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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Sept 4, 2020 17:32:49 GMT -5
A woman has been found dead with a stab wound from a mysterious object through her heart, in the middle of what most maps describe as a large forest but is now a totally empty plain.
The reason for her death and the disappearance of both the forest and the murder weapon both date back to an accidental misuse of library science from several years ago.
What do you think happened?
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Sept 3, 2020 20:01:50 GMT -5
I agree.
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Sept 1, 2020 3:44:48 GMT -5
That depends on how you look at it. Certain members of the public have certainly been known to wander in here without permission and been allowed to stay, albeit under false pretences. tk How would you change the way that people are treated here?
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Aug 31, 2020 4:51:57 GMT -5
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Aug 31, 2020 3:17:04 GMT -5
Hello all, even though we are scheduled to begin the TAA rewatch today, please feel free to keep posting in the Season 1, and 2004 Movie threads as much as you like. I don't want anyone to feel like they're obligated to only post in certain threads at certain times. The schedule is really more of a rough guideline and the main object of these rewatches is for people to have a free and relaxed space to talk about the film/tv adaptations of these great books. Thanks again to tk for their incredible work on getting this rewatch together in the first place.
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Aug 28, 2020 5:45:14 GMT -5
I'm in, too.
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Aug 27, 2020 16:27:23 GMT -5
I must admit, my own interest is absolutely in the behind-the-scenes gossip about the publishing and movie industries. Those are the stories I want to read. Exactly. Stories about the development of the 2004 movie and it's many planned sequel attempts over the years would make for interesting reading, even on their own.
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Aug 27, 2020 7:55:03 GMT -5
A detail shared almost as an aside in an article on a completely different subject, that being Handler and Lisa Brown's donations to their local school district, Daniel Handler is now writing a memoir. - MySanAntonioNo further details given, but it would be somewhat satisfying if it were to arrive in 2022, twenty years after Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography. Excellent find Dante . It'll be great to get an inside look at Handler's life and writing processes. His Slate articles during the writing of TEE remain entertaining and informative reading, even if one is not particularly interested in Snicket. I wonder if those theater projects include that musical adaptation of the ASOUE books he was working on with Stephen Merritt? Or possibly the Snicket project Joe Tracz ( catastrophist) hinted that he and Daniel Handler were brainstorming last year? :Edit: Of course, the real news is that we'll finally have an opportunity for people to ask Daniel Handler when/if Poison for Breakfast is coming out.
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Aug 27, 2020 7:45:46 GMT -5
Something going quite wrong. gothicarchiesfan what sort of things does this establishment sell? I'm very sorry that you believe I am the spy twigz , but you're wrong. While I admit my first answer was somewhat vague, that was simply because we were still early on in the process and I didn't want to give the spy too big of a hint. Also, I was still kind of unsure of how to actually play, lol. However, my second answer actually contained a direct reference to Lemony's olfactory and physical description of the specific district as noted in the book. Something which I couldn't possibly have looked up unless I actually knew what the area that contained the location was. My third answer also specifically referenced the most notorious person associated with this location and the one most likely to invite people there. As for your question here, this establishment sells a foodstuff/former living creature, the heads of which were once the subject of a popular novelty song. A novelty song which ended up being covered by Mr Snicket's representative when he cameoed on a certain Netflix show.
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Aug 25, 2020 17:07:07 GMT -5
Oh, okay! Apologies, Dante. gothicarchiesfan , why did you come to this location? I was invited by an infamous woman whom I think we both know all too well. FileneNGottlin What makes this establishment different from all its competitors?
