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limitedtheatricalreleaseThe due date for this PH will be the same as assignments: Weds 18 Aug 2021 01:59 AM UTC. View the countdown here.
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CLAIMEDPH #1 - Crossover Fandom (Bringing Up Baby/North by Northwest), Adam's Rib, If I Had a Million, Vivacious Lady. Night of the Hunter, La Fille du Diable | Devil's Daughter, Morocco
Request 1 by Age or Wizardry (ageorwizardry)
Fandom:Crossover Fandom
group: Susan Vance (Bringing Up Baby) & None (North by Northwest), Fanfiction
So, I watched Bringing Up Baby, and then some time later I watched North by Northwest... and at one point, when Cary Grant is trying to explain what happened to him on his impossible-to-explain night of being kidnapped by spies who attempted to stage his death by drunken car accident, he uses the *exact same tone of voice* he used in Bringing Up Baby when trying (again, impossibly) to explain "these aren't my clothes... I *lost* my clothes!"
And it occurred to me: what if the field of "making impossible-to-explain things happen around herself" that Susan Vance emanates was actually to a purpose?
What if Susan Vance was a spy?
As you can see, I didn't nominate any other characters; I don't care if a Cary Grant character is involved at all (or if so, which one it is), I'm just interested in seeing whatever direction this premise could go in. Nobody suspects her because they think she's just a scatterbrained heiress! What is her mission? (My roommate got pretty excited imagining the possibilities, like "what did she need to do with the leopard?" and "it would be nice if there was a reason the dinosaur skeleton had to be destroyed.") Setting, timeline: whatever you want!
Letter URL: http://ageorwizardry.dreamwidth.org/4619.html
Request 2 by Age or Wizardry (ageorwizardry)
Fandom:Adam's Rib (1949)
group: Adam Bonner/Amanda Bonner (Adam's Rib), Fanfiction
I spent the first portion of this movie thinking that this courtroom rivalry between husband and wife was probably some sort of well-established kink dynamic between them. (The way Amanda smiles in their bedroom when Adam finds out she'll be the lawyer opposite him on this case and tells her that he'll tear her into twelve pieces and feed her to the jury! Her flipping up her skirt to show him her petticoat under the table in the courtroom!) But by the time Amanda was crying and Adam was storming out of their home, I realized: oh shit. They don't have this already figured out at all. Maybe they already knew they got something out of competitiveness, but in this situation they have stumbled over some new thing that turns out to be too hot to handle!
So, uh, if you're into writing kink I'd love to see a story about them exploring this further, and getting to a point where they really figure out how to harness whatever it was about this situation that was so powerful for them both without hurting each other in the process. (Maybe they shouldn't actually be using the courtrooms of America to play out their fun with each other? Maybe they'll keep doing it anyway. :-P)
If that's not your thing, I'd also be interested in a post-movie story in general, or even something from earlier in their relationship. Like, did they get together in law school, and is that how they first found out they enjoy competing with each other? Or for a post movie story, I wonder about Amanda continuing with legal work to support women's rights. Her courtroom strategy in the movie doesn't actually make a whole lot of sense to me as a way to do this, but I'm sure someone must have been doing legal work around women's rights in an organized fashion in this time period. Perhaps she joins forces with them? (I could even see Adam looking into this, specifically so he can come home to Amanda and bitch about the weird stuff this group is doing, have you heard of them?—thereby introducing her to something he knows she'll be interested in working on. :-))
There is just something about a man in a movie getting what he wants by crying, even if it's feigned and he explains the trick to his wife later. (I love that he tells her! I wonder whether he understands that everyone else who cries isn't doing the same thing? That when Amanda cries in an earlier argument, it's not because she's choosing to, but because she's genuinely upset?)
Letter URL: http://ageorwizardry.dreamwidth.org/4619.html
Request 3 by Age or Wizardry (ageorwizardry)
Fandom:If I Had a Million (1932)
None (If I Had a Million), Mary Walker (If I Had a Million), John Glidden (If I Had a Million), group: Mary Walker/John Glidden (If I Had a Million), group: Mary Walker & John Glidden (If I Had a Million), Fanfiction
I nominated and requested these two characters because I *particularly loved* them in the last part of the movie--how Mary has transformed her "old ladies' home" into a rollicking social club after getting her million dollars, and how John (always a very energetic man to be on his deathbed, I thought) seems to have found even more of a new lease on life in her company. Mary clearly has just as forceful a personality (and as little patience for fools) as John does, so it makes perfect sense that they'd get along so well! I'd love to read more about the further adventures of Mary and/or John (in either a romantic or platonic capacity).
