Finding out the No.1 box offiice hit in the year I was born, as per the meme used by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sovay, isn't easy - first of all, numbers for 1969 are hard to come by, secondly, for which country? One website I found claims the No.1. hit in the US was "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", and another that for Germany, it was Once upon a time in the West, so let's go with either.
The other part of the meme, if I understood it correctly, consists of putting the main character of said movie into the first film you yourself remember watching. Hmmmm. Not completely sure, but it probably was Drei Nüsse für Aschenbrödel (Tři oříšky pro Popelku/Three Gifts for Cinderella), still my fave Cinderella version bar none. Which means we're either due for Three Hazel Nuts for Harmonica or Butch Cassidy, The Sundance Kid and Cinderella. The later clearly is the reveal that when Butch and Sundance went into freeze frame and made cinematic history, to be imitated forever more, they didn't die, they went through a Narnia-type portal spitting them out in the snowy realm of fairy tale Bohemia. Once they've seen what a great shoot and rider Cinderella is, they try to recruit her.
Otoh, Harmonica spends tiime in fairy tale Bohemia during his missing years between his horrible childhood origin story and his later mysterious adult stranger appearance. He's clearly one of the kids running around in the estate, and Cinderella teaches him how to use the crossbow. Since he's an observant kid, he gets Vinzek to tell him where the later has come across the magical hazelnuts and does indeed find them in an hitherto undisclosed subplot of the movie. Only his hazelnuts contain 1.) a white Stetson hat, 2) a mustache who'll always be the perfect length, and c) "Best harmonica tunes of the multiverse" scorebook.
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On a far more serious note, the author of the excellent Elizabeth (Tudor)/Philip (of Spain) AU* has written an intense and wrenching story about what one can call euphemistically the Thomas Seymour interlude in young Elizabeth's life after her father's death. For once, this isn't presented as a romance or as teen Elizabeth "seducing" her stepfather (ugh, Philippa Gregory), but as creepy grooming, and it's Elizabeth's pov throughout: The daughter of Chelsea.
*Disclaimer now necessary to make it clear this was neither The Americans nor The Crown fanfiction but 16th century RPF.
sovay, isn't easy - first of all, numbers for 1969 are hard to come by, secondly, for which country? One website I found claims the No.1. hit in the US was "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", and another that for Germany, it was Once upon a time in the West, so let's go with either. The other part of the meme, if I understood it correctly, consists of putting the main character of said movie into the first film you yourself remember watching. Hmmmm. Not completely sure, but it probably was Drei Nüsse für Aschenbrödel (Tři oříšky pro Popelku/Three Gifts for Cinderella), still my fave Cinderella version bar none. Which means we're either due for Three Hazel Nuts for Harmonica or Butch Cassidy, The Sundance Kid and Cinderella. The later clearly is the reveal that when Butch and Sundance went into freeze frame and made cinematic history, to be imitated forever more, they didn't die, they went through a Narnia-type portal spitting them out in the snowy realm of fairy tale Bohemia. Once they've seen what a great shoot and rider Cinderella is, they try to recruit her.
Otoh, Harmonica spends tiime in fairy tale Bohemia during his missing years between his horrible childhood origin story and his later mysterious adult stranger appearance. He's clearly one of the kids running around in the estate, and Cinderella teaches him how to use the crossbow. Since he's an observant kid, he gets Vinzek to tell him where the later has come across the magical hazelnuts and does indeed find them in an hitherto undisclosed subplot of the movie. Only his hazelnuts contain 1.) a white Stetson hat, 2) a mustache who'll always be the perfect length, and c) "Best harmonica tunes of the multiverse" scorebook.
***
On a far more serious note, the author of the excellent Elizabeth (Tudor)/Philip (of Spain) AU* has written an intense and wrenching story about what one can call euphemistically the Thomas Seymour interlude in young Elizabeth's life after her father's death. For once, this isn't presented as a romance or as teen Elizabeth "seducing" her stepfather (ugh, Philippa Gregory), but as creepy grooming, and it's Elizabeth's pov throughout: The daughter of Chelsea.
*Disclaimer now necessary to make it clear this was neither The Americans nor The Crown fanfiction but 16th century RPF.
