And a look of mischief, like one of Oberon and Titania's court.
Huh. Maybe that's where my Hermia/Puck fic went.
I am pleasantly startled by how well the film got it. Not perfectly, of course--but what a downfall waiting for those women with the peace!
I was hopeful, because it had been positively written about and Leslie Howard had not previously impressed me as an idiot, but I wasn't sure at first whether the credits and the narration were part of a conceit that wouldn't have held up with the years: I think they function exactly now as then. The film is smarter than its narrator and assumes its audience is too. I think you would like it.
(The hindsight is disheartening. Even the BFI thinks so.)
Somewhere Leslie Howard is still on his God's-eye catwalk with his Higgins notebook, taking us all down.
He's a ghost I haven't written about. Or I write about him often, but not in that way. Hm.
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Huh. Maybe that's where my Hermia/Puck fic went.
I am pleasantly startled by how well the film got it. Not perfectly, of course--but what a downfall waiting for those women with the peace!
I was hopeful, because it had been positively written about and Leslie Howard had not previously impressed me as an idiot, but I wasn't sure at first whether the credits and the narration were part of a conceit that wouldn't have held up with the years: I think they function exactly now as then. The film is smarter than its narrator and assumes its audience is too. I think you would like it.
(The hindsight is disheartening. Even the BFI thinks so.)
Somewhere Leslie Howard is still on his God's-eye catwalk with his Higgins notebook, taking us all down.
He's a ghost I haven't written about. Or I write about him often, but not in that way. Hm.