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Spartacus: Vengeance
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Re: Spartacus: Vengeance
In any grand drama that I watch, I look for single images that are iconic. Images that let us see the story in one image that lasts forever.
As we look at any stage drama, we wait and maybe anticipate the moment when it all becomes one thought, one image, one memory.
I spoke of the movie NETWORK in another thread and in that is Howard Beal raging.
In the Original GODFATHER movie, there is the Baptismal sequence at the end and within the opening wedding sequence, the kissing of the Godfather's (Brando's) hands.
In Kurasawa's RAN (a retelling of King Lear) there is Hidetora leaving the burning castle, wild-eyed and blasted from his throne. It is Kurasawa's visual declamation of "Blow, winds! Blow until your cheeks crack! Rage on, blow! Let tornadoes spew water until the steeples of our churches and the weathervanes are all drowned."
The world is torn apart and rearranged forevermore... These image burn into our minds and stand in place of the drama.
-- Illithia standing, looking out over the edge of the cliff with lightning flashing behind her, blood covering her clothes and hands as the wrath of the Gods strikes.
-- Spartacus standing in the abandoned temple of Vulcan, covered in the blood of Glaber pronouncing war on Rome as a free man.
-- Navia in the arms of Crixus admitting that severing a man's head from his body with one blow is far more difficult than imagined.
And ending worthy of history and satisfying.
As we look at any stage drama, we wait and maybe anticipate the moment when it all becomes one thought, one image, one memory.
I spoke of the movie NETWORK in another thread and in that is Howard Beal raging.
In the Original GODFATHER movie, there is the Baptismal sequence at the end and within the opening wedding sequence, the kissing of the Godfather's (Brando's) hands.
In Kurasawa's RAN (a retelling of King Lear) there is Hidetora leaving the burning castle, wild-eyed and blasted from his throne. It is Kurasawa's visual declamation of "Blow, winds! Blow until your cheeks crack! Rage on, blow! Let tornadoes spew water until the steeples of our churches and the weathervanes are all drowned."
The world is torn apart and rearranged forevermore... These image burn into our minds and stand in place of the drama.
-- Illithia standing, looking out over the edge of the cliff with lightning flashing behind her, blood covering her clothes and hands as the wrath of the Gods strikes.
-- Spartacus standing in the abandoned temple of Vulcan, covered in the blood of Glaber pronouncing war on Rome as a free man.
-- Navia in the arms of Crixus admitting that severing a man's head from his body with one blow is far more difficult than imagined.
And ending worthy of history and satisfying.