TV/Movies Megathread

[Queequeg]

I give Spazllus credit, though;  if he came up with a screenplay, it would be filled with so many arcane references and devices, only the most literate Languishite could appreciate it.

But the pitch would fail because he'd have watered it down with so much armpit-of-Europe reactionary ethnicky bullshit, they'd never buy the treatment.

Being a showrunner for a drama on the Russian Revolution has been my dream since I was about 17. I had a notebook with ideas on it. Nabokov's father Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov was the protagonist and a minor nobility anarchist with Bolshevik connections was the antihero. Started with murder of Stolypin. It could be good.

[katmai]

I watch an episode of My Little Pony today. It was pretty grim.

Welcome to my goddamned life, with 2 pony addicted girls.

[Viking]

I watch an episode of My Little Pony today. It was pretty grim.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Little_Pony:_Friendship_Is_Magic_fandom

this is one of those internet things I know that exist, but don't care to explore myself.

[Queequeg]

It's supposed to be decent.

[CountDeMoney]

Being a showrunner for a drama on the Russian Revolution has been my dream since I was about 17. I had a notebook with ideas on it. Nabokov's father Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov was the protagonist and a minor nobility anarchist with Bolshevik connections was the antihero. Started with murder of Stolypin. It could be good.

I'd watch that.  You'd probably all fuck it up with your fucked up taste in chicks, though.   

[Queequeg]

Brit Marling as radical feminist anarchist bumping uglies with Anarchist Antihero, Caroline Dhavernas or Eva Green as megamilf Elena Ivanovna Nabokova. 

[Sheilbh]

Being a showrunner for a drama on the Russian Revolution has been my dream since I was about 17. I had a notebook with ideas on it. Nabokov's father Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov was the protagonist and a minor nobility anarchist with Bolshevik connections was the antihero. Started with murder of Stolypin. It could be good.

I'd watch that.  You'd probably all fuck it up with your fucked up taste in chicks, though.   

This is....a lot of exposition about Nabokov's Baltic German's wife's heritage....

[Sheilbh]

Anyway we need a TV series of the French Revolution first - based on Mantel's A Place of Greater Safety

[Savonarola]

I saw another collection of Laurel  and Hardy  rarities.  They had some real oddities like Stan Laurel's home movies (thrill as the Laurel children ride ponies!)  The stand out piece was "The Stolen Jools" which was a charity film for a tuberculosis sanitarium; brought to us by Chesterfield Cigarettes.   It featured nearly every major star of 1931; as a charity film they could get actors from multiple studios.  The premise was that Norma Shearer's jewels were stolen at a Hollywood party; and so each of the stars are questioned in turn.

[Queequeg]

I don't think so.  The French Revolution seems a lot less dramatically interesting to me.  There's a lot less contemporary or near-contemporary fiction on it, too.  I was really in to Dostoevsky's Demons as a kid, and the character Pyotr Stepanovich Verkhovensky is one of my favorites in all of literature and I'd argue we've never seen anything like him on prestige television. 

[CountDeMoney]

The French Revolution seems a lot less dramatically interesting to me.

Pfft.  And the Borat comes out.

[Queequeg]

Its bourgeois. 

[CountDeMoney]

Borschtois!

[Queequeg]

Lenin's a substantially more singular and weirder figure than Robespierre, and I think there's, if anything, a lot more violence and insanity in Russia than in the French Revolution.  Also, the French Revolution is complicated (in my mind) by the fact that they're all basically right, and that Liberalism is cool.  Communism was always insanity, and thus intrinsically interesting from a dramatic perspective. 

[Admiral Yi]

Lenin's a substantially more singular and weirder figure than Robespierre, and I think there's, if anything, a lot more violence and insanity in Russia than in the French Revolution.  Also, the French Revolution is complicated (in my mind) by the fact that they're all basically right, and that Liberalism is cool.  Communism was always insanity, and thus intrinsically interesting from a dramatic perspective.

So executing class enemies is cool as long as you don't take their property?