“doesn’t this charater under insane stress going through extremely traumatic events realize how inconvenient their irrational emotional reactions are to the people around them?” well, see, you’re not gonna believe this, but the thing is,
Forget he was evil. Tell me about the way he smiled when he lied, how he spoke in a voice so soft it made the threat underneath it even sharper. The way he never raised his voice, because he didn’t need to. The way he touched the rim of his glass with a single finger, slow and deliberate, as if already calculating the next move. He doesn’t twirl a mustache; he doesn’t cackle. Real monsters don’t have to.
honestly as much as I’ve never seen a portrayal of any king lear character that I’ve been entirely satisfied with, I fully believe that a really talented and dedicated casting director and staging director would be able to pull it off
or in other words; please let me cast and direct a production of king lear,,,
The Substance is a better adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde than 99% of the adaptations out there
because such a key component of the book is that he does this to himself on purpose. He 100% wants to be split in two and do his unnamed ‘vices’ while in his Hyde persona.
and of course he regrets it when everything gets out of hand and he can’t stay in the form he wants anymore, but the initial transformation was a complete success and exactly what he was aiming for
anyway no more innocent victim adaptation-Jekyll who didn’t know what he was getting into. More Elisabeth who absolutely knows what she’s getting into and initially is very satisfied with how things are going
king lear is a play where even the non-villains are all “can’t help being a dick, mercury is super in retrograde” and then there’s edmund who’s like “well i’m better than that. I’M gonna be a dick on purpose.”
edmund is the absolute best at taking accountability for his actions, never blames anything on anyone else,, love him for that
I love it when two characters are completely and utterly obsessed with each other to an unhealthy degree. Utter devotion to the point of insanity. To the point the lines blur as to what the nature of their relationship even is. Romantic? Platonic? Sexual? Familial? Professional? All and none of the above, somehow. They can’t exist without each other. Being together is making them both worse. They would watch each other sleep in bed at night every night if they could. They are literally always thinking about each other. They would kill and die for each other. They resent each other. Even seperating them isn’t going to fix the situation at this point. They permanently live inside each other.
hey chat, how many drugs did my stats professor take to write the opening of this problem:
“Bob and Barb’s Barbed Wire and Wig Emporium and Grill is a local pet store that sells seagulls and bagels. They’ve started using food carts to sell sunglasses at the beach to hungry customers on the go. They own 10 carts.”
hoenstly no matter what the reviews of othello (broadway) say, I don’t go to othello to see othello and iago. I go to see emilia and cassio. and I hear they’re both amazing
youtube just gave me an ad for seeking dot com (not typing it out bc I dont want it to link) and lemme just say. (first off I had to google what it is because the ad explained nothing)– lemme just say. there are some hyperspecific dating sites out there.
