“Youth who watch this movie must understand that blind faith in their leaders can lead them to death.”
A Donald Sutherland quote that never lost its relevance.
Remembering Donald Sutherland (1935–2024) on what would have been his birthday.
This is a statue of the only man in Troy who saw the trap. He tried to warn everyone, and this is what the gods did to him because of it...
His name was Laocoön, a Trojan priest. When the Greek army vanished and left a giant wooden horse outside the city gates, all of Troy celebrated. Only Laocoön refused to believe it. He warned his people the horse was a trick and, to prove it was hollow, hurled his spear into its side.
In Virgil's telling, he spoke a line that has outlasted almost everything else about Troy: "I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts."
He was right. The horse was packed with soldiers, and Troy was hours from destruction.
This sculpture shows what he got for it. Two enormous sea serpents rise out of the sea and coil around him and his young sons, dragging all three down together. The father's whole body is knotted in the struggle, every muscle straining, his face locked in a scream. The gods wanted Troy to fall, and Laocoön was in the way.
The Trojans watched him die in agony and drew exactly the wrong conclusion: they decided the gods were punishing him for attacking a holy gift. So they pulled the horse inside their own walls, and that night, Troy burned...
The statue is called Laocoön and His Sons. It is the work of three Greek sculptors from the island of Rhodes, Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus, and dates to the Hellenistic period, making it well over two thousand years old.
Buried for more than a thousand years, it was dug out of a Roman vineyard in 1506, and Michelangelo rushed across Rome to see it the day it was found.
It has been called the single greatest depiction of human suffering in the history of art, but it endures because of what it is really about: the man who sees the truth, says it out loud, and is destroyed for being right while the crowd watches...
It is one of the oldest patterns there is, and it has never stopped repeating.
There is nothing new under the sun.
🎬 Από τα λαμπερά μιούζικαλ μέχρι τα πιο σκοτεινά δράματα, η Μαίρη Χρονοπούλου ξεχώρισε με το ταλέντο, τη μαγκιά και τη φινέτσα της. Γεννημένη σαν σήμερα το 1933, παραμένει μία από τις πιο διαχρονικές και τολμηρές πρωταγωνίστριες της Φίνος Φιλμ.❤️#ΜαίρηΧρονοπούλου
Ryan Gosling says the one role he’d redo is LA LA LAND (2016), not because of the performance, but because he’s still haunted by the infamous “La La Hand” on the poster. 😂
Ο Χαβιέ Μπαρδέμ αποδεικνύει για ακόμα μια φορά τι σημαίνει να είσαι καλλιτέχνης με συνείδηση.
Η φωνή του για την Παλαιστίνη παραμένει δυνατή, ασυμβίβαστη και γεμάτη αλληλεγγύη.🇵🇸
"Συνέχεια εχω τον θάνατο στο μυαλό μου.
Ξέρω οτι τα χρόνια που μου έχουν απομείνει είναι λίγα.
ΔΕΝ με τρομάζει αυτό.
Αντιθέτως θέλω να εκμεταλλευτώ και την παραμικρή καθημερινή στιγμή.Τον καφέ μου ας πούμε.
Καβάλησε τη Μαύρη Φορντ του Χατζιδάκι, πέρασε απ' τον Χορν ως Ρίτα του δικού του Φάουστ, καπέλωσε τον Αντωνάκη που την είχε τόσα χρόνια αστεφάνωτη, φόρεσε τα κίτρινά της γάντια και μας άφησε με τις αναμνήσεις.
Η κυρία Μάρω Κοντού (1934-2026)
"Γέρασα σ’ αυτό που γράφει η ταυτότητα, όχι μέσα μου... Το μυστικό είναι η ενέργεια και να μην κάθεσαι σε έναν καναπέ και να πλήττεις".
Μάρω Κοντού 1934-2026.
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