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mizkit blogged her thoughts on going to a showing of Labyrinth, and mentioned the ballroom scene:
The beauty, the fear, the excitement, the tantalization, the horror, the sensuality, the innocence, the corruption, the longing, the loss, the need. It’s what, a three minute scene? And it’s devastating.
She goes on to half-dismiss it, as having seen it first at thirteen, but having seen it first at 24...
it is one of those stand-out moments of film. It definitely transcended the sort of seams-visible feel of most of movie for me, watching it in the two-thousand-teens.
I'll admit I was old enough to find it less compelling, but that doesn't mean I didn't sympathize with all those things telegraphing from the sequence.
And I'm with mizkit ... to write a scene with that much impact is something you dream about.
It's the reason there are awesome things like the Roommates and Girls Next Door comics...
The sort of reader connection that seems to rely more on a magic that is will-o-the-wisp, rather than your actual skill.
She also has some interesting notes on the existence of geek-girls and their absence from most media, but I don't feel like I have any good thoughts to share on that.
...I will say, though, I recently realized that the natural outcome of the tech-boom of the past few decades would anthropologically lead to the technically capable, less physically-geared person to be the more desirable mate....and BOOM there you have the geekchic turnaround.
I mean, hands up, who here loves a geek?
The beauty, the fear, the excitement, the tantalization, the horror, the sensuality, the innocence, the corruption, the longing, the loss, the need. It’s what, a three minute scene? And it’s devastating.
She goes on to half-dismiss it, as having seen it first at thirteen, but having seen it first at 24...
it is one of those stand-out moments of film. It definitely transcended the sort of seams-visible feel of most of movie for me, watching it in the two-thousand-teens.
I'll admit I was old enough to find it less compelling, but that doesn't mean I didn't sympathize with all those things telegraphing from the sequence.
And I'm with mizkit ... to write a scene with that much impact is something you dream about.
It's the reason there are awesome things like the Roommates and Girls Next Door comics...
The sort of reader connection that seems to rely more on a magic that is will-o-the-wisp, rather than your actual skill.
She also has some interesting notes on the existence of geek-girls and their absence from most media, but I don't feel like I have any good thoughts to share on that.
...I will say, though, I recently realized that the natural outcome of the tech-boom of the past few decades would anthropologically lead to the technically capable, less physically-geared person to be the more desirable mate....and BOOM there you have the geekchic turnaround.
I mean, hands up, who here loves a geek?