Amigos, Tolkien, o homem que nos deixou os mais belos dragões da atualidade, nasceu em 3 de janeiro de 1892.
domingo, 3 de janeiro de 2016
TOLKIEN
Amigos, Tolkien, o homem que nos deixou os mais belos dragões da atualidade, nasceu em 3 de janeiro de 1892.
sábado, 2 de janeiro de 2016
LEITURAS SOBRE RICHARD WAGNER...
Uma interessante publicação de 2015...
MY LIFE WITH WAGNER by Christian Thielemann
Wagner is venerated and reviled. How do we deal with his notorious anti-Semitism and his savagery of Mendelssohn’s music? Whenever something went wrong he would blame the Jews. But can Wagner be blamed for the fact thatRieziand Lohengrin were Hitler’s favourite operas and that the music from The Mastersingers was played at the Nazi rallies in Nuremberg.
Diz-nos Thielemann:
“I can’t hold Wagner musically responsible for the misuse of his works by the Nazis,”
Também nos diz outras coisas mais polémicas..., como refere a nota do site da AMAZON.
«...the German conductor, who thinks only German speakers with a native-level understanding should perform Wagner.»
Mas enfim, nos gostamos de polémicas.
Notas em inglês retiradas do site da AMAZON.
LOR SAN TEKKA FIRST WORDS...
STAR WARS SERIES AND WAGNER RING...
Divulgo uma vez mais o excelente artigo... do The Wagnerian.
http://www.the-wagnerian.com/2011/06/star-wars-series-and-wagners-ring.html
http://www.the-wagnerian.com/2011/06/star-wars-series-and-wagners-ring.html
THE FORCE AWAKENS QUOTES...
Excertos de The Force Awakens...
Kylo Ren: Look how old you've become.
Lor San Tekka: Something far worse has happened to you.
Kylo Ren: You know what I've come for.
Lor San Tekka: I know where you come from, before you called yourself "Kylo Ren".
Kylo Ren: The map to Skywalker. We know you found it. And now you're going to give it to the First Order.
Lor San Tekka: The First Order rose from the Dark Side. You did not.
Kylo Ren: I'll show you the Dark Side.
Lor San Tekka: You may try. But you cannot the truth that is your family.
Kylo Ren: You're so right.
Supreme Leader Snoke: A scavenger resisted you?
Kylo Ren: The Force is strong in her!
Kylo Ren: Forgive me. I feel it again... the call from light. Supreme Leader senses it. Show me again the power of the darkness, and I'll let nothing stand in our way. Show me, grandfather, and I will finish what you started.
[looks at Darth Vader's helmet]
Supreme Leader Snoke: There has been an awakening. Have you felt it?
Kylo Ren: Yes.
Supreme Leader Snoke: The dark side, and the light. The droid you seek is aboard the Millennium Falcon in the hands of your father, Han... Solo.
Kylo Ren: He means nothing to me.
Supreme Leader Snoke: Even the Knights of Ren have never faced such a test.
Kylo Ren: By the grace of your training I will not be seduced.
Supreme Leader Snoke: We shall see, Kylo Ren. We shall see.
Han Solo: Ben!
Kylo Ren: Han Solo. I've been waiting for this day for a long time.
Han Solo: Take off that mask. You don't need it.
Kylo Ren: What do you think you'll see if I do?
Han Solo: The face of my son.
Kylo Ren: Your son is gone. He was weak and foolish like his father, so I destroyed him.
Han Solo: That's what Snoke wants you to believe, but it's not true. My son is alive.
Kylo Ren: No. The Supreme Leader is wise.
Han Solo: Snoke is using you for your power. When he gets what he wants, he'll crush you. You know it's true.
Kylo Ren: It's too late.
Han Solo: No, it's not. Leave here with me. Come home. We miss you.
Kylo Ren: I'm being torn apart. I want to be free of this pain. I know what I have to do but I don't know if I have the strength to do it. Will you help me?
Han Solo: Yes. Anything.
IN SEARCH of DARTH...
O nome de Darth Vader analisado, e não só...
file:///C:/Users/USER/Downloads/Darth_Vader_Masks_Power_and_Meaning.pdf
file:///C:/Users/USER/Downloads/Darth_Vader_Masks_Power_and_Meaning.pdf
sexta-feira, 1 de janeiro de 2016
WELCOME TO THE HYPERSPACE...
A primeira vez que vimos isto foi todo um novo conceito de espaço que se abriu perante os nossos olhos...
NOT EVIL ENOUGH...
Partilho aqui. O que eu não consegui ler foi a notícia original...
http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/12/21/vatican_newspaper_reviews_star_wars_the_force_awakens/1196031
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-hc-the-vatican-star-wars-force-awakens-review-20151220-story.html
http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/12/21/vatican_newspaper_reviews_star_wars_the_force_awakens/1196031
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-hc-the-vatican-star-wars-force-awakens-review-20151220-story.html
JOSEPH CAMPBELL AND STAR WARS...
