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.
Okay, I have to say it -- I love JZ more than almost everything. I adore that song, and this is just beautifully put.
melding Spanish and English and geeky references
This totally doesn't phase me at all. It's what I loved about Drown. It's the literal changing of narrators that throws me or makes things off putting.
lisah is full of LERVE! But yeah, I did read the
Beli in Santo Domingo stuff. Or at least Beli with the Gangster. I dunno if they do a chapter of Beli and the Lost Years and I hope not because ouch.
But the one that threw me is the guy who falls in love with
Lola and when he tells about his time as Oscar's roommate.
I dunno. Jesse might be right. I keep reading other stuff in between and all of that stuff is light years lighter.
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 saw one like this too. Small theater: the conceit was that the fairies were all ghosts or spirits possessing corpses - undead of some kind anyway. Which as I understand it, Celtic faeries actually were...
And I'm with JZ on two points about R&J: two stupid to live, but if they had lived they might have turned out OK in a few years. And their folly only turned into a tragedy because of the greater folly going on around them. Civil war was a much greater folly than adolescent passion.
The Shakespeare movies that my teachers showed us in school were the Branaugh Hamlet and the Roman Polanski Macbeth. That version of Macbeth is really incredibly gory.
And Lady Macbeth is practically a teenager.
Yeah, seems to be a trend. Our local theater did a very convincing version on this line. Instead of being middle aged, Lord & Lady Macbeth are an ambitious young couple on the make.
Anybody else every read that James Thurber story, "The Macbeth Murder Mystery"? Fun story.
edit: and, it's online [link]
I walked out of the Branagh Hamlet at intermission. It was just the final nail in the coffin of my conviction that Branagh is a wanky actor.
Oh, lisah, I think you used the wrong quickedit up there.
oops! Sorry. I posted and then split.
kat, the part that threw you was also a little disconceting to me but
I feel like he's going to have a larger role in the family. Just based on the end of the chapter.
Who knows though? I did like his point of view anyway.
Instead of being middle aged, Lord & Lady Macbeth are an ambitious young couple on the make.
I like that interpretation - I also like the interpretation of Lady Mac being significantly older than her husband. I always want to see it as a passionate marriage, even though it can work with both of them considering it a marriage of business, I think it works out best when there's fire underneath.
