#A Boy Called Christmas

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A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig

[a-winter-wonderland]

[addicted-to-michiel]

Yuuuuuuuummmmyyyyyy! 💙

[anthrophile1-blog]

My blog has been pretty much exclusively used to interact with and occasionally create Stranger Things content, but one fandom I am even more obsessed with is The Legend of Zelda. With news of an upcoming Zelda live action film coming out, I’ve become a bit hyper focused on the Zeldaverse lately. While many fans are anxious about the film, particularly it being live action, I’m extremely optimistic about it. We have the filmmaking technology to bring fantastical worlds to life in live action film and with the amount of resources Nintendo is pouring into this project one thing is certain: it’s going to be a sensory spectacle rivaling anything else we have ever seen on screen.

There is one thing I am nervous about however: casting. Particularly of Link. He’s got to be one of the hardest characters to cast in all of fiction, and getting him wrong will ruin the movie for a lot of fans. I’ve been wracking my brain for an ideal pick, and it hasn’t been easy. The three options I have seen suggested the most are Tom Holland, Timmothy Chalamet, and Thomas Brodie-Sangster. While I wouldn’t be angry with any of these choices, there a few glaring problems:

1. They’re too old. Link has always, in every piece of official Zelda media, been portrayed as a child or a teenager. Even “adult Link” is only about 17. The only exception is maybe Tears of the Kingdom, where he is, at oldest, in his early 20’s (not counting his 100 year ageless nap in the resurrection chamber), and even there he looks rather young to be in his 20’s. By contrast, Holland is 27, Chalamet is 28, and Brodie-Sangster is 33. Each would have been ideal - 10 or 15 years ago.

2. They’re too established. With the exception of maybe Brodie-Sangster. If Holland or Chalamet played Link I simply wouldn’t see Link. I’d see Tom Holland or Timmothy Chalamet. It’s not their fault that they’re such tremendous talents that they’ve been cast in so many huge career defining roles, but their huge celebrity status would break the cinematic illusion for me.

I think Nintendo would agree, and I know they are taking utmost care with this IP, so I doubt we’re going to see the Chris-Prattization of the Zelda cast. So who do I think they should pick? The first person to come to mind for me is Walker Scobell, of Disney’s Percy Jackson reboot fame. In so many ways he’s just perfect. He’s young. He’s beautiful. He has a very expressive face, capable of conveying Link’s personality with relatively few words (and I do hope they maintain Link’s canonical strong-silent-type demeanor). He fits into the fantasy genre naturally and is capable of the athleticism would will be needed to play Link. The only problem is that he is… Percy Jackson. The starring role in one of the most popular young adult fandoms ever. Could his role as Percy Jackson have the same distracting effect as casting a Holland or Chalamet would have? Does Scobell even have the time for a project as big as The Legend of Zelda will inevitably be?

I’ve heard other great child actors names by fans who would fit the role well, namely Julian Crauser, Thomas Kuc, Mason Thames, and Kiefer o'Reilly (thank you Brian Seeker on YouTube for pointing out these tremendously talented young men), but I haven’t heard anyone mention my personal choice for the role. That’s probably because few people have ever heard of him. My number one pick for Link would be… drum roll please…

Henry Lawfull.

Henry Lawfull is a 17 year old actor who stares in the Netflix original holiday-fantasy film A Boy Called Christmas. If you haven’t seen it, it’s absolutely worth a watch.

He’s a great actor, he’s the right age, he’s a relatively unknown name in the industry, and most importantly, he just kind of looks like Link -

To drive the point home further, I asked Bing AI to imagine what Henry Lawfull would look like as Link, and that absolutely sold it for me:

Tell me what you think. Is this kid perfect for the role or do you just not see it? In any case, I hope this kid has a thriving career ♥️

[newtness532]

mother vodol you're so hot, please be meaner

[hquinnspace]

This is the only movie that I hardly will ever rewatch again, but Michiel was fantastic as usual <3

[who-the-fuck-is-sennalye]

they turned wheatley into a mouse

[cortana-de-acero-y-temple]

"Lo único en la vida que es simple y claro es la verdad, y duele muchas veces"

[artistrybyarielle]

“When someone is good, or kind, it’s a magic in itself. It gives people hope. And hope is the most wonderful thing there is.”

