I received a rather strange direction from Jacqui during rehearsals for Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet: "Do it like you think I'm joking."
It makes quite a lot of sense, actually.
Showing posts with label the real-life dialogue files. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the real-life dialogue files. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Monday, April 19, 2010
Ooh, and don't forget about the wolves.
From the Real-Life Dialogue Files
(Zach and Russ are trying to think of suitable movies to show Scarlett, who is 5 and princess-obsessed.)
ZACH: I think Stardust would be all right. It's PG-13, but I can't really think of anything I don't want her to see.
RUSS: There's all the dead guys.
ZACH: Yeah, but they're the best part. Do you have any suggestions?
RUSS: How about The Hobbit? It's animated, made by the same guys who did The Last Unicorn.
ZACH: Is there anything scary in it?
RUSS: Well, maybe the giant spiders. And the orcs. And the trolls...and the dragon...and the war...and Gollum. Um, come to think of it, scary things are pretty much constantly trying to kill them.
ZACH: Stardust has a princess in it.
RUSS: Yeah, she'll like that more.
My niece is now obsessed with the MPAA ratings system. She'll actually go through the family DVD collection trying to find G and PG rated movies. When you give a kid a method of dividing things, they latch onto it, I guess. I've been trying to tell her that ratings are only based on the opinion of a few people, and that the rating itself shouldn't be a meaningful test of a movie, but I think she's a bit too young to draw that sort of distinction. Maybe I should show her This Film is Not Yet Rated.
(Zach and Russ are trying to think of suitable movies to show Scarlett, who is 5 and princess-obsessed.)
ZACH: I think Stardust would be all right. It's PG-13, but I can't really think of anything I don't want her to see.
RUSS: There's all the dead guys.
ZACH: Yeah, but they're the best part. Do you have any suggestions?
RUSS: How about The Hobbit? It's animated, made by the same guys who did The Last Unicorn.
ZACH: Is there anything scary in it?
RUSS: Well, maybe the giant spiders. And the orcs. And the trolls...and the dragon...and the war...and Gollum. Um, come to think of it, scary things are pretty much constantly trying to kill them.
ZACH: Stardust has a princess in it.
RUSS: Yeah, she'll like that more.
My niece is now obsessed with the MPAA ratings system. She'll actually go through the family DVD collection trying to find G and PG rated movies. When you give a kid a method of dividing things, they latch onto it, I guess. I've been trying to tell her that ratings are only based on the opinion of a few people, and that the rating itself shouldn't be a meaningful test of a movie, but I think she's a bit too young to draw that sort of distinction. Maybe I should show her This Film is Not Yet Rated.
Friday, February 19, 2010
From the Real-Life Dialogue Files
This one will have to go anonymous, to protect the guilty.
-And so we found out that we like all the same music and [work in the same industry]...
-Just don't tell me she's a contortionist, too.
-She hasn't told me she's not a contortionist.
-If you tell me she's a contortionist, I'm going to letter-bomb you.
-Okay. if I get a letter from you and she's a contortionist, I'll open it.
-I'll console her at your funeral. With anthrax.
-Maybe I just won't ask her. If she tries to tell me that she's a contortionist, I'll change the subject.
-And so we found out that we like all the same music and [work in the same industry]...
-Just don't tell me she's a contortionist, too.
-She hasn't told me she's not a contortionist.
-If you tell me she's a contortionist, I'm going to letter-bomb you.
-Okay. if I get a letter from you and she's a contortionist, I'll open it.
-I'll console her at your funeral. With anthrax.
-Maybe I just won't ask her. If she tries to tell me that she's a contortionist, I'll change the subject.
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