Five Questions Meme, Part 1
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osprey_archerYou all asked some great questions for the Five Favorite Things Meme! I am so verbose in response (really, does this surprise anyone?) that I’m going to have to break it up
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entwashian, who cheated and asked two. First: Top Five TV shows That Would Make Great Movies.
Man, this is hard. I usually like TV shows because they do things that movies can’t, with their long drifting character arcs. But I tried!
1. I want a Bewitched movie that is actually good, rather than that piece of crap Will Ferrell and Nicole Kidman starred in. They completely misunderstood Samantha’s character - I realize Kidman wasn’t technically playing Samantha, but she’s clearly a parallel character. They seem to be under the impression that Samantha is like a witch version of I Dream of Jeannie, which she isn’t: she’s kind and thoughtful and smart, and her magic causes problems because Darren, sweet though he is, is also kind of sexist and must grapple with his issues about his wife being more powerful than he is.
...Yes, I may be a little too invested in Darren and Samantha’s relationship. I’m just saying, a movie that actually dealt with these issues rather than tossing them in a romantic comedy cliche blender could be a lot of fun.
2. I like Garrow’s Law the show a lot, but I think Garrow’s Law the movie could be excellent. They could sharpen up Garrow’s character and present him as more of idealist (which might be historically inaccurate? But it would make his character even more appealing to me) and end with Garrow and Lady Sarah riding a coach into the sunset.
3. This is not a whole show condensed into a movie, but an AU Sybil & Branson movie would be amazing. Instead of settling down in Dublin to have babies, they go to Russia to report on the Revolution! There could be espionage and desperate “I think maybe we’re going to die soon” kisses and beautiful scenery and trains!
4. The Avengers. Has anyone else seen this show? It is from the 1960s and British and amazing, and stars Diana Rigg as Emma Peel, who, with her partner John Steed (why no, his name is not suggestive at all) fight deliciously comical bad guys who are threatening Britain with various ridiculous things. (There are other seasons without Emma Peel, but they do not count.) I vote for a movie version of the episode with the Hellfire Club.
5. NCIS. Not of the whole show, you understand; I just want a movie that involves Ziva Looking Pretty and also fighting bad guys. Preferably while Gibbs is in a coma somewhere? I KNOW. That can be the plot! NCIS has been attacked, leaving Gibbs in a coma and the others injured, leaving only Ziva to bring down the bad guys who did it!
And then, she asked: Top Five Movies That Would Make Good TV Shows. This was way easier.
1. Prince Valiant! Okay, this is a comic that was made into a movie, but seriously, who doesn’t want a TV show about an Arthurian knight named Prince Valiant who spends a lot of time shirtless having a vaguely slashy relationship with Sir Gawain and an adorable romance with his wife Aleta, never mind the part where they get together when he kidnaps her from the Greek Island she rules.
Seriously, I think maybe we should change that for the show.
But there’s Arthuriana and Vikings and the fall of Rome and dashing around Constantinople and vaguely pagan priestesses in stone circles! It would be the most awesome show ever.
2. The Hobbit. A home improvement show: cooking and interior design in Hobbiton, landscaping in Rivendell, and learning how to work that ostentation with the elves.
3. The Hobbit. Possibly using The Hobbit twice is cheating? Whatevs, man. A travel show in Middle Earth: complete tours of Rivendell and Lothlorien, some warg-hunting tips, maybe an adventure travel section with the Rohirrim.
4. The Devil Wears Prada. I could watch the twists and turns of Miranda & Andi’s fascinatingly terrible relationship for hours, especially if it has lots of New York scenery (Central Park scenes!) and trips to Paris and Vienna and Milan and tons of beautiful clothes.
5. Completely obscure movie time! A series based Song of Love, this beautiful 40s movie starring Katherine Hepburn as Clara Schumann, Schumann’s concert-pianist wife. Something exploring the world of composers at that time: Schumann and Clara Schumann, Brahms (who was Schumann’s protege and looooooved Clara, in a chaste “if only you weren’t married to my teacher” kind of way), Liszt, Chopin...
My understanding of Chopin and Liszt comes entirely from Kate Beaton’s Chopin and Liszt comic. It would be awesome if in the show they are pretty much just like that.
But probably the producers would feel the need to sex up Clara and Brahms’ relationship, and ugh. What makes it so appealing (although also so sad) is that they’re both too honorable to have any kind of affair - and Clara loves Schumann too much to want to - and after Schumann’s death, that still stands between them, though they do adore each other.
First,
entwashian, who cheated and asked two. First: Top Five TV shows That Would Make Great Movies.Man, this is hard. I usually like TV shows because they do things that movies can’t, with their long drifting character arcs. But I tried!
1. I want a Bewitched movie that is actually good, rather than that piece of crap Will Ferrell and Nicole Kidman starred in. They completely misunderstood Samantha’s character - I realize Kidman wasn’t technically playing Samantha, but she’s clearly a parallel character. They seem to be under the impression that Samantha is like a witch version of I Dream of Jeannie, which she isn’t: she’s kind and thoughtful and smart, and her magic causes problems because Darren, sweet though he is, is also kind of sexist and must grapple with his issues about his wife being more powerful than he is.
