Indiana Jones

1. well I figured the most probable reason as to why they named it the last crusade is because:

A. Indiana Indeed finds the 'physical grail' rather then the metaphorical one we deal with in literature.

B. It's lost at the end of the film, falling into the deep chasm because of the Grail crossing the seal.

As a whole though, it implies that we, as human's, are finally able to take one last crusade to find what we want and what we are. The last one, no more afterwords.

2. As a note, wasn't it George Lucas and another man wrote the story for this one, not Spielberg? But the question is still valid. I think starting with young Indie gives us a parallel between Perss and himself. Although Indie is obviously much smarter and less Naive then Perss, he still is not able to think things through completely to the end. And on his crusade, he learns how to counter this.

Part Four

Angelica Pabst. While she was more outside of the main character pool yet a HUGE part of Perss's development, I have a few things to say about her.

In all honesty, she wasn't after anything, she already had it. She played a cruel joke on a Naive Perss (Yes I realize it was his own fault for running around trying to find her anyways.) He gets into debt, finds 'Angelica' and proceeds to ravish her... only to find out it's Lilly.

This man's virginity is everything to him, poor fella... but if this didn't happen, how would he ever learn what love was.

Lilly seems to be as equally educated as Angelica herself, smart, not to mention her twin. And the fact that Perss can't tell the difference between the two means he's not in love with Angelica. Let's face it, who knew he was going to go after Summerbee after we read her intro sub chapter? I certainly did, her morals and thinking seem to match his own. And I suppose that's another thing his Quest taught him. Look for similarities, something obtainable, not something elusive.

Though, I will say this, Angelica and Lilly both must share some sort of sadistic personality disorder to let Perss continue his travels or even play such a mean joke on him in the first place... And where the F*$% was Angelica s engagement ring during the Rummidge Convention? Was Perss to stunned by her beauty to see it or did she meet her Fiancee after the fact? I must have missed that or something, I can't remember. Anyways, playing with his heart like that was not very nice but none the less necessary. He handled the situation much better then I would have.

Oh, And David Lodge for the win on having Angelica engaged to the Guy who was supposed to get PErss's job. I actually laughed out loud at the Irony.

Oh and, the ending makes you want to find out if Perss continues on yet another world traveling Quest to find Glynda. I sure hope he doesn't have to go through the trouble... poor fella.

Small World Part Two

How hs the story thus far reflected some of the literature we've read?

Well the new rendition of the Fisher King is introduced as Arther Kingfisher, perhaps a nod to both the king Fisher himself and King Arther. However the way David describes the new character is quite similar yet different to the new one. He makes it more modern, and certainly more sexually blunt then the first rendition. Metaphors aren't used, yet ,instead, there is a beautiful Asian women tending to him while he's stark naked. And remarkably he can't get it up.

What do you think of Angelica? Is she like Conchita, or one of the other ladies from the works we've read?

Defiantly Conchita. The way she tricked Dempsey and Persse both towards the tail end of part one and then just vanished like she's so good at doing. Though, the fact that she didn't go through with either of them presumably (though with Dempsey I'm not sure, she could have just been setting him up as well or really flogging him), makes her way more modest then the Spanish vixen from the movie we watched. However, what really settles it in my mind is that she's disappeared, gone, with even more mystery upon her, and now Persse has to run after her to find her. Perhaps she is the grail in this quest, or hold the answers to the grail. Her name, angelica, might reference to this.

A Small World Part One

Persse is in a new world he dose not completely understand. He's naive in the perfect way, much like Percival in Chretien's Grail Quest. I think the author is setting us up for a journey of learning and gathering of experience and wisdom of the main character, both in love and how to operate in such a world.

Persse meats Angelica, yeah no word puns there (sarcasm), described from his point of view with "She was the most beautiful girl he had seen in his life. She was tall and graceful, with a full, womanly figure, and a dark, creamy complexion. Black hair fell in shinning waves to her shoulders, and black was the color of her simple woolen dress, scouped out low across her bosom." Page 8, Lodge

What we have hear is all her physical characteristics. The shallow way to fall in love with someones outer shell, which taking Persse's idiocy into account, doesn't sound so far fetched. This seems to be a common theme in stories we read. We are probably going to watch as the Persse tries to understand Angelica as a person and not an object.

Percival Day Two

The blood on the snow reminds Percival of Blancheflor because it's a symbol of his red armor and the white snow, the two colors of these characters. And While I'm more used to white and black being compatible such as in bleach, this might not be the case in western mythology. Whit is pure, red is blood. Perhaps this is to remind Percival of her, her weeping over him as he sleeps because he can't understand the world she's coming from. Red can certainly let us think that Percival is at first just out for the glory of it all, ridding around with no idea what he's doing at all. And this true when he stabs the Red Knight through the left eye after he had been knocked from his horse. But as we move along he becomes... better at deciding what to do, and how a night should act. Perhaps the blood in the snow is just another reminder.

Percival Day One

The problem with Percival as of right now is that he believes being a Knight is something superficial. He looks up to it as someone who goes around, fights wars, slays dragons, so on and so forth. His image of a Knight is more then likely distorted by his youth and the stories told to him and the way he sees the world in his youth. Chretien gives us a character to develop and find out what /real/ Knighthood is, a common theme throughout his works.

When Percival goes to become a Knight, he is given tasks. He must get the armor of the Red Knight. It's kind of redundant, but it teaches him that using force all the time and battling her, there, and everywhere may not be the right way to becoming a knight.

Movie

2. Terrorism is present because it gives us a dramatic background. Adds depth to the story, however it seems useless up to the point where the two main characters are victims of one. In a way it's foreshadowing, this back-grounded thing of impending doom, much like the chain Calisto gave Celestina.

3. The character Conchita is clearly mentally ill, even if it's not specifically mentioned. From what I can see, she has almost two very distinct personalities, one being more logical and wise, the other lustful and almost evil in a sense. Dualism has been used in movies before like Metropolis. I think it was as interesting twist on the story, something new. Quite an original work.