It would also be cool to see the premise of a rich person choosing to give away all his wealth to random people before his death explored in a new way, with different characters and/or setting. For instance, would eight people randomly selected from the telephone directory of a major American city *really* have all been white? Does an IN SPACE AU seem fun? Go wild.
In my Yuletide request, I added that I'd also be interested if you'd like to explore the aftermath of one of the other stories in the movie--I didn't nominate characters from any other section of the movie, but that's an option that's open to you if you want it.
Letter URL: http://ageorwizardry.dreamwidth.org/4619.html
Request 4 by Age or Wizardry (ageorwizardry)
Fandom:Vivacious Lady (1938)
group: Francey/Peter Morgan & Mrs. Morgan (Vivacious Lady), group: Francey & Mrs. Morgan (Vivacious Lady), Fanfiction
How thrilled I was when Francey went off back to the city with her new mother-in-law in tow! How disappointed I was when their husbands caught up with them on the train and they never made it to their new adventure. Something about the elder Mr. Morgan faking heart trouble to reconcile with his wife particularly stuck in my craw. Yes, she also has been faking heart trouble for years to manage him. Still: when *that's* your happy ending..! A lifetime of pretending serious ailments to manipulate each other, good grief.
So I'd love to see the ending unfold more like I'd imagined for a few brief shining moments it would! Francey and Mrs. Morgan make it to the city! Francey introduces the older woman to all the pleasures the city has to offer, and Mrs. Morgan enjoys it! Maybe they room together! Francey's husband can come along too (or not) if he likes (if you like)--he's all right. I'd just really have loved to see the elder Mrs. Morgan really getting to expand her horizons as she heads off on new adventures instead of getting closed back in to the same small world she's been in for years.
Letter URL: http://ageorwizardry.dreamwidth.org/4619.html
Request 5 by Age or Wizardry (ageorwizardry)
Fandom:Night of the Hunter (1955)
Ruby (Night of the Hunter), group: Ruby & Rachel Cooper (Night of the Hunter)Fanfiction
After Harry Powell manipulates Ruby into unknowingly putting the other two children at risk, I remember Rachel Cooper telling Ruby, "You were looking for love, Ruby, in the only foolish way you knew how. We all need love, Ruby... You're going to grow up to be a strong, fine woman and I'm gonna see to it that you do." and thinking: she's right. Ruby is going to be just fine. It's not he fault she fell victim to a man more evil than she knew anyone could be. So I'd like to see more of that: Ruby growing into a strong, fine woman.
Letter URL: http://ageorwizardry.dreamwidth.org/4619.html
Request 6 by Age or Wizardry (ageorwizardry)
Fandom:La Fille du Diable | Devil's Daughter (1946)
Isabelle (La Fille du Diable)group: Isabelle & Ludovic Mercier | Saget (La Fille du Diable), Fanfiction
I remember reading the description of Isabelle as a "young girl masterminding a gang of provincial thugs" ahead of time and really looking forward to seeing that!--and then I remember realizing her position was actually more isolated and vulnerable than that. She can call a number of disreputable characters to meet with her, but she can't make them join in to a plan she proposes. The same description referred to "her idolizing of a gangster in hiding," and I remember how that reminded me of fandom in a way--how she sees what she needs in her image of him, and what he means to her is really the meaning she brings to that image, whether or not the things she sees/admires/wants for herself are there in the actual man or not.
I'd like to see Isabelle unleashed. Actually running a mastermind operation, or otherwise somehow getting what she wants--given that (if I recall correctly) she says she wouldn't want to be cured of the illness that's killing her, I don't even know how to ask for a happy ending for her. Maybe it would be burning it all down on her way out.
