Verna Recites "The City in the Sea" | The Fall of the House of Usher | Netflix
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2023
- Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The City and the Sea” sounds even more eerie when Carla Gugino's Verna is reciting it.
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The amount of money I'd pay just to have Carla Gugino recite all of Poe's poems with this amount of sincerity and passion-
fr tho her voice is so 🥹
Her, Carl Lumbly and Bruce Greenwood. They should just put out a set of recordings of nothing but them reading the poems.
The way she gradually transitioned from a normal tone to a whisper on that "the hours are breathing faint and low" bit...the emphasis she put on breathing. Absolutely brilliant.
@@-zacsby- And my favourite part, at 1:07 with "resignedly beneath the sky, the melancholy waters lie... but lo-", the change in her facial expression and hushed voice is INCREDIBLE. She makes the poem so intense and heartfelt. So so good. 💙
standing at your side reciting it almost next to your ear, you feel her close, you hear her almost whispering the lines and as your emotion overtakes you and you turn to see - you realize suddenly with a slight scare, standing in the room there's no one there
"Came to me when you adorable little things started building cities."
Love that line because it underlines just how old and powerful Verna is. This is not something the Ushers can "fix" like they always have. This is an ancient, otherworldly entity that has determined they will all die and there is no stopping her. (It's frankly amusing how earlier in this scene and then in the next episode, she lets both Madeline and Pym "kill" her and then pops back up laughing and commending them on their job. It's all fun and games to her.)
She is a demonlord lol
Very Lovecraft. Nyarlathotep.
@@luiousy7329 more like an old gods, surely predate chritian
The idea that Arthur Pym is the only who probably has more of an inkkling of where she comes from is a testement to that fact. Roderick mentioned on Pyms exbidition, he encountered a hollow hole far up north, inside an ancient city, more than likely where verna comes from or is the very least a manifestation of what a human could comprehend it looking like, since Lovecraftian stories make it a point that a primitive human mind can only visually construct what is in front of them, is only what their minds can make sense of
@@quannguyenle9775lol they were reciting lyrics from the doja cat song paint the town red😂 when she says “I’m a demon lord”😂
she was amazing in this. The scene with her and Lenore is touching yet heartbreaking at the same time
That scene really was impactful. The only good Usher alive, and she had to succumb to that agreement inadvertently too.
That scene made cry.
Carla Gugino's delivery is impossibly beautiful-her eyes gaze with a mournful sadness in awe of what she's witnessed in her ancient years, each word, a heavy hammer to nails on a cosmic coffin
Petition to get Carla Gugino audiobook of Poe’s complete works! 😭
Love this. Carla Gugino does a lovely job of reciting Poe. Please post her reciting "The Spirits of the Dead," the poem in the last scene of the series. Thanks.
She deserves an award
@@dannydark1452At the least, Carla needs to get an Emmy nomination for this role. She was fantastic.
@@WoodsyLadyM Emmy, Saag, people's choice, poissbly golden globes. I didn't cry when my little brother died in June but this scene made me cry. I'm fairly 99% certain she will get an award
@@WoodsyLadyM right though she was captivating
@@dannydark1452 So sorry for your loss. Poetry can be cathartic.
Ive already binged watched this show 2 times in a row in 4 days... Its BEAUTIFUL POETRY LITERALLY! Absolutely loved it.
I love how the show makes EAP's poem more mournful and haunting.
This feels very Lovecraftian. Both the poem and Verna. "She" is an unknownable eldritch being. Almost like Nyarlathotep with the way he uses so many different forms and likes to play with humanity. (Also, all the Egyptian iconography and references underscores this)
H.P. Lovecraft is basically Edgar Allen Poe's brother from another mother. Today, we would label him a superfan. Lovecraft consumed himself in Poe's literary cannon and added his own esotericly entertaining twist to gothic lore.
This is probably my favorite scene - Verna's and Madeline's conversation. Loved the dialogue and the acting.
“Poem is a safe place for the truth”👍❤️👍❤️👍❤️
its criminal that Carla didnt get an awards for this performance
Mesmerizing. I kept rewinding because I loved the sound of her voice reading it.
IKR!!??
Notice how Mads leans back when Verna makes the line "Came to me when you adorable little things started building cities."
