![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
no subject
The only Stoppard work I ever saw on stage was Travesties. Rosencranz and Guildenstern Are Dead I know mostly from reading it, although I've watched at least some of the film. And of course I've seen Shakespeare in Love. But like you, I did not know that Last Crusade was largely his (which explains lines like, "'Jehovah' begins with an 'i' in Latin!"). Also, owing to your post, I looked and found out that he wrote Brazil and Empire of the Sun! My Stoppardiana is a good deal more extensive than I thought!
no subject
Thank you! That strikes me as a very relaxing salutation.
My Stoppardiana is a good deal more extensive than I thought!
I think that's wonderful. (Brazil and Empire of the Sun make sense, too.)
Travesties is the Stoppard I meant to see in New Haven because Sam Waterston was starring in it and I had run into him in the corner store and dehydratedly complimented his eyebrows. I can't even remember why I didn't make it. It just still feels all these years later as though I let down my side of a contract.