And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
This is from a Jean Cocteau film, one of the Orphée films, and he is the young man who became Cocteau’s heir, or one of them, for he adopted the handsome young man. Cocteau had written a script with a character called Heurtebise in it, an uncommon name, and the person he was speaking with said it was not believable because the name was so rare. A young gardener was working nearby; they called him over and asked him his name. He was called Heurtebise. . . There are a number of these coincidences in the man’s life and work. The handsome young Heurtebise and Cocteau became very close, as in lovers, and he even ended up in Cocteau’s films. - l say all this from memory. My Master’s thesis is along way in the past. . . They say it was the news of Piaf’s death that caused Cocteau’s last heart attack. There is a book to be written about gardeners and the famous. Elizabeth Taylor found a gardener lover also, and there are others.
This is from a Jean Cocteau film, one of the Orphée films, and he is the young man who became Cocteau’s heir, or one of them, for he adopted the handsome young man. Cocteau had written a script with a character called Heurtebise in it, an uncommon name, and the person he was speaking with said it was not believable because the name was so rare. A young gardener was working nearby; they called him over and asked him his name. He was called Heurtebise. . . There are a number of these coincidences in the man’s life and work.
ReplyDeleteThe handsome young Heurtebise and Cocteau became very close, as in lovers, and he even ended up in Cocteau’s films. - l say all this from memory. My Master’s thesis is along way in the past. . . They say it was the news of Piaf’s death that caused Cocteau’s last heart attack.
There is a book to be written about gardeners and the famous. Elizabeth Taylor found a gardener lover also, and there are others.
there was Mr Brown, I believe, in Queen Victoria's life.
DeleteI think that they call this technique as "reverse filming." He is actually leaving the rock and jumping into the water backwards.
ReplyDeleteotherwise he wouldn't land on his Cocteaus
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