great playlist this week! Interesting stuff about asides. Definitely live theater is the best medium for plays and I haven't seen TOM yet but my favorite adaptations of shakespeare plays are when they look into the camera and you feel implicated or otherwise party to what's going on. Plus to steal from that one tumblr post that I saw get reposted on instagram many years ago, on stage you believe a character is alone more than onscreen. It's also interesting that JCoen hasn't been afraid to break the fourth wall in his comedies! Source: I watched the big lebowski with my brother last night and some of the most successful scenes were when sam elliott was speaking directly to the viewer. Also re: Russia/Ukraine: Yes I agree that an invasion will probably occur, but unlike AP I don't think that necessarily means Russia is likely to try to invade the baltics, because Ukraine is special in a lot of ways (large ethnic russian population, mostly everyone in ukraine speaks russian, historic borders were all over the place, ukraine being kind of the breadbasket of the USSR and that giving them a special connection to russia the motherstate, krimea, the ongoing war in the east, etc etc.) I think Russia has absolutely no desire to run afoul of NATO, at least right now, and while most of nato is unlikely to do too much to oppose an invasion of ukraine, they wouldn't stand for the baltics. Putin's long stated goal has been expansionist but he's also not interested in getting into a war that would be weakening to russia. I think w/ internal propaganda he wants to paint russia as the hero for 'reclaiming' ukraine for the russians, and garner himself (even more) support while sending a message to the west that eastern europe is his game and nobody else's. That's why he doesn't need to invade belarus b/c that's already under his thumb. Sorry for writing a novel in your comment section, great post today thumbs up
great playlist this week! Interesting stuff about asides. Definitely live theater is the best medium for plays and I haven't seen TOM yet but my favorite adaptations of shakespeare plays are when they look into the camera and you feel implicated or otherwise party to what's going on. Plus to steal from that one tumblr post that I saw get reposted on instagram many years ago, on stage you believe a character is alone more than onscreen. It's also interesting that JCoen hasn't been afraid to break the fourth wall in his comedies! Source: I watched the big lebowski with my brother last night and some of the most successful scenes were when sam elliott was speaking directly to the viewer. Also re: Russia/Ukraine: Yes I agree that an invasion will probably occur, but unlike AP I don't think that necessarily means Russia is likely to try to invade the baltics, because Ukraine is special in a lot of ways (large ethnic russian population, mostly everyone in ukraine speaks russian, historic borders were all over the place, ukraine being kind of the breadbasket of the USSR and that giving them a special connection to russia the motherstate, krimea, the ongoing war in the east, etc etc.) I think Russia has absolutely no desire to run afoul of NATO, at least right now, and while most of nato is unlikely to do too much to oppose an invasion of ukraine, they wouldn't stand for the baltics. Putin's long stated goal has been expansionist but he's also not interested in getting into a war that would be weakening to russia. I think w/ internal propaganda he wants to paint russia as the hero for 'reclaiming' ukraine for the russians, and garner himself (even more) support while sending a message to the west that eastern europe is his game and nobody else's. That's why he doesn't need to invade belarus b/c that's already under his thumb. Sorry for writing a novel in your comment section, great post today thumbs up