That level of detail in acting is amazing. It's the exact response of someone going, "Oh ****, you're -really- not human." if that someone was psychopathic.
i feel like, even when they first made the deal with her in 1980, madeline and roderick never truly grasped or appreciated verna's existence as an immortal who has witnessed, and likely even enabled, the rise and fall of entire civilizations. madeline doubly so is guilty of this, shown when she tries to condescend and bully verna into new terms like she's just another board member. that little moment of fear from her as she realized exactly who she was sitting across from was so satisfying.
@@eliza1498 they were just getting over the high of burying a man alive and trying to pay off as innocent. They weren't thinking clearly enough to notice the subtle things, like Verna's comments or the actions going on around them.
The way she says it makes it sound better. 🤌
I'd love to commend Mike Flanagan for knowing where and how to cut the poem though!!! It still sounds so complete and haunting.
Her voice ❤ and in Bly Manor as she narrated was magnificent.
Carla Gugino just makes me cry. What a stunning stunning artist.
Her voice is just so alluring her character is both flirty and full of mysticism and also a good amount of bad bitch all in one.
I’ve never been a big poetry fan but I’ve always loved Poe & this was the first poem that fascinated me. It’s always stayed with me. Thought it was because I read it when I was going through the typical angsty teen stage period. 20 years later hearing Carla recite it the first time. I wasn’t aware I had tears running down my face. Until my SiL asked me if I was okay. Her voice was
so hauntingly beautiful. It was when I first read it but hearing it. Just made it 100x more impactful. Same with Bruce Greenwood reciting Annabelle Lee.
I must say… all scenes in Hill House, Bly Manor and now this, I never skipped Carla Gugino speeches. I could enjoy hearing her talk for hours
So beautiful it gives me Chills!
You speak these powerful words with such beauty that they make my soul soar 🖤
I actually return to this scene several times so it's good to see someone finally uploaded it
Verna's character bears a resemblance to Tyche, the Greek goddess of fate, who was believed to wield the power to shape the destiny of individuals and even entire cities. This parallels Edgar Allan Poe's "City in the Sea," where Death reigns over a city, a poem Verna recites to Madeline, hinting at her perceived authority over the fate of cities. The raven perched atop the statue's head, adorned with a masquerade mask in the final episode, serves as a modern interpretation of Tyche's statue head with blindfolds, symbolizing the arbitrariness of fate based on individuals' actions. For instance, when Verna confronts Frederick Usher, she implies that his fate was influenced by his own choices, opting for a creative and painful demise via demolition, instead of a sudden heart attack. Another interesting point to note was the raven, who was probably not Verna at all. According to Euripides, a well known Greek playwright, Tyche's decisions were influenced by Apollo, the Greek God of Prophecy, who happens to have a raven for a messenger.
While there are notable differences between Verna's character and the mythology of Tyche, it's intriguing to draw connections and speculate on their significance.
Carla is just great. I liked the series but Carla, her interpretation of the Raven (and her voice) made it magnificent.
I've re-watched this one scene a dozen times just to hear this poem. I get chills every time!
It’s haunting!! It reflects the current situation in the world 🌍!!
I love EAP, anyway, but Carla recites this poem so well!
Goddess Carla. Never seen Poe presented better than this on screen - she even out does Vincent Price. How great to see Poe's wonderful poetry worked into this series.
chills ! just perfect ! I love Carla !
Oh, how I love Verna! She's perfect. This scene makes my heart melt. ❤
the cops arriving as verna says “a stir is in the air” makes it seem like she could feel what kind of chain lenore has just started, as she told her in the end, she changed the world the minute she broke through that door and saved her mother. that the world would heal after the ushers faded away
The way she delivers her lines should be taught in Acting schools!
Wow!! Very chilling. Great reading
This reaches my heart so deeply and get me goose flesh every single time😢
I just love how she says "hell rising from a thousand thrones shall do it reverence." It makes it sound so Lovecraftian
Why can't I give more likes here??? Perfection! She recites so so so well
I wonder what she means by this in this context. That even Hell respects death, and that therefore the deal between them could not, would not, be altered?
One way to look at it is to think of the town as The House of Usher. The injection of this poem in the narrative is textbook foreshadowing. The city in the sea sinks to the bottom of the lurid ocean in the poem. Roderick Usher's house sinks into the ground.