— A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig

[aylakmadamfilm]

FİLM

Don’t Look Up

     Konusu ilgi çekici, oyunculuklar iyi, düşündürücü ve iğneleyici bir film ancak, bazı şeyleri aşırı karikatürize etmişler ve filmin süresini gereksiz uzun tutmuşlar.  Tüketim toplumuna, büyük resmi görenlere, en çok ben bilirimcilere ve zenginlerin isterse tüm dünyayı ölüme götürme pahasına paraya tapmasına  eleştiri olmuş.

Aşk Taktikleri

     Eğlenceli bi romantik komedi filmi. evet klişelerle dolu fakat izlerken eğlendim ben. hatta filmin kendi klişeleri ile dalga geçmesi hoşuma gitti. Fox tv dizilerinin film kıvamı. Zaten romantik komedi dediğimiz şey başlı başına çerez ve absurd. Bu yüzden kendi alanında iyi.

A Boy Called Christmas

 Tatlı ve masals�� bir noel filmi. Atmosferi için bile izlenir. İzle geç filmlerinden.

[acacia-fan-fiction]

And now imagine this without his shirt. *faints*

[glindaselphie]

hnnnnng I’m watching a boy called christmas and sally hawkins is playing a villain and I’m so 😍😍😍😍😍😍

[thepacifistrouter]

Hello!

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I decided I should watch a new Christmas movie that I hadn’t seen before, and so I looked at the Netflix holiday collection, and I found this! I remember seeing that it existed when it first came out, so I thought I’d give it a go.

Here’s what I thought.

A Boy Called Christmas opens with the framing device of these three kids in modern day, whose Dad has to leave for work or something, and they’re being left in the care of their late mother’s aunt. They haven’t had time to decorate for Christmas this year. To get them into the spirit, their aunt tells them this story, which is the basis of the movie.

And so at some point in the past in Finland, a boy named Nikolas lives in the woods with his father. When the king calls his subjects to find a sign of hope in these troubled times, Nikolas’s father goes with some of the local men to Elfhelm, a storied land from his late wife’s stories. When he doesn’t come back, Nikolas goes on a quest to go find his father–leading him to becoming the legend that we all know and love. 

It’s another Santa Claus origin movie, basically. And it’s… it’s fine.

[makes vague, non-committal gestures]

Look, the fact is that the movie is entertaining as a kids’ movie. The Plotting and character work is severely lacking, though. I kept comparing it to the Rankin-Bass Santa Claus is Coming to Town, which is also an origin story for Santa. And that one, to my memory, didn’t have a bunch of elements that were lacking justification for being in the story.

Take the mouse. Early on, Nikolas saves a mouse and swears to teach him to speak. Speak he does, eventually (with Wheatley’s voice), and then the mouse does…nothing. Absolutely nothing. I kept thinking, the times that Nikolas got captured, that he would save him somehow. But he doesn’t. He’s cute, and he’s not annoying, but he doesn’t do anything. He just exists to be a cute animal sidekick.

That’s not the only thing in the movie that’s just there. When Nikolas is imprisoned in Elfhelm, there’s just… a troll, in the same room as him, which he doesn’t see until it’s pointed out to him? It’s never really referred to again. He escapes from guards in an elf schoolroom that just happens to have an escape shoot for some reason? The film’s full of stuff like this. 

There are also really traumatic and interesting parts of this character’s backstory that feel as if they’re not going anywhere. Yeah, tragic things happen, and I’m not saying that can’t be in a children’s movie. But I’m not sure how they inform the character, or how they lead to this kid becoming Santa Claus.

I realize that I’m overthinking a Christmas movie explicitly made for children; fine! So be it! That still means that there are other Christmas specials, older ones, that don’t have these problems in them. It makes this movie stick out more. It doesn’t feel like an original take on a Santa origin story, it feels like someone was trying to imitate them and came up with this. Again, this movie is fine, but it’s not one of the standout Christmas movies, and far from the most enjoyable movies about Santa Claus that you can find.

You won’t have a bad time, I think, but there are plenty of better Christmas movies you could pick up.

[somosorigen]

El Chico Que Salvó La Navidad… ¡Merry Christmas!

Justo para esta época navideña después  mi maratón de 5 Películas para la mañana después de Navidad, buscaba algo nuevo, algo que no hubiera visto en años anteriores y para eso Netflix se pinta solo, así que echándome un clavado, encontré una cinta estrenada hace tiempo, que esta bastante buena, para quienes buscan el espíritu de la navidad. Continue reading Untitled