You look sad, girl—are you a bad girl?

[sovay]

I try not to mess around with posts too much after I make them, but I did not like the very short form my last couple had fallen into. It made me feel staticky; I avoid Twitter for a reason. Let's try this again.

1. I discovered last night while reading about Ida Lupino that Bodil Ipsen was not Denmark's first female director—that was Alice O'Hendricks in 1934—but her debut feature Derailed (Afsporet, 1942) was Denmark's first film noir. The article cites two further noirs of hers, Murder's Melody (Mordets Melodi, 1944) and Possession (Besættelse, 1944), and I have to say that The True Face (Det Sande Ansigt, 1951) looks at least noir-adjacent. Half of her films were co-directed with Lau Lauritzen Jr., who had gotten his start co-directing with O'Hendricks. However hypothetically, this women-in-noir series is definitely going to have to be international. I hope to God I have some way of seeing any of these things in this country.

2. Because I can't interact with Tumblr: the half-remembered dragon-into-cat story is a sweeter version of the ending of E. Nesbit's "The Dragon Tamers," collected in The Book of Dragons (1901/1972). spatch and I have observed for some time that every single illustration of a dragon curled around its hoard owes a debt to the curling-up of cats.

3. I can say honestly that this is not a style of mermaid I have ever seen before. I like it.

rushthatspeaks and I are planning on The Shape of Water (2017) tonight.

Comments

[gwynnega]

Enjoy The Shape of Water!

[sovay]

Enjoy The Shape of Water!

Thank you! Did you like it?

[gwynnega]

I liked it very much. It was probably my second favorite movie of 2017 (after Get Out).

[ethelmay]

I just saw a comment on File770 that suggested maybe mermaids should be countershaded, which I thought was an interesting idea, but on which axis? or would it change with their position?

[sovay]

I just saw a comment on File770 that suggested maybe mermaids should be countershaded, which I thought was an interesting idea, but on which axis? or would it change with their position?

I would think along the same axis as whales and dolphins, but I like the idea that it's changeable, cuttlefish-like.

[umadoshi]

OhmyGOSH, that mermaid art. *gazes*

I hope you enjoy(ed) The Shape of Water!

[genarti]

I really liked The Shape of Water! I found it intense and unsettling and very, very good. I'll be very interested to hear your thoughts on it!

Also, heartily agreed about dragons and cats.

[sovay]

OhmyGOSH, that mermaid art.

She appears to have a coral outcropping on her hip. It reminds me of Richard A. Kirk's illustration for Caitlín R. Kiernan's "Nor the Demons Down Under the Sea," which I frustratingly cannot find anywhere on the internet, but there are tentacles and barnacles involved in that one.

I hope you enjoy(ed) The Shape of Water!

I did! I am hoping to write about it tomorrow, although I will need to pass out first.

[sovay]

I really liked The Shape of Water! I found it intense and unsettling and very, very good. I'll be very interested to hear your thoughts on it!

I am hoping to write about it, if not a full review then at least some notes. I liked it very much!

[sovay]

I liked it very much.

I also liked it! Not every part of it worked for me equally well, but the parts that worked, really worked, and I'd call it the most complicated movie I've seen from Guillermo del Toro. (I have not seen Pan's Labyrinth (2006). I might have been expecting a couple of plot developments if I had.) It was ambitious and pulled it off. And it looked beautiful.

[thisbluespirit]

I try not to mess around with posts too much after I make them

I started reading the 1. paragraph and was very worried because I was sure I'd read it before but clearly I couldn't have done, but then I tried reading things in the right order and all became clear (so often the case) and I didn't have to feel I was in a S&S episode. (I'm easily confused.)

Good luck with your noir venture, though, anyhow! Curses be on any region-coding etc. that gets in your way. (But this is the internet, it can probably be overcome...)

[kenjari]

I'm looking forward to what you have to say about The Shape of Water. Other Kenjari and I liked it very much.

[sovay]

I started reading the 1. paragraph and was very worried because I was sure I'd read it before but clearly I couldn't have done, but then I tried reading things in the right order and all became clear (so often the case) and I didn't have to feel I was in a S&S episode.

You were not hallucinating or trapped in a time loop! That was one of the tiny posts I made before realizing I really hated them.

Curses be on any region-coding etc. that gets in your way. (But this is the internet, it can probably be overcome...)

Thank you! That is my hope.

[sovay]

I'm looking forward to what you have to say about The Shape of Water. Other Kenjari and I liked it very much.

I liked it a lot and would like to write about it. All promises dependent on work, sleep, etc. (I am annoyed at my stamina as I type this response.)