Oedipus The King -- Part 6/12

Part of "Oedipus the King" from 1984 TV production with Michael Pennington, Claire Bloom and John Shrapnel. Translated and directed by the late
Don Taylor.

here's a playlist with all these Oedipus videos in order:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=422B4AD5E82BE89A

from Friedrich Nietzsche "The Birth of Tragedy" (1872, translated by Shaun Whiteside):

There is an ancient folk belief, particularly prevalent in Persia, that a wise magus can be born only from incest: our immediate interpretation of this, with reference to Oedipus the riddle-solver and suitor of his own mother, is that for clairvoyant and magical powers to have broken the spell of the present and the future, the rigid law of individuation and the true magic of nature itself, the cause must have been a monstrous crime against nature--incest
in this case; for how could nature be forced to offer up her secrets if not by being triumphantly resisted--by unnatural acts? I see this insight as quite clearly present in the terrible trinity that shapes Oedipus' fate: the man who solves the riddle of nature--of the dual-natured Sphinx--must also, as his father's murderer and his mother's lover, transgress the sacred codes of nature. Indeed, what the myth seems to whisper to us is that wisdom, and Dionysiac wisdom in particular, is an abominable crime against nature; that anyone who, through his knowledge, casts nature into the abyss of destruction, must himself experience the dissolution of nature.

Directed by
Don Taylor

Writing credits:

Sophocles play
Don Taylor translation

Cast:

Michael Pennington ... Oedipus Rex
Claire Bloom ... Jocasta
Michael Byrne ... Chorus
Cyril Cusack ... Priest

Ernest Clark ... Chorus
David Collings ... Chorus
Donald Eccles ... Chorus
Robert Eddison ... Chorus
Edward Hardwicke... Chorus
Denys Hawthorne ... Chorus
Noel Johnson ... Chorus
Clifford Rose ... Chorus
Alan Rowe ... Chorus
Nigel Stock ... Chorus
John Woodnutt ... Chorus




Produced by
Louis Marks

Original Music by
Derek Bourgeois

Film Editing by
Dave Hambelton

Production Design by
David Myerscough-Jones

Costume Design by
Jane Hudson

Other crew
Geoffrey Lewis .... classical advisor

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Oedipus
• MichaelPennington
• Sophocles
• ClaireBloom

[deadphish09]

WOW, sucks to be Oedipus....

[OrgodemirDQ7]

Oedipus, the ORIGINAL motherfucker.

[Keim4ever]

@Dracodarkness123, @SouthBeirut WOW! Chill out, it was obviously a joke.

[MarryXMeXBuryXMe]

Jocasta looks like Mother Gothel...

[drummafolyfe]

oedipus is a motherfucker.

[jiwoo717]

2:04 to 2:27 Oedipus is like "... what tha shit.."

[09chamorita]

'F*** the mother' is very basic. And it means, get back to the essence. What is the reality? Fuck the mother is, very basically, Mother: mother-birth, real, very real, you can touch it, you can gra

b it, you can feel it. It's nature, it's real, it can't lie to you."

[09chamorita]

"'Kill the father' means kill all of those things in yourself which are instilled in you and are not of yourself. They are not of your own. They are alien concepts which are not yours. They must die. Those are the things that must die. The psychedelic revolution.

[95freeman1]

@aakksshhaayy thanks for blowing the ending

[aakksshhaayy]

at the time this was written, it was incest...hence jocasta's suicide and oedipus poking his eyes out..

[poorperson]

no i thnk YOUR name is creon, faggot