lightofdaye | Snowflake Challenge

Day 8

In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Harry Potter would be too obvious here. Suffice to say seven years of fanfic writing implies a great love for that franchise. I've also talked previously about Radio shows like Just a Minute and Cabin Pressure that I love.

But what I really want to talk to you about is a movie: Stranger Than Fiction

I don't watch it very often, but it holds a special place in my heart. Usually when I watch films, I'm quite negative, at least when talking about them afterwards; what they did wrong, what they changed from the adaption, what annoyed me. Even films I quite like.

Stranger Than Fiction is a film I watched and had no negative comments on.

I mean there are some that can be made but at the time. Nothing. It just a sweet and heart breaking film. I wasn't a fan of Will Ferrel or Emma Thompson or Dustin Hoffman or Maggie Gyllenhaal before seeing the film, I think the only reason I saw got in on DVD to see it, was a trailer at the start of the Casino Royale dvd, so a victory for advertising there.

Any way, in it Will Ferrell plays a taxman who starts hearing Emma Thompson's voice who is a he put it is narrating his life "accurately and with a better vocabulary". Which is the concept that attracted me to it. But it's also about the taxman quitting his job, finding out what he wants from life and finding love. I guess it's a comedy of sorts, but a very dry one but extremely entertaining/

As I say it's a lovely film, sweet and touching and I don't want to spoil anything about it other than giving it a hearty recommendation.