Misc.

[magid]

Sign I've been working on math too long:
consistently typing 'anglefish' rather than 'angelfish'.

Things that don't belong in the same sentence: Quentin Tarantino and Muppets.

They're redoing the street near my house, which means construction sounds early each morning. Monday, the cop told me that they'd be repaving the street Thursday night, starting at 11 pm. I decided to sleep at home anyway, and got a good night's sleep... because, as I found out this morning, the repaving didn't happen yet. It'll be tonight, starting at 9 pm, instead. Sigh. The kind offers of alternate places to stay won't work for me on Shabbat...

Impulse buy last night: half a dozen fresh lichees.

As with what I remember of the book, Vanity Fair seemed somewhat unfocused. And a number of the characters in the movie never aged. The costumes were lovely, however, and the jumps mostly comprehensible.

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[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Things that don't belong in the same sentence: Quentin Tarantino and Muppets.

I have this vision now of Fozzie Bear doing John Travolta's "Royale with Cheese" speach from Pulp Fiction.

Thanks, I think.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Um, you're welcome?

I'm one of the three people who've never seen Pulp Fiction, actually.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Actually, I've never seen the movie either. but I've seen that scene repeatedly, as it's the one they usually excerpt for clip shows. :)

[magid.livejournal.com]

Clip show? What's a clip show?

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Like an awards show, or a nostalgia show (VH1's "I Love Last Thursday"), etc.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Okay, question for you, as the only person I know so far who's seen Vanity Fair (*and* read the book): When I first saw the trailer several weeks back, it looked like it was ultimately a tragedy. Now the TV ads for it are making it look like a comedy. Which is it, and is it basically true to the spirit of the book?

[magid.livejournal.com]

I read the book an age and a half ago, and don't remember a lot about it. What I remember of it does match the movie fairly well.

It's really neither a comedy nor a tragedy, more like a social-climber's life that has some spectacular ups and downs. I think the movie portrayed the heroine more sympathetically than the book for much of it, which made the downs a bit less comprehensible. I didn't love the book, and while I found the movie a bit easier to follow, it neither fit a classic movie plot sort of mold, nor broke a mold. I did like how they jumped from one scene to the next, assuming the audience had picked up on all the plot points the director had intended. Oh, and the costumes are lovely, if you like that period.

I didn't think it was wonderful, and probably not worth paying full price, unless one happened to be a fan of the book.