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John Hurt - Jabberwocky (Original Post)
yallerdawg
Jan 2017
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Uponthegears
(1,499 posts)1. . . .
FailureToCommunicate
(14,267 posts)2. Hurt's portrayal of John Merrick always makes me tear up...
Last edited Sat Jan 28, 2017, 05:25 PM - Edit history (1)
here in a scene with Anne Bancroft.
Vilis Veritas
(2,405 posts)3. Thank you, John.
We are all enhanced when art just happens. That was beautifully done.
sarge43
(29,121 posts)4. He was incapable of being anything less than brilliant.
Peaceful passage, knight of the imagination and thank you.
Uponthegears
(1,499 posts)5. There is a certain poignancy in Hurt's death
Given the current political situation.
Hurt played Winston Smith in the move, "1984"
Fearless
(18,448 posts)8. And the polar opposite
The Chancellor in V for Vendetta.
Uponthegears
(1,499 posts)9. Ah!!!
True true
Life imitates art
Turbineguy
(38,145 posts)6. One of my classmates
at in college recited the Jabberwocky. Pretty amazing.
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)7. We've lost, perhaps our greatest, all-around actor!