I watched Duplicity (Julia Roberts, Clive Owen) on dvd last night and it was really good! I appreciated it as a viewer and from a writing standpoint as well. The dialogue was snappy and intelligent and so was the story. The ending really impressed me as well because it was different, but the perfect way to conclude everything at the same time.*
*The above positive review may have been affected by the conditions in which I watched the movie; with insanely delicious chocolate chip cookies, milk, and unbeatable company. ;)
I'm reading The Crucible because it's one of the Year 12 VCE English texts for this year, and I decided it would be fun to go back to high school and pretend to be a Year 12 student again. Or maybe I'm just reading it because I'm tutoring a girl who's doing Year 12 English this year. Or maybe I am a figment of your imaginorium... Regardless, it is different reading a play again. Quite different.
In fiction-writing (at uni) we've been discussing unreliable narrators, such as the murderer in Poe's 'Tell Tale Heart'. I quite like the idea of the narrator telling you one story, when in actuality something entirely different is happening, and the reader has to piece that together for him/herself. We did an exercise in class in which we had to write a short piece told by an unreliable narrator that was slightly kookoo. I handed it in at the end of class but should get it back on Monday, and if I do I will post it up on here. It's only very short - had barely 15 minutes to write it. Nevertheless I was quite happy with it. It started with, "Today my name is Harry." Which was inspired by someone stealing my name badge at Coles, and me being 'Justin' for the last few days.
Well, that's about it for things on my mind at the moment. Yes, it's an exciting place my headspace. Very echoey. :)
Sorry for the break in posts. And thanks for your research into the Latin language Luke. Maybe you could find out what the words for 'Nag', 'Pester' and 'Bother' are. I might need an array of Latin words to describe someone's behaviour of late. :P
Dale.
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I've been meaning to see Duplicity, so good to hear you liked it. (I enjoyed Michael Clayton - think that was written by the same guy.) Unless of course you didn't like it and this is all some elaborate practice for being an unreliable narrator. Hmmm. It would fit, as I can't imagine anyone ever nagging you... Anywho, thanks for the update, Justin. (Nice first sentence, btw. Oh, not the one in this blog - I give that only, um, 3/10, but the Harry one in your story. I give it 9/10.) :p
Wow, Paul was right, it really is neck and neck between blog posts versus layout changes. :p I must commend you on the new layout though. Why? Because you stole my future layout! Well, you stole it before I could steal it anyway - I saw it here, recently: http://mscriptparadigm.blogspot.com/
and liked it. Carry on. :)
Oops.
I didn't mean to future-steal from you. And grrrr about someone else having this layout (which I really dig - yes, that's right, dig :)).
And I genuinely, reliably recommend you see Duplicity. Whole-heartedly. ;)
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