I like talking about clothes, apparently
Dec. 21st, 2010 08:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardOH MY GOD Y'ALL. Since putting up Dust 21 yesterday, I have since written 2K on Dust 22 -- madness! OMG! I have high hopes for getting at least one more chapter of Dust out this winter break. (Also, in this chapter someone finally gets laid, so praise the Muses, this will be the first and last draft of it.)
Granted, at least 700 of that 2K was talking about clothes; for an action writer, I sure can spend a lot of time expounding upon how many underskirts Susan is wearing. I mean, I certainly enjoy that sort of thing; it uses a different part of my brain that writing about Peter hacking someone to bits with Rhindon, and as I'm not a clothing historian, it takes significantly longer to write a paragraph because I have to keep looking things up, and spending a lot of time looking at The Wardrobe Door to extrapolate how clothes from a certain period in the Narnian timeline might look. Dear gods, I wish I had Isis Mussenden's brain.
This gets me to some interesting places sometimes. For example, note just how wintry the Pevensies' coronation clothes are: all pale blues and silvers, with significant amounts of gold on Peter, golden accents on Susan, and, rather shockingly, Lucy's red cloak. What an interesting color choice, given that it's the downfall of the Long Winter. And I always think it's interesting that the White Witch appears in blue and silver throughout the majority of the movie, but when she takes the final battlefield, she's in gold. (Uh, possibly because she's wearing Aslan as a scarf, but go with me here.)
I end up looking at the different stylistic choices of the clothing the Pevensies are first given in Narnia in LWW, their coronation clothes, and then, later, what they wear on the Last Hunt -- then pulling up the images from PC to see what they changed into at Cair Paravel, checking them against the initial Narnian clothes and the Last Hunt clothes. What they wear at the coronation at PC and while they're saying their goodbyes doesn't match at all -- if asked, I'd say that they're wearing Telmarine clothes, because (at least to my fairly untrained eye) stylistically they're closer to what we see the Telmarines wearing than to what they wear for the majority of the movie. And since Isis Mussenden and Andrew Adamson knew what they were doing (unlike Michael Apted /bitter), that's probably what they're getting at. Then I look at the historical periods that the clothes were based (loosely) on, and extrapolate forwards to LB-era, which mostly involves me going, "That! I like that! And that! I don't like that, we're not having it and I'm the one writing this so it's MY DECISION DAMN IT. Huh, I hope that's logical." Sometimes I look at the costuming for other fantasy movies too -- huh, I just realized I haven't pulled out my book of Narnia concept art lately.
Hey, you know, one good thing about VotDT, I am all about the Narnia spirit again. *twirls* I should rewatch LWW and PC, seeing as I haul them back and forth every time I travel cross-country. (I gave up on hauling the box set back and forth, though -- I really need to buy a New Orleans only copy. Maybe I'll shell out for that nice omnibus at the bookstore.)
Also, nothing to do with costuming, but an important question: are the only blonds in Narnia Peter, Jadis, Trumpkin, Eustace, and Lilliandil? That's alarming. If it wasn't for Trumpkin, I think I'd be more alarmed, but, uh, at least we have Trumpkin?
ETA: Pulled out The Crafting of Narnia because I haven't looked at it in a while. Gods, in two paragraphs there's more thought put into setting, character, and design than I saw in all of VotDT, and thinking about it is actually making me physically ill, which is a bad sign.
Granted, at least 700 of that 2K was talking about clothes; for an action writer, I sure can spend a lot of time expounding upon how many underskirts Susan is wearing. I mean, I certainly enjoy that sort of thing; it uses a different part of my brain that writing about Peter hacking someone to bits with Rhindon, and as I'm not a clothing historian, it takes significantly longer to write a paragraph because I have to keep looking things up, and spending a lot of time looking at The Wardrobe Door to extrapolate how clothes from a certain period in the Narnian timeline might look. Dear gods, I wish I had Isis Mussenden's brain.
This gets me to some interesting places sometimes. For example, note just how wintry the Pevensies' coronation clothes are: all pale blues and silvers, with significant amounts of gold on Peter, golden accents on Susan, and, rather shockingly, Lucy's red cloak. What an interesting color choice, given that it's the downfall of the Long Winter. And I always think it's interesting that the White Witch appears in blue and silver throughout the majority of the movie, but when she takes the final battlefield, she's in gold. (Uh, possibly because she's wearing Aslan as a scarf, but go with me here.)
I end up looking at the different stylistic choices of the clothing the Pevensies are first given in Narnia in LWW, their coronation clothes, and then, later, what they wear on the Last Hunt -- then pulling up the images from PC to see what they changed into at Cair Paravel, checking them against the initial Narnian clothes and the Last Hunt clothes. What they wear at the coronation at PC and while they're saying their goodbyes doesn't match at all -- if asked, I'd say that they're wearing Telmarine clothes, because (at least to my fairly untrained eye) stylistically they're closer to what we see the Telmarines wearing than to what they wear for the majority of the movie. And since Isis Mussenden and Andrew Adamson knew what they were doing (
Hey, you know, one good thing about VotDT, I am all about the Narnia spirit again. *twirls* I should rewatch LWW and PC, seeing as I haul them back and forth every time I travel cross-country. (I gave up on hauling the box set back and forth, though -- I really need to buy a New Orleans only copy. Maybe I'll shell out for that nice omnibus at the bookstore.)
Also, nothing to do with costuming, but an important question: are the only blonds in Narnia Peter, Jadis, Trumpkin, Eustace, and Lilliandil? That's alarming. If it wasn't for Trumpkin, I think I'd be more alarmed, but, uh, at least we have Trumpkin?
ETA: Pulled out The Crafting of Narnia because I haven't looked at it in a while. Gods, in two paragraphs there's more thought put into setting, character, and design than I saw in all of VotDT, and thinking about it is actually making me physically ill, which is a bad sign.