Continuity!
Jun. 11th, 2009 11:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erastesThis drives me bonkers. Continuity is important. I know that it's difficult sometimes in mad action scenes to keep track of everyone, and I'm sure that if I was writing an orgy I'd be struggling to keep everyone organised and not know which him was who and who was doing what to whom, but otherwise, why is it so hard to have people actually enter the room before they speak, or actually take the baby before they have it in their arms? I've just read a scene where someone has someone else at swordspoint - and keeping the point at the man's throat he reduces the distance between them to less than a hand's width.
How - exactly - is this possible without running the other man through the neck, or dislocating his shoulder and possibly cutting his arm off? ARGH!
And another agent rejection. A perfect end to the day! *sends it out again*
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How - exactly - is this possible without running the other man through the neck, or dislocating his shoulder and possibly cutting his arm off? ARGH!
And another agent rejection. A perfect end to the day! *sends it out again*
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Date: 2009-06-11 10:22 pm (UTC)Angie
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Date: 2009-06-11 11:02 pm (UTC)Re the sword--if he had the point at the other guy's throat, arm extended at the shoulder, he could bend his elbow and lower his hand so that instead of the blade being parallel to the floor, it was brought down to point up as he moved closer in. Reminds me of one of those Robin Hood movies with Rasil Bathbone and D. Fairbanks Jr, where the scene really should have the caption, "Kiss me, you fool!"
It works--I just tried it with my sweetie. (It isn't the wierdest blocking I've worked out with her, either...)
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Date: 2009-06-12 12:09 am (UTC)*headdesk*
My editor has sharp eyes, fortunately.
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Date: 2009-06-12 12:14 am (UTC)http://nbrooks.livejournal.com/66411.html
esp. 6 & 7
Fairbanks Sr was Silent Robin Hood and the Thief of Baghdad. Jr. was Sinbad.
Flynn was Technicolor Robin Hood.
(I have a thing for swashbucklers)
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Date: 2009-06-12 01:06 am (UTC)Men In Tights...who's looking at the faces?
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Date: 2009-06-12 07:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-12 07:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-12 08:22 am (UTC)Oh it amuses me when I do that.
And E... xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I just slept for 14 hours straight. Headache seems to be sort of leaving. Thank god.
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Date: 2009-06-12 08:28 am (UTC)Angie
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Date: 2009-06-12 08:29 am (UTC)My thanks to sweetie, and you!
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Date: 2009-06-12 08:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-12 08:31 am (UTC)*happy sigh*
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Date: 2009-06-12 08:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-12 08:33 am (UTC)*dies of laughter*
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Date: 2009-06-12 08:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-12 08:33 am (UTC)(head still a bit out so will be here and gone)
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Date: 2009-06-12 08:36 am (UTC)Angie
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Date: 2009-06-12 08:44 am (UTC)I got into florence through uni too - architecture. Went up for the day (yes, was at uni THAT close) and was entranced. Desperately want to go back sometime soon. Such a lovely city!
Medieval is great too - though not something I know much about! :)
Mind if I add you to the list - I'm not very useful today but will attempt usefulness next week when the headache from hell may finally go away!
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Date: 2009-06-12 08:49 am (UTC)And sure -- add away.
Have you ever been to Florence? My husband and I went a couple of years ago and it's awesome. :D Really beautiful, and I loved being surrounded by history in a way you just can't get in the US. I took a bunch of pictures, wherever it was allowed, plus a bunch in Pisa where we went for a day trip -- they have a really nice museum near the Tower.
Angie
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Date: 2009-06-12 08:51 am (UTC)I think I prefer Florence to Venice. Thought it is a close call. May be because they let us in everywhere as we were uni students in Florence. Just amazing.
Oh, and adding now! :)
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Date: 2009-06-12 08:56 am (UTC)Angie
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Date: 2009-06-12 09:00 am (UTC)If you want needle lace - you may want to try Malta as well if you're in the general vicinity - my aunt still does it . Scary stuff - I have the patience of a flea.
And if you're in Venice, be sure to get into the Jewish Ghetto. I'm not insane, it's like a world within a world! Just fantastic. Sort of like Prague, but more contained!
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Date: 2009-06-12 09:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-12 09:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-12 11:14 am (UTC)*joins you in the sending* *makes coffee and fruity bread toast to boost stamina*
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Date: 2009-06-12 11:23 am (UTC)Scoffs!
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Date: 2009-06-12 11:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-12 11:52 am (UTC)One of my favourite sketches is the one in which Victoria is a waitress. "Is it ont'rolley? Can you point to it?" is used quite a bit in our house, lol.
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Date: 2009-06-12 03:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-12 05:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-12 06:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-12 06:22 pm (UTC)Big wooden cooking spoons are good. I used one, plus a kitchen stool and some tea towels, to make very effective trebuchet once. It threw a tangerine thirty feet.
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Date: 2009-06-12 06:23 pm (UTC)Why?
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Date: 2009-06-12 06:26 pm (UTC)A lot more fun too.
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Date: 2009-06-12 07:50 pm (UTC)I had a massage client once whose kid--about that same age--was obsessed with arbalests. He was making them out of Tinkertoys and those little plastic doodahs that snap together. I'll bet his parents can't wait til he gets to engineering school.