do you need a bowman?
We're doing the end of and what remains, which means we're working with a lot of history to our characters the audience won't see, but a lot of it hasn't really shown. Yesterday at rehearsal we only had me and the guy who plays someone my character gets into some really personal fights with before the piece we're doing, and on a whim we actually read the argument scenes a few times through. It was fantastic! Because sure, I'd read it, but it's one thing reading something by yourself and another reading it aloud with a scene partner and getting even more bitter at each other. And it got us pissier at each other in the scenes we're actually doing, too :D
Today I went out to see Snow White and the Huntsman with the family. I quite enjoyed it!
KStew (honestly the only reason I had any interest in seeing it: I think she's hot) was magnificent and I hope the people who said she can't act are kicking themselves.
I mean, Snow White in functional armor and wielding a sword, guys.
I was so pleased that there wasn't really any overt romance to the film beyond Ravenna and her brother's slightly incestuous vibes and it didn't end with a wedding! The focus on Snow's growth as a person and people trusting in her was lovely.
But speaking of the boys, what little we saw of William was cool, how he's all impulse compared to his Duke dad and that "I said, DO YOU NEED A BOWMAN" scene. And the Huntsman's backstory was heartbreaking.
The magic mirror guy was creepy as hell, a little more so (and a little sad) if it was really just in Ravenna's head.
Really interesting take on the Queen, especially the way she snuck into the kingdom with the decoy army and posing as a POW.
Loved the dwarves. Poor Gus, though! Alas poor ginger, you were the only minority this film had, you had to go.
I was a little baffled by how adult!Snow's first lines were an Our Father and yet Christianity never really came up again.
Was there anyone in that movie who wasn't white? It was particularly jarring when they got to the fishing village on stilts that made me literally say, "hello, we're in Asia now" and then...everyone was white. Come the fuck on, Hollywood, medieval Europe was not all white.
Speaking of the fishing village, though, I did really love the idea of the women running the place while the men were at war, and the scarring thing they did to the girls to protect them. Nice to see how Ravenna was affecting people indirectly and the people coming up with a way to work around it.
While we were out I randomly bought a jacket partially because it reminded me of Chloe from Uncharted's, only to get home and realize it's basically the cut of a couple of her jackets but the color of another. Whoops. Oh well, I might chuck it on if I cosplay her, considering Wellygeddon's in autumn.
Speaking of Uncharted: Sometimes I'm kind of a creeper on Tumblr and check out the blogs of people who like/reblog stuff I post the rare times I use more standard tags, so I ended up following a complete stranger who reblogged an Uncharted fic of mine because it turned out she also sometimes writes fic I like and reblogs lovely photos the rest of the time and we appear to share similar headcanon. I didn't really talk to her though until a couple of weeks ago when she reblogged some comic panels I'd posted with tags to the effect that she hadn't read them herself, and I offered her the scans I had and we also briefly gushed in mutual admiration of each other.
That was about the extent of our interaction until her tags on a photo inspired me to write a fic, and we had feelings at each other about it, and then she wrote a fic inspired by my tags on the first fic, and oh my gosh, I am so pleased.
Today I went out to see Snow White and the Huntsman with the family. I quite enjoyed it!
While we were out I randomly bought a jacket partially because it reminded me of Chloe from Uncharted's, only to get home and realize it's basically the cut of a couple of her jackets but the color of another. Whoops. Oh well, I might chuck it on if I cosplay her, considering Wellygeddon's in autumn.
Speaking of Uncharted: Sometimes I'm kind of a creeper on Tumblr and check out the blogs of people who like/reblog stuff I post the rare times I use more standard tags, so I ended up following a complete stranger who reblogged an Uncharted fic of mine because it turned out she also sometimes writes fic I like and reblogs lovely photos the rest of the time and we appear to share similar headcanon. I didn't really talk to her though until a couple of weeks ago when she reblogged some comic panels I'd posted with tags to the effect that she hadn't read them herself, and I offered her the scans I had and we also briefly gushed in mutual admiration of each other.
That was about the extent of our interaction until her tags on a photo inspired me to write a fic, and we had feelings at each other about it, and then she wrote a fic inspired by my tags on the first fic, and oh my gosh, I am so pleased.