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scrutinised the requirements for youth allowance.

so far, the only chance i stand of getting any centrelink payments until after i've finished my degree is to get married.

in which case i might as well set my sights on widowhood, widow's allowance is probably more generous.

Split my infinitives!

watched the new version of Peter Pan (PJ Hogan) this afternoon, with the addition of Sass about a third of the way through. She wishes me to quote certain spectacular lines, which i shall proceed to do. (I think she's angling for a position as co-producer of this blog, or somesuch... :p)

Without further ado:

John, on hearing that Peter can fly: Sir, you defy reason.
*Peter floats upwards*
John: I should like to defy it with you!

Wendy, as Peter is proposing to kill the lost boys for having harmed her: I agree, they are most horrid. But you can't kill them... that would make them feel important!
Boy 1: most important!
Boy 2: and unique!

Captain Hook, as an expletive: SPLIT MY INFINITIVES!

Interesting version, i must say. I like it far better than the Disney version, though of course it's not a patch on the novel, nothing is. Not sure what Barrie would have thought of this Wendy, though. Perhaps he would've liked her. The film really emphasised the coming-of-age aspect, in terms of Wendy. It found it a little sad, actually- for the Wendy of the book, it really was her fantasy world, to get to play mother. This time she got a little more spunk at the expense of her fun... ran away to Neverland to play with pirates and learn to fight, to avoid having deportment lessons with Aunt Millicent (an interesting addition to the Darling household). She got there and found herself growing up... which happened in the book too, but not so much at the expense of her fantasy.

The book is very much an adult commenting on the world of children- with a lot of understanding but not without bitterness. Children are ungrateful, forgetful, demanding creatures who walk out on you and march back without so much as a second thought. Mrs Darling is one of the best realised characters, removed although she is from the action. You get the feeling Barrie is in part angry with childhood (his brother?) for having left him, and partly reliving it, snatching at the return that it offers through writing.
The movie is about Wendy. It gives her a great deal more in the way of moral and emotional judgement- not to mention a modest slice of sexuality. It's about adults in the making, rather than children or how adults feel about them. I miss that whimsical slightly jaded authorial voice. Been watching too much Finding Neverland, perhaps ;)

I couldn't adjust to the female narrator, either! Not just because i'd like a whole movie of Depp narration, either...
me: even when mum was reading, i heard the book in my father's voice.
Sass: you've internalised the patriarchy.
me: no! it's my father, i read everything in his voice!
Sass: see? you've internalised the patriarchy.
me: my dad is not the patriarchy!

but apparently he is, and i've internalised him. which oughtn't to surprise anyone, i have my father's mind. we were cut from the same cookie cutter, my daddy and me.

i guess i was hoping that a more 'realistic' version would give me a nice dose of Barrie-esqueness. Guess I'll just have to go watch Finding Neverland. Or read the book ;).

umm... i said two good things at dinner tonight which my Blog Advisor, Sass, told me to blog, but i can't remember them.

was a total write off yesterday; incapable of speaking or thinking. watched Mulan instead. it made me happy.

am now reading The Eyre Affair.