What Is Your Favorite Scene Ever?

[mgray]

^^^The movie was really fascinating to me to the point I wanted to read the source material. I bought the book but it's on the backlog for now, but I do mean to read it eventually.

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[Sully23]

Honestly, people's fascination with split second nudity in movies kind of cheapens it. Between an hour and a half to two hours of film, something as mundane as a nipple can be the major highlight.

They say in Hollywood that sex sells, an actress needs a nude scene to take off her career, and that coming from a clearly conservative country, GOT would not have been so successful if it didn't show a lot of skin, the same for Emilia Clarke.

[Sully23]

^^^The movie was really fascinating to me to the point I wanted to read the source material. I bought the book but it's on the backlog for now, but I do mean to read it eventually.

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I would hope to understand why she wanted to go to the ice palace, she wanted to die?

[BugMeNot9999]

^^^The movie was really fascinating to me to the point I wanted to read the source material. I bought the book but it's on the backlog for now, but I do mean to read it eventually.

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I would hope to understand why she wanted to go to the ice palace, she wanted to die?

Hi, I recently read the book and I think it is a real masterpiece (rated 10, to the movie rated 8). I don't want to spoil anything for you (there are some differences with the movie), but I can tell you that if you are looking for ultimate truths you will be disappointed. I read that when Vesaas's book was released in the 1960s, some Norwegian teenage girls wrote to the writer to find out what “that thing” was that Unn tries to forget as she sets out for the waterfall (it's a thing from her past, not about her meeting the day before with Siss). Vesaas replied that he did not want to say, because he thought that it is precisely in the mystery that lies the basis of artistic creation.
This may be irritating for some readers, but for me this added to the appeal of the story. Of course if you read the book, you, like me, will get an idea of the secrets Unn had inside her, but you will never be sure that that was the explanation.

[Sully23]

It would be nice if the story was told as a miniseries to be narrated in 90 minutes where only some parts are omitted, so that the miniseries is as faithful to the book as possible.

[BugMeNot9999]

It would be nice if the story was told as a miniseries to be narrated in 90 minutes where only some parts are omitted, so that the miniseries is as faithful to the book as possible.

It will never be possible to do this because the book, intentionally on the part of the author, leaves more doubt than the film does. Director Per Blom tried to give his own interpretation and explained more than is said in the book. Here is what he said when he started working on the film:

"It is impossible to meet the expectations of everyone who has read 'The Ice Palace'. The images the book creates are so strong and so different from its readers. I can only hope I can meet my own."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097594/tr ... =tr7570459

[mgray]

Thanks for the interesting info on a fascinating story bugmenot9999

[guava98]

I bought the book but it's on the backlog for now, but I do mean to read it eventually.

That's pretty cool. You know you can find that online for free, if you look for it. (I like physical books, that works too )

I might read that sometime. I really loved the movie.

[Sully23]

My girl 1991, Favourite moment is when they kiss.

[Night457]

A favorite of mine:
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https://www.first-loves.com/forums/view ... =4710&f=14

Spoiler: It took me some time to think of a "favorite scene". The "Call my name!" scene gets me every single time, even if I watch JUST THAT SCENE a dozen times in the same day. I know, I am a such a sucker for emotional manipulation.