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There's hope for us all!

Started by Aerlys, September 17, 2015, 12:40:00 PM

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Aerlys

"Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun."

Hilaire Belloc

Laurna

#1
Good day to you Aerlys.
That is funny, I never considered Rosencrans and Gidlenstern are Dead to be Fan fiction. I loved the film for its two actors. I wondered if the play was as good.


As a totally different aside.  I watched a documentary yesterday that I loved and I wanted to share it, but did not know a place on the board to put it. So I apologize for adding it to your thread of hope, but this made me feel good too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLMiK-TMyPI
The craft of bell-ringing in England. I learned something I had not known before.
Aerlys, do we do this in America? For some reason, I think of our bells as being electronic, instead of manual.
May your horses have wings and fly!

revanne

I don't think that it is general in America but I know that there are a few towers your side of the Atlantic that have a peel of bells for change ringing as it is called. The daughter of our Church Warden here rang as part of a band in a church in Washington D.C. over the summer.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
(Psalm 46 v1)

Aerlys

I will take a peek at that when I have time to watch the whole thing.

I do think some of the "fanfic" citied was kind of a stretch, though I guess in a broad sense any sort of spinoff could be considered fanfic.
"Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun."

Hilaire Belloc

revanne

#4
You've got me thinking...

What about West Side Story (Romeo and Juliet), Ten things I hate about you (Taming of the shrew), Clueless (Emma) - I suppose they would count as fan fiction.

And to be controversial - Philip Pullman self-confessedly wrote the His Dark Materials trilogy as a counter to C.S. Lewis' Narnia stories - a sort of back-handed fan-fiction maybe?

Btw good to hear from you Aerlys - hope all continues to go well. I light candles for you and yours from time to time.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
(Psalm 46 v1)

Demercia

The light shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehendeth it not.

Elkhound

"The Wide Sargasso Sea" was a fanfic off of "Jane Eyre", wasn't it?  And the Mr. & Mrs. Darcy Mysteries.  And Jill Patton Walsh's "Lord Peter Wimsey" books are definitely glorified fanfic; (and, IMNSHO, not that good fanfic either.)

revanne

Quote from: Elkhound on September 18, 2015, 07:28:01 AM
  And Jill Patton Walsh's "Lord Peter Wimsey" books are definitely glorified fanfic; (and, IMNSHO, not that good fanfic either.)

I think they are the difference between drinking freshly ground coffee and an instant blend.  Okay if you don't put them alongside the real thing.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
(Psalm 46 v1)