I was confirmed in my suspicion that I have a weak, weak, weak spot for Berubara. I love it to bits. With all its glitter and melodramatics. Every single marzipan dress and weird hair-style
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I think we'll have to agree to disagree about Rosalie. For me all the tragedies in her past are enough to drive the sweetest girl to the edge of madness; in TV-tropes language, she embodies "Break the Cutie", and in the anime especially I liked the fact her journey is about going from that brink back to a whole and happy existence. For me, the harshness of Ayu's portrayal is a valid dramatic choice, just as - to switch shows - the dozen-plus valid interpretations of Death that I've seen personally, from Shirotan's lost young soul to Ichiro's icy warlord and Máté Kamarás's predatory trickster-demon.
Note: this is NOT a slight on Maachan's portrayal and interpretation. It's my opinion and appreciation of various dramatic intrepretations of the same text. (Which in turn is the reason I can see the same show 30+ times live, because even the same actors switch things around and are in different moods.)
EDIT: And upon thought - Maachan for me plays a Rosalie who's saner. Ayu's the one who I can imagine rushing with a knife at Madame de Jarjayes.
And yes on Ichiro. I think that's the advantage of Oscar-version over Andre-and-Oscar - here with the top star playing Andre, Ueda-sensei's traditionalism directed him to focus on the ways Andre's masculinity constrasts with Oscar's feminity, because of the need not to overshadow the top star. Personally I loved the whole thing in the garden that ends with Oscar sleeping it off with her head in Andre's lap; generally she was at her best in the fight sequences.
Note: this is NOT a slight on Maachan's portrayal and interpretation. It's my opinion and appreciation of various dramatic intrepretations of the same text. (Which in turn is the reason I can see the same show 30+ times live, because even the same actors switch things around and are in different moods.)
EDIT: And upon thought - Maachan for me plays a Rosalie who's saner. Ayu's the one who I can imagine rushing with a knife at Madame de Jarjayes.
And yes on Ichiro. I think that's the advantage of Oscar-version over Andre-and-Oscar - here with the top star playing Andre, Ueda-sensei's traditionalism directed him to focus on the ways Andre's masculinity constrasts with Oscar's feminity, because of the need not to overshadow the top star. Personally I loved the whole thing in the garden that ends with Oscar sleeping it off with her head in Andre's lap; generally she was at her best in the fight sequences.
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