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[RocksmySocks]

Back in the day, my friends all wanted to date Dimitri, which I could not understand. Bartok was way cooler, funnier, and sweeter. And cuter!

That's how I was when it first came out. I was a little kid and I always liked the animal sidekicks, so Pooka the dog was up there too.

But now I'm hormonal and like to watch Dmitri fail. :D

I think I was 13 or something when it came out. Don't remember for sure, but watching it all through high school I was still the same way, haha. My love of Bartok in a romantic fashion is a joke, obviously. It was sort of my way to get my friends to stop pressuring me into thinking people in movies were hot. I'm not very normal, but back then I didn't know that being abnormal was okay. I was abnormal despite that, though. I just felt like something was wrong with me.

Okay, this is starting to get on an off-topic tangent...and a personal one. Lol, Katie's being cryptic again.

*scoots away*

[Flank]

Hey, you are the best country in the world, you can do any movies you want! HAHA! Kidding, don't kill me. Those are complicated political processes, making the image of the most progressive civilization, forming the world confrontations.
But, in facts you, American people, are great guys, funny and smart, like you.

I love such secondary characters too. Katie, you're not abnormal, you're abnormally cool.

[Star]

I understand what you mean about it, Flank. I just think it's a cute love story and the music is amazing. Plus, Demetri was just.... :kawaii:

[Flank]

HAHA, that's OK, Star.

Do you guys know that not all princes and princesses are like that? :lol:

[Star]

The only thing I know about princes and princesses come from....Disney.

And the Princess Diaries.


Which is also Disney.

So....I guess that doesn't count XDDD

*FAIL*

[Flank]

I was just kidding, nice and romantic stories are important too.

[kohirihiri]

I think I was 13 or something when it came out. Don't remember for sure, but watching it all through high school I was still the same way, haha. My love of Bartok in a romantic fashion is a joke, obviously. It was sort of my way to get my friends to stop pressuring me into thinking people in movies were hot. I'm not very normal, but back then I didn't know that being abnormal was okay. I was abnormal despite that, though. I just felt like something was wrong with me.

I was like 7 or 8. And I know you're not into beastiality. :D (I'm not either! :blink: :lol: ) No, I completely understand. I'm actually still kinda like that. I always held a disdain for people always thinking people in movies were hot... In fact, most of the people who I think are hot are animated, so I guess that's one step past where I WAS. No, I dunno. I used to be more like that. I still get kinda annoyed, but now if I really do think they're hot, I'll admit it. But that doesn't happen very often. However, now I can think anyone is adorable just because of their body language, but that doesn't mean I'm attracted to them THAT way. I guess that's partly of what makes me a good candidate for animation because characters aren't what they look like but how they move sayeth Chuck Jones.

But, in facts you, American people, are great guys, funny and smart, like you.

Awww thanks Flank! You're supercool. I dunno. I think I'm just SO openminded that I can like too many things, some things that have things in them that I don't like (like racism) just because my love for things dominates my dislike for things. I can just see the goodness in everything. For example, if a stereotypical "geek" walked in the room right now--- glasses, suspenders, the whole shebang--- I would just think that person was amazing because they were so definitive, whereas some people might disdain that person. I just love everything for what it is! I know that sounds pretty retarded, but it's true! Like I'm having the second real life crush in my life right now, and someone said to me, "Ah but he has acne," or something like that and 1. I didn't even notice and 2. Now that I do I wouldn't change it if I could! I wouldn't change one thing about him! Everything about him is what makes him him and that's what I like...


WOW HUGE RANT. I lurv our discussions. ^-^

But yeah Flank I just see you as another awesome person. I forget that we all come from different nationalites, but now that I think about it, that's SO COOL! I wish we all could just be in a big room together and bask in our differences.... :wub:

I just think it's a cute love story and the music is amazing. Plus, Demetri was just....  :kawaii:

Ditto to everything you just said. Gotta love the love/hate! XD

Do you guys know that not all princes and princesses are like that?

Yah actually royalty often look just like everyone else or according to some societal standards "homely."

I don't even pay attention to it being a princess movie. That has nothing to do with it for me. I get kinda annoyed after awhile actually with the cliche princess thing, but every story has been retold a thousand different ways and if you can tell it well, then that's what separates it from everything else. It's weird. I've always thought about that but never could articulate it until Dave Masters told me that and I read that in that book "How to Read Literature Like a Professor."

All that matters to me in a story are characters. I mean I guess other things matter, but that's what wins me.. Yet another thing that makes me all too much an animator.. GAWD I CAN'T WAIT TO STUDY IT IN COLLEGE NEXT YEAR!!!!! <3

The only thing I know about princes and princesses come from....Disney.

