"I am called Sindbad the Sailor, because of the many journies I have made upon the sea..." (Day 15)
"...Those strange things which I have seen would serve as a lesson for the attentive reader even were they written with a needle upon the corner of an eye." ~ Sindbad, The Thousand Nights and One Night
Went to see The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus today, and...good god, it was fantastic. I'm a long-time Terry Gilliam fan, and I...(this is going to sound egotistical) I relate to him in that I always feel like his...works fall short of his imagination. Never has there been the level of technology, of innovation, that could truly capture what, I think, he saw in his mind's eye. I am an enormous fan of The Adventures of Baron von Munchausen but it feels...dirty. Even the places that should have been smooth. Parnassus, finally, has the level of sophistication that Gilliam needs to create incredible film.
And he does. In a lot of ways it felt like it was tailor-made to fit into everything I liked, especially the viewpoint that the world would end the day that everyone stopped telling stories. The acting was....incredible. It was Heath Ledger's last role and this, even more than the Joker, was his swansong. The film is dedicated to him, and the way that they managed to work in the other actors after his death was both ingenious, and, I think, added something profound to the character itself. That even in his own imaginations, his face was mutable, changeable... (Also, to have Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrel all play the same role? That's...I don't even.)
Anyway, I absolutely recommend it to any fans of Gilliam or just whimsy in general. Also, Tom Waits plays the devil (and, in one cheeky little bit, hands a gorgeous red apple to a pair of nuns. I love you so fucking much, Terry Gilliam), how can you go wrong with that?
Anyway.
Day 15: a fic
This is so unspecific! Am I supposed to use a fic I wrote? A fic I like? A fic that I think is underrated? A fic I beta'd? Geez. How can I ever choose?
Uh, um. A fic that I liiike. The problem is I keep finding ones I like and they already have like a million pages of comments, and I feel kind of honor-bound to rec something that's less well-known already? Both for the writer and for the reader, since odds are you'd have read all the ones I have. Um.
I think I'll go with Run For Shelter by someblazingstar. It was actually one of the first Dean/Castiel stories I read, and one of the ones (along with everything I read by tracy_loo_who ) that got me convinced that I should try writing it. Not that I have, yet, in anything substantial, but I will! One day! One day.
Went to see The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus today, and...good god, it was fantastic. I'm a long-time Terry Gilliam fan, and I...(this is going to sound egotistical) I relate to him in that I always feel like his...works fall short of his imagination. Never has there been the level of technology, of innovation, that could truly capture what, I think, he saw in his mind's eye. I am an enormous fan of The Adventures of Baron von Munchausen but it feels...dirty. Even the places that should have been smooth. Parnassus, finally, has the level of sophistication that Gilliam needs to create incredible film.
And he does. In a lot of ways it felt like it was tailor-made to fit into everything I liked, especially the viewpoint that the world would end the day that everyone stopped telling stories. The acting was....incredible. It was Heath Ledger's last role and this, even more than the Joker, was his swansong. The film is dedicated to him, and the way that they managed to work in the other actors after his death was both ingenious, and, I think, added something profound to the character itself. That even in his own imaginations, his face was mutable, changeable... (Also, to have Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrel all play the same role? That's...I don't even.)
Anyway, I absolutely recommend it to any fans of Gilliam or just whimsy in general. Also, Tom Waits plays the devil (and, in one cheeky little bit, hands a gorgeous red apple to a pair of nuns. I love you so fucking much, Terry Gilliam), how can you go wrong with that?
Anyway.
Day 15: a fic
This is so unspecific! Am I supposed to use a fic I wrote? A fic I like? A fic that I think is underrated? A fic I beta'd? Geez. How can I ever choose?
Uh, um. A fic that I liiike. The problem is I keep finding ones I like and they already have like a million pages of comments, and I feel kind of honor-bound to rec something that's less well-known already? Both for the writer and for the reader, since odds are you'd have read all the ones I have. Um.
I think I'll go with Run For Shelter by someblazingstar. It was actually one of the first Dean/Castiel stories I read, and one of the ones (along with everything I read by tracy_loo_who ) that got me convinced that I should try writing it. Not that I have, yet, in anything substantial, but I will! One day! One day.