I know 'historical accuracy' is relative, but if you're interested, please go and read some reputable biographies of the main players after watching this. I recommend Stephen Gill for Wordsworth, Richard Holmes for Coleridge and Frances Wilson or Polly Atkin for Dorothy. What bothers me the most is how Mary Wordsworth is portrayed here. For the record, Mary Wordsworth (nee Hutchinson) was a childhood friend of Dorothy and William - they originally met at school in Penrith. William and Dorothy were friends with her for YEARS before Mary married William. They bonded over losing their parents at a young age, and when the Wordsworths moved to Grasmere, they started the journey from the Hutchinson's family home in Sockburn, North Yorkshire. Dorothy and her brother could be intense and egotistical at times, but they formed a tight-knit family with Mary. The two women worked togeher to manage their home, raise the five Wordsworth children, and transcribe William's poetry. Mary in particular gets a raw deal in this film, when she brought a great deal of joy and inspiration to the lives of her Romantic writers
As a child, William was taken with his family on a trip to France. He was eight years old when he wrote about their encounter with French cuisine: "Now we ask for bread and butter. Thanks for it in French we utter. Better bread was never broken. Worser French was never spoken"
I bought the VHS as soon as it came out. I have kept my old machine largely so that I can watch it occasionally. A masterpiece and one of best performances by Lionel Roach, Samantha Morton too. There is a great song during the end credits, a pumped version of Xanadu with the Coleridge/Roach wondering the neon lit streets of modern London.
This film I thought almost impossible to find online until now...Hooray, one of my favourite films dramatising the life of two of my favourite poets...
@Hippie Chic not true. I knew several people on serious drugs, and they never said or did anything remotely poetic. It has to be in you somewhere already.
@@gentillygirl545there is a difference Madame between the way they were seen before 1980 and the way are seen now. The greatest advancements in humankind were invented, dreamed, created, discovered and birthed during their use. It wasn't until the 1980s when they became illegal and propogandized as an excuse, a justification for bad behavoir. Only after the government realized those using them discovered experience meant & mattered more than material wealth. When they realized those on them wouldn't kill to have.
Cockermouth (Wordsworth) is only 116 miles from East Kilbride (Hannah) so I suppose it's better than flying in Tom Cruise to affect some ham Shakespearean accent. Having said that, seriously... accent authenticity is your only factual critique of this film? 😂
Just try to find any actor who can do even an approximation of the Cumberland accent, which we are informed he spoke with for the most of his adult life.
When it jars as much as here , he does have a valid point . Not sure what your point is ? If accent DOESNT matter then might as well be French , Swedish ...whatever. They really couldn't find anyone better than Hanna to play the part..?!? I suspect the old boys network ensured he was chosen.
A fine film. Love the sequence which depicted "Frost at Midnight" also the finale," Kubla Khan" was very powerful, if not historically accurate. Some of the characterisations, particularly that depicting Wordsworth were unduly harsh and painted him in a particularly bad light and demonised his character. On the other hand, Samuel Taylor's character and poetry were beautifully and sympathically presented. He wrote some of the greatest poems of all time. Magical poems that have enriched my life since I first encountered them in school many many years ago. Love the film, despite some historical inaccuracies.
Odd how watching seems to have altered normal syntax in your comments. You write like a 19th century versifier, "I cared not...it awakened me to poets that I knew not of" ! Oh, rapture, that steals upon my heart... etc etc. Really? You never heard of these people? Hmmm.
Sorry to be pedantic, but the film cannot be 'based on' accuracy as though accuracy is an attribute of the referent. Accuracy describes the representation of events, not the events themselves.
What truth left under the sky, I couldn't imagine so high, I wish I could never fly, To Xanadu I would never try, Opium I would never buy, I would rest in shy!!!
The film was actually called 'Pandaemonium'; a great film, if you love Coleridge. There was another film by Ken Russel called 'Coleridge and Wordsworth' not yet released by the BBC, but this is not it.
