Character description in a script breakdown:
'Naomi is older than her 21 years suggest.'
Is she really? That's a good trick. How much older? Eleven months?
Friday, 8 April 2011
...and taller than her five feet and six inches would have you believe.
Posted by John Finnemore at 5:10 pm
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It does make me wonder which of her twenty-one years were the suggestive ones.
Maybe she's a young vampire, so she won't get old and she's stuck in eternal 21??
Perhaps they are 21 leap years which would make her um .... 84? (I think)
How can a man so young, have eyes so old?
Now I want to know what script this is from so I can hear/see this phenomenon.
But I agree with Claire. If it weren't for the name... and the fact that she's a girl... I'd suspect W.S. Gilbert.
Actually on the height thing, that kinda happens to me. I am only 5'4, but people often think of me as taller. My own sister in law had known me for 5 or so years before she became aware that at 5'8 she was taller than me. For whatever reason, she always saw me as taller than her.
I would think she were sightly obtuse except it was not the first or last time similar things have happened to me. Even my own husband is surprised every now and then at just how short I really am. Sometimes he completely misjudges it and kisses me on the forehead.
Dear John,
When I saw this I thought of you, so please enjoy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-13092228
Yours Chris
Yes, it is pretty Gilbertian, if that can be counted as a word. Hope she's out of her pirate indentures now and can go free...
A number of possibilities:
1. She is a fairy, and is 300 years old but looks like she's 21.
2. She, as Claire, Kaitebon and Anonymous said, is bound to the pirates until her 84th birthday and was born on leap-day, so she's 84 now, yet if we go by birthdays she is only 21.
3. Gilbert wrote the character breakdown, but mistakenly wrote that she is older rather than younger.
4. She is a ghost who died at 21.
5. She counts her age in dog years.
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