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gratitude28

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Re: Mirroring the N back to the N
« Reply #15 on: January 18, 2007, 07:19:28 PM »
How about the Great Santini????
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Re: Mirroring the N back to the N
« Reply #16 on: January 19, 2007, 05:29:08 PM »
Checking the Great Santini out.  Thanks gratitude 28!

That's one I haven't seen yet.

More men:

Ron Burgundy--Anchorman Will Ferrell
Bruce Nolan--Bruce Almighty--Jim Carrey
Batman--choose any portrayal
The Office--Steve Carrell ---michael
DARTH VADER----Couldn't resist this one!

Sorry this is getting old, but I am trying to think of women, and I come up blank.  Just keep remembering the men characters.

As CB said, any step-mother or queen in any fairy tale or disney movie.  My favorite:  Snow White's Mom---you know "mirror, mirror on the wall....."    Yuck yuck yuckity yuck.  I wasn't snow white, but that was my mom for sure.

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Re: Mirroring the N back to the N
« Reply #17 on: January 19, 2007, 08:35:54 PM »
You could just hand them the mirror and walk away.
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Re: Mirroring the N back to the N
« Reply #18 on: January 19, 2007, 09:53:45 PM »
I have tried it and it works great!

By "works great" I mean that I've successfully scared them off by just acting like them.  They are now afraid to contact me... or maybe just can't be bothered.  Who knows.  Whatever their thinking, the outcome was perfect.
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Re: Mirroring the N back to the N
« Reply #19 on: January 22, 2007, 01:10:36 AM »
Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge in James and the Giant Peach...
Mathilda's parents in Mathilda
Veruca Salt!!!!
Roald Dahl must have had something about narcissists...

My son would explain EAXCTLY how Darth became that way :)
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Re: Mirroring the N back to the N
« Reply #20 on: January 22, 2007, 07:56:18 AM »
Harry Potter's aunt, uncle, and cousin, whose names escape me now.
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Re: Mirroring the N back to the N
« Reply #21 on: January 23, 2007, 02:05:42 PM »
Good ones, guys! 

I watched The Devil Wears Prada last night while I sat up and helped my daughter with her Science Project (moral support mostly)...

...so how 'bout Miranda Priestly????  Holy Cow!  Great job Meryl Streep!

A quote I can't get out of my head---"she isn't happy unless everyone around her is panicked, nauseous, or suicidal."

The scene where she arrives at her office for the first time and everyone is rushing around in a panic getting the office "just right"?  Lived that one a million times when I know NH  is coming home.  He was watching at the end of the movie and only scoffed cause he thought Miranda's asisstant 's boyfriend was being ridiculous for being angry that she was totally ignoring him.  She is running herself ragged trying to keep the "woman" (monster) happy.  Just like he thinks I am being ridiculous when I tell him he completely ignores me and the kids unless he wants something or is raging because someone inadvertently did some small normal-type thing to tick him off!

Also, remind anyone of their mother???

Blah!

Peace anyway,
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Re: Mirroring the N back to the N
« Reply #22 on: January 23, 2007, 06:59:28 PM »
The "best friend" of the Count of Monte Cristo.................who married the Count's girlfriend who was pregnant with the Count's child after he had the Count wrongfully imprisoned for 12 years.......he got his in the end.  I have been trying to not wish a similar fate on my n's........

The mother in Terms of Endearment.......same actress played Meryl Streep's mother in some other movie I can't remember the name of...........oldtimers moment.

I mirror my Nmom ALL the time.  And then when she tells me how horrible I am acting, I tell her....................I'm just mirroring what you do to me......right back at ya!!

Even use the word "mirror."

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Re: Mirroring the N back to the N
« Reply #23 on: January 23, 2007, 08:41:52 PM »
Yep, Shirley MacLaine..................but what was that movie with she and Meryl Streep?  They were both actesses................oh yeah, Postcards from the Edge!!  Sometimes I feel like I am on the edge!!!!  I can relate to the mother - she is so all about herself...............just like my nmom.  Oh and guess what?  For another post.........didn't make a profit!
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Re: Mirroring the N back to the N
« Reply #24 on: January 23, 2007, 09:25:52 PM »
Except the character in In Her SHoes changes at the end and becomes a kinder person...
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Re: Mirroring the N back to the N
« Reply #25 on: January 23, 2007, 09:31:28 PM »
That's the fairy tale, isnt it?

The one we keep believing in....

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Re: Mirroring the N back to the N
« Reply #26 on: January 23, 2007, 10:19:10 PM »
... the one we've been trained and groomed to believe in, because it makes us succulent N fodder ...

[edit in. Dang! What a screen name that would have been... "Succulent N-Fodder" ! Kinda slinky, isn't it?]
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Re: Mirroring the N back to the N
« Reply #27 on: January 25, 2007, 11:10:53 AM »
Another old movie with an Nistic mother in it, was ORDINARY PEOPLE.  The N-mother was played by Mary Tyler Moore, and she did an excellent job in it, if I do say so myself :)

Devil Wears Prada was an EXCELLENT movie and very much depicted N'ism as well.
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