#Tony Tilse

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“Miss Fisher & The Crypt of Tears” Q&A for Acorn TV (2020) via @/miss.fisher__ on Instagram

“Nathan and Essie, what was it like for you two, coming back together and getting back into character?”

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Miss Fisher And The Crypt Of Tears (2020) ↳ dir. Tony Tilse

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Essie Davis dans “Miss Fisher et le Tombeau des Larmes” de Tony Tilse (2020) - inspiré de “Phryne Fisher Historical Mysteries” série de romans de Kerry Greenwood (1989-2021) et reprenant la distribution de la série “Miss Fisher Enquête” créée par Deb Cox et Fiona Eagger (2012-15) - décembre 2023.

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It's a big departure from sci-fi but Tony Tilse one of the directors on Farscape and a big enthuast for the romance at the heart of the show, also brought that approach to another Australian show Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. Having been a fan of both it's such a tonal shock to see such similar ships play out in such different genres.

It does the same thing with the tropes and expectations of traditional murder mystery that Farscape does with sci-fi. It has everything you'd expect from a 20s heiresses solving impossible murders, but it makes the central arc a love story that was specifically against the themes of the original book series. The original series has casual sex but no real love sorry, the show explores romance in a way that gets to the heart of a will the won't they in a way that's not infuriating.

The protagonist Phryne and her love interest Jack have very opposing understandings of love and romance but very similar underlying needs, trauma and sense of justice. They need to work out how to compromise with eachother without compromising who they are as people.

So much of that show feels like fic because of their dynamic, partly I think because it took the established cosy mystery murder-of-the-week format and said 'yeah, but what if they were both traumatised veterans of WW1 who desperately wanted eachother carnally but valued their friendship and crime fighting partnership above casual sex?'

TLDR: Tony Tilse maybe reading our fanfic

i was reading a master’s thesis on a piece of fanfiction tonight, and it clarified for me why it is that farscape feels like fanfic, but in the best sense of the word.

what shippish fic does, according to the thesis, is deliberately mis-read, and re-interpret a text as romance. in a basic sense, it subverts that text. but fic also often goes another level up, to subvert the structure of romantic stories as well (the thesis mentions pamela regis’s “eight essential elements” that make up the structure of a romance). fic can be deeply dense with plot. it can reproduce the entire canonical work, just with a different romantic focus. but by labeling their plot-dense work “a character a/character b story”, a writer is announcing that on some level the point of it is the character a/character b part. that’s why we have the distinguishing concept of “gen” fic, for fic where pairings are not the point, even if it depicts romantic relationships. so there is something arguably, basically subversive (or at least distinct) about the fanfiction project of “i can eat my story cake and have my romance too and i can make them work together even and i’ll prove it.” instead of telling a story or telling a romance, fanfiction will tell a story that is also unabashedly a romance.

so the thing abut farscape is that if you try to read it as a serial plot show like bablyon 5 or episodic philosophy/adventure like star trek, it’s not going to work. but if you try to approach it like friends and other sitcoms or soaps, where the characters and relationships are the point but there’s no coherent story about them, it also won’t work. it won’t even work if you try to approach it like outlander and its ilk, which although they’re also fanfic-y (if not my taste) and story-like, they unambiguously center the romance.

farscape, instead, you have to read as something subverting the structure of its meta-text of adventure science fiction by “misreading” its white-male-hero tv series as a romance. it’s built to be a love story the same way a 100k slow-burn rewrite of a show is built to be a love story. (a) there is lots of non-relationship stuff happening, but (b) even when the pairing in question isn’t together, the status of their relationship is of high, even utmost importance to the story. farscape gives john and aeryn very little in the way of happiness or resolution for most of the show, but it doesn’t really string the viewer along either. all of john and aeryn’s interactions, even from the pilot episode, are moving them along a single romantic arc. the question is not whether they will, but when and how and why. but what truly marks the john-and-aeryn romance as central is the fact that you couldn’t remove it without completely upsetting the show’s entire symbolic and thematic level. without crichton coming to grips with loving, choosing and becoming that which is alien to him (in both wonderful and horrible ways), what the hell would farscape be about? john and aeryn struggling to come together is the symbolic gravity around which the show revolves, even though it is about many things besides them. 

romance aside, there’s a way that fanfiction often tries to thumb its nose at its source material by adding physicality, emotionality and weirdness that it feels like farscape also does. jacob clifton described the show as something like “the sewer that star trek runs into so it can stay nice and clean” which is, if you think about it, also a pretty apt description of the fanfic relationship to canon. fan fiction makes characters gay, or in love, or have truly transgressive things happen to them because it wants to follow its id regardless of what canon “allows.” or perhaps to spite what canon “allows.” farscape, similarly, wants aliens and ensembles and feelings and sex and farts and it’s going to make a ton of jokes about science fiction so you know it’s taking the  (explosive) piss of its genre context on purpose. it’s aware that it fundamentally exists in relation to other media. it’s critical star trek fan fiction.

[rithebard]

Tomorrow at 7pm pt; #ChattingWithSherri welcomes back #awardwinning #director; #TonyTilse; http://tobtr.com/12154124 #interview @tonytilse We talk about #missfisher and #mrmidnight It's a fun chat!

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Ash vs Evil Dead (2015 – 2018) Season 01 Episode 08 “Ashes to Ashes” Directed by Tony Tilse

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[fyeahmovies]

Wherever you go, Miss Fisher, trouble follows. 

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020) dir. Tony Tilse

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Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

They are so beautiful  😍❤ 

New still via @filmvictoria from the movie.

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Nathan Page, Tony Tilse and Essie Davis at the Palm Springs International Film Festival (x)

[missfisherandjack]

Miss Fisher In The Movie “Miss Fisher And The Crypt Of Tears”

Miss Fisher And The Crypt Of Tears (2020) ↳ dir. Tony Tilse

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Miss Fisher & the Crypt of Tears (2020)

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[rithebard]

On Sunday; #ChattingWithSherri welcomes back #awardwinning #director; #TonyTilse on 11/27/22 at 7pm pt; http://tobtr.com/12154124 #interview

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