@@bradmarshall892 I got that part, but why is she quoting it in response to Madeline's request for renegotiation?
@@totallynameless8861 It could be that Death is reasserting that the deal cannot be unbound or changed. The town in the poem suffers similar innevitability. I think she is basically saying that it's out of her hands to acquiese Madeline.
@@bradmarshall892 I agree.
It's just a series. Live in reality
She gives me major Gaunter O’ Dimm vibes
This is magical
This city in the sea poem sounds beautiful coming from Verna’s lips.
Absolutely brilliant and beautiful.
I was on holiday in Spain and got COVID, so I spent it watching House of Usher. BEST HOLIDAY EVER!!!!!!!!
Without question Bruce Greenwoods AWARD winning performance of his entire career! And all the metaphors OMG, genius writing and performances all around.
Love this
What a time to be alive... masterpieces combined
Her delivery is the best delivery I’ve found but I dislike that she doesn’t do the entire poem
Stunning
1:42 this face! 😯😳
She recites poetry like Dame Judy Dench recites Shakespeare 😮
Listening to this outside, a few feet from a very unafraid Raven
If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times, but Verna needs her own spinoff series.
I love like she takes away the child's life. It's part of the deal, but she does it in a lovely way.
this scene was very DARK, i have watched it like 100+ times, her expression is haunting
This poem reminds me of Rapture from BioShock.
I saw this scene and was happy. I recited it with her... People do not understand Lady Raven Corvid Crow
But lo, a stir is in the air! 🎃
a wave... there is a movement there.
The waves have now a redder glow.
The hours are breathing faint and low
And when, amid no earthly moans
Down, down that town shall settle hence
I thought this was gonna turn into a Thriller video. May I echo Laura Roslin: Where's the clarity, man?!?! hah?
This woman was in a movie with Pauly Shore....
I just realized that if you pay close attention, there’s no humanity in her eyes as she recites the poem. I think this is because she’s never been human, and she is incredibly ancient.
What did the poem mean
That even hell gives death its reverence.
I feel like Vincent Price would be terrified
When do we hear the name Verna. I watched the series but at no time did I know her name was Verna?!?
(spoilers)
she introduces herself as verna when she first meets madeline and roderick usher on new years eve, i think.
Can someone explain the meaning to me? I wanted the clarity to kick in for me but I don’t have any brain cells :(
It’s a poem about a city drowning in the sea
@@user-tk1ef2pt8t thank you…I meant the deeper meaning, the relevance to the storyline, why it was for Madeline etc
@sugabud it's about the city that they built, so proud they were and the marvels of it...the arrogance of building it where it ultimately was going to fall and disappear only to be forgotten
It is a poem about Aquaman.
The Ushers are the Death in the poem with Verna being the hell doing them reverence.
Clarity
I wonder why she didn’t made Morella go outside the same way she did with waiters
She gave her the choice. The waiters had no attachment to the party other than being employed for it, so when she whispered to them, they left immediately. Verna gave Morella the same whisper, but Morella chose to stay because she'd wanted to come to the party. For all we know, Verna whispered to everyone except Prospero, but only the waitstaff and security employees left.
@@katherineheasley6196 yeah but I’m wondering why only them left. Would you go out if some random woman at the party whispered to you “get out”
@@marinzivkovic4662 she's an eldritch being from before humans even existed. I'm assuming she's got some kind of power of persuasion. Choice seems very important to her, so perhaps what she did was to give everyone the choice to stay or leave, and only the ones with no attachment to the party other than money took the opportunity.
@@marinzivkovic4662they mention in one of the scenes following the party that the survivors don't recall exactly what was said or who said it, only that she said something that compelled them to walk away. i can only imagine it felt, to them, like some sort of baser instinct calling for them to leave. after that, whether they obeyed it or not was up to them.
That is less than half of the original poem.
I respect the dubbing artists, but I would never watch this structure, which is integrated with Carla Gugino's voice, dubbed.
Anna Varney was found d3ad
The prettiest people do the ugliest things, on the road to riches and diamond rings.
she just might be a Djinn
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Please post the cut scene of jer reciting "ma p00sy iz on faiyah". Its so good (!)