Post of many things
Aug. 7th, 2011 04:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elabyI keep thinking of things I want to post, but then when I get home from work I've either forgotten by then or I have the post-work-anti-computer braindeds. So! That's what weekends are for!
OMG fans never change. Sometimes I can't help but adore people.
From the Wikipedia entry about the Gone with the Wind film, talking about the first public screening:
Kern called for the manager and explained that they had selected his theatre for the first public screening of Gone with the Wind. He was told that after Hawaiian Nights [the previous film to be shown] had finished, he could make an announcement of the preview, but was forbidden to say what the film was. People were permitted to leave, but the theatre would thereafter be sealed with no re-admissions and no phone calls out. The manager was reluctant, but finally agreed. His only request was to call his wife to come to the theatre immediately. Kern stood by him as he made the call to make sure he did not reveal the name of the film to her.
When the film began, there was a buzz in the audience when Selznick's name appeared, for they had read about the making of the film for over two years. In an interview years later, Kern described the exact moment the audience realized what was happening:
"When Margaret Mitchell's name came on the screen, you never heard such a sound in your life. They just yelled, they stood up on the seats...I had the [manually-operated sound] box. And I had that music wide open and you couldn't hear a thing. Mrs. Selznick was crying like a baby and so was David [Selznick, the producer] and so was I. Oh, what a thrill! And when Gone with the Wind came on the screen, it was thunderous!"
People in 1939 waiting for a movie adaptation of their favorite book ever are SO no different from people waiting for the same thing in 2011. And in an age of no internets, the information people got about the making of the movie would have been limited to what the studio released, with no massive worldwide network of fan speculation. Can you imagine, fellow geeky persons, having read in the newspapers about LotR or Harry Potter being filmed, the huge commotion over casting, the nationwide search for the lead, and knowing it would be coming out AT SOME POINT but not when... and then getting a surprise showing when you were at the movies one night? OMFG. If I had to pick only one thing that makes history-after-1800 interesting to me, IT WOULD BE FANDOM.
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I have three stories right now that I haven't been working on. There are, of course, like seventy billion more that I haven't been working on as well, but there are three that I consider the most viable for actually writing whole books about. And I think about them quite often, but I don't actually work on them e_e
- One is my Nano from last year, about Kiin and political upheaval and monarchy struggles, etc. What this story has going for it is that I love the world I've created and I totally love Kiin, which is very weird for me when it comes to main characters (ESPECIALLY female ones), but I don't have a good villain and the plot is really, really freaking complicated. Like I think it would take several books to play out complicated. It also has several side characters which I like, which is very promising for me when it comes to writing.
- Another is my Anglo-Saxon story, with Eadswithe and Deue. This one is slightly simpler plot-wise (although I don't really have a plot I'm satisfied with, which could be why I consider it simpler) and I like the two main characters, but I have no other interesting characters (problem). I'm just fascinated with the time period, and I need more than that to complete something.
- The third is my fairy princess story, which has several characters I'm very excited to write (the fairy princess in particular, who is sort-of-kind-of the antagonist) and main characters who I feel are pretty complex and interesting. The plot is satisfactory, but I haven't hammered out that much of it aside from the basics. I think this is the most reasonable one to focus on (assuming, you know, that I ever do).
Also I want to draw about a million LotR comics and Vocaloid pictures and a comic about my adventure going to Anime Expo. We'll see if any of this happens! XD
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The whole therapy-and-regular-meditation thing is working out well for my brain, but man, is it ever a slow process. I had some revelations recently, the kind that people have been telling me forever but that I can't get through my head until I get them through myself. You know those kind?
1. I spend most of my emotional energy trying to avoid situations which might make me feel negative emotions. This is not sustainable, and only results in anxiety about those possible situations. What I need to do is accept the negative emotions, mine and other people's, and stop fearing them. (Easier said than done, hur.)
2. As an extension of this, I think there are a lot of things I don't do for fear I'll be disappointed or my hopes will be crushed or I'll hurt/inconvenience someone else (which always makes me feel awful). I don't think I should start eight million crazy projects or something, I just need to remember this revelation next time I decide to do, or not do, something.
