Orlando

That's, that's fair.

I kind of had that recently with, um, so my wife and I just recorded our next podcast episode and, uh, it's for the movie Orlando and I hadn't seen Orlando at all.

So that was the premise of like, okay, I'm going in blind.

My wife has seen it multiple times and, uh, That's a fun one to, again, look at the description, because after watching the movie, like the description can't really work for how the movie does.

You know, reality bends, images appear, disappear.

You know, the actor, the director, the designer take all these kind of really bold artistic liberties that prevent the piece from ever becoming anything straightforward it's not a historical monologue as such although it is a historical monologue in the sense of where it's set and when it's set but it's this whole thing about Swinton being physically fluid you know she she really can play a man and a woman as she has done in her film world you know starting with Orlando for instance

yeah and and it's interesting because when you think about You know, I'm just thinking over the last year, I've seen quite a few sort of one man or one female shows.

And I'm just thinking really recently, a grain of sand that I saw, you know, which was one actor telling about, you know, stories of Gaza.

It's well, it's, you know, going back to the being obsessed with this era or like any historical fancy drama.

It's like like we talked about in the last film, Orlando, you know, people who had estates, people who had generational wealth, they didn't have to work.

So imagine your whole day like you get up like the beginning of this movie, which I think I think personally is one of the greatest openings of any movie where you're seeing both the characters of Valmont and the Marquis de Mertouille getting like ready for their day.

And just imagine like having somebody wake you up, helping you pick your outfit, like do your skin care for you.

Yeah.

I was going to say, it's funny because...

Back when we first meet him at the opera, the marquee's like, tell us what we should think of the opera, you know, and that reminds me a lot of what we witnessed in Orlando.

You know, women cannot hold opinions of their own, so they must get them from like, you know, a male or, you know, your husband, whatever, your father.

And I am legally dead and therefore cannot hold any property whatsoever, Michael Lee Richardson.

And tonight we're going to party like it's 1599 because we're doing Orlando.

Are you a Virginia Woolf girlie? Not

massively.

Obviously, I like a lot of what Virginia Woolf's work has done, her perspective on things, but I find her work quite difficult to read.

So I have tried to read Orlando and it just was not happening.

Mrs. Dalloway was not happening.

That girl can buy the flowers herself, but I'm sorry, I just...

And it's so stupid.

If they had just let it be artistic and just gone, it would have been like Orlando.

weird but watchable

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