Look under the hood
I can't resist doing this meme whenever it comes around. Via artaxastra:
If you've ever watched your favorite dvds, and then found yourself eager to hear exactly what the actors, directors, writers and even production designers thought about making the episode, the movie, or whatever - you'll know sometimes the best parts of dvds are hearing the ( Read more... )
If you've ever watched your favorite dvds, and then found yourself eager to hear exactly what the actors, directors, writers and even production designers thought about making the episode, the movie, or whatever - you'll know sometimes the best parts of dvds are hearing the ( Read more... )
Irene saying "I'm the cavalry" was vaguely inspired by the famous story of a lone paratrooper announcing "I'm the 82nd Airborne." Her list of names is a take-off on Lolita, and I plan to completely forget about having imported the nickname "Irenie" from comicverse, since on further reflection, I really can't see that coming out of movie Mystique's mouth. In fact, trying to write a sequel to a story I wrote in such a tearing hurry is giving me a whole new sympathy for comic book writers and their constant retcons.
The idea behind this version of Irene is that instead of being like a fortuneteller, or a contemporary "psychic," or a science-fiction precognitive, she's more like one of those awesome and slightly mad Christian visionaries -- particularly Joan of Arc and Irene's namesake, Lady Julian of Norwich. Her last line is a reference to Julian of Norwich: "Sin is behovely, but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well" (also referenced in T.S. Eliot's The Four Quartets). "Behovely" is usually translated as necessary -- sin is part of the plan -- so in addition to reassuring Mystique and Speaker that everything is going to be all right, she's suggesting that the evils they've been subjected to, or committed, in the past were necessary in order for this positive future to come about.
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