How do you do something that wrong? It's one thing to think "Dracula" was written by Mary Shelley. But how do you get all the way to Jane Austen?
Now, it's a wedding story. Maybe it's a sneaky way to get clicks, because I wouldn't have clicked on that headline, and I don't routinely read the NYT wedding reports.
From the article:
Ms. Hamill, who is currently starring in her own adaptation of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” an Off Broadway production running at the Classic Stage Company, that she described as “a feminist revenge fantasy,” was equally thrilled to be dating Mr. O’Connell.Well, so... feminist revenge fantasy... that calls to mind Jane Austen, doesn't it?
As long as I'm there, let me extract this for you:
Two months into dating the bride, the groom had a wisdom tooth removed and was given powerful painkillers. “He was really out if it,” the bride said. “I made him soup and just as he was about to fall asleep, he rolled over and asked, “Will you marry me?”Is that a feminist-revenge twist on rape drugs?
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Couldn't find the Earth on a globe of the world.
May her ring have a large diamond the size of a small boulder.
Mary Shelley wrote "Frankenstein" My high school classmate Mike Kennedy a/k/a M. Reese Kennedy wrote, "The Daemon at the Casement or, Frankenstein, Part II." And I adapted Mike's novel to "Bride of Frankenstein." The script and novel pick up where Shelley's 1818 novel ended.
And it is all about marriage.
Franz, "My past is now gone. I have begun a new life with you here at Sweetbriar. I just want to be loved.... For the first time in my life. (beat) Love is expressed more in words than in deeds. Margaret, will you marry me?"
Margaret, "I never planned to remarry but I do love you so. Yes, Franz. (beat) I have never known a better man."
Franz proposes right after then burn Dr. Frankenstein's notes and the book written by Margaret's brother that describes how Franz was created. His past got burned up with the book.
Is that a feminist-revenge twist on rape drugs?
Maybe that will work in an annulment argument. "Your Honor, I was Cosby'd into marriage!"
no one edits the times, Taranto was right.
If you think people are stupid now, wait until today's elementary school children grow up.
Love and Lorazepam.
Dracula was about invasion by alien forces, Frankenstein was about the arrogance of trying to create life from death,
no one edits the times, Taranto was right.
No editor plus young new hire with a victim's study degree.
There was a story that Stoker had a bet with some other writer as to who could write the scarier book. Stoker lost. The winner is lost to history.
“I made him soup and just as he was about to fall asleep, he rolled over and asked, “Will you marry me?”
She put an aphrodisiac in the soup.
I had never read Blackstone until I wrote "Bride of Frankenstein."
Below dialogue involves the London PI's bracing Robert Walton.
Robert Walton, "My lawyer told me not to talk to you."
John Booker, "He did now, did he? But did you tell lawyer Kennedy that you are committing crimes against nature on a daily basis? Capital crimes, don't you know?"
Newly added scene and I like it. The cops shake down Walton and attack his weak spot.
The most powerful Love drugs are natural hormones. They attack the mind and implant permanent memories that when recalled are the source of country music lyrics.
Well, so... feminist revenge fantasy... that calls to mind Jane Austen, doesn't it?
Not particularly.
Jane Austen; seriously?
I sure wish our betters were better! Wonder if they could find Ukraine on a map if it was marked with a big "U" and a picture of a crane?
Ms. Hamill, who is currently starring in her own adaptation of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” an Off Broadway production running at the Classic Stage Company, that she described as “a feminist revenge fantasy,” was equally thrilled to be dating Mr. O’Connell.
She writes like Nancy Pelosi speaks!!
Phidippus said...
If you think people are stupid now, wait until today's elementary school children grow up.
Boy is that an image ! Just public schools, though. I hope.
The bet story was, I thought, about "Turn of the Screw" which is a great story.
Turn of the Screw; wasn't that one of the Bronte sisters?
"and just as he was about to fall asleep, he rolled over and asked, “Will you marry me?”"
Since she fell for it so easily, no wonder thoughts of revenge come to mind. Is all feminism the rationalization of regret?
There was a movie called "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies". That's probably as much Jane Austen many millennials get exposed to.
How do that wrong?
Dunno, how do.
narciso said...
no one edits the times, Taranto was right.