Wow. amazing movie! I remember how in college i was so overwhelmed by the Romantics.. i really liked wordsworth ideas and all but later i found everything different in his poetry but Coleridge his poems was all sublime and still is.
About halfway into the movie when Wordsworth pulls out the AR-15 from beneath his frock coat and wastes Byron for being under the influence of Dorothy's lady vapours I had an inkling this may only be slightly based on their real lives. However, once I saw the scene where, whilst constipated, Coleridge uses a finger snapped from the hand of their pet zombie to dig the fecal matter free I knew, nope, that probably happened. I'd read somewhere he was always constipated.
If you spent the same amount of energy on what it is you really want to accomplish rather than try to dazzle us with your cleverness I bet you could pull it off.
@@kylereeves6365 Thank you for the kind comment, Kyle. I had forgotten I had written this. I'm flattered you think I'm clever. To be honest I didn't really put any energy in as I naturally waffle shite without thought on a daily basis.
I do love any portrayal of my favorite poets. Even if I’m constantly saying “oh they didn’t do that” or “it wasn’t like that” but overall, this is incredible to see so well done and so passionately. The poetry is in the movie! We can’t sneer at that! At least the poetry is well represented in the movie 🤓🤓
The saddest Movie I have ever watched. Great Sadness and Pity is what I have felt for Samuel Coleridge. I could never carry on with Life as he did. Yet, he did it
Pandaemonium is a 2000 film, directed by Julien Temple, screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce. It is based on the early lives of English poets Samuel Taylor and William Wordsworth
Great stuff. I must confess that I shall for ever think of Sue Limb's magnificent radio spoof "The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere" at the first mention of any of these great poets. At the very end of the Wordsmiths saga, Sue Limb encourages the listener to enjoy the real thing. Excellent advice.
I'm glad that I finally found it also..I could never find it on UA-cam until someone finally posted it. glad that I am finally watching it. Though I feel bad for the main character..poor thing..
A most appalling and inaccurate telling of the lives of William & Dorothy Wordsworth. Just taking one inaccuracy - Wordsworth was offered Poet Laureate and turned it down, he was only prevailed upon to accept it the second time offered provided he didn't have to write any poems. He believed poetry stemmed from emotion and inspiration and couldn't be written to order. Dorothy Wordsworth was never addicted to opium. Coleridge was addicted and Wordsworth fell out with Coleridge in later years because of his behaviour. William and Dorothy arrived at Dove Cottage on foot in 1799 shortly before Christmas it was a couple of years later that he married Mary Hutchinson - so to have her at the door to meet them- ridiculous. This is an appalling film and is a shocking betrayal of the Wordsworths. I could go on.....
A tedious film that could be told in half the time. I love the music and prose of that age but not so much the poetry. This version of Dorothy Wordsworth is ahistorical. She was a highly conventional woman who was typical of her time, alas. Women had no rights or profile whatsoever with the exceptions of Lady Lamb, George Sand, Mary Shelley, George Elliot, the Brontes.
I very much enjoyed this film, great acting and wonderful photography. They captured the very essence of that time period, I’m not in the least effected by the inaccuracies regarding the poets lives, it’s a film to just wallow in and enjoy! ❤
I love this film. It took my breath away when I first saw it. it made me laugh too in the way that Tom Stoppard's Travesties did when I saw it. There's a good deal of talk about accuracy here but what Julien Temple is trying to do it seems to me is capture a sense of their lives in a context. He is trying to divorce them from myth and cliche and make them real in a way we can understand. They were so radical and so influential in their own time - how do you make that relevant to today? I thought it was absolutely terrific. What does it matter that he takes liberties with real events in order to present them in a felt way? Coleridge would have been constipated because he took opium. Wordsworth was a great radical who took a government post. We all grow older.
