A Collie Down is Not a Collie Beaten

[pegkerr]

Quick movie recommendation: Lassie is worth it. Excellent cast (mmm, Peter Dinklage), gorgeous cinematography. Okay, yeah, sentimental, but still, done with care and taste. The girls were a little reluctant when I urged them to go, never having read the book. But when we walked out of the theater, they told me that they want to own the movie when it comes out.

Recommended.

Kudos to whomever recognizes the author of the title of this post. (It's not Eric Knight, the author of Lassie Come-Home). (Oh, except for you, kijjohnson. I told you years ago.)

[Aside: It's nice to know that my girls do not feel too grown up to sing "Waltzing with Bears" along with the radio in the car on the way home.]

Edited to add: Well, that wasn't difficult for this bunch! Yep, Albert Payson Terhune.

Comments

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

That's... isn't that from Lad, A Dog? Albert Payson Terhune for the sentimental and overdone early 1900s wonderful books about Lad, Noble Dog, and his various children.

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

Terhune! I was sitting here trying to remember and only coming up with Tennyson, but I knew that was wrong *g*

I still have my copy of all the Lad stories - the binding came off about 12 years ago but no pages are missing, and I'm not ashamed to keep it on the bookshelf with the newer books.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Mine must be at my folks' house-- there's a small-but-loved collection of books For The Grandchildren which my /folks/ get to keep because, so far, no grandchildren. (And I'm convinced my mom reads them occasionally.)

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

That's my guess, too.

K.

[boxofdelights]

Albert Payson Terhune?

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

You know, collies are uniquely suited to fighting other dogs because of their thick neck fur, which protects their throat; and -- I can't remember all the other reasons collies are The Ultimate Dog. But I'm sure you remember where exactly in the book he explains it all. :)

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Albert Peyson Terhune...?

It...

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Lassie got a great review in today's NY Times.

[handworn.livejournal.com]

Would it be appropriate to send Collie Flowers in sympathy?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

Not to snark in your journal

[amandageist.livejournal.com]

because I liked the movie too (and I STAND by my assertion that Peter O'Toole should have played Dumbledore!!! He does brilliant whimsical eccentricity better than anyone on the planet, with blue, blue eyes).

You're just the first person I've seen who mentioned this in print, and I happened to have just had this discussion with my husband as we came out of the movie. The title of Eric Knight's book was Lassie Come-Home. It's not a sentence or a call to Lassie, "Lassie, come home!" It's the application of what Hines kept saying she was, a come-home dog, to her name as a descriptor. At the end of the book, Joe calls her his "Lassie Come-Home." It's just been skewed over the years as modern audiences interpreted the words in a way more familiar to their ears and speech patterns--especially when the hyphen gets left out. The movie discussion was prompted by the fact that the credits left out the hyphen (although they did not, at least, put in a comma).

~Amanda

Re: Not to snark in your journal

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the correction.

[whapnoggin.livejournal.com]

I thought the title of the book was Lassie Come-Home?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Yes, that has already been pointed out to me. I will correct my original entry.

[slashkilter.livejournal.com]

Just have to chime in and say, oooh, yues. Originally, I only watched Lassie cause it had Peter Dinklage in it, but it's really well done. I was a bit out off by the the *cue bagpipes, you're in Scotland now* bit, but other than that it was well-acted and oh, the beautiful cinematography!