No-one does romantic comedy like the British

[bwinter]

The best part of Pride and Prejudice was the giggling around the cinema each time a male did something stupid. A very decent job of an adaptation, with some superior acting, though not exactly Oscar material on Keira's part.

In other news, I would like to take the opportunity to wish a very happy birthday to ithilwen. Have a good one and may Himring's

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[fyrie]

Also, a resolution: I want to finish the PotO/Tanz crossover in time for Valentine's Day.

*squees happily*

[bwinter]

If I finish it in time for the weekend, do you think you could give it a once-over before the 14th? :)

[fyrie]

I should be able to, yis :D I'll be staying with friends on the Friday and will be without access on the Saturday. But Friday or Sunday and I'm good :)

[bwinter]

Cool :) Here's hoping I manage to finish it - I'm rather busy at work, and all I've managed today so far was to find a solution of how to have my characters address Krolock. Alas, "Excellenz" only sounds good in German...

[fyrie]

Excellency makes me think of Bill and Ted. The associations my mind makes are quite silly, I admit. As an option, how about Your Grace? Or is that only Dukes?

[bwinter]

It's only Dukes and Bishops in English, but fortunately in French it's used for counts, so since they're speaking French anyway ;)

I just thought he'd rate better than a "my lord". Didn't stop him from telling Christine to call him by his Christian name five minutes after meeting her, though. I need to tell that vamp to turn down the charm or he'll end up with two impressionable teenage girls instead of one...

[fyrie]

You know, the thought of Krolock being charming with the french and the manners and the hands... I think I would buckle under charm if I encountered him ;)

Oh and finally saw the film, so my fic has been tweaked a bit in accordance with settings and the like. My dad and sister were just staring at the screen, demanding to know what nonsense I'd been buying this time, while I was sitting, taking notes ;)

[bwinter]

For now I'm going with "he likes Raoul and thinks the boy's a good kid, so he's not going to steal the girl", and on Christine's side I'm trying to keep her clueless. Not sure if it's working - I seem to have acquired an OOC-ly intelligent Christine for some reason.

Do bear in mind that the film and the musical aren't complete parallels. Not to mention the fact movie!Krolock isn't yummy at all.

[fyrie]

Alas, that all Christines in the shows seem to be dumb as posts. I think Sarah Brightman's stunned chipmunk expression started a theme there.

As for the film/musical parallels, it's mainly scene-stuff I was padding out :) Needless to say, I think they did a better job with the storyline in the show, because the film dragged a lot. And Herbert was freaky-scary. He reminded me of the Bond villain with the metal teeth.

[bwinter]

I think I might be brewing up a meta-post on Christines in general. She's played as a dumb flighty airhead, but what I see in the words and actions is a young woman who has a mystic streak and major daddy issues, but also immense strength that doesn't diminish her feminity. In the end, she's the one who saves the day, and Raoul doesn't do anything much at all.

Argh.

[fyrie]

There's a lot more to Christine than they like to show in the musical, unfortunately. ALW has a weakness for dumbing things down, because he feels audiences can't understand complex characters, which is why Starlight Express ended up with their fricking fabulous villain getting cut when they reformatted the show.

Since I'm a sucker for the character, I've read any Phantom related-stuff and the best one I've come across is Phantom by Susan Kay, who writes the story from the POVs of half a dozen characters, including Erik, Christine and Raoul and Christine in it is amazingly strong-willed. The quiet relationship that the writer created below the surface of what's shown in the musical was beautiful. And oh, the hand-fetishing that went on! Erik sitting in front of a fire, telling Christine -sitting on a cushion in front of him - stories and practically weeping for joy when her hair brushes against his hand

[bwinter]

I've got an e-text of Kay's Phantom, but I've yet to read it. For some strange reason, I can't bring myself to read any Phantom fanfiction at all - something about the fact that I have the characters in my head and I can't imagine them being different. I have the same with Artemis Fowl for some reason.

[fyrie]

Makes me kind of glad I never dared to tread in Phantom fandom in a ficcing and role-play way. Mind you, with the number of the films and books I've seen and polar oppositions in Christines and Eriks, I would have characters with personalities splitting every which way, depending on which version I was focussing on.

Mind you, most surreal thing I've ever seen was a strikingly gorgeous guy with long, silky blond hair playing Erik, with a rat army as his minions. It boggles me when they turned it into a proper horror film with dismembered corpses gnawed to pieces by the Phantom ratty minions. And he didn't even have a mask! The shame!