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On a sidenote:
Sure, being an actor isn’t an inherently wussified profession. Clint Eastwood, Christian Bale and God’s monument to manly body hair, Sean Connery, are all actors of sorts. But they would never be described, or we’d suspect, describe themselves, as thespians. Thespian is the word you use if you’re looking for three quick syllables that will communicate a lifetime of prancing around on a stage in a frilly white shirt mispronouncing Shakespearean English.
(from cracked.com)
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thespian…thespian thespian thespian…thespian
I love that word ^_^
Sounds like an alien race from Star Trek…or a D&D wizard.
Also…Ian McKellen is a thespian. And Patrick Stewart. And Laurence Olivier was the ultimate thespian. Only the great get to be thespians…and they have to do Shakespeare and do it well.
That would make Judi Dench and Maggie Smith thespiennes.
I forgot the most important criteria:
Only British people can be thespians.
Ever.
Sorry Pacino, I know you tried hard, but no.
Just no.
Now go away.
My my how come they left out Chronicles of Narnia. Chrstians and their double standards. Tolkien’s witchcraft and sorcery is evil, while Lewis’ witchcraft and sorcery alludes to Christ. Bah!
@deadra:
I don’t know… My associations with the word Thespian are not as positive as yours… more like what cracked has to say here.
And don’t be so hard on Mr. Pacino. He has done some great things (also some shit but we don’t talk about that).
@baph:
I don’t think that list is complete… I have to admit that at least they are not hypocritical. A quick look at capalert.com provides us with this:
This is not an analysis of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe book. It is an analysis of the film with the same title. One does not have to have read a book to report on the content of a film with the same title. C. S. Lewis was not there when the film was made. I suspect the film would have been different had he been there.
(…)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe may be described as a magnificent and beautiful, intricate creative work of geniuses in many talents. But it appears to be a blend of what may be cautiously paralleled with the Gospel mixed with paganism and maybe Gaiaism. It may be what God is talking about in His warning of they who, through smooth talk [Rom. 16:18] and fine-sounding arguments [Col. 2:4] and strange philosophy [Col. 2:8], would slip in amongst us “unawares” to deceive us and change His Word into a convenience interpretation or a situational redefinition of it — into a more comfortable or believable counterfeit. [Rom. 1:25, Jude 1:4] — into a version that serves man by lessening Christ.
(…)
[Findings of badness in the film:]
Wanton Violence/Crime (W)
# air war battle sequence with ground consequences of it
# children wandering off alone in the snowy woods
# kidnapping, repeatedly
# animal threats of attack and attacks, repeatedly
# knife at the throat and back of a child
# threats to kill and threats of being killed, repeatedly
# child imprisonment
# threat by an adult to kill a child by spear
# physical brutality, repeatedly
# action violence such as pursuit to kill
# near drowning of four children
# strike of a child
# battle sequences, repeatedly, one short, others long and intense with many deaths by impalement, blow and slicing, but no gore/blood
# condemnation of a child to death
# order to kill
# stabbing of a child, repeatedly
# sword fights with a child
# killing of an adult by animal bite
Impudence/Hate (I)
# big brother “bully” tactics, repeatedly
# lies, repeatedly
# sibling “warfare”, occasionally
# running from accountability for wrongdoing
# children striking out in wintry woods unsupervised
Sexual Immorality (S)
# none noted
Drugs/Alcohol (D):
# smoking, once
Offense to God (O)
# half man, half goat character
# characters of flame dancing in fire
# magic to enter another world
# magic to make hot drink and cakes
# enticement of a child by evil
# many characters “frozen” (killed) by witch, repeatedly, then some resurrected
# magic potion to heal, repeatedly
# half man, half horse and many other mythological creatures such as a man with a goat’s head as characters
# speaking character of wisdom created from the petals of tree flowers (Gaiaism?), twice
# many demon-like characters
# demon revelry
Murder/Suicide (M)
# impalement murder of a character
# other character murder
# murder of the lead animal character
@Kalafudra: While Christians might shudder after reading this blog, I find it hilarious. Do these people, and I mean especially the evangelicals, realize cliched and funny everything they do is? Is there anyone in that group who might, say, even consider leaving the stereotype behind?
@baph:
Don’t ask me, I never was a Christian and I’ll never will be (though I have to admit that my upbringing, in spite of being not religious, was shaped by the catholic view of things, but not in a good way).
In my experience they don’t get neither the hilarity of their actions nor the underlying desperation. And they don’t see it as stereotypes. It’s morality.
I like thespians. And I’m not being hard on Pacino. He has done great things. He has even done Shakespeare (“Now is the winter of our discontent…” scary…great!). But he is not British. While that is in no way his fault, I do hold it against him. He doesn’t qualify for thespianity.
@baph
No, these people don’t realize how ridiculous they are. They are all home-schooled, protected from reality and independent thought. Like a huge Amish version of “The Village”.
I find it absolutely hilarious that they find such a long list of Offences to God (oooohhhh – it’s so evil I can hardly write it) in Chronicles of Narnia. It’s as Christian a book as they come. But it was written by a highly educated scholar who knew how to think in abstract concepts…I guess that’s what makes it offensive.
Generally…just how arrogant is it, for a person who believes in God, to claim that they know what will offend God?
do you think, all christians have their elders dress up as giant hedgehogs?
Anyway, I think that if God existed, it would have a great sense of humour (and it would transcend gender, therefore ‘it’) and it would be perfectly fine with fantasy. The problem with believing in it is that you have to believe what you think it wants/likes/is offended by. Because we can never know until it’s too late. So, people usually don’t believe in a higher being but in their idea of a higher being. And they know exactly what their idea is offended by.