Sobre os encontros de George Lucas, Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau e Bill Moyers.
«To understand Campbell's view of Star Wars, one must have some sense of his overall philosophy of religion. Campbell had very little formal education in religious studies. He studied Medieval European literature, Romance philology, and modem literature, especially the works of James Joyce and Thomas Mann. His main encounter with religion began through editing the posthumous writings of Indologist Heinrich Zimmer and through working with Swami Nikhilananda translating and editing the Upanishads. On the subject of mythology, he was an autodidact without formal training. 3 When one looks at Campbell's assessment of religions in his published writings, this background is evident. Many of his examples come from modem or medieval literature with little explicit reference to religion. When he does speak of religions, he shows a decided preference for Hinduism's conception of the divine and salvation, and in particular, the traditions of monistic Vedanta. He degrades the western religions, Judaism in particular, for sharply distinguishing God from the world. "The Biblical image of the universe simply won't do any more,4 writes Campbell, and he also claims that in eastern religions the ultimate divine mystery is sought beyond all human categories of thought and feeling, beyond names and forms .... Anthropomorphic attributions of human sentiments and thoughts to a mystery beyond thought is--from the point of view of Indian thought--a style of religion for children.»
Eis uma passagem de um artigo de John Lyden The Apocalyptic Cosmology of Star Wars disponível no The Journal of Religion & Film, em:
http://www.cinematictheology.com/ApocalypticCosmologyStarWars.pdf.
quinta-feira, 31 de dezembro de 2015
SEI RECONHECER OS GRANDES ROMÂNTICOS À DISTÂNCIA ...
Os avatares do herói romântico são misteriosos... veremos o que o futuro nos reserva,. Para já, neste caso retomou-se o filão bíblico e Byroniano do verdadeiro anjo caído, ainda que em dose menos midicloridiana do que o seu antecessor familiar: Darth Vader.
Who the hell is Captain Phasma?
Também se vai falar muito da comandante dos stormtrooper, braço direito de Ren...
O OBSERVADOR SITH...
Grande blogue para os fãs de The Force Awakens... do melhor mesmo.
http://www.sithobserver.com/
http://www.sithobserver.com/
UM ESTRANHO RACCORD...
LEITURAS...
Leituras... Star Wars on Trial...em complemento, recomenda-se a leitura de excertos de O Cinema de Ficção Científica, de Éric Dufour...
Star Wars on Trial: The Force Awakens Edition: Science Fiction and Fantasy ...
editado por David Brin,Matthew Woodring Stoverhttps://books.google.pt/books?id=68eECgAAQBAJ&pg=PT15&dq=the+force+awakens&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=the%20force%m complet20awakens&f=false
quarta-feira, 30 de dezembro de 2015
John Williams and the use of leitmotivs...
Leiam ... eu sempre adorei o tema musical da Força.
http://arcadiaacademyofmusic.com/2015/12/music-of-star-wars/
Ralph McQuarrie amazing conceptual art...
«George tinha ideias sobre como a imagem ficaria. Na verdade, acho que o visual da foto interessava-lhe mais do que o enredo.»
Ralph McQuarrie
domingo, 27 de dezembro de 2015
THIS MUSIC IS AWESOME...
Do melhor que li nos últimos tempos... um artigo absolutamente estupendo.
Ambiguity in the sides of the Force - Analysing the music for «The Jedi Steps» in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, da autoria de Sergi Casanelles.
Ver aqui:
http://www.sergicasanelles.com/blog/?p=454
sábado, 26 de dezembro de 2015
Religiões baseadas em narrativas ficcionais..
Acabado de ler.
Um belo artigo sobre um fenómeno a que a sociologia e a investigação académica tem vindo a prestar cada vez mais atenção: o das religiões que se formam a partir de narrativas de ficção.
Neste caso, trata-se de um artigo de Markus Altena Davidsen, publicado em 2013, e intitula-se Fiction-based religion: Conceptualising a new category against history-based religion and fandom.
Eis o link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2013.838798
Sim, parece que atualmente há seguidores de religiões baseadas em Star Trek, em Tolkien, e em ... Star Wars. Os «crentes» do Jedismo, por exemplo, aproximam-se do milhão...
RAMIFICAÇÕES...
Já vimos que a saga das sagas até obriga os «crentes» a fazerem investigação por conta própria em novos domínios, como, por exemplo, os jogos. Mas aí parecem estar escondidas revelações sobre as novas personagens e as suas misteriosas origens... este é apenas um deles.
DISNEY Infinity 3.0 - The Force Awakens Playset - Kylo Ren Boss Fight
Eis o link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNXRZd5vkdo
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