#underscoring

[enby-axels]

fanyus: yuzuru is the most underscored world record holder ever

fictional character victor nikiforov:

[figureskatingconfessions]

“It might be stupid that I caught onto it so late, but I recently saw someone telling people not to be angry at the skaters whose scores are inflated, but rather to be angry at the system (be it the scoring system or ISU and Federations influencing results). I wish more people though like that and didn’t blame and hate on skaters, but rather focused on thinking how to make the system fairer.”

[figure-skating-confessions]

“I’ve always been a casual fan, knowing near to nothing about the technicalities, scores and so on. Then I found a group of people who were more into it, and I tried to have more of a thorough approach, but each time it was a constant lamenting over underscoring vs. overscoring and it felt heavy. I decided to go back to my ignorant ways of watching skating, where I cheer for all skaters and am/be less bitter.”

[kino51]

A Quiet Place   2018

[1gabster1]

Next year, can we pretend this season never happened?

[otc-dramaturgy]

Fun Fact Friday

As I pointed out a couple weeks ago, Sondheim was inspired to write Sweeney Todd upon seeing Christopher Bond’s play version of the tale in London. Sondheim, however, is also a huge film noir fan, especially in his youth, so his Sweeney Todd has another key inspiration as well: a 1945 film called Hangover Square.

Sondheim says of it:

"When I was fifteen years old I saw a movie called Hangover Square, another epiphany in my life. It was a moody, romantic, gothic thriller […] about a composer in London in 1900 who was ahead of his time. And whenever he heard a high note he went crazy and ran around murdering people. It had an absolutely brilliant score by Bernard Herrmann, centered around a onemovement piano concerto. I wanted to pay homage to him with this show, because I had realized that in order to scare people, which is what Sweeney Todd is about, the only way you can do it, considering that the horrors out on the street are so much greater than anything you can do on stage, is to keep music going all the time. […] So Sweeney Todd not only has a lot of singing, it has a lot of underscoring. It’s infused with music to keep the audience in a state of tension, to make them forget they’re in a theater, and to prevent them from separating themselves from the action.”

Assuming your interest is piqued, you can check out the movie for yourself...

There's a visually cropped version on YouTube that you can at least watch to get an idea and hear the score. (It’s not copyright infringement, okay? It’s cropped. Also this movie is super old so...)

But if you have qualms, you can properly rent the movie for $2 on Amazon. And then you can see people’s heads and everything.

[figureskatingconfessions]

“Literally every skater got underscored or overscored at some point, yes even those you hate and your faves. Words like overscored and underscored are getting thrown around in fs the same way words like overrated and underrated are getting thrown around in kpop.”

[figure-skating-confessions]

“The people that complain about Yuzuru being underscored have never seen Donovan Carrillo’s scores.”