| “ | Movie night's supposed to be a distraction. Tomorrow we can return to our regularly scheduled drama. | ” |
Movie in the Square is an annual event held at the Town Square of Mystic Falls where the citizens come together to screen an old movie. It is sponsored by the City Council.
The movie shown in 2010 was Gone with the Wind, while nearly two decades later was King Kong.
Throughout The Vampire Diaries Series[]
Season Two[]
In As I Lay Dying, the Movie in the Square was organized by the town with many residents in attendance, which also featured a small picnic. Elena, Jeremy, Bonnie and Caroline were among those in attendance. Before the movie started, Stefan came and told Elena that Damon had been bitten by Tyler, meaning that he could lose his life given the toxicity of a werewolf bite to vampires.
Later, Damon escaped and hallucinated that Katherine was nearby. Jeremy found him and brought him to the Mystic Grill, with Sheriff Forbes arriving not long after. She aimed at Damon to shoot him, but he quickly ran away and the bullet hit Jeremy. Leaving the Grill, he found Elena and tried to drink her blood, however collapsed on the ground instead. Jeremy died, but was brought back to life by Bonnie, gaining the ability to talk to ghosts upon his return from the dead.
Throughout Legacies Series[]
Season Four[]
In There's No I In Team, or Whatever, Alaric has Kaleb and Lizzie volunteered to help supervise their students while the event is set up. Their school still owes community service for last year's football fiasco. While Kaleb is less enthusiastic about helping, considering Cleo is trapped within Malivore, Lizzie is ecstatic because it's a chance for her to bond with Ethan as it is their first date. While they setup for the movie, MG spies on Lizzie from afar until he is found out by Kaleb.
Eventually the setup is complete and the volunteers and townspeople gather to watch the 1933 King Kong film. Lizzie, Ethan, Kaleb and MG's time at the movie, however, is cut short when Ryan appears and attacks the former two while possessed by a dybbuk. The latter two split up to so MG could take Ethan back to the Salvatore School and Kaleb go in search of Lizzie after she is kidnapped by the dybbuk.
Trivia[]
- Gone With The Wind is a 1939 film based on the novel of the same name written by Margaret Mitchell. The film stars Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh as its titular characters.
- King Kong is a 1933 film starring Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, and Bruce Cabot.
- In Isobel, when referring to the Miss Mystic float, Caroline wanted the float to be Southern classic elegance, to which Bonnie stated "Gone with the Wind" because Caroline channeled "Scarlet", the fictional character and protagonist of the novel and film, daily. Scarlet is described as "vain, self-centered, and very spoiled" but can "can also be insecure", and "very intelligent, despite the Old South's pretense of ignorance and helplessness".
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