l33T LIbrarians On The Day After Tomorrow
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mundensWas watching "The Day After Tomorrow" on video this evening.
It's actually quite good for a disaster movie, if you try and ignore the really stupid bits and just enjoy the human bits.
Two of those humans are librarians in the New York Public Library.
When New York City is inundated by water, and the young hero Sam, son of the main hero, whose name I forget because they called him "Dr." all the time rather than using his name, flees with his friends into the New York Public Library, at one point, being the smart one, he figures out that older pay phones may still be working. So he goes to the Information Desk and asks the librarian who is still manning the desk whether there are any pay phones around.
New York has been flooded, many people are dead, everyone is panicking, the Library itself is full of panicked and injured people, and she is still manning her post at the Information Desk!
Duty, Service, and Honor!
Later, of all the people in the Library it is only the homeless man, who obviously has a knack for survival, and the two librarians, who elect to stay when Sam explains that going outside will kill everyone. Everyone else, led by the street cop who has ended up in charge, prefers to risk the trip south.
Sam starts a fire with books, and the librarians of course, complain. But only briefly, they are not stupid, and after one of the guys finds a whole aisle of books on tax law to burn, they no longer have to argue over which books to burn.
Later the following exchange occurs as the male Librarian is clutching a large bound book
Sam's Love Interest : "You think your God will save you?"
LIbrarian (with thinly veiled contempt) : "No, I don't believe in God."
Love Interest : "You're holding on to that Bible pretty tight
LIbrarian : "I'm protecting it."
He goes on to explain it is one of the oldest printed books in existence and represents to him "the dawn of reason", and that he thinks it's more important that this book, that has survived centuries, continue to survive, than them.
Later, the love interest falls sick, and the other librarian, the woman who was still manning the desk earlier,
comes to the rescue with aid of a medical text book and the great line:
''Books can be good for something other than burning"
Finally, in the happy scene after they are rescued and are flying south for the winter in helicopters, we are shown a brief shot of the librarian still clutching the ancient Bible.
Of all the "NPCs" in this film, the Librarians are the coolest!
So to all my friends who are librarian's, let me just say that a new slogan should be
"Librarians survive Ice Ages!"
It's actually quite good for a disaster movie, if you try and ignore the really stupid bits and just enjoy the human bits.
Two of those humans are librarians in the New York Public Library.
When New York City is inundated by water, and the young hero Sam, son of the main hero, whose name I forget because they called him "Dr." all the time rather than using his name, flees with his friends into the New York Public Library, at one point, being the smart one, he figures out that older pay phones may still be working. So he goes to the Information Desk and asks the librarian who is still manning the desk whether there are any pay phones around.
New York has been flooded, many people are dead, everyone is panicking, the Library itself is full of panicked and injured people, and she is still manning her post at the Information Desk!
Duty, Service, and Honor!
Later, of all the people in the Library it is only the homeless man, who obviously has a knack for survival, and the two librarians, who elect to stay when Sam explains that going outside will kill everyone. Everyone else, led by the street cop who has ended up in charge, prefers to risk the trip south.
Sam starts a fire with books, and the librarians of course, complain. But only briefly, they are not stupid, and after one of the guys finds a whole aisle of books on tax law to burn, they no longer have to argue over which books to burn.
Later the following exchange occurs as the male Librarian is clutching a large bound book
Sam's Love Interest : "You think your God will save you?"
LIbrarian (with thinly veiled contempt) : "No, I don't believe in God."
Love Interest : "You're holding on to that Bible pretty tight
LIbrarian : "I'm protecting it."
He goes on to explain it is one of the oldest printed books in existence and represents to him "the dawn of reason", and that he thinks it's more important that this book, that has survived centuries, continue to survive, than them.
Later, the love interest falls sick, and the other librarian, the woman who was still manning the desk earlier,
comes to the rescue with aid of a medical text book and the great line:
''Books can be good for something other than burning"
Finally, in the happy scene after they are rescued and are flying south for the winter in helicopters, we are shown a brief shot of the librarian still clutching the ancient Bible.
Of all the "NPCs" in this film, the Librarians are the coolest!
So to all my friends who are librarian's, let me just say that a new slogan should be
"Librarians survive Ice Ages!"
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Yup
Date: 2004-10-22 02:10 pm (UTC)Nyeah, it's a minor thing. Awesome librarian entry, dude!