Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Much Ado About Nothing

[Share Long]

turq, here's a fun interview with Nathan about his experience with Joss and 
gang.

http://www.vulture.com/2012/09/fillion-on-joss-whedons-shakespeare-brunches.html




On Friday, November 8, 2013 12:15 AM, TurquoiseB  wrote:
 
  
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:
>
> You won't believe this but I watched the movie yesterday! Really! Maybe there 
> is something in the idea of synchronicity. I was going to recommend it to FFL 
> also - under the title "Shakespeare without Tears". The tricky choice with 
> the Bard's plays is always whether you show them in period costume or go for 
> a modern setting and somehow have to make allowances for the archaic speech. 
> Much Ado simply ignored the dilemma and played it straight. One of the best 
> film adaptations of Shakespeare I've ever seen. I've never heard of Amy 
> Acker, before but she was fantastic. Actually all the cast were good but she 
> was outstanding. 


Amy has worked with Joss many times in the past, starting with a long stint as 
Illyria / Winifred 'Fred' Burkle on "Angel," then with a major role as Dr. 
Claire Saunders / Whiskey in "Dollhouse." Along the way she's had long, 
repeating roles on "Alias" and a meaty role in Joss' "The Cabin in the Woods." 
Currently she's landed a plum role on Johnathan Nolan's "Person Of Interest," 
as the charmingly beautiful psychopath Root, who thinks she is talking to God 
and, in fact, is, because the all-knowing, all-seeing God talks back to her. 


> ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@ wrote: 
> 
>  It's been available at Redbox for a few weeks but I was vested in a 31 days 
> of horror fest so haven't gotten to it yet. 
> 
>  On 11/07/2013 02:07 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: 
> 
> 
>  No, this is not a cafe rap about Fairfield Life and its daily squabbles. 
> It's a review of a film that I have been dying to see, but have been unable 
> to because it won't be officially released either in France or in the 
> Netherlands until January. But the pirateverse hath come to the rescue -- I 
> scored a 1080p version, and just finished watching it. 
> 
>  To fully appreciate the film, it really helps to know a little about the 
> making of the film. It was produced, directed, shot, and scored by Joss 
> Whedon, while "on leave" from the filming of "The Avengers" during a 
> contractually-forced two week hiatus. Some guys, especially if they were in 
> the middle of making the film that would go on to become the highest-grossing 
> film in history, would kick back and relax during those two weeks. 
> 
>  Joss made a movie instead. He paid for it himself, recruited former actors 
> he'd worked with before to appear in it, and shot it all in 12 days. In his 
> house. 
> 
>  This last bit is important, because Joss first conceived of the idea in that 
> house (designed by his wife) years earlier when they were hosting Shakespeare 
> readings at the house. He shoots using hand-held cameras and found lighting 
> -- "Our lighting package rose in the east and set in the west." And while 
> making the movie itself was Joss' way of having fun, one aspect of the 
> production he described as "terrifying." He wrote the music, along the way 
> scoring two of the songs that Shakespeare wrote for the play. The songs were 
> recorded by Joss' brother Jed and his wife Maurissa Tancharoen, while Joss' 
> wife kinda ran both the production and the household as her house was invaded 
> by a host of actors and film crew for two weeks. So it was a real "family 
> affair." 
> 
>  That said, the play's afoot...let us proceed. 
> 
>  Suffice it to say that this is a film adaptation by Joss Whedon, so there 
> has to be a *twist*, some way of seeing the Bard's words anew, as no one else 
> has ever seen them before. Joss manages all of this with one scene, shown in 
> silence before the credits. I can say no more (insert "Zip it!" sketch here 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32C0eKRQVt8), except to say that this one 
> scene *completely* transforms Shakespeare's play into something infinitely 
> more understandable in our era, and renders the interplay between Beatrice 
> (Amy Acker) and Benedick (Alexis Denisof) more believable in a more sexually 
> liberated era. 
> 
>  I am a *serious* fan of Amy Acker, and she doth not disappoint in this 
> retelling of the Bard's tale. Nathan Fillion is charming in a short cameo as 
> Dogberry, one of the most inept cops in playwriting history. The other cast 
> (many of them faces, if not names, you'll know from Joss' other works) are 
> equally up to their task of Having Fun. 
> 
>  I really liked "Much Ado About Nothing," and recommend it highly to 1) 
> Shakespeare fans -- you'll never see a more creative adaptation of the  
> Bard's work, 2) Joss Whedon fans -- your love for the man will only be 
> increased by your knowledge of what the place he lives in looks like, and 3) 
> lovers of great comedy -- this play is considered one of Shakespeare's best 
> comedies -- produced lovingly

[FairfieldLife] Re: Much Ado About Nothing

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:
>
> You won't believe this but I watched the movie yesterday! Really!
Maybe there is something in the idea of synchronicity. I was going to
recommend it to FFL also - under the title "Shakespeare without Tears".
The tricky choice with the Bard's plays is always whether you show them
in period costume or go for a modern setting and somehow have to make
allowances for the archaic speech. Much Ado simply ignored the dilemma
and played it straight. One of the best film adaptations of Shakespeare
I've ever seen. I've never heard of Amy Acker, before but she was
fantastic. Actually all the cast were good but she was outstanding.


