tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post1095926347592451865..comments2023-10-14T03:58:59.333-06:00Comments on The Tao of D&D: SignificanceAlexis Smolenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-18740881942599901162016-05-01T03:39:51.371-06:002016-05-01T03:39:51.371-06:00@ Ozymandias:
I had the fortune to see an "o...@ Ozymandias:<br /><br />I had the fortune to see an "original pronunciation and original bawdiness" performance of Much Ado About Nothing as a college freshman, directed by a theater senior who'd just finished their thesis on the topic. It was nothing short of hysterical.Maxwell Joslynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02309867478186083339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-89196040969874175472016-04-29T18:07:32.001-06:002016-04-29T18:07:32.001-06:00@ Alexis:
Got it!
: )@ Alexis:<br /><br />Got it!<br />: )JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-81978785825908638562016-04-28T15:59:42.005-06:002016-04-28T15:59:42.005-06:00I read Cyrano in my high school French class and l...I read <i>Cyrano</i> in my high school French class and loved it for that emotionality and liveliness.<br />I think too that those memories of grand successes and failures are the smooth, cohesive Shakespearean scenes: when your players describe their epic victory to another, they've got a full story to work from. D&D places you at the improvisational ground zero, where it's not yet clear how things will end or where they will go, and in that – once you have commitment – there's an incredible significance (very much in that obsolete sense of "energy") and passion that comes into being.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03496502173819113887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-72333338777597164062016-04-28T15:26:04.998-06:002016-04-28T15:26:04.998-06:00Hm, hadn't thought that wasn't clear, JB.
...Hm, hadn't thought that wasn't clear, JB.<br /><br />Did not mean that we considered if the sessions possessed significance, but rather what the significance was and shape it took. I meant to convey the presumption that the significance had to be there for us to consider it.Alexis Smolenskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-74743912383994591622016-04-28T14:54:04.721-06:002016-04-28T14:54:04.721-06:00[ha! I've seen that particular Cyrano film at ...[ha! I've seen that particular Cyrano film at least half-a-dozen times. Love it]<br /><br />You didn't say (or if you did, I can't find it after reading this post twice) whether, upon consideration, you felt your session had contained significance. You did say it was a "serious" session...does that equate?JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-82238695903737746692016-04-28T13:47:31.208-06:002016-04-28T13:47:31.208-06:00I searched for a copy of this scene from Jean-Paul...I searched for a copy of <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7hf4q_cyrano-de-bergerac_shortfilms" rel="nofollow">this scene</a> from Jean-Paul Rappeneau's <i>Cyrano de Bergerac</i> from 1990 that had English subtitles. No luck. The best I could do was the start of the scene just after Bergerac has shouted from the audience that a very poor actor should flee the stage - as Bergerac has threatened to kill him if he ever treads the boards again.<br /><br />It is in French. I link it to show how theatre worked in Bergerac's 17th century (Bergerac exists in my world, as he was alive in 1650). The audience moves about freely: the commoners stand side by side with the rich, even during the sword fight that progresses outside. While the commoners do not sit in the boxes, they can hear every word spoken and are free to laugh (so long as it is done from a distance and not in some rich fellow's face). The actors yell at the audience from the stage, the audience does the same in reverse.<br /><br />It is a glorious film; if you haven't seen it, do: with subtitles, if you need them (I do). Alexis Smolenskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-11742166102119804472016-04-28T12:49:51.249-06:002016-04-28T12:49:51.249-06:00Makes me wanna see a Shakespeare play done in the ...Makes me wanna see a Shakespeare play done in the context of the time, complete with a raucous, debauched audience.Ozymandiashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01065642299277380465noreply@blogger.com