REGENERATION (1997) - Owen meets Sassoon

[misshelenhardy]

LOL at owen falling down the hill! he's soooo cute :3 xxx

[xvoissurtoncheminx]

Trying to work out if Owen's fall down the grassy hill was intentional...

[bwoibetterrun]

reading the book it's obvious these two were fudge packers!

[misshelenhardy]

@bwoibetterrun lollllll

[HerrMikael]

This movie is a true gem

[Abby8318]

The part where Owen trips :') hill-arious

[ZolotayaKoshka]

Owen's monologue at the end is simply magnificent... Pat Barker has great poetry in her writing herself! (This monologue about the skulls in the trench etc. is straight out of the book - like most of the film's dialogue.)

[bluespaceoddity]

If you like that perhaps you'll also like reading Edmund Blunden's work -whose experiences have been identified [Duckworth a.o.] among the many inspirations for Pat Barker's novels. The excerpt -in 3 posts- is from Blunden's 1928 "Undertones of War":

"The old trench lay silent and formidable, a broad gully, like a rough sunk lane rather than a firing trench. It was strewn with remains and pitiful evidences. The whole region of Festubert, being marshy and undrainable, smelt ill enough,

[bluespaceoddity]

but this trench was peculiar in that way. I cared little to stop in the soft drying mud at the bottom of it; I saw old uniforms, and a great many bones, like broken bird-cages. One uniform identified a German officer: the skeleton seemed less coherent than most, and an unexploded shell lay on the edge of the fragments. What an age since 1914!

[bluespaceoddity]

Meanwhile, so many bullets cracked with whip-like loudness just over our heads that it seemed that were being actually aimed at, though it was night and the enemy at half a mile's distance. We went on, through straggling wire and wet grass, and then by a wooden track until the lee of Cover Trench rose in view; we entered it by an opening known in that time and district as a "rally port" a term readily connecting us wit Marlborough's wars."

[ZolotayaKoshka]

@bluespaceoddity Thank you for the interesting reference.

"like broken bird-cages", very apt anti-image of the poor freed and fragile souls.

[patrickY619]

i study these two for war poetry in GCSEs i luv both styles of poetry

[raifisher]

I'm surprised you studied anything at GCSE by the look of that sentence!

[daithiy14]

OK why are you calling me stupid. You really offended me dick. It was a rough comment and it understandable as well. I passed my GCSE English at level B, which is pretty high you stupid ass-hole. let me guess you have never made a mistake?.

[daithiy14]

I wrote the comment really quick, so don't come on here and comment on my grammar your 54 what would you now but text. so for you ill write it nice and proper.........I meant to say "i studied these two poets in GCSE English. I love the way they were wrote, they were really inspiring. You are such ass-hole for writing that comment. look at your own life. Your some adult, 54 year old person insulting a 19 year old boy. You could off pointed it out not insult me by calling me stupid

[daithiy14]

o before you comment again on my grammar in these comments ill point them out 4 u

it's understandable

what would you know but text.

i love the way there wrote there poems

is that OK for you

[raifisher]

Oh dear, it just gets worse...

[patrickY619]

O I am sorry I didn't read the comment right lol but still you did insult me in a way. You could of pointed it out. You didn't have to be rude about it

[golidlocks2]

I prefer Sassoon's poetry to Owen's

[RosesAreRed4242]

@golidlocks2 Me too, but maybe I'm slightly influenced by the fact that I liked Sassoon's character better in the book.

[MurderByManiple]

Love Owen!

[fahrenheit45one]

I like this scene. Thans for posting it. This is one of my favourite films, but I don't own it on DVD.

[3qjgnk]

thats not how it happened in the book, Sassoon was sitting down on the veranda of Craiglockhart (or so i remember)

[SMaryG]

You are right. In the book S.Sassoon is in his room at Craiglockhart when "a short, darkd-haired man sidled round the door, blinking in the sudden blaze of sunlight. Sassoon , sitting on the bed, looked up from the golf club he'd been cleaning." (p. 80)

[bluespaceoddity]

"One morning at the beginning of August, when I had been at Craiglockhart War Hospital about a fortnight, there was a gentle knock on the door of my room and a young officer entered. Short, dark-haired, and shyly hesitant, he stood for a moment before coming across to the window, where I was sitting on my bed cleaning my golf clubs. A favorable first impression was made by the fact that he had under his arm several copies of the Old Huntsman."

Sigfried's Journey - S.Sasson (p.58)

[bluespaceoddity]

"My own dear Mother,

I have been waiting for the address. The most momentous news I have for you is my meeting with Sassoon. He was struggling to read a letter from H.G. Wells when I went in. ..."

Wilfred Owen. Letter to Susan Owen 22 August 1917, Craiglockhart.

(The First World War Digital Poetry Archive)

[bluespaceoddity]

"My dear Leslie,

At last I have an event worth a letter. I have beknown myself to Siegfried Sassoon. Went to him last night (my second call). The first visit was one morning last week. The sun blazed into his room making his purple dressing suit of a brilliance — almost matching my sonnet! ..."

Wilfred Owen, Letter to Leslie Gunston. 22 August 1917, Craiglockhart

(The First World War Digital Poetry Archive)

[horselover100]

LOVE OWEN!

[SMaryG]

Well, it depends on your tastes. I read the novel by Pat Barker, I had already studied the war poets at uni, so when I heard about the movie I tried to get the DVD and I loved what I saw. I think it is one of the best war movie I've ever seen.

[SMaryG]

Maybe because he was extremely sensitive, creative and intelligent?

[nice0vibe]

Good point! Is this movie worth watching?

[nice0vibe]

Why is Owen so adorable...WHY.