interesting article on Hollywood and love stories

This is pretty interesting: on Hollywood and the romance:  http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1651506-2,00.html

I've actually been pondering this for a while.  If you read my LJ, you know that I'm essentially hopeless when it comes to anything resembling a canon pairing, as long a I like them(unless there's an alternative I find preferable to one member, in which case that becomes problematic for me)  That said...I usually avoid romantic movies, and when I read romances, it's more for escapism than romance, or because of genre storylines.  When I do watch romantic movies, they're usually older ones, or ones based on older stories.

I think the reason for this is because, whether its a fluffy romantic comedy or a doomed angstfest, most modern stories, as covered in the article, are more "I love you for now" than "I'll always love you."  Probably why I get more interested when the pairing is a secondary or side concern than when it's the main thing.

interesting article on Hollywood and love stories

This is pretty interesting: on Hollywood and the romance:  http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1651506-2,00.html

I've actually been pondering this for a while.  If you read my LJ, you know that I'm essentially hopeless when it comes to anything resembling a canon pairing, as long a I like them(unless there's an alternative I find preferable to one member, in which case that becomes problematic for me)  That said...I usually avoid romantic movies, and when I read romances, it's more for escapism than romance, or because of genre storylines.  When I do watch romantic movies, they're usually older ones, or ones based on older stories.

I think the reason for this is because, whether its a fluffy romantic comedy or a doomed angstfest, most modern stories, as covered in the article, are more "I love you for now" than "I'll always love you."  Probably why I get more interested when the pairing is a secondary or side concern than when it's the main thing.

more omnibus-y-ness

1.  Apparently I have not been posting as much this week.  I hadn't realized that, but as I've been asked (jokingly) by 2 people if I'm feeling well because  of posting.  Just haven't had a ton to say about any one thing the last few days and have been cramming most of it into one post.

2.  For an amazing piece of wuxia, I give you The Little Fairy's death by flying carpet.  Courtesy of calixa.

3.  You may recall by mentioning Wuxia Bourne before.  Wuxia Bourne began in IMs between myself and calixaabout how much of Bourne's angst is rather wuxia hero-ish.  It spilled into lesbiassparrow's lj here, spawning what may be the funniest thing I've ever read here(or at least, the funniest thing in a while.)

4.  If you are looking at 2 and 3 in horror, it's your own fault for letting me make my own friends.

5.  Second funniest thing in a good long while?  Reading the 4th of Mickey Zucker Reichert's Bifrost Guardians books whre the thief is doing everything in his power to get arrested so he can break his friends out of prison, and NO ONE will arrest him because the bad guy has spread the word that Taz(thief) is working for him (he isn't.)  Taz is very, very determined...

6.  People have started dying in Yoshitsune.  Naturally, it's the ones I like, as opposed to the ones I don't care about or expect to die.

7.  somebody get me back in the binge reading mood, I beg you.  I haven't been since last week, and it feels very, very weird to take most of the week to read a 300 page book...

more omnibus-y-ness

1.  Apparently I have not been posting as much this week.  I hadn't realized that, but as I've been asked (jokingly) by 2 people if I'm feeling well because  of posting.  Just haven't had a ton to say about any one thing the last few days and have been cramming most of it into one post.

2.  For an amazing piece of wuxia, I give you The Little Fairy's death by flying carpet.  Courtesy of calixa.

3.  You may recall by mentioning Wuxia Bourne before.  Wuxia Bourne began in IMs between myself and calixaabout how much of Bourne's angst is rather wuxia hero-ish.  It spilled into lesbiassparrow's lj here, spawning what may be the funniest thing I've ever read here(or at least, the funniest thing in a while.)

4.  If you are looking at 2 and 3 in horror, it's your own fault for letting me make my own friends.

5.  Second funniest thing in a good long while?  Reading the 4th of Mickey Zucker Reichert's Bifrost Guardians books whre the thief is doing everything in his power to get arrested so he can break his friends out of prison, and NO ONE will arrest him because the bad guy has spread the word that Taz(thief) is working for him (he isn't.)  Taz is very, very determined...

