw listen to that silence… Peace and quiet.”

Mave after his photo (apparently ‘chelping’ means moaning).
“It’d‘ve been alright if I ‘and’t ‘ad this constant chelping in my ear off. Man alive. It’s a wonder he can keep that gob shut long enough to drink tea!”

M: “When we first set off on that boat and we were bashing it into this and bashing it into that, I just thought ‘Mega. This is gonna be a trip of a lifetime.’”

G: “What d’you fancy next? A train?”
M: -excited- “A train?!”

Big long waffley review - TT3D: Closer To The Edge

Go see this film. I'm saying that right at the start. Go see it, you won't regret it. If you haven't seen it already, here's the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QldZiR9eQ_0

I don’t know how many emotions I went through watching TT3D: Closer to the Edge. So I was slightly reliving them whilst writing this. I apologise in advance for the occasional swearing and the inevitable digressions. I’m not a writer, I don’t normally review things, but here goes. Oh and by the way, for those who haven't seen it/don't watch the TT - SPOILERS.



Well. I feel like I’ve just been hurtled round the TT course at 200mph. Bloody hell…

Apparently at the age of 5, when I first saw the TT, I sat by the roadside at the Creg-ny-Baa and shuddered in horror every time a bike went past. Although I had just got lost in the pub, so I could’ve been a bit shaken up already.

Considering that, I was surprised by just how much I enjoyed the movie. And for once it wasn’t just the fact that Guy Martin was making me laugh so hard I nearly cried (and I’m happy to say that I wasn’t the only one laughing loudly in the cinema. I know I’m going to love a film when people are laughing loudly in the cinema and no one cares).

That first footage of the start of the lap – where there’s more or less just road flying past – gave me such an adrenaline rush I was left violently shaking for a good half an hour. With a massive grin on my face though. Been a fair few years since I’ve seen proper firsthand footage of a lap. It's gripping, so much more than exciting.

I like the use of 3D. I know some people are saying it’s unnecessary because the whole event is already so thrilling. But I think if it’d been in 2D, I wouldn’t have cared quite so much. I wouldn’t have been quaking in my boots (sandals…) or gasping with my heart in my mouth or laughing until I cried. The 3D just brought you into it, it made you feel like you were there. They said this on the 20th at the Villa Marina, at the press launch, that they didn’t want it to be about bikes leaping out of the screen. They wanted to bring the audience to the TT. And that’s precisely what they did.

Oh god Guy… now there is a boy I would love to be mates with. He talks faster than me!! Yes, he says stupid stuff and, as one man said, often “unbroadcastable” stuff. But he’s just so funny and I love his passion and his (brutal) honesty. Yes, perhaps his temper gets the better of him but it happens to the best of us. And when you're that passionate (and obsessed?) about something, you not going to easily get over things that go wrong.

There’s something about the riders’ eyes before the race. Actually it’s always there slightly (especially Ian Hutchinson. He scares me a bit). It‘s the same look the Husky that lives up the road from me has. How do you describe it… It’s like there’s so much focus and concentration there, such intensity, there's just a bit of a psychopathic look in the eyes. Gives me the shivers just thinking about it. But I suppose you have to be at least a little bit nutty to be able to race the TT, right? I don’t know.

Bridget Dobbs is an impressive woman and I really take my hat off to her. When I heard Paul Dobbs' widow was in the film I felt a bit sick. I was worried she was going to be really emotional and it was going to be really hard-hitting. It certainly was hard-hitting, but in a completely different way. She’s so strong and those kids look happy and like they have so much fun. She’s clearly continued to give them a brilliant life and let them remember their father happily. And I like the fact they still enjoy the TT. That amount of strength is something I aspire to.

