Also, I love Jacobi's Chorus. "Oh, for a muse of fire that wouldst ascend the brightest heaven of invention"
Oh, yeah. Love. That's the most polite word for how I felt watching Derek Jacobi in that glorious coat.
Buffy: How was school today? Dawn: The usual. A big square building filled with boredom and despair.
Buffy: Just how I remember it.
'The Killer In Me'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Connie Neil - Apr 07, 2009 1:44:07 pm PDT #8712 of 28427
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Connie Neil - Apr 07, 2009 1:45:27 pm PDT #8713 of 28427
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One is a stirring call to pride for an England suffering in the depths of WWII and one is a powerful and moving anti-war piece
And to do that Olivier had to cut out all of Buckingham's betrayal.
Kathy A - Apr 07, 2009 1:50:31 pm PDT #8714 of 28427
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Oh, yeah. Love. That's the most polite word for how I felt watching Derek Jacobi in that glorious coat.
He was really hot in this movie, wasn't he?! A total Silver Fox. Hmm, now I have to check that ita has him in that coat over at her website...
DavidS - Apr 07, 2009 1:55:01 pm PDT #8715 of 28427
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Right. And then he got home, and to celebrate, he killed everyone. Party at Odysseus' house!
They were dicks! They deserved to die. They were really, really obnoxious houseguests.
"Welcome home, dude! Where's the k--GUCH! DUDE! YOU STABBED ME! WHAT THE FUCK, DUDE? NOT COOL!
I brought...you...Heineken...you bastard..."
Pfft. Odysseus didn't stab them. He shot them through the throat with arrows. There might've been a slight spearing or two as well.
Barb - Apr 07, 2009 1:55:03 pm PDT #8716 of 28427
“Not dead yet!”
Oh, yeah. Love. That's the most polite word for how I felt watching Derek Jacobi in that glorious coat.
::le sigh::
Oh yeah.
And Patrick Doyle's score is pure love. I got married to that music.
Dana - Apr 07, 2009 1:56:13 pm PDT #8717 of 28427
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
They were dicks! They deserved to die.
So kick them out of the house! Hell, he's the ruler of the city. Kick them out of the city. You know what's a crazy option? You AND YOUR SON having a nice big bloodbath.
At least Achilles was killing people for a reason.
flea - Apr 07, 2009 1:56:24 pm PDT #8718 of 28427
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Then there was the whole "dogs will eat their genitals" part.
OTOH Seamus Heaney wrote a great poem about it.
Barb - Apr 07, 2009 1:56:44 pm PDT #8719 of 28427
“Not dead yet!”
Head shot of Jacobi in The Coat: [link]
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JZ - Apr 07, 2009 1:57:00 pm PDT #8720 of 28427
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Achilles, what a heel!
This is cracking me up beyond all reason. I'm glad to know Sophia!
Also, Scrappy, I remember the very same Greek mythology book (and the companion volume on Norse mythology) and share the same abiding love.
Hil R. - Apr 07, 2009 2:00:14 pm PDT #8721 of 28427
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I LOVED this book when I was a kid and it engendered a fascination with mythology. I still have a copy! [link]
I read that one in fourth grade, and loved it.