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Last Thursday I kicked a chair. (Don't be upset: it was a veryverybad chair; it deserved to be kicked.) On Friday my toe gave notice that it was pretty sure it was broken, but I ignored my toe (I mean, fuck it: it's just a damn toe) and went to the theater, where Bill Irwin (wonderful, splendid Bill Irwin) ran through the audience during a scene and--yes--trod on my toe. My toe gave notice that it was planning to resign its post.
All this is by way of saying that I spent most of the weekend, dolce far niente, on a sofa, eating bonbons and reading books and watching DVDs, with my foot on a pillow, like Henry VIII with the gout, except for the DVDs.
I therefore have Thoughts.
I watched The Great Dictator, Brazil, Pirates of the Caribbean (about 30 times), Withnail and I, and Spirited Away.
I read most of vol. 1 of Churchill's biography of Marlborough and chunks of a book called Trickster Makes This World, by Lewis Hyde, which is a brilliant book, and about which more shortly.
Now, the thing is, all of these movies and books have something in common, and it is a veryverybig Something which, I think, has interesting connections with fanfic, with Potterworld, and with the issues of genre writing that often occupy this LJ community.
Before I get to the Great Big Cut Tag, I just want to stop and wibble a bit about the audio commentaries on DVDs. I am addicted to them. The directors' commentaries aren't all that great, but I <3333333 the screenwriters' commentary on PotC. Of course, part of the reason I love it is that I am proven right about everything I thought about this movie when I first saw it :D. Now I know what I suspected: that the screenwriters and Johnny Depp knew--and understood--the nature and purpose of that great universal character, the Trickster. Shakespeare would be veryveryproud.
The screenplay of PotC is a fine, well-crafted thing, which manages to fulfill all the requirements of romance and adventure convention without cliche, and then elevates the conventions to a higher level.
( Big Thoughts )
I also finished Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver, ( which )
So my question is: Who is the Trickster in Harry Potter?
Last Thursday I kicked a chair. (Don't be upset: it was a veryverybad chair; it deserved to be kicked.) On Friday my toe gave notice that it was pretty sure it was broken, but I ignored my toe (I mean, fuck it: it's just a damn toe) and went to the theater, where Bill Irwin (wonderful, splendid Bill Irwin) ran through the audience during a scene and--yes--trod on my toe. My toe gave notice that it was planning to resign its post.
All this is by way of saying that I spent most of the weekend, dolce far niente, on a sofa, eating bonbons and reading books and watching DVDs, with my foot on a pillow, like Henry VIII with the gout, except for the DVDs.
I therefore have Thoughts.
I watched The Great Dictator, Brazil, Pirates of the Caribbean (about 30 times), Withnail and I, and Spirited Away.
I read most of vol. 1 of Churchill's biography of Marlborough and chunks of a book called Trickster Makes This World, by Lewis Hyde, which is a brilliant book, and about which more shortly.
Now, the thing is, all of these movies and books have something in common, and it is a veryverybig Something which, I think, has interesting connections with fanfic, with Potterworld, and with the issues of genre writing that often occupy this LJ community.
Before I get to the Great Big Cut Tag, I just want to stop and wibble a bit about the audio commentaries on DVDs. I am addicted to them. The directors' commentaries aren't all that great, but I <3333333 the screenwriters' commentary on PotC. Of course, part of the reason I love it is that I am proven right about everything I thought about this movie when I first saw it :D. Now I know what I suspected: that the screenwriters and Johnny Depp knew--and understood--the nature and purpose of that great universal character, the Trickster. Shakespeare would be veryveryproud.
The screenplay of PotC is a fine, well-crafted thing, which manages to fulfill all the requirements of romance and adventure convention without cliche, and then elevates the conventions to a higher level.
( Big Thoughts )
I also finished Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver, ( which )
So my question is: Who is the Trickster in Harry Potter?
