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lordyellowtailI'm a huge fan of Disney's The Rescuers, a lesser known movie from 1977. To sum up from the Disney Wikia article,
It is far more awesome than it sounds, and in my opinion, it sounds pretty awesome already. Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor are badass mice that save children. Also, John Candy is an albatross, which they use as an airplane.
There was a sequel in 1990, which is a good movie, but I honestly didn't like it as well. However, there's a scene where they show how the Rescue Aid Society's emergency message relay system works, and it's always been one of my favorite parts of the movie. Watching it now, it reminds me in the way it functions of nothing so much as the lighting of the Beacons from LOTR.
Behold:
For comparison, here's the lighting of the Beacons from Return of the King:
Gandolf and Aragorn would be adorable badass mice.
The Rescuers is an American animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions and first released on June 22, 1977. The 23rd film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film is about the Rescue Aid Society, an international mouse organization headquartered in New York and shadowing the United Nations, dedicated to helping abduction victims around the world at large. Two of these mice, jittery janitor Bernard (Bob Newhart) and his co-agent, the elegant Miss Bianca (Eva Gabor), set out to rescue Penny (Michelle Stacy), an orphan girl being held prisoner in the Devil's Bayou by treasure huntress Madame Medusa (Geraldine Page).
It is far more awesome than it sounds, and in my opinion, it sounds pretty awesome already. Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor are badass mice that save children. Also, John Candy is an albatross, which they use as an airplane.
There was a sequel in 1990, which is a good movie, but I honestly didn't like it as well. However, there's a scene where they show how the Rescue Aid Society's emergency message relay system works, and it's always been one of my favorite parts of the movie. Watching it now, it reminds me in the way it functions of nothing so much as the lighting of the Beacons from LOTR.
Behold:
For comparison, here's the lighting of the Beacons from Return of the King:
Gandolf and Aragorn would be adorable badass mice.
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Date: 2015-02-01 04:27 pm (UTC)BUT!
The first movie is all kinds of awesome and I loved it and it's a rare OTP movie for me (No, seriously, Bernard/Bianca forever!!!!!)
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Date: 2015-02-02 05:17 am (UTC)I need to rewatch The Rescuers, at least. It's been literally 1.5 decades since I saw it last, at least. I have it on VHS still.
I also haven't seen a working VCR in about 8 years or my VHS collection in longer, so that's less than helpful.
I feel pretty much the exact same way about Down Under and the original. It was so wonderful.
And I'm right there with you on Bernard/Bianca. I don't have a lot of fandoms where 1) the canon ship is my OTP; and 2) I approve of how my OTP is written, especially in the last several years. I don't really understand why, but in a lot of the media I like lately, I just can't get into how the romance is handled.*
Bernard and Bianca, though, are just perfect. Their romance feels so real and genuine and relatable--I've felt like Bernard so often in my life when it comes to dating, and Bianca's struggles trying to do meaningful work and even find genuine companionship while she's stuck on the pedestal everyone (e.g.: all the other men) have placed her on is really wonderful as well. I think I"m repeating myself from another thread, but I'm realizing lately I'm into ships where the characters are at face value too imbalanced against each other to work well together, be it in terms of class or power or personality flaws or whatever, but in reality it's the disparity that makes them work so magically.
There's a fanfic that describes this as being "perfectly imperfect" together, and that describes spot on the ships I love, and Bianca and Bernard are that to a tee.
I'd absolutely love an arc'd, ongoing animated dramedy/action-adventure show starring them, in the vein of the "missing persons" genre. But I'll probably never seriously advocate for one since Eva Gabor passed away. She was Bianca just like Bob Newhart is Bernard, and I don't think I would feel the magic without her voice doing the talking.
So, yes. Bernard/Bianca FOREVER. It makes me sad how many people younger than us will never watch the 1977 film because it's old school animation--really old school animation.
*There are exceptions: Parker and Hardison on Leverage, and Tara/Willow pre-Season 6, for example. But otherwise I just don't feel like most of the pairings most media tries to shove at me are compelling compared to the actual canon chemistry other characters have, and the ones that should be compelling are so badly handled I can't invest myself.
This is a major reason I can't stand any form of Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley, for example. The books shove it at us with all the subtlety and emotion of a rusty sledgehammer, to the point I literally cringe at it. Of course, I'm really sensitive about canon ruining my ability to ship characters even in fic, unless I want to take them completely out of character. I used to be a major Harry/Hermione shipper until Book 6 made me literally despise Hermione for wiping her parents' minds without their consent. Now I can't read them together unless the story is set in book 4 or earlier or diverges in early Book 5, but I've found myself coming to the point where I can only really enjoy Harry Potter deconstruction fics, anyway.
That's a whole other discussion, though, and this comment is getting long. :)