I keep hoping someday someone will do a production of it where the majority of the story is treated like a horror movie. I think it could be very creepy, if approached properly.
Why am I imagining a prominent place for Mr. Gaiman in creating this?
Angel: He is dead. Technically, he's undead. It's a zombie. Connor: What's a zombie? Angel: It's an undead thing. Connor: Like you? Angel: No, zombies are slow-moving, dimwitted things that crave human flesh. Connor: Like you. Angel: No! It's different. Trust me.
'Destiny'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
amych - Jun 17, 2008 10:46:23 am PDT #6375 of 28370
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Frankenbuddha - Jun 17, 2008 10:46:32 am PDT #6376 of 28370
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I keep hoping someday someone will do a production of it where the majority of the story is treated like a horror movie. I think it could be very creepy, if approached properly.
I've seen footage of a stage production that took this tack. I think it was done by someone in the UK during the 80s (but possibly the 70s).
Frankenbuddha - Jun 17, 2008 10:47:26 am PDT #6377 of 28370
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Why am I imagining a prominent place for Mr. Gaiman in creating this?
Because Tim Burton didn't occur to you first?
Toddson - Jun 17, 2008 10:47:30 am PDT #6378 of 28370
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I'm trying to imagine a goth version of Midsummer Night's Dream ....
sj - Jun 17, 2008 10:47:50 am PDT #6379 of 28370
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I keep hoping someday someone will do a production of it where the majority of the story is treated like a horror movie. I think it could be very creepy, if approached properly.
Yes. The fairies are treated far too lightly in the productions I have seen. Midsummer Night's Dream is my favorite Shakespeare play.
Jessica - Jun 17, 2008 10:49:02 am PDT #6380 of 28370
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Why am I imagining a prominent place for Mr. Gaiman in creating this?
Because he kind of already did it in Sandman?
amych - Jun 17, 2008 10:49:41 am PDT #6381 of 28370
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Because he kind of already did it in Sandman?
Well, sure. But... live!
Atropa - Jun 17, 2008 10:53:03 am PDT #6382 of 28370
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Because he kind of already did it in Sandman?
Yes, but I want it much creepier than that.
JZ - Jun 17, 2008 10:55:09 am PDT #6383 of 28370
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I have to be all contrarian and say that I've seen Branagh's Hamlet three times through and my admiration for it is nearly boundless (the final inexorable bound: I may possibly hate Robin Williams as Osric even more than Robin Williams in Patch Adams and Bicentennial Man combined). I don't care if it's longer than fuck; I love the language, every word of it, and whatever faults Branagh's performance and direction may have, they (to me, anyway) so vividly convey his love of that language and convey just how alive, how present that language is to him.
And, really, I can't let myself think about Kate Winslet's performance for too long or I will start to tear up right here at my desk. The only Ophelia I've ever seen who's even come close to her is Paul Gross (no, seriously--watch S1 of Slings & Arrows; you'll see).
And now I'm thinking about Mark Knopfler's "Romeo and Juliet," its weariness and yearning and nostalgia for that electric too-stupid-to-live time. I can't root for their doom; fuck, I was them. I never even had a boyfriend until I was 19, but I was them anyway. And I hope to God Matilda lives to be them, and lives beyond it, and lives to look back and say, "When we made love, you used to cry. You said I love you like the stars above, love you till I die" and know that it's gone, but remember exactly what it felt like, what it was to live in the eye of that storm. And R&J never get to outgrow it, smarten up, look back and regret and yearn.
juliana - Jun 17, 2008 10:56:04 am PDT #6384 of 28370
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I like it, although Claire Danes was a little too old for Juliet IMHO,
She's the only one who nailed "It is nor hand, nor foot, nor arm, nor face, nor any other part belonging to a man" that I've seen so far. She actually made me like Juliet, which is no small feat.