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I just finally managed to finish one of the books off the reading list for The Novel.
I think the only really memorable bit of the whole 180 page thing was the bit where he took time out in a footnote to say that a novelist he'd spent most of a hundred pages going on about as So Cool and such a great formal stylist and crafting work carefully over ages of agonising over every word in his pursuit of elegant greatness might, just possibly, have spent all that time in his study asleep and/or masturbating.

It's elevated contributions like this that make me so glad I read theory.

West Side Story

Am watching West Side Story. Like the ballet is a whole lot of dancing. But it makes more sense to me. Now I'm wondering why.
Everyone dances like they live in their whole bodies and nobody has pins stuck anywhere unusual.
Also the fights are still stylised but they build up to movements that proper look like they're trying to kill each other.

I like the songs too. I like the snark in the America song.

In class we'll study up on which bits are and aren't like Romeo and Juliet. ( Read more... )

If you're looking at the differences there's really a lot of them. But the connections are also interesting.

It's like extract of Romeo and Juliet involves two teams who hate each other, two lovers, and a balcony. Plus death.



Next I shall watch either something that is not Romeo and Juliet, or something with vampires that I vaguely recall went R&J ish.

Does Buffy and Angel count as a R&J transformation? Two teams, no balcony, but she does have a window to climb up to.

I think Vampire the Masquerade went there, but I only have that on American DVD so I have to watch on a different box.

Which one was the vampires and werewolves?

I'm not watching anything Twilight, even though teach has added to Blackboard a link to an interview where the writer says it was all R&J.


Also from the college library I got Kurosawa's 'Throne of Blood', because it keeps on coming up in writing about Shakespeare transformations. And a BBC 'Midsummer Night's Dream', because there is such a thing as too much dead.