Letter URL: http://ageorwizardry.dreamwidth.org/4619.html
Request 7 by Age or Wizardry (ageorwizardry)
Fandom:Morocco (1930)
group: Légionnaire Tom Brown/Mademoiselle Amy Jolly (Morocco), group: Légionnaire Tom Brown/Mademoiselle Amy Jolly & Monsieur La Bessière (Morocco), group: Légionnaire Tom Brown/Mademoiselle Amy Jolly/Monsieur La Bessière (Morocco), group: Légionnaire Tom Brown & Monsieur La Bessière (Morocco), group: Monsieur La Bessière/Original Character (Morocco), Fanfiction
I watched this movie solely for Marlene Dietrich in a suit kissing a girl, and for all I knew going in that would turn out to be the highlight of the movie for me--I never would have guessed how much I'd come out of the movie loving Monsieur La Bessière! For much of the movie I thought he might be just a rich man who decided Amy Jolly should belong to him, and is willing enough to be nice to her now, but how long might that last. Imagine my delighted surprise when he overshot my expectations by behaving massively more graciously than would be reasonable to expect over and over again. When he suspects she might still love Tom, he gives her an opportunity to call off their wedding (which she doesn't take, because she doesn't know her own heart yet). When she leaves the celebration dinner the night before their wedding and accidentally destroys the necklace he gave her because she needs to discover whether Tom has been injured in fighting--when she's told Tom is hospitalized some distance away and decides she must go there--Bessière offers to drive her, and explains to the table of assembled guests it's because he loves her and wants her to be happy. He really means it. He even drives her to see Tom off before Tom marches away--and when Amy decides to follow Tom after all, she kisses Bessière's hand before she goes.
There are so many feelings here! Bessière loves Amy deeply--does that continue? Amy walks out into the desert after Tom carrying nothing but a scarf--I could almost see Bessière dropping in or sending care packages to whatever towns Amy and Tom end up stopping in to make sure they have what they need. Could he continue to have a presence in their lives as an important friend to both of them? (Could you see a way to their ending up as a threesome, whether briefly or permanently?) Or if Monsieur La Bessière finds love with another person, what kind of person would that be?
And Tom and Amy--I admired how coolly sophisticated competent they both seemed at navigating spending time together when they both thought it didn't mean anything. But then they both seemed totally lost when things turned serious for both of them--so agonizingly unable to express their feelings or even identify them, much less act on them. Tom carves Amy's name in a heart on a table and then covers it up so she won't see it! Of all the childlike gestures of affection!--It could be fun to see them both continue to fumblingly discover the territory of love for the first time, learning in baby steps all the ways they can express their love for one another.
Or I'd also be interested in seeing more about Amy joining the group of other women who are following their men in the legion, all the ways they doubtless support each other to make what they're doing possible.
Letter URL: http://ageorwizardry.dreamwidth.org/4619.html
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CLAIMED
Request 1 by Age or Wizardry (ageorwizardry)
Fandom:Crossover Fandom
group: Susan Vance (Bringing Up Baby) & None (North by Northwest), Fanfiction
So, I watched Bringing Up Baby, and then some time later I watched North by Northwest... and at one point, when Cary Grant is trying to explain what happened to him on his impossible-to-explain night of being kidnapped by spies who attempted to stage his death by drunken car accident, he uses the *exact same tone of voice* he used in Bringing Up Baby when trying (again, impossibly) to explain "these aren't my clothes... I *lost* my clothes!"
And it occurred to me: what if the field of "making impossible-to-explain things happen around herself" that Susan Vance emanates was actually to a purpose?
What if Susan Vance was a spy?
As you can see, I didn't nominate any other characters; I don't care if a Cary Grant character is involved at all (or if so, which one it is), I'm just interested in seeing whatever direction this premise could go in. Nobody suspects her because they think she's just a scatterbrained heiress! What is her mission? (My roommate got pretty excited imagining the possibilities, like "what did she need to do with the leopard?" and "it would be nice if there was a reason the dinosaur skeleton had to be destroyed.") Setting, timeline: whatever you want!
Letter URL: http://ageorwizardry.dreamwidth.org/4619.html
Request 2 by Age or Wizardry (ageorwizardry)
Fandom:Adam's Rib (1949)
group: Adam Bonner/Amanda Bonner (Adam's Rib), Fanfiction
I spent the first portion of this movie thinking that this courtroom rivalry between husband and wife was probably some sort of well-established kink dynamic between them. (The way Amanda smiles in their bedroom when Adam finds out she'll be the lawyer opposite him on this case and tells her that he'll tear her into twelve pieces and feed her to the jury! Her flipping up her skirt to show him her petticoat under the table in the courtroom!) But by the time Amanda was crying and Adam was storming out of their home, I realized: oh shit. They don't have this already figured out at all. Maybe they already knew they got something out of competitiveness, but in this situation they have stumbled over some new thing that turns out to be too hot to handle!
