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tvordljIt's cold. (How cold is it?)
Colder than the Earl of Hell's Riding boots.
That's a "Dad" expression.
I didn't know he was saying "Earl" until Mom said it a few weeks ago.
All these years, too!
Don't worry. It doesn't have to make sense. The Hinges of Hell are hot but the Earl of Hell's riding boots are cold.
Go figure.
So yeah.
I went to a movie, Venus with Peter O'Toole. It's a movie about old age and love. Maurice and Ian are two men in their 70's, actors who have been quite successful in their day. Both men are having health issues but Maurice, at least, still gets work and gets paid in cash. He gives most of it to his wife though he hasn't lived with her for years, in thanks for all she's given him over the years in support. But the movie isn't about that. Ian's great niece comes to live with him, Ian hopes she'll look after him but she's a brash Chav, hard drinking, profane (though the old men are hardly much better) and thoroughly grating on his nerves. Maurice, however, takes a shine to her and sees vulnerability. Maurice, also, is an afficionado for the ladies from way back whereas i think Ian was a perennial "bachelor", as the euphemism used to go. Maurice spends some time with Jesse, the niece, to take her out from under Ian's feet and discovers a vulnerability in her. He treats her with respect and a healthy admiration for her beauty and falls in love with her. She seems both uncomfortable and flattered at the same time, fascinated yet repulsed at times. She does take advantage of his affections at times and each time she lets him down, she later learns to respect him more.
Peter O'Toole has always been one of my favourites and he doesn't even have to say a word, yet conveys so much. Leslie Philips plays his friend Ian. I don't really know his work but he has a long list of credits and i think most people from the UK will recognize him. Jodie Whittaker plays Jesse, aka "Venus" in her first movie role with only a few tv appearances to her CV as well. She's very good, too, playing a Northern Lass with a few walls built up around her, having left behind a broken affair and a disappointed mother. The movie takes us around London as the two of them shop, go clubbing and walk the streets. The movie has a lot of interior shots as well, lots of natural light from windows creating shadows on the faces, accenting the age on Peter's face and the freshness of Jodie's, painting her body, her hair, her eyes in angles and changing light, something like the painting in the National Gallery that he shows her, a reclining "Venus" from whence he gets his nickname for her. The most beautiful scene in the movie happens when she's in the bath and has just revealed her past bad experience in love to him in conversation through the closed door. He recites Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day) as she listens. The camera is close on her young face and eyes, with his voice gently reciting over the scene. You can see she's touched, You can see he is in fact telling her how he feels about her even though he knows he's too old and in ill health for it to be anything more than his one last spark. It's a quiet movie, with quiet laughs and a couple of chuckles as Maurice has a couple of falls during a couple of awkward situations one of which he was clearly hoisted by his own petard! lol! Peter O'Toole is nominated for an Oscar for this performance. I shall be rooting for him.
SHALL I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st;
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
After the movie, i perused some of the January sales and walked my way down Spring Garden Road. The wind wasn't too bad until i turned the corner and went north on Barrington. Brrrrr..... A couple of photos from my walk...
In front of the library, even Winston looks a bit chilly! Across the road in front of Daltech, there's ice across the path and this guy was walking pretty sharpish to get inside.
Colder than the Earl of Hell's Riding boots.
That's a "Dad" expression.
I didn't know he was saying "Earl" until Mom said it a few weeks ago.
All these years, too!
Don't worry. It doesn't have to make sense. The Hinges of Hell are hot but the Earl of Hell's riding boots are cold.
Go figure.
So yeah.
I went to a movie, Venus with Peter O'Toole. It's a movie about old age and love. Maurice and Ian are two men in their 70's, actors who have been quite successful in their day. Both men are having health issues but Maurice, at least, still gets work and gets paid in cash. He gives most of it to his wife though he hasn't lived with her for years, in thanks for all she's given him over the years in support. But the movie isn't about that. Ian's great niece comes to live with him, Ian hopes she'll look after him but she's a brash Chav, hard drinking, profane (though the old men are hardly much better) and thoroughly grating on his nerves. Maurice, however, takes a shine to her and sees vulnerability. Maurice, also, is an afficionado for the ladies from way back whereas i think Ian was a perennial "bachelor", as the euphemism used to go. Maurice spends some time with Jesse, the niece, to take her out from under Ian's feet and discovers a vulnerability in her. He treats her with respect and a healthy admiration for her beauty and falls in love with her. She seems both uncomfortable and flattered at the same time, fascinated yet repulsed at times. She does take advantage of his affections at times and each time she lets him down, she later learns to respect him more.
Peter O'Toole has always been one of my favourites and he doesn't even have to say a word, yet conveys so much. Leslie Philips plays his friend Ian. I don't really know his work but he has a long list of credits and i think most people from the UK will recognize him. Jodie Whittaker plays Jesse, aka "Venus" in her first movie role with only a few tv appearances to her CV as well. She's very good, too, playing a Northern Lass with a few walls built up around her, having left behind a broken affair and a disappointed mother. The movie takes us around London as the two of them shop, go clubbing and walk the streets. The movie has a lot of interior shots as well, lots of natural light from windows creating shadows on the faces, accenting the age on Peter's face and the freshness of Jodie's, painting her body, her hair, her eyes in angles and changing light, something like the painting in the National Gallery that he shows her, a reclining "Venus" from whence he gets his nickname for her. The most beautiful scene in the movie happens when she's in the bath and has just revealed her past bad experience in love to him in conversation through the closed door. He recites Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day) as she listens. The camera is close on her young face and eyes, with his voice gently reciting over the scene. You can see she's touched, You can see he is in fact telling her how he feels about her even though he knows he's too old and in ill health for it to be anything more than his one last spark. It's a quiet movie, with quiet laughs and a couple of chuckles as Maurice has a couple of falls during a couple of awkward situations one of which he was clearly hoisted by his own petard! lol! Peter O'Toole is nominated for an Oscar for this performance. I shall be rooting for him.
SHALL I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st;
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
After the movie, i perused some of the January sales and walked my way down Spring Garden Road. The wind wasn't too bad until i turned the corner and went north on Barrington. Brrrrr..... A couple of photos from my walk...
In front of the library, even Winston looks a bit chilly! Across the road in front of Daltech, there's ice across the path and this guy was walking pretty sharpish to get inside.
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Date: 2007-01-27 09:53 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-01-28 04:28 pm (UTC)I love the Earl of hell LOL
I might have to borrow that from your Dad!
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Date: 2007-01-28 07:02 pm (UTC)