Credo Buffa wrote:What I find really encouraging about those audience comments is how much they enjoyed the poetry. This is really the biggest thing that this film can do for the Keats world: introduce his work to a new audience that might now be exposed to it otherwise. The fact that people are coming out of screenings talking about the poetry as much as anything else is wonderful to hear.
Malia wrote:http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2009/may/19/bright-star-ben-whishaw
Above is a link to an interview with Ben Whishaw and how he embraced Keats's philosophy of Negative Capability when playing him in the movie. It also contains the now many-times seen 3 snippets from the movie; the interview part is interesting, though.
Malia wrote:You know, sometimes I think that if Keats were around today--were able to see into a crystal ball into the future--he would be both amazed and mortified by his fame and this film. I think he would be extremely upset to see his relationship with Fanny dramatized and displayed all over the world. But I think he would be surprised and humbled by the fact that he and his poetry could still touch the depth of the human soul after nearly two centuries.
Saturn wrote:Keats didn't win any awards either, doesn't mean anything
Malia wrote:You know, sometimes I think that if Keats were around today--were able to see into a crystal ball into the future--he would be both amazed and mortified by his fame and this film. I think he would be extremely upset to see his relationship with Fanny dramatized and displayed all over the world. But I think he would be surprised and humbled by the fact that he and his poetry could still touch the depth of the human soul after nearly two centuries.
Credo Buffa wrote:and I'm not going to slam any of the other films that did win awards without seeing them either
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