Amy has worked with Joss many times in the past, starting with a long
stint as
Illyria   / Winifred 'Fred'
Burkle   on "Angel," then with
a major role as Dr. Claire Saunders
  / Whiskey
  in "Dollhouse." Along the
way she's had long, repeating roles on "Alias" and a meaty role in Joss'
"The Cabin in the Woods." Currently she's landed a plum role on
Johnathan Nolan's "Person Of Interest," as the charmingly beautiful
psychopath Root, who thinks she is talking to God and, in fact, is,
because the all-knowing, all-seeing God talks back to her.


> ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@ wrote:
>
>  It's been available at Redbox for a few weeks but I was vested in a
31 days of horror fest so haven't gotten to it yet.
>
>  On 11/07/2013 02:07 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:
>
>
>  No, this is not a cafe rap about Fairfield Life and its daily
squabbles. It's a review of a film that I have been dying to see, but
have been unable to because it won't be officially released either in
France or in the Netherlands until January. But the pirateverse hath
come to the rescue -- I scored a 1080p version, and just finished
watching it.
>
>  To fully appreciate the film, it really helps to know a little about
the making of the film. It was produced, directed, shot, and scored by
Joss Whedon, while "on leave" from the filming of "The Avengers" during
a contractually-forced two week hiatus. Some guys, especially if they
were in the middle of making the film that would go on to become the
highest-grossing film in history, would kick back and relax during those
two weeks.
>
>  Joss made a movie instead. He paid for it himself, recruited former
actors he'd worked with before to appear in it, and shot it all in 12
days. In his house.
>
>  This last bit is important, because Joss first conceived of the idea
in that house (designed by his wife) years earlier when they were
hosting Shakespeare readings at the house. He shoots using hand-held
cameras and found lighting -- "Our lighting package rose in the east and
set in the west." And while making the movie itself was Joss' way of
having fun, one aspect of the production he described as "terrifying."
He wrote the music, along the way scoring two of the songs that
Shakespeare wrote for the play. The songs were recorded by Joss' brother
Jed and his wife Maurissa Tancharoen, while Joss' wife kinda ran both
the production and the household as her house was invaded by a host of
actors and film crew for two weeks. So it was a real "family affair."
>
>  That said, the play's afoot...let us proceed.
>
>  Suffice it to say that this is a film adaptation by Joss Whedon, so
there has to be a *twist*, some way of seeing the Bard's words anew, as
no one else has ever seen them before. Joss manages all of this with one
scene, shown in silence before the credits. I can say no more (insert
"Zip it!" sketch here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32C0eKRQVt8),
except to say that this one scene *completely* transforms Shakespeare's
play into something infinitely more understandable in our era, and
renders the interplay between Beatrice (Amy Acker) and Benedick (Alexis
Denisof) more believable in a more sexually liberated era.
>
>  I am a *serious* fan of Amy Acker, and she doth not disappoint in
this retelling of the Bard's tale. Nathan Fillion is charming in a short
cameo as Dogberry, one of the most inept cops in playwriting history.
The other cast (many of them faces, if not names, you'll know from Joss'
other works) are equally up to their task of Having Fun.
>
>  I really liked "Much Ado About Nothing," and recommend it highly to
1) Shakespeare fans -- you'll never see a more creative adaptation of
the  Bard's work, 2) Joss Whedon fans -- your love for the man will only
be increased by your knowledge of what the place he lives in looks like,
and 3) lovers of great comedy -- this play is considered one of
Shakespeare's best comedies -- produced lovingly, well, and with
abundant humor.
>
>  Think about it. The entire movie was done by A Group Of Friends On
Vacation, doing all of this for FUN. There is a certain magic in this.
>

[FairfieldLife] RE: Much Ado About Nothing

[awoelflebater]

 
 

---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 You won't believe this but I watched the movie yesterday! Really! Maybe there 
is something in the idea of synchronicity. I was going to recommend it to FFL 
also - under the title "Shakespeare without Tears". The tricky choice with the 
Bard's plays is always whether you show them in period costume or go for a 
modern setting and somehow have to make allowances for the archaic speech. Much 
Ado simply ignored the dilemma and played it straight. One of the best film 
adaptations of Shakespeare I've ever seen. I've never heard of Amy Acker, 
before but she was fantastic. Actually all the cast were good but she was 
outstanding. Shot in black-and-white - apparently to give a nod to the old 
screwball comedies. 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk5kkLNPg8g 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk5kkLNPg8g 

 

 Great, I love the music and the preview certainly made me want to see this. 
Looking forward to it.
 

