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<\/a>Jean Hegland<\/a> is a gifted writer. Her novel, Into The Forest<\/em><\/a>, has been made into a movie and is now at theatres and will soon be available on DVD<\/a>. I wouldn’t normally go to see this type of movie, but the opportunity came up to view Into The Forest, the movie<\/a>, with Jean answering questions after the viewing. Thank you to independent bookstore Copperfield’s Books<\/a> for sponsoring the viewing. And thank you to Jean for writing an amazing and memorable story. Thanks, also, to Ellen Page, who saw the possibility of the type of movie this could be. See it, if you can, even if, like me, you have to close your eyes during some scenes. The cinematography, the acting, the dialogue, the story line = all amazing and unforgettable.<\/p>\nAt the time of this posting, there are no authorized quotes from Into the Forest<\/em>. Hmmm. . . guess you have to read the book and\/or see the movie.<\/p>\n Today’s writing prompts are lines from movies. Choose one and just write.<\/p>\n ~ \u201cMen like my father cannot die. They are with me still, real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever.\u201d How Green Was My Valley<\/em><\/p>\n ~<\/em>\u201cMy name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.\u201dPrincess Bride<\/em><\/p>\n ~ Write about a time you had a close call.\u00a0 In Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid<\/em>, there\u2019s a scene where Butch and Sundance chase up a mountain to avoid the relentless posse, only to find themselves at a dead end. The only way, says Butch, is to jump a hundred feet or so to the fast-moving stream below. But Sundance won\u2019t hear of it.<\/p>\n Butch: \u201c It\u2019s the only way. Otherwise we\u2019re dead.\u201d<\/p>\n They argue about it for a while until Sundance admits the real reason he doesn\u2019t want to jump.<\/p>\n Sundance: \u201cI can\u2019t swim.\u201d<\/p>\n Butch, \u201cYou stupid fool, the fall\u2019ll probably kill you.\u201d<\/p>\n ~\u00a0 Gene\u00a0Wilder agreed to play Willy Wonka<\/em> under one condition: that his character make a wildly grand entrance:<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I make my first entrance, I’d like to come out of the door carrying a cane and then walk toward the crowd with a limp. After the crowd sees Wonka, they whisper and then become deathly quiet.<\/p>\n As I walk toward them, my cane sinks into one of the cobblestones I’m walking on and stands straight up, by itself; but I keep on walking, until I realize that I no longer have my cane. I start to fall forward, and just before I hit the ground, I do a beautiful forward somersault and bounce back up, to great applause. \u201d<\/p>\n His reason for wanting to include the dramatic entrance: \u201cBecause from that time on, no one will know if I’m lying or telling the truth. \u201d<\/p>\n If you have seen Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory, with Gene Wilder:\u00a0 Do you think his entrance worked?\u00a0 Did it help or hinder his character’s believability? Did the entrance affect you?<\/p>\n A scene from Willy Wonka:<\/p>\n Computer Operator: \u201cWe’re about to witness the greatest miracle of the machine age. Based on the revolutionary Computonian Law of Probability, this machine will tell us the precise location of the 3 remaining golden tickets. \u201d<\/p>\n Computer Operator pushes button on the machine. \u00a0Computer prints out a response: \u00a0\u201cI won’t tell. That would be cheating. \u201d<\/p>\n Computer operator pushes button on the machine again. \u201cIam now telling the computer that if it will tell me the correct answer, I will gladly share with it the grand prize. \u201d<\/p>\n The \u00a0machine prints out another response. \u201cWhat would a computer do with a lifetime supply of chocolate? \u201d<\/p>\n Operator sighs: \u201cI am now telling the computer exactly what he can do with the lifetime supply of chocolate. \u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Movies! Do you love ’em or are you meh about ’em?\u00a0 Do you get \u201clost in books?” Can you get the same kind of Calgon-take-me-away lost in movies? Jean Hegland is a gifted writer. 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