Apr 11 2008
Anthony Hopkins and ee cummings
I’m so excited. :)
I love poetry. Oddly, I don’t own many poetry books, and neither do I read a lot of it (other then my own stuff, or my friend’s, occasionally). Paradoxical, isn’t it?
Oh well. :) It doesn’t matter since, POETRY IS STARTING! We got ee cummings, whose writing has the prettiness and descriptiveness that I love, and the twistedness that Stephanie loves.
I’m very excited.
Other then that, we handed in our ISUs (finally), had our test, and watched some of Titus. Anthony Hopkins is neat. Hannibal Lector was always my favourite villain.
And I’ve told this to 4 people now, I know, but that scene where Levinia/Lavinia opens her mouth and sort of spits blood when she’s up on the stump…
It was gorgeous. In a completely twisted, heartbreaking, macabre way. But the way that it was shot, the music, the actress…
It completely fascinated me. 15 seconds of cinematic /art/.
(Then again, I feel like I’m falling into a trap of iffyish art… being affected by something that was so obviously meant to affect people. I mean, the girl had sticks for hands. Or does that just mean I’m human?)
Well, I think I’ll stop now before I sound too creepy.
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I did not see the stump scene of the movie, therefore I cant tell you whether or not your being creepy :)
I am a fan of cinematic art, therefore, chances are, I would probably agree with you.
I personaly love the scene at the end when Titus (the credit actually goes to Anthony Hopkins) reveals to his guests that he has fed them a pie that was made with Tamora’s sons.
He does such a great job!
He is a really good actor, it’s a shame he’s in so many terrible movies!
You’re right, W.H Auden is very cute, especially as an old man.
He aged very well… (Not at all, you should compare pictures of when he was young to when he was old… not a pretty man).
If you actually did look up some of his poetry I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts on it.
There are two of his poems that I’ve found that I particularly like so far.