Correction: Jan. 24, 2020
In an earlier version of this article, the given name of the actress who introduced the couple was misspelled. She is Vaishnavi Sharma, not Vaishmavi. The given name of the wedding officiant was also misspelled. She is Gabra Zackman, not Dabra. Also, the author of "Dracula" was incorrect. He is Bram Stoker, not Jane Austen.
That's a little more than mixing up Stoke and Austen. (Which is bad enough!)
Charlie said...
There was a movie called "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies". That's probably as much Jane Austen many millennials get exposed to.
That was a book as well. The same author also did; "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters".
The first sentence of that correction actually makes it seem like it was Bram Stoker who made a mistake.
IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.
"A Tale of Two Cities and C.H.U.Ds"
Hey, Bram Stoker was just another one of those dead white males, wasn't he? Easy to forget.
Yale just dropped a Western Art class because most of the artists were dead white guys and so therefore we shouldn't be exposing young people to all that toxic masculinity or something.
Roll over, Beethoven...also Giotto, Durer, da Vinci, Manet, Turner,...,
I'd be funny if it turned out that 'Little Women' was written by Dracula.
Or, we could approach it in the other direction:
"Shrek and the Heart of Darkness"
Fernandistein said...
I'd be funny if it turned out that 'Little Women' was written by Dracula.
Nah, Jeffery Epstein.
I'll be showing myself out.....
I have been in Florida for a little while, and while I doubt that vampires walk among us, re-animated corpses? I am not so sure anymore.
He is Bram Stoker, not Jane Austen.
Doesn’t one use past tense for authors long-deceased?
"I sure wish our betters were better! “
It’s not taught anymore. It’s all part of the destruction of Western culture.
I have been in Florida for a little while, and while I doubt that vampires walk among us, re-animated corpses?
You could be in Iowa.
Wasn't Dave Begley going to do something with Jane Austen's other work? you know, Frankenstein?
ps (i SEE that dave posts extensively upstream from me; but my joke is Too Good to fail)
gilbar:
The moment I sell it, I'll tell the Althouse commenter community the good news and stop bugging you people about it.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies started a slew of Jane Austen vampire novels:
Mr. Darcy, Vampyre
Vampire Darcy's Desire
Jane Bites Back
The Immortal Jane Austen
Pulse and Prejudice
Emma and the Vampires
That is only scratching the surface of the many Austen-related [trash] novels that have come out in the last few years.
Goth Austen seems very strange at first, since she was writing realistic social satire (I guess), but Gothic horror (or the satire of it) is an element in Northanger Abbey, and you can see a bit of the Gothic or Byronic hero in Austen's male leads (and even more in the Brontës').
Now I'm done and will stop pretending that I have a degree in English Literature.
She made him soup.
That’s what did it.
Understandable, since all English women look alike.
What was the play in which they met, and why couldn't they act on the spark?
Dr. Gbojie has never disappointed me.
Just so everyone knows, there is a character in "Bride of Frankenstein" named Frau Althouse. No relation to Ann Althouse. I just needed a good German sounding name. A minor - but important - character.
this gives a little flavor of it,
http://www.classicstage.org/shows/2020/01/dracula-and-frankenstein-two-new-adaptations-in-repertory/
if they wanted a feminist villain, they could have done countess bathory, a descendant of vlad tepes, about two hundred years later,
which was the subject of one of the hammer films, that was on comet, also a whole bunch of schlocky straight to video films,
In the 1970s, an undergraduate English major had a reasonably strong basis in the classical fundamentals of English/American literature, and reached out to read and study and analyze works by women and minorities in the context of that foundation. Now undergraduate English majors skip over the "classics" to devote course work almost exclusively to the literature of diversity. So a well-trained undergraduate English major of recent vintage has no basis for thinking that Bronte is different from Austen or Mary Shelley, or Bram Stoker or EA Poe. They're all "ancient writers I haven't read" so it doesn't really matter if I confuse one with another.
@h, I have the damnable feeling that you’re right.
So a well-trained undergraduate English major of recent vintage has no basis for thinking that Bronte is different from Austen or Mary Shelley, or Bram Stoker or EA Poe. They're all "ancient writers I haven't read" so it doesn't really matter if I confuse one with another.
Yes but it is even worse that Engineering departments are doing this. I was an engineer and then an English major because I could not get a student loan to do pre-med. English made one civilized but engineering made the planes take off.
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I'll be showing myself out.....
Nice finish. That was funny!
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