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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RiggsWolfe" data-source="post: 1344064" data-attributes="member: 2734">First off, a science fiction writing group? Sounds interesting. Was it a school thing or more informal. Second, about the "heavy stuff" , sounds like a Philip K Dick novel to me. A space opera retelling of MacBeth? You making this one up or is it some movie I didn't see past the obvious on? MacBeth is an interesting play. I kept hoping for him to redeem himself. Oh well. I miss when Kenneth Brannagh was going through his Shakespeare days.I love Strange Brew. A bit warped, but I love it. I have to admit, it has been years, over a decade since I've seen it. These Stuffy people were who I was speaking of in my original theory about the two camps of readers. I wish I'd never put the phrase "Intellectual stimulation" in there. Oh well. I know what you mean. I remember getting so irritated with various English professors. They'd want me to analyze some story or play and I was the guy who'd raise his hand and go "isn't it enough to just enjoy it?" Not that I couldn't , or in some cases, didn't analyze it. It's that I didn't want to lose sight of just enjoying the book/play/whatever. Though I will admit to once writing a huge essay on the mythos behind Star Wars. I even went so far as to analyze color schemes!That was my big problem with Shakespeare when I was younger. I always saw it done in real boring productions with people just sort of speaking the dialogue. Then, several things happened, a good teacher, a movie with Danny Devito where he teaches some army soldiers how to read Shakespeare, and Kenneth Brannagh.Does Will Smith have to cut off Clancy Brown's head to win? You sound like me when I talk about fantasy/sci-fi/comic book movies. Heh. Someone has to understand it, and appreciate it before they can make a good movie out of it.Heh, sounds like a movie tagline. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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