2 posts tagged “movies”

Last night I had the oddest dream I've had in a long while.  I was visiting my past self, complete with narrator,or guide (like in A Christmas Carol and It's a Wonderful Life). 

That's not the odd part though. As I watched myself and listened to the narration, I didn't recognize any of it. It was not my past. I knew none of the people or places in the dream. Through the entire dream, even though I was playing along as if it was my past, I knew it wasn't.

In the dream I'd befriended what seemed, on the surface, to be a homeless person.  He dressed like a homeless person would dress, and had a shopping cart full of his belongings.  We stood on a platform of a subway station; someone (the narrator perhaps) began spewing disparaging remarks about and to the man. As I stood there I knew that the man was my boyfriend, so I walked up and hugged , then kissed him. He said something about moving out of his house and having to leave his things behind for a while.  Then he was gone and I assumed he'd gotten on the subway train.

I saw that he'd left his belongings - a blow up mattress (inflated), a backpack, a bundle of clothes and a cell phone. I worried that someone would steal his things, but left them there because it was too much for me to carry up the stairs and there was no elevator.

When I returned, everything was there except for the mattress. I went to the subway office and told them that someone had stolen my boyfriend's inflatable mattress.  The man in the office looked a little sheepish, and said that he thought it was a discarded pile of junk, so had taken the mattress for himself. He took it out of his file drawer, now deflated and in a ziplock bag, and handed it to me.

I then got on the subway train and returned the mattress to my alleged boyfriend who was surprised that I had been able to get it back.  He then inflated the mattress and we lay on it together, just snuggling, all the while I was wondering why I was there and whose past I was living.

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I have my ideas of why I dreamed it. I think that I incorporated many fragments of posts from various blogs I've been reading lately (including, sadly, the Sentra guy) into the dream.  My NaNoWriMo novel is forcing me to do a lot of research on a historical character I've never particularly liked. I think that that plus having recently seen the movie "Click" which reminded me of "It's a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol, my mind just jumbled it all up into a slightly disturbing, yet interesting dream.

Who's your favorite movie villain?

I've never really thought about my favorite movie villian - so I cheated and looked at a list of villians from films.  That list really didn't help me much, oh, it listed some villians that I did remember and like, but I cannot say any really jump out as my favorite.

I'd thought of talking about the Wicked Witch of the West - from the Wizard of Oz, but with all the Wicked hype, I didn't want to list her as my favorite. 

I also considered claiming Count Dracula to be my favorite villian, but I never really liked the film versions as much as the book version of the count. If this question was about my favorite book villian then Count Dracula would have won my vote (with the White Witch from Narnia a close second).

Another name that jumped out at me from the list was Dr. Smith from Lost in Space. I've not seen the movie version, but the original Dr. Zachary Smith certainally is a favorite TV villian.

Mr. Potter from It's a Wonderful Live also rates as a memorable villian, but not my favorite.

I guess I don't have a favorite villian from a movie. Sorry Vox.  I know it would be a cop-out if I said that my favorite villian was "time" in Somewhere in Time. Although thinking about love stories, the Peter Lorre character in Casablanca was rather a good villian, wasn't he?