ka-ching.

[pipistrellafelix]

It's the best feeling in the world--when I'm writing a paper and am faced with a quote and a paragraph to write, and utterly nothing to say...I know it's important, it has to be, it's part of the sequence, but I just can't figure out how--and then suddenly I know, like lightning in my head, a perfect connection. And I type it: there you are, one fabulous made-to-order paragraph that sounds oh so literary and smart. I love that feeling. Hot damn, I feel good.

(Also, I LOVE SNOW.)

Comments

[lady-magpie.livejournal.com]

Go you!

[elanor-two.livejournal.com]

Ehehe. I feel like such a GOOD student when that happens, it's so much fun.

May you have many ka-ching moments in your papers...*sends happy academia vibes to Portland for you and Allie and Anna and Quig*

[whatisnode.livejournal.com]

I KNOW! Snow, and writing. Right now I'm in the computer lab at school helping my friend write her essay, and trying not to be loudly giddy about the fact that we have a white blanket of snow right oustide the door... *(^O^)*

[elanor-two.livejournal.com]

Hey, you and me both--well, both in the computer lab and all thrilled about snow. Heh.

(Hey, on an entirely different topic--you wants to help me get a big ol' group together to go see BXPE on actor benefit night?)

[countcomfect.livejournal.com]

Let's see the paragraph. C'mon...

I'm a junkie for that stuff.

WANT SNOW HERE

[elanor-two.livejournal.com]

(okie, i posted it...but the comment went all weird. it's there though.)

okay, an edited version, cause it's long

[elanor-two.livejournal.com]

The bathtub scene of the movie...
Orsino:How will she love when the rich golden shaft
Hath killed the flock of all affections else
That live in her--when liver, brain and heart
...are all supplied...with one self king! (1.1.34-38)
Viola: Sir, shall I to this lady?
Orsino: Ay, that�s the theme. To her in haste.
Tell her my love will give no place, bide no denay. (2.4.122-4)

Taking lines from two different scenes, Nunn creates a new one, as he has been doing through the whole film. Like the first fragment of the "O Mistress Mine" sequence, many of the lines are from 1.1--but Viola has to hear them, because she is our lens through which we see Orsino. By taking lines from the very first scene and putting them nearer the end, Nunn emphasizes that Orsino's love for Olivia has not undergone any change throughout the story--it is stagnant, the same idealized, unrequited and unproductive relationship from the beginning to the end. Juxtaposed with Cesario, this is even clearer: we have seen Viola's love for Orsino grow throughout the story, just as we have seen Orsino becoming friends with his new servant. We see that their relationship is a changing one, and thus a richer and more rewarding one, than Orsino's non-relationship with Olivia.

(God that's long. It's the whole "non changing relationship = lines from beginning" that I was all proud of.)

Re: okay, an edited version, cause it's long

[(Anonymous)]

Sweet.
-PRG