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Aug 25, 2020 4:34:35 GMT -5
Excerpts from the Miserable Mill Section of The Incomplete History of Secret Organizations BO WELCH (Director of “The Miserable Mill”): It was the last episode of the season, and we had to go off the lot for it. “The Wide Window” left us with no more stage space, so it forced us to shoot the mill at a real location, an old dock building which we then tried to make look like a stage. It all worked out fine, except we look back and laugh at when the kids are walking in the woods and they’re real woods. It sticks out like a sore thumb for me and for Barry. We learned to never go outside. Our fake forests feel more like the show than the real ones. (From Season 1's Art Director Dan Hermansen)
DEAN GOODINE (Prop Master): The lumbermill was an amazing set that the special effects guys and set decorators deserve full marks for, with all the machinery they built and the stamping machine. All of that machinery had to actually work. What those guys pulled off with no time in a twenty- four-day window was nothing short of miraculous, and it was really an amazing set to walk into. (From Season 1's Art Director Dan Hermansen)
RHYS DARBY (Charles): I was overwhelmed, I had never worked on such a big set, it felt like a big James Bond movie or something. It made us all a bit more playful. I think your acting has to feel equal to your surroundings. Sometimes comic actors can be guilty of being a bit silly or unreal, but in that world it fit perfectly to go a bit over the top. (From Season 1's Art Director Dan Hermansen)
BO WELCH: I got to direct my wife [Catherine O’Hara]. It was the first time we had worked together since Beetlejuice. It was very fun and fascinating. When she becomes that character, it’s no longer your wife. It absolutely stunned me and it made me realize how good she is. I didn’t really appreciate that as much as I do now, having been on the other side of the camera watching her. It’s mind-blowing. (From Season 1's Art Director Dan Hermansen)
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Aug 24, 2020 3:26:17 GMT -5
Those are some excellent choices R. . NTTD is especially apt since it's not only from a movie in the spy genre (like ATWQ) but a spy movie where the main character feels betrayed by the woman he loves. Thank you. I haven’t actually seen the film, I’m just a big Billie Eilish fan. You're very welcome. I haven't seen the film either (it was set to come out back in late March but then COVID happened) I was just going off the trailer. It's a very nice song and she's got a good voice so it's certainly encouraged me to check out her other work. The actual instrumentation is also very nice. Someone (it might have been her) uploaded a cool behind the scenes video of the orchestra recording it back in January.
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Aug 24, 2020 3:10:03 GMT -5
Beatrice: Burn from Hamilton. It really makes me think of when she left Lemony for some reason. Sunny: Alphabet Boy by Melanie Martinez Carmelita: Primadonna by Marina And The Diamonds Lemony: Impossible Year by Panic! At The Disco Ellington: (I know she’s from ATWQ but never mind) No Time To Die by Billie Eilish. It really makes me think of her feelings when her father died. Those are some excellent choices R. . NTTD is especially apt since it's not only from a movie in the spy genre (like ATWQ) but a spy movie where the main character feels betrayed by the woman he loves.
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Aug 24, 2020 2:55:26 GMT -5
I liked pretty much everything, but one thing really infuriated me. The way Esmé Squalor was portrayed. In the books she was a very intelligent character, who always had a good reason for what she did. In the series, she was kind of incompetent. She didn’t understand a lot of words, her disguise in TVV didn’t fool the Baudelaires like it did in the books, and even her motive for wanting the sugar bowl was botched. While in the books she was eccentric, in the series she was barking mad. Also, she seemed more of a genuinely evil person, unlike in the books where she firmly believes she is working for the greater good, and sometimes showed genuine kindness. Also, her menacing presence, which hardly changed at all in the books, seemed to gradually decrease each episode, until when it got to TPP I couldn’t take her seriously at all. While different people will obviously have different takes on the material, I really don't recall Esmé being particularly intelligent in the books and I'm honestly struggling to think of examples. She does manage to fool the Baudelaires once in TEE but I can't really recall anything else. I also do not remember Esmé ever having even a single kind moment in the entire series, and her wicked actions were never portrayed as her actually working for the greater good. Pretty much everything she does in the series is done purely out of either self-interest or cruelty. Daniel Handler once explained Olaf's increasingly demented and stupid portrayal throughout the book series as simply being the natural result of spending hundreds of pages with a fully grown adult man whose every plot to kill three small children and steal their money, fails. He inevitably becomes a ludicrous figure and I think the same very much applies to Esmé. By book 11 Esmé has begun to dress up as an octopus and whip her child slaves with a special giant pasta noodle while forcing them to watch a musical put on by her adopted daughter. Now if there is an intelligent, kind, or even sane explanation for that, I would love to hear it. :Edit: Also, the reason her disguise doesn't fool the children in the show is that nobody's disguise does, not even any of the troupe's. That doesn't mean you're wrong for disliking it, but it's not as if they singled Esmé out.
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Aug 23, 2020 17:38:11 GMT -5
The Miserable Mill: VFX Before and After [From Tippett Studio, CVD VFX, and Crater Studios]
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