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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 29, 2006 23:13:34 GMT 9.5
It's a pity Rita and Bella aren't related, then she could have done both.
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 29, 2006 3:11:07 GMT 9.5
I seem to be in a betle!Rita mood today, don't I?
*is distracted by shiny*
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 28, 2006 23:53:46 GMT 9.5
Well, even if it is crap, Miranda will be shiny, and we can make screencaps of her, and stare at her, and... well, yes. And we can make Miranda as Bellatrix pictures from them And, um. Miranda. Shiny. Yes.
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 28, 2006 9:07:27 GMT 9.5
I think the real danger they've got here is that they've hinged the entire story on some random new character that quite possibly no one will care about. If it's going to fall down, that will be where.
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 27, 2006 0:34:33 GMT 9.5
I honestly don't take reviews on IMDB to heart. They're just random people like you or me who are saying what they think. Their opinions are valid, of course, but they hold no authority over me.
And as for Miranda looking her age? GOOD!!! I LOVE her, I love her belly and her wrinkles and everything about her. I hate that stupid Hollywood ideal that one must be young to be beautiful - I don't personally think that any woman under the age of thirty is anywhere near as lovely as one over that age. I also think that most real people (ie not media sources) would agree.
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Dec 6, 2006 19:26:18 GMT 9.5
Hey! Welcome back! ;D It's great to see people returning!
I agree with you completely. That scene especially was so beautiful and human and touching. I think that's it, that's what I love about Poliakoff. Everything is subtle and understated. Even the big things are dealt with in such a real, human way. I find it hard to describe that, but I love it. Stella's breakdown isn't massive, it's not an end, it's just an inevitable part of the grieving process.
I love that, and it was something I noticed in 'Pefect Strangers' as well - nothing is overdone. Everything is so understated, and the power in it is in the performance and the ability of the actors to do it justice. He trusts his performers, which is so incredibly refreshing.
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 31, 2006 2:17:59 GMT 9.5
Fair enough, you're entitled to your opinion. I can't say I agree, but that's what makes us all different, is it not?
I think what you're referring to as lack of depth is something I took for subtlety. I saw suggestions, restraint, pensive characters who didn't know how to express themselves. I saw breakdowns of communication. I saw them all moving toward this sense of inevitabilty - the death of the century - too fast for them to handle.
I think death is a very big theme in GD. What Stella has experienced is a sort of death and rebirth of herself through grief. Gideon is holding on to the fractured relationship with his daughter and trying to keep it alive, and all the while there is this sense of time passing and things coming to an end. It's uncertainty, really the millenium thing, because no one really did know what the new millenium would bring. I recall that quite clearly.
And of course there is that perfect analogy in the end - it took me until the second viewing to really pick it up. The song turned around, and it's not about Gideon's daughter at all but it's about him - he loves her too much that it's unsustainable, and he's the one that dies and is reborn in the back of that comedy club.
I think the story and the setting held a lot of personal significance to me. It's the first film I've ever really seen that dealt with the new millenium in such a way - was set in a time I can remember, and captured feelings that I thought were very true to the time. The death of Diana - oh, boy, I remember that. I was only 11, and living in Australia where it would have been quite different to being in England, but boy I remember it. And I remember the lead up to 2000 rather well, as well, that feeling of change in the air that I think the film captures beautifully. I think I was most disarmed, though, by the father-daughter relationship. It felt so real to me, and it affected me quite powerfully, mostly because I think it made me understand what Gideon was feeling - mostly about his daughter going away, and feeling alienated from her - and it meant a lot to me in terms of my own relationship with my father ("I don't want you to go, you'll get blown up by terrorists"). So that was kind of personal, and I suppose my own context meant that meant a lot more to me than it might to other people.
But yes. I think what I saw the most in that film was restraint and subtlety, which for me is what made it brilliant.
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 23, 2006 10:25:30 GMT 9.5
Of course, it helps if the worlds are connected in some way. HP, for example, is connected to the world as we understand it, so fandoms that exist in 'our world' can connect to characters within it.
