“Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me, aren’t you?” BEN BRADDOCK (Dustin Hoffman) in The Graduate (1967)

Personal Pictures today are from my lunch stop at the Black Hammock Restaurant http://www.allmenus.com/fl/oviedo/33403-the-black-hammock-restaurant/menu/ in Oveido—the food was good and the atmosphere fun.

“Look! It’s moving. It’s alive. It’s alive… It’s alive. It’s moving, it’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive, IT’S ALIVE!”
DR. FRANKENSTEIN (Colin Clive)
Frankenstein (1931)

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and while we’re on the subject: 10 Things you’ll find youself saying after you watch Outlander.

10 things you'll find yourself saying after watching 'Outlander'

“Elementary, my dear Watson. Purely elementary.”
SHERLOCK HOLMES (Basil Rathbone) to DR. WATSON (Nigel Bruce)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)

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Since I some how got on movies this week I thought I’d continue with my favorite movie characters–you know the one that make a long term impression–sometimes a life time of memories….that you think about when you’re down and out or when you’re tired and need to keep going..or the MAN who gets you through when you have no one to hold you tight in the dead of night.

OH PS Luke isn’t my favorite from Star Wars—Hans Solo is–it is my all time fav character of Harrison Ford…much crazier and sexier than Indiana Jones, at least from my point of view…while Dr. Jones spent part of his year teaching students and being respectable Hans was always a bad boy and his laps into helpfulness involved fighting the Empire and like that…Hans was my favorite type man, hot, handsome and a bad boy almost to the core.

Han Solo: Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.

Ripley in Alien is for me the ultimate independent woman…and don’t argue with her she beat your ass…or shoot you just for good measure and even the alien—the ultimate monster can’t beat her—unfortunately she’s not someone you want to spend a lot of time with as most everyone else ends up dead…either at the end of one movie or the beginning of next. Ripley was a hero when women on the screen were really beginning to come into their own and she earned place in character immortality–at least for me she did.

I guess what I like best is that she did it all and she did it ultimately alone…even though she started out with a group of hunks she ended up killing the monster and saving the day all on her own….she convinced me that I cold be a bad ass women just as possibly as my date for the evening could be the hot he-man.

Ripley: Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?

Another woman who fits right up there with Ripley though she arrive a bit later–the nice girl who turns out tough and bad ass:

Sarah Conner of Terminator

Sarah Connor: Bite me.

Argon, the tortured crown prince in Lord of the Rings—happy to just be a soldier, hesitant to be the king his royal blood assures him he is. He is a many layered, with long and close association to the elves rather than the humans. In the best set of movies ever he grows from one of the troops to the ruler of all the lands. He grows, matures and finally claims the elf princess he has loved but never truly committed to.

In this character you find that handsome and strong isn’t the end all as in so many characters and he is one of the non-bad boys that I have grown to truly love.

Arwen: Why do you fear the past? You are Isildur’s heir, not Isildur himself. You are not bound to his fate.
Aragorn: The same blood flows in my veins. The same weakness.
Arwen: Your time will come. You will face the same evil, and you will defeat it.

Maximus: Are you not entertained?

MAXIMUS, The Gladiator goes from a man who rules a whole Roman Legion and is at the right hand of the Emperor–he has an estate in Spain where he dearly loved wife and young son await him….and then one man kills the Emperor and destroys his life. He awakes wounded but still alive, his family dead his armies lost to him and himself sold into fighting in the arenas of death the Roman Empire so enjoyed.

This is a man who maintains himself despite all, who changes the lives and wins the loyalty of his fellow gladiators and goes on to achieve fame and finally revenge while never betraying his personal code of honor and morals….he is a man to look up to and respect…it is one of my favorite movies and he keep the hope in my mind that maybe there have actually been men true to themselves and to those they love– though in real life I must admit they are not so easily found.

Maximus: Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

Hermione Granger

We saw this character grow up going from a smart and a bit irritating little girl to a competent and strong young woman that went a long way to help Harry defeat Voldemort and return the world of magic to normal even though she was a Muggle. She was a smart girl who as she grew older never apologized for her strengths nor her intelligence. As a kids character she is a role model for those of us already grown up and perhaps still stinging from slights in our childhood.

I love this character but I have one question for the author, why Ron? Hermione was just too sensitive and intelligent to be with Ron the rest of her life while Harry and her were so matched. It is my one beef with Rowlins.

“Don’t you dare call Hagrid pathetic, you foul — you evil little cockroach!!” [Hermione confronting Draco Malfoy]

Van Helsing is the man without a country…the bad ass of all bad asses…..he starts out by killing Mr. Hyde and gets blamed for the death of Dr. Jekyll and that pretty much sums up the life of a man who words for a secret religious order in Rome to pay dues to apparently his soul’s own burden. He is wanted by all manner of governments but he has greater problems in the area of vampires, were wolves and things that slither through the evil of this world.

I love the character who for all that continues to carry on—completing his assignment even though he’s been bitten by a werewolf and may soon become the creatures he is battling and allowing Frankenstein’s creature to go get away because he recognizes the creatures blameless soul. Who explains to the holy father that it wasn’t him but Mr. Hyde’s body hurling thru it that broke the ancient and priceless Rose window–the fact that he threw him having no part in his guilt or blamelessness

Gabriel Van Helsing

Vampires, gargoyles, warlocks, they’re all the same — best when cooked well.
Why can’t I have one of those? [reaction to the firing demonstration of the gatling gun]
[After Dracula offers to restore his memories] Some things are better left forgotten!