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This is where you stick random tidbits of information about yourself.
Age 23, living in sin in Twickenham with Cheesy
Likes
Movies
Books
Writing
Theatre
Hugs
Kittens
Chess
Scrabble (mostly beating Cheesy's butt)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Dislikes
Vegetables
Arguments
Cleaning
Trashy TV
Pretensions
Public Transport
Pets
Rabbits-Bambi, Fern, Sooty, Pippa-all deceased
Dog-Sammy-deceased :(
Fish-CatFlap-recently (and finally!) deceased
Cat-Tiggy-still scratching
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Technically Rachel
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Wednesday, April 14, 2004
Lesbian, you say?
So, turns out Technically Speaking is a go. After actually reading the play, and realising that it isn't 60 minutes of wild naked lesbian sex (god I dread the search engine results for that), the committee have agreed that the show will go on. Those of you in the Chorley vicinity who can, you know, act - do please audition on 8th May. Thank you. Ta da.
Anyway, so that's something to look forward to. In a self-gratifying kind of way.
Dawn/Shaun of the Dead
Saturday saw a group of us partake in a Zombie Movie Marathon - the group consisting of me, Cheesy, La Bron, and La Bron's Fella. The plan was to be scared by zombies in the afternoon, and then laugh our way out of nightmares with the funny zombies, whilst simulatenously looking out for Cheesy and La Bron, who play zombies in the latter movie.
I never saw the original Dawn of the Dead, so cannot comment on it's comparability to its predecessor. But all in all, not a tragically awful movie. I was scared quite frequently, but that's not a great accomplishment as I scare pretty easy. I used to frequently scare myself into nightmares when I was a kid purely based on monsters and nasty scenarios my own imagination would create, never mind things that were actually suggested or shown to me.
Acting was pretty good, though there were typically hollywood plot points where you had to wonder at the intelligence and general survival instinct of these people. Anyone who practically commits suicide trying to rescue a frickin dog deserves to be eaten alive by zombies quite frankly.
However, there are some very good, even original moments. The guy on the roof was probably the only character I truly rooted for. The romance in it was a little dry and somewhat pointless, especially considering the resolution of a particular relationship.
Also, I found the ending, although visually and creatively very good, was a little bleak for my liking. In a similar scenario, I much prefer the feel to the ending that you got in Resident Evil (another zombie movie, that I think I actually prefer to this one).
Shaun of Dead - predictably excellent. I read the script for this last year (back in my Working Title days), and laughed myself silly through the script, and knew it would be something close to brilliant. Knowing all the jokes and actions before they happened did indeed take away some of the joy for me, but it's still a fantastic movie. Simon Pegg and all around him are very funny, and what surprised me frequently was the level of emotion and sadness in the movie, which resulted in me being far more affected by certain key deaths in Shaun than Dawn. Reflecting my long standing viewpoint, that comedy is a far greater and truer way of story-telling than most styles. Stories that are void of comedy, in my opinion, are not realistic. It may seem odd to suggest that even the gravest of stories or incidents can be told with comedy, but Life is Beautiful is a classic example of horrific events portrayed alongside humorous circumstances, to an amazingly powerful effect.
But anyway, so yeah, you really feel some of the losses to zombification in Shaun, not to mention some particular grossness in places. The music rocks too.
As for the Cheesy/La Bron cameos? Alas, it seems most of it ended up on the cutting room floor, except large crowd scenes where a blink of the eye won't even give you the tiniest peek. We eagerly await the DVD for zoom and freeze potential.
3:21 pm
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