Vid rec
Johnny Cash & Rodrigo Borgia turn out to be a match made in, err, heaven:
Your own personal Jesus is a terrific Rodrigo-centric vid based on the tv show The Borgias. Reminding me of several reasons why adore it, one of which being that, never mind baroque masses sung in a Renaissance church, one key thing they get on this show is the whole Renaissance atmosphere, ruthless powerplay, corruption and faith all intermingled. (Thus Rodrigo sees no contradiction between considering himself a caring father (of a family he wasn't supposed to have to begin with) and using his children, between buying himself the papacy and considering himself genuinenly chosen by God and struggling to figure out what God wants from him.) Also: Rodrigo's relationships with his children, Julia, Vannozza and good old Giulio "Not Pope Yet" Rovere are all showcased very well.
The vid also reminds me that Jeremy Irons is an actor whom I have a completely different reaction to depending on how old he is. Back in the 80s, when he was young, he occasionally impressed me very much indeed (playing two screwed up twin gyneogologists for David Cronenberg comes to mind, and btw, I always loved that when he won the Oscar in the subsequent year for his role as Claus von Bülow, he thanked Cronenberg as much as whoever directed Reversal of Fortune), but I never liked his characters, let alone felt attracted towards them. Otoh current day, middle-aged-to-old (depending on the role) Jeremy Irons as, say, Leicester to Helen Mirren's Elizabeth or as Rodrigo Borgia? Gimme!
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Your own personal Jesus is a terrific Rodrigo-centric vid based on the tv show The Borgias. Reminding me of several reasons why adore it, one of which being that, never mind baroque masses sung in a Renaissance church, one key thing they get on this show is the whole Renaissance atmosphere, ruthless powerplay, corruption and faith all intermingled. (Thus Rodrigo sees no contradiction between considering himself a caring father (of a family he wasn't supposed to have to begin with) and using his children, between buying himself the papacy and considering himself genuinenly chosen by God and struggling to figure out what God wants from him.) Also: Rodrigo's relationships with his children, Julia, Vannozza and good old Giulio "Not Pope Yet" Rovere are all showcased very well.
The vid also reminds me that Jeremy Irons is an actor whom I have a completely different reaction to depending on how old he is. Back in the 80s, when he was young, he occasionally impressed me very much indeed (playing two screwed up twin gyneogologists for David Cronenberg comes to mind, and btw, I always loved that when he won the Oscar in the subsequent year for his role as Claus von Bülow, he thanked Cronenberg as much as whoever directed Reversal of Fortune), but I never liked his characters, let alone felt attracted towards them. Otoh current day, middle-aged-to-old (depending on the role) Jeremy Irons as, say, Leicester to Helen Mirren's Elizabeth or as Rodrigo Borgia? Gimme!
This entry was originally posted at http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/759394.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.