7th
May
Thursday Thirteen: Book Crushes
I’m inspired by Susan Wiggs’s blog post about pre-teen crushes on characters from books later made into movies. (Local author alert!) I know what you’re thinking: Peter Pan, right? But no. My feelings for the fairy in green tights are completely platonic. (Tiger Lily, on the other hand, is hawt.) I also never liked Gilbert or the guy from Little Women.
What characters captured your heart growing up?
The rules: the books don’t have to be made into movies, but the movies do have to be based on a book. Your crush occurred between birth and age 18.
Here are mine:
- Rufio! Rufio! from the movie Hook, loosely based on Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie. BIG crush.
- Prince Philip from the movie Sleeping Beauty, based on the fairy tale by the same name. (david kawena’s gallery on deviantart is even better!)
- Mendanbar, King of the Enchanted Forest, from Searching for Dragons (sequel to Dealing with Dragons) by Patricia C. Wrede.
- Wesley, from The Princess Bride. I doubt there’s a woman my age who didn’t have a crush on him. AS YOU WISH!!!!
- Calvin O’Keefe (notably not from whatever movie has been made) from the book A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle. I recreated his science experiment with the plants when I was in middle school.
- Haakon Haakonsen (the kid) from the movie Shipwrecked, based on the book “Haakon Haakonsen. A Norwegian Robinson Crusoe” by author O. V. Falck-Ytter’s, published in 1873.
- Robert Roy MacGreggor, from the movie Rob Roy, based on the book by Sir Walter Scott
- Shang from Disney’s Mulan, loosely based on a poem. Look at those pecs! I confess to pausing this movie so that I could draw his rippling abs. yum
- Connor from the book Trinity by Leon Uris. (Irish guys are hot!)
- Ari Ben Canaan from the movie/book Exodus by Leon Uris.
- Will from His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (introduced in book 2, The Subtle Knife). A man who likes cats!
- Aragorn, who is so much hotter than Legolas, from The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein. (I’m reaching. I read the books, but didn’t have a crush until the movie, which came out after I was 18. so sue me.)
- Vidanric from Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith, which I didn’t read until after 18, but it’s a YA and I should have. He’s hot.