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Fic: Tangled Part Three

Mar 01, 2009 21:39

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unreckless March 2 2009, 06:31:21 UTC

You've Got Mail wishes it was this awesome. I love epistolary writing, so maybe I'm biased. I loved the slightly dark humor of it, and how even the most minor characters really seemed to pop (Milo, for example).

I hadn't realized the movie was a remake. I adore movies made back in the Code era, so I will have to look it up.

bonspiel March 2 2009, 19:57:42 UTC

Thank you very much. You've Got Mail is actually not my absolute favorite; I find it a bit insipid, so I'm glad that you found this to have a bit more of an edge.

The Shop Around the Corner is an interesting movie, and has a lot more to it than I expected. I'm not a movie expert, new or old, but it seems like these days the small, domestic movies - less settings, fewer characters, no explosions or aliens - tend to have very predictable, fairytale kind of plots. Older movies in that vein seem to be more morally ambiguous, which I tend to find more interesting. Plus there's this whole thing about SAtC being set in Budapest and filmed in 1940, right before the war, so there's a definite hint of subdued panic, economic concerns, and waiting for the other shoe to drop. (Hmm, sounds familiar.)

unreckless March 3 2009, 03:16:47 UTC

I'm not much of a Meg Ryan fan, so You've Got Mail never really did it for me. That, and it was sappy in a bad way. As for The Shop Around the Corner, I've totally added it to my Netflix queue. I'm really excited about seeing it now.

bonspiel March 3 2009, 04:40:45 UTC

Tom Hanks weirdly creeps me out, actually. :) I hope you like the movie and that I haven't oversold it!

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twofourteen March 2 2009, 08:37:37 UTC

I really like this! It would be really cool to see it with images and stuff too. :D

bonspiel March 2 2009, 19:58:56 UTC

Thank you! Yes, images would be awesome - pictures for the postcards, letterhead, the newspaper page, that kind of thing. I thought about trying to make some, but since it's not my area of expertise, I knew I wouldn't get them done in time.

moodswingers March 2 2009, 16:34:01 UTC

Oh, this was so much fun! It's cute, without being overly sappy. You really made the format work and I love the flow of the story. Great job on making the characters rounded with so little info.

bonspiel March 2 2009, 20:00:08 UTC

Thanks. I'm so glad to hear that the characters worked for you despite the untraditional format.

one_2_3_4 March 2 2009, 17:35:47 UTC

This is SO awesome! I love the format you used, it works out so well with the story line, and really gave it a kick of originality. I like that you used the basic plot without taking the movie verbatim. Great job, thank you for sharing!

bonspiel March 2 2009, 20:01:15 UTC

Thank you. As soon as I thought of the story idea I knew that I wanted to try to write it in epistolary format. I'm so glad you liked it.

pinkelephanti March 2 2009, 17:43:09 UTC

I really enjoyed this :) Did you base it more on Shop Around the Corner than You've Got Mail? I really liked both films and I thought you translated them to your fic really well!

bonspiel March 2 2009, 20:04:23 UTC

Thanks very much. It's probably a bit more Shop Around the Corner than You've Got Mail - the whole subplot with the boss's wife sleeping with an employee and the boss firing the wrong guy, then trying to kill himself is taken from SAtC, anyway. I wanted to update the penpals thing to be online. I actually wrote some of the scenes where Jared and Jensen met while playing videogames online, but I ended up taking them out because they seemed to slow down the pace of the story a lot.