tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post6015842820398680283..comments2024-03-27T01:28:28.346-07:00Comments on False Machine: The Pale Stagepjamesstuarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-2711713168434731252021-09-18T12:13:19.938-07:002021-09-18T12:13:19.938-07:00Belatedly read this via your 10 year retrospective...Belatedly read this via your 10 year retrospective. This reminds me of the old Warhammer novella Stage Blood, by Jack Yeovil (aka Kim Newman.)<br /><br />The vampire Genevieve is watching a theatre company make a play about one of her previous adventures. I think she's playing herself, too. There's a lot of Phantom of the Opera references and a character who has dwarfism but isn't a Dwarf, which leads into how "mutation" and disability worked in the old Empire.<br /><br />I think this would work as a YouTube series. Get a small rep theatre group, use a lot of back projection and Brecht- black leotards with the odd prop to show when they're in character. <br />A theatre of the mind in a theatre of the absurd. Or vice versa. Xaeromancerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10418877086571943955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-4349339117716913382019-09-13T12:16:55.867-07:002019-09-13T12:16:55.867-07:00Have to say, I'd be interested in your take on...Have to say, I'd be interested in your take on Time Bandits.Solomon VKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11763252777153908412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-53012608048592449332019-09-12T03:44:51.383-07:002019-09-12T03:44:51.383-07:00Ah shit no, that was Time Bandits.
I think Baron...Ah shit no, that was Time Bandits. <br /><br />I think Baron Munchausen is fun but like a less-good Time Bandits.pjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-28366517800537022002019-09-12T03:44:01.738-07:002019-09-12T03:44:01.738-07:00Its fun, I like Ian Holm as Napoleon.Its fun, I like Ian Holm as Napoleon.pjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-35242211557722660842019-09-12T03:43:42.483-07:002019-09-12T03:43:42.483-07:00I think that might have been on my mind also, thou...I think that might have been on my mind also, though I haven't seen the film, just reviews and trailers.pjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-31044918527137172212019-09-12T03:43:04.419-07:002019-09-12T03:43:04.419-07:00It's been too long since I read that book.It's been too long since I read that book.pjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-14042508686028446532019-09-12T01:06:42.906-07:002019-09-12T01:06:42.906-07:00how do you feel about the film Baron Munchausen? t...how do you feel about the film Baron Munchausen? that's the first thing to come to mind when i think about movies that are also playsMatt Haltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09218026941585227639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-44519269600844132262019-09-11T21:53:41.243-07:002019-09-11T21:53:41.243-07:00"to film a kind of staged re-enactment of the..."to film a kind of staged re-enactment of the events of the 'story' as related by those who survived it" -> makes me think of The Act of Killing, the documentary in which the perpetrators of the indonesian mass murders of the sixties act out scenes from their memories in the style of their favorites movies, from westerns to musicals.Ghasthousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07401924351959645260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-24217362820003424222019-09-11T14:13:45.235-07:002019-09-11T14:13:45.235-07:00I suppose I've got to mention Eschatology and ...I suppose I've got to mention Eschatology and Genesis from The Book of the New Sun - simultaneously a money-making activity for our protagonist, a way for him to interact with the other characters, the nearest thing to an exposition of in-universe religious scripture and a parody of that scripture. Solomon VKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11763252777153908412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-69634630134519055082019-09-11T13:23:29.996-07:002019-09-11T13:23:29.996-07:00That one Sandman when they watch Midsummer Night&#...That one Sandman when they watch Midsummer Night's Dream is another good example.<br /><br />One more POV character I would add (though this could just be the newb) is, say, an orphan, who starts sleeping in the rafters. A chance for nighttime drama when a mob or thieves or some other malevolence in the world makes its way in by force.<br /><br />And over time there can be many creative ways to get around the limitations of only filming inside the theatre to give hints of what is outside - lingering on an open door, someone climbing out or releasing a bird from a window, or even going as far as to watch a sunset from the atticIan Robothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04131583390990219217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-73295647288192571552019-09-11T12:52:05.786-07:002019-09-11T12:52:05.786-07:00Oh god no, not another whole new game. I've go...Oh god no, not another whole new game. I've got enough on my plate.pjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-47681869303240103792019-09-11T11:29:32.632-07:002019-09-11T11:29:32.632-07:00Love this post.
If you haven't seen Avatar: ...Love this post. <br /><br />If you haven't seen Avatar: the Last Airbender, I want to give it a heart recommendation. That's the only show I've seen that does something like this: there's an episode fairly late in the series where the protagonists attend a play, and you get exactly the three levels of reality you describe above interacting with each other. The focus is a little different -- the play is essentially state propaganda re-telling the story of these same protagonists from the point of view of their enemies, i.e. it's a recap of the story of the TV show up to that episode with different characters playing the parts and from the opposite point of view. It is not only fascinating and hilarious; it also ties in with the themes of the show that are coming to a head at that point in the narrative, namely that there are two sides to every story, the need to forgive and understand your enemies, etc. Can't recommend it highly enough.Picadorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01244353406711565712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-59468747241949468962019-09-11T08:45:50.870-07:002019-09-11T08:45:50.870-07:00ok yes this sounds like a lovely TV series but hon...ok yes this sounds like a lovely TV series but honestly couldn't it ALSO make a totally baller narrativist game? like some sort of PbtA meets Microscope or something. I'm not in deep enough with the narrativists to know how the hell to make it but I DO know that sitting down and playing out interpersonal drama while ALSO doing a fuckton fuckton of improvised worldbuilding as we go could be fun as all shit...Captain Crowbarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11959402382179885595noreply@blogger.com