"I don't like Sand" demystified

"I don't like Sand" demystified May 31, 2017 20:46:05 GMT

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Post by sostie on May 31, 2017 20:46:05 GMT

May 31, 2017 19:30:41 GMT Tristan's Journal said:

May 31, 2017 13:02:28 GMT sostie said:

The interpretation of the "sand" line...did you work out what you thought he was trying to say in the moment? Was it sometime after? I'm guessing it was sometime after, and it wasn't because you (or whoever concluded he was trying say something much deeper) thought "aah, now there must be some deeper meaning here" but more of a case of "surely he couldn't have written something that bad, let's see if I can find something there to defend him" sometime after the fact. As I said, you'll find a deeper meaning, as you could in many films, in many lines, but was it intended? I doubt it.

comedy gold, sostie old mate, true comedy gold. This is an awesome eye opener really! Until now I have been positive that EVERYBODY with a basic literary education (or who at least read some poetry once) would get the "I dont like sand" line - not so evidently! Yeah, sostie, I worked it out immediately when hearing it (it's fairly obvious, even the title of the Williams music? lol), so did my GF, and everybody I talked to about it....

Any metaphor or deeper meaning, whether intended or not, can't really be concluded as you watch the film...the line stands out, on it's own, and it's bad. As a piece of dialogue it's a fail. As a metaphor/subtext/whatever...it's a fail. It is nothing more than a some dialogue to propel the story. Like the majority of his writing.

yeah mate your fallacy is "personal incredulity".
Let's be honest: you are a Marvel guy like Furious and FlyingJ, and we really should talk your language. You are like that beefcake guy in Guardians who takes nearly every line literal. LOL, must be difficult in real life, eh?
"I don't like Mondays" . Rubbish, wut's wrong with Mundays, mate?

And OMG, the whole PT is full of figurative stuff, no wonder it does not make sense but crap:

- There is always a bigger fish! Eh, fish...what fish eh?
- Greed is a powerful ally. WuuuutTF?
- The shroud of the dark side has fallen! What fracking shroud, you bloody muppet?
- The shadow of greed that is. Fuck it, I'm out mate! Damp squid!

Let's not even discuss the deeper PT layers, I remember our discussion from the past...I quote: "So twat"-

It's like casting pearls before the swine..... eh? But always a lot of fun, my man.

So, genuinely, the moment you heard that line you and your GF instantly thought well that is about...

- (i) Star Crossed Lovers: Padme the aristocrat speaks of lying in the sand on beaches for fun, for Anakin sand symbolizes his lowly origins as a slave on Tatooine (desert planet = sand, get it?),

- (i) Ghosts of the Past: Anakin’s agonizing situation regarding his dying mother calling him back home, but who he must ignore because of the Jedi code (attachments...). This conflict is the beginning of his downfall of course.

And not like many, thought it was bad dialogue? At a stretch maybe you could possibly come up with the first interpretation but the second!

And the clue in Williams music! Sorry didn't have the tracklisting with me at the time...didn't listen to the soundtrack before or after. might have if I thought you needed it to decode the film's dialogue.

A Marvel guy? make it sound like it's all I like..far from it.