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bloodygranuaile) wrote2012-06-03 08:54 pm
bloodygranuaile) wrote2012-06-03 08:54 pm
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Revenge! Revenge! Revenge!!!
So it has been a very long time since I have blogged about anything here that is not a book, and that is because I am a lazy arsehole. But I am going to try and blog about this movie, since... actually, I don't know why. I feel it must be recorded that I saw it.
Last night I met up with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bookelfe (in real life!) and some other people I had never met before (but they all were quite nice and seemed very cool) and we went to the Harvard Film Archive to see Revengers Tragedy, a wacky surrealist post-apocalyptic version of a Jacobean revenge drama, featuring Christopher Eccleston cuddling a skull and making crazy eyes, and a metric shit-ton of facial piercings.
The original play apparently takes place in Italy somewhere, going by all the characters' names, but this version takes place in a dystopian futuristic Liverpool that appears to have been depopulated somehow (by a plague or something? Idunno) where all the nobles apparently entertain themselves by getting into fights and seeing how elaborately they can self-adorn. Future!Dystopian!Liverpool is run by an evil Duke, played by Derek Jacobi in fabulous shades and purple lipstick, who some number of years ago poisoned the main character's wife because she wouldn't sleep with him. Now the main character (whose name is Vindici, which means "avenging" because the character names in this play are SUPER SUBTLE) has come back to wreak havoc on the Duke and his family! Vindici enters the employ of the Duke's oldest son, named Lussurioso, because he is lecherous. Lussurioso wants to bang Vindici's sister. Lussurioso is also played by EDDIE IZZARD, who is FABULOUS AS ALWAYS. The younger brothers are also awesome, including Ambitioso, who schemes to kill Lussurioso so that he can be Duke next instead, and Supervacuo, who is an airhead. Jacobean airheadedness is motherfucking HILARIOUS, now that all Jacobean talk sounds fancy. There is plotting and murder and more plotting and more murder, and increasingly outlandish murders, until pretty much everybody is dead. Usually in weird ways.
So, basically, if you are ever like "I want to watch a super weird movie; none of the movies I have are weird enough," try to see if you can track this one down! It is weird enough!
Last night I met up with
bookelfe (in real life!) and some other people I had never met before (but they all were quite nice and seemed very cool) and we went to the Harvard Film Archive to see Revengers Tragedy, a wacky surrealist post-apocalyptic version of a Jacobean revenge drama, featuring Christopher Eccleston cuddling a skull and making crazy eyes, and a metric shit-ton of facial piercings.The original play apparently takes place in Italy somewhere, going by all the characters' names, but this version takes place in a dystopian futuristic Liverpool that appears to have been depopulated somehow (by a plague or something? Idunno) where all the nobles apparently entertain themselves by getting into fights and seeing how elaborately they can self-adorn. Future!Dystopian!Liverpool is run by an evil Duke, played by Derek Jacobi in fabulous shades and purple lipstick, who some number of years ago poisoned the main character's wife because she wouldn't sleep with him. Now the main character (whose name is Vindici, which means "avenging" because the character names in this play are SUPER SUBTLE) has come back to wreak havoc on the Duke and his family! Vindici enters the employ of the Duke's oldest son, named Lussurioso, because he is lecherous. Lussurioso wants to bang Vindici's sister. Lussurioso is also played by EDDIE IZZARD, who is FABULOUS AS ALWAYS. The younger brothers are also awesome, including Ambitioso, who schemes to kill Lussurioso so that he can be Duke next instead, and Supervacuo, who is an airhead. Jacobean airheadedness is motherfucking HILARIOUS, now that all Jacobean talk sounds fancy. There is plotting and murder and more plotting and more murder, and increasingly outlandish murders, until pretty much everybody is dead. Usually in weird ways.
So, basically, if you are ever like "I want to watch a super weird movie; none of the movies I have are weird enough," try to see if you can track this one down! It is weird enough!