Celebrimbor Helyanwë (suntdracones) wrote in st_margarets, @ 2014-01-05 13:20:00 |
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Entry tags: | character: ashton hartley, character: barclay grisholt, location: martin&marvin's modern theatre, location: the raconteur |
Thread: Normal Night at the Movies
WHO: Bark and Ash
WHEN: Saturday December 4th [backdated]
WHERE: Martin & Marvin's Modern Theatre, Camden Wharf
Watching movies together had become something Ashton and Barclay did semi-regularly and Ashton couldn't say that he hated it. It was, more often than not, enlightening on the ways of humans, their culture, their language and their strange colloquialisms and expectations of others in terms of dress and behavior. Ashton was learning by leaps and bounds, but sometimes he couldn't help but think that Barclay's movie choice was just to mock him somehow. That was what occurred to him when they stood in line together to see The Desolation of Smaug. Smaug, as he overheard some of the humans they were in line with discussing, apparently was a dragon who became, through the eventual events of the movies and the book that was written previously, thwarted by man, dwarves, elves, and something called hobbits. Ashton was unamused.
He cast Barclay a sidelong look, but wasn't so displeased that he walked away. In fact, a small part of him was curious to see the dragon depiction. Maybe that had been Barclay's intention, after all. He had been wondering and looking for answers as to why his kind was feared as destroyers and, if it was factual that they did destroy kingdoms and everything else they touched, what their motivation might be. Ashton wondered if this Smaug character could lend some light - even as he told himself that the movie and the book were both works of fiction and couldn't possibly be accurate, especially as they were made by humans. But maybe...
Once they were seated inside the theater, Ashton was more attentive than usual on the screen, his legs stretched forward and his elbow resting on the bar between himself and the witch, chin in his hand.
When it came time for Smaug's unveiling, Ashton leaned forward, catching every detail on the screen as the big fictional dragon spread his mighty wings and displayed himself to the little hobbit. He was magnificent in his giant hoard of gold. Ashton was enthralled.