Mood Theme!

Oct 31, 2006 22:58

I just had to show off my new Stephen mood theme, after working so much on it the past few days.

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grace_poppy November 10 2006, 23:32:33 UTC
Hello Vic ( ... )

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max_und_moritz January 3 2007, 18:27:03 UTC
Hello again, Grace, I lost track of this discussion - I´m sorry, thanks for reviving it ( ... )

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grace_poppy January 4 2007, 00:00:20 UTC
Ooooh, your best friend in Spain is a conservator too??? Where does she work? That is quite a coincidence! Was she in Florence after the flood in the 60s? So many conservators had the start of their career there, including my boss. I wish I had been alive then. It must have been so exciting ( ... )

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max_und_moritz January 4 2007, 11:10:44 UTC
She lives and works in A Coruña (province of Galicia), and she spent some years in Florence around the mid-nineties, IIRC :) Alas, well after the flood *blushes in shame at ignorance and goes a-googling* why, was it so devastating ( ... )

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grace_poppy January 6 2007, 02:28:49 UTC
"Rebecca" is a musical??? How bizarre!! But then... do you like "Turn of the Screw," the Henry James novella? There's a Britten opera of it, and I like it quite a lot. (It's not one of his best operas, but I still like it. It does manage to capture some of the terrifying ambiguity of the story. Britten is good at ambiguity.) So if they can make an opera of "Turn of the Screw," I suppose they can make a musical of "Rebecca." And I adore the Daphne du Maurier book too!

Hee, and most of the music I love best has no tune to it, so maybe I'd like this musical of which you speak. I can't remember, have you heard "Billy Budd"? Hmm, probably not, because I think only weeboopiper and esteven have.

Wow, so did your Grandmother like Almasy? Was he handsome and suave and brooding and remarkably intelligent?

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max_und_moritz January 6 2007, 17:30:26 UTC
I ADORE The Turn Of The Screw, both the James novella and the opera by Britten!! It was filmed by the BBC, I think, can´t remember the singers but it was a very naturalistic approach, and the governess´ dress, which as snow-white at the beginning, developed a kind of growing, creeping black ivy lace border that gradually took over her whole dress and at the end it was black, and she looked indeed like death. Very lovely and scary fairytale!

Of course I know Billy Budd. My stepdad sang Vere once, many years ago. Every time they play it in Vienna I try to go see it, it´s *such* a good production.

According to Gran, he was short, awkward, unpredictable and very sarcastic, but he seemed to have that je ne sais quoi which drew women to him (or rather, made other men believe he was a chick magnet and thus made them jealous!) And he seems to have been intelligent enough to hide his smarts in society...

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grace_poppy January 7 2007, 05:12:34 UTC
GASP! You know Billy Budd and Turn of the Screw! Amazing!!!!!!!! And wow, the governess' dress sounds cooool!

Wow, Almasy sounds like quite a character. Haha, that description (minus the chick magnet) sounds like Stephen!

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grace_poppy January 7 2007, 05:15:27 UTC
All the buttons on my LJ layout are quotes from Billy Budd. ;D

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max_und_moritz January 8 2007, 11:43:30 UTC
*adores icons twice as much for that reason alone*

Did you like Melville´s story, and do you like "Peter Grimes" as well?

My, comparing Dah Aviator with Maturin... *g* basket case, he he (although funnily enough I can imagine Fiennes-Almásy playing Maturin - most probably truer to book canon than Bettany did).

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grace_poppy January 8 2007, 23:17:53 UTC
I did like Melville's story, and I love Peter Grimes too. And do you know Gloriana, Britten's opera about Queen Elizabeth? It's so perfect for him to have written a Renaissance opera! So suitable.

Well I do adore some of the same things in both men - movie Almasy and Maturin. I love that they're so knowledgeable, and both speak so many languages, and both blend so effortlessly with native cultures and local peoples, and both are passionate about knowledge and learning... Sigh.

Have you seen Fiennes in 'Quiz Show'? I love him in that movie too - again, because he's so knowledgeable and intelligent! He plays Shakespeare quote guessing games with his father!!! &hearts

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grace_poppy January 4 2007, 00:08:13 UTC
And when I said Stephen was content (at least, more than Fiennes' characters usually are), I meant that he usually accepts and even expects his sad events, even if he hates them. Onegin, and Almasy, Heathcliff, and certainly Goeth refuse to accept unpleasant circumstances, even the things they can't change. (And they're more recklessly unkind.) That's all I meant. (But I have heard that he gets more content and happy as the series progresses. I'm only on book 5 right now.)

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max_und_moritz January 4 2007, 11:15:06 UTC
Hmm... it´s one thing accepting, another expecting them, and you´re right there that a part of him always seems to brace itself for the worst almost with masochistic glee... it´s why I call him defeatist, and that´s such an anti-Spanish trait, maybe that´s at the root of my deep dislike for him.

The only times I grokked him better was when he´s fighting and ENJOYING the challenge - like when he´s dragging himself around the deck of the Surprise, learning to walk again. That is your Spanish-Catalan hombre, as I know and like them ;)

I´m halfway through book five now, too! (and have had Mum hide the book somewhere til June, because I have to ace a hard test then and I don´t want to be distracted from studying... tee hee, shouldn´t even read Aubreyad character discussions at all!)

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grace_poppy January 6 2007, 02:32:48 UTC
What kind of test do you have to take?

Oh but come now, there can't be a personality type that fits the ENTIRE Spanish nation! I think one of the first Spanish people I knew was a girl online in a depression forum with me. :P

Grokked?

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grace_poppy December 2 2006, 17:35:30 UTC
Oh, and I thought of one more reason why Stephen is a loveable character. Everybody who knows him loves him! At least, all the good people. I was just reading in The Mauritius Command a scene where he fell into the sea when coming back to the Boadicea, and ( ... )

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max_und_moritz January 3 2007, 18:42:43 UTC
Beg to disagree yet again *hides in the stowaway hole* :p I´ll try not to drop spoilers since I´ve been thoroughly pre-briefed by Esteven, but I don´t know how much of what happens is already familiar to you before having read the books. Diana doesn´t love him, and I doubt she does til the end, when for the most Maturinish-possible reasons it´s already too late. She confides in him, uses him as crying shoulder, physician, problem-solver and "pis-aller" indeed when she´s not busy with someone else (how I love that expression!); she spends the best part of six books actively running away from him, in fact :p . Another very important character at the start who doesn´t love him is Dillon, I believe (and I love Dillon to bits, poor devil) - and he knew Maturin (we suspect) rather well before their Navy days. Molly Harte doesn´t like him (I like her a lot though despite what she does to poor Jack, he he ( ... )

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grace_poppy January 3 2007, 23:47:41 UTC
NO no no, you're wrong! I cannot agree.

Sir Joseph likes him VERY MUCH! He says so! Grumble, do I have to find quotes? He's so very fond of Stephen! Shame for suggesting otherwise! *scandalised*

I don't remember Molly Harte interacting with Stephen much at all. But it seemed to me that Dillon did like him.

And there are often scenes of Stephen walking around in a port town, and an old shipmate crying out, "Hello, doctor! Remember me?" and being genuinely happy to see him. They wouldn't be that way if he was only tolerable and useful, or if they only respected and endured him. Certainly they're sometimes in awe and trepidation, but they do like him, and vehemently defend him against those who remark on his eccentric ways. Of course he is useful, and I think oftentimes he wins their affection in gratitude for treatments - and he takes a strong interest in their individual ailments and treatments, as is only right - whereas Jack, for instance, has rescued scores of men from drowning and usually finds them not to be grateful ( ... )

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