Relief safin biography of william shakespeare
AJB presents William Shakespeare's James Bond in...
NAY, TIME TO DIE!
Anonymous Contributor, Barbel, caractacus potts, Gymkata, The Domino Effect, Westward_Drift
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Act 1, Scene 1
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(Curtain opens on a snow-covered landscape, a lone figure hobbles towards a small homestead dressed as a snowman.
Inside yon hovel, a lady lays on a couch as a young girl plays in ye kitchen while a bird faints in its cage.)
Mother: Quickly Madeleine, my bowels do heave with great irritation. I doth need my medicine most quickly!
(Madeleine turns to ye audience with a clothes peg on her nose as an escaping gas sound can be heard.)
Madeleine: Yes Mama, doth thee need thine white medicine or ye red medicine? And where is Papa?
Mother: Do you know’eth what thine father does?
Madeleine: He be’eth a Physician, Nay?
Mother: (Aside.) Physician Nay? That be’eth the first tale..... (Aloud.) He doth kill people.
Madeleine: He doth work for Dignitas? Look Mama, a snowman is calling.
Mother: Describe him to me, I cannot see through these heavy red curtains.
Madeleine: He hath a snow arms, snow feet and...
Mother: Snowballs! (She rolls two across the table.)
Madeleine: I cannot see, but he hath a snowman mask and a carrot for a nose.
Mother: Quickly- hide in Papa's secret room.
Madeleine: Oh Mama, ‘tis not a secret room but A Man Cave- he doth keep his Gentleman's Special Interest Parchments, his chess set, and that signed portrait of Franz Oberhauser asking him to help on that Information Business idea.
(She runs but too late- ye Snowman is in ye room.)
Snowman: Where ist thine husband m'lady, and what be’eth that foul smell?
Mother: Alack, my bowel is full of demons fighting to escape, sometimes I cannot hold them back.
(Madeleine scurries to under ye sink to retrieve a small Blooms' Literary Criticism Catalog In the current James Bond movie – No Time to Die – the villain, name of Safin, is played by an actor showing facial scarring (although Rami Malek’s facial markings are purely the product of the make-up department). And he’s not the first Bond villain to be a ‘scarface’. And it’s certainly unchristian to imply that a facial or outward disfigurement means a bad character or even some kind of curse” But the ‘scarred bad guy’ image has offended groups who are campaigning to remove the stigma from those bearing facial scars. Organisations like ‘Changing Faces’ and ‘Face Equality’ – both with online presences – have protested against the negative stereotype of the ‘scarface’, as if a person’s outer appearance were a stain on his inner character. They’re entitled to complain about this trope, which has been lazily used to convey wickedness ever since Shakespeare gave Richard III an exaggerated hunchback (the Plantagenet king had a slightly twisted spine). It’s often been a staple of films, novels and theatrical performances. And it’s certainly unchristian to imply that a facial or outward disfigurement means a bad character or even some kind of curse. As it happens, I have a minor facial disfigurement myself – a v-shaped scar on my cheek, just under my right eye. This arises from a childhood mishap, when, aged four, I climbed up on a kitchen dresser to fetch a china cup that took my fancy. Well, I fell down, cup in hand, which duly crashed on the stone floor and made a big gash on my cheek. The wound should have been medically stitched, but for some reason, it was not. Other family members criticised my mother for not taking me to hospital for surgery, instead of leaving it to heal. But the fact that little fuss was made, and subsequently, joked about as an example of my intrepid childish mishaps, may have been psychologically beneficial. I never had any complexes about this facial scar, and for most of my .Copyright:
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Scarface? It never worried me!
Facial disfigurement