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Author Archives: Kelly Sedinger
Attack of the Screw-ups (Thoughts on THE LAST JEDI, part 9)
part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 5 part 6 part 7 part 8 Ye Gods, there’s a lot of failure in this movie, on all sides. Nearly everybody fails in this movie at least once. I don’t … Continue reading
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Something for Thursday
Berlioz. Le Corsaire overture. This music is what swashbuckling adventure sounds like.
“Are you the fellow who designed St. Paul’s?” “No, that’s Christopher WREN. I’m….” (Thoughts on THE LAST JEDI, part 8)
part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 5 part 6 part 7 Hey! Hey guys! If Kylo gets together with a bunch of his buddies, is that a Ren-fest? OK, fine. But let’s talk about Kylo Ren anyway. … Continue reading
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Snokin’ in the Boys Room (Thoughts on THE LAST JEDI, part 7)
part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 5 part 6 If the main heroes were underdrawn in TFA, the villains were doubly so. The First Order’s origins were completely unexplained, as was its power differential: was it the … Continue reading
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Something for Thursday
I heard this on the radio yesterday, and I can’t believe I haven’t heard it before. It’s achingly beautiful. It’s a single song for soprano and orchestra, called “Bailero”, by Marie-Joseph Canteloube. It’s part of a longer song cycle that … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
A bit of film music today, suggested by Sheila O’Malley’s twitter thread from the other day, which she offered in context of much of the discussion about suicide and mental illness following last week’s death of Anthony Bourdain. Basically her … Continue reading
“People will come, Rey!” (Thoughts on THE LAST JEDI, part 6)
part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 5 I was never bothered by Rey’s abilities in TFA, the way some fans were. What bothered me was that there was no acknowledgment that she was aware of her nature, … Continue reading
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“A Rose is what Moses supposes his toeses!” (Thoughts on THE LAST JEDI, part 5)
part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 FINN: Look, this whole place is beautiful. I mean, come on–why do you hate it so much? ROSE: Look closer. My sister and I grew up in a poor mining system. The … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
I assume that this is a pretty good performance of Ravel’s Bolero. As seems to always be the case with this work, I check out about eight minutes in because that’s about all I can stand of it.
A Flyboy, A Mechanic, and a Janitor walk into a bar…. (Thoughts on THE LAST JEDI, part 4)
part 1 part 2 part 3 Original TFA screenwriter Michael Arndt has said in interviews that a big problem he faced in drafting that movie was that no matter how hard he worked on making the new characters compelling, as … Continue reading