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Inkheart is adorable (Brendan Frasier is swiftly becoming one of my favorite hot-parents-in-kids-movies actors, between this and Journey to the Center of the Earth. I have now almost forgiven Hollywood for the third mummy movie not being sufficiently awesome - almost, because I'm still annoyed that the girl didn't get to kick enough ass).
I love the characters who were read out of the book improperly still having ink/writing on their faces, and lovelovelove Aunt Elinor, and that it was a movie where an older woman got to be just as much of a hero as the young (and male) people. Seriously, Aunt Elinor riding in on the unicorn was one of the highlights of the film.
And even more than that, I love the ending, the fact that Meggie essentially saves the world via fanfic, and the message that characters have a life of their own, independant of their authors, and, most importantly, that if you don't like the way a story ends, you can change the ending (Farid keeping the ferret so that Dustfinger won't die, etc.). And it was so satisfying, after so much time spent watching adult films and reading comics and things lately, to watch something where everyone got the ending you wanted for them, the ending they deserved.
One of my goals as a writer is to try to always give characters the endings they deserve. To quote Oscar Wilde: "The good end happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction is." I never want to be JKR throwing Sirius through the black veil, never want to be Ed Brubaker killing Steve or Bendis 'fridging Jan, never want t be Joss Whedon killing Tara or Wash just to deny people a happy ending. Maybe sometimes I want to be Tolkien giving Boromir a heroic and redemptive death, because sometime characters deserve to die heroically saving their friends or the world, but only rarely.
In conclusion: Internet, write me Dustfinger/Resa/Mo threesome fic now please! Also AU fic where Dustfinger and Farid go off together in the end and have mildly destructive and slightly larcenous misadventures together, because I really liked their not-quite-mentor/student relationship, and sending Dustfinger home was the one part of the story that didn't quite ring true to me. I really liked him not dying, of course, but I would have liked seeing him and Farid go off into the sunset to have more adventures even more, Dustfinger with his copy of Inkheart just in case, and Farid with Meggie's picture in his pocket, their stories not over yet.
I love the characters who were read out of the book improperly still having ink/writing on their faces, and lovelovelove Aunt Elinor, and that it was a movie where an older woman got to be just as much of a hero as the young (and male) people. Seriously, Aunt Elinor riding in on the unicorn was one of the highlights of the film.
And even more than that, I love the ending, the fact that Meggie essentially saves the world via fanfic, and the message that characters have a life of their own, independant of their authors, and, most importantly, that if you don't like the way a story ends, you can change the ending (Farid keeping the ferret so that Dustfinger won't die, etc.). And it was so satisfying, after so much time spent watching adult films and reading comics and things lately, to watch something where everyone got the ending you wanted for them, the ending they deserved.
One of my goals as a writer is to try to always give characters the endings they deserve. To quote Oscar Wilde: "The good end happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction is." I never want to be JKR throwing Sirius through the black veil, never want to be Ed Brubaker killing Steve or Bendis 'fridging Jan, never want t be Joss Whedon killing Tara or Wash just to deny people a happy ending. Maybe sometimes I want to be Tolkien giving Boromir a heroic and redemptive death, because sometime characters deserve to die heroically saving their friends or the world, but only rarely.
In conclusion: Internet, write me Dustfinger/Resa/Mo threesome fic now please! Also AU fic where Dustfinger and Farid go off together in the end and have mildly destructive and slightly larcenous misadventures together, because I really liked their not-quite-mentor/student relationship, and sending Dustfinger home was the one part of the story that didn't quite ring true to me. I really liked him not dying, of course, but I would have liked seeing him and Farid go off into the sunset to have more adventures even more, Dustfinger with his copy of Inkheart just in case, and Farid with Meggie's picture in his pocket, their stories not over yet.
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I would certainly reccommend if you liked the movie read the books.
Even if they don't have Brendan Fraser.. (I loved him on scrubs he made the sad happy in a beuatiful way)
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Onward to the library for YA fantasy goodness!
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