“What interests me is why people act the way they do: what’s deep inside them, pushing them. “I feel quite detached from them, as if they have little to do with me,” she says on her website, in comments that have another layer of meaning following the tragedy. It was a shame there appeared to be no comment from the author on his death, but Fine has always felt a little ambivalent about the films of her books.
It is published in the US by Starfire as Alias Madame Doubtfire. Doubtfire came from a book too, of course – Anne Fine’s Madame Doubtfire, now a Puffin Modern Classic. in the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral that Faber published a tie-in edition of Auden’s love poetry, Tell Me the Truth About Love, complete with a still of Hugh Grant on the cover. Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,īring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Such was the power of John Hannah reading WH Auden’s Funeral Blues. But another film that featured a poem, also in a scene of mourning, did lead to a slim volume of verse being published, although admittedly this was pre-Net and before sites like. Whether there will be any uplift in sales of Whitman or Neruda seems to be expecting too much, especially when these poems – any poem – can be found with just a few keystrokes. Williams reads from a page torn from a book, and then places the page on the coffin (Question: Would this work with an ereader? Would someone read from a Kindle and then tuck the Kindle underneath the flowers? It’s why physical books will surely remain). It’s a lovely scene, filmed with the low sun casting long shadows through the trees. So close that your eyes close with my dreams. So close that your hand upon my chest is mine, I love you directly without problems or pride… I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
#O CAPTIN MY CAPTIN MOVIE PATCH#
Nearly ten years later, in 1998, the actor read Pablo Neruda’s Sonnet 17 at the grave of his girlfriend in Patch Adams. But Dead Poets Society is not the only connection between the actor and poetry.
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