5 things meme answers

[meganbmoore]

I haven't finished yet, but my nephews will be here for the rest of the week, so I figured I'd post what I have. (I'll still be around, but likely not working on this). Includes Bollywood, "girl power," shounen manga, what books I think should be movies or miniseries, various character favorites, and others. I excluded mythology from my answers, because that just starts getting complicated. Some answers are lists and some are more detailed, and there are various pictures, videos, and spoilers. Answers are in no order unless stated otherwise, and subject to change next time someone asks. I'm sure I repeat both of those in some form a few times.

wasabi_girl1:

Top 5 Bollywood Films



I suspect this is a hint that I should post on the various Bollywood movies I have been watching the last few months.

This is actually a difficult one, as I only really started watching Bollywood this year, and don’t feel I’ve watched enough to really have “favorites” set. Instead, I went with the ones I probably want on DVD most, though I wouldn’t mind having most of the ones I’ve seen on DVD. In no order:

1. 1920
2. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
3. Kuch Naa Kaho
4. Fanaa
5. Magadheera

(Ok, the last isn’t actually Bollywood, but Tollywood, but it’s the movie that made me start really watching instead of intending to watch some in the ambiguous “Soon.”)

Ivanolix:

Top 5 actors/actresses you will watch in anything



Ok, there isn’t anyone I’d watch in literally anything, but I’d at least seriously consider anything with any of the following:

1. Nakama Yukie
2. Abe Hiroshi
3. Dichen Lachman
4. Gina Torres
5. Lucy Lawless

kakkobean:

Books series I wish would be made into television mini-series--because I am of the belief that sometimes movies can't do a full series justice.



1. Frank Beddor’s Looking Glass Wars (Easy one…it was written to be a movie, but I think a miniseries would work better.)
2. Elizabeth Peters’s Amelia Peabody (Except that I’d want a good ongoing series.)
3. Garth Nix’s Abhorsen series (Though, since Sabriel’s story operates separately from the rest, I’m nor sure how it’d be incorporated. Maybe broken into flashbacks to mimic the next generation’s adventures?)
4. L. J. Smith’s The Secret Circle (People who deem it a “guilty pleasure” and claim it was just trashy entertainment while secretly viewing it as OMG BEST THING EVER!!! I would have to reject the fandom, though, who would no doubt endlessly trash certain women of whom I am quite fond, and endlessly praise men I view as necessary extras. By this I mean “beyond fandom‘s general character type preference.”)
5. Anna Godberson’s The Luxe (See above.)

southerndave:

Television shows you haven't seen yet, but which sound interesting.

I’m limiting myself to BBC and US stuff:



1. Covert Affairs
2. Pretty Little Liars
3. By the Sword Divided
4. Doctor Who
5. Andromeda

Salinea: top five dramas

After the first, order and 4-5 tend to vary depending on when you ask.

This is not an MV, but the opening scene to Damo as MVs that don’t spoil THE ENTIRE THING do not exist.

(Despite the impression the scene gives, the main character is not Jang Sung-Baek, but Chae-Ohk, the woman he’s fighting.)

1. Damo
2. Emperor of the Sea
3. Trick
4. Hwang Jin Yi
5. Dae Jang Geum/Ame to Yume

sisterjune: top five fantasy films! :D)

(limiting myself to Hollywood):



1. Labyrinth
2. Stardust
3. Dragonheart
4. Willow
5. Mirrormask

This one is rather subject to change anytime you ask, but I have a definite preference for 80s (some 90s)/reminiscent of the 80s fantasy movies to the glossier, more recent ones. There may be better FX and battle scenes, but they tend to be sausagefests that remember to give anyone but white dudes lines once in a blue moon, a bit more for The Chick, and while the older ones may have often failed, they at least tried more.)

(Note: I would count the POTC movies as more “horror adventure” than fantasy, though I know many consider them to be fantasy.)

nebulia:

top five characters of all time--movies, fiction, manga, whatever.

or five of your favorites.

Subject to be different next time you ask:

1. Laura Holt (Remington Steel)
2. Riza Hawkeye (Full Metal Alchemist-manga)
3. Jubilee (Marvel Comics)
4. Amelia Peabody (titular character of Elizabeth Peters’s series)
5. Gerda (The Snow Queen)

Snarp: Villainesses.