Not to be that guy but a lot of Romantic Era poets that we know of today actually had little success in their lifetimes. More people read gothic novels and novels of sensibility, much more so that poetry
Nice.but the banned genius classic that was clouds of glory by ken Russell is much better than this . Its a tragedy thats lost while this is good but not on Melvyn braggs level with the ken Russell films on coleridge ans Wordsworth
Though their letters do contain interest in trying weed, and what we know as other substances today commonly used, there’s little evidence of wordsworth and Dorothy and Sara partaking in it. Coleridge did try almost a handful of possible inspirational substances but always preferred laudanum, Opium and drinking. This is nice to imagine but
I hope film makers will continue to make movies about famous past authors and poets. It will introduce a younger audience to these past masters. I also understand that film makers may need to take "poetic licenses" in order to embroider and enhance a good "tale". Thank you again.
And with fixed stare did I gaze keenly upon the face of unrealised destiny, My greatness cruelly transported through time to the wrong age For which my poetic brilliance might be appreciated or recognised, Too long, O' aged soul have I tarried thus far without revelation, But in time perhaps the volume of my inscriptions might one day be known In posthumous fame.
Clearly the people who have said they liked this film have no knowledge of the lives of either Coleridge, or the Wordsworth and are going only off this appalling film.
It doesn’t put off students apparently.... actually they love it and are drawn to C. and W. even more. However, I agree that Wordsworth’s portrayal is far from accurate. We should ask the director why he chose to give us that ‘angle’
Someone gave me this dvd fifteen years ago and I watched it over and over again one year when I had little else to watch. Now watching it again I have to laugh and remember how ridiculous it all is and including the pompous, fantastical film making.
Inaccuracies are important. The personalities of Wordsworth and Coleridge cannot be recovered. The pretence of doing so-for any attempt to recover accurately any aspect of the past is pretentious-may well cause the naive viewer to believe she now knows these historic figures as though she had lived among them.
dahuterschuter I don’t think so. I remember reading somewhere that Byron and Wordsworth only met once. However, Byron made no secret of his scorn for Wordsorth’s poetry. See, for example, the very beginning of Don Juan. Also, this little charming bit: spenserians.cath.vt.edu/CommentRecord.php?action=GET&cmmtid=4360
I was a supporting artist in this great film..I doubled in one scene for Sam West.
Thank you.
Was it mostly filmed in the Lake District? Where were you for the filming? Amazing, my friend. Hope you’re ever inspired
Good on you sir. It's a fabulous movie . I'm glad you contributed to it.
Truly a great film. As a poet i appreciate it greatly, thank you.
I know 'historical accuracy' is relative, but if you're interested, please go and read some reputable biographies of the main players after watching this. I recommend Stephen Gill for Wordsworth, Richard Holmes for Coleridge and Frances Wilson or Polly Atkin for Dorothy.
What bothers me the most is how Mary Wordsworth is portrayed here. For the record, Mary Wordsworth (nee Hutchinson) was a childhood friend of Dorothy and William - they originally met at school in Penrith. William and Dorothy were friends with her for YEARS before Mary married William. They bonded over losing their parents at a young age, and when the Wordsworths moved to Grasmere, they started the journey from the Hutchinson's family home in Sockburn, North Yorkshire.
Dorothy and her brother could be intense and egotistical at times, but they formed a tight-knit family with Mary. The two women worked togeher to manage their home, raise the five Wordsworth children, and transcribe William's poetry. Mary in particular gets a raw deal in this film, when she brought a great deal of joy and inspiration to the lives of her Romantic writers
Yes. You put the facts cogently.
"brought alittle opium to steady your nerves"
why doesn't anyone ever say that to me
"brought a little opium to steady your nerves Eli"
@@taval8389 fuck. I'm usually the BRINGER...
