Tuck Everlasting...
It took me months to clear my house and get it ready for sale. Admittedly, I dragged my feet and underestimated the time needed to sift through what I would keep, sell or discard.Near then end, I had a box of VCR tapes and needed to decide their fate. Most of them were recordings my father took from cable TV shows like HBO. His favorites were Westerns. Offered for the taking on several yard sales, they got pulled back each night. Traumatized over the event, I was forced to say goodbye and put them into the recycle bin. Checking everything in the box, I pulled 2 tapes to keep. One was a home video of me and friends flying model helicopters and the other the movie Tuck Everlasting.
Today, I made time to view the tapes and pulled out the VCR machine, connected it to the TV and scanned both videos. Amazed both tapes actually played. I have a device called Dazzle that will allow me digitize the videos to store them on computer or DVD. Future project.
I did some research on the original movie, based on the novel by Natalie Babbitt. The original is not well known, but the 2002 Disney remake is. YouTube has it on their rental section. I often favor original movies, maybe one day I'll view it.
Briefly, Tuck Everlasting is a fictional story about The Tuck family around the 1900's who happened on a hidden spring and after drinking the water found it had magical properties. They became immortal. They didn't age but the folks around them did. Not to be noticed, they were forced to travel frequently as their secret not to be discovered. Young Jesse Tuck meets Winifred Foster and they fall in love. He reveals the family secret and wants her to drink from the spring. Through a series of errors, the family is tracked and forced to escape to a place where their identity is unknown. The boy urges Winnie to go to the hidden spring to drink the water, after he will return for her.
Sadly, many years have passed before his return only to find her grave marker.
Winnie married, had children and lived a long fulfilling life.
She never drank from the spring.
Some stories stay with you forever...
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"The Original Movies Are Always The Best Ones"
"For Example?" "
The Remake Of "King Kong"... Rotted"
"And The Remake Of "12 Angry Men"
"Wasnt As Good As The Original Either".........................
Similar story, I read reviews for the remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still. Great special effects. It's okay if you never saw the original, but a few said if you grew up with the original, don't bother with the remake.
"The Flight Of The Phoenix"
"The Original Was The Best!"
(And Ive Never Seen The Remake
A version with subtitles is currently on YouTube.
They should have bottled that spring water.
The movies I had taped..or bought..went in the trash...really didn’t have any use for them.
Yes, but some squirming along the way.
The original buyer was a chef and lost his job.
He dropped out when the banks wouldn't give him a mortgage.
I was seriously concerned as the economy was quickly changing in a bad way.
We relisted the house and a week later got a very good offer.
Closing is later this month!