but first thing first: HBO might be doing an adaptation of American Gods. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!! HBO does superb series, so i put my faith in them especially since this is one of my favorite neil gaiman gooks. DON'T SCREW THIS UP, IT'S IMPORTANT, I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR A SCREEN ADAPTATION FOR YEARS NOW!!!!!!!. i mean it. and please make peter stormare chernobog. and choose mr. wednesday carefully (honestly, read the edda first - odin is a very complex figure, quite ambivalent, so please!)
back to dina - seen the movie again. it's still very much awesome, especially because they don't do movies like that too often. "i am dina who sees" she says at the end. dina is very much a lilith character and definitely you don't want to mess with her or scorn her. point in case: leo the anarchist, fuckwitter extraordinaire. she spends half the movie being nice to him and trying to build a decent relationship and how does he react? "oh, people are starving, i'm taking your money and i don't owe you anything even if you saved me from hanging. kthxbai". so dina shoots him at point blank and dumps his sorry ass into the river. which was a great movie ending, because if there was an american version:
a. leo  would have gotten away with it and dina would have had that internal speech about growing stronger blah blah blah
b. leo would have confessed that he luffs her truly madly deeply because he's another unicorn-who-appears-in-american-movies
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