Saturday, May 03, 2003
Basically I had wanted to read When We Dead Wake since AR played Professor Rubek in it. And then I found out that he was in Ghosts too. I still can't believe AR played Pastor Manders...it was such a goody-two-shoes character tragically believing that he had "done right" when all he had really done was screw everything up because he had trusted in the inherent good of Man and the special blessings of God. Rubek on the other hand was an interesting character (although according to directions he was supposed to be an elderly man, which AR wasn't in 1976). He was a sculptor who'd created what he had termed his one great masterpiece, in doing so losing the one woman he loved and the source of his inspiration. But as time went by before the piece was made public, he changed it, so that the original idea of the piece was lost and an almost entirely new piece was made...and though it made him famous, he started to wonder if perhaps it would have been better to just have left it as it is, if the original idea hadn't been better. *sigh* Not the first artist/writer I've heard saying that.
Irena: We see the irreparable only when--
Rubek: When--?
Irena: When we dead wake.
Rubek: What do we really see then?
Irena: We see that we have never lived. ("When We Dead Wake", Henrik Ibsen)
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