So, uh, if you're into writing kink I'd love to see a story about them exploring this further, and getting to a point where they really figure out how to harness whatever it was about this situation that was so powerful for them both without hurting each other in the process. (Maybe they shouldn't actually be using the courtrooms of America to play out their fun with each other? Maybe they'll keep doing it anyway. :-P)
If that's not your thing, I'd also be interested in a post-movie story in general, or even something from earlier in their relationship. Like, did they get together in law school, and is that how they first found out they enjoy competing with each other? Or for a post movie story, I wonder about Amanda continuing with legal work to support women's rights. Her courtroom strategy in the movie doesn't actually make a whole lot of sense to me as a way to do this, but I'm sure someone must have been doing legal work around women's rights in an organized fashion in this time period. Perhaps she joins forces with them? (I could even see Adam looking into this, specifically so he can come home to Amanda and bitch about the weird stuff this group is doing, have you heard of them?—thereby introducing her to something he knows she'll be interested in working on. :-))
There is just something about a man in a movie getting what he wants by crying, even if it's feigned and he explains the trick to his wife later. (I love that he tells her! I wonder whether he understands that everyone else who cries isn't doing the same thing? That when Amanda cries in an earlier argument, it's not because she's choosing to, but because she's genuinely upset?)
Letter URL: http://ageorwizardry.dreamwidth.org/4619.html
Request 3 by Age or Wizardry (ageorwizardry)
Fandom:If I Had a Million (1932)
None (If I Had a Million), Mary Walker (If I Had a Million), John Glidden (If I Had a Million), group: Mary Walker/John Glidden (If I Had a Million), group: Mary Walker & John Glidden (If I Had a Million), Fanfiction
I nominated and requested these two characters because I *particularly loved* them in the last part of the movie--how Mary has transformed her "old ladies' home" into a rollicking social club after getting her million dollars, and how John (always a very energetic man to be on his deathbed, I thought) seems to have found even more of a new lease on life in her company. Mary clearly has just as forceful a personality (and as little patience for fools) as John does, so it makes perfect sense that they'd get along so well! I'd love to read more about the further adventures of Mary and/or John (in either a romantic or platonic capacity).
It would also be cool to see the premise of a rich person choosing to give away all his wealth to random people before his death explored in a new way, with different characters and/or setting. For instance, would eight people randomly selected from the telephone directory of a major American city *really* have all been white? Does an IN SPACE AU seem fun? Go wild.
In my Yuletide request, I added that I'd also be interested if you'd like to explore the aftermath of one of the other stories in the movie--I didn't nominate characters from any other section of the movie, but that's an option that's open to you if you want it.
Letter URL: http://ageorwizardry.dreamwidth.org/4619.html
Request 4 by Age or Wizardry (ageorwizardry)
Fandom:Vivacious Lady (1938)
group: Francey/Peter Morgan & Mrs. Morgan (Vivacious Lady), group: Francey & Mrs. Morgan (Vivacious Lady), Fanfiction
How thrilled I was when Francey went off back to the city with her new mother-in-law in tow! How disappointed I was when their husbands caught up with them on the train and they never made it to their new adventure. Something about the elder Mr. Morgan faking heart trouble to reconcile with his wife particularly stuck in my craw. Yes, she also has been faking heart trouble for years to manage him. Still: when *that's* your happy ending..! A lifetime of pretending serious ailments to manipulate each other, good grief.
So I'd love to see the ending unfold more like I'd imagined for a few brief shining moments it would! Francey and Mrs. Morgan make it to the city! Francey introduces the older woman to all the pleasures the city has to offer, and Mrs. Morgan enjoys it! Maybe they room together! Francey's husband can come along too (or not) if he likes (if you like)--he's all right. I'd just really have loved to see the elder Mrs. Morgan really getting to expand her horizons as she heads off on new adventures instead of getting closed back in to the same small world she's been in for years.
Letter URL: http://ageorwizardry.dreamwidth.org/4619.html
Request 5 by Age or Wizardry (ageorwizardry)
Fandom:Night of the Hunter (1955)
Ruby (Night of the Hunter), group: Ruby & Rachel Cooper (Night of the Hunter)Fanfiction
After Harry Powell manipulates Ruby into unknowingly putting the other two children at risk, I remember Rachel Cooper telling Ruby, "You were looking for love, Ruby, in the only foolish way you knew how. We all need love, Ruby... You're going to grow up to be a strong, fine woman and I'm gonna see to it that you do." and thinking: she's right. Ruby is going to be just fine. It's not he fault she fell victim to a man more evil than she knew anyone could be. So I'd like to see more of that: Ruby growing into a strong, fine woman.
