Movies I Want to Live In

Hello, my loves!  

I know I still haven't been blogging very regularly, but I would like to get back into the swing of it.  I don't know whether my posting schedule will become any more consistent; my health is still an issue right now and a lot of times I simply don't have the energy to create or publish content on any platform.  (We're working on it, though.  Don't worry. 💛)

However!  I know that Hamlette's Tolkien blog is just around the corner in September, so even if I disappear for another month, I can pretty reliably promise to at least make an appearance once that begins. 😉

For now, here's a fun, lighthearted post dedicated to some of my very favorite movie environments.  

You know how there are some films you just want to immerse yourself in?  Films with aesthetics so inviting, so you that you'd love to step into them and experience them as reality? 

These are mine.   

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Maleficent 

(2014)

Just take my money.

(If you didn't know, arguably my ultimate aesthetic is fairytale forests and grottoes and microcosms.  So the Maleficent movies were essentially made for me.)

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Frozen II

(2019)

When I tell you the vibes are IMMACULATE 👌

This movie brings us the best of both worlds:  It's primarily an autumnal story, but we also get some of the wintry aesthetic that made the first movie so appealing.  I love it very deeply and I will not be accepting criticism of it at this or any other time. 

 

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The Parent Trap 

(1998)

A) This movie is one of the best ever made; and B) these houses are EVERYTHING.

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The Music Man

(2003)

This movie is fluffy, flowery small-town Americana, full of whitewashed, two-storied, many-gabled homes and immaculate picket fences.  It makes me want to sit on a porch swing drinking fresh-squeezed lemonade after a leisurely morning of tending peonies and ivy.

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This Beautiful Fantastic

(2017)

Everything is so dewy and quirky and whimsical and botanical.  We love to see it.

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My Fair Lady

(1964)

I have never wanted to live in any fictional house as much as I want to live in Henry Higgins's and Mrs. Higgins's.  (Except maybe Elizabeth James's.)

I.  ADORE.  THESE.  HOUSES.  Higgins's study, the guest rooms upstairs, the parlor and grotto in his mom's house . . . *blissful sigh*

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The Lord of the Rings:  The Fellowship of the Ring

(2001)

IMLADRIS IS ALL I WANT OUT OF LIFE. 😭

(Actually Ithilien is my favorite Middle-earth location, but Rivendell is SOOOOOO close.  And the movies don't really bring out what I love about Ithilien, which is fine, because they definitely succeed with Rivendell.)

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The Swan Princess

(1994)

Okay but Rothbart's castle has been one of my favorite movie locales since literally forever.  I love me a good moon-covered lake sitting in front of crumbling ruins. 

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the Barbie movies lol

You can take the girl out of the childhood, but you can't take the childhood out of the girl. 

Seriously, though, some of those Barbie aesthetics slap.  I'm not joking. 

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FernGully:  The Last Rainforest

(1992)

SO.  MUCH.  GREEN.  *drools*  I could happily lose myself in this forest as a little nature pixie. 

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Well, that was fun.  I hope you enjoyed it, too. 😉

Now it's your turn!

Which movies make you want to step right into them?