Life According to Steph: characters

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

My Movie Pals

Here are some of my favorite movie characters. Embrace them. Love them. Pet them. And tell me yours. Let's begin. Or, as number one would say, "No more yanky my wanky. The Donger need food."

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Long Duck Dong, Sixteen Candles. What a laugh on this guy.
Jake Ryan, Sixteen Candles. Do I need to give reasons?
Keyster Soze, The Usual Suspects
Tommy Devito, Goodfellas. Funny how?
Johnny Castle, Dirty Dancing. You just put your pickle on everybody's plate, college boy, and leave the hard stuff to me.
Noah, The Notebook.
Rocky Balboa. So iconic an entire city considers him a real hometown guy.
Lester Burnham, American Beauty. I love when he embraces the fuck it attitude.
I'm not sure if I can pick just one favorite from Revenge of the Nerds...Lewis Skolnick, Booger Dawson, Takachi. How do I choose? I can't. Hair pie for all.

Excuse please, but why do they call you "Booger?"
"I don't know."
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Dr. Peter Venkman,Ghostbusters. What a lovely singing voice you must have!
Veronica Sawyer, Heathers
Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins. Practically perfect in every way.
Jason Bourne, Bourne movies. He kicks total ass. All the time.
Paul Finch, American Pie. I love a good smart ass.
Will Hunting, Good Will Hunting. Brilliant. Rough around the edges. I love him.
Yoda, Star Wars. Awesome he is.
Elle Woods, Legally Blonde(s). She's a great person to have in your network.
John Bender, The Breakfast Club. Eat...my...shorts.
The Bride, Kill Bill. She kicks ass.
Clark Griswold, Vacation movies. I basically married him. His zest for life is lovable.
Styles, Teen Wolf. Douchey as a friend but amusing nonetheless.
Ouiser Boudreaux, Steel Magnolias.
Jack Butler, Mr. Mom. 220, 221...whatever it takes.
Louden Swain, Vision Quest. When he climbs that pegboard, man. Nothing but heart.

Movie characters I don't like:

Luke Skywalker, Star Wars. Whiny baby! Whiniest whiner of all freaking whiners
George Bailey, It's a Wonderful Life
Harry and Sally, When Harry Met Sally. Am I the only person who hates this movie?
Dorothy and crew, The Wizard of Oz. More whiners.
Mike Damone, Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Complete douche. Zero redeeming qualities.
Penny Lane, Almost Famous. I adore absolutely everything about this movie except for Kate Hudson.
The kid in The Princess Bride. He's a little butthole.
Grandpa Charlie, Willy Wonka. How dare he be the one to go with that fool Charlie, when he's bedridden? He can magically get up and go? Meanwhile Charlie's mom is killing herself picking up after all the bedridden people. Preposterous.

I could go on for an eternity, and I probably meant to...I think this post has been in draft for two years. As you might imagine with a title like this one, there might be some crossover between this list of my movie pals and this list of people I'd like to have as neighbors. I guess a TV character friend list will be forthcoming.

Tell me some of your movie favorites. And tomorrow, don't forget to link up for the Choose Your Own Adventure Challenge!

Linking up with Shanna for Random Wednesday

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Some of the best friends I've never met

I was an only child for six years, with a lot of aunts and uncles and hands on grandparents and parents. From what they tell me, it made me a bit of a tyrant and one of my frequent demands was that books be read to me again and again. Hum the hamster was an early favorite. Gamma hunted him down for me a few years back at an obscure book site. I can't remember a time when I couldn't read.

I always had friends from the neighborhood and school, but I wasn't a kid that needed to be entertained. I was frequently off living a very full and exciting life inside the pages of my books, which I read insatiably as soon as I was gifted with new ones or returned from a library trip with my mom or Gamma.

Ramona, Beezus, Peter Hatcher and his annoying little brother Fudge. Laura and Mary Ingalls. The Boxcar Children. Sheila Tubman. Claudia and Jamie and the mysterious Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

I remember agonizing over not being able to just read Christopher Pike's party series all day. Andrea and I discussed the fate of our older friends on the bus on the way to school every morning.

No one ever monitored my reading, so I was shocked and intrigued by the Dollangangers and Casteels in V.C. Andrews books early on. I breezed through The Babysitter's Club. I came of age with Margaret and some other Judy Blume girls, as well as the Wakefield twins. I remember reading countless Sweet Valley High books during the summer weeks I spent at the shore with my family.

In Mr. Epting's ninth grade english class we were reading silently and I cried my eyes out at the end of Great Expectations even though it seemed that Pip and Estella would end up together. The melancholy uncertainty got to me anyway.

The day I met Jane Eyre changed me forever. What a girl, that Jane. I could carry on through my teens and adulthood, but we'd be here for days and days.

Some days I can remember more things about characters in books and how I related to them than I can remember about myself. I've frequently spoken of book characters as if they're real people. There is nothing like a book where the character comes alive for you. Authors who excel at characterization rock.

Books have given me so much and opened up ideas and worlds to me I'd never be aware of otherwise. What are some of your favorite characters?

If you like book talk, consider linking up with Jana of Jana Says and me on Tuesday, November 11 to share your recent read (s).

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