Knight of the Old Cart

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[loopnoid]

happy tvl day here's some hedwigstat

ref:

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the slayage of this sea captain on the Wikipedia page for rubber cement

[spacerockband]

first night together :)

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So far in Hannibal (the 1999 novel) I've noticed three mistakes, and I'm wondering whether they are intentional. The book has this off-putting tone that occasionally switches to second person, which feels like a sign that we've got an unreliable/unhinged narrator. Or, perhaps this is a sci-fi move to establish that the books take place in an alternate universe.

A policeman recognizes that a serial killer is recreating Botticelli's Primavera with the corpses because he remembers this lady's exposed left breast. But in the real painting, her arm covers her boobs, and the diaphanous dress kinda does too. The left boob is just not particularly distinguishable (sorry).

One of the chapters begins with a quote from The Squire's Tale (she who sups with the devil needs a long spoon), but the book attributes that quote to The Merchant's Tale.

The policeman are playing Super Mario Bros on Hannibal's computer, but you can't play Nintendo games on PC. (They might be playing a fan port from that era called Mario Forever.)

There might be more mistakes; I haven't been looking for them. There are a ton of references and details in this book, and I don't look them all up.

My favorite theory is that the mistakes are similar to David's mistake in Alien: Covenant (misattributing Shelley's Ozymandias to Byron). David's mistake shows that he is flawed/insane and his confidence in himself is misplaced. It would be cool if this was also true of Hannibal... though I'm not sure it is (I still have a bit of this book left, and then there's one more in the series).

[brideofdilbert]

look I love the Hannibal books but I think these are down to a) Thomas Harris being kinda a hack who’s writing this book primarily so it can immediately be adapted into a movie, he’s not Umberto Eco

b) and in the latter case he just doesn’t understand video games because he’s an old man lol

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Hahaha you're probably right! It would be cool if it was tho!

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So far in Hannibal (the 1999 novel) I've noticed three mistakes, and I'm wondering whether they are intentional. The book has this off-putting tone that occasionally switches to second person, which feels like a sign that we've got an unreliable/unhinged narrator. Or, perhaps this is a sci-fi move to establish that the books take place in an alternate universe.

A policeman recognizes that a serial killer is recreating Botticelli's Primavera with the corpses because he remembers this lady's exposed left breast. But in the real painting, her arm covers her boobs, and the diaphanous dress kinda does too. The left boob is just not particularly distinguishable (sorry).

One of the chapters begins with a quote from The Squire's Tale (she who sups with the devil needs a long spoon), but the book attributes that quote to The Merchant's Tale.

The policeman are playing Super Mario Bros on Hannibal's computer, but you can't play Nintendo games on PC. (They might be playing a fan port from that era called Mario Forever.)

There might be more mistakes; I haven't been looking for them. There are a ton of references and details in this book, and I don't look them all up.

My favorite theory is that the mistakes are similar to David's mistake in Alien: Covenant (misattributing Shelley's Ozymandias to Byron). David's mistake shows that he is flawed/insane and his confidence in himself is misplaced. It would be cool if this was also true of Hannibal... though I'm not sure it is (I still have a bit of this book left, and then there's one more in the series).

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"Good evening, Clarise," he said when he could see her.

"Can you walk? Are your legs working?"

"Yes."

"Can you see alright?"

"Yes."

"I'm gonna cut you loose. With all due respect, doctor, if you fuck with me I'll shoot you dead here and now. Do you understand that?"

"Perfectly."

"Do right and you'll live through this."

"Spoken like a Protestant."

-- Hannibal, Thomas Harris

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Old movies used to linger on documents to let you read them along with the characters, and at some point they stopped doing that.

I noticed this when I watched Manhunter (1986) and Red Dragon (2002), which adapt the same book. The characters have to closely read multiple letters, either to decode them or under duress. In the 80s movie, you get to feel the same intrigue/confusion/fear the characters feel as we read these creepy letters together. And the letters are not too long, and the characters read them out loud anyway, so it's not like it's a big reading challenge. In the 00s movie, you get to see some bits of the letters under microscopes, but not much more than that.

This form of interaction has not been lost; it's just been transferred to video games, where the onscreen reading homework is absolutely crazy. Even games I love just have way too much of it.

[mythsandmonaidhean]

my mythological bookmarks, all together :D

[writingdose]

[mandolare]

Anakin v Dooku Early Test

[didanagy]

MARILYN MONROE as SUGAR KANE

SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959) dir. billy wilder

[quasi-normalcy]

Vulcan characters seem like they'd be easy to play, but there actually seem to be only a small number of actors who can really pull it off

[millionsknives]

one of my coworkers has this sticker on his water bottle and it sends me into hysterics every time i see it

[tatooineknights]

The Ludwig Göransson score for The Mandalorian and Grogu is so good. It feels so anti-Star Wars that it has a special unique quality. Perhaps we should have more Star Wars with techno beats..

[feyd-meowtha]

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Yesterday I watched two very different movies that have one thing in common.

In The Silence of the Lambs, everyone says that Jame Gumb is not a trans woman, but everything she does shows that she is.

In The Mandalorian and Grogu, Din says multiple times that he avoids violence, but his actions completely contradict this.

I love characters that live with/represent contradictions. Dolarhyde and Anakin are two of the best examples of this, so I know these stories are capable of this kind of character.

But with Jame and Din, I feel like their stories care so little about them, or just want so badly to avoid their unpleasant truths, that they give us this really unconvincing delusion and then move on to the action movie stuff.