S&S has more plot and arguably more appealing characters than Mansfield Park, but has a similar tendency to view character and plot developments from a thousand foot view, and also tends to focus a certain amount of attention on “alternate histories” that don’t come to pass, although it’s not as aggressive about it as Mansfield Park. Our hypothetical adaptation of S&S is a miniseries of four to six episodes of one hour+ apiece, on one of the major streaming services, with a hefty budget and a level of stylization similar to the 2020 Emma, although with a different color palette and “vibe.” I am breaking the story out roughly by location, to make these posts a more manageable size.
Continue reading “Adapting Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, the Story in Sussex”Music by Suno Monday: Gods of the Copybook Headings
https://suno.com/song/b9544b42-9186-4039-a749-493aeea897b8
For those concerned about the misuses of LLMs, aka AIs, it’s worth noting that Suno will literally block you from using artists names in prompts, and this Kipling poem is to the best of my knowledge in the public domain.
Adapting Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, the Rest of the Characters
I felt that the Dashwoods, Ferrarses, and Edward’s secret fiancee needed to all be treated in one post, so here we are with the rest of this large cast of characters…
Continue reading “Adapting Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, the Rest of the Characters”Adapting Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, The Dashwoods and Ferrarses
I recently finished listening to this book on Librivox (the Karen Savage reading), and decided to start blogging again about adapting Jane Austen. For an introductory essay on the subject, go here. For subsequent essay, click on the Jane Austen category in this blog. As usual, we start with the characters:
Continue reading “Adapting Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, The Dashwoods and Ferrarses”Rings of Power, Season 2, Trailer 2 and Related Stuff
We’re close enough to the release date of August 29 that I’m kind of beyond much speculation, just at that, “shrug, we’ll see” stage of thinking. Let me point out some places where I was definitely wrong in my guesses based on earlier promotional material, and comment on some of the latest news:
Continue reading “Rings of Power, Season 2, Trailer 2 and Related Stuff”Weird Wednesday: Prisencolinensinainciusol
Okay, from a certain point of view, this should be kind of disturbing: an Italian singer, father of the actress who played the devil in Passion of the Christ, is practicing Babel-style confusion of tongues while his grimaces, imposing teeth and bad hair make him look a bit like Henry Blake, Sir Christopher Lee’s Hyde-style persona from I Monster.
But really, it’s just a fun parody of American style pop songs done with nonsense lyrics. Enjoy!
Dan Zeidler Has a Substack
Dan is a writer in a Discord I belong to, who writes fantasy and military science fiction. He’s a cool guy who designs his own starships in Blender, worldbuilds his universes a mile deep, and has done Roman-themed historical reenactments. His first substack essay ties in to his interest in history, and deals with the ancient Egyptian game of Senet.
A Belated Happy Fourth of July
So much hustling around this week that I forgot to schedule a post for US Independence Day. So here’s Fred Astaire playing with fireworks:
Weird Wednesday Meets Midjourney Monday
I did a Midj thing based on a joke about Elon Musk, Techlord of Mars, and an internet friend with a twitter account very kindly decided to circulate it. Thank you Foxfier!
Jaglion Press 