LOL-wicked humor:)
I wandered lonely as a cow 🐮😂
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
I think you'll find its cloud
As a child, William was taken with his family on a trip to France. He was eight years old when he wrote about their encounter with French cuisine: "Now we ask for bread and butter. Thanks for it in French we utter. Better bread was never broken. Worser French was never spoken"
I bought the VHS as soon as it came out. I have kept my old machine largely so that I can watch it occasionally. A masterpiece and one of best performances by Lionel Roach, Samantha Morton too. There is a great song during the end credits, a pumped version of Xanadu with the Coleridge/Roach wondering the neon lit streets of modern London.
This film I thought almost impossible to find online until now...Hooray, one of my favourite films dramatising the life of two of my favourite poets...
It is not 100% accurate, but I found it quite good. I had no idea this film existed but I am glad it does.
why is this so nice cinematographywise
Wordsworth and Coleridge are the reasons why I love romantic literature. This movie is amazing.
Byron got me started when I was a teenager.
@Hippie Chic not true. I knew several people on serious drugs, and they never said or did anything remotely poetic. It has to be in you somewhere already.
@@gentillygirl545there is a difference Madame between the way they were seen before 1980 and the way are seen now. The greatest advancements in humankind were invented, dreamed, created, discovered and birthed during their use. It wasn't until the 1980s when they became illegal and propogandized as an excuse, a justification for bad behavoir. Only after the government realized those using them discovered experience meant & mattered more than material wealth. When they realized those on them wouldn't kill to have.
This is brilliant. An undiscovered gem. Why isn't it ever mentioned? Totally engaging from beginning to end. Hypnotic. ❤
One of my fav. UA-cam videos of all time. Thank you citizen!
So, Wordsworth spoke with a Scottish accent, hey? C'mon guys. Is this the best casting you could do?!
Cockermouth (Wordsworth) is only 116 miles from East Kilbride (Hannah) so I suppose it's better than flying in Tom Cruise to affect some ham Shakespearean accent. Having said that, seriously... accent authenticity is your only factual critique of this film? 😂
Just try to find any actor who can do even an approximation of the Cumberland accent, which we are informed he spoke with for the most of his adult life.
When it jars as much as here , he does have a valid point . Not sure what your point is ? If accent DOESNT matter then might as well be French , Swedish ...whatever.
They really couldn't find anyone better than Hanna to play the part..?!? I suspect the old boys network ensured he was chosen.
A fine film. Love the sequence which depicted "Frost at Midnight" also the finale," Kubla Khan" was very powerful, if not historically accurate. Some of the characterisations, particularly that depicting Wordsworth were unduly harsh and painted him in a particularly bad light and demonised his character. On the other hand, Samuel Taylor's character and poetry were beautifully and sympathically presented. He wrote some of the greatest poems of all time. Magical poems that have enriched my life since I first encountered them in school many many years ago. Love the film, despite some historical inaccuracies.
I cared not that the film was based on accuracy. It awakened me to poets that I knew not of. Interested to read their poems.
Odd how watching seems to have altered normal syntax in your comments. You write like a 19th century versifier, "I cared not...it awakened me to poets that I knew not of" ! Oh, rapture, that steals upon my heart... etc etc. Really? You never heard of these people? Hmmm.
What!?
This is a beautifully written response, Charles.
Sorry to be pedantic, but the film cannot be 'based on' accuracy as though accuracy is an attribute of the referent. Accuracy describes the representation of events, not the events themselves.
What truth left under the sky,
I couldn't imagine so high,
I wish I could never fly,
To Xanadu I would never try,
Opium I would never buy,
I would rest in shy!!!
The film was actually called 'Pandaemonium'; a great film, if you love Coleridge. There was another film by Ken Russel called 'Coleridge and Wordsworth' not yet released by the BBC, but this is not it.
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True.
AHA. Well that is the one I have been looking for. Thank you StephenSeabird.
Wow. amazing movie! I remember how in college i was so overwhelmed by the Romantics.. i really liked wordsworth ideas and all but later i found everything different in his poetry but Coleridge his poems was all sublime and still is.
