#deadwent shrimpling, mocker of sacred robes (derwents) wrote in cultureic, @ 2015-11-24 21:57:00 |
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Entry tags: | ! correspondence: o-mails, ! media: wizvis, derwent shimpling |
TO: dshimpling@wizvis.mag FROM: qgladstone@wizvis.mag CC: ecallaghan@wizvis.mag DATE: Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 9:25 AM RE: TDSS & memorial It’s been a week since Macmillan’s death. See scrapped script, attached. We really think you should give it another look. This sort of atrocity needs commentary. --- Derwent Shimpling to Quentin, Emilia I’ll do the Nutcracker angle (fake ballet from D. Shimpling?), but I’m not touching the other thing with a 10m pole. We could devote the episode to all of the civilian and law enforcement deaths in this war so far. It’s been 10 years, so it’ll be a lot—the names could take up the entire screen, and I want them to. --- Emilia Callaghan to Derwent, Quentin Shimpling’s dancing is guaranteed dreadful. Go for it. --- Quentin Gladstone to Derwent, Emilia If you’d give it a consider, though, just some brief commentary... --- Derwent Shimpling to Quentin, Emilia I’m not monologuing about it. --- Quentin Gladstone to Derwent, Emilia Everyone else has been commenting and shouting their opinions about it into the void. We’re already behind by not having addressed it yet. --- Derwent Shimpling to Quentin, Emilia I’m not monologuing about it. I’ll dance, I’ll be your damned puppet, and I’ll try to ease the pain of that canceled production a bit, but I’m not talking. Sorry. --- Emilia Callaghan to Quentin, Derwent Ah, come on and shut the fuck up, Q. |
”In lieu of what was meant to be a glorious Muggle-inspired production of The Nutcracker, we’ve decided to help fill your cultural void a little. I know, I know—cutbacks, am I right? It’s HARDLY an acceptable substitute. One-man show versus extravagant, innovative Royal Opera performance. But we take what we can get in this day and age, and I really do think I ought to consider a new career in ballet. This one’s for all of you.” Derwent performs his own rendition of the dance of the sugar plum fairy, with a mixture of ballet and figure skating that’s truly ridiculous. The tone of the episode is light and tongue-in-cheek throughout. But at the end of the episode, for the credits, an in memoriam rolls for victims of the past decade of wizarding war: known victims of Death Eaters and the Dark Army, the list of casualties from the giant attacks in 2013, etc. The names are dense, tight-packed, scrolling inexorably past the screen. There is no usual wrap-up monologue from Shimpling tonight. |