(I haven't seen this PT image before either, nor have I yet to see it beyond this icon. Isn't it sad? I can't get over Tutu's expression. I wonder, how different are Tutu and Ahiru, really?)
Oh man, I thought you read the book. But if you've seen the movie, then you should understand my diatribe, to an extent. ^^;; Luckily, I didn't get too carried away and give away nothing terribly important.
While I was reading it, I kept imagining that it would make a great animated movie - it also helped that you once mentioned the movie in a previous PT discussion. Peter S. Beagle describes the landscape with a lot of vivid details, bringing Tolkien to mind, but his metaphors were very whimsical and reminiscent of fairy tales. The writing is also clever, and he makes so many allusions to other works that even I caught a few of them, to my delight. ^^ It was a great, colorful, yet inexplicably wise book, and it would sound fantastic read aloud, especially to children.
Schmendrick was complex in the novel, I thought; he didn't get as much of the spotlight that the unicorn did, but we were frequently given parts of the story from his perspective, and he developed so well despite being so flawed. Reminded me of Fakir when it comes to drastic character development, despite their different roles - and excepting that Fakir seemed to get younger and Schmendrick older.
And I kept finding the same metaphysical suggestions in The Last Unicorn that exist in Princess Tutu! The mention of the roles of heroes, and and and the unicorn vs Amalthea, and Princess Tutu vs Ahiru, and their asymmetrical, bittersweet endings... Gyah ;_; It tickles my fancy that The Last Unicorn is something Fakir could've thought of writing, when I think solely of the ending. In any case, it was the same brand of wisdom, I think, and the same contemplation on Right Choices in stories.
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Date: 2008-02-08 12:44 am (UTC)Oh man, I thought you read the book. But if you've seen the movie, then you should understand my diatribe, to an extent. ^^;; Luckily, I didn't get too carried away and give away nothing terribly important.
While I was reading it, I kept imagining that it would make a great animated movie - it also helped that you once mentioned the movie in a previous PT discussion. Peter S. Beagle describes the landscape with a lot of vivid details, bringing Tolkien to mind, but his metaphors were very whimsical and reminiscent of fairy tales. The writing is also clever, and he makes so many allusions to other works that even I caught a few of them, to my delight. ^^ It was a great, colorful, yet inexplicably wise book, and it would sound fantastic read aloud, especially to children.
Schmendrick was complex in the novel, I thought; he didn't get as much of the spotlight that the unicorn did, but we were frequently given parts of the story from his perspective, and he developed so well despite being so flawed. Reminded me of Fakir when it comes to drastic character development, despite their different roles - and excepting that Fakir seemed to get younger and Schmendrick older.
And I kept finding the same metaphysical suggestions in The Last Unicorn that exist in Princess Tutu! The mention of the roles of heroes, and and and the unicorn vs Amalthea, and Princess Tutu vs Ahiru, and their asymmetrical, bittersweet endings... Gyah ;_; It tickles my fancy that The Last Unicorn is something Fakir could've thought of writing, when I think solely of the ending. In any case, it was the same brand of wisdom, I think, and the same contemplation on Right Choices in stories.