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bookishwench) wrote2023-10-20 06:59 pm
bookishwench) wrote2023-10-20 06:59 pm
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Yuletide letter
Dear Yuletide writer,
Hi! First of all, thank you for whatever gift you want to create. I'm sure I'm going to enjoy it. Just have fun writing!
As far as DNW, I suppose it's a bit of a catch-all, but I'd rather not have really graphic violence or sexuality, please. Jaws is a little different as there's a fair amount of gore in the original, both seen and discussed, so anything up to that level is perfectly okay.
So, here are my choices. I honestly love all six of these and would be happy to get something from any of them. :)
Gunsmoke - Kitty Russel always intrigued me. I'm not usually into Westerns, usually because women don't get very interesting roles in them and that gets annoying after a while, but Kitty was such a wonderful character. She had a kind heart, handled one of the few businesses women were allowed in that time, could play (and cheat) at a mean game of poker, and loved Matt ferociously and gently at the same time. Doc and Chester had wonderful comic chemistry together as well, and of course Marshall Dillon, strong, obsessed with being completely independent and free, and a strict but fair lawman in a time when the sheriff probably could have gotten away with anything. Whatever you want to create here, from letting them all have one of their rare happy times together or something more sombre, would be appreciated.
Gone with the Wind - In retrospect, Belle Watling does have a lot of things in common with Kitty up there. Rhett himself admits that she has a heart, something Scarlett basically doesn't, at least not in the same way. She's also a complete mystery. She has a son, off at school, but aside from knowing he's never been to Atlanta, we don't know anything about him or his father. What does she do after Rhett leaves Scarlett? Background, future, her thoughts on the events of the book, whatever is great.
Jaws - In general, I'm not a huge gore person, so my total love for this movie is kind of weird. But I do love it. Take carte blanche here with weird ideas: the shark's thoughts on all this, what Ellen does back home or what her thoughts were about leaving New York, Martin's issues with being on the police force in NY and why a guy scared of water moved to an island, Quint's background (he is so open to interpretation: PTSD? complete mental breakdown? something else? what was going on with that guy?). If you want to throw in Hooper or leave him out is fine. If you want this to be completely comic, that could be fun, or maybe something more sinister, go for it.
The Great Escape - This is open to any character, and I mean any. I love these guys. I loved poor, doomed Ives the Scotsman. I loved sweet, claustrophobic Danny. Hilts and his bravado, Hendley's humor and the way he took care of gentle Blythe, Big X, Sedgwick, all of them. Anyone you want to focus on is fine. If you want to look at what life was like before the war, how they got captured, or what happens afterwards for the ones who survive or escaped (do any of them ever meet up again?), that would be terrific, but whatever you want to play with.
Golden Girls - I love all four ladies, but Sophia? She's on a different level from the rest of us. :) If you want to have her interacting with the others or by herself, back in Sicily, going before St. Peter (and why do I suddenly picture Harvey Fierstein as St. Peter now?), heck, you want her considering hiring a hitman to get Stan after what he did her daughter, I'll take whatever you want.
12 Angry Men - I was in a production of this a long time ago as Juror 8, and I loved it. Literally any character here has so much potential backstory. Or if you want to do worldbuilding and look at the judge and bailiff and lawyers and their thoughts, or the son and the father, or what really happened that night, or even two or more of the jurors meeting up again later or meeting the son at some point, whatever. Just have fun!
Thank you again so much, and happy Yuletide!
Meltha (aka bookishwench)
Hi! First of all, thank you for whatever gift you want to create. I'm sure I'm going to enjoy it. Just have fun writing!
As far as DNW, I suppose it's a bit of a catch-all, but I'd rather not have really graphic violence or sexuality, please. Jaws is a little different as there's a fair amount of gore in the original, both seen and discussed, so anything up to that level is perfectly okay.
So, here are my choices. I honestly love all six of these and would be happy to get something from any of them. :)
Gunsmoke - Kitty Russel always intrigued me. I'm not usually into Westerns, usually because women don't get very interesting roles in them and that gets annoying after a while, but Kitty was such a wonderful character. She had a kind heart, handled one of the few businesses women were allowed in that time, could play (and cheat) at a mean game of poker, and loved Matt ferociously and gently at the same time. Doc and Chester had wonderful comic chemistry together as well, and of course Marshall Dillon, strong, obsessed with being completely independent and free, and a strict but fair lawman in a time when the sheriff probably could have gotten away with anything. Whatever you want to create here, from letting them all have one of their rare happy times together or something more sombre, would be appreciated.
Gone with the Wind - In retrospect, Belle Watling does have a lot of things in common with Kitty up there. Rhett himself admits that she has a heart, something Scarlett basically doesn't, at least not in the same way. She's also a complete mystery. She has a son, off at school, but aside from knowing he's never been to Atlanta, we don't know anything about him or his father. What does she do after Rhett leaves Scarlett? Background, future, her thoughts on the events of the book, whatever is great.
Jaws - In general, I'm not a huge gore person, so my total love for this movie is kind of weird. But I do love it. Take carte blanche here with weird ideas: the shark's thoughts on all this, what Ellen does back home or what her thoughts were about leaving New York, Martin's issues with being on the police force in NY and why a guy scared of water moved to an island, Quint's background (he is so open to interpretation: PTSD? complete mental breakdown? something else? what was going on with that guy?). If you want to throw in Hooper or leave him out is fine. If you want this to be completely comic, that could be fun, or maybe something more sinister, go for it.
The Great Escape - This is open to any character, and I mean any. I love these guys. I loved poor, doomed Ives the Scotsman. I loved sweet, claustrophobic Danny. Hilts and his bravado, Hendley's humor and the way he took care of gentle Blythe, Big X, Sedgwick, all of them. Anyone you want to focus on is fine. If you want to look at what life was like before the war, how they got captured, or what happens afterwards for the ones who survive or escaped (do any of them ever meet up again?), that would be terrific, but whatever you want to play with.
Golden Girls - I love all four ladies, but Sophia? She's on a different level from the rest of us. :) If you want to have her interacting with the others or by herself, back in Sicily, going before St. Peter (and why do I suddenly picture Harvey Fierstein as St. Peter now?), heck, you want her considering hiring a hitman to get Stan after what he did her daughter, I'll take whatever you want.
12 Angry Men - I was in a production of this a long time ago as Juror 8, and I loved it. Literally any character here has so much potential backstory. Or if you want to do worldbuilding and look at the judge and bailiff and lawyers and their thoughts, or the son and the father, or what really happened that night, or even two or more of the jurors meeting up again later or meeting the son at some point, whatever. Just have fun!
Thank you again so much, and happy Yuletide!
Meltha (aka bookishwench)