Happy Gauda Prime Day!

[altariel]

'Tis the season to be mistaken for a bounty hunter and shot dead by your best friend! Happy Gauda Prime Day, one and all!

And please extend a big Freedom Party welcome to sarannarandir, who has found her way to my LJ via a post I made about an article she published in Foundation all those years ago about the end of B7. The internet is a wonderful thing.

Comments

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

The Costner movie not only used a Saracen character (apparently thinking the Saracen was one of the traditional Robin Hood characters along with Little John, Will Scarlet etc) after watching RoS, but they used many of the same locations and even used the same horsemaster. And, of course, Alan Rickman's scenery-chewing pantomime sherriff (which totally rescued the whole movie for me) was very much based on Nicholas Grace who was so good in RoS, always bitching with the equally convincing Abbot Hugo (Philip Jackson.)

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

And, of course, Alan Rickman's scenery-chewing pantomime sherriff

"No more handouts to the widows and orphans AND CANCEL CHRISTMAS!"

[adores]. Though I do wonder whether the director/producers realised to quite what an extent AR was hamming it up...

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Maybe not, since most Americans are unfamiliar with British Pantomime. They just don't get it at all. They think it's something to do with (silent) mime.

(All together now...'Oh no it isn't!')

Ah, I adore Alan Rickman.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

All the more argument in favor of the version where Paul Darrow doesn't exactly say "Ha ha ha, once aboard the lugger and the girl is mine" but you can hear him thinking it. And his double act with Ford Prefect is priceless.

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

Alan Rickman - pantomime villain extraordinaire. Whether it's the Sherriff of Nottingham or Severus Snape. [melts]

It's true, pantomime is a fairly peculiar genre when you think about it, and its conventions are all its own - but it's not exactly silent (my parents are taking my two boys to Aladdin this afternoon and I think they're braced for SERIOUS NOISE...)

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, pantoimime is not silent at all. That's why it's so weird when USians latch on to the half-word that means something to them and assume it's classic mime like French mime artist Marcel Marceau. Serious noise, serious audience participation.

So you sit an American down and try and tell them that the principal boy is a woman in tights falling in love with another woman, and that the dame is a man in drag who will almost certainly try and strip to her frilly drawers at some point during the show... and right then and there they are thinking this is an X-rated entertainment for adults. But take them to see any panto and it doesn't take them long to get into, 'It's behind you!' and 'Oh no it isn't!'