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back in the saddle again....
Aug. 11th, 2003 09:02 amWell it's monday, I'm back at work and I've finished the tasks that were waiting for me this morning. I have to stay at work all day today becuase I'm meeting C the Gulistan Dance theatre director for dinner at 5:30 to return her costumes and for general rejoicing.
This weekend was very decadent, I got to see 2 movies and play lots of Black and White, the video game that I've finally gotten addicted to - it was difficult to get used to the controls and the first world and the beginning of the 2nd world are annoying because you haven't learned how to do much of the nifty stuff. But now I am in world 3 trying to rescue my creature (actually the creature R started while he was down for the weekend) from the evil Lethys.
Last night I got to go to see Tomb Raider 2 with D - it was interesting - I thought it had some good parallels with Pirates of the Carribbean - I mean obviously it was a very different milieu, but it was all about buckling swashes and the movies were more about the quest and the journey than the acutal goal at the end, and the strong women characters didn't turn into girly women at the end just so it could be all hollywood, and the romantic subtext (which was less sub in Pirates) was not saccharined and didn't take over the story for that typical happy ending. The ending of Tomb Raider made me very happy. The sound tracks were very very different - I thought that Pirates fit in very much with the whole John Williams, post-Star Wars use of music. Tomb Raider's soundtrack sounded much more epic with less borrowing (or blatant ripping off) of melodic material. There was a basic leitmotif that kept returning, and it gave it a more old fashioned feel - I thought it was trying to be very Lawrence of Arabia like, but with techno beat/bass underneath the swooping string lines. There was some great diagetic music at the beginning at the Greek wedding - sounded very correct to my ears, which admittedly are not expert ears on Greek music, but I am a little familiar. The only classical piece used was the famous duet from Lakme (Delibes). It was used as we first see Croft Manor, but the cool thing was at the very end the Pandora music used similar harmony and texture, though it didn't steal the melody. Very classy if you ask me.
This weekend was very decadent, I got to see 2 movies and play lots of Black and White, the video game that I've finally gotten addicted to - it was difficult to get used to the controls and the first world and the beginning of the 2nd world are annoying because you haven't learned how to do much of the nifty stuff. But now I am in world 3 trying to rescue my creature (actually the creature R started while he was down for the weekend) from the evil Lethys.
Last night I got to go to see Tomb Raider 2 with D - it was interesting - I thought it had some good parallels with Pirates of the Carribbean - I mean obviously it was a very different milieu, but it was all about buckling swashes and the movies were more about the quest and the journey than the acutal goal at the end, and the strong women characters didn't turn into girly women at the end just so it could be all hollywood, and the romantic subtext (which was less sub in Pirates) was not saccharined and didn't take over the story for that typical happy ending. The ending of Tomb Raider made me very happy. The sound tracks were very very different - I thought that Pirates fit in very much with the whole John Williams, post-Star Wars use of music. Tomb Raider's soundtrack sounded much more epic with less borrowing (or blatant ripping off) of melodic material. There was a basic leitmotif that kept returning, and it gave it a more old fashioned feel - I thought it was trying to be very Lawrence of Arabia like, but with techno beat/bass underneath the swooping string lines. There was some great diagetic music at the beginning at the Greek wedding - sounded very correct to my ears, which admittedly are not expert ears on Greek music, but I am a little familiar. The only classical piece used was the famous duet from Lakme (Delibes). It was used as we first see Croft Manor, but the cool thing was at the very end the Pandora music used similar harmony and texture, though it didn't steal the melody. Very classy if you ask me.
