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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RiggsWolfe" data-source="post: 1344829" data-attributes="member: 2734">Sounds good other than that little group you described. Oh and that be a thousand miles or so from me. Heh. Too bad.Best advice I ever got was to write stuff I enjoyed. Second best was to make my old story and not try to retell someone else's story. That was during my "See, it's Stand By Me, crossed with Lord of the Rings. " phase.Yep, MacBeth as a space opera would be cool. For a brief minute I was thinking of Star Wars when you said and trying to shoehorn Anakin into MacBeth's place. Wouldn't work though.As for Strange Brew, as I said, it's been over a decade. I'd have to watch it and reread Hamlet before I made any comments.I think with me it depends on how its presented to me. For instance, we deconstructed The Importance of Being Earnest and I really enjoyed it. We then took an early 20th Century Novel and tried to deconstruct it. I guess my feelings are sort of like Tolkien's. Remember the interview where he said he hated metaphors in novels and that no, Lord of the Rings was just a story, it wasn't supposed to be World War 2 or what have you? See my feeling is that sure, sometimes a writer sets out to put alot of symbology in his novel (or a filmmaker in a movie) but sometimes they just set out to write a story. The feeling I got from some of these professors is they believed you could pick up any novel and find some symbolism in it. To me it felt more like a psychology class than a literature class.Sorry, it was just something about the image of a sword fight involving Clancy Brown and a mystical power at stake that caused it. <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=":)" />Agreed. I'd say X-Men is perhaps the exception since it is my understanding that Bryan Singer knew little to nothing about X-Men before he set out to direct it. I think what saved things was he decided to be respectful to the material and the fans.I loved XMen 2 for that. I was practically bouncing in my seat at certain times. Here's hoping they make a 3 and follow up on the clues given in 2.I do. That's why I'm one semester from graduating in Computer Science. Though as I said in an earlier response, I am feeling urges to write again. Even if only to get those ideas out of my head.</blockquote>

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