"The Trojan Women"-Andromache (Vanessa Redgrave) son taken

Katharine Hepburn ... Hecuba
Vanessa Redgrave ... Andromache
Brian Blessed ... Talthybius
Alberto Sanz ... Astyanax

English translation of the Euripides play by Edith Hamilton

Director: Mihalis Kakogiannis (Michael Cacoyannis)

note by Gilbert Murray:

"Andromache--This character is wonderfully studied. She seems to me to be a woman who has not yet shown much character or perhaps had very intense experience, but is only waiting for sufficiently great trials to become a heroine and a saint. There is still a marked element of conventionality in her description of her life with Hector; but one feels, as she speaks, that she is already past it."

"Her character is built up of 'Sophrosyne', of self-restraint and the love of goodness--qualities shich often seem second-rate or even tiresome until they have a sufficiently great field in which to act. Very characteristic is her resolution to make the best, and not the worst, fof her life in Pyrrhus' house, with all its horror of suffering and apparent degradation."

"So is the self-conquest by which she deliberately refrains from cursing her child's murderers, for the sake of the last poor remnant of good she can still do to him, in getting him buried. The nobility of such a character depends largely, of course, on the intensity of the feelings conquered."

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[MissyHolland]

I'm so sorry, Vanessa. This clip is one of my favourite's but I can't bear to watch it now. I'm so sorry for all of Natasha's family.

[standardbearer]

Vanessa redgrave is

the

greatest

acress

ever

!

[assfuckt]

@twooffour

Homophobic lil cunt!

[dembabydolls]

Love Vanessa's work always have but it was around the time of the Making of this movie that she lost her 4th pregnancy which she wasn't allowed to reveal until 26 years later in her autobigography

[twooffour]

@lowenklee

Well that was pointless.

[lowenklee]

@twooffour

Narcissism? Check. Social misfit it is!

Counter arguments would imply interest. I said the spam was silly, not interesting.

And, having achieved my own cheaply earned amusement poking fun of and contributing to comment section spam...back to sumptuous Vanessa Redgrave!

Acting chops aside, my god she was beautiful...in an English sort of way.

[twooffour]

@lowenklee

Nah - if you can't think of any counter-arguments or ways to deconstruct my "pseudo-intellectualism", your contribution isn't interesting, and far less preferable to mine ;)

[lowenklee]

@twooffour

Needlessly wordy and rambling replies? Check. An unseemly attempt at intellectualism? Check. Aggressive histrionics? Check. Must either be a middle aged social misfit or an undergraduate:p

Seriously though, the pages of spam are a bit silly...and far less preferable to Redgrave's theatrical styling:P

[twooffour]

@unclealand

... an intellect by random contemptuous references to American Idol.

What a pathetic jerk-off you are.

[twooffour]

@unclealand

"with someone who has just explained to you that you"

You haven't explained it, you've CLAIMED it, and we both know you could never explain if even if you tried, because you're a pretentious dyslexic oaf who can't formulate a point.

Actually, I was the one who explained to you how off you were with everything, but you're obviously too thick to get that.

Don't worry - one day you'll mentally grow up, learn how to talk properly, and then you'll stop having to pretend to have an...

[twooffour]

@unclealand

Maybe if you'd take a few classes in logic and debating, you'd have a different take on ad hominems, vapid appeals to authority and strawmen. But obviously, you have no clue.

"I hope you're not just one of those Germans who hate the Brits."

I hate Brits who use Non Sequiturs because they have no point.

What a hairy idiot would post such a random-bullshit remark while he should, oh, dunno, maybe MAKE A POINT?

[twooffour]

@unclealand

Nah, sorry. As I've said, you've tried to come off as smart, and failed miserably. You're not achieving anything by still trying, except further cementing what a pretentious idiot you are.

"we hope you someday find the time to stop playing with your imaginary friends on Facebook"

Friends on Facebook aren't imaginary, you buffoon.

"take a few classes in historical drama"

Why should I? And what good has it done to you, as you can't articulate one single rebuttal?