Gilmore Girls\u2019 actress, Alexis Bledsoe, once talked about doing tongue twisters to practice for the high-paced chatter style of Amy Pace\u2019s drama.
I typed that whole sentence off the top of my head. I really enjoyed Gilmore Girls while it ran on TV for a few reasons. My mom and I could watch something that wasn\u2019t Murder She Wrote for the Third Time and it had enough angst to soothe my tortured teenage soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gilmore Girls\u2019 actress, Alexis Bledsoe, once talked about doing tongue twisters to practice for the high-paced chatter style of Amy Pace\u2019s drama. I typed that whole sentence off the top of my head. I really enjoyed Gilmore Girls while it ran on TV for a few reasons. My mom and I could watch something that … Continue reading Rhythm: The Stop<\/span>
Years later, I caught the same affected rhythm in Life<\/strong>, starring Damien Lewis, a couple other great people, and a kickass ending that turned the show from a deep think mystery into an incredible character study.
It isn\u2019t the rapid-fire back and forth that makes you sit up and listen to the characters in either show. It\u2019s the sudden stop. That space is the impactful moment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Consider Barns Courtney\u2019s \u201c99\u201d if you don\u2019t feel like watching roughly 7 seasons (all-together for Gilmore Girls<\/strong> and Life <\/strong>combined, minus the new Gilmore Girls<\/strong>. This could have been a footnote) of television. It slaps, but the neat parts are where the sound ceases and we continue into the next rollicking phrase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The rapidfire exchange in prose has a different sudden stop. Either the long winding sentences have a sudden short interjection, or the short staccato style sentences give way suddenly to a long, winding, run-on sentence of effervescent vowels and sibilant consonants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Consider, also, a helpless passenger in a getaway vehicle on a hilly road. Sometimes the impact is when you hit the ground; sometimes it\u2019s when you launch into the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"