---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 It's been available at Redbox for a few weeks but I was vested in a 31 days of 
horror fest so haven't gotten to it yet.
 
 On 11/07/2013 02:07 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:
 
   
 No, this is not a cafe rap about Fairfield Life and its daily squabbles. It's 
a review of a film that I have been dying to see, but have been unable to 
because it won't be officially released either in France or in the Netherlands 
until January. But the pirateverse hath come to the rescue -- I scored a 1080p 
version, and just finished watching it. 
 
 To fully appreciate the film, it really helps to know a little about the 
making of the film. It was produced, directed, shot, and scored by Joss Whedon, 
while "on leave" from the filming of "The Avengers" during a 
contractually-forced two week hiatus. Some guys, especially if they were in the 
middle of making the film that would go on to become the highest-grossing film 
in history, would kick back and relax during those two weeks. 
 
 Joss made a movie instead. He paid for it himself, recruited former actors 
he'd worked with before to appear in it, and shot it all in 12 days. In his 
house. 
 
 This last bit is important, because Joss first conceived of the idea in that 
house (designed by his wife) years earlier when they were hosting Shakespeare 
readings at the house. He shoots using hand-held cameras and found lighting -- 
"Our lighting package rose in the east and set in the west." And while making 
the movie itself was Joss' way of having fun, one aspect of the production he 
described as "terrifying." He wrote the music, along the way scoring two of the 
songs that Shakespeare wrote for the play. The songs were recorded by Joss' 
brother Jed and his wife Maurissa Tancharoen, while Joss' wife kinda ran both 
the production and the household as her house was invaded by a host of actors 
and film crew for two weeks. So it was a real "family affair."
 
 That said, the play's afoot...let us proceed.
 
 Suffice it to say that this is a film adaptation by Joss Whedon, so there has 
to be a *twist*, some way of seeing the Bard's words anew, as no one else has 
ever seen them before. Joss manages all of this with one scene, shown in 
silence before the credits. I can say no more (insert "Zip it!" sketch here 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32C0eKRQVt8), except to say that this one scene 
*completely* transforms Shakespeare's play into something infinitely more 
understandable in our era, and renders the interplay between Beatrice (Amy 
Acker) and Benedick (Alexis Denisof) more believable in a more sexually 
liberated era. 
 
 I am a *serious* fan of Amy Acker, and she doth not disappoint in this 
retelling of the Bard's tale. Nathan Fillion is charming in a short cameo as 
Dogberry, one of the most inept cops in playwriting history. The other cast 
(many of them faces, if not names, you'll know from Joss' other works) are 
equally up to their task of Having Fun. 
 
 I really liked "Much Ado About Nothing," and recommend it highly to 1) 
Shakespeare fans -- you'll never see a more creative adaptation of the  Bard's 
work, 2) Joss Whedon fans -- your love for the man will only be increased by 
your knowledge of what the place he lives in looks like, and 3) lovers of great 
comedy -- this play is considered one of Shakespeare's best comedies -- 
produced lovingly, well, and with abundant humor.
 
 Think about it. The entire movie was done by A Group Of Friends On Vacation, 
doing all of this for FUN. There is a certain magic in this.
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

[FairfieldLife] RE: Much Ado About Nothing

[s3raphita]

You won't believe this but I watched the movie yesterday! Really! Maybe there 
is something in the idea of synchronicity. I was going to recommend it to FFL 
also - under the title "Shakespeare without Tears". The tricky choice with the 
Bard's plays is always whether you show them in period costume or go for a 
modern setting and somehow have to make allowances for the archaic speech. Much 
Ado simply ignored the dilemma and played it straight. One of the best film 
adaptations of Shakespeare I've ever seen. I've never heard of Amy Acker, 
before but she was fantastic. Actually all the cast were good but she was 
outstanding. Shot in black-and-white - apparently to give a nod to the old 
screwball comedies. 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk5kkLNPg8g 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk5kkLNPg8g 

 

---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 It's been available at Redbox for a few weeks but I was vested in a 31 days of 
horror fest so haven't gotten to it yet.
 
 On 11/07/2013 02:07 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:
 
   
 No, this is not a cafe rap about Fairfield Life and its daily squabbles. It's 
a review of a film that I have been dying to see, but have been unable to 
because it won't be officially released either in France or in the Netherlands 
until January. But the pirateverse hath come to the rescue -- I scored a 1080p 
version, and just finished watching it. 
 
