Of glasses and robots

[Tabouli]

Barb (re Wrinkle in Time miniseries)
> 2) Meg is not depicted with glasses, her little brother is.  Wrong, 
wrong, wrong.  If we can have a popular male hero (Harry) who wears 
glasses, why not a heroine in glasses?  (Barb pushes her glasses up 
her nose in a snit.)<

Grrrr, says Tabouli (hastily donning her own glasses, which she often casts aside out of vanity, as they are not very strong).  I have a lifelong irritation with the was the media treat spectacle wearers.  Why does the smart character in practically *every* movie ever made have to wear glasses??  And why is it that the ugly duckling girl is so often depicted wearing huge, ill-fitting glasses, which she removes at the end to miraculously reveal a Prom Queen?

(I am profoundly relieved that Harry is still going to be wearing the glasses and Hermione is not in the HP film.  By all of the laws of movie-making, it is illegal for the smart, swotty character to be naked of face).

As for American fantasy classics, I still dream that one day Tanith Lee will give permission for someone to film my teenage fantasy favorite: The Silver Metal Lover (the title of which still gives me a twinge of embarrassment).  Any author who can write a book about a 16 year old girl falling in love with a robot and make it not only convincing but touching and disturbing has definite talent.  Of course, given the gruesome reports I have of A.I. (which I have not seen), such a film has the potential to be absolutely abominable.  I'll just have to volunteer to help them with the casting and screenplay (she says hopefully)....

Has anyone else read this?

Tabouli.




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