OMG fans never change. Sometimes I can't help but adore people.
From the Wikipedia entry about the Gone with the Wind film, talking about the first public screening:
Kern called for the manager and explained that they had selected his theatre for the first public screening of Gone with the Wind. He was told that after Hawaiian Nights [the previous film to be shown] had finished, he could make an announcement of the preview, but was forbidden to say what the film was. People were permitted to leave, but the theatre would thereafter be sealed with no re-admissions and no phone calls out. The manager was reluctant, but finally agreed. His only request was to call his wife to come to the theatre immediately. Kern stood by him as he made the call to make sure he did not reveal the name of the film to her.
When the film began, there was a buzz in the audience when Selznick's name appeared, for they had read about the making of the film for over two years. In an interview years later, Kern described the exact moment the audience realized what was happening:
"When Margaret Mitchell's name came on the screen, you never heard such a sound in your life. They just yelled, they stood up on the seats...I had the [manually-operated sound] box. And I had that music wide open and you couldn't hear a thing. Mrs. Selznick was crying like a baby and so was David [Selznick, the producer] and so was I. Oh, what a thrill! And when Gone with the Wind came on the screen, it was thunderous!"
People in 1939 waiting for a movie adaptation of their favorite book ever are SO no different from people waiting for the same thing in 2011. And in an age of no internets, the information people got about the making of the movie would have been limited to what the studio released, with no massive worldwide network of fan speculation. Can you imagine, fellow geeky persons, having read in the newspapers about LotR or Harry Potter being filmed, the huge commotion over casting, the nationwide search for the lead, and knowing it would be coming out AT SOME POINT but not when... and then getting a surprise showing when you were at the movies one night? OMFG. If I had to pick only one thing that makes history-after-1800 interesting to me, IT WOULD BE FANDOM.
~
I have three stories right now that I haven't been working on. There are, of course, like seventy billion more that I haven't been working on as well, but there are three that I consider the most viable for actually writing whole books about. And I think about them quite often, but I don't actually work on them e_e
- One is my Nano from last year, about Kiin and political upheaval and monarchy struggles, etc. What this story has going for it is that I love the world I've created and I totally love Kiin, which is very weird for me when it comes to main characters (ESPECIALLY female ones), but I don't have a good villain and the plot is really, really freaking complicated. Like I think it would take several books to play out complicated. It also has several side characters which I like, which is very promising for me when it comes to writing.
- Another is my Anglo-Saxon story, with Eadswithe and Deue. This one is slightly simpler plot-wise (although I don't really have a plot I'm satisfied with, which could be why I consider it simpler) and I like the two main characters, but I have no other interesting characters (problem). I'm just fascinated with the time period, and I need more than that to complete something.
- The third is my fairy princess story, which has several characters I'm very excited to write (the fairy princess in particular, who is sort-of-kind-of the antagonist) and main characters who I feel are pretty complex and interesting. The plot is satisfactory, but I haven't hammered out that much of it aside from the basics. I think this is the most reasonable one to focus on (assuming, you know, that I ever do).
Also I want to draw about a million LotR comics and Vocaloid pictures and a comic about my adventure going to Anime Expo. We'll see if any of this happens! XD
~
The whole therapy-and-regular-meditation thing is working out well for my brain, but man, is it ever a slow process. I had some revelations recently, the kind that people have been telling me forever but that I can't get through my head until I get them through myself. You know those kind?
1. I spend most of my emotional energy trying to avoid situations which might make me feel negative emotions. This is not sustainable, and only results in anxiety about those possible situations. What I need to do is accept the negative emotions, mine and other people's, and stop fearing them. (Easier said than done, hur.)
2. As an extension of this, I think there are a lot of things I don't do for fear I'll be disappointed or my hopes will be crushed or I'll hurt/inconvenience someone else (which always makes me feel awful). I don't think I should start eight million crazy projects or something, I just need to remember this revelation next time I decide to do, or not do, something.
