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[owl]

I'm reading Howl's Moving Castle (again), and I've noticed a slight resemblance between Howl and a Heyer hero. The dandy-ness, the, ahem, sulking, the 8787 women until the heroine arrives....I can just imagine Vidal covering everything with green slime. And Sophie does has a certain air of now-drink-up-your-nice-gruel sometimes, doesn't she? However, I like "It should be hair-raising."
"And you'll exploit me."
"And then you'll cut up my suits to teach me."

better than "You'll coerce me shamelessly."

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[owls-dream.livejournal.com]

Forgive me for silly questions, but what did you think of the comparison between the original book and the movie. Although I found the first part of the book introduced the character's backgrounds better I was very happy to find that the "Black door" so to speak was much better in the movie. I just found it a little ridiculous that the magical black door leads to the present where he runs around in jeans. It killed a bit of the magic for me, whereas the move it was his past still but in a more fanciful way and had him fighting the war instead of being just a kid playing football.

[owl]

I've never actually seen the film (is that film!Howl?), but I rather liked that the black door led to Wales. In the Chrestomanci series by the same author, there were hundreds of parallel worlds and one of them was ours, so I was sort of used to it.

[owls-dream.livejournal.com]

Ah, and you see Howl's was my frist experience. I liked the film (as you can tell by my icons) You should check it out. Tell me what you think :)