#ThrowbackThursday - My fifth grade class photo - the year my classmates voted me the student who looked the most like Johnny Tremain, my writings about Paul Revere at that age, and my children’s book in the Paul Revere House gift shop next to… Johnny Tremain. #PaulRevereHouse #JohnnyTremain
#ThrowbackThursday - My fifth grade class photo - the year my classmates voted me the student who looked the most like Johnny Tremain, my writings about Paul Revere at that age, & my children’s book in the Paul Revere House gift shop next to… Johnny Tremain. #PaulRevere #JohnnyTremain
My closing thoughts on the movie #JohnnyTremain? #SebastianCabot died about half a century ago. But if a movie is ever made about MY LIFE, I demand the actor look and sound exactly like Cabot. In the film Johnny Tremain, THAT GUY was FUCKING HILARIOUS whenever he’d yell. Ⓐ
Sample dialogue in the movie #JohnnyTremain:
#BritishGeneral: “We’ve experienced more than a defeat, more than a mere misfortune of war. We have been vanquished by an idea, a belief in human rights.”
#TerryMacNeil: “And THAT is what #WaltDisney himself would have us foolishly believe.” Ⓐ
Sample dialogue in the movie #JohnnyTremain:
#AmericanCommandingOfficer: “Do not molest them, unless they begin it first.”
#TerryMacNeil: “Uh… so EVERYONE becomes a rapist?” Ⓐ
Sample dialogue in the movie #JohnnyTremain:
#ColSmith: “The impudence of these gawking Yankee-doodles!”
#TerryMacNeil: “If THAT was the way your British army actually spoke back in the day - it’s no wonder you guys lost the #AmericanWarOfIndependence.” Ⓐ
So the film #JohnnyTremain features #PaulRevere among its characters. His ride reminds me of an old TV ad for the Canadian channel #Showcase - which showed a British soldier fucking a female. And in the background, you can hear Revere yelling “The British are coming! The British are coming!” Ⓐ
A quote of (intentional?) hilarity brilliantly delivered by #SebastianCabot in the film #JohnnyTremain:
#JonathanLyte: “I bear no ill will towards my fellow man, whatever his age or station. But I have been ROBBED. …In the interest of justice I DEMAND the death penalty!” Ⓐ
In the film #JohnnyTremain, “Johnny” burns his hand - and his fingers fuse together. Later, he looks for work on a ship.
#Johnny: “You’ll give me a berth?”
#Captain: “Here’s my hand on it!”
Without a word, “Johnny” sullenly turns his back - and walks away. The captain’s reaction - isn’t shown(!). Ⓐ
“TO THE YOUTH OF THE WORLD… IN WHOSE SPIRIT AND COURAGE RESTS THE HOPE OF EVENTUAL FREEDOM FOR ALL MANKIND…”
An anonymous quote onscreen in the film #JohnnyTremain. One website says #WaltDisney said it - a man who viewed workers enslaved by the private tyrannies of capitalism to be “freedom”. Ⓐ
Re-watched #JohnnyTremain - the #Disney movie straight out of the repressive 1950s. It’s adapted from a novel I disliked in junior high. Also in junior high, I thought the movie was unintentionally hilarious - and still do to this day. But the film also contains… some ugly political BS. Ⓐ
I'm going to say this many times over the next 300 off pages so let's get it out of the way #JohnnyTremain is definitely aimed at young readers but it's not particularly... Well written. I have to wonder how many of its awards come from the subject matter.
Ok fuckit, let's start #JohnnyTremain. Our plucky hero in colonial new England etc.
I can try to remember. It would probably be by chapter since I mostly don't remember it being great.
How many chapters are in this thing actually.... 12. ~320 pages. #JohnnyTremain
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
Day 15
#books
#booksky
#bookchallenge
#EstherForbes
#JohnnyTremain
#BostonStrong
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
#johnnytremain
#estherforbes
#americanrevolution
#history
Day 12
Used @GorillaGlue to fix a rubber foot on my stereo speaker. Worked like a charm. Also great at gluing my fingers together. #JohnnyTremain
Used @GorillaGlue to fix a rubber foot on my stereo speaker. Worked like a charm. Also great at gluing my fingers together. #JohnnyTremain
