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connielane at 02:29pm on 04/10/2003
connielane at 02:29pm on 04/10/2003School of Rock is now officially the best movie that has ever been made.
Okay, that's obviously an overstatement. But it really is great. It's my new favorite Linklater film. Well, no - nothing he does will ever top Before Sunrise. But Jack Black is - as usual - fanTAStic. And all those kids were amazing. And, for all you Rent-heads, the stupendous Adam Pascal (aka Roger) is in this movie as well - looking his usual gorgeous self and singing with his usual amazing pipes.
My only problem was the audience. They were way too tame and SO not rock and roll. There were hardly any laughs, and when people should have been whooping and clapping or getting up and banging their heads to the music, they just sat there. Like it was just another movie. I got my ya-yas out on the way home, though, driving with the window rolled down and the radio cranked up. Awwww, yeah.
I'm finally getting some stuff put away in the new house, and I'm in the process of reading Northanger Abbey for the first time. I know I shouldn't pass judgement on characters yet, but I find John Thorpe highly annoying. Every time he appears on the page I am reminded of a certain H/Hr shipper who is also very free with his opinions, and will not support the idea that anyone has any ideas that contradict his own. However, I did love Thorpe's comments on novels - that there hadn't been a decent novel since Tom Jones and that he admired The Monk as well. Having read both of those for an 18th Century British Novel class in college (and having utterly loved both), I couldn't help but admire his taste. His comments, though, were not half so amusing as Austen's own defense of the novel. I love her even better than I thought I did. And her constant pointing out of Catherine as the "heroine" as well as comments on the standard role of the heroine and expected behavior of a heroine are the best parts of the books so far. I feel sorry for Catherine, though. Her attachment to Isabella and, consequentially, her obligatory acquaintance with John Thorpe, is proving to be more trouble than it seems to be worth at present.
And I am finally one chapter away from my second read of OotP. I can't get anything read when I am constantly flipping through trying to find the best new defense for my shipping stance. This is yet another excellent reason for me to abandon the DT altogether, but I doubt I ever will until I've read book 7. But once I read the last chapter, I'll have read all the books twice and can start again with Sorcerer's Stone. Gosh, it'll be strange to read that after all the angst of OotP. And I really don't look forward to re-reading PoA and every mention of a certain character whose days I now know are numbered.
Okay, that's obviously an overstatement. But it really is great. It's my new favorite Linklater film. Well, no - nothing he does will ever top Before Sunrise. But Jack Black is - as usual - fanTAStic. And all those kids were amazing. And, for all you Rent-heads, the stupendous Adam Pascal (aka Roger) is in this movie as well - looking his usual gorgeous self and singing with his usual amazing pipes.
My only problem was the audience. They were way too tame and SO not rock and roll. There were hardly any laughs, and when people should have been whooping and clapping or getting up and banging their heads to the music, they just sat there. Like it was just another movie. I got my ya-yas out on the way home, though, driving with the window rolled down and the radio cranked up. Awwww, yeah.
I'm finally getting some stuff put away in the new house, and I'm in the process of reading Northanger Abbey for the first time. I know I shouldn't pass judgement on characters yet, but I find John Thorpe highly annoying. Every time he appears on the page I am reminded of a certain H/Hr shipper who is also very free with his opinions, and will not support the idea that anyone has any ideas that contradict his own. However, I did love Thorpe's comments on novels - that there hadn't been a decent novel since Tom Jones and that he admired The Monk as well. Having read both of those for an 18th Century British Novel class in college (and having utterly loved both), I couldn't help but admire his taste. His comments, though, were not half so amusing as Austen's own defense of the novel. I love her even better than I thought I did. And her constant pointing out of Catherine as the "heroine" as well as comments on the standard role of the heroine and expected behavior of a heroine are the best parts of the books so far. I feel sorry for Catherine, though. Her attachment to Isabella and, consequentially, her obligatory acquaintance with John Thorpe, is proving to be more trouble than it seems to be worth at present.
And I am finally one chapter away from my second read of OotP. I can't get anything read when I am constantly flipping through trying to find the best new defense for my shipping stance. This is yet another excellent reason for me to abandon the DT altogether, but I doubt I ever will until I've read book 7. But once I read the last chapter, I'll have read all the books twice and can start again with Sorcerer's Stone. Gosh, it'll be strange to read that after all the angst of OotP. And I really don't look forward to re-reading PoA and every mention of a certain character whose days I now know are numbered.
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It sounds like you are reading NA from *exactly* the right perspective. Errr, I mean the perspective the author intended. Not that that MATTERS, of course!
*gives up*
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For some incredible reason, JA didn't give Fielding the respect he so richly deserved. I think she believed he encouraged poor morality. I've never understood what she saw in Richardson, instead.
Wait until you read the literature discussion in the fragment "Sanditon" -- it's classic!
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Have you read the walk that Catherine takes with Mr. & Miss Tilney yet? Henry's views on the novel are conisderably more well-informed for the time period than Thorpe's. Thorpe's comments, in fact, show his ignorance as far as novels are concerned, where Henry's well-expressed sentiments on the various Gothic novels in vogue at the time show him the be a very well-read man. Interesting that the hero of Austen's novel would be one who has the supposedly low-brow taste, and the rattle would be one who disclaims knowledge of the literary world.
I'm glad you're liking NA. Many people look down on it, but I think her asides to the audience and gentle (or not-so-gentle) satire on novels of the time are hilarious.
And I want to marry Henry. :P
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I love Tom Jones and The Monk, though. The professor of that 18th Cent. British Novel course for which I read them both (and Emma) said he was convinced that Jane Austen was the illegitimate daughter of Henry Fielding, because their style and sense of humor are so similar, though he gave Austen credit for being much more subtle.
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Anyway, our horror genre is almost entirely based on the Gothic of the late 1700's and early 1800's. Frankenstein is another good example. Modern-day examples would be Fear Street and Goosebumps.