1. Well, it's still an interview for something you'll probably enjoy doing, right?
3. Just checked and no, not in my BN, but in the one in Bethesda, maybe; and it's cheap enough that if I bought it with a discount (and waited to buy it). I thought of also trying the nearby Target; less likely it'll be there, but maybe.
5. I really am so sorry; I thought I'd be able to manage it but between getting sick and my parents not being terribly pleased with my driving so far it didn't quite work out.
6. Urg, I...got into a big ranty thing about this that was really counterproductive. They're great movies in a lot of ways. There's no denying the dialogue is awesome and that Cary Grant sparring with Ros Russel and/or Kat Hepburn is just full of the right kind of sparkly chemistry, and they're tons of fun on that front (plus His Girl Friday has one of my favorite funny aneurysm moment with the "Stick Hitler on the funny pages!" line). But nostalgia on the whole, for the time period and the films of it, is always tough for me to reconcile with where I would have been in that situation; not seeing them in a big, plush, auditorium, shoulder to shoulder with the average (white) American, for one. And seeing myself in any of those strong, ballsy (white) women? Definitely not in the US and most likely not in Mexico, either; no doubt Mexican culture's still more misogynistic and racist than American culture is, and definitely was back then; a Mexican Hildy would've been impossible in 40's America and a Mestizo Hildy about as impossible in 40's Mexico. I don't mean to turn it into a big racial thing, and it's not like I don't get a lot of enjoyment out of the films made back then or begrudge other people their enjoyment of them, but it's a little harder for me to turn my brain off to those things and a lot easier for me to be thrown by pretty minor things. *cough* Yeah...sorry.
7. And hopefully the above hasn't scared you off too bad, and you'd still want to go?
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3. Just checked and no, not in my BN, but in the one in Bethesda, maybe; and it's cheap enough that if I bought it with a discount (and waited to buy it). I thought of also trying the nearby Target; less likely it'll be there, but maybe.
5. I really am so sorry; I thought I'd be able to manage it but between getting sick and my parents not being terribly pleased with my driving so far it didn't quite work out.
6. Urg, I...got into a big ranty thing about this that was really counterproductive. They're great movies in a lot of ways. There's no denying the dialogue is awesome and that Cary Grant sparring with Ros Russel and/or Kat Hepburn is just full of the right kind of sparkly chemistry, and they're tons of fun on that front (plus His Girl Friday has one of my favorite funny aneurysm moment with the "Stick Hitler on the funny pages!" line). But nostalgia on the whole, for the time period and the films of it, is always tough for me to reconcile with where I would have been in that situation; not seeing them in a big, plush, auditorium, shoulder to shoulder with the average (white) American, for one. And seeing myself in any of those strong, ballsy (white) women? Definitely not in the US and most likely not in Mexico, either; no doubt Mexican culture's still more misogynistic and racist than American culture is, and definitely was back then; a Mexican Hildy would've been impossible in 40's America and a Mestizo Hildy about as impossible in 40's Mexico. I don't mean to turn it into a big racial thing, and it's not like I don't get a lot of enjoyment out of the films made back then or begrudge other people their enjoyment of them, but it's a little harder for me to turn my brain off to those things and a lot easier for me to be thrown by pretty minor things. *cough* Yeah...sorry.
7. And hopefully the above hasn't scared you off too bad, and you'd still want to go?