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Myth is promiscuous, not dogmatic. It moves like a lively river through swarthy packs of reindeer, great aristocratic families, and the wild gestures of an Iranian carpet seller. Myth is not much to do with the past, but a kind of magical present that can flood our lives when the conditions are just so. It is not just the neurosis of us humans trying to fathom our place on earth, but sometimes the earth actually speaking back to us. That's why some stories can be hard to approach, they are not necessarily formed from a human point of view.
Martin Shaw, A Branch from the Lightning Tree
#book quotes#mythic#martin shaw#mythology#a branch from the lightning tree#myth#books and libraries#books and reading#literature#nature
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The Scarlet Pimpernel - TV series 1999
Martin Shaw as Chauvelin, some highlights from S01E01
For my friend @jenksel
#martin shaw#the scarlet pimpernel#citizen chauvelin#that last one was really annoying!#it was complaining all the time that it's too large#and I hate how much of that fuzzy playground I had to crop#how dare!
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“Make sustained contact with something undomestic, sacred, and tremendously powerful. Something for the good. Something filled with bone. Fall in love with it. This first covenant supplies energy, rapture, joy... Less heaven, less hell, more luminous reality.”
— Martin Shaw, ‘The Age of Bear and Raven. It's time to rework our relationship with nature." (Orion Magazine, Summer 2022, July 6, 2022) (via Alive on All Channels)
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Silver Fox Friday - Martin Shaw - from Ray Doyle, to Judge John Deed, to Adam Dalgleish, to DI George Gently - always one of my favorites.
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Martin Shaw
#suitdaddy#suiteddaddy#suit and tie#suited daddy#daddy#men in suits#silverfox#suitfetish#suited men#suited grandpa#suitedman#suit daddy#suited man#buisness suit#british man#british men#actors#Inspector George Gently#Martin Shaw
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Me? I’m not going anywhere.
#insane that this interaction happened like this...anyway#inspector george gently#George Gently#John Bacchus#Lee Ingleby#martin shaw#my gifs
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Look at this Ray. It's for you.
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Happy Birthday Raymond Doyle 🥰
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SP 1999 EPISODE 3 LIVEBLOG
Last episode of disk 1 and probably the last one for today
Rip to the old man getting thrown down the front steps, what a way to start an episode
This sick woman ruining all of her dad's escape plans smh
Who's the angry woman punching men and why do I love her already
"No harm will come to her" something tells me that harm will almost definitely come to her
Andrew and Suzanne are engaged!!!!
Percy and Marguerite insulting each other in public is so much cuter now they're happy with each other <3333
The bitchy ladies are being bitches again smh
Percy insulting the Pimpernel aksndkskdkdkd
Percy what are you planning because I know for a fact you aren't gonna leave this old man's daughter in france
"Suppose the girl is dead?" Goddamn marguerite have some faith
AAAAAAA HE CALLED HER MARGOT <33333
Who's the speedy boy French soldier my god
Oh nevermind he's a creeper spying on the lady from before in her bath
That is a massive goblet and I want one
Whose this guy with long hair in the woods he's kind of fit
Chauvvys become a deadbeat alcoholic since last episode it seems
And now he's a man on a mission
"I never said you were absurd!" "But you implied it" "Andrew have I ever implied" PERCY YOU DUMBASS
Andrew is so confused bless him
"You're not prepared for such a journey-" "her ladyship's portmanteau" MARGOT YOU SAVAGE
Goddammit percy give your wife the boat sex she's craving or I will
SLIGHT TANGENT BUT I LOOKED IT UP AND I THINK THE FIT GUY FROM THE WOODS WAS ALUCARD IN CASTLEVANIA AND IM LOSING MY MIND?????
Not the 30 pieces of silver as a bribe
Oh damn I didn't realise this town had a bring your own guillotine policy
Fit evil lady (I think her name is gabrielle??) has a guillotine earring omg
Noooo don't execute 5 citizens every day you're so sexy ahaha
Oh fuck they're straight up grabbing people from the crowd at random jesus christ
Yeah you should feel bad Mr priest since you're the reason they're killing people
So they all know where he's hiding because he's holding secret masses and yet nobody has given him up? Damn thats commitment
HES GIVING HIMSELF UP? COULDNT HE HAVE DONE THAT BEFORE THEY KILLED 5 INNOCENT PEOPLE EARLIER IN THE DAY????
Gabrielle is a badass she just kicked the old priest down
Why is she so obsessed with this Helene girl, kinda gay ngl
I love everyone except Marguerite toasting to the king
Oh fuck Percys host is spying for chauvelin
SHOUTOUT THE FUNKY MEN FROM THE WOODS FOR CAPTURING CHAUVELIN
Oh damn they're straight up shooting all of the soldiers
"You are very arrogant!" "I'm English" percy you legend
HOW IS THAT COUGHING FUCKER STILL ALIVE OH MY GOD
Uh oh Marguerites in the convent but Gabrielle knows about the convent
"Put him in with the pigs" "that's uncommonly hard on the pigs" percival Blakeney, professional sassmaster
AND HELENE ISNT EVEN IN THE CONVENT? SMH
Episode 3 done! Honestly I'm loving this show, really glad I invested in it, can't wait to see what happens next!