When the bit about Paul Dobbs' crash was on, my stomach turned. Due to exams I haven’t kept up with the TT the last couple of years, and I’d forgotten it was the year they were filming that he’d crashed. I got so caught up in that moment, that when they said it was the final race and I saw Guy and Conor starting off it hit me – these two crash, and crash badly, and I’d completely forgotten until now. Shit. It was one of those moments where you can hear that little voice in the back of your head going “STOP WATCHING!!!” but you can’t tear your eyes away from the screen.

I assume they don’t have cameras at Ballagarey (for good reason…), but the use of the blacked out screen with voiceover of the paramedic and then the pictures – I’m putting my head in my hands now just thinking about it again. It was so effective cos it was the same technique they used when Dobsy crashed, with the blackout and the voiceover. Made a real link between them that just made your heart sink. There was such a build up - they kept saying he was missing and you felt ill just waiting for the footage or something, anything to get you out of this agony of waiting to see what happened. They just kept talking to other people, it was so sickening; and then the screen went black and the voiceover came on. God that fireball was huge. And when the paramedic said Guy was begging him “Don’t cut my leathers!” God bless him. Heaven forbid he’d worry about himself.

Conor’s crash….. the words just aren’t even there. The first time they showed it me and my mum (and a few other people around us) gasped and put our hands over our mouths. We knew he’d crashed, we’d heard his list of injuries read out. But we didn’t know where he’d crashed and quite how bad it’d been. Seems stupid when I think 4 days ago I heard a guy read out more or less every other bone in the body having been broken, amongst other things (that nerve damage sounded nasty), and I sort of thought “Ouch that sounds awful.” But it never quite linked up that therefore it must have been a really horrific crash. Of course the second time they showed it – the full fall this time – I couldn’t believe it. He bounced over a stone wall. Bounced. Fell off the Verandah, and bounced over a solid stone wall (which was apparently 5 feet high). If he’d have gone into that wall at the speed he was falling, I reckon it would’ve been lights out, game over more or less. He probably would’ve broken more than he did at least. Although I'm sure (second time seeing it) he tried to grab the wall as he went over it, to stop himself and I reckon that'll be where he dislocated his arm. Ouch. He looked like someone had thrown a ragdoll off the mountain. Thank god he's ok now. He’s one lucky guy. Someone is definitely watching over him.

The music!! It nearly killed me!! I’m not talking about the soundtrack, all the songs (they were brilliant by the way), I mean the composed orchestrated stuff. They say the best music is the music you don’t notice, because it fits the mood so well. I agree with that to an extent because most of it I didn’t really notice. However just before Conor's and Guy’s crashes, that music that slowed the hell down, all twinkly piano and strings. It hit me like it was an arrow and my heart was a bullseye. Maybe because I knew what was coming, I don’t know. It made that part of the film so haunting, I can still see it.

I couldn’t quite decide where they were going with the ending. The film was so for the TT, there wasn’t anyone against it, there was no mention of the call for a ban or anything. And yet they ended the film with Guy and Conor in hospital (Guy with that giant cup of tea, even when he's injured!! That boy makes me laugh!) and Ian with his leg all pinned together (urgh that footage of him getting run over nearly made me throw up). They ended on a slightly depressing note. I almost felt like the film was trying to make you question it. Kind of saying “Well, you’ve seen them do it, you’ve seen all the raw emotion that goes into it and how much they want to win, so much that they push themselves to the edge. Now look at them. Was it really worth it?”

It’s hard to say. They’re such beautiful young men I’d love to say “No it’s not, stop being so stupid. You have a nice face and I don’t want you smashing it all over the pavement.” But they love it. You can see it in their psycho-husky eyes. And to take it away from them would kill them as well. So what can you do?

I think I would go watch the TT again. I might start shuddering again when the bikes go past though.

Oof. Somebody put the kettle on. I think I need a cup of tea.

EDIT Just been to see the film a second time. My legs were shaking all the way through - would've thought I'd have been calmer knowing what was coming. Anyway, corrected a couple of things I got mixed up here. And the crazy thing is, I want to go see it again...