Aftersun - Recomendacións de verán 2023
Xa aló vai a metade do verán, e nós non queriamos desaproveitar o que resta para convidarvos a ver películas. Por iso, adiantamos un chisco a programación para ofrecervos as recomendacións cinematográficas de verán de Kinocube canto antes. A gozar do mellor cinema!
À propos de Nice (Jean Vigo, 1930)
Un fermoso documental que nos fala de realidades pasadas que seguen a ter ecos no presente: o turismo e a xentrificación, a fenda social e económica entre os habitantes dun lugar e os visitantes de verán, a exotización do propio... como diciamos, un discurso totalmente vixente na actualidade e un ritmo de montaxe incrible.
Rear window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
A propósito do último video da nosa canle, darlle un repaso a este clásico de Hitchcock que nos convida a ser espectadores por partida dobre -ver a quen mira-, xa que o seu protagonista, nun cálido verán en Greenwich Village, é un espectador coma nós dos feitos que se desenvolven -ou non!- diante dos seus ollos, a través da fiestra.
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
Como sempre nas nosas recomendacións, queremos engadir un filme deses calorosos, que fiquen ben ambientados na atmosfera cálida de Agosto. Neste caso, un clásico, unha grande epopea que fai da fata morgana unha arte.
Luca (Enrico Casarosa, 2021)
Quizabes a nivel narrativo non é moi ambiciosa, pois a súa trama é unha vez máis a do "peixe fóra da auga" -a broma é a propósito- como no seu momento moitos filmes de animación. Porén, é deses filmes de conforto para crianzas e persoas xa medradas porque luce exactamente como debe facelo un verán ocioso da infancia e xuventude.
Aftersun (Charlotte Wells, 2022)
A directora parteu dun trazo da súa infancia en forma de fotografía polaroid para reproducir unha atmosfera concreta do pasado, para revivir un momento conxelado no tempo e para procurarlle un sentido a unha incógnita, intuímos, difícil de abranguer.
E isto é todo, xa tedes deberes para este agosto.
Até o vindeiro episodio!
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To any vampire-loving friends who are confused about the "de" and "du" in Louis and Lestat's names, a quick explanation:
These last names function like "Robin of Locksley" or "Lawrence of Arabia". Pre-dating modern last names, people were identified most often by their parentage ("Martin son of John" or "Samuel Davidson") or in the case of land-owning nobility, by their land.
(Like how in Downtown Abbey Robert Crawley is the Earl of Grantham and often addressed as "Lord Grantham" but never as "Lord Crawley". He is associated with the land he owns--Lord Grantham is probably a shortened version of "Lord of Grantham", or in French "Monsieur de Grantham".)
The important part here is that French didn't drop the "of" in these titles. And these titles either referred to a place or family line. Therefore:
Lestat de Lioncourt = Lestat of [the family] Lioncourt*
Louis de Pointe du Lac = Louis of Peak of the Lake ("peak of the lake" being the name of the estate)
*Lestat's family name might well come from their coat of arms--a lion on the coat of arms could have turned into Lioncourt
So why all this context? Well it's interesting but because it brings me to grammar:
"de" = of
"du" = of the (this is a contraction of "de le")
So both Lestat's and Louis' names are followed by "de" to indicate who/what they are associated with. Louis then has "du" between pointe and lac because "peak of lake" doesn't make sense grammatically.
These little two letter words are easy to confuse especially if you don't know why they're different. Hopefully this helps!
tl;dr it's "Louis de Pointe du Lac/Louis of Peak of the Lake" and "Lestat de Lioncourt/Lestat of Lioncourt"
Happy writing and shipping!!
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“Little Prince” / “Prince of the Stars” - Literature References in GW
I am so delighted to report that the phrase Relena uses in episode 2-- "Does that mean Heero is a... Little Prince?" (or "Star Prince" in Japanese)-- is exactly what it seems to be:
It’s a reference to "The Little Prince", by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
More specifically, it’s from one of the backstories in “Episode Zero”– giving you yet another reason to read this important supplementary manga! It’s also featured in the new manga adaptation of GW, “Glory Of Losers”, which is excellent.
--Saint-Exupéry was himself an aristocrat by birth, and a notable pilot. He flew both as a pioneer of international postal flights, and as a fighter for the liberation of occupied France in WWII. He was shot down on a reconnaissance mission, flying his P-38 Lightning over the Mediterranean, and disappeared without confirmation of a wreck or his death. He was presumed missing in action until in the final years of the 20th century, when a silver bracelet with his identifiers was discovered off the coast of Marseilles .
Fun fact: if you read “The Little Prince” with Gundam Wing in mind, you will experience Several emotions!
--Once upon a time, Relena Darlain encountered a lovely, somber young man who came from the sky and rescued her from danger. She did not trust him, because he had come in a Mobile Suit, a machine of war and death. He called her “princess”, almost without thinking, as if it were the natural thing to call her– this was terribly confusing, for she was certain she was not a princess of any kind.
Thinking the young man was simply being whimsical, she asked whether that made him a knight, or a dragon? He looked distant for a moment, as if conflicted by something weighing heavily upon him, but then gave a response suiting the theme of the moment, saying “I’m a prince from the stars”.
The somber young man was indeed a little prince, who you might imagine came from a very small kingdom– home to a beautiful rose that was as fearless as she was helpless, with only little thorns to protect her that would not even deter a hungry sheep. He had run away from the responsibilities of this kingdom, and now could not return. When he’d first come to earth, he met a fox, who told him the only way to truly understand things was to tame them, and that one was responsible forever for the things that one tamed. The fox had said only that which was intangible really mattered. This had made him appreciate and love his rose even more, though she was far beyond his reach now, and the intangible goals he sought would only take him farther away.
Years later, the girl Relena Darlain met another somber young man who had fallen from the sky as a shooting star– he was fierce and wild and not at all like the little prince she had met when she was a child. But he had come from the stars all the same, and something about him reminded her of that first encounter, and of the children's book of the same name. They were both hurt, and lost, and very alone. She said this thought aloud to herself dreamily, because at that moment she was still a child, though she wouldn’t be for very much longer.
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–The title of the Japanese translation of Le Petit Prince is “Hoshi no ouji sama”-- the subtitles for this in the anime read “Star Prince”, which is correct for Japan, and in the dub it is “Little Prince”, which is correct for the English title. This is a lovely bit of translation synchrony that doesn’t help one single bit in understanding what Relena means when she says this! But that is why we have Episode Zero, and if you really need proof that this is indeed a reference to the childrens’ book, I believe Sumisawa brings it up explicitly in Frozen Teardrop.
Gundam Wing is chock FULL of references to western lit and film– Wizard of OZ, White Fang, Lawrence of Arabia, Roman Holiday; “Darlain” is close enough to “Darling” that I suspect it’s a Peter Pan reference, and even Lady Une’s name is likely a reference to My Fair Lady, due to a very early scrapped idea for her character where she was a sort of clumsy, provincial girl that Treize was teaching to be “elegant”-- an element that stayed on in the series, albeit in a MUCH different context from Henry Higgins / Eliza Doolittle, thank god.
“Come on Gundam, move your bloomin’ arse!”
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