Talk about some Pride and Prejudice.. I'de like to smack then upside the heads with it...
So, yeah it's 4am and I am updating? Um... Yes? Yes. Yes, I am. Ok, really I'm fine, well as fine mentally as I ever claim to be anyway.
Ok, so here's what happened. I was watching episodes of "Only Fools and Horses" on dvd right? and I lost track of the time. Nooo big deal. 'Cept I look up at the clock and see that it's like 20 past 3. @.@ oops. So, I figure that I'll stop watching at the end of the ep I'm watching atm, which was lucky as it was the end of disc 1 (of four). Good-good.
So, I finally am ready for bed and it's like 20 til 4 now, and I turn outen zee lights und snuggle under zee covers and put on meinen kopf-phones (i so didn't spell that correctly, even if it's not in any real language...headphones :P .. work with me, i'm awake after 4am.) and put on the BBC world service for a bit.
Cruel fate: I hate you, you beeyotch. *bites thumb at Fate* I start listening to the radio to hear two guys reviewing the nre P&P film. They're midway through discussing it.. and note that the camera style of moving about is very modern.. "This is NOT Merchant Ivory" and that scenes are shot from outside a window, so characters seem "off stage"... And the younger guy's voice gors on to say that the director has taken great liberties but made the story modern and translates it well... That he makes the spirit of it come through... And he communicates that the marriages are important financially, and it's not all just about social standing and soppy romance. OH.. and *then* he says KK makes a fabulous Lizzie Bennett (he was expecting to see her not act as usual) but that she was wonderful and might get an Oscar nod. Oh and Matt McFayden... HE was billed as the indie-Darcy.. who had his room painted black and listened to the Smiths.. which is why this Darcy is so moody, but well nuanced. (Ok I think the smiths were fabulous, and Morrissey is about as sexy as ever.. but WTF are they on about?!) Oh and hello?! does it take a fricking genius to under stand the social history in the novel? I mean really people, think about the times, and what marriage meant for women. *grrs* Oh, and lastly: they said the director had NEVER read P&P before this job... Great. Just great. So a man who didn't give a damn about the book directed it... and now being beamed all over the world was a review by teo guys who don't give a rat's ass about it either... That's just such a crock of crap. I want to like the film for donald sutherland, McFayden(he's no CF, but I figure he'll be ok), Brenda Blethlyn, and Dame Judi Dench (!! :D ), but these guys are making it very tought for me to be optimistic. and for the record, as they discussed that people abroad see the UK as still living in the 18th century... wth are they on? they don't seem to grasp that the book is a very significant work of fiction and THAT gentlemen, is why the story is revisted... NOT because it is "hackneyed".
Ok, i'm gonna stop the rantfest here... partly cause I need to sleep and partly cause in writing this I managed to see the absolute scaries spiders in my house I have ever seen and I *really* don't wanna be downstaors anymore right now... Trust me, they were HUGE. GIGANTIC. MOMSTER SPIDERS. @.@ I will run away and hide now. Nini.
Ok, so here's what happened. I was watching episodes of "Only Fools and Horses" on dvd right? and I lost track of the time. Nooo big deal. 'Cept I look up at the clock and see that it's like 20 past 3. @.@ oops. So, I figure that I'll stop watching at the end of the ep I'm watching atm, which was lucky as it was the end of disc 1 (of four). Good-good.
So, I finally am ready for bed and it's like 20 til 4 now, and I turn outen zee lights und snuggle under zee covers and put on meinen kopf-phones (i so didn't spell that correctly, even if it's not in any real language...headphones :P .. work with me, i'm awake after 4am.) and put on the BBC world service for a bit.
Cruel fate: I hate you, you beeyotch. *bites thumb at Fate* I start listening to the radio to hear two guys reviewing the nre P&P film. They're midway through discussing it.. and note that the camera style of moving about is very modern.. "This is NOT Merchant Ivory" and that scenes are shot from outside a window, so characters seem "off stage"... And the younger guy's voice gors on to say that the director has taken great liberties but made the story modern and translates it well... That he makes the spirit of it come through... And he communicates that the marriages are important financially, and it's not all just about social standing and soppy romance. OH.. and *then* he says KK makes a fabulous Lizzie Bennett (he was expecting to see her not act as usual) but that she was wonderful and might get an Oscar nod. Oh and Matt McFayden... HE was billed as the indie-Darcy.. who had his room painted black and listened to the Smiths.. which is why this Darcy is so moody, but well nuanced. (Ok I think the smiths were fabulous, and Morrissey is about as sexy as ever.. but WTF are they on about?!) Oh and hello?! does it take a fricking genius to under stand the social history in the novel? I mean really people, think about the times, and what marriage meant for women. *grrs* Oh, and lastly: they said the director had NEVER read P&P before this job... Great. Just great. So a man who didn't give a damn about the book directed it... and now being beamed all over the world was a review by teo guys who don't give a rat's ass about it either... That's just such a crock of crap. I want to like the film for donald sutherland, McFayden(he's no CF, but I figure he'll be ok), Brenda Blethlyn, and Dame Judi Dench (!! :D ), but these guys are making it very tought for me to be optimistic. and for the record, as they discussed that people abroad see the UK as still living in the 18th century... wth are they on? they don't seem to grasp that the book is a very significant work of fiction and THAT gentlemen, is why the story is revisted... NOT because it is "hackneyed".
Ok, i'm gonna stop the rantfest here... partly cause I need to sleep and partly cause in writing this I managed to see the absolute scaries spiders in my house I have ever seen and I *really* don't wanna be downstaors anymore right now... Trust me, they were HUGE. GIGANTIC. MOMSTER SPIDERS. @.@ I will run away and hide now. Nini.