for some things I'm a poor audience
May. 28th, 2019 01:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
incandescensThere ought to be a term for a second reading of books where there's an important revelation near the end, which casts a different light on multiple conversations and encounters when you actually know what's going on behind the scenes and what X really means when they say something or do something which you totally fail to mark as important the first time round.
(For the record, An Excellent Mystery by Ellis Peters. Which I have read before, more than once. I was just reading it this time with particular attention to what characters Y and Z did or said, and it was very interesting to see how deftly the author had handled it.)
More annoyingly, I'm reminded of how poor an audience I am for adaptations, and particularly film adaptations of musicals starring non-singers. I'm far too purist in the first place, sitting there and muttering about how "they left that bit out" or "that other bit should have been in there" or "X would never do Y" - but when it comes to non-singers (or at least, actors who aren't that good at singing) trying to handle sustained notes without their voice dribbling out halfway through, or an upward vocal leap that doesn't involve them clenching their buttocks and having to make a painfully audible effort . . .
Sorry. Was watching the film version of Les Miserables earlier, and while it isn't bad, I have listened to good singers performing the show, and I expect better. I don't care how famous or how pretty the actors are or how well they act it. If something is to be sung, I want it sung well.
(exits, muttering, pursued by a bear)
(For the record, An Excellent Mystery by Ellis Peters. Which I have read before, more than once. I was just reading it this time with particular attention to what characters Y and Z did or said, and it was very interesting to see how deftly the author had handled it.)
More annoyingly, I'm reminded of how poor an audience I am for adaptations, and particularly film adaptations of musicals starring non-singers. I'm far too purist in the first place, sitting there and muttering about how "they left that bit out" or "that other bit should have been in there" or "X would never do Y" - but when it comes to non-singers (or at least, actors who aren't that good at singing) trying to handle sustained notes without their voice dribbling out halfway through, or an upward vocal leap that doesn't involve them clenching their buttocks and having to make a painfully audible effort . . .
Sorry. Was watching the film version of Les Miserables earlier, and while it isn't bad, I have listened to good singers performing the show, and I expect better. I don't care how famous or how pretty the actors are or how well they act it. If something is to be sung, I want it sung well.
(exits, muttering, pursued by a bear)
