Movies Jabberwocky?

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  1. Paranoid Trooper

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    At first when I read the name and saw the cover, my reaction was "What the h***?". Then I saw it and was more confused. I mean it was very good, but it was very very strange.... anyone else seen it?
     
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  2. Ciel

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    Yes I own it on dvd. Maybe it was a bad decision. It is funny, but more, a bit boring at some parts. I believe the monster was a Henson work..
    'Jabberwocky' came from Lewis Carroll's poem 'Jabberwock' here is the poem:

    'Twas brillig and the slithy toves
    Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
    All mimsy were the borogoves,
    And the mome raths outgrabe.

    "Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
    The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
    Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
    The frumious Bandersnatch!"

    He took his vorpal sword in hand:
    Long time the manxnome foe he sought
    So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
    And stood awhile in thought.

    And, as in uffish thought he stood,
    The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
    Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
    And burbled as it came!

    One, two! One, two! And through and through
    The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
    He left it dead, and with its head
    He went galumphing back.

    "And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
    Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
    O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
    He chortled in his joy.

    'Twas brillig and the slithy toves
    Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
    All mimsy were the borogoves,
    And the mome raths outgrabe.
     
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    Ciel, Jul 31, 2004
  3. Paranoid Trooper

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    I can actually see the resemblence.....
     
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  4. Spiggy

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    Haven't seen the film, but hehe I love that poem! It must have been fun to write for Lewis Carrol :rolleyes:
     
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    Spiggy, Aug 1, 2004
  5. BotticelliLover

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    I've seen the movie quite a few times. It's Monty Python, right? Well, I think the larger budget hurt them in someways. It had some slow parts, but some really funny ones too. My favorites are the potato, and the guy in the woods who think that all the rocks he finds are diamonds.
     
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    It's not Monty Python, but the co-director of the Holy Grail Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin stars in it. I think the love story in it to be very funny and how at the end he had to marry the princess but Grizelda wanted him now. Grizelda, right? don't recall.
     
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  7. KaYasha

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    We had to read this poem in my LA class I thought it was very good poem but I havent seen the movie.We had to draw something from the poem and a drew a Tumtum tree.I't looked like a tree with a face and arms.
     
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