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[nonionay]

Just watched Inglourious Basterds, which I liked a lot, but holy smokes was that movie padded out. I read the Tarantino slaved and agonized over this script for years, and that it just grew and grew. Yeah, it shows. I know he's capable of good pacing. I mean, it's been a while since I've seen Reservoir Dogs, but I don't ever remember thinking, "yes, there's a guy bleeding on the floor. Moving on now!" But this movie had an awful lot of "yes, there's Nazis and they know what the good guys* are up to. Moving on now!"

*Using the term, "good guy" very loosely.

Anyway, I watched it at this particular moment to get general inspiration to work on the Mistworld stories (my own alternate WWII world). I've got a long printout of WWII dates to go over and determine how my timeline differs. Somewhere in my room is a book about female war correspondents back then. I even set it out so I could read it. It's an omen, but does it say to put off this novel, or to get off my ass and clean my room?

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[saycestsay.livejournal.com]

Have you seen "Kelly's Heroes"? Talk about your alt-hist wwii.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

"Hey, man, sixty feet of bridge I could find almost anywhere, y'know?"

[saycestsay.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, man, you see, like, all the tanks we come up against are bigger and better than ours, so all we can hope to do is, like, scare 'em away, y'know. This gun is an ordinary 76mm but we add this piece of pipe onto it, and the Krauts think, like, maybe it's a 90mm. We got our own ammunition, it's filled with paint. When we fire it, it makes... pretty pictures. Scares the hell outta people! We have a loudspeaker here, and when we go into battle we play music, very loud. It kind of... calms us down.

[silverbrood.livejournal.com]

i be tit's tht latter one. Your creativity is a hallmark of you. And anything in the way of that should get a good old stompin' on it. I don't suppose I could borrow that book whenyou find/aredone with it?

[criada.livejournal.com]

If I can find it! (Still haven't. I found a similar book at the library.)