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Familiar Face
Oct. 14th, 2015 03:27 pmI don't know what fired that particular neuron yesterday, but I was suddenly thinking about Lupin after at least five years of not having done so at all. I chanced a doodle to get him out of my head and my mind back on work, but that wasn't as effective as I'd intended, and ended up listening to half of Prisoner of Azkaban in awful audio quality on YouTube (a video which has since been taken down, so halfway through is where I will stay for now).
A couple more drawings that evening, in a limp gesture towards Inktober, and that makes a post.
I'm used to racing through the book at the speed of thought – at that speed it plays just like a film, the tempo is immaculate – so Stephen Fry's slow reading took a little getting used to, but at least he read most of the lines as they were clearly written to be delivered, in contrast to some of Jim Dale's baffling and/or severely toned-down interpretations. I can't blame him, he may have been directed to remember that he was going to be used to put kids to sleep, but when Hermione is SHOUTING IN ALL CAPS it should, you know, sound like SHOUTING IN ALL CAPS. That's my opinion anyway. Call me crazy.
It's been a while since I read the book so I don't know why I was surprised my perspective has shifted, but the most unexpected way in which it has done so is in regards to Lupin: I am now beginning to teach, myself, so instead of him being a character I admire from a student's perspective, he is a character I find myself very much identifying with.
I was mildly bothered by Fry's reading of Lupin reminding me of someone, until I finally realised it was Dr Chinnery from League of Gentlemen. Not, perhaps, the most ideal connotation, but on the other hand ... not entirely unwelcome ...
As the audiobook has been taken down now, I don't get to reach the exciting bits today as I'd hoped ... but this isn't necessarily a bad thing. If I can pick up the book somewhere (and it's not like there aren't 5 million copies floating around) I can do them at 'movie' pace, at the point when that most matters. It's been a great way to revisit the material, actually – I'd practically memorised the book back in my HP days, but I found while listening to the audiobook I would only remember what was going to happen within a minute or two of it happening, which meant I could enjoy the surprise but also had enough notice to get good and excited about it before it actually 'happened.'
Dunno if I'll get more drawings done, though. Too many other wonderful things beckon. It's a hard life, having to choose between wonderful things ...
A couple more drawings that evening, in a limp gesture towards Inktober, and that makes a post.
I'm used to racing through the book at the speed of thought – at that speed it plays just like a film, the tempo is immaculate – so Stephen Fry's slow reading took a little getting used to, but at least he read most of the lines as they were clearly written to be delivered, in contrast to some of Jim Dale's baffling and/or severely toned-down interpretations. I can't blame him, he may have been directed to remember that he was going to be used to put kids to sleep, but when Hermione is SHOUTING IN ALL CAPS it should, you know, sound like SHOUTING IN ALL CAPS. That's my opinion anyway. Call me crazy.
It's been a while since I read the book so I don't know why I was surprised my perspective has shifted, but the most unexpected way in which it has done so is in regards to Lupin: I am now beginning to teach, myself, so instead of him being a character I admire from a student's perspective, he is a character I find myself very much identifying with.
I was mildly bothered by Fry's reading of Lupin reminding me of someone, until I finally realised it was Dr Chinnery from League of Gentlemen. Not, perhaps, the most ideal connotation, but on the other hand ... not entirely unwelcome ...
As the audiobook has been taken down now, I don't get to reach the exciting bits today as I'd hoped ... but this isn't necessarily a bad thing. If I can pick up the book somewhere (and it's not like there aren't 5 million copies floating around) I can do them at 'movie' pace, at the point when that most matters. It's been a great way to revisit the material, actually – I'd practically memorised the book back in my HP days, but I found while listening to the audiobook I would only remember what was going to happen within a minute or two of it happening, which meant I could enjoy the surprise but also had enough notice to get good and excited about it before it actually 'happened.'Dunno if I'll get more drawings done, though. Too many other wonderful things beckon. It's a hard life, having to choose between wonderful things ...
