by Melinda Snodgrass | Mar 27, 2016 | About Writing, Blog, TV & Movies
I’ve done a lot of adaptations. It’s a tricky skill, but fun. You have to take from the underlying material the essential themes, the emotional sense of the work, keep the characters relatively intact, but be willing to make changes because film and print are two different mediums and they tell stories in different ways. The emotional impact is ultimately the same, but how you get there is different. You have to know what to cut and what to expand. Right now I’m watching...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Dec 17, 2015 | Blog
There are going to be spoilers in this post so if you haven’t watched the winter finales of either Gotham or Agents of SHIELD stop reading. **********************SPOILERS************************SPOILERS**************************SPOILERS****************** There has been a lot of good boys going bad on television during these winter finales. I had pretty much given up on GOTHAM after the bone stupid legal errors that were being made — “No Bruce, you whiny little shit, you can’t fire me. ...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Nov 26, 2015 | Blog
Tuesday night I was at dinner with Connie Willis, Daniel Abraham and a number of folks from the science fiction community in New Mexico. Connie had been given a sack of wrapping paper because she collects wrapping paper. She gave us the fascinating background on why it existed. Prior to 1920 packages were just wrapped in brown paper or tissue with a ribbon. It was the crash and resultant depression that led to the creation of wrapping paper. People didn’t have money for expensive...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Nov 23, 2015 | Blog
I try very hard to obey the Godwin rule. You don’t bring up Nazis unless you are talking about actual Nazis, but the current Republican field and in particular Donald Trump is making that incredibly difficult. His race baiting has been with us from the beginning, but when he remained silent in the face of suggestions that all Muslims in the United State should register and carry ID identifying them as Muslim, and continued to stay silent when it was pointed out that this was perilously...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Oct 29, 2015 | Blog
I had recorded the premier episode of this show and I had high hopes. It’s produced by Berlanti who is doing ARROW and THE FLASH, but this one didn’t work so well for me. The young actress playing Kara is appealing though for those of us devoted Arrow watchers she seemed like a version of Felicity. Perky, talkative, a bit insecure. I liked the changes to Jimmy… James Olsen. I was glad they’re not spending a lot of energy on trying to keep her identity secret....
by Melinda Snodgrass | Sep 27, 2015 | Blog
The Pope’s visit has raised a lot of long buried ghosts. Memories of attending mass with my father. Kneeling with my shoulder pressed against him, the hardness of the wood of the kneelers barely disguised beneath the velvet, the smell of incense and dad’s aftershave, prismatic light pouring through the stained glass window, the music of the latin, and the music. When I was a child the congregation didn’t sing. Just the choir and what music they performed — Mozart...