Trying to cross, for example, someone like Queen Elspeth with, say, Captain Barbossa from POTC would be considerably harder.
But damn, that would be kind of cool and hot if someone COULD pull it off. I should NOT give myself ideas, or any more challenges.
Actually it's really hardest to connect worlds that just don't exist at all to each other. Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal, or something, crossed with, um, Star Trek. Ow, my brain.
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 21, 2006 7:08:29 GMT 9.5
Yes. I think you have to be careful with crossovers. Sometimes making the worlds fit together is too hard. I've only ever written HP/Bewitched (which was hard enough, dealing with the different way both worlds do magic and trying to fit them together) and HP/Losing Chase (which is a Helen Mirren film that you may not have seen. The story was about Petunia and the main chracater of the film, so magic barely entered the equation).
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 21, 2006 7:02:43 GMT 9.5
Wait a mo. Buffy, HP, Merlin? In the one fic?
>.>
<.<
o.O
*brain explosion*
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 18, 2006 14:05:52 GMT 9.5
Ooh, I can certainly find some awesome Bella-centric fic for you.
*looks at clock*
Tomorrow, perhaps. (4:35am)
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 18, 2006 5:40:14 GMT 9.5
Yeah, HP is just about the only fandom I'm in, except for NCIS and some rather obscure fantasy/sci-fi ones. I'm pretty much a one fandom girl. This Mab bunny that I have is a bit of a revelation, though I would like to write more about Aereon (from the Chronicles of Riddick)
I think we've managed to be discussing the same thing in two threads. I'll leave my recs over on the other one.
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 15, 2006 10:29:43 GMT 9.5
Well, just because it's got a pairing in it doesn't make it 'romance'. I'd say drama/angst etc (along with healthy doses of porn) is what makes up most of my pairing fics. Cretainly not sappy or fluffy stuff, that's for sure. It's all about the angst, like omg.
Who are your favourite characters, then? *wants to rec*
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 15, 2006 7:03:30 GMT 9.5
Also, btw, Incap, I added you on YIM in case you're wonderig who the hell goat_with_a_breadknife is.
And yay for Mirandaholic! Why am I an Elephant Hunter? Are they orange elephants?
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 15, 2006 6:59:50 GMT 9.5
I understand where you're coming from, there. I think LJers especially are very fond of explicit fic. I most certainly am - I think Rita is hot as hell, and I love writing her as dripping with sexuality, doing anything to get a story, etc. It's very sensual, writing her like that - decadent and devious and delicious, uncaring. Simply wanting, and not caring about consequences. But then at the same time I can't read ir write stories like that forver. I sart writing from her POV, I want to understand her. I really like pairings, I love to come to understand a character through the lense of her relationship with another one. Rita/Hermione is brutal, and I love that - it brings out Rita's animal side, Hermione trying to dominate her and blackmail her. But with other characters you have quite a bit of room to play around. An Unexpected Understanding - my Rita/Minerva - was the first time I really considered her as someone deeper than the animal, sexual reporter. Of course, there is sex in this, an element of it - but I explored Rita a bit through Minerva. I think she understands a lot - more than she cares to, even - and I think there she's responding to Minerva's breakdown because it's honesty, and people arent often honest with her because they don't trust her at all (with reason, most likely). When I wrote The Difference (Rita/Poppy), I ended up going into her even more, with Poppy's words and help. Why she is who she is, how she became it, and such. Internal monologue is great, but people don't exist in vacuums. I find the best way for me to understand a character is to understand how he or she related to another character, what they do when they are thrown togther. What feels right for them. Of course, there's nothing like a good gen fic, and you should check out 'Microcosm' on the masterlist for a great one - it's a short internal monologue piece, and it really inspired me. Also 'Hold Page One', because that's the BEST sort of genfic - character and action and a nice amount og length. Do you like Remus Lupin, by any chance? There is a piece of RL gen that I would reccomend to anyone who is even remotely interested in him.
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