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Genre: Entertainment
Date of upload: Jan 14, 2024 ^^
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The buildup that you missed is that the teacher offered to bring leslie along to the art museum but jess wanted the teacher all to himself so he said no. If he had invited her, she would still be alive.
So yeah she just dies out of nowhere, but with that context, it has a bit more depth to it because you know jess has to live with that.
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I think the lack of buildup to Leslie's death is what makes it so real. It's a freak accident and that happens in life. No prep for it, it just happened. Leslie was there one day and then she was gone the next. I think the realism is what makes this movie so so great and, along with the deeply superb performances from its young actors, why it's stands out as such a truly remarkable children's film.
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I remember my 5th grade teacher reading us this book, and my whole class was sucker punched when Leslie died. It was such a shock, and so many complained to the teacher that she actually stopped and said that's what death is like. It can be sudden and come out of nowhere.
I think that was the first time I ever realized that not every story had a storybook ending. As foundational as that was for me, I could never bring myself to read the book again.
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I love how blunt they made Leslies death, there was no build up, there was no hints or foreshadowing, it was completely blunt. A lot like real life. Its what made it feel so real and genuine, and the fact that they showed his grieving process made it even more real, his anger over her death, and the fact that you could FEEL her absence in the scenes after her death just hit so deep.
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Thanks for this video. I, at 45, can't watch this movie. I was a kid when I read this book, with my first real "best friend". A girl in my class named Mariah. I didn't know at the time but she had a fatal illness (I knew she had health issues, but not that serious).
She recommended we read this book together... every day at recess, before and after school, and on several weekends... we'd sit and read together, taking turns reading it...
Only about a month after we'd finished... she tragically passed away. She KNEW she was dying, and how much we meant to each other... she tried to prepare me for losing her... it was one of her favorite books.
To this day I remember her, her face, her favorite blue dress she was buried in.... and this book...
It's a powerful story about finding yourself, connection with another person, and the hardship of loss... and it holds a deeply special (even if traumatic) place in my heart.
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The buildup was really subtle. Over time, you can see the creek swelling, and as they swing over it, the rope gets closer and closer to the water. The kids even note it in passing at some point in the movie. It foreshadows that the creek is getting more and more dangerous. It's getting higher, flowing faster, the rope isn't as high up over it as it was in the beginning, and the rope itself is so old and just kinda tied to a tree in moist conditions.
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I was already 19 when I first saw this movie, still traumatized me for weeks. I had to google the actress because I thought she has died in real life hence the shocking death of her character in the movie. I even drew her a portrait, really grieved for her. Imagine the people who first saw it as kids.
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Besides Leslie's death, the saddest thing is that Jess imagines his own father as The Dark Master that terrorizes Terabithia. After her death he, in his grief, goes to their treehouse and gets the paints that Leslie bought for him on his birthday, and squirts the tubes into the creek. And it is very subtly different when he's there without her. The colors aren't as vibrant the sounds are like normal forest sounds, the camera doesn't move like it did before. When he hears the rattling of the dark master he tries to run, but the "dark master" catches up to him, and its actually his dad, who hooks his keys on his beltloop. And he scoops Jess into his arms and holds him while Jess weeps and says "It's all gone."
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We get exactly 2 points of foreshadowing to Leslieās death. The first was when Jess warns that the rope is old . And the second is when they swing across while itās raining and the tip of the rope brushes against the water.
We were told, and then reminded, that this rope swing is dangerous. And then the story makes good on the threat, and it snaps while Leslie is alone with no one to save her.
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I'm 26 and my best friend and I also ran through the forest after Middle School, we had a long tour to get up a hill, we had to cross two fields and two forests, we had fantasy names for each stop and played adventure. We had a fight after highschool, last year I contacted her again and now we are as close as we were ā¤ she also never forgot our forest fantasies and loved our childhood
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@trinaq
4 months ago
Knowing that Leslie's death was inspired by the real life tragic death of the childhood friend of the author's son via being struck by lightning really hits home even more.
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