Re: Musings on Beowulf and Grendel

From: Gerald Bosch <gbosch_at_...>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:21:23 -0400


My alma mater has a large theater arts program. They once did a version of a Greek play (The Trojan Women, I think...) set in outer space- Chorus: "See the sails unfurled in the solar winds!"

BTW I lost most hope for "Alexander" when I saw the trailer. Colin Farrell delivers a line about fighting for the "freedom of Greece" (flash to Mel in blueface). This supposedly from the son of Philip II...

Gerald

>The term "re-imagining" is used on the website. That last time I saw
>"re-imagining" it was Tim Burton describing his Planet of the Apes. I
>won't comment any further.

  In our household "re-imagining" a movie means: "Screw up the plot to add   wire-fu stunts" (cf the "re-imagining" of Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes,   and The Musketeer, which came out within a month or so of PotA.) We had lots   of fun "re-imaginging" classic movies: Casablanca, Rick and Major Strasse   have a Wire-fu battle in the hanger. Gone with the Wind, where the entire   Civil War is refought with Wire-fu. Wuthering Heights, re-cast in the 21st   century, with Heathcliff as a street-tough punk (with Wire-fu skills). The   list just goes on and on... (They've alrady done "Romeo Must Die" with Jet   Li, so that takes care of Romeo and Juliet)

  RR
  C'est par mon ordre et pour le bien de l'Etat que le porteur du présent a   fait ce qu'il a fait. 

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