...Yes, I may be a little too invested in Darren and Samantha’s relationship. I’m just saying, a movie that actually dealt with these issues rather than tossing them in a romantic comedy cliche blender could be a lot of fun.
2. I like Garrow’s Law the show a lot, but I think Garrow’s Law the movie could be excellent. They could sharpen up Garrow’s character and present him as more of idealist (which might be historically inaccurate? But it would make his character even more appealing to me) and end with Garrow and Lady Sarah riding a coach into the sunset.
3. This is not a whole show condensed into a movie, but an AU Sybil & Branson movie would be amazing. Instead of settling down in Dublin to have babies, they go to Russia to report on the Revolution! There could be espionage and desperate “I think maybe we’re going to die soon” kisses and beautiful scenery and trains!
4. The Avengers. Has anyone else seen this show? It is from the 1960s and British and amazing, and stars Diana Rigg as Emma Peel, who, with her partner John Steed (why no, his name is not suggestive at all) fight deliciously comical bad guys who are threatening Britain with various ridiculous things. (There are other seasons without Emma Peel, but they do not count.) I vote for a movie version of the episode with the Hellfire Club.
5. NCIS. Not of the whole show, you understand; I just want a movie that involves Ziva Looking Pretty and also fighting bad guys. Preferably while Gibbs is in a coma somewhere? I KNOW. That can be the plot! NCIS has been attacked, leaving Gibbs in a coma and the others injured, leaving only Ziva to bring down the bad guys who did it!
And then, she asked: Top Five Movies That Would Make Good TV Shows. This was way easier.
1. Prince Valiant! Okay, this is a comic that was made into a movie, but seriously, who doesn’t want a TV show about an Arthurian knight named Prince Valiant who spends a lot of time shirtless having a vaguely slashy relationship with Sir Gawain and an adorable romance with his wife Aleta, never mind the part where they get together when he kidnaps her from the Greek Island she rules.
Seriously, I think maybe we should change that for the show.
But there’s Arthuriana and Vikings and the fall of Rome and dashing around Constantinople and vaguely pagan priestesses in stone circles! It would be the most awesome show ever.
2. The Hobbit. A home improvement show: cooking and interior design in Hobbiton, landscaping in Rivendell, and learning how to work that ostentation with the elves.
3. The Hobbit. Possibly using The Hobbit twice is cheating? Whatevs, man. A travel show in Middle Earth: complete tours of Rivendell and Lothlorien, some warg-hunting tips, maybe an adventure travel section with the Rohirrim.
4. The Devil Wears Prada. I could watch the twists and turns of Miranda & Andi’s fascinatingly terrible relationship for hours, especially if it has lots of New York scenery (Central Park scenes!) and trips to Paris and Vienna and Milan and tons of beautiful clothes.
5. Completely obscure movie time! A series based Song of Love, this beautiful 40s movie starring Katherine Hepburn as Clara Schumann, Schumann’s concert-pianist wife. Something exploring the world of composers at that time: Schumann and Clara Schumann, Brahms (who was Schumann’s protege and looooooved Clara, in a chaste “if only you weren’t married to my teacher” kind of way), Liszt, Chopin...
My understanding of Chopin and Liszt comes entirely from Kate Beaton’s Chopin and Liszt comic. It would be awesome if in the show they are pretty much just like that.
But probably the producers would feel the need to sex up Clara and Brahms’ relationship, and ugh. What makes it so appealing (although also so sad) is that they’re both too honorable to have any kind of affair - and Clara loves Schumann too much to want to - and after Schumann’s death, that still stands between them, though they do adore each other.
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Date: 2013-02-05 08:20 pm (UTC)I think it would have to be a period movie set in the 60's so that Steed can wear his hat as something that people actually do wear normally and a secret weapon, rather than a weird affectation.
ISTR there was actually an Avengers movie in the 90's with Ralph Fiennes, but it was supposed to be terrible, I haven't seen it.
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Date: 2013-02-05 08:42 pm (UTC)I've also heard of this terrible 90s Avengers movie. Apparently they set it in the 90s, and that right there tells you they just don't understand the true glory of the Avengers.
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Date: 2013-02-05 09:17 pm (UTC)I can attest from observation that being a man who regularly wears a bowler gets you a lot of comments in this day and age. Curiously, none of them seem to be about secret weapon possibilities...
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Date: 2013-02-05 10:38 pm (UTC)Oh that crazy Robert, always flinging himself into the Rhine, or trying to make his hands grow five sizes...
Clara Schumann & the men that make her life harder, oh.
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Date: 2013-02-06 03:10 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-02-06 06:36 am (UTC)LOL starring Emma Peel... you must've watched some very different Avengers episodes than I!
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Date: 2013-02-06 01:28 pm (UTC)Or are you thinking of the animated comics Avengers?
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Date: 2013-02-10 07:57 am (UTC)