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Jan. 17th, 2012 10:03 amSo 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.
