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A great post about the late Lena Horne, covering her life and career, complete with clips of her work.
Seems The Three Musketeers are about to be filmed for the nth time, on that occasion by Paul W. S. Anderson, who managed to get Ray Stevenson for Porthos, Matthew MacFaydden for Athos, Christoph Waltz for Richelieu, and Milla Jovovich for Milady. This sounds all very good, though I have to say the description of Christoph Waltz as "everybody's favourite Nazi" reminds me of one of the reasons why I'm not sorry I haven't seen Inglorious Bastards (I have no doubt his performance is as good as everyone says, because I've seen him in other parts, but my tolerance for WWII as pop culture only goes so far). And Milady described as "a 17th century Bond girl" was, err, original. Anyway. The script is by Andrew Davies, and I hope he'll at least stick a bit closer to the book than the latest two abominations (the one by Disney and the one by I don't know who which was called "The Musketeer") did. (Seriously, I left half way through the Disney thing, I was that ticked off.) I mean, I realise The Three Musketeers have several plot problems for conventional movie goer wisdom: the main male villain, Richelieu, might have one of his two big schemes thwarted, but the other one succeeds, and at the end of the novel, he's as powerful as ever, in charge of the goverment, and actually is pretty content with the general outcome (scheme #2 was the more important one, as it secured the successful siege of La Rochelle, plus he's minus a dangerous obligation) instead of gnashing his teeth and swearing revenge. The female villain, Milady, is killed in a manner that makes Our Heroes look somewhat morally ambiguous, as she does not conveniently fall from a cliff or commit suicide or is killed in a fight; instead, they hand her over to an executioner after a mock trial where they are both accusers and jury. But really, that did not stop Richard Lester from making my favourite adaption so far; the old one with Gene Kelly isn't half-bad either. And neither of them did what the abominations did, i.e. change Richelieu into an Evil Vizir After The Throne (which even in Dumas' world makes no sense whatsoever, let alone in history) and make Our Heroes look better re: Milady's fate. (For that matter, make Milady far less effective and ruthless.) So please, Andrew Davies, stick to the general plot?
Merlin:
Like a fish needs a bicycle: : which is about a lot of things: Morgana figuring out she's gay and trying to figure out her role in life, Morgana and Arthur growing up together, and more one liners than you can count while the sadness of what's to come is present as well. We've talked about how every reader reads stories a bit differently: for me, the heart of this one is in the sibling relationship with its bickering, competition and affection that won't go away, despite all.
A great post about the late Lena Horne, covering her life and career, complete with clips of her work.
Seems The Three Musketeers are about to be filmed for the nth time, on that occasion by Paul W. S. Anderson, who managed to get Ray Stevenson for Porthos, Matthew MacFaydden for Athos, Christoph Waltz for Richelieu, and Milla Jovovich for Milady. This sounds all very good, though I have to say the description of Christoph Waltz as "everybody's favourite Nazi" reminds me of one of the reasons why I'm not sorry I haven't seen Inglorious Bastards (I have no doubt his performance is as good as everyone says, because I've seen him in other parts, but my tolerance for WWII as pop culture only goes so far). And Milady described as "a 17th century Bond girl" was, err, original. Anyway. The script is by Andrew Davies, and I hope he'll at least stick a bit closer to the book than the latest two abominations (the one by Disney and the one by I don't know who which was called "The Musketeer") did. (Seriously, I left half way through the Disney thing, I was that ticked off.) I mean, I realise The Three Musketeers have several plot problems for conventional movie goer wisdom: the main male villain, Richelieu, might have one of his two big schemes thwarted, but the other one succeeds, and at the end of the novel, he's as powerful as ever, in charge of the goverment, and actually is pretty content with the general outcome (scheme #2 was the more important one, as it secured the successful siege of La Rochelle, plus he's minus a dangerous obligation) instead of gnashing his teeth and swearing revenge. The female villain, Milady, is killed in a manner that makes Our Heroes look somewhat morally ambiguous, as she does not conveniently fall from a cliff or commit suicide or is killed in a fight; instead, they hand her over to an executioner after a mock trial where they are both accusers and jury. But really, that did not stop Richard Lester from making my favourite adaption so far; the old one with Gene Kelly isn't half-bad either. And neither of them did what the abominations did, i.e. change Richelieu into an Evil Vizir After The Throne (which even in Dumas' world makes no sense whatsoever, let alone in history) and make Our Heroes look better re: Milady's fate. (For that matter, make Milady far less effective and ruthless.) So please, Andrew Davies, stick to the general plot?
Merlin:
Like a fish needs a bicycle: : which is about a lot of things: Morgana figuring out she's gay and trying to figure out her role in life, Morgana and Arthur growing up together, and more one liners than you can count while the sadness of what's to come is present as well. We've talked about how every reader reads stories a bit differently: for me, the heart of this one is in the sibling relationship with its bickering, competition and affection that won't go away, despite all.
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Date: 2010-05-12 01:55 pm (UTC)I know I should not be surprised by this Hollywood idiocy but THAT DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE. How the hell would Cardinal Richelieu get the French throne?
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Date: 2010-05-12 02:02 pm (UTC)