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altivoOf the holidays, anyway. Back to work for me in the morning.
Poking around in a cabinet that has been inaccessible for a couple of years or longer due to a table we had set in front of it, I found a lot of classic films on VHS. It was difficult deciding which one to revisit, but we chose Walt Disney's Fantasia, the original one from the late 1930s. Still as good as ever. Most everyone who's seen it (or who watched Disney's television programs in the 50s and 60s) has seen Mickey Mouse as the Sorceror's Apprentice, but the scenes I always loved were the Beethoven Pastoral Symphony with the classical mythology and the finale of Night on Bald Mountain that fades into Ave Maria at dawn. Noticed something I had never recognized before, too. The Ave Maria sequence features hundreds of tiny figures carrying lanterns or candles that are reflected in the water. In the finale of Conan the Barbarian (the 1982 version with Arnold Schwarzenegger, not the recent remake) this imagery is echoed almost completely after the death of Thulse Doom, as his followers walk past a reflecting pool in front of the temple and drop their torches into the water.
The controversy over edits to the classical myth scenes (removing a black centaur) and the evolution sequence (deleting a brief moment where a fish crawls out onto the land) appear to still be raging online.
Cold here tonight, woodstove cracklng, gonna sleep well I hope.
Poking around in a cabinet that has been inaccessible for a couple of years or longer due to a table we had set in front of it, I found a lot of classic films on VHS. It was difficult deciding which one to revisit, but we chose Walt Disney's Fantasia, the original one from the late 1930s. Still as good as ever. Most everyone who's seen it (or who watched Disney's television programs in the 50s and 60s) has seen Mickey Mouse as the Sorceror's Apprentice, but the scenes I always loved were the Beethoven Pastoral Symphony with the classical mythology and the finale of Night on Bald Mountain that fades into Ave Maria at dawn. Noticed something I had never recognized before, too. The Ave Maria sequence features hundreds of tiny figures carrying lanterns or candles that are reflected in the water. In the finale of Conan the Barbarian (the 1982 version with Arnold Schwarzenegger, not the recent remake) this imagery is echoed almost completely after the death of Thulse Doom, as his followers walk past a reflecting pool in front of the temple and drop their torches into the water.
The controversy over edits to the classical myth scenes (removing a black centaur) and the evolution sequence (deleting a brief moment where a fish crawls out onto the land) appear to still be raging online.
Cold here tonight, woodstove cracklng, gonna sleep well I hope.