Get the book entitled Marina by Malcolm Guite and you might find them even more sublime 😊
So difficult to find Tempel's magnificent film 'Pandaemonium' anywhere online, thank god it is here covertly with the wrong title on UA-cam.
This is Temple, not Russell.
WHAT IS THAT JET PLANE DOING AT 16:30 IN THE FILM..????????
I thought I'd imagined that until I read your comment. It must be the script writer playing with time.
About halfway into the movie when Wordsworth pulls out the AR-15 from beneath his frock coat and wastes Byron for being under the influence of Dorothy's lady vapours I had an inkling this may only be slightly based on their real lives. However, once I saw the scene where, whilst constipated, Coleridge uses a finger snapped from the hand of their pet zombie to dig the fecal matter free I knew, nope, that probably happened. I'd read somewhere he was always constipated.
If you spent the same amount of energy on what it is you really want to accomplish rather than try to dazzle us with your cleverness I bet you could pull it off.
@@kylereeves6365 Thank you for the kind comment, Kyle. I had forgotten I had written this. I'm flattered you think I'm clever. To be honest I didn't really put any energy in as I naturally waffle shite without thought on a daily basis.
What. a treat-watching from Wyoming. Thanks!🙋🏼♀️
Dorothy, I never knew was so important...to him...to I...and to all those who can see thy...
A beautiful movie❤️ from a student of AMU, India.
Hey
Poets were the first independent journalists.
I do love any portrayal of my favorite poets. Even if I’m constantly saying “oh they didn’t do that” or “it wasn’t like that” but overall, this is incredible to see so well done and so passionately. The poetry is in the movie! We can’t sneer at that! At least the poetry is well represented in the movie 🤓🤓
yes indeed. how true and it's light years from the sewerage and the pap offered from bleeding Hollywood.🤮
The saddest Movie I have ever watched. Great Sadness and Pity is what I have felt for Samuel Coleridge. I could never carry on with Life as he did. Yet, he did it
Pandaemonium is a 2000 film, directed by Julien Temple, screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce. It is based on the early lives of English poets Samuel Taylor and William Wordsworth
Podrían activar la opción de subtítulos? Gracias
A great movie and little appreciated
Great stuff. I must confess that I shall for ever think of Sue Limb's magnificent radio spoof "The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere" at the first mention of any of these great poets. At the very end of the Wordsmiths saga, Sue Limb encourages the listener to enjoy the real thing. Excellent advice.
Who else is here watching because of school?
Thanks NOM2016 for posting this!
For all the haters of this film because of its inaccuracies.....get over yourselves...this is art not history...and fine art at that!
Thank you very much for sharing . This one never came to my country back then (not even direct-to-video ), so I am very glad it´s finally here.....
I'm glad that I finally found it also..I could never find it on UA-cam until someone finally posted it. glad that I am finally watching it. Though I feel bad for the main character..poor thing..
NOM2016 my hero for uploading this great film
A most appalling and inaccurate telling of the lives of William & Dorothy Wordsworth. Just taking one inaccuracy - Wordsworth was offered Poet Laureate and turned it down, he was only prevailed upon to accept it the second time offered provided he didn't have to write any poems. He believed poetry stemmed from emotion and inspiration and couldn't be written to order. Dorothy Wordsworth was never addicted to opium. Coleridge was addicted and Wordsworth fell out with Coleridge in later years because of his behaviour. William and Dorothy arrived at Dove Cottage on foot in 1799 shortly before Christmas it was a couple of years later that he married Mary Hutchinson - so to have her at the door to meet them- ridiculous. This is an appalling film and is a shocking betrayal of the Wordsworths. I could go on.....
Dorothy's opium addiction is well documented
do your own video then madam
I think I am right in stating that Coleridge had a strong Devon accent and Wordsworth spoke with a marked Cumberland one.
wordsworth n colerudge were old men when Byron became famous,,they were ,not contemporaries. not a shread of accuracy...
