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Okay, so, first of all, Shelby escaped yesterday. ( Read more... )
Meanwhile, Sister Girl came across me grimly watching X-Men 3 for the third or fourth time on cable a couple of weeks ago and asked--particularly in light of the fact that I didn't like the movie--"How many times are you going to watch that?" "Until it gets funny," I said. So at the moment I'm watching the first two POTC movies, not so much until they get funny, but until I get familiar with them on a macrocosmic level, if that makes any sense. Which is to say: until I start seeing the forest instead of the trees. Because I have a feeling that the only way to parody the POTC movies will be to do all three as a single parody, keep it very short, and focus on the plot convolutions, the whole "Wait, what are we supposed to be doing now?" idea. As I've said before, I feel like The Prestige is a little bit my model in that regard; I condensed almost every single scene with Borden's long-suffering wife into a single segment. Let's put it this way: I think it can be done, but it'll have to be done more as a small treat than the centerpiece of the book. Emphasis on small.
To that end, I listened to a few of the commentaries (again) on the first two movies, and noticed a few things that only now make sense: ( Read more... )
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And now, I have to go back downstairs and make sure the puppies haven't set the house on fire.
Meanwhile, Sister Girl came across me grimly watching X-Men 3 for the third or fourth time on cable a couple of weeks ago and asked--particularly in light of the fact that I didn't like the movie--"How many times are you going to watch that?" "Until it gets funny," I said. So at the moment I'm watching the first two POTC movies, not so much until they get funny, but until I get familiar with them on a macrocosmic level, if that makes any sense. Which is to say: until I start seeing the forest instead of the trees. Because I have a feeling that the only way to parody the POTC movies will be to do all three as a single parody, keep it very short, and focus on the plot convolutions, the whole "Wait, what are we supposed to be doing now?" idea. As I've said before, I feel like The Prestige is a little bit my model in that regard; I condensed almost every single scene with Borden's long-suffering wife into a single segment. Let's put it this way: I think it can be done, but it'll have to be done more as a small treat than the centerpiece of the book. Emphasis on small.
To that end, I listened to a few of the commentaries (again) on the first two movies, and noticed a few things that only now make sense: ( Read more... )
( Linkspam )
And now, I have to go back downstairs and make sure the puppies haven't set the house on fire.
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