#sky liveblogs#sky watches sp1999#the scarlet pimpernel 1999#the scarlet pimpernel#richard e. grant#elizabeth mcgovern#martin shaw
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“Rabbit, Rabbit" :: [Leila L'Abate]
(and fireflies for some magic)
Artist, Anne Appert
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“Stories with weight to them have what C.G. Jung terms ‘the lament of the dead’, which in our frenetic culture we can no longer have time to hear. Most indigenous cultures will tell you that this world belongs to the dead, that’s where we’re headed. So mythology for me involves a conversation with the dead, with what you might call ancestors.Whatever we are facing now we need to have a root system embedded in weather patterns, the presences of animals, our dreams, and the ones who came before us. Myth is insistent that when there is a crisis, genius lives on the margins not the centre. If we are constantly using the language of politics to combat the language of politics at some point the soul grows weary and turns its head away because we are not allowing it into the conversation, and by denying soul we are ignoring what the Mexicans call the river beneath the river. We’re not listening to the thoughts of the world. We’re only listening to our own neurosis and our own anxiety.”
— Martin Shaw.
[soracities]
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Well, I offer a retuning of intention, a slightly more sober directive—to be of a place, to labour under a related indebtedness to a stretch of earth that you have not claimed but which has claimed you.
Martin Shaw, Scatterlings
#book quotes#literature#Martin shaw#mythic#mythic literature#books and libraries#books and reading#scatterlings
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For @jenksel so you don't have to search the internet for this scene no more ;)
(Martin Shaw as R.F.Scott in "The last Place on Earth" - 1985 mini series)
#martin shaw#I feel kinda dirty after giffing this#knowing that this is about a real historical figure and all#and knowing about his demise#but dang...they got to have known what they were doing#so much fan service right there#you're doing amazing sweetie with flaunting your goodies like that#also his wife is so annoying - just saying
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Watched the Martin Shaw version of Dalgliesh the other night for the first time. UK TV Play has The Murder Room and Death in Holy Orders on demand. I have to say, I liked Martin's rendition of the character, but he's not as quietly contemplative as Bertie Carvel. He's studied, thoughtful, and shows the character's dedication to the pursuit of truth, but he's not as intimidating as Carvel manages to make his version. Somehow, the new version is much more like the original. I've stuck the rest of this review under the cut. I'd be interested in other folk's thoughts.
They messed with the Martin Shaw stories, but I can forgive it for the purposes of dramatising. I've not read the Murder Room yet so I can't compare it, but I've just finished Death in Holy Orders and was interested to see how it played out. They slightly changed the ending, probably to make it more dramatic, but I'm not sure they really needed to. They don't really seem to bring out the fact that Dalgliesh is a poet in Shaw's version. It seems to be used far more in the recent series.
I'm hoping they do Holy Orders for the new series because if they're sticking to canon, this is where P D James introduces Emma Lavenham. Not that I want to see Dalgliesh with a new love interest (because I definitely ship him with Carlys Peer's Miskin), but I'm interested from a literary pov to see what they do with it.
I was slightly confused, because they stuck Emma in Murder Room for Martin's series, which she isn't in Bertie's rendition. However, they filmed out of book sequence for the new one. Far as I can see Murder Room comes after Holy Orders, so the new series has ignored canon there.
However, I liked neither of the actresses who took Miskin's role in the Martin Shaw series. Tilly Blackwood played a version closer to the books in terms of looks, but I didn't feel sympathetic to her character's attitude. Victoria Scarborough took the role in Holy Orders, (so from a blond actress, they jump to one with short dark hair) and I found her too sharp-edged, despite perhaps being closer to the changes wrought in her by James' writing as the character grows.
I like Carlys Peer's rendition, despite it being the least like the books (not least of which because they didn't cast a white actress), but she brings out Miskin's relationship with Dalgliesh better, in my humble opinion.
Nor did I care for the rendition of Piers Tarrant either. In the Carvel version they've mashed up the (book) characters of Daniel Aaron and Piers Tarrant, so we seem to get Daniel Tarrant, played by Alastair Brammer. I feel he's a much better fit than William Beck who seems to be whinging all the time.
Personally, for series three, I would like to see them do Death in Holy Orders, The Lighthouse and The Private Patient. I think this would allow them to introduce Emma (even though I'd prefer an outcome with Kate Miskin, that's for fanfic realms, not television), and follow their relationship. Private Patient is the last one in the series, so it would allow them to tie this up to three series, unless a fourth is planned, in which case, they'll have to mess around with the timeline, which I hope they don’t do. The main problem I can see is that the last series was firmly rooted in the 70s and the last book brings us up to 2008. It's a big leap, and one I'm not sure will work. Roll on 2024.
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The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
Summary: Sinbad (John Phillip Law) and the Vizier of Marabia (Douglas Wilmer) must find the three pieces of a golden amulet they believe will lead them to the Fountain of Destiny before the evil magician Koura (Tom Baker) does.
Charm of Harryhausen's stop motion cannot overcome how terribly the film has aged, with “special” mention going to the racism.
Rating: 1.75/5
Photo credit: Into Film
#the golden voyage of sinbad#1973#gordon hessler#adaptation#sinbad the sailor#John Phillip Law#Tom Baker#Takis Emmanuel#Caroline Munro#Douglas Wilmer#Martin Shaw#1.75#film reviews#film review#twenty-words-or-less#twol
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Bruised and alone: mon petit Chauvelin
#the scarlet pimpernel#chauvelin#armand chauvelin#baroness orczy#raymond massey#ian mckellen#terrence mann#martin shaw#character poll
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