Yay, you saw it :DD I gotta give Kudos to bored 16-year-old me for spending ages trying to put the subtitles in the right spots and also for keeping the windows movie maker file, that made refining the translation way easier :'D
there was absolutely no chemistry or attempted chemistry between them, either romantic or platonic, and not even any really good friendship moments.
Yes!!! That's such a shame, like, at least let them be friends?? The only way we know they're friends is because Ghost-Katte tells us. "This was the day we met as well", it was indeed, Hans Hermann, the day you didn't look at him ONCE and were instead laser-focussed on his sister :'D (Give them a damn duet, maybe cut "Spiel mich", idk...) Even Burte manages to make them seem closer and Fritz is hardly in that travesty of a play :'D
I imagine if you didn't really know the history very well it would not make much sense at all!
My friend got me the DVD back in 2016 and I remember watching it, being very confused, and thinking that maybe I got something wrong when reading basic stuff about the historical background (Because when did people ever lie in a stage play? :'D). I was rather distraught and thought that maybe my grandma had lied to me when she said "Yeah, so, that's Friedrich and that's his boyfriend". Not sure why I was ready to trust this thing over my history teacher grandma, but... I mean, at least my confusion got me to read Wilhelmine's memoir :'D
although it's not the same melody as Die Schande Preußens, it's got enough harmonic commonality that on first watch-through I wondered if it was the same tune, which maybe was intentional and if so good job.
The callback they made in that scene was one to "Das preußische Prinzip", FW's solo from the very beginnning, so the general vibe of FW was definitely there :D They just sped it up a little I believe... Maybe they wanted to put the focus on FW's parenting "working out" in the end and less on "he likes war now"? Idk.
Heinrich: Leave me out of this!
Honestly, the things I'd give to see Heinrich in a musical... Maybe he can inherit one of the overly high and rather inaccurate women's wigs :'D Maybe a tapdance number...
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Re: Friedrich: Mythos und Tragödie
Date: 2021-01-14 09:09 am (UTC)there was absolutely no chemistry or attempted chemistry between them, either romantic or platonic, and not even any really good friendship moments.
Yes!!! That's such a shame, like, at least let them be friends?? The only way we know they're friends is because Ghost-Katte tells us. "This was the day we met as well", it was indeed, Hans Hermann, the day you didn't look at him ONCE and were instead laser-focussed on his sister :'D (Give them a damn duet, maybe cut "Spiel mich", idk...)
Even Burte manages to make them seem closer and Fritz is hardly in that travesty of a play :'D
I imagine if you didn't really know the history very well it would not make much sense at all!
My friend got me the DVD back in 2016 and I remember watching it, being very confused, and thinking that maybe I got something wrong when reading basic stuff about the historical background (Because when did people ever lie in a stage play? :'D). I was rather distraught and thought that maybe my grandma had lied to me when she said "Yeah, so, that's Friedrich and that's his boyfriend". Not sure why I was ready to trust this thing over my history teacher grandma, but... I mean, at least my confusion got me to read Wilhelmine's memoir :'D
although it's not the same melody as Die Schande Preußens, it's got enough harmonic commonality that on first watch-through I wondered if it was the same tune, which maybe was intentional and if so good job.
The callback they made in that scene was one to "Das preußische Prinzip", FW's solo from the very beginnning, so the general vibe of FW was definitely there :D They just sped it up a little I believe... Maybe they wanted to put the focus on FW's parenting "working out" in the end and less on "he likes war now"? Idk.
Heinrich: Leave me out of this!
Honestly, the things I'd give to see Heinrich in a musical... Maybe he can inherit one of the overly high and rather inaccurate women's wigs :'D Maybe a tapdance number...