*laughs*

[littlelotte]

So Dan and I rented Tristan and Isolde tonight and just finished watching it. I will never let Dan live down his comment when I first found out it was made into a movie and did a double take at the movie poster. I wasn't sure whether to be thrilled or terrified of the movie version:

Dan: "They turned a Wagner opera into a movie?!"
Me: "Before it was a Wagner opera it was part of the Arthurian canon, love."

...and then he tried to convince me that more people would know it as the opera than as the legend. I told him only in his circle of friends.

What cracked me up even more, though, is that his friend had the SAME REACTION to us talking about it:
"You mean the Wagner opera?"

*shakes head and giggles*

Comments

[spherulitic.livejournal.com]

So I'm confused -- do they sing in the movie?

[littlelotte.livejournal.com]

This is what I get for having so many friends who are actually cultured, I guess :-P I hate you all.

[aidonian.livejournal.com]

I must say that I didn't even know it was an opera, let alone part of Arthurian canon. Than again, many opera's are somewhat based on myths and legends, so I'm not surprised.
If you think that is funny; try this: how old can a horse get when it doesn't die? And the guy who asked that aloud wasn't joking at all.

[samuraibutterfl.livejournal.com]

I knew it as a neo French musical written by the guy who wrote Romémo et Juliette.