Post #306
6/28/01 9:52:45 AM
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Gormenghast
[link|http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/gormenghast|http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/gormenghast]
This thing is a combination of Gulliver's Travels, Alice in Wonderland and any of the King X's from Shakespeare. As visually stunning as anything I've seen, very much of a piece with the terrific (IMO) Gulliver starring Ted Danson. Great characters, absorbing storyline, lyrical dialogue ...
Yes, it was that good. Amazing. I may have to buy the video. Or DVD (and a player to view it with). The Matrix didn't convince me to get a DVD player. This might.
I have got to read the books.
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Post #308
6/28/01 10:52:38 AM
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The three-part (? IIRC) TV mini-series?
As always, if you saw that before reading the books, there's a risk you got hold of the wrong end of the stick, so to speak... I saw it, umm, a few months ago, and (again, as always) it didn't look very much like how I had "seen" it in my imagination. But -- surprise! -- I really *liked* how it looked anyway!
Hmm... Is this "the exception that proves the rule"? Or could it be a more general "exception", that the rule isn't that hard-and-fast if it's been a couple decades since you built it in your imagination? I dunno which...
But anyway, this reminds me: Don't get over-entusiastic and try to foist the books on your kids, if you have any in their low or mid-teens. _Gormenghast_ was pretty heavy fare even for a voracious reader like Yours Truly, at ~seventeen.
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Post #310
6/28/01 10:57:49 AM
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Two-part
Take a look at the link and see if it looks like the same production. I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't show up in the U.S. until after it got raves everywhere else.
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Post #313
6/28/01 11:14:52 AM
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Well then effing well...
...make it a link, you lazy-ass bastard, you![*]
Yup, that's the one, no doubt about it. I'd already forgotten that Stephen Fry was in it (or if I just missed him; I didn't get to see quite all of it) -- but Christopher Lee as his Lordship's secretary was damn inspired casting, wasn't it?
[*]: Naah, no need to start a falme-war; the other one did the trick, already.
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Post #315
6/28/01 11:23:12 AM
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Or course I know what it is
Falme is a town on Toman Head, the first town to be conquered, and held, by the invading Seanchan. It was here Rand al'Thor fought Ba'alzamon, as well as fighting of the invaders with the help of the dead heroes, called back to life by the Horn of Valere. It was also here, Rand al'Thor first proclaimed to be the Dragon Reborn. | alltheweb.com is your friend |
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Post #323
6/28/01 11:52:44 AM
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Xackly! And therefore, it is also...
...(because of some original typos, no doubt) the in-joke way of referring to a fLAme war on the rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan newsgroup (rasfwrj for short).
Speaking of such stuff, have you read _Steel And Snow_(IIRC), the (first part of!!! the) third part of George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series? Sheesh, is he about to slow down to a crawl just like Jordan has?!?
(Hey BTW, was that *me* you were talking about, "trying to carry on a conversation in .SIGs"? I don't do that!)
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Post #353
6/28/01 5:02:43 PM
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Did you notice the hidden text?
I thought to add some hidden stuff in my sig to reference your sig stuff (Yes you) but I decided not to.
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Post #359
6/28/01 6:13:29 PM
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Heh! :-) No, I missed that...
...the first time around.
Thanks for the table-colour tip. (Though that is almost *too* hidden IMO, if you see what I mean.)
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Post #369
6/28/01 7:39:23 PM
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Saw parts of it...
My wife read the book a couple of months back - pretty massive. I watched parts of it last night but I was mostly working on my computers and reading Godel, Escher, Bach. I'm recording it on VHS, so I'll probably watch it sometime later this week.
Couple of impressions. First, the sound is very distracting. Lot's of stuff going on simultaneously which makes it disorienting and hard to get a lock on the dialog.
Second, my son watched some of it and thought it to be very violent. He especially disliked the man eating owls.
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Post #331
6/28/01 12:56:01 PM
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Re: Gormenghast
It's crap.
The film, that is.
It was serialized on the BBC over a year ago, and having read the books, I know that it misses LOADS out.
It runs at completely the wrong pace, the casting is dire (apart from Swelter and the twins) and the set design and costumes just aren't right.
Do yourself a favour and read the books, then forget about the film ASAP.
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Peter
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