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

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.