Had several dreams, including one in which ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sovay and I were watching an old movie titled, iirc, Coral Island, though it had nothing to do with the Edwardian boys’-adventure novel of the same name. I’m pretty sure Robert Newton was in it, though his character disappeared from the plot midway through.
sovay then learnt of some recently-discovered footage in which the camera had been kept running between takes, and the chatter of the actors was audible. In the manner of dreams, the footage was immersive, and we could walk into it. Apparently we were visible to them, though they took us for extras and mostly ignored us, except for somebody from Wardrobe who ran up and handed me some more-appropriate stockings and shoes.
Somehow this then segued into a different dream in which I was editing/writing speeches for the Democrats. I kept telling anybody who’d listen that I was Canadian and I wasn’t sure if I could legally work for them, but nobody paid any attention. Also the speech I was writing eventually turned into a script about the protagonist seeking advice from a magical cat.
sovay and I were watching an old movie titled, iirc, Coral Island, though it had nothing to do with the Edwardian boys’-adventure novel of the same name. I’m pretty sure Robert Newton was in it, though his character disappeared from the plot midway through. sovay then learnt of some recently-discovered footage in which the camera had been kept running between takes, and the chatter of the actors was audible. In the manner of dreams, the footage was immersive, and we could walk into it. Apparently we were visible to them, though they took us for extras and mostly ignored us, except for somebody from Wardrobe who ran up and handed me some more-appropriate stockings and shoes.Somehow this then segued into a different dream in which I was editing/writing speeches for the Democrats. I kept telling anybody who’d listen that I was Canadian and I wasn’t sure if I could legally work for them, but nobody paid any attention. Also the speech I was writing eventually turned into a script about the protagonist seeking advice from a magical cat.
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Date: 2026-03-15 05:11 pm (UTC)From:This does sound like something we would watch and probably complain about how much more interesting it was when Newton was onscreen.
Also the speech I was writing eventually turned into a script about the protagonist seeking advice from a magical cat.
Did the magical cat get them elected?
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Date: 2026-03-15 05:39 pm (UTC)From:This does sound like something we would watch and probably complain about how much more interesting it was when Newton was onscreen.
It was almost certainly inspired by my failed attempts to watch Soldiers Three (1951). It was made the year after Treasure Island, and at least in the first reel (where I tapped out), Newton gets almost no dialogue *except* “Aaarh!” He does get to pick a fight with some Highlanders by doing a mock fling, but it wasn’t enough to hold my interest.
David Niven was in it too, and he was barely getting to do anything but stand behind the Colonel and occasionally raise an eyebrow.
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Date: 2026-03-15 10:18 pm (UTC)From:Turn again, Whittington, never Lord Mayor of London.
David Niven was in it too, and he was barely getting to do anything but stand behind the Colonel and occasionally raise an eyebrow.
That sounds like an extraordinarily disappointing experience all round. I can send you Peter Bellamy's setting of the Barrack-Room Ballads if it'll help.
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Date: 2026-03-15 10:59 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2026-03-15 11:13 pm (UTC)From:I can see the amount of careful thought that went into this production.
Have Avram Davidson's "The Affair at Lahore Cantonment" (1961).
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Date: 2026-03-15 11:45 pm (UTC)From:ETA— Called it!
And called it…
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Date: 2026-03-16 12:02 am (UTC)From:And called it…
I did think you would. I hoped you would enjoy it.
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Date: 2026-03-16 12:17 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2026-03-16 12:19 am (UTC)From:Keeping on trying to keep the Gaffer from telling his story, you mean?
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Date: 2026-03-16 12:26 am (UTC)From:Meanwhile, I’ve just discovered there’s a 60,000+ word Bastables fanfic on Ao3, and it’s in Urdu.
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Date: 2026-03-16 12:27 am (UTC)From:The narrator was an outsider.
Meanwhile, I’ve just discovered there’s a 60,000+ word Bastables fanfic on Ao3, and it’s in Urdu.
That feels weirdly thematic.
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Date: 2026-03-16 12:39 am (UTC)From:Exactly.