Christine, who cares! It was an excellent video in my opinion.
A great poet suffers from the immensity of his gift, a mediocre one from his own ego
willingly suspending all the disbelieves I had about this movie :D
Awesome. Thanks for loading. Hope it stays.
A tedious film that could be told in half the time. I love the music and prose of that age but not so much the poetry. This version of Dorothy Wordsworth is ahistorical. She was a highly conventional woman who was typical of her time, alas. Women had no rights or profile whatsoever with the exceptions of Lady Lamb, George Sand, Mary Shelley, George Elliot, the Brontes.
I very much enjoyed this film, great acting and wonderful photography. They captured the very essence of that time period, I’m not in the least effected by the inaccuracies regarding the poets lives, it’s a film to just wallow in and enjoy! ❤
I love this film. It took my breath away when I first saw it. it made me laugh too in the way that Tom Stoppard's Travesties did when I saw it. There's a good deal of talk about accuracy here but what Julien Temple is trying to do it seems to me is capture a sense of their lives in a context. He is trying to divorce them from myth and cliche and make them real in a way we can understand. They were so radical and so influential in their own time - how do you make that relevant to today? I thought it was absolutely terrific. What does it matter that he takes liberties with real events in order to present them in a felt way? Coleridge would have been constipated because he took opium. Wordsworth was a great radical who took a government post. We all grow older.
A bad film unfortunately. Don't waste your time.
I too declare it to be naughty.
Yeah, I remember this. Not a fan. Thanks for postin' anyhow.
What a distasteful film. One long insult to Wordsworth. And none of it true.
This film so so problematic. Inaccurate is not the right word. It goes beyond normal biopic liberties.
Absolutely. Every one saying it's "inaccurate" is being inaccurate.
Pls add Italian subtitles :(((
@Electrono9 how can I learn it If I don't understand a single word ? :)))
It sounds like they re wispering their lines
Coleridge was the addict, not Wordsworth.
I think rereading the "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" might get me emotional..idk..
Any chance to activate subtitles?
i definitely need to watch it. only not now, as i'm at work
I bet you've still not watched it.
The Romantics were definitely the rock stars of their age.
Not to be that guy but a lot of Romantic Era poets that we know of today actually had little success in their lifetimes. More people read gothic novels and novels of sensibility, much more so that poetry
I agree. The first rock star was Franz Liszt. @@kayzeaza
Thanks a lot for the upload
Nice.but the banned genius classic that was clouds of glory by ken Russell is much better than this . Its a tragedy thats lost while this is good but not on Melvyn braggs level with the ken Russell films on coleridge ans Wordsworth
As always ! The Extras are all immaculately groomed with freshly washed hair
and spotless clothes. Just like poor folks in the 18 th century....
here's some more Coleridge analysis; enjoy! ua-cam.com/video/O30y6TGxvQA/v-deo.html
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This movie is such a treasure!!
Though their letters do contain interest in trying weed, and what we know as other substances today commonly used, there’s little evidence of wordsworth and Dorothy and Sara partaking in it. Coleridge did try almost a handful of possible inspirational substances but always preferred laudanum, Opium and drinking. This is nice to imagine but
Yeah uhh, I doubt Coleridge was begging for Laudanum in a party. Even in withdrawal, he knew class and stayed in bed
Leave off !
Imagine what Coleridge would have made of today’s drugs !
How can you make a melodrama out of this tosh !
1:02:43 Sara's the mother and Sam's the somewhat tired child from a long day's work..
Such a shame they could not incorporate Christabel poem (the 3rd of his top poems) into the movie. That would have been interesting.
I hope film makers will continue to make movies about famous past authors and poets. It will introduce a younger audience to these past masters. I also understand that film makers may need to take "poetic licenses" in order to embroider and enhance a good "tale". Thank you again.
