Would the reader? We’ll never know–we’re not privy to them.ĭanny never learns the truth about the woman’s true form or even what she wanted. She uses several words that Danny doesn’t understand. Whatever the strange woman was, she neither killed and ate Danny or was defeated by him.ĭanny (and the reader) never figure out what she was or even what she really looked like. In his final encounter with the exotic woman, Danny commits some acts of stupidity but later wises up. We don’t learn why (as is often the case in real life). That’s the question: do you want it true to life or easy to follow? I struggled to answer that.ĭanny is neither overly sympathetic or unsympathetic, but has elements of both.Īfter initially getting chummy with Danny, the English women later snub him. On the other hand, obscuring the characters’ dialogue is annoying and makes the film hard to follow. On one hand, that is how sounds work in real life and the directors were demonstrating how phony Hollywood was. For example, 555 telephone numbers and mild swearing on television.)Īs taught in film studies, one convention-breaking element of French New Wave cinema is when characters were having a conversation in a restaurant, whenever the front door opened, noise from the street would overwhelm the audio, drowning out the characters. (I know different people use the same term to mean different things–I’m using “convention” to mean something that doesn’t happen in real life but we accept in a story. One broad similarity is a deliberate breaking of artificial literary conventions.
Tuttle is a native Texan who moved to Europe and I recognized several reoccurring motifs that “Skin Deep” shared with other of her stories. It turns out that he wasn’t as lucky as he’d imagined. He thinks he’s in luck when he meets two English women on holiday as well as an exotic woman from parts unknown. In “Skin Deep,” Danny, a young Texan, vacations in France after being unceremoniously dumped by his girlfriend back home. That’s part of the reason that I enjoyed Lisa Tuttle’s “Skin Deep.”Īfter finishing all of her stories in A Nest of Nightmares, I found another of Tuttle’s collections, Memories of the Body: Tales of Desire and Transformation. In some cases, they do things I never anticipated a monster of doing. While classic monsters are great, I enjoy the unusual ones, monsters I’d never heard of before. It updates old, forgotten monsters from older editions of Dungeons and Dragons.
I recently found a YouTube channel called Monster of the Week.
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