What Do You Love About Squid?
I am bored, and will therefore post an interview meme. Hooray or something!
Leave me a comment, in which you ask me five (or whatever; I'm not exactly going to go 'OMG YOU DID NOT THINK OF FIVE DO YOU REALLY EXPECT ME TO ANSWER A MERE THREE?') questions. I will try to answer them, as if you couldn't have guessed that. Maybe there is a meme somewhere where the point actually is to ask questions without having them answered, but this is not it.
Behind the cut, I'm going to ramble about what, exactly, it was that made me like the ShakespeaRe-Told Macbeth adaptation so much. I'll shut up about it eventually, I promise think. Maybe.
I think that what I really like about the ShakespeaRe-Told adaptation is the fact that they've really taken the time to make Macbeth a likeable character.
You see, I love pre-insanity Macbeth. Absolutely adore him. I love it when he's reminiscing about eating sparrow, and when he's rambling about the origin of squid, and when he's randomly snogging Banquo in the corridors. I love all that. Before he goes insane, I really couldn't adore him more.
And because of that, it's not just a case of 'oh, look, Macbeth's going crazy'. It's that Macbeth is going crazy, and I really don't want him to go crazy, I want him to stay this character I love, and I know that he won't, and it is horrible to watch in a kind of brilliant way.
It's also nice that, while he is called something along the lines of 'that hated tyrant' in the original play but the audience sees very little of why people would think that of him, in the adaptation it's much more clear why people might resent him.
The other thing I love is the relationship between Macbeth and Banquo (OH MAN I BET YOU NEVER SAW THAT ONE COMING). Y'see, in the original play the two of them don't seem to be especially close - using the formal 'you' when speaking to each other, et cetera. In the adaptation, however, they are quite clearly madly in love very close friends, and so when Macbeth has him killed it has much more pathos.
On the downside, there are aspects that jar: the 'milk of human kindness' line does not fit in a modern setting, and the 'I have given suck' speech that Lady Macbeth gives makes so much more sense in the original:
ORIGINAL:
LADY MACBETH: I would have killed my own child for you - why won't you kill Duncan for me, you wimp?
ADAPTATION:
ELLA: We had a child. He died. LET'S KILL DUNCAN HOORAY.
Gripes aside, I really do love the adaptation, although I'm starting to get a bit worried about the fact that I've applied to fanfic100 for it, for the following reasons:
- Cooking is a pretty major part of Macbeth's life.
- I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT COOKING.
Possibly I should try to learn to cook, which would have the dual advantages of a) making me more knowledgeable about what I am writing, and b) my gaining a skill which is pretty important in order to, y'know, live. Hmm.
Leave me a comment, in which you ask me five (or whatever; I'm not exactly going to go 'OMG YOU DID NOT THINK OF FIVE DO YOU REALLY EXPECT ME TO ANSWER A MERE THREE?') questions. I will try to answer them, as if you couldn't have guessed that. Maybe there is a meme somewhere where the point actually is to ask questions without having them answered, but this is not it.
Behind the cut, I'm going to ramble about what, exactly, it was that made me like the ShakespeaRe-Told Macbeth adaptation so much. I'll shut up about it eventually, I promise think. Maybe.
I think that what I really like about the ShakespeaRe-Told adaptation is the fact that they've really taken the time to make Macbeth a likeable character.
You see, I love pre-insanity Macbeth. Absolutely adore him. I love it when he's reminiscing about eating sparrow, and when he's rambling about the origin of squid, and when he's randomly snogging Banquo in the corridors. I love all that. Before he goes insane, I really couldn't adore him more.
And because of that, it's not just a case of 'oh, look, Macbeth's going crazy'. It's that Macbeth is going crazy, and I really don't want him to go crazy, I want him to stay this character I love, and I know that he won't, and it is horrible to watch in a kind of brilliant way.
It's also nice that, while he is called something along the lines of 'that hated tyrant' in the original play but the audience sees very little of why people would think that of him, in the adaptation it's much more clear why people might resent him.
The other thing I love is the relationship between Macbeth and Banquo (OH MAN I BET YOU NEVER SAW THAT ONE COMING). Y'see, in the original play the two of them don't seem to be especially close - using the formal 'you' when speaking to each other, et cetera. In the adaptation, however, they are quite clearly madly in love very close friends, and so when Macbeth has him killed it has much more pathos.
On the downside, there are aspects that jar: the 'milk of human kindness' line does not fit in a modern setting, and the 'I have given suck' speech that Lady Macbeth gives makes so much more sense in the original:
ORIGINAL:
LADY MACBETH: I would have killed my own child for you - why won't you kill Duncan for me, you wimp?
ADAPTATION:
ELLA: We had a child. He died. LET'S KILL DUNCAN HOORAY.
Gripes aside, I really do love the adaptation, although I'm starting to get a bit worried about the fact that I've applied to fanfic100 for it, for the following reasons:
- Cooking is a pretty major part of Macbeth's life.
- I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT COOKING.
Possibly I should try to learn to cook, which would have the dual advantages of a) making me more knowledgeable about what I am writing, and b) my gaining a skill which is pretty important in order to, y'know, live. Hmm.