Creativity
Jul. 16th, 2006 11:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tvordljI haven't painted for awhile so a couple of weeks ago i found something to get me started again. Have started one today that will take a week or so. Lighthouse type scene with lots of blue sky and water and cliffs. No idea what i'm going to do today. Probably shouldn't be out in the sun again as i did get a bit of a burn on my back, the parts that i couldn't reach with the sunscreen. My arms aren't quite long enough to get to the dead center.
Have you seen The Lion In Winter? The one with Katherine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole from the mid 60's? Cracking film! Saw it in the listing today and thought ooh, i must have a look. But it's not the original. There's another version that's been made with Patrick Steward and Glenn Close and aside from Jonathny Rhys Myers, they're the only ones i've heard of. It's a tv version from 2003 apparently. Both lead actors are very good. Glenn is playing Eleanor more haunted and hurt than Katherine's bitter venomous Eleanor. Stewart's King Henry is slightly more understated, though still sly and shrewd but not with the vitriol that O'Toole spits and hisses with, aggressively domineering. The real Henry would have fireburning blasts of lost temper, sometimes purely for show to intimidate. You don't get that thundering temper out of Stewart but it comes close. Don't get me wrong, they are both every bit as good as the originals, big shoes to fill and all that. You don't get as much the feeling that you are watching a play on screen this time around. I dunno, though, it's good but it doesn't quite have that edge. But then i really liked the first version so i guess i'm not very objective.
And now...
Have you seen The Lion In Winter? The one with Katherine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole from the mid 60's? Cracking film! Saw it in the listing today and thought ooh, i must have a look. But it's not the original. There's another version that's been made with Patrick Steward and Glenn Close and aside from Jonathny Rhys Myers, they're the only ones i've heard of. It's a tv version from 2003 apparently. Both lead actors are very good. Glenn is playing Eleanor more haunted and hurt than Katherine's bitter venomous Eleanor. Stewart's King Henry is slightly more understated, though still sly and shrewd but not with the vitriol that O'Toole spits and hisses with, aggressively domineering. The real Henry would have fireburning blasts of lost temper, sometimes purely for show to intimidate. You don't get that thundering temper out of Stewart but it comes close. Don't get me wrong, they are both every bit as good as the originals, big shoes to fill and all that. You don't get as much the feeling that you are watching a play on screen this time around. I dunno, though, it's good but it doesn't quite have that edge. But then i really liked the first version so i guess i'm not very objective.
And now...
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Date: 2006-07-16 02:50 pm (UTC)