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[green_queen]

I really fucking hate this assignment.

To be honest, I just think the Play Into Film people ask bad essay questions. I've realised that this one is as difficult as the last. They think they're clever but really they don't give you anywhere to go, and yet limit your freedom to explore the question. It's stupid.

I've got a little over 200 of 2000 words done. I'm going into uni tomorrow for about 4 hours to try and get the whole damn thing done then.

Today I sat for hours trying to do that, went to Hoyts but discovered they don't hold tickets and I couldn't buy enough for everybody, missed work because I was trying to work on this bloody essay (which I eventually deleted about 500 words of because it was crap) and eventually became completely apathetic and slumped in front of the TV watching Disney and Soundtrack Channel until Queer Eye came on and the family came home.

MIRIAM IS NOT A MAN! And if I see one more ad claiming she is I'm going to throw my cushion at the screen. I'm sick of it.

Andie! You Goonie!

Pics of the Day are PoA covers from around the globe, because there's nothing new around and I'm lazy.




In Catalan.


from Denmark.


from Finland, one of my favourites. Their Ron, Harry and Hermione are so perfectly bizarre-looking.


I have added the first three books in French on my Wish List at amazon.com and will buy them one day, so I can actually study French while having fun. Egads.


The German covers are my all-time favourites.


Iranian


Italy


My Japanese PoA has gone missing :( I know it's around *somewhere* but when Yumi was here (the homestay) Clare wanted to let her cheat and read the third book first because it was the only one I had in Japanese, so I hid it and now I can't find it.


In Dutch


I quite like the Russian ones, though their Hermione's a bit odd.


Spanish


and finally Swedish.

Fuck you Tom Stoppard
Green Queen

Comments

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

LOL okay.

I actually love R&G are dead, but I hate writing a bad essay on it.

[poor-choices.livejournal.com]

Have you read The Invention of Love? It's my favorite of his plays. Definately a fangirl kind of play, because it has canon RPS, but also great for me because it's a Classics/poetry play too. And, of course, it's Stoppard, so it's witty and wonderful.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

no but I'll definitely look into it.
ack. more than 900 words to go and I have to go to work in an hour. Somehow I don't think this essay will be finished today.

Unless you can tell me something about the faithfulness of the film to the play?

[poor-choices.livejournal.com]

I only watched the start of the film, but I didn't like it as much. I thought that the presentation of the coin flip wasn't as effective in the film as in the play, because by spreading it out more the events seemed more isolated. In the play, since the coin flips came one after another, it was more noticeable, but if I remember correctly, in the film the beginning was spaced out in such a way that they took longer and it lost much of its effect.

Woo?

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

I was so distracted by Gary Oldman being all cute and cuddly that I wasn't paying much attention to what was going on, actually. I thought there were some really funny moments but I don't think it worked as well as the play (which is what I'm talking about in my assingment.)

I hadn't read the play before I saw the film. I've read it now and I do think it would work better as a play--or directed by someone else as a film.

[poor-choices.livejournal.com]

I saw the play a while ago, and I've read it. I was too tired to watch the whole movie, but I didn't like it as much, even if Stoppard was the director. It works very well as a play, but watching the film, I actually felt like there was too much scenery. It seems like a sparser play, one that shouldn't have trees and horses and houses. It's hard to explain.