Not only are the acting performances riveting, from Donald Pleasance as the tyrannical baron to John Hurt as his loathsome son to Michael Hordern as Melius the scholar who is the sole voice of reason, but the camera style is thoroughly engaging as it follows the action gracefully for long stretches without a cut. It gets even more disturbing as the plot revolves around a baron's shifty son who is preparing to wed an 11-year-old-girl so he can collect the dowry and fund his violent exploits, and all the while his father the baron is squeezing blood out of the villagers so he can build a cathedral in his own honor-much to the drooling approval of the local bishops. This contrasts brilliantly against the disturbing story which is about a small German village that is besieged not only by the plague but, even worse, besieged by a consortium of corrupt politicians, priests and landowners who would tax their own grandmother's false teeth. The songs he sings (written by Donovan) are not just beautiful to the ear, but the lyrics are tranquil and reassuring. Whereas in the original poem the piper was sort of a mysterious opportunistic rogue, here we get a mysterious character who is more of a wise, savior figure.
Yea, did I mention this is not for kids? What offsets the disturbing story is largely the wonderful performance and gentle voice of Donovan who plays the titular Piper. Here in 1972, we get an excellent adaptation of the tale which retains much of the poem's disturbing nature but with a slightly softened tone, offering glimmers of goodness and hope despite the backdrop of 13th Century inhumanity, greed, religious murders and child marriages. How we ended up with a cute bedtime fable is beyond me, but then again, in the original Sleeping Beauty, the Prince rapes her in her sleep.
Your names will be on my mind when he is in surgery.The original 303-line poem "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" was published by Robert Browning in 1842, and wow it's a doozy-thoroughly disturbing to the core and meant to be so. As I do more landscapes from the ghost world of the contrete jungle, I will be sure to make it a clean high res art piece for you to explore!Įdit: Big thank you the couple of you who followed the fundraiser link and donated. That's an issue I'll be fixing going forward. Just recently GHOST TOWN TOKYO, where I've hidden a Newgrounds tank and Bitey from Brackenwood.Īlthough it isn't high res. I plan to upload my own voice audio, artwork and music to Newgrounds. We do Art, voice over stuff, watch train dash cams and chat. In other news, I stream every Thursday night 6 to 10 pm PST at /FairyPie - it is a variety stream. Before we can fully dive back in, we gotta get this potatoe off of him! In the meantime, my cat has a potatoe (tumor) growing on his chin. If you're familiar with my work and would like to get me on board your project before I go fully online to the whole of the interboops: Contact me here! We can discuss rates and/or trades. Rebuilding my website and gathering testimonials. I am currently working on rebranding and updating my demos. After a couple of years of not being mentally available to collaborate and create! I am back!
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