Waiting For Godot
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Ah I see... Although even with this new knowledge that you have supplied me with, I still don't see the hilarious side of what I'm guessing was the proposed joke. Though I thank you for the information. [sub]And just so you know I did momentarily wonder if the comic may have been slightly related to Laser-Face Godot.Uszi said:
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Fah, I don't know about all of you, but I am still waiting for Tim Burton's adaption of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead", staring Johnny Depp as both Rosencrantz AND Guildenstern.
I think I've got it.
Tim Burton will put Johnny Depp as the title/main character of anything, even if said character never appears.
Tim Burton will put Johnny Depp as the title/main character of anything, even if said character never appears.
*shrug*
I get the joke. It's clever, in its own abstract way. The poster shouldn't say that Depp is going to play Godot, though. He could easily be one of the two that are waiting. Maybe he and Bonham Carter are sitting around waiting for a Tim Burton adaptation that isn't several notches off of the 'needless' meter. They really would be waiting forever for that one, or, at least, present day cinema suggests that they would be.
The idea that Burton would give Depp a role that isn't supposed to appear, and then shoehorn it in is perfectly valid, though, so I suppose it's an acceptable interpretation. (Godot being an absurdist play, I believe there should be many different interpretations of this drawing, and therefore challenge people to come up with more).
Interesting work, my friends. Next time make some mention of The Blacks, though. Genet's works generally offer a little more in the way of the fixed-yet-open-interpretation that really good absurdist theater needs than Beckett's do.
I get the joke. It's clever, in its own abstract way. The poster shouldn't say that Depp is going to play Godot, though. He could easily be one of the two that are waiting. Maybe he and Bonham Carter are sitting around waiting for a Tim Burton adaptation that isn't several notches off of the 'needless' meter. They really would be waiting forever for that one, or, at least, present day cinema suggests that they would be.
The idea that Burton would give Depp a role that isn't supposed to appear, and then shoehorn it in is perfectly valid, though, so I suppose it's an acceptable interpretation. (Godot being an absurdist play, I believe there should be many different interpretations of this drawing, and therefore challenge people to come up with more).
Interesting work, my friends. Next time make some mention of The Blacks, though. Genet's works generally offer a little more in the way of the fixed-yet-open-interpretation that really good absurdist theater needs than Beckett's do.
That would be nice, but unlikely if pursuing an English degree. I would occasionally read a dozen plays a semester and only see one or two. It only got really annoying on plays wherein the sets were important and we had to visualize where everything was to make plot points.Farther than stars said:
Its worse than wierd, its bad.BurnedOutMyEyes said:
Its not even good in the Donnie Darko / Eternal Sunshine of a spotless mind way.
Its just plain bad. You have to be more than obscure to be good.
This strip was just slightly better than the play. But I might be out of sync with the series.
Ah well, off to Baldurs Gate 2 again.
Cause Godot never shows up in the play, it's the two characters waiting for him that play off of each other. A comment about Burton's tendency to bastardize source material (A la Alice in Wonderland) and of his Depp fetish, I believe.
I saw it with Ian Mckellen and Patrick Stewart, and if that had the same Lucky, then he really was great.Helen Jones said: