so Fritz' introduction scene in Mein Name ist Bach where he refuses to pay for an uncommissioned composition by Emmanuel Bach was dead on the money at least
Yes, I was impressed at how the intro scene managed to pack so many of Fritz's traits into so few sentences.
But yes, fictional Quantz saying "he could be your father" re: J.S. Bach was a line just there get the audience to see Fritz' reaction and introduce Fritz' Dad issues early on in the movie, i.e. exposition duty over historical likelihood for Quantz of all the people to have said it.
Oh, I get *why* they did it! I made the same choice to put my exposition in Algarotti's mouth in my latest fic (which cahn is kindly currently beta-reading) because he is the most likely character *within the context of the fic* to have said it, though not in real life. (Then I added an author's note at the end apologizing to Algarotti. ;-) ) I was just saying that personally, knowing the closet story, I raised an eyebrow at Quantz.
Thank you for the details from the books you're reading! Between my inability to read German and my current inability to read physical books, they're very helpful. And sadly, as much as German would be extremely useful to me this month, it's something like 4 or 5 on my list of languages to beef up on, so it's going to be a while. (I wish my PhD program, which theoretically required a reading knowledge of academic German, had either provided the resources to learn to read academic German without having to go through the whole rigmarole of years of learning to speak to Germans about your daily life and ask when the train is coming, or at the very least, held the bar higher: I aced the reading requirements without actually having enough vocabulary to read anything I want to read. I complained about the program expectations at the time.)
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Re: Yuletide ideas and the Other Royal Murder Dad
Date: 2019-09-23 03:29 pm (UTC)Yes, I was impressed at how the intro scene managed to pack so many of Fritz's traits into so few sentences.
But yes, fictional Quantz saying "he could be your father" re: J.S. Bach was a line just there get the audience to see Fritz' reaction and introduce Fritz' Dad issues early on in the movie, i.e. exposition duty over historical likelihood for Quantz of all the people to have said it.
Oh, I get *why* they did it! I made the same choice to put my exposition in Algarotti's mouth in my latest fic (which cahn is kindly currently beta-reading) because he is the most likely character *within the context of the fic* to have said it, though not in real life. (Then I added an author's note at the end apologizing to Algarotti. ;-) ) I was just saying that personally, knowing the closet story, I raised an eyebrow at Quantz.
Thank you for the details from the books you're reading! Between my inability to read German and my current inability to read physical books, they're very helpful. And sadly, as much as German would be extremely useful to me this month, it's something like 4 or 5 on my list of languages to beef up on, so it's going to be a while. (I wish my PhD program, which theoretically required a reading knowledge of academic German, had either provided the resources to learn to read academic German without having to go through the whole rigmarole of years of learning to speak to Germans about your daily life and ask when the train is coming, or at the very least, held the bar higher: I aced the reading requirements without actually having enough vocabulary to read anything I want to read. I complained about the program expectations at the time.)