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...Because Hollywood's tossing us a movie version of the Les Miserable musical this Christmas. I am...interested. I've actually read the book, in its door-stopper entirety, because, well, I like books like that. I'm curious to see what the American movie process makes of Hugo's basic " wow rich people suck but God is on the side of the poor I guess" message.
Also, Hugh Jackman. So that's a plus.
I'm not going to pretend I don't like musicals; I love musicals. I have more soundtracks in my collection than any other kind of music. I have seen musicals about love, gods, and zombies, and I enjoyed them all. But that doesn't mean I love musical *movies*. Musicals, like Shakespeare, are something I almost always love in theaters and only sometimes like onscreen. There's a certain unreality created in live theater that makes the weirdness of sudden singing and dancing more acceptable, somehow. Movies seem to be pushing for an acceptance of story-as-reality that can make anything artificial or even unlikely perversely harder to accept.
I wish I had a term for this viewer-collaboration mindset. Ne-Kulturny that I am, I'm stuck with saying "That thing, like when you're reading a book you don't need to know what the protagonist looks like to live behind their eyes, but in a movie that would be forced, and so audience mindset sort of changes to allow for the limits of the medium but then that very mindset becomes a tool of the medium itself". It's a big mouthful and if anyone knows the proper terminology I would appreciate hearing it.
In related new, two pages today! I would have had one up last week but apparently internet post-election fallout clogged the pipes here on Wednesday morning?!? And I post Wednesdays, not Thursday or later. So here, have two pages, with way more detail added.
Also, Hugh Jackman. So that's a plus.
I'm not going to pretend I don't like musicals; I love musicals. I have more soundtracks in my collection than any other kind of music. I have seen musicals about love, gods, and zombies, and I enjoyed them all. But that doesn't mean I love musical *movies*. Musicals, like Shakespeare, are something I almost always love in theaters and only sometimes like onscreen. There's a certain unreality created in live theater that makes the weirdness of sudden singing and dancing more acceptable, somehow. Movies seem to be pushing for an acceptance of story-as-reality that can make anything artificial or even unlikely perversely harder to accept.
I wish I had a term for this viewer-collaboration mindset. Ne-Kulturny that I am, I'm stuck with saying "That thing, like when you're reading a book you don't need to know what the protagonist looks like to live behind their eyes, but in a movie that would be forced, and so audience mindset sort of changes to allow for the limits of the medium but then that very mindset becomes a tool of the medium itself". It's a big mouthful and if anyone knows the proper terminology I would appreciate hearing it.
In related new, two pages today! I would have had one up last week but apparently internet post-election fallout clogged the pipes here on Wednesday morning?!? And I post Wednesdays, not Thursday or later. So here, have two pages, with way more detail added.
Coming Up For Air
*GASP*
Ok, you know my last blog?
The one about how I was working so hard, and oh boy, I was finally going to see Les Miserables?
Well, both things continued true. I've been working at a prodigious rate, pictures every day, multiple comics every week! Just not here!
And I saw the movie! I loved the movie! I laughed, I cried, IT CHANGED MY LIFE.
...That's not hyperbole.
See, I have a Tumblr. I didn't use it much before this year, it was basically a message center for myself and a few friends. But after the movie I felt the need to draw some silly SILLY fanart to offset the horrible overwhelming waves of confused elated grief I was dealin
Starting the Year Right
With a page! I am so tempted to give you more pages than one, but that would kinda kill my buffer, and that would destroy the whole point of this past break, right? So here, have one page and my tongue-biting restraint. Did you miss long dialogue exhchanges? I sure hope you did, because they are back with a vengeance!
I always feel like I should say something interesting when I update, but lettering, as I always do on update nights, uses up all my wordbrains. But tomorrow I'm going to finally go see Les Miserables, so I bet I'll have plenty of talkingness after that! Meantime, I've got some sketching to get to. 2013, I am going to do right
Happy New Year! 2013 Edition!
It feels weird to say I have New Year resolutions. That sounds so imposing. I'm sitting here with my New Year's Eve dinner (greens and cornbread and blackeyed peas, because I am a Texan hick) and I don't feel intimidated or bound to impress in the new year. I feel excited and jittery like a five year old expecting a day at the fair. There's so much I want to try in 2013! I want to post my pages more regularly (and that starts this Wednesday!), and to improve my art across the board, because WOW, I am weak in a lot of key areas. I want to practice my life art skills and get myself up to speed-- and anyone who wants to join me can generally fi
Merry Krimuhannukwanzayulstice!
I don't really care why you might be celebrating today, but I hope you are! I hope your day is bright, and full of people you like and good things to eat and maybe some pleasant surprises. With gift wrap.
I am certainly going to have a fantastic Santa Party Time, with pie in the oven and duck for dinner and all my favorite people around. Except you, loyal readers! But if you were here I would totally give you cookies and we could sing Lovecraft Christmas Carols and set off firecrackers, and it would be awesome. Thanks for sticking around this year!
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The one thing I like about musical movies is that I can sit people down and finally make them watch the thing and not have to try to explain the entire plot every time we're on a car trip and one of the songs pops up in my shuffle playlist. >.> Without having to drive six hours to NY and actually take them to a show. I am not as attached to Les Mis as I am to, say, Phantom of the Opera (grew up listening to the soundtrack to that one), so we'll see how the movie goes. And I will second the "ugh, Marius and Cosette." Also, your post title wins.