After I wrote: <Ah, but have you tried turning the sound off completely and making up new dialogue as it goes along? Even when you make up total nonsense, it tends to improve matters quite a lot.>
Una murmured: <I can smell burning video-tape...>
But - but - it's *true* - just try muting the Servalan/Dayna torture scene and imagining them reciting 'The Hunting of the Snark' instread. And Justin is *much* easier to take if his lines are by Edward Lear instead of Allan Prior ...
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Sally wrote:
After I wrote: <Ah, but have you tried turning the sound off completely and making up new dialogue as it goes along? Even when you make up total nonsense, it tends to improve matters quite a lot.>
Una murmured:
<I can smell burning video-tape...>
But - but - it's *true* - just try muting the Servalan/Dayna torture scene and imagining them reciting 'The Hunting of the Snark' instread. And Justin is *much* easier to take if his lines are by Edward Lear instead of Allan Prior ...
Or bits of the Goon Show.
Could this be the way to salvage Power as well?
We could have them doing readings from Wollstonecraft.
Una
--- Sally Manton smanton@hotmail.com wrote: >
Could this be the way to salvage Power as well?
The Ultimate Fan-fic challenge. Write a script for Power which is faithful to the action on the screen but lacks Steed's misogynist agenda.
Frankly, if I had time I'd be tempted to try.
Stephen.
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Stephen said:
The Ultimate Fan-fic challenge. Write a script for Power which is faithful to the action on the screen but lacks Steed's misogynist agenda.
Brechtian alienation effects? There have been some --well, depending on your viewpoint--interesting or pointless feminist productions of Taming of the Shrew.
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