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elisi ([personal profile] elisi) wrote2014-01-15 08:38 pm
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You had me at doubleplusgood.

Via [livejournal.com profile] beer_good_foamy:

Kristen Stewart to star in romantic remake of Nineteen Eighty-Four.

(Yes this is a real thing. No it's not April 1st.)

There is already a twitter hashtag: #Romantic1984

It's pure gold:

War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
1984 is a Love Story
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[identity profile] flowsoffire.livejournal.com 2014-01-15 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
…sorry, what? Like. What?

I'll just block out that information and wallow in my hole of shame because I haven't read 1984 yet. Need to! But for now, need to get through Anna Karenina and A Song of Ice and Fire first ;)
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[personal profile] elisi 2014-01-15 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Well I have read neither of those two, but HAVE read 1984. So that makes us almost equal?

[identity profile] flowsoffire.livejournal.com 2014-01-15 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Let's say that! *high fives*
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[personal profile] elisi 2014-01-15 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Culture is a lot of work.

[identity profile] flowsoffire.livejournal.com 2014-01-15 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
SO MANY CLASSICS! SO LITTLE TIME! *clutches e-reader* (I'm never getting over owning an e-reader. FREE CLASSICS. SURREAL.)
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[personal profile] elisi 2014-01-15 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
For me it's just time. Which I don't have.

[identity profile] flowsoffire.livejournal.com 2014-01-15 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, that too, of course—but time is always the problem, isn't it?

[identity profile] beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com 2014-01-15 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
All books are equal, but some are more equal than others.

...Sorry, wrong Orwell book.

[identity profile] masakochan.livejournal.com 2014-01-15 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Well- to give you a brief idea of what 1984's story is like- Apple made a really neat commercial for their Macintosh computer back in 1984:

A link to the video - since the html for embedding is disliking me for some reason.

Except in the book- there's no athlete throwing a hammer at the screen.
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[identity profile] flowsoffire.livejournal.com 2014-01-16 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks! :) That's a clever commercial… ;)

[identity profile] paratti.livejournal.com 2014-01-15 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Breaks desk with head:(
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[personal profile] elisi 2014-01-17 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you think you can sue them?

[identity profile] masakochan.livejournal.com 2014-01-15 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
...Okay.. who looks at the story of 1984, and thinks, "You know- I think I could put a romantic theme in this story."

Just.. no.
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[personal profile] elisi 2014-01-17 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Hollywood.
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[personal profile] elisi 2014-01-17 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Alas, there is nothing we can really do...

[identity profile] beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com 2014-01-15 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Erase me like one of your French unpersons.

This is the best thing ever.
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[personal profile] promethia_tenk 2014-01-16 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
*dies*
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[personal profile] elisi 2014-01-17 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
It just keeps giving...
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[identity profile] makd.livejournal.com 2014-01-15 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
RE: the new KS movie: See icon.
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[personal profile] elisi 2014-01-17 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh-huh.
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[personal profile] gillo 2014-01-15 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Unbelievable. "Epic, epic, epic." (see icon)

The Junior Sparkly Anti-Sex League?
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[personal profile] elisi 2014-01-17 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
The Junior Sparkly Anti-Sex League?
We can only hope...

[identity profile] sp23.livejournal.com 2014-01-16 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
So, Big Brother is watching her make out with her boyfriend?

I just can't... even.
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[personal profile] elisi 2014-01-17 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe they'll recast Big Brother as Ceiling Cat? ;)

[identity profile] sp23.livejournal.com 2014-01-17 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
No, no, Basement Cat!
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[personal profile] elisi 2014-01-17 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course!

[identity profile] red-satin-doll.livejournal.com 2014-01-16 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
A romantic...wait, WHAT?? This does not compute.

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[personal profile] elisi 2014-01-17 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
We'll need a LOT of doublethink for this one...

[identity profile] orangerful.livejournal.com 2014-01-16 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
oh for the love of...

LOL, so it's a movie based on another movie that was based on the book.

Yeah, this should do well.

Can't wait for the kids who watch this instead of reading the book and go into class ready to discuss all the romantic issues. Bleh.
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[personal profile] elisi 2014-01-17 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh, it'll be bad!fic!
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[personal profile] elisi 2014-01-17 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed...

[identity profile] dweomeroflight.livejournal.com 2014-01-16 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
Interesting. Good luck to them, then ;)
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[personal profile] elisi 2014-01-17 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I just don't see how they got from a to b...

[identity profile] a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com 2014-01-16 12:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I dunno whether to stare, cry, laugh, cry or take this seriously as a seriously serious romantic movie.

Whut?
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[personal profile] elisi 2014-01-17 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
All of them!
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[personal profile] promethia_tenk 2014-01-16 12:54 pm (UTC)(link)
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means . . .
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[personal profile] elisi 2014-01-17 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed. (Lalalalala doublespeak...)
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[identity profile] the-redjay.livejournal.com 2014-01-16 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
PS: Inconceivable!
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[personal profile] elisi 2014-01-17 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
YOUR ICON! *dies*
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[identity profile] the-redjay.livejournal.com 2014-01-17 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Avatar fan, I take it?
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[personal profile] elisi 2014-01-17 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Who isn't?

(Mind you, I've only seen bits & pieces, and have yet to see the end.)

ALSO UNCLE IROH!
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[personal profile] radiolaires 2014-01-19 11:46 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, another film about which I will have to be even more snooty than I usually am... Good Grissom. This must be a joke.
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[personal profile] elisi 2014-01-19 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
'Good Grissom' - now that's a wonderful exclamation!

And I don't think it's a joke... That would be too easy.
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[personal profile] radiolaires 2014-02-04 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
It comes from a very old slip of the tongue : It's half past Grissom. Now it's an expression used between my sister and I. ;)

Well, the movie can still never happen.
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[personal profile] elisi 2014-02-04 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
It comes from a very old slip of the tongue : It's half past Grissom. Now it's an expression used between my sister and I. ;)
But Grissom from CSI, right?

And indeed, the movie will hopefully never see the light of day.
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[personal profile] radiolaires 2014-02-04 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course from CSI!
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