Choir rehearses tonight this week (I daresay the conductor was rightfully concerned that there would be way too many absences if he kept us scheduled for the busiest travel day of the year). So my usual Wednesday-night quick-and-dirty post will be happening tonight instead.
Tonight’s quick topic was brought to my attention by Shakespeare Geek, who posted 10 days ago about a new Lucasfilm animated movie coming out in late January. The film is titled Strange Magic, and, as summarized by Nerdist:
The movie features a story by George Lucas and is inspired by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The fairy tale has fairies (duh), imps, elves, goblins, and more magical creatures. They find themselves involved in a battle as the big bad of the film tries to get his hands on a greedy potion.
I didn’t say anything when I first saw the post on Shakespeare Geek, because, quite frankly, I didn’t have anything more to say, and it’s not like he needs me to be pushing traffic in his direction.
But now the trailer for the film has been released.
And now I have something more to say.
Gods forgive me, I’m not seeing the connection. I mean, aside from the fact that fairies exist in both worlds. But it’s not like Midsummer Night’s Dream is the only work in the history of Anglo-American expression to have faeries in it! Egads.
At least with Gnomeo‘s trailer, I could see the connections back to the source material straight away. Here, I guess I’m in wait-and-see mode.
Also — and may the gods doubly forgive me for this — every time I hear the phrase “strange magic” I think of this:
I am a child of my era.
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Image credit: Fairy Tale of Kings by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis. Unaltered. Public domain.
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