The really fascinating thing would be in the performance and costuming. Did the Elizabethan actors use the cross-dressing as a way to just be the dudes they were, or did they play up the man playing a woman playing a man thing? Either way, the first would read as just brazenly gay while the second would be high camp.
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The use of another friend-couple’s drama as the romantic obstacle for Our Leads to overcome remains the perfect example of the trope. It’s so much realer and better than a misheard conversation, half-confession or other farcical misunderstanding, and as the article notes, it gives them the chance to have each others’…
Shakespeare’s my favorite writer, but I’ll admit I’m generally not a fan of his comedies. They rely to a large extent on archaic puns and wordplay that don’t really translate to the 21st century - someone (I’ve forgotten who) once joked that you can forgive people who miss Shakespeare’s double entendres, since…
I read Caroline’s idea more that Shakespeare created and codified many of the templates for the different types of romantic comedies that continue until today. I’d venture that Shakespeare is more widely read/popular consistently and has a greater influence on the development of certain genre. Also, since…
I think in both cases, the secondary romantic pairing fulfills the function of the “MacGuffin” in a Hitchcock movie: it’s the device that keeps the plot mechanics in motion, and all the characters in the story are obsessed by it, but the audience couldn't care less.
Wait, so you’re telling me it was SHAKESPEARE that created the classic trope of being chased out of a room by a bear?!
I think there will thousands of Tim Horton’s cups dropped in shock and anger in Canada upon reading of Keanu Reeves described as a “well-known American actor”.
I had one of my favorite movie experiences when I went to see the Joss Whedon version. It was a matinee on a Wednesday or Thursday so the audience was mostly retirees. Just as I was leaving when the movie ended, this old man sitting a few seats away from me - he must have been in his late 70s / early 80s - turned to…
I just got done doing an entire series rewatch, and Brooks was so good as Robinette. I’m glad that the character got a little more fleshed out in the guest appearances after leaving the D.A.’s office, because he got stuck with a lot of the white writers’ early 90s takes about race and it always involved Robinette…
Robinette naively informs Black congressman Ronald Eaton (an obvious Al Sharpton stand-in) that “we’re past the separate drinking-fountain stage. We’re past legal discrimination. We’re at the hearts and minds stage.”
Found the Bills fan.
D.C Redskins
Looking forward to seeing the new name: The D.C. Redskins.
The bar is so low for men and yet they fail at basic decency. Ugh.
Well. Fuck. I read something about this earlier in the week, but since the only source quoted was a tweet, I though it might be BS. Well, then , fuck.
Same. I love that Catherine in this show is idealistic, naieve but smart enough to learn --- the ‘tea cake dance’ episode is perfect in showing it. It’s nice to be somewhat anti-Jane-Austen in the sense that she’s bold and intelligent but also entirely out of her depth and ideals.
I will always think of Nicholas Hoult as the boy in “About a Boy”. He was just a kid and so good. Just heartbreaking. It always makes me think "Good for him!!" when I see him in other things. He turned out so handsome! And so talented!
Nicholas Hoult was great in The Favourite* so being in a not dissimilar kind of role alone puts it on the must check out list at least.
