Period by-which-I-mean-"in-the-past" Entertainment

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D. Yesterday a friend linked to Coleridge/Wordsworth slash. This is piece is full of heady language, slant rhyme, rhythm, and longing. It's totally what I imagined these two poets' relationship to be, back when I was in college and didn't even know I was shipping them.

R. It makes me ponder:
1. Did you ever slash Coleridge/Wordsworth?
2. What about Emerson/Thoreau and/or Shelley/Keats?
3. Have you ever slashed historic authors?
4. Historic figures, period?
5. Where do you find fanfic about this kind of thing?
6. Have you answered "no" to all these questions, but are intrigued anyway?
7. Where are all the classic romance lit and period romance film fans on lj? Where's all the fanfic? Where are all the challenges?

A. Speaking of historic smut, I found this slightly silly costume porn which I actually don't find silly at all. It's nominally Harry/Draco, but it's one of those AU, OOC (author says so herself!) fics that could be anyone. ANY SERVANT UNDRESSING A NOBLEMAN IN THE RENAISSANCE ERA WHERE THEY'RE BOTH GETTING TURNED ON MY THE INTRICACIES OF KNOTS AND GROMMETS AND HOISERY, PEOPLE. It's well done, written by someone who obviously knows what they're talking about insofar as costumes, and it makes a long drawn out process of getting undressed quite interesting.

M. They are making a new Jane Eyre with Ellen Page. The article I'm linking to says there've been more than 20 versions of JE. I'd actually been unhappy with the 6 versions I've seen. The most recent bigscreen adaptation was in 1996 with William Hurt, and admittedly it was awful. But last year BBC did a new one, and I was very happy with it, which is saying a lot considering it's one of my very favorite books for sentimental reasons.

And they are making two new Wuthering Heights, one with Natalie Portman. What gives, yo?

A. I still love North And South like an ever lovin' thing.

Comments

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I like WW, even though I agree he's boring. I dunno, I have this thing. Like I thought Les Mis was boring but I loved it, same with Dostoevsky, same with lots of 18th c. novels I love.

Dude, what? Shelley was like, *in love* with Keats. I actually think Keats was freaked out by Shelley's regard for him, though. Shelley wrote "Adonais" for Keats when Keats died. He definitely more than admired him (imo, obviously).

I actually think Byron is less interesting because he's so much less subtle.

Judas/Jesus counts, but IT WOULD COUNT MOAR IF YOU WROTE SOME. *fans self*

Lawrence counts! I think most of our ideas of historic characters are based on some form of interpretation, you know?

I'm not sure of heard of Page doing anything else since Juno...I just don't understand why anyone would think she's a good Jane, though. But now that I think about it...the last bigscreen Jane Eyre that had like super stars in it, I mean the kind that everyone would have heard about and everyone would go see because it was like a major blockbuster release, was probably the Orson Wells one. So though many have been made, they still haven't gotten huge exposure to the general public. I know me hearing of JE when I did (when I was 14), was a really random accident--because my parents aren't interested in the classics and because I was never taught anything like that in highschool, I probably could've made it all the way to college without ever having heard of it. Which seems weird, considering how often I hear about it now, but that has to do with being interested in it, so I seek it out.

That is all to say maybe there's some usefulness that comes with casting someone who's "big" right now as Jane, no matter how inappropriate she is for the actual part.

[my_daroga]

Dude, what? Shelley was like, *in love* with Keats.

I know that; I'm just saying that that novel I read about Shelley implied they didn't actually meet, just corresponded and it was an affair of poetry. But it was fiction, so I don't know if that was just some sort of laziness on the author's part or not.

I'm not sure of heard of Page doing anything else since Juno...

She's been in the "news" a lot lately, with things announced and movies she made before Juno coming out. I just hope she's not used up.

I can only imagine fannish neo-Eyre fans. We need a cute name for them. I only heard of it because of that girl I told you about who loved it and Jane Austen; I probably only went to the Hurt film because I'd read the book at her insistence. I don't know what another high-profile JE would do; with the internet spawning fandoms faster/easier than ever, which it wasn't so much in 1996 (?), it would impact us more than the general moviegoing public, I think.

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Oh, poetry. Is that what they're calling it these days?

Anyway, I was under the impression they'd met, more than once, but of course I could be wrong.

Eyreheads. Duh. The thing with the '96 one is that the only big names in it were Hurt and Paquin, and Paquin was very new (having just got famous from The Piano) and Hurt...well, is Hurt. Never done anything remotely interesting since Body Heat, which I actually didn't think was remotely interesting either.

But you're right about the internets.

[(Anonymous)]

that was me. tkp.

[my_daroga]

Anyway, I was under the impression they'd met, more than once, but of course I could be wrong.

So could I. My experience is a YA novel.

Eyreheads. Of course. I'm stupid.

And you're right about Paquin and Hurt. Though I thought Kiss of the Spider Woman was interesting. Probably because it was the first time I saw two men kiss. YES IT ALL STARTED THERE!

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't know that one.

[my_daroga]

I'm sure in retrospect it would not seem all that provocative. Hurt is very wussily gay in it, and I'm not sure I'd feel compelled. At the time, though, it seemed significant.

He and Raul Julia are cellmates in a South American prison--I think Julia's in there for some sort of political subversion? And Hurt tells him stories from movies. Eventually (as it's a prison movie) they hook up.