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clearly musical intervals and beats that LMM really likes because they show up everywhere. (The karaoke version of You're Welcome makes it really obvious, because you can sing the lyrics to Washington On Your Side
In all fairness, you can sing "Somewhere That's Green" from Little Shop of Horrors to "Part of Your World" from The Little Mermaid.
In all fairness, you can sing "Somewhere That's Green" from Little Shop of Horrors to "Part of Your World" from The Little Mermaid.
making notes for next karaoke outing
Went and saw Allied tonight. I really was not interested in seeing it, but the person who invited me wanted to see it.
it was whatever. exactly what you think it will be.
I liked the clothes though, like a lot.
I saw Moana today. It was gorgeous, and the plot was very satisfying. And now I want to go sailing.
I saw Moonlight this afternoon. Very moving, excellent film.
Saw Arrival last night and loved it. It really lives up to its "intelligent science-fiction" billing.
David Bordwell has written a good piece about the depiction of time in the film. It also includes some information on the differences between the story and the movie, and why those choices were made. Of course, it's spoilerific.
I'm working on some stuff about film adaptations as the moment, and one of the ideas I've found most helpful is actually not to think of it as adpatation from one medium to another. Instead, if you think of them as different artistic languages, adaptation becomes translation, which works much better, and is also rather appropriate for Arrival .
Not sure why this just popped into my head, but in Arrival, why didn't the aliens learn English? Or at least a human writing system?
Because the point was to get humans to understand Heptopod and so be able to access the new way of thinking it involved, not the other way around. Actually, their learning a human language would probably even have slowed things down .
Edited for spelling....
The whole point of coming here was to teach us their language, Heptapod B. Maybe if they had bothered to learn our language the whole thing could have gone down easier, but who knows? hand wave.
It feels to me like having a common language would have made things easier, but maybe she wouldn't have gotten the magic brain effects that way? hand wave.