 To fully appreciate the film, it really helps to know a little about the 
making of the film. It was produced, directed, shot, and scored by Joss Whedon, 
while "on leave" from the filming of "The Avengers" during a 
contractually-forced two week hiatus. Some guys, especially if they were in the 
middle of making the film that would go on to become the highest-grossing film 
in history, would kick back and relax during those two weeks. 
 
 Joss made a movie instead. He paid for it himself, recruited former actors 
he'd worked with before to appear in it, and shot it all in 12 days. In his 
house. 
 
 This last bit is important, because Joss first conceived of the idea in that 
house (designed by his wife) years earlier when they were hosting Shakespeare 
readings at the house. He shoots using hand-held cameras and found lighting -- 
"Our lighting package rose in the east and set in the west." And while making 
the movie itself was Joss' way of having fun, one aspect of the production he 
described as "terrifying." He wrote the music, along the way scoring two of the 
songs that Shakespeare wrote for the play. The songs were recorded by Joss' 
brother Jed and his wife Maurissa Tancharoen, while Joss' wife kinda ran both 
the production and the household as her house was invaded by a host of actors 
and film crew for two weeks. So it was a real "family affair."
 
 That said, the play's afoot...let us proceed.
 
 Suffice it to say that this is a film adaptation by Joss Whedon, so there has 
to be a *twist*, some way of seeing the Bard's words anew, as no one else has 
ever seen them before. Joss manages all of this with one scene, shown in 
silence before the credits. I can say no more (insert "Zip it!" sketch here 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32C0eKRQVt8), except to say that this one scene 
*completely* transforms Shakespeare's play into something infinitely more 
understandable in our era, and renders the interplay between Beatrice (Amy 
Acker) and Benedick (Alexis Denisof) more believable in a more sexually 
liberated era. 
 
 I am a *serious* fan of Amy Acker, and she doth not disappoint in this 
retelling of the Bard's tale. Nathan Fillion is charming in a short cameo as 
Dogberry, one of the most inept cops in playwriting history. The other cast 
(many of them faces, if not names, you'll know from Joss' other works) are 
equally up to their task of Having Fun. 
 
 I really liked "Much Ado About Nothing," and recommend it highly to 1) 
Shakespeare fans -- you'll never see a more creative adaptation of the  Bard's 
work, 2) Joss Whedon fans -- your love for the man will only be increased by 
your knowledge of what the place he lives in looks like, and 3) lovers of great 
comedy -- this play is considered one of Shakespeare's best comedies -- 
produced lovingly, well, and with abundant humor.
 
 Think about it. The entire movie was done by A Group Of Friends On Vacation, 
doing all of this for FUN. There is a certain magic in this.
 
 
 
 
 
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Much Ado About "Nothing"

[John]

IMO, Krauss chickened out of the debate.  And the organizer, Mr. DeGrasse Tyson 
who is a friend of Krauss was only too willing to disinvite Mr. Albert.

Mr. Albert would have exposed the fallacies in the ideas of Krauss.  The 
premise of Krauss' book is so erroneus a freshman student of Philosphy 101 
would recognize the contradictions in logic.  As such, one wonders why a major 
university is paying him to teach physics to students.



  

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap"  wrote:
>
> No longer can you take your seats for Krauss v Albert
> - the Rumble In the Ontological Jungle.
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/cmx9dfw
> 
> "Among the speakers will be several leading physicists, 
> including Lawrence M. Krauss, whose book "A Universe from 
> Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing" became a 
> cause célèbre in the scientific blogosphere last spring after 
> a scathing review in the New York Times Book Review by the 
> philosopher David Z. Albert.
> 
> But Mr. Albert will not be onstage, having been abruptly 
> disinvited by the museum several months after he agreed to 
> take part.
> 
> The tone of the dustup between Mr. Albert and Mr. Krauss — 
> summed up by one blogger as "an ongoing cosmological street 
> fight" that had broken out "broad media daylight" — would have 
> certainly left those who saw both men's names on early 
> publicity material anticipating something closer to a 
> wrestling match than dispassionate scholarly discussion.
> 
> In his review Mr. Albert, who also has a Ph.D. in theoretical 
> physics, mocked Mr. Krauss's cocksure claim to have found in 
> the laws of quantum mechanics a definitive answer to the 
> vexing question of the ultimate origins of the universe. (So 
> where did those laws come from? he asked.) Mr. Krauss 
> countered with a pugnacious interview in The Atlantic, in 
> which he called Mr. Albert "moronic" and dismissed the 
> philosophy of science as worthless."
>