Have you the stomach for greatness ?
Nov. 19th, 2008 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tilly_stratfordI didn't know if it was day or night
I started kissin' everything in sight
But when I kissed a cop down on Thirty-Fourth and Vine
He broke my little bottle of love potion number nine
Well will you look at that, somebody uploaded a clip from Prince of Foxes, and it's the dagger scene!
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COME ON, can you honestly watch that (especially from around 4:00 and out) and tell me with a straight face that it isn't absolutely dripping with fabulous subtext? Maurice was straighter than that!
And man, Welles was so good at doing sinister and powerful. And he had The Voice, I mentioned that earlier, didn't I? I can only think of two actors with The Voice, Orson Welles - and Tom Baker. I think there must be something in the human makeup that just instantly responds to certain pitches and timbres.
Which reminds me, I've got the original War of the Worlds radio broadcast somewhere, and I still haven't listened to it. I should do that immediately, if only the cable to the mp3-player wasn't in another part of the country right now.
Ooh. And that Tyrone Power, what a dreamboat.
I started kissin' everything in sight
But when I kissed a cop down on Thirty-Fourth and Vine
He broke my little bottle of love potion number nine
Well will you look at that, somebody uploaded a clip from Prince of Foxes, and it's the dagger scene!
[Error: unknown template video]
COME ON, can you honestly watch that (especially from around 4:00 and out) and tell me with a straight face that it isn't absolutely dripping with fabulous subtext? Maurice was straighter than that!
And man, Welles was so good at doing sinister and powerful. And he had The Voice, I mentioned that earlier, didn't I? I can only think of two actors with The Voice, Orson Welles - and Tom Baker. I think there must be something in the human makeup that just instantly responds to certain pitches and timbres.
Which reminds me, I've got the original War of the Worlds radio broadcast somewhere, and I still haven't listened to it. I should do that immediately, if only the cable to the mp3-player wasn't in another part of the country right now.
Ooh. And that Tyrone Power, what a dreamboat.
