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Writing with feathers
I think it was L. B. Mayer who responded to the glut of big budget costume epics with the phrase "let us have no more movies where they write with feathers." Which brings us to tonight's word: Period.
Writing period is a hard needle to thread. There is a misconception even among some professionals that if we're in the past, everyone speaks with great formality. Some of the early adaptations of the Brother Cadfael novels are downright painful that way:
Monk: I am Brother Petronis, cook to this house. It is from me you will come each day to collect your master's daily fare.
Servant: I know my duties. Today my mistress has a dinner prepared. She begs only a little sage and basil to season her dish.
The same mistake was made for a different reason in HBO's John Adams series. Pretty much all of John and Abigail's dialogue is taken from their letters. The letters are a very famous and illuminating look at an extraordinary... -
WWYK: People Like Us, Part I
She savored a bite of crabmeat sprinkled with caviar… As sexy as Batman was, there was no denying that Bruce brought something to the party that the tightass crimefighter never could. She sipped the Dom… '85, she noted. Unlike most who just bought the name, Bruce knew the good vintages. She reflected, not for the first time, how few that thought they knew him, either as Bruce or Batman, really understood the first thing about his world. -The Gotham Post, Chapter 1 There was a line in an ancient John Larroquette sitcom that went something like: "You get all your ideas about white people from a Spike Lee movie." There is a similar failing that a few professional comic writers share with certain fanfic authors: getting their ideas about rich people from, as near as I can figure, The Beverly Hillbillies. To write every society woman like Gladys Ashton-Larraby is like writing every poor woman like Roseanne Barr. It's a type but it (a) isn't the only type... -
Scotch, Part 1
Scotch gets a lot of product placement in Cat-Tales. Harvey and Eddie both drink it, and Bruce pretends to. Since I went so far as to divulge Alfred's method of making tea, it's certainly fair that we look into this delightful beverage a bit more. First, let's address why. Scotch is a higher status drink. Among the myriad of preposterously wrong characterization Bruce Wayne is subjected to in fan fiction (and some pro stuff, sadly) tons of it comes down to social class and not understanding the fundamentals of the world he was brought up in. Lesson 1: Drink dry. To put a wine cooler, a sloe gin fizz, one of those foamy milky things, or a glorified slushy in Bruce Wayne's hand is to have him declare that he loves magic and Joker isn't such a bad guy once you get to know him. (Conversely, when Matches Malone enters the picture, he's going to design Matches's lower class tastes from the perspective of his own patrician ones. Enter the "bourbon and...
