Watching "Black Christmas" Again
Nov. 12th, 2014 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kybearfuzzIt's another one of those nights. I broke out my comic book journal and started jotting down plot lines for my next couple of issues of my comic. I wasn't sure what to watch on TV, so I just put the Blu-Ray of "Black Christmas" (1974) in the player and watched it.
It seems that no matter how many times I watch the movie, there's always something new I failed to catch before. I think part of that reason is that I often "listen" to a movie while drawing or writing, instead of watching the movie. Tonight, I was watching it a bit more and got drawn into figuring out the layout of the sorority house where everything takes place. It's actually a real house in the Toronto area and has had a few minor remodels over the decades.
It's been 40 years since the movie was released and the writer/director died in a car accident a few years back. I think the movie could have had a sequel made, seeing how most of the original actors were killed off, but the surviving ones are still around. John Saxon, who was the Lt. Fuller, is still kicking and I can see him leading an investigation out of retirement in a follow-up movie when the killer resurfaces or something. I can practically guarantee that it would never happen, but a man can dream.
Heck, this is probably one of the reasons that fan fiction can become so popular.
It seems that no matter how many times I watch the movie, there's always something new I failed to catch before. I think part of that reason is that I often "listen" to a movie while drawing or writing, instead of watching the movie. Tonight, I was watching it a bit more and got drawn into figuring out the layout of the sorority house where everything takes place. It's actually a real house in the Toronto area and has had a few minor remodels over the decades.
It's been 40 years since the movie was released and the writer/director died in a car accident a few years back. I think the movie could have had a sequel made, seeing how most of the original actors were killed off, but the surviving ones are still around. John Saxon, who was the Lt. Fuller, is still kicking and I can see him leading an investigation out of retirement in a follow-up movie when the killer resurfaces or something. I can practically guarantee that it would never happen, but a man can dream.
Heck, this is probably one of the reasons that fan fiction can become so popular.
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Date: 2014-11-13 05:04 am (UTC)I don't know why, but watching some things, I get obsessed with the floor plan of shows, like the apartments on Big Bang Theory, the mansion in Clue, or especially the house in Golden Girls... its fun to watch and try to figure out what's behind the doors. There are websites out there that are devoted trying to sort these places out.It can be a timesuck, too!
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Date: 2014-11-13 03:51 pm (UTC)And figuring out the houses is kind of fun. For example, I've never quite understood where the garage is for the Golden Girls. It seems close the lanai, but some episodes seem to put it near the kitchen.
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Date: 2014-11-16 09:04 pm (UTC)That sticks out in my mind because I had a huge crush on him in the 70's.
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