It's soul craved movie...thnx ..S.t colridge is better than Wordsworth proved here clearly
And with fixed stare did I gaze keenly upon the face of unrealised destiny,
My greatness cruelly transported through time to the wrong age
For which my poetic brilliance might be appreciated or recognised,
Too long, O' aged soul have I tarried thus far without revelation,
But in time perhaps the volume of my inscriptions might one day be known
In posthumous fame.
Francis Maxino what’s this from??
@@alexandercovalciuc1484 I think it's his own composition.
@@alexandercovalciuc1484 They are but lines tossed to the wind, Unrequieted imitation pearls bobbing upon the waves of infinite variation,
Marvelous
The Penguin Guide to Crap Poetry ??
The scene with the pig is hilarious XD
How to add subtitle?
I looked up 100 pounds..it is very expensive..
1:24:19
Baby!
It's full of weeds 😂🤣🤣
haaha the utopic garden :P
I see, I see, in the end it works great magic to be hold...
Candles and Nature ....poetry
Refreshing
That’s a damn shame....Coleridge was a black man 🤦🏽♀️
Do you mean blackberry-loving man?
Needs remaking and updating to reality. Too many inaccuracies by far.
I will impart it; I will spread it wide
immortal in the world which is to come
Great movie for literature student.must watch
Beautiful...Thank you
I had no idea Wordsworth was such a scoundrel
much waterworks at the end.
I hit the 888th like. Such a great story.
Ciao a tutti quelli della 5BSA che lo devono vedere hahaha
Loved it
whew..they finally done it. "The ancient mariner" finally published..then what?
I want to watch this in hd how can i find it
By 'hd' do you mean Holland? I was able to find it when I visited Amsterdam last April with my friend (David P.). Best of luck.
please add subtitles ...
the oiled ocean..is really awful looking..it's kinda sad looking too..
1:17:47 is it me, or William looks bored as heck or tired?
He's bored af
Trying to figure out how to get out of this movie.
45:05 - 45:45
Brilliant
Nice
1:00:41 he writes too fast..(can anyone read his writing?)
1:19:46 those have to be gaiters that William is wearing..
I swear there's a fish bowl in one scene..
❤❤❤
Clearly the people who have said they liked this film have no knowledge of the lives of either Coleridge, or the Wordsworth and are going only off this appalling film.
I have quite a bit of knowledge of their lives. This film is a fantasy, but I still find it very enjoyable.
don’t agree. I liked the film despite its inaccuracies
It doesn’t put off students apparently.... actually they love it and are drawn to C. and W. even more. However, I agree that Wordsworth’s portrayal is far from accurate. We should ask the director why he chose to give us that ‘angle’
Someone gave me this dvd fifteen years ago and I watched it over and over again one year when I had little else to watch. Now watching it again I have to laugh and remember how ridiculous it all is and including the pompous, fantastical film making.
Inaccuracies are important. The personalities of Wordsworth and Coleridge cannot be recovered. The pretence of doing so-for any attempt to recover accurately any aspect of the past is pretentious-may well cause the naive viewer to believe she now knows these historic figures as though she had lived among them.
Can someone tell me who this man is? 51:38
I found out myself through deep research 🤓
@@A-Ls1 Well then, please be so courteous as to answer the inquirer above.
@@garetcrossman6626 Humphrey Davy
Amazing
Есть перевод этого фильма??
Was the "Do the daffodils" part a real encounter?
dahuterschuter I don’t think so. I remember reading somewhere that Byron and Wordsworth only met once. However, Byron made no secret of his scorn for Wordsorth’s poetry. See, for example, the very beginning of Don Juan. Also, this little charming bit: spenserians.cath.vt.edu/CommentRecord.php?action=GET&cmmtid=4360
The phrase about the daffodils was first written by Dorothy Wordsworth in her journals.
1:10:06 was there really a ship's net (the one you climb on) in that tree?