6.  People have started dying in Yoshitsune.  Naturally, it's the ones I like, as opposed to the ones I don't care about or expect to die.

7.  somebody get me back in the binge reading mood, I beg you.  I haven't been since last week, and it feels very, very weird to take most of the week to read a 300 page book...

and following up on the Hollywood romances bit earlier...

*mostly babble, I believe*

I think a lot of the reason most Hollywood/western romances these days feel like "I love you now"  more than "I'll love you forever"  is because of the "if it doesn't work out, I can try again" mentallity.  Most people look at relationships and marriage as trial and error.  Get married too soon?  No problem just get a divorce.  Etc.  Even in something set in a time where that wasn't the case, the writer's mindset for life seeps in...I often read a historical romance and think "yeah...but after living together for a year..."

I started paying less attention to Hollywood romances and romances novels more and more when I got into anime and manga a few years ago, and now with doramas.  I think this is because they have a much stronger feeling of permanence.  Even though divorce is now more possible, it's frowned upon much more than in western cultures and marriage and relationships are approach with the idea if starting anything means being willing to stick with it for 50 years.  Even the oddest pairings tend to feel more functional and permanent than most of what Hollywood puts out.  Reading/watching Yamada and Ueda in Trick or Kyo and Yuya in Samurai Deeper Kyo or Kyohei and Sunako in Wallflower/Perfect Girl Evolution, or Domyoji/Makino in Hana Yori Dango, anyone used to Hollywood romances wouldn't see how they could ever possibly last, yet if you actually read/watch, you know that they're bizarrely functional in their way, and even though they may sound like they're 5 minutes from killing each other, they're solid(heck, the entire Trick series is essentially one long, bizarre courtship)

( cut for middling length )

Completely unrelated, but The Boys are watching Fearless dubbed.  As disconcerting as the very out-of-sync voices and mouths are, I find this preferable to Roseanne and it's obnoxious laugh track.

ETA:  Apparently if people mention I haven't been posting enough, I spam...and neglect my reading even more than I already am.

and following up on the Hollywood romances bit earlier...

*mostly babble, I believe*

I think a lot of the reason most Hollywood/western romances these days feel like "I love you now"  more than "I'll love you forever"  is because of the "if it doesn't work out, I can try again" mentallity.  Most people look at relationships and marriage as trial and error.  Get married too soon?  No problem just get a divorce.  Etc.  Even in something set in a time where that wasn't the case, the writer's mindset for life seeps in...I often read a historical romance and think "yeah...but after living together for a year..."

I started paying less attention to Hollywood romances and romances novels more and more when I got into anime and manga a few years ago, and now with doramas.  I think this is because they have a much stronger feeling of permanence.  Even though divorce is now more possible, it's frowned upon much more than in western cultures and marriage and relationships are approach with the idea if starting anything means being willing to stick with it for 50 years.  Even the oddest pairings tend to feel more functional and permanent than most of what Hollywood puts out.  Reading/watching Yamada and Ueda in Trick or Kyo and Yuya in Samurai Deeper Kyo or Kyohei and Sunako in Wallflower/Perfect Girl Evolution, or Domyoji/Makino in Hana Yori Dango, anyone used to Hollywood romances wouldn't see how they could ever possibly last, yet if you actually read/watch, you know that they're bizarrely functional in their way, and even though they may sound like they're 5 minutes from killing each other, they're solid(heck, the entire Trick series is essentially one long, bizarre courtship)

( cut for middling length )

Completely unrelated, but The Boys are watching Fearless dubbed.  As disconcerting as the very out-of-sync voices and mouths are, I find this preferable to Roseanne and it's obnoxious laugh track.

ETA:  Apparently if people mention I haven't been posting enough, I spam...and neglect my reading even more than I already am.

Yoshitsune: deep, deep mourning

( *bawls* )

William powell and MYrna Loy, I am counting on you to make it all better.

Yoshitsune: deep, deep mourning

( *bawls* )

William powell and MYrna Loy, I am counting on you to make it all better.