"But... but... Niagara Falls !" "Well, there's nothing we can do about it !"
Not the best day ever. Woke up suddenly in the middle of the night with a sharp pain in my leg which still hasn't completely left me - I'm used to it since I regularly get those weird pains, often during winter, but still, a) it's very painful and b) complaining is the French national sport and we're better at it than at football.
Still no hot water/heat/washing machine/internet at the appartment, but well, it's nice anyway (and normally we should have hot water and heat on Tuesday.... normally). Yesterday we watched Arsenic and Old Lace, which was LOADS of fun - I'll never see Cary Grant the same way again. And I was so surprised to see Peter Lorre - creepy as always.
Speaking about movies and creepy, I saw Tood Browning's Freaks last week (1932 I think). This one-hour-long must-see is set in a circus in which "abnormal" beings (from woman with a beard to half-man half-woman and people lacking legs or arms or both) live along with some "normal" people. It is very disturbing movie - though the theme and the reality of how cruel human beings can be to those who do not seem normal to them is very well known to me. Yet I really enjoyed it : I like the way it was directed - some scenes are very well done - and I actually like the sound of how shoching it might have been - and probably still is - to the public. I don't think a movie like that could be done any more - though the theme of "freaks" is still used in some movies or more often TV shows (I remember an X-Files episode set in a circus as well as a CSI episode about dwarves), I don't think it can be shown the way Todd Browning showed it in his movie - which apparently cost him his career.
I've almost finished Eoin Colfer's And another thing, which is the official sixth H2G2 book. Of course, it is not a Douglas Adams book, but I find that mostly Eoin Colfer has been able to remain pretty close to the Master's style. As to the question of whether or not a work like this one should be continued after its author's death... well I might post about it later, as it seems not to be a very simple question indeed. For now let's just say it can work for some works and not for others.
Still no hot water/heat/washing machine/internet at the appartment, but well, it's nice anyway (and normally we should have hot water and heat on Tuesday.... normally). Yesterday we watched Arsenic and Old Lace, which was LOADS of fun - I'll never see Cary Grant the same way again. And I was so surprised to see Peter Lorre - creepy as always.
Speaking about movies and creepy, I saw Tood Browning's Freaks last week (1932 I think). This one-hour-long must-see is set in a circus in which "abnormal" beings (from woman with a beard to half-man half-woman and people lacking legs or arms or both) live along with some "normal" people. It is very disturbing movie - though the theme and the reality of how cruel human beings can be to those who do not seem normal to them is very well known to me. Yet I really enjoyed it : I like the way it was directed - some scenes are very well done - and I actually like the sound of how shoching it might have been - and probably still is - to the public. I don't think a movie like that could be done any more - though the theme of "freaks" is still used in some movies or more often TV shows (I remember an X-Files episode set in a circus as well as a CSI episode about dwarves), I don't think it can be shown the way Todd Browning showed it in his movie - which apparently cost him his career.
I've almost finished Eoin Colfer's And another thing, which is the official sixth H2G2 book. Of course, it is not a Douglas Adams book, but I find that mostly Eoin Colfer has been able to remain pretty close to the Master's style. As to the question of whether or not a work like this one should be continued after its author's death... well I might post about it later, as it seems not to be a very simple question indeed. For now let's just say it can work for some works and not for others.