#A modern retelling of a classic

[shesamreads]

Is Rupert a vampire that turns into a mosquito? Is someone going to die in the bread oven?

I lost my dad to cancer. I know that everyone grieves differently, and losing a spouse is different that losing a parent, but Rupert is being absolutely awful. Even using that as an "explanation, not an excuse" is bullshit.

Also, this is how I'm picturing Rupert

(Colin Robinson from What We Do in the Shadows) (I'm woefully behind on this show)

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OH DAMN. GET FUCKED, RUPERT

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Ok, but you haven't bought the house and you haven't paid for the house and you have even PUT AN OFFER IN ON THE HOUSE. How do you figure it's yours, Rupert?

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oh shit

OH SHIT

did Michael kill Rupert? Is he going to cook Rupert in the bread oven? Will anyone miss him, since he works for himself and he's a widower and he "wants to leave the UK"?

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Ok, Michael. Make your lies believable.

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This novella has a lot of Lamb to the Slaughter vibes.

[finelythreadedsky]

your tags. yeah. it's not that they are progressive or feminist or even written by women -- but they are doing something with women that is complex and worth paying attention to, and in many cases they are the reason we have a version of a particular woman's story at all

yeah that's one of the marketing conceits of the myth retelling novel industrial complex that bothers me, it's the framing as if no one has ever paid attention to these female characters who are buried unnoticed in the myths when often the most complete or the most authoritative version of the character's story that survives from antiquity is in tragedy, a genre that is notoriously interested in bringing female characters out of the house and putting them on stage in active roles, and in using those female characters to explore issues of gender and the place of women in contemporary society.

like to a certain degree it makes sense for the homeric women who don't appear in (extant) tragedy, like briseis or the hanged women in odyssey 22, but we have stories where clytemnestra and deianira and medea insist on make narrative space for themselves to tell their own stories from their own perspectives, refusing to be silent about the violence their society inflicts upon women and the lasting damage it does. they're called aeschylus' agamemnon and sophocles' trachiniae and euripides' medea. and maybe you want to retell those stories for modern audiences, changing things or emphasizing different aspects of them! and that's great! but framing it as if they've been ignored and their stories are as-yet-untold is just not accurate, and it's a cheap way to paint your work as innovative and subversive.

[swordsandflowercrowns]

there are two wolves inside of me. one is yelling that authors have a duty to accurately depict classical cultures in their retellings and not impose modern expectations onto the stories. the other is yelling for them to completely twist the focus and narratives and morals to better convey the current cultural zeitgeist because reception of myths is not only fascinating but actively creating material for me to study. both wolves are historians.

[cannibalistic-vampirefag]

romeo and juliet modern retelling where instead of poison juliet jumps off a cliff and then romeo follows her but she actually had a hidden parachute so there's the split second where they're looking at each other and then she opens the parachute while he keeps falling. and post.

[wuntrum]

bro last night was a sims 2 machinima

[christmastheodora]

Ich weiß, so ist es dort, wohin du mich führest! Wer dort verweilet, der vergißt gar schnell! Das Wort, der Atemzug ist gleich dahin! Man ruht und ruht vom Ruhen wieder aus; Denn dort ist keiner matt vom Weinen – Er hat vergessen, was ihn schmerzen sollte: Nichts gilt, was hier gegolten hat, ich weiß ��

I know how it will be when you take me there. In that place, all is forgotten. Words and breath cease to be. There is only endless rest. There is no weeping, for the causes of tears are forgotten. All that mattered in this world falls away.

☆From Richard Strauss' Ariadne Auf Naxos

(translation Kelley Rourke)

[diamondnokouzai]

i love when the olympians get turned into a modern succession-esque soap opera. mostly because imagine if you had a sister who literally came directly out of your fathers skull. and then imagine if you were the son who got thrown off the mountain for being ugly

[pink-inthenights-blog]

I could only wish that modern retellings of greek or classic literature of feminism doesn't center around the stereotypical girlboss mentality, being quirky for the sake of being different, and always complaining rather than embracing.

I understand the message, really I do but I'm so sick of reading stories with female protags either passing up a perfectly good opportunity for them just for some guy or acting as if a parrot, a puppet of the author to voice their frustration rather than building the character.

[tooturtly]

Everyday I live with the knowledge of my greatest sin: unintentionally getting one of the Classics professors to read Lore Olympus.

[samglyph]

Hadestown… good

[eoneill18]

I want a modern retelling of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, where Dr Jekyll is just a chill dude, with some issues. And Mr Hyde is a snobby, Victorian era Gentleman, who struggles to keep his disgust in check.

basically,

Jekyll: Sup

Hyde: Unhand me you peasant!

[varlysca]

Ovid after writing multiple monologues to women in his Metamorphoses and writing the entirety of Heroides, lettres from heroines to their heroes, including Penelope, Briseis, Phaedra, Oenone, Dido, Hermione, Dianeira, Ariadne and writing (the unfortunately unpreserved) Medea:

"Nobody gave a voice to these Greek Mythology female characters."

Euripides after writing Andromache, Andromeda, Antigone, Danaë, Electra, Hecuba, Helen, Iphigenia in Aulis, Iphigenia in Tauris, Medea, Merope, Wise Melanippe, Captive Melanippe, Peliades, The Phoenician Women, The Trojan Women etc.

[aidenwaites]

The tragedy of watching two very good video essays only to discover its the only two video essays the creator has made so far

[thebaronmunchausen]

will file under "beacon of hope for Philippine cinema"

[thoodleoo]

>looking for a new retelling of ancient myth

>ask the reviewers if the book is classical reception or modern tropification

>they don't understand

>i pull out a diagram explaining the difference between what engages with ancient sources and depictions of the story and what relies on reduction of the story to its most marketable aspects

>they laugh and say "it's a good retelling"

>read the book

>its tropification

[virginwithasthma]

First off, this post was mainly about the Dorian Gray Netflix situation (and other unfortunate instances).

Secondly a retelling, while being a new version of a story that can be different in one or two ways, still has a duty to be faithful to the original. If you change the central tenets of the story, that's a whole different story . Creatives are allowed to be inspired by and create new stories that draw from already existing work. The problem comes when people brand completely different stories as retellings.

"Modern retelling" and it's a blatant misinterpretation of the original text