Yeah to what May said about discussing this very thing today.
And another bit of odd synchronicity is that I was talking to Julien about the effect film has had on the written word in recent years, specifically reader expectations.
Surfin' the mindwaves, dude.
I think that for a pittoresque, say, fight scene, à la recent sampling of Asian fight movies (including the choreography of the Matrix trilogy) to work, it would need to be in a book that already showed that the author is consummately skilled in penning "effective" fight scenes--read punchy and well-paced. Used as a contrast, I think it could be interesting (I do think it would need to be written to a purpose, understand) to do the lyrical, elegant prose dance you described; but in general, I agree that the subset of language and pacing of action scenes should be respected.
Interesting, too, that you should bring it around to cheating the reader. I guess I've never taken it that far in regards to how an action (fight) scene should work, but I suppose that someone reading a sex scene could very easily feel thus if instead of torrid honest prose/emotions, they got pussyfooting and daffodil reflections.
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Date: 2007-03-14 09:46 pm (UTC)And another bit of odd synchronicity is that I was talking to Julien about the effect film has had on the written word in recent years, specifically reader expectations.
Surfin' the mindwaves, dude.
I think that for a pittoresque, say, fight scene, à la recent sampling of Asian fight movies (including the choreography of the Matrix trilogy) to work, it would need to be in a book that already showed that the author is consummately skilled in penning "effective" fight scenes--read punchy and well-paced. Used as a contrast, I think it could be interesting (I do think it would need to be written to a purpose, understand) to do the lyrical, elegant prose dance you described; but in general, I agree that the subset of language and pacing of action scenes should be respected.
Interesting, too, that you should bring it around to cheating the reader. I guess I've never taken it that far in regards to how an action (fight) scene should work, but I suppose that someone reading a sex scene could very easily feel thus if instead of
torridhonest prose/emotions, they got pussyfooting and daffodil reflections.