Questionable Media Month Part 10
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amatyultareChapter 10 – Twilight On The Brain
“To my shock and dismay, for the first time in my life, I found myself thinking more about boys than theatre. It was inexplicable and indefensible.” (Like this book.) (Sorry, that may be a little on-the-nose.)
So, Sadie is trying to write this Twilight script “as September slipped into October” (geez, when are they going to perform this play? They’re cutting it really close if they’re planning to perform it before winter break and haven’t even cast it yet) but is mildly obsessed with Nigel. Even though he’s very involved with Lucey. Also, Alex is dating one of Evil Lucey’s henchgirls and the other henchgirl also has a boyfriend and they’re basically always going on triple dates or hanging out at Alex’s house. Sadie is understandably bummed about this, although I can’t help but think that if she hadn’t been such a big jerk to Alex, he wouldn’t have decided to stop hanging out with her?
She goes on another extended whine about how she really looks fine, why doesn’t she have a boyfriend? “The thought of enduring two more years of high school boyfriend-less was agonizing.” Sorry to repeat myself, but really: OH, DRAMATIZE.
Oh, and in case you were wondering, “Through all this crap, Adrienne was my rock – an unfailing friend in the storm. The night of the Homecoming Dance, we watched movies and ate popcorn, and pretended it was a regular night.” Because heaven forbid the main character’s friend have a date when the main character does not. Also, I guess it’s impossible for them to gather up another couple of single friends and go to the dance as a group? I did that for freaking prom, I’m pretty sure Sadie could handle it for the Homecoming dance.
Mr. Lord is unhappy with the current crop of Twilight songs and decides to express this by criticizing the kids’ efforts in front of the entire class (granted, he doesn’t actually say who wrote each song, but it’s still pretty brutal). Man, he’s an awful teacher.
First they sing and make fun of a rewrite of ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’. Lucey has tears in her eyes, because of course she wrote it. And when Sadie realizes that Lucey was the lyricist, she is suddenly okay with the mocking because “the song was lame”.
The next unlucky song to be mocked is a rewrite of the Addams Family song, which is okay but uses a lot of the words from the original song, which Mr. Lord deems as “showing no creativity whatsoever.” Wait, weren’t they throwing around the idea of just lifting songs that ‘fit the theme’ of Twilight? If the words fit, what’s the problem? Mr. Lord makes a mysterious reference to “winning” something and how this level of song-writing won’t win.
Next up is a rewrite of Katy Perry’s “Hot and Cold”, referencing Bella’s love triangle between Edward and Jacob. Only problem is, they’re doing a play of Twilight, not New Moon or Eclipse.
“To give you some motivation, I’m going to post the best lyrics, and maybe the worst, on the bulletin board outside my room every day until we get enough useable songs.” Mr. Lord: worst teacher ever?
This also gives Sadie inspiration (?): why show even a modicum of originality by directly adapting the book into a play? Why not just take the movie script and make a few cuts to make it play-length? And that’s exactly what she does, and feels very triumphant about it. Whatever, plagiarizer.
“To my shock and dismay, for the first time in my life, I found myself thinking more about boys than theatre. It was inexplicable and indefensible.” (Like this book.) (Sorry, that may be a little on-the-nose.)
So, Sadie is trying to write this Twilight script “as September slipped into October” (geez, when are they going to perform this play? They’re cutting it really close if they’re planning to perform it before winter break and haven’t even cast it yet) but is mildly obsessed with Nigel. Even though he’s very involved with Lucey. Also, Alex is dating one of Evil Lucey’s henchgirls and the other henchgirl also has a boyfriend and they’re basically always going on triple dates or hanging out at Alex’s house. Sadie is understandably bummed about this, although I can’t help but think that if she hadn’t been such a big jerk to Alex, he wouldn’t have decided to stop hanging out with her?
She goes on another extended whine about how she really looks fine, why doesn’t she have a boyfriend? “The thought of enduring two more years of high school boyfriend-less was agonizing.” Sorry to repeat myself, but really: OH, DRAMATIZE.
Oh, and in case you were wondering, “Through all this crap, Adrienne was my rock – an unfailing friend in the storm. The night of the Homecoming Dance, we watched movies and ate popcorn, and pretended it was a regular night.” Because heaven forbid the main character’s friend have a date when the main character does not. Also, I guess it’s impossible for them to gather up another couple of single friends and go to the dance as a group? I did that for freaking prom, I’m pretty sure Sadie could handle it for the Homecoming dance.
Mr. Lord is unhappy with the current crop of Twilight songs and decides to express this by criticizing the kids’ efforts in front of the entire class (granted, he doesn’t actually say who wrote each song, but it’s still pretty brutal). Man, he’s an awful teacher.
First they sing and make fun of a rewrite of ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’. Lucey has tears in her eyes, because of course she wrote it. And when Sadie realizes that Lucey was the lyricist, she is suddenly okay with the mocking because “the song was lame”.
The next unlucky song to be mocked is a rewrite of the Addams Family song, which is okay but uses a lot of the words from the original song, which Mr. Lord deems as “showing no creativity whatsoever.” Wait, weren’t they throwing around the idea of just lifting songs that ‘fit the theme’ of Twilight? If the words fit, what’s the problem? Mr. Lord makes a mysterious reference to “winning” something and how this level of song-writing won’t win.
Next up is a rewrite of Katy Perry’s “Hot and Cold”, referencing Bella’s love triangle between Edward and Jacob. Only problem is, they’re doing a play of Twilight, not New Moon or Eclipse.
“To give you some motivation, I’m going to post the best lyrics, and maybe the worst, on the bulletin board outside my room every day until we get enough useable songs.” Mr. Lord: worst teacher ever?
This also gives Sadie inspiration (?): why show even a modicum of originality by directly adapting the book into a play? Why not just take the movie script and make a few cuts to make it play-length? And that’s exactly what she does, and feels very triumphant about it. Whatever, plagiarizer.
