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Post by Libitine on Jan 19, 2008 16:35:40 GMT
LOL. She's Italian. You guys crack me up. I don't mind Isabella Rossellini, but I just hate Nimue.
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Post by Zoicite on Jan 20, 2008 0:06:37 GMT
Yes, I'm right!
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Post by Libitine on Jan 20, 2008 13:42:43 GMT
;D
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Post by Mysteriamoon on Nov 10, 2008 22:21:20 GMT
I REALLY hate Nimue. No offence intended, but I just can't stand her. She spends a good lot of the movie with a scarf around her head, griping about how she looks. She could have picked up the pieces and moved on, but nooooo. She had to drive us viewers crazy (and did a really good job of it too).
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Post by Zoicite on Nov 11, 2008 7:30:35 GMT
At least that means she's good at what she chooses to do
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Accolon
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Post by Accolon on Nov 13, 2008 2:07:17 GMT
If a loser is good at losing, does that make her a winner?
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Post by himiko on Nov 13, 2008 4:13:24 GMT
LOL, reminds me of "Himiko's thought of the day" - and IF being good at losing makes her a winner, then is she truly a loser? For she has been not-a-loser at being a loser. And thus, has she lost at being a loser after all... and so it goes on...
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Post by Zoicite on Nov 13, 2008 8:21:31 GMT
Himi, you confuse me. And I've decided that means Nimue is a Wooser.
She /has/ got a neat name, after all.
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Post by Mysteriamoon on Nov 13, 2008 17:15:59 GMT
A wooser? Interesting new word...
This is so totally random, but my aunt looks like Nimue. Without the scars, I mean.
I guess Nimue is a good name. I would never name a kid that, but I guess it's good for the movie.
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Post by Accolon on Nov 13, 2008 20:17:28 GMT
I believe in Le Morte d'Arthur, Nimue is the name of a character who seduces Merlin in order to learn his magic powers, and then uses the magic powers to trap him. (Merlin can see the future so he knows she's going to betray him, but he can't resist her anyway) In other words, she's an "evil," highly motivated and resourceful witch. Not the pathetic wooser of the Merlin movie. The only thing in common is Nimue is a love interest for Merlin. (And I guess she does help in trapping him temporarily, but only in the most passive-aggressive, pathetic, half-assed sense. Mab does all the heavy lifting.)
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Post by Zoicite on Nov 14, 2008 6:44:25 GMT
But passive aggressive is the best way to be. I'm so glad I've spawned a new name for her X3 I like her voice, though. I think I like a lot of the voices in Merlin. They resonate well together.
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Post by Accolon on Nov 15, 2008 0:00:22 GMT
But Mab isn't passive-aggressive.
Are you saying Mab isn't the best?
*evil smile*
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Post by Zoicite on Nov 17, 2008 2:01:22 GMT
Mab is the bet part, but it's highly easier to strive to be more like Morgan. And irritate the hell out of everyone for your own personal enjoyment, and they don't know why they keep you. But again, that's more a 'me myself' thing than an actual.........wht was this board's topic again? ...................Oh yes. Nimue. Well. ...............................She looks okay. If you have to see someone that much, at least they should look okay, like her. On the other hand, until I showed up she was the only one slashed with Mab. Which wasn't right.
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Post by sleepyqueenie on Sept 24, 2011 16:10:21 GMT
As I have often pointed out I just don't get Nimue. Now I have found a Dutch copy of the third book of Merlin in a library *yay* I have decided to try and understand her. It is going rather well to my surprise. In the book it is emphasized that she wants what is best for Merlin. While in the film all I hear is 'me,me,me'. 'I want to stay in the monastry, I want to be beautiful, I want Merlin, I want to be whole, I want a golden ticket...' I also find it nice to read that Merlin doesn't visit Nimue for all those years because he wants her to be safe. In the film he seemed too caught up in his stubborness to remember visiting his true love with whom he could live happily ever after but for some reason (Mab hate) chooses not to. There is one passage I find greatly disturbing, when Nimue feels as if she is the Goddess. The whole 'Merlin was her son, lover, victim' part. First of all she wants to steal Mab's position! Secondly such pagan thoughts for a christian girl *shoo* and thirdly is she going crazy? Does she want to hurt Merlin now? When she is in the cave she is all 'oow now we are going to live happily ever after', but isn't she really making this deal with Mab to get back at Merlin for leaving her alone so long? My view on the matter: Nimue isn't such a goody as she believes she is. She and Merlin have loads of talking to do. I suggest marriage counseling.
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Post by himiko on Sept 24, 2011 16:35:06 GMT
There is one passage I find greatly disturbing, when Nimue feels as if she is the Goddess. The whole 'Merlin was her son, lover, victim' part. First of all she wants to steal Mab's position! Secondly such pagan thoughts for a christian girl *shoo* and thirdly is she going crazy? Does she want to hurt Merlin now? When she is in the cave she is all 'oow now we are going to live happily ever after', but isn't she really making this deal with Mab to get back at Merlin for leaving her alone so long? My view on the matter: Nimue isn't such a goody as she believes she is. She and Merlin have loads of talking to do. I suggest marriage counseling. This has left me with a very amusing image in my head of those two attending marriage counselling. Mostly of Merlin looking progressively more worried and edging his chair away from Nimue as she talks about how he left her alone, and how she felt like his mother XD About that passage... it is a bit of a mystery to me, given that Nimue is one of the more strongly Christian characters in the main cast. I had a couple of thoughts, though I have issues with them. 1) Maybe Nimue is being affected by Mab's presence/ Mab is using her magic to plant the imagery into Nimue's mind, in an attempt to persuade her to agree to the bargain- because its Mab doing the planting, the imagery is more Pagan than you'd expect from Nimue. 2) Because Nimue is thinking of Merlin (who was born of magic, even if he doesn't follow any particular religion), she's thinking more in terms of what's applicable to Merlin. 3) The bargain is with Mab, who is a goddess of the Old Ways (and is, indeed, partly responsible for Merlin's birth), but it requires Nimue's decision to go through with it- and Nimue has more power over Merlin, in a sense, than Mab does, because she has his love- so she sees herself as having a kind of goddess- power over him. 4) I don't know much about James Mallory's religious views (for much, read anything), but possibly this passage is going beyond the characters and indicating that Nimue is swept up in some kind of pagan power- i.e. that paganism is the true religion, the real religion. Something like that. Its a little fuzzy. My issue with the first one, is that Mab seems a little distracted at the time of the passage- Nimue notes that she looks remorseful, presumably over giving up on Merlin and sending him away forever.
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