One more thing on Stardust
Aug. 14th, 2007 10:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missroseroseBrian and I went and saw Stardust last night and had dinner at Doc Water's for the first time in several months - they'd started skimping on ingredients for a while, so we took our business elsewhere. Fortunately they seem to have wised up and are using good-quality stuff again.
All in all, it was a lovely evening. However, on second viewing of Stardust (which was equally enjoyable as the first, if not more so because I wasn't constantly comparing it to the book), something occurred to me, which I have put in formal terms below:
Chekhov's Law: "If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off."
De Niro's Corollary: "If a swishy pirate captain in the first act makes special mention of the fact that he has lots of dresses, then by the beginning of the third act he must be shown wearing a corset and flouncing about in a pink dress like Princess Peach."
On a side note, was anyone else disappointed that he didn't actually, y'know, ever *wear* the pink fluffy dress? The corset and feather boa were great, but I guess the producers didn't have the balls to actually have De Niro wear the thing. Ah, well...
All in all, it was a lovely evening. However, on second viewing of Stardust (which was equally enjoyable as the first, if not more so because I wasn't constantly comparing it to the book), something occurred to me, which I have put in formal terms below:
De Niro's Corollary: "If a swishy pirate captain in the first act makes special mention of the fact that he has lots of dresses, then by the beginning of the third act he must be shown wearing a corset and flouncing about in a pink dress like Princess Peach."
On a side note, was anyone else disappointed that he didn't actually, y'know, ever *wear* the pink fluffy dress? The corset and feather boa were great, but I guess the producers didn't have the balls to actually have De Niro wear the thing. Ah, well...
