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And how it gets you home safe and then messes the house up
Rabbit belated rabbit! After five days without sleep, I seem to have fallen over at night and woken of my own accord in the morning, which is so peculiar that I am enjoying it. I keep feeling I should make toast or something, except I really don't like breakfast.
As soon as I read that Tom Stoppard had extensively script-doctored Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), I couldn't believe the possibility had never occured to me sheerly from "Does anyone here speak English? Or even ancient Greek?" I found a breakdown of the script differences and indeed, the line is Stoppard's.
The nor'easter has left a thin glitter of snow in the yard and a glaze of ice on the tops of the yew trees. I am listening to the immemorial sound of a neighbor scraping off the windshield of their car.
As soon as I read that Tom Stoppard had extensively script-doctored Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), I couldn't believe the possibility had never occured to me sheerly from "Does anyone here speak English? Or even ancient Greek?" I found a breakdown of the script differences and indeed, the line is Stoppard's.
The nor'easter has left a thin glitter of snow in the yard and a glaze of ice on the tops of the yew trees. I am listening to the immemorial sound of a neighbor scraping off the windshield of their car.
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Hurrah! Also, yikes, though. I thought you had been very quiet, and that is not usually a good sign currently. May there be much more regular sleeping!! *hugs*
I knew Tom Stoppard had done a lot of script-doctoring, but that is an interesting article. idk if I knew about Last Crusade, but then I've only seen it once many many years ago, anyway. I know he did some work on Revenge of the Sith, of course, because of my occasional dives into Prequel fandom. He is supposedly responsible for Padme's iconic: "So this is how liberty dies. To thunderous applause." I certainly see no reason to disbelieve it.
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Thank you! The last week in November just got bad. Having had a fairly active day with sunlight so far, I am hoping it keeps up.
*hugs*
I knew Tom Stoppard had done a lot of script-doctoring, but that is an interesting article.
I had also heard about him doing it, but not Last Crusade specifically and I'd never seen that kind of side-by-side attention to his revisions. In any case, while I have not seen the film often or in years, I have always loved that line and it makes me happy to know its origin.
(There is an unprovable likelihood that either Raiders of the Lost Ark or Last Crusade was my introduction to Denholm Elliott, before I fell directly into him in 2008. I still think Yale should have kept the statue of Marcus Brody from Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on Old Campus. It would have been the best result of that movie.)
I know he did some work on Revenge of the Sith, of course, because of my occasional dives into Prequel fandom. He is supposedly responsible for Padme's iconic: "So this is how liberty dies. To thunderous applause." I certainly see no reason to disbelieve it.
Good for him. Ouch.