Oh but you actually know more because this is Don Bluth, not Disney!!! :D ... But he originated from Disney, so I guess you kinda do. ROFL.

[Flank]

Hey, Ko, I wish, I was retarded like you! :D Actually, accepting and loving all things is a quality of the traditional society that I really value.
Good luck with animation work, I also like nimation a lot, as you can see.
We have IDOJ to get together all our differences!

Actually, royalty have their level of complications and issues.
But, personalities are what I care about most in the movies.

[kohirihiri]

Hey, Ko, I wish, I was retarded like you! :D Actually, accepting and loving all things is a quality of the traditional society that I really value.

Aw thanks! Well I wasn't always to the degree of retardedness that I am today, so maybe you can't get to your aspirations too someday! :D

Good luck with animation work, I also like nimation a lot, as you can see.

Haha! Thanks. I'm so obsessive over it; sometimes I feel like I talk about it enough to repel people from wanting to hold a decent conversation with me, but since you're so into it too (doi, IDOJ! XP ), it makes me really enjoy talking to you!

We have IDOJ to get together all our differences!

True dat, but I'm so visual.. I want to draw EVERYTHING! If I can't SEE a person moving (because ultimately, my brain is a library for drawing references) then I have to IMAGINE their body language...!

Actually, royalty have their level of complications and issues.

Haha like incest? Or so I've heard... :wub: (minus the hearts on that one ;D )

But, personalities are what I care about most in the movies.

Yeah that's where all the fun is in every story right??? We want to see the human condition because we can relate to it and everybody likes hearing about themselves! (I know that "everybody" and "themselves" do not agree in number but I get tired of saying he/she, not that anyone cares... GRAMMAR NUT!)

[Flank]

:D You can talk to me on AIM, if you want to.

Incest? It's not what I had in mind, but, all royalty are related to each other in some way. Even such lower nobility like US presidents. No offence meant, just remembering the genealogy.

Not because we can relate to the characters, but, I think, we are interested in thinking, feelings and development of the other people, or animated role models. LOL

[kohirihiri]

Not because we can relate to the characters, but, I think, we are interested in thinking, feelings and development of the other people, or animated role models. LOL

:D  You can talk to me on AIM, if you want to.

Haha kay! You can guess what my sn is. But not right now because I'm sewing and I would be kinda boring to you. I was talking Saki-chan earlier and logged off for that reason. I just wasn't talking much.

Incest? It's not what I had in mind, but, all royalty are related to each other in some way. Even such lower nobility like US presidents. No offence meant, just remembering the genealogy.

Haha none taken. I hear people insult presidents every day about a gazillion times. Everybody's gotta hate somebody, so I'm just not phased by it. (But I'm not saying you hate him or are insulting him. You're actually just stating fact.) To be truthful, I don't have very much of an opinion on a lot of our leaders. I hear so much on both sides. I've just accepted that they're human. (Or are they dancers???? Sorry. I'm listening to the Killers and I couldn't resist. XD )

Not because we can relate to the characters, but, I think, we are interested in thinking, feelings and development of the other people, or animated role models. LOL

Yeah but that's all part of relating to someone, right? You don't necessarily have to have the same kind of personality or have been in the same situation or even agree with the character to relate to them. For example: I don't murder people like Raskolnikov did. I don't agree with what he did. In fact, I thought he was a detestable person. But I could relate to the panic he felt (just what you said--- the FEELINGS) and I hoped for the development of his character. When he felt something, even though I knew it was wrong, I EMPATHIZED because that book was written the way a story SHOULD BE. So you recognize that character's fate. What's his fate? He is fated to be human. He is fated to his FLAWS. And the challenge is: will he overcome those flaws and change and grow or succumb to them as Eve succumbed to her vanity in hopes of becoming like God and indulged in the fruit of knowledge (which is actually the same word for sex in the original translation of the Bible--- but aside from the point) and fell to her humanity and--- THE FALL FROM GRACE!!!

Oh no.. So many disjointed thoughts... yet all connected... I need to shut up now. -_- XD

[Destinyinevitable]

Demetri is just plain awesome. I love the movie and the songs. This is one that I try to catch everytime it's on tv (I keep going to buy the dvd, then pausing because of the artwork on the cover....for some reason it doesn't look right to me, and that's keeping me from buying it. I'm so weird...). I was obsessed when I was little...I had the dancing Anastasia doll, the movie, and a tape of Once Upon a December that I'd play constantly. Also some sort of jewelry kit.

[Katy]

i like anatasia,but i haven't seen it in a while though