Letter URL: http://ageorwizardry.dreamwidth.org/4619.html
Request 6 by Age or Wizardry (ageorwizardry)
Fandom:La Fille du Diable | Devil's Daughter (1946)
Isabelle (La Fille du Diable)group: Isabelle & Ludovic Mercier | Saget (La Fille du Diable), Fanfiction
I remember reading the description of Isabelle as a "young girl masterminding a gang of provincial thugs" ahead of time and really looking forward to seeing that!--and then I remember realizing her position was actually more isolated and vulnerable than that. She can call a number of disreputable characters to meet with her, but she can't make them join in to a plan she proposes. The same description referred to "her idolizing of a gangster in hiding," and I remember how that reminded me of fandom in a way--how she sees what she needs in her image of him, and what he means to her is really the meaning she brings to that image, whether or not the things she sees/admires/wants for herself are there in the actual man or not.
I'd like to see Isabelle unleashed. Actually running a mastermind operation, or otherwise somehow getting what she wants--given that (if I recall correctly) she says she wouldn't want to be cured of the illness that's killing her, I don't even know how to ask for a happy ending for her. Maybe it would be burning it all down on her way out.
Letter URL: http://ageorwizardry.dreamwidth.org/4619.html
Request 7 by Age or Wizardry (ageorwizardry)
Fandom:Morocco (1930)
group: Légionnaire Tom Brown/Mademoiselle Amy Jolly (Morocco), group: Légionnaire Tom Brown/Mademoiselle Amy Jolly & Monsieur La Bessière (Morocco), group: Légionnaire Tom Brown/Mademoiselle Amy Jolly/Monsieur La Bessière (Morocco), group: Légionnaire Tom Brown & Monsieur La Bessière (Morocco), group: Monsieur La Bessière/Original Character (Morocco), Fanfiction
I watched this movie solely for Marlene Dietrich in a suit kissing a girl, and for all I knew going in that would turn out to be the highlight of the movie for me--I never would have guessed how much I'd come out of the movie loving Monsieur La Bessière! For much of the movie I thought he might be just a rich man who decided Amy Jolly should belong to him, and is willing enough to be nice to her now, but how long might that last. Imagine my delighted surprise when he overshot my expectations by behaving massively more graciously than would be reasonable to expect over and over again. When he suspects she might still love Tom, he gives her an opportunity to call off their wedding (which she doesn't take, because she doesn't know her own heart yet). When she leaves the celebration dinner the night before their wedding and accidentally destroys the necklace he gave her because she needs to discover whether Tom has been injured in fighting--when she's told Tom is hospitalized some distance away and decides she must go there--Bessière offers to drive her, and explains to the table of assembled guests it's because he loves her and wants her to be happy. He really means it. He even drives her to see Tom off before Tom marches away--and when Amy decides to follow Tom after all, she kisses Bessière's hand before she goes.
There are so many feelings here! Bessière loves Amy deeply--does that continue? Amy walks out into the desert after Tom carrying nothing but a scarf--I could almost see Bessière dropping in or sending care packages to whatever towns Amy and Tom end up stopping in to make sure they have what they need. Could he continue to have a presence in their lives as an important friend to both of them? (Could you see a way to their ending up as a threesome, whether briefly or permanently?) Or if Monsieur La Bessière finds love with another person, what kind of person would that be?
And Tom and Amy--I admired how coolly sophisticated competent they both seemed at navigating spending time together when they both thought it didn't mean anything. But then they both seemed totally lost when things turned serious for both of them--so agonizingly unable to express their feelings or even identify them, much less act on them. Tom carves Amy's name in a heart on a table and then covers it up so she won't see it! Of all the childlike gestures of affection!--It could be fun to see them both continue to fumblingly discover the territory of love for the first time, learning in baby steps all the ways they can express their love for one another.
Or I'd also be interested in seeing more about Amy joining the group of other women who are following their men in the legion, all the ways they doubtless support each other to make what they're doing possible.
Letter URL: http://ageorwizardry.dreamwidth.org/4619.html