I can't embed it, but watch this, guys!

1. Circe (Wonder Woman)
2. Demona (Gargoyles)
3. Maleficent (Disney’s Sleeping Beauty)
4. Lilah (Angel: The Series)
5. Callisto (Xena: Warrior Princess)
6. Rumina (The Adventures of Sinbad)

I feel cheating is allowed, given the subject matter.

Irishninja: Top 5 "Girl Power, yay!" stories/IPs/whatevers. Interpret as you wish. ^_^

Hmm…I’m actually not incredibly fond of the term “girl power”? I don’t particularly mind it, but like “strong female character” it often seems to convey a limited idea, with an implication that only a few things fall into the “approved” area, as long as they match strict guidelines? As such, I tend to interpret the term more as what challenges patriarchal ideals/met narratives, intentionally or otherwise.

(Terrible quality, but the only English language version that I could find that would let me embed it.)

1. Maria telling Kynaston to stuff it when he asks her how she dies onstage, because he likes that women “die beautifully” in Stage Beauty.
2. The end of the “Becoming” episode of Buffy. While it isn’t uncommon for men to choose The Greater Good or Destiny over True Love, it is extremely rare for women to. (Though in Fanaa for similar reasons.)
3. Morgan’s “I took your balls” at the beginning of Cutthroat Island. The movie may have bombed and may be cheesy, and the moment very much fits into the conventional “girl power” idea, but it’s also the epitome of it, as it’s essentially a declaration that the point of the narrative is to take a narrative that’s about men being heroic and women (awesome or otherwise) getting rescued and make it about a female adventurer. (Of course, outside of Morgan, it’s still a sausage fest, but…)
4. This is a bit iffy because my only exposure to Mansfield Park is the Frances O’Connor adaptation from a while back and I may have a different impression once I actually read the book, but Fanny’s rejection of Henry Crawford when he asks her to change him and make him a better person, and her telling him to make himself a better person, not to put the burden on her. There’s such pressure in society for women to take the burden of blame for men’s actions and behavior that the absolute rejection of an attempt to make a woman feel honored for being expected to shoulder that blame made me love it despite other problems.
5. Clue’s “Flames, flames on the side of my face.” Though it likely wasn’t intended as such at the time, there’s a reason many LJ/DW users have this as their “feminism” icon, as it’s something of a modern Medea moment wherein a woman does everything for a man, is betrayed for it, exacts vengeance, and is the one to come out on top. I will cheat and combine this with Eowyn’s “I am no man” in Lord of the Rings. Though I feel that it’s significant more for its place in genre fiction than for it’s place in that specific narrative, I feel it should definitely be included.

Misstopia:

Fictional friendships:


(May I just mention how much I hate that one of my favorite WW images is part of one of my most hated superhero storylines ever?)

1. Diana and Artemis (Wonder Woman)
2. Aeryn and D’Argo (Farscape)
3. Wendy/Bossman/Lacey/Noser (any incarnation) (The Middleman)
4. Kyoko and Kanae (Skip-Beat)
5. Generation X team


trouble: What books should be made into movies, anyway?



1. The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
2. 19th century novels not by Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, and Charlotte Bronte. Wait, non-Jane Eyre CBs are ok. (I think there are as many JE adaptations as adaptations of all of Austen’s books combined.) This applies to BBC minis, too.
3. Ombria In Shadow by Patricia McKillip
4. Od Magic by Patricia McKillip
5. Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner

(Campaign to double major live action Hollywood films with female protagonists? I don’t know what you’re talking about.)

Ms_treesap: Your favourite shounen animanga?

All answers are for the mangas, not the anime adaptations.

::I was too lazy to get something. I'm sorry.::

1. Claymore
2. Full Metal Alchemist
3. Samurai Deeper Kyo
4. Rurouni Kenshin
5. Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle

Yes. I, too, laugh at the idea of TRC being anything but pure shoujo Id. But it is officially classified as shounen!

Comments

[royalarchivist]

"Hmm…I’m actually not incredibly fond of the term “girl power”?"

Mea culpa! :( But thank you for answering. I loved the clip you embedded, too; great ending line! :)

[meganbmoore]

I don't mind the term itself so much as the way it's often used and the accompanying implications.

[royalarchivist]

Mm. That makes sense. I will in the future to endeavor to avoid those kinds of implications. :)