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Jan. 17th, 2012 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fannishlissSo I've been watching a lot of sweet BBC actors reading bedtime stories. this is not that!
Unless you are a die-hard fan of Christopher Eccleston, you may not have seen this clip of him from the very beginning of Danny Boyle's little movie "Strumpet" (2001).
I love Chris's performance here. He's a poet called Strayman, and he's clearly a little off. He's supposed to stand up and do a karaoke of "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" but instead he recites John Cooper Clarke's extremely profane poem (it is about 50% the f word, so NSFW!!!) with little insertions from Shakespeare and Dylan Thomas and his own teeming poetic brain. I love the desperation and intensity that Chris brings to the recitation. It's spellbinding.
NSFW:
"Not for the proud man apart / From the raging moon I write / ... / But for the lovers, their arms / around the griefs of ages!!"
If you liked Claude Rains on Heroes, here is the crazy inspired poet deep in the hindbrain of an invisible man. Or, you know, it's the Doctor, through an acid kool-aid Chameleon Arch. :D
I am already flinching from the oncoming wikipedia blackout. I signed up to contribute $3 a month to them, which is the merest fraction of the importance of wikipedia to my life. Down with sopa!
Thanks to Aililinnea for identifying the bits of Shakespeare:
"Once more unto the breach" is from Henry V, and "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks" is from King Lear. Swoon, Eccleston in his old age playing Lear.... I could ask no more.
Unless you are a die-hard fan of Christopher Eccleston, you may not have seen this clip of him from the very beginning of Danny Boyle's little movie "Strumpet" (2001).
I love Chris's performance here. He's a poet called Strayman, and he's clearly a little off. He's supposed to stand up and do a karaoke of "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" but instead he recites John Cooper Clarke's extremely profane poem (it is about 50% the f word, so NSFW!!!) with little insertions from Shakespeare and Dylan Thomas and his own teeming poetic brain. I love the desperation and intensity that Chris brings to the recitation. It's spellbinding.
NSFW:
"Not for the proud man apart / From the raging moon I write / ... / But for the lovers, their arms / around the griefs of ages!!"
If you liked Claude Rains on Heroes, here is the crazy inspired poet deep in the hindbrain of an invisible man. Or, you know, it's the Doctor, through an acid kool-aid Chameleon Arch. :D
I am already flinching from the oncoming wikipedia blackout. I signed up to contribute $3 a month to them, which is the merest fraction of the importance of wikipedia to my life. Down with sopa!
Thanks to Aililinnea for identifying the bits of Shakespeare:
"Once more unto the breach" is from Henry V, and "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks" is from King Lear. Swoon, Eccleston in his old age playing Lear.... I could ask no more.
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Date: 2012-01-17 04:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-17 05:49 pm (UTC)o_O
I think this will turn some heads.
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Date: 2012-01-17 04:36 pm (UTC)As for Wiki...
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Date: 2012-01-17 05:56 pm (UTC)And yeah, if Strumpet were a little easier to get ahold of here in the states I think it would be a bigger deal. Too many of Chris's movies require jumping through hoops to get to!
I can't BELIEVE my county library system lost their only copy of Jude!!!! D:
I do have a copy of Let Him Have It that I am waiting for a sunny day to view. :)
But really, Strayman is my happy place. :D
Right now I'm writing the angstiest of stories for Develish. It will have a Happy Ending though. :)
I've got a Claude Rains story developing in my head... and a Pod/Eggletina story percolating.... plus drabbles... so I have more to work on than there are hours in a day. A good fate.
As long as I don't need to look anything up tomorrow, which, there is no way. I google probably 30 or 40 times a day, and most of those hits are wikipedia. (Also, I heavily edited the entry on Strumpet!)
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Date: 2012-01-18 02:12 am (UTC)All of your upcoming projects sound so interesting and unique. I will wait patiently.
Between you and me, I have some LHHI gifs all ready for this weekend in the Gutter. It is an incredible performance by CE. HIs first big screen role.
You edited the Strumpet entry in Wiki? I need to bounce over in the next few hours to have a look. I seem to remember there was very little info in it at all the last time I looked.
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Date: 2012-01-18 07:11 pm (UTC):D
I'll be looking forward to the LHHI gifs!
I did edit the Strumpet entry... I didn't add much, I just wanted it to be factual and to link to Danny Boyle and that sort of thing.
I'm always glad to edit that sort of thing if it has glaring omissions. :D
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Date: 2012-01-18 12:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-18 07:02 pm (UTC)I don't know if I want the Master (John Simm) reading me a bedtime story though!!
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Date: 2012-01-23 07:02 am (UTC)I adore Strayman, and now I'm gonna have to go read your fic again, because I love that too :)
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Date: 2013-03-28 06:32 pm (UTC)