"Kirk sat back, just enough so that he could watch Spock's face, flushed with a small beads of sweat on his upper lip."
This is a line from Hafital's "Burnt Sugar," and until now I would have disagreed with it. I would have said, when Spock sweats, it shows first on his chin. Anyone can see it in the original 79 episodes.
But.
That's how Leonard Nimoy sweats. How does Zach Quinto sweat? Do either of these actors' pores have anything to do with how Spock sweats? After all, these actors were hired to portray, to represent something that is outside of them. To cast shadows on a wall... We may know Nimoy or Quinto, but it's not exactly the same as knowing Spock.
This is a line from Hafital's "Burnt Sugar," and until now I would have disagreed with it. I would have said, when Spock sweats, it shows first on his chin. Anyone can see it in the original 79 episodes.
But.
That's how Leonard Nimoy sweats. How does Zach Quinto sweat? Do either of these actors' pores have anything to do with how Spock sweats? After all, these actors were hired to portray, to represent something that is outside of them. To cast shadows on a wall... We may know Nimoy or Quinto, but it's not exactly the same as knowing Spock.
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That's such a great point! And such a fun angle to hang it on--how a person sweats.
Your point ties in with an idea I have to make a K/S vid set to Shakespeare's Sonnet 116:
"Let me not to the marriage of true mind
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds..."
I take so long to make vids, I won't get to this one soon, but it seems topical as we see that the actor(s) may alter, the essential being, the love does not---not if it's a wedding of true selves.
P.S. Whoops--that should be
"...marriage of true minds"
(The whole poem is here, if you don't happen to know it by heart:
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/363.html)
Have you seen GoAnimate.com? They have Star Trek characters. There's also Text-to-Movie, but no ST characters in that. I haven't even had time to try these out! Summer will be easier. Yah right :)
An excellent sonnet. It doesn't even break the fifth wall or anything postmodern like that, and yet it's still valid. Imagine :)
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