(also just want to say i watched another version of the musical last night, too--it was good except for more technical mic issues than there should've been--and even between that and the first one there were several differences. some i liked better than the other and some where i preferred the other. like how you'd mentioned in your version about the pyjama song, in this one, after the cart rolled by, while it was still silent one of the upperclass guys who'd been refusing to wear a lifebelt came up to the maid and snatched it. then the song started up again more frenzied but you can tell they had just been trying to convince themselves at that point because when they dispersed, there was screaming like, "okay, time to panic." but it also didn't have the whole "i heard a rumor" amongst the passengers beforehand? the lifeboat lowering was more intense than the other. and then at the end, all the guys' faces are just seen through portholes for their conversation, each group, and there's an empty one in between the Captain and Murdoch's to show Ismay should've been there. But the captain's aside to the bellboy wasn't made to be emotional like in other one.)
re: murdoc's death, oof. in both of the versions i saw, his last words and departure really carried with it a sense that he was maybe going to take his own life, just leaving it up to interpretation. although i understand the confliction with the moment taking liberties, and understand why his family wouldn't want it depicted that he possibly committed suicide, i also don't think it's something people should've been concerned with seeming shameful in that moment, if it did happen to him or any officer (and lightoller did eventually admit say one of them had committed suicide in that moment.) certainly not comparable to how he was besmirched in the 1997 version.
About halfway through the song, they added some new orchestrations, which were a cue for captain Smith and the crew to enter. Ismay is horrified--the ghosts, the ghosts! And he backs away... then when he turns around, he has his proper hat on, and he too has been transported to the past. He continues and finishes the song in a boastful manner.
aw mannn well done on the melding of fast forward to flashback.
this is probably also the only portrayal of ismay in titanic works that i've heard of, too? everything rests on his selfishness but not how it affected him later. by all accounts, it really fucked him up. it's good there was something out there that didn't just want to present him as a villain like everyone wants to see and rest on that.
it reminds me of how workers at the titanic museum reported that his portrait once started shaking on the wall and flew off, landing facedown. everyone likes to say it's because those who died and the other survivors wouldn't have wanted anything to do with him after that, but i felt like if anything, it'd be due to himself and his own guilt
I WILL THROW SOME RECOMMENDATIONS AT YOU SHORTLY THEN
yay! and yeah definitely if you ever get a hold of that titanic stuff, lemme know.
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re: murdoc's death, oof. in both of the versions i saw, his last words and departure really carried with it a sense that he was maybe going to take his own life, just leaving it up to interpretation. although i understand the confliction with the moment taking liberties, and understand why his family wouldn't want it depicted that he possibly committed suicide, i also don't think it's something people should've been concerned with seeming shameful in that moment, if it did happen to him or any officer (and lightoller did eventually admit say one of them had committed suicide in that moment.) certainly not comparable to how he was besmirched in the 1997 version.
About halfway through the song, they added some new orchestrations, which were a cue for captain Smith and the crew to enter. Ismay is horrified--the ghosts, the ghosts! And he backs away... then when he turns around, he has his proper hat on, and he too has been transported to the past. He continues and finishes the song in a boastful manner.
aw mannn well done on the melding of fast forward to flashback.
this is probably also the only portrayal of ismay in titanic works that i've heard of, too? everything rests on his selfishness but not how it affected him later. by all accounts, it really fucked him up. it's good there was something out there that didn't just want to present him as a villain like everyone wants to see and rest on that.
it reminds me of how workers at the titanic museum reported that his portrait once started shaking on the wall and flew off, landing facedown. everyone likes to say it's because those who died and the other survivors wouldn't have wanted anything to do with him after that, but i felt like if anything, it'd be due to himself and his own guilt
I WILL THROW SOME RECOMMENDATIONS AT YOU SHORTLY THEN
yay! and yeah definitely if you ever get a hold of that titanic stuff, lemme know.