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Yup. What, for me, keeps the Godfather on this side of greatness, is that it feels written.

This one may be sacrilege, but...the Godfather? Every scene, one after the next after the next, exactly as you remember them. It feels a bit, now, episodic, as if the whole is less than the sum of its parts. And Michael's journey, once you know it's there, seems telegraphed, a bit plotty, kind...

OMG. WTF. And the dog too? I almost just don't want to know. And Hoosiers--as good as it gets.

And... Maybe one of the little kids, maybe both, can at this point make the sign of the cross, mistaking a curse for a prayer, before Sebastian ushers them away. This might be a memorable little comic moment. Edit: just realized I thought this was funny because i think Rod and Todd Flanders...

Just changed "Another moan from the next room," to " A cry from the next room--Maria Barbara (O.S.): "Lord Jesus Christ!" Way better :)

Thanks, sfoster, for reading and taking the time to leave a note. Yea, in writing about the 1720s I have had to learn a lot of stuff, little questions, here and there, like: What kind of hat would this person be wearing? Would little Carl Philippe Emanuel Bach have been called Carl, Philippe...

Has old school CG just gone the way of the typewriter? Stop-motion?

No sweat. (And sorry to whine, lol.) And don't knock yourself out. It just motivates me, a little, to think of something being read by someone other than Spike. Just a word, (something like "Masterful!") is fine. :)

And here, the first minutes of the second scene, to "when he wills," at 4:45. (And if you watch, make sure the CC is on.) And guys, this, the NBS's beautiful production, makes me leak from my eyes. And if it doesn't make anyone else so leak, or at least lean toward such leakage . . . It is...

Oops. Inadvertently killed the link above: here again, 4.25 pages. https://www.keepandshare.com/doc30/116301/bb16-pdf-53k?da=y And a word? Anyone? I gave up on the project for a while. I so easily get diverted, but am returning now again, trying to cook up some resolution, ambition, energy...

Ahh. You want to be serious, and I respect that. It's a dense, but I think, good idea. THat's one of the things you can do with science fiction, deal with important and always relevant subjects--justice; injustice--by being able to frame them in unique settings. If our time traveling lawyer...

Yup, lol THat's just Gould being a smart-ass and it always makes me chuckle. He was, to my mind, the best interpreter of Bach on the keyboard, probably since Bach himself--an opinion far from universal, but not that controversial either. Anyway, I find myself really tickled by the idea of a...

Really fond memories of Stand by Me. Maybe I should keep them that way. Good song, though. :)

Sorry for the non sequitor but, re. Mozart, I always think of Glenn Gould's line: The tragedy of Mozart's life is that he died too old. (Glenn didn't think much of the later Mozart compositions, lol)

Had mentioned The In-Laws in the buddies thread, remembering thinking the "serpentine" bit was so funny. And so watched it again, for the first time in probably over a decade, and ... that bit was still funny, and it was about the only thing in the movie that was. Asian and South American...

In the script, there's some Handel and Vivaldi, since each makes a cameo appearance. Otherwise it's, of course, all Bach, and most of that "live," performed (as it is here) as part of the scene.

In the film, it would be on harpsichaord, and only for a few seconds. But I like Glenn's tempo and articulation here. For the scene, the Partita, I thought, would be a bit inappropriately, maybe comically, fast and busy, esp. if played as Gould plays it. And the Prelude, again, slightly...

By the way, for anyone interested, the music in this scene, Friedemann at the Harpsichord. Here, Glenn Gould at the piano.

Wow. I get that you're excited about this and I get why. Last year: "two weeks making a 3 minute video," today, "4 hours of finished video created and uploaded in a day." Astonishing. I kind of feel something like this, when GPT writes a paragraph of expository prose, instantaneously, that...

Havn't posted anything here in a while, so here's something. Working on a sequence, the life and death of Leopold Augustus Bach. The players here are Sebastian (JS Bach, 33); his wife, Maria Barbara; (34) Maria Barbara's elder sister, part of the household, Friedelena (43); his daughter...