They don't strike anybody else as cheap expository techniques?
Have you read Pride and Prejudice?
You walk in worlds the others can't begin to imagine.
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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Jessica - Apr 10, 2006 4:35:23 am PDT #1295 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
§ ita § - Apr 10, 2006 4:38:24 am PDT #1296 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Have you read Pride and Prejudice?
Hey, who says Jane's cheap-proof.
Jessica - Apr 10, 2006 4:46:48 am PDT #1297 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Hey, who says Jane's cheap-proof.
Them's fightin' words...
(By which I mean that's my favorite scene in one of my favorite books, and I really really really didn't like the new film version so there. t pout )
§ ita § - Apr 10, 2006 4:48:19 am PDT #1298 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I love Pride and Prejudice as written. Just wanted to point out that if you think letters are cheap, no reason to think they're not cheap in Jane's hands too.
Jessica - Apr 10, 2006 4:53:18 am PDT #1299 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Just wanted to point out that if you think letters are cheap, no reason to think they're not cheap in Jane's hands too.
Then he should leave the Jane-adapting to people better suited to it.
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Cashmere - Apr 10, 2006 5:04:56 am PDT #1300 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I definitely prefer the book above all film versions. This film couldn't even touch the Cliff's Notes version of P&P. I got a lot more understanding where the director was coming from on his commentary (and for the record, he needs to go back and read the book). I HATED his ideas on the evolution of Jane & Elizabeth's relationship as sisters. He just didn't get it.
Theodosia - Apr 10, 2006 5:44:24 am PDT #1301 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
(I hate letters, too. They don't strike anybody else as cheap expository techniques?)
Epistolary novels were the first flourishing of the book-as-we-know-it, they're a very old form indeed. It's more that they're hard to do well, and keep the interest of the modern reader with plot arcs, et cetera.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 10, 2006 5:49:32 am PDT #1302 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I'll x-post this in the Buffy thread, but Jonathan Woodward (he of the ME trifecta) is playing Bettie Page's boyfriend in THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE.
Calli - Apr 10, 2006 6:04:20 am PDT #1303 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I saw Thank You for Smoking last weekend. I found it loads of snarktastic fun.
Betsy HP - Apr 10, 2006 7:13:37 am PDT #1304 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Eee!
The comic filmmaker, who made a monster hit musical out of his 1968 movie "The Producers," says he is adapting another of his classic film comedies for the stage -- this time the 1974 "Young Frankenstein," a spoof on the Frankenstein saga which he says is perhaps the best movie he ever made.
With no deadline set, Brooks says he is in the middle of writing the score, including a song for scary Frau Blucher, the caretaker of the Frankenstein castle still madly in love with that late, unlamented mad scientist.
"It is going to be wonderful," Brooks said in a telephone interview, just before he burst into a German-accented version of his Frau Blucher song:
"He vus my boyfriend/He vould come home in a snit/He vould have a terrible fit/I am the first thing he vould hit/But I didn't give a s---/He vus my boyfriend."