much ado
ironic how i received my new dell Inspiron B130, Intel Pentium notebook on the day we find out THEY'VE BEEN COMBUSTING IN FLAMES. i'm afraid of fire! i don't want FIRE coming from my COMPUTER!
i have to get microsoft word. go away, openoffice.org. you disgust me.
(my mother is singing "you are my sunshine" to her dog as i write this.)
my new laptop has a dvd drive, an exciting development. yesterday instead of studying for the gre i watched much ado about nothing. haven't seen it in a few years. it made me want to get married. yes, i want a wedding that will rival the end of an elizabethan comedy, witty touching words and everyone clasping hands and doing that dance where they jump about in fits, yes, i want that.
i'm of the mind that claudio's diatribe against hero is one of the most tragic, disturbing things shakespeare ever wrote--titus andronicus et al aside, i'm talking about things which are meant to appear in a *comedy.* i mean, there are always those things--the maltreatment of malvolio in twelfth night or helena's bed-trick in all's well that ends well or the whole, strange unfolding of the winter's tale, these things that are meant to make of reconsider our conceptions of comedy, put a little less freude in our schadenfredue--but for me it's really the wedding scene in much ado that's much more than thought-provoking. it's entirely gut-wrenching, that moment of: whoa! hold on, william!
all said, i also realized kenneth branagh isn't actually all that bad. he's a bit foolish, yes, but benedick is much more foolish than he, so it works out that way. it's keanu jackass reaves who ruins it. dogberry et al are the most un-funny "funny" characters shakespeare ever wrote, so it's difficult to do anything with them. yes, even if you're batman. i think they're the precursors of the true british humour...the kind that is funny for about nanosecond before you want to jump onstage and punch the actors in their bumbling faces.
so much ado gets the award for Worst Mechanicals but Best Comic Heroine, with helena from midsummer coming in a close second. (katharine the shrew, i'm still not quite sure what's going on with you). but beatrice--"Kill Claudio!" yes! i want to hear viola or rosalind say THAT.
emma thompson, you're great and all, but girl, you gotta get those british teeth of yours looked at.
denzel washington is by far the best actor in that film. he rocks the shit out of don pedro. awww, denzel! i will have you, sir, since beatrice won't! i may not be a Most Virtuous Maid, but what the hell?
how much do i love that "nothing" is elizbethan slang for pussy? shakespeare was such a fourteen year old boy, it's amazing.
i just ordered trevor nunn's twefth night adaptation because it's the best shakespeare piece set to film. and because i have a thing for helena bonham carter.
make me a willow cabin at HER gate.
i have to get microsoft word. go away, openoffice.org. you disgust me.
(my mother is singing "you are my sunshine" to her dog as i write this.)
my new laptop has a dvd drive, an exciting development. yesterday instead of studying for the gre i watched much ado about nothing. haven't seen it in a few years. it made me want to get married. yes, i want a wedding that will rival the end of an elizabethan comedy, witty touching words and everyone clasping hands and doing that dance where they jump about in fits, yes, i want that.
i'm of the mind that claudio's diatribe against hero is one of the most tragic, disturbing things shakespeare ever wrote--titus andronicus et al aside, i'm talking about things which are meant to appear in a *comedy.* i mean, there are always those things--the maltreatment of malvolio in twelfth night or helena's bed-trick in all's well that ends well or the whole, strange unfolding of the winter's tale, these things that are meant to make of reconsider our conceptions of comedy, put a little less freude in our schadenfredue--but for me it's really the wedding scene in much ado that's much more than thought-provoking. it's entirely gut-wrenching, that moment of: whoa! hold on, william!
all said, i also realized kenneth branagh isn't actually all that bad. he's a bit foolish, yes, but benedick is much more foolish than he, so it works out that way. it's keanu jackass reaves who ruins it. dogberry et al are the most un-funny "funny" characters shakespeare ever wrote, so it's difficult to do anything with them. yes, even if you're batman. i think they're the precursors of the true british humour...the kind that is funny for about nanosecond before you want to jump onstage and punch the actors in their bumbling faces.
so much ado gets the award for Worst Mechanicals but Best Comic Heroine, with helena from midsummer coming in a close second. (katharine the shrew, i'm still not quite sure what's going on with you). but beatrice--"Kill Claudio!" yes! i want to hear viola or rosalind say THAT.
emma thompson, you're great and all, but girl, you gotta get those british teeth of yours looked at.
denzel washington is by far the best actor in that film. he rocks the shit out of don pedro. awww, denzel! i will have you, sir, since beatrice won't! i may not be a Most Virtuous Maid, but what the hell?
how much do i love that "nothing" is elizbethan slang for pussy? shakespeare was such a fourteen year old boy, it's amazing.
i just ordered trevor nunn's twefth night adaptation because it's the best shakespeare piece set to film. and because i have a thing for helena bonham carter.
make me a willow cabin at HER gate.