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Watching Journey's End

Apologies for being absent lately; this is my very last week of college and I've been... busy.

You get two posts today, as an apology for none yesterday! Here's the first; the second a little later today.

( Watching Journey's End )

So if you miss watching videos in 480p, you're in the right place.

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R. C. Sherriff on Colin Clive

This is a brief excerpt from R. C. Sherriff's 1968 autobiography, No Leading Lady. I have a lot more to say about this book, but I just couldn't wait to post this. There is a transcript following the image~~, and when I'm not posting from my phone, I'll go back and correct formatting errors~~.

This falls on page 97. Journey's End has started its second run, to rave reviews. Sherriff goes to talk with his young lead actor, Colin Clive.
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10 December edit: holy moly that image turned out huge! Downsized it, added lj-cut as well, please forgive me for wrecking your flist.

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James Curtis on casting Journey's End

I’m working on a long piece about Journey’s End, a 1928 stage play set in a British trench during WWI, which was Colin Clive’s first big role. Here’s a short excerpt about his casting in the second run of the play.

This comes from James Curtis’s fine biography of James Whale – I am working from the 1982 edition from the Scarecrow Press, but there’s also a revised edition from 1998. Scroll down for the transcript; each image is clickable to view at full size.

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It's been a very long time since I composed a post like this; please let me know if there are any formatting issues

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Re-Animator, Frankenstein, and humor

Slightly revised from a tumblr post I made on March 20th 2014.

While their themes and structures are noticeably similar, the Re-Animator films play up the humor a lot more than the Frankenstein movies. Both Re-Animator and Bride of Re-Animator are definitely comedies. Frankenstein, on the other hand, plays its topic with deadly seriousness, and it takes until Bride of Frankenstein for things to get humorous.

But no, really, I think these movies have a lot more in common than people talk about (or maybe I’m just late to the party).

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personal

first post??

I've been virtually tumblr-exclusive for so long I've forgotten how everything else works. Yeesh. So pardon the mess while I figure things out.

Hi yes hello I'm one of nine thousand people fleeing here because tumblr is self-destructing at the moment.

My name is Jack, and I'm a 25-year-old trans man living in the American Southwest / Mountain West.

I enjoy posting about a lot of things, including: anything Frankenstein, most things Lovecraft, the Re-Animator movies, the actors Jeffrey Combs and Colin Clive, Pacific Rim, the Maximum Ride books, mad science, and medical history.

Also I'm about to graduate with a degree in history, so I'll be busy for the next two weeks.

On tumblr my URL is cryingalonewithfrankenstein; on AO3 I'm too_much_in_the_sun.