cimorene

Because I first started to memorize Singin' in the Rain when I was so wee that I don't actually remember the first time I watched it, certain things about it I have always taken for granted without really noticing them. For instance, when I watched it for about the 100th time yesterday I realised the lines in Gene Kelly's face mean he is old, and then I found out thanks to IMDb that, though they're playing age-mates, he was 40 when the film was released and Donald O'Connor was 27. Debbie Reynolds was 20, but she says in the commentary track that she was 18 when she met Gene or signed onto the project, I forget which. So she's playing her age, but I think Don and Cosmo are both meant to be somewhere around the average of O'Connor and Kelly - maybe 33, 35.

Now I have this nagging urge to write an AU where they're their physical ages and aren't lifelong friends. I'm not really sure what I'd do with that, except it would be a chance to see Don and Cosmo as strangers - if I can even imagine that. Maybe putting them into the plot of The Dancing Cavalier, because I've always wondered about the rest of the modern section outside of the "Broadway Melody" number.

Sadly, there's not a very, er, active fandom to appreciate my efforts (tree falling in a fandom forest completely empty of readers?), although the audience for SITR OT3 is pretty dedicated and steady, if not numerous. I still get a regular trickle of feedback on the semi-epic I posted four years ago, practically like clockwork.