Exciting Things!
Aug. 11th, 2010 12:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
metonomiaTHEY ARE MAKING A MOVIE OF THE TEMPEST. AND IT HAS HELEN MIRREN PLAYING PROSPERA. YES, THAT IS CORRECT. PROSPERO IS NOW PROSPERA.
HERE IS WHAT IMDB TELLS US.
In Julie Taymor's version of 'The Tempest,' the gender of Prospero has been switched to Prospera. Going back to the 16th or 17th century, women practicing the magical arts of alchemy were often convicted of witchcraft. In Taymor's version, Prospera is usurped by her brother and sent off with her four-year daughter on a ship. She ends up on an island; it's a tabula rasa: no society, so the mother figure becomes a father figure to Miranda. This leads to the power struggle and balance between Caliban and Prospera; a struggle not about brawn, but about intellect.
It comes out 10 December. I NEED IT NOW.
Helen Mirren. And Russell Brand! And Miranda is played by Felicity Jones! Who was in Dr. Who (The Unicorn and the Wasp), and who is the one person I've ever thought 'wow, she could play an older Susan Pevensie' (except no, because I'd want Anna Popplewell to continue playing even adult Susan).
This is going to be SO FREAKING AWESOME.
Also exciting, I guess, is that I finally emailed my honors program mentee. I feel kind of badly I guess about waiting two months before contacting her, but mine didn't email me until August, last year, and it's been summer. I'm lazy.
HERE IS WHAT IMDB TELLS US.
In Julie Taymor's version of 'The Tempest,' the gender of Prospero has been switched to Prospera. Going back to the 16th or 17th century, women practicing the magical arts of alchemy were often convicted of witchcraft. In Taymor's version, Prospera is usurped by her brother and sent off with her four-year daughter on a ship. She ends up on an island; it's a tabula rasa: no society, so the mother figure becomes a father figure to Miranda. This leads to the power struggle and balance between Caliban and Prospera; a struggle not about brawn, but about intellect.
It comes out 10 December. I NEED IT NOW.
Helen Mirren. And Russell Brand! And Miranda is played by Felicity Jones! Who was in Dr. Who (The Unicorn and the Wasp), and who is the one person I've ever thought 'wow, she could play an older Susan Pevensie' (except no, because I'd want Anna Popplewell to continue playing even adult Susan).
This is going to be SO FREAKING AWESOME.
Also exciting, I guess, is that I finally emailed my honors program mentee. I feel kind of badly I guess about waiting two months before contacting her, but mine didn't email me until August, last year, and it's been summer. I'm lazy.
