20 Feb
2001
20 Feb
'01
8:16 p.m.
Iain said:
Just think how little you would have to change 'Fawlty Towers' to make it the tragic tale of one man's spiraling self-destruction in a changing world he no longer understands.
Err, a lot actually, because tragedy has to be about the fall of a noble character--now defined as an exceptional individual rather than someone who happened to be born a king and not just some guy--not just an awful thing happening to an ordinary or trivial person.
-(Y)