Oh, no need to apologise! RL has been quite busy on my end, too.
Mmm, PoT! I've never actually seen Lawrence of Arabia, first because I never got around to it growing up, and then because I decided I'd better read Seven Pillars of Wisdom and Graves' Lawrence and the Arabs before I watched it and those books are still in my TBR "pile". I'll have to confess that this is a recurrent theme in my life, the wanting to read before watching. As for Becket, the closest I've gotten is being outside the cathedral in Canterbury. Sigh. But I do have Eliot's play for a rainy day. And I have to confess that I haven't seen the 1968 The Lion in Winter, though my mother DVR:ed recently for me (so it's on my to do-list). By chance, I saw Glenn Close channelling Kate Hepburn with Patrick Stewart about two years ago in the remake. Not quite the same thing, though.
OK then. :-) I think I might have to prod QoT about it, as she haven't given me her address yet. Then again, I haven't really had time to fix copies...
My area is more the visual culture and cinematography of films (and art), so while I love certain actors I'm afraid I don't always give them the attention they deserve. I do wonder though, how it must be for actors with a theatrical background to make the transition to screen, and vice versa. Theater has always struck me as much more direct and intimate than cinema/television. The former gives an almost immediate response to a performance, whereas the latter pretty much excludes the audience from the de facto performance.
Actually, I'm quite visuospatial myself, but I'm mainly into linguistics and cognitive science so spoken and non-verbal communication is fascinating, which is why I quite like certain actors in films and television. As for theatre vs screen, it's not a definite either/or issue. I mean yes, the raw, tangible, presence thing is of course hugely important, but a good director and DP can give certain benefits when it comes to facial acting that is often lost to a big part of a live audience. I think. So, I really prefer both, if I can have them.
To some extent I can relate to that. I used to read a lot of fantasy, but at one point I became tired of the poor farmboy accepting his inheritance/powers, the wise old mage, the dragons and possibly the elves,and so I quit.
See? :-D But yes, I'm not saying I dislike all fantasy, it's more that I prefer to read in lots of different genres and well, time is not infinite though it is a construct.
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Date: 2009-09-17 10:17 pm (UTC)Mmm, PoT! I've never actually seen Lawrence of Arabia, first because I never got around to it growing up, and then because I decided I'd better read Seven Pillars of Wisdom and Graves' Lawrence and the Arabs before I watched it and those books are still in my TBR "pile". I'll have to confess that this is a recurrent theme in my life, the wanting to read before watching. As for Becket, the closest I've gotten is being outside the cathedral in Canterbury. Sigh. But I do have Eliot's play for a rainy day. And I have to confess that I haven't seen the 1968 The Lion in Winter, though my mother DVR:ed recently for me (so it's on my to do-list). By chance, I saw Glenn Close channelling Kate Hepburn with Patrick Stewart about two years ago in the remake. Not quite the same thing, though.
OK then. :-) I think I might have to prod QoT about it, as she haven't given me her address yet. Then again, I haven't really had time to fix copies...
My area is more the visual culture and cinematography of films (and art), so while I love certain actors I'm afraid I don't always give them the attention they deserve. I do wonder though, how it must be for actors with a theatrical background to make the transition to screen, and vice versa. Theater has always struck me as much more direct and intimate than cinema/television. The former gives an almost immediate response to a performance, whereas the latter pretty much excludes the audience from the de facto performance.
Actually, I'm quite visuospatial myself, but I'm mainly into linguistics and cognitive science so spoken and non-verbal communication is fascinating, which is why I quite like certain actors in films and television. As for theatre vs screen, it's not a definite either/or issue. I mean yes, the raw, tangible, presence thing is of course hugely important, but a good director and DP can give certain benefits when it comes to facial acting that is often lost to a big part of a live audience. I think. So, I really prefer both, if I can have them.
To some extent I can relate to that. I used to read a lot of fantasy, but at one point I became tired of the poor farmboy accepting his inheritance/powers, the wise old mage, the dragons and possibly the elves,and so I quit.
See? :-D But yes, I'm not saying I dislike all fantasy, it's more that I prefer to read in lots of different genres and well, time is not infinite
though it is a construct.