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A review by kylegarvey
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by John Milton, Christopher Ricks
4.0
They wrote a novelization of Aronofsky's mother! [exclamation point most definitely intended]??
Jesus. It's a joke.
No, but more seriously, as regards cinema, it's not really Schrader's First Reformed or DeMille's Ten Commandments or really any of the usual suspects that I think holds a key to Milton's early masterpiece: it's Thanos from the Marvel movies, duh. Haha. No, really, God isn't godly here: he's just a regular supervillain whose powers, y'know, include casually obliterating the universe or whatever. So what's the point of anything really? Haha. I don't know.
Lost is an epic in blank verse, telling that Old Testament again or something like it, to sexily "justify the ways of God to men". Sexy. Regained is the plainer, shorter 'brief epic' that continued the story; this dude Jesus is born, preaches, finds out he's God's son somehow, etc. Everything be kind of Biblical, yo!
Zeffirelli's 1977 film about Jesus (https://letterboxd.com/kylegarvey/film/jesus-of-nazareth/) or this random 2009 documentary about Jerusalem I saw (https://letterboxd.com/kylegarvey/film/jerusalem-center-of-the-world/) might be important previous stops, and an audiobook reading of Milton's Paradise Lost/Regained might be just another present stop. You know? We all must contemplate this lewd impropriety that's doinking all our moralities, right? I guess so. I'm doing my best (or actually, wait sorry, I thought you'd requested my 'worst', so I offered that by mistake; sorry, "best", "worst", I may have mixed them up; my bad).
During Regained, when Satan says things are "fallacious" I was hearing the audiobook and not the actual text, so of course I misheard it as "fellatious". That's a word, right? Well, I consider it one, and that's of course all words need. To be considered. It's diction! Diction. Emphasis on the "dick" part of "diction", to go with the topic at hand. Literally, at hand (on the back of a head, guiding the mouth nearer and farther). Is my soul cursed to Hell yet, or is yours since you've read this sentiment? I don't quite understand it: they give you breaks, right?
Needless to say, when Satan says something might be a fallacy I'm like "Yeah, that's a fallacy, indeed" even if I don't fully understand.
I've read Milton before (I can say Great Books of the Western World, #32), but haven't we all? He seems like one of these good poet guys, talented at the poetry thing.
Jesus. It's a joke.
No, but more seriously, as regards cinema, it's not really Schrader's First Reformed or DeMille's Ten Commandments or really any of the usual suspects that I think holds a key to Milton's early masterpiece: it's Thanos from the Marvel movies, duh. Haha. No, really, God isn't godly here: he's just a regular supervillain whose powers, y'know, include casually obliterating the universe or whatever. So what's the point of anything really? Haha. I don't know.
Lost is an epic in blank verse, telling that Old Testament again or something like it, to sexily "justify the ways of God to men". Sexy. Regained is the plainer, shorter 'brief epic' that continued the story; this dude Jesus is born, preaches, finds out he's God's son somehow, etc. Everything be kind of Biblical, yo!
Zeffirelli's 1977 film about Jesus (https://letterboxd.com/kylegarvey/film/jesus-of-nazareth/) or this random 2009 documentary about Jerusalem I saw (https://letterboxd.com/kylegarvey/film/jerusalem-center-of-the-world/) might be important previous stops, and an audiobook reading of Milton's Paradise Lost/Regained might be just another present stop. You know? We all must contemplate this lewd impropriety that's doinking all our moralities, right? I guess so. I'm doing my best (or actually, wait sorry, I thought you'd requested my 'worst', so I offered that by mistake; sorry, "best", "worst", I may have mixed them up; my bad).
During Regained, when Satan says things are "fallacious" I was hearing the audiobook and not the actual text, so of course I misheard it as "fellatious". That's a word, right? Well, I consider it one, and that's of course all words need. To be considered. It's diction! Diction. Emphasis on the "dick" part of "diction", to go with the topic at hand. Literally, at hand (on the back of a head, guiding the mouth nearer and farther). Is my soul cursed to Hell yet, or is yours since you've read this sentiment? I don't quite understand it: they give you breaks, right?
Needless to say, when Satan says something might be a fallacy I'm like "Yeah, that's a fallacy, indeed" even if I don't fully understand.
I've read Milton before (I can say Great Books of the Western World, #32), but haven't we all? He seems like one of these good poet guys, talented at the poetry thing.