Cordelia ,'Potential'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Yeah, I was just thinking the big duel to the death is actually about as Hollywood an ending as one could hope for in a real-life story. It certainly has more dramatic potential than, say, a story explaining how Hoover was unfairly blamed for the severity of the Depression.
The downside is that if it's filmed I will never again be able to get that National Dairy Council ad out of my head.
BUTBUTBUT...DUEL! You don't get much more exciting than politicians dueling.See. This is what I'm saying.
I just looked Hamilton up on some wiki, because the above really was all I remembered. Apparently, I'd disremembered that Burr, ironically, had averted an earlier duel between Hamilton and Monroe.
The downside is that if it's filmed I will never again be able to get that National Dairy Council ad out of my head.I'm afraid to ask, but which ad?
The radio call-in contest with the guy who has a mouthfull of PB&J sandwich and no milk to wash it down with.
"AWWYNNNN BUUUUHHH!"
Heh. I don't recall seeing that.
My high school History teacher had this weird habit of massaging his mostly bald head. And he did it in a strange way, such that he raised his arm so that his elbow was sticking straight out. The heel of his hand was on the back of the top of his head, and his fingers were aimed forward. He did it all the time. That's mostly what I remember from U.S. history. He was a nice enough man, with a passion for his subject, and took a decent interest in his students, running some extra-curriculars, like a Jr/Sr forum, in which kids met with senior citizens to discuss both History and Current Events. But this little tic of his was so distracting, I could never quite engage in his class.
Yeah, I was just thinking the big duel to the death is actually about as Hollywood an ending as one could hope for in a real-life story.
Also, didn't Hamilton take a long time to die? That's pure GOLD for actors.
I thought he died the next day, but now I'm curious.
Off to Google.
"Devil In The White City."
But that's creepy serial killing of young women. Women in peril always sells, look at CNN.
The radio call-in contest with the guy who has a mouthfull of PB&J sandwich and no milk to wash it down with.
"AWWYNNNN BUUUUHHH!"
I love this ad. It's a classic.
Heh. I don't recall seeing that.
Oh man, you have to. It's got to be available for download somewhere. I think it was the very first "got milk?" ad.
I think where the duel ending might have a problem, at least in a major motion picture, is with Aaron Burr winning. I don't think most people would have the same problem I do - which is that in those days, everyone you went into a duel with the intention of hitting a man in the leg, not killing him - but I still think somehow that ending wouldn't quite do in a big ol' movie. Unless Hamilton were either the bad guy or a lovable misanthrope who is less lovable, actually, and more just interesting.