Rudy, the most soulful of all.
I'm about to return, Rudolph Valentino The Man Behind the Myth. I picked it up tonight. I haven't read it for 2 weeks. I read it the first night I got it and then I felt that it wasn't geniune enough. But I picked it up again out of curiousity and nothing was on TV and I didn't have the focus I need to watch a RV movie. This time around I read the last 2 chapters. It spoke of Pola and it listed several poems Rudy wrote that he was planning to put in a second book of poems. They are lovely poems. I have to reread them though or copy them before I return the book because I need to really be in the mood to read poetry to get what the author intends his/her audience to get out of the poem. For me, I don't just read poems as they affect me but I read them and wonder how they affected the author of the poem. I just have always been this way. I do the same thing with writing. Like Fitzgerald. I always think about what he was thinking or feeling when he was writing scenes.
I do this with Rudy a lot to in his movies. Where was he at in his life, what was he thinking then, what was going on that day. This book has attempted to tie some of this in to some of the parts of Rudy's life he writes about, and I appreciate that and yet still scratch my head wondering how he knew exactly Rudy would do something like scratch his head before answering a producer or something....which annoyed me only in the sense it detracted me away from the scene itself thinking about it.
Sometimes I think I get hung up on people, actors, when they are going through something in their life and that something takes on it's own distinction in their work. I got hung up on Rudy when his character Julio basically dishonored his word, when he took Marguite in his arms and insist that she was his, that she "belonged" to him.
During this time, from what I understand, Rudy was going through a painful situation with Jean Acker. During this time he married her and she was rejecting him, confusing him and yet not fully demanding an annullment or divorce. I think Rudy may have thrown part of his soul into this scene and I spotted it, it touched me ... it touched my soul... I think there is something very provocative there.
This isn't the first time this has happened ... I felt the same thing (but not on the same scale, Rudy is just different and I think it's because when he departed this world he scorched those who cared and who would care about him) about Johnny Depp. I think Johnny Depp's soul showed itself in some of the scenes of Todd Sweeney. I was caught up in him, when his character turns to Mrs. Lovett after she "proposes" to him, and he is standing there staring at her with such a look of longing and helplessness at the same time. During this time, Johnny Depp was going through hell, because his daughter was very sick and in the hospital.
Another time, this happened to me, was with James Scott on Days of Our Lives. I was watching the show, while working out at the fitness center in the building I at the time worked out in, and James had a look on his face towards the object of his character's affections that just drew me in so strongly I was very much caught up in this show for a couple of years. I found out soon after this, that he had just proposed to his girlfriend. And I can't help but think again, that his soul escaped his presence and I recognized it in his expression.
I'm drawn to soulful people, especially if the souls of these people reach out and touch my own soulness. <-made up word
On another point, I have a really hard time reading Rudy biographies. I dislike him having to die all over again in those last pages.
Again, sorry for another exhausted post.
One other thing, I was excited to catch more words from reading the lips of Ahmed in Son of the Shiek during the scene Ahmed takes Yasmin backs to his tent, and after yelling at her for her trickingg him, forces her into a kiss, she breaks away, with his hands still clutching her and she says, "You, you let me go!'
And Ahmed then says: "Make this easy for yourself."
(it then goes to a place card, ".....Tonight your kiss are free". I can't tell what he says, yet, when the scenes comes back from the place card.
side note:
[I have also determined that Ahmed after Yasmin says, "I hate you. I hate you. You-" something that starts with, "I'll remember that (something) ... making it up". I think he is saying, I'll remember that but it's time you start making it up.... basically saying it's time for him to get his revenge. Which I know doesn't ring right, but then taking into the tenderness of the scene before with them when Ahmed arrives to the ruins, Yasmin is behind a column and calls to him, ""Ahmed". But later says, "I don't even know your name". ... so reading all their lips is good for the curious but technical it might not make sense or that much sense to the story.]
Anyway, I just realized that is what he said, "make this easy for yourself" when I watched it last night and this tantalized me, and played through my thoughts a lot today. A lot! On the drive home I was enthusiastic about how fiction is just so magical. Rudy was not like Ahmed at all. He would never do anything like that to a girl, and I love that Rudy is not like Ahmed, but the sultry Ahmed in this fiction angle played by someone like Rudy so sexy and captivating, well, it's like magic, it just dazzles you. That is such an amazing thought to me today.
I do this with Rudy a lot to in his movies. Where was he at in his life, what was he thinking then, what was going on that day. This book has attempted to tie some of this in to some of the parts of Rudy's life he writes about, and I appreciate that and yet still scratch my head wondering how he knew exactly Rudy would do something like scratch his head before answering a producer or something....which annoyed me only in the sense it detracted me away from the scene itself thinking about it.
Sometimes I think I get hung up on people, actors, when they are going through something in their life and that something takes on it's own distinction in their work. I got hung up on Rudy when his character Julio basically dishonored his word, when he took Marguite in his arms and insist that she was his, that she "belonged" to him.
During this time, from what I understand, Rudy was going through a painful situation with Jean Acker. During this time he married her and she was rejecting him, confusing him and yet not fully demanding an annullment or divorce. I think Rudy may have thrown part of his soul into this scene and I spotted it, it touched me ... it touched my soul... I think there is something very provocative there.
This isn't the first time this has happened ... I felt the same thing (but not on the same scale, Rudy is just different and I think it's because when he departed this world he scorched those who cared and who would care about him) about Johnny Depp. I think Johnny Depp's soul showed itself in some of the scenes of Todd Sweeney. I was caught up in him, when his character turns to Mrs. Lovett after she "proposes" to him, and he is standing there staring at her with such a look of longing and helplessness at the same time. During this time, Johnny Depp was going through hell, because his daughter was very sick and in the hospital.
Another time, this happened to me, was with James Scott on Days of Our Lives. I was watching the show, while working out at the fitness center in the building I at the time worked out in, and James had a look on his face towards the object of his character's affections that just drew me in so strongly I was very much caught up in this show for a couple of years. I found out soon after this, that he had just proposed to his girlfriend. And I can't help but think again, that his soul escaped his presence and I recognized it in his expression.
I'm drawn to soulful people, especially if the souls of these people reach out and touch my own soulness. <-made up word
On another point, I have a really hard time reading Rudy biographies. I dislike him having to die all over again in those last pages.
Again, sorry for another exhausted post.
One other thing, I was excited to catch more words from reading the lips of Ahmed in Son of the Shiek during the scene Ahmed takes Yasmin backs to his tent, and after yelling at her for her trickingg him, forces her into a kiss, she breaks away, with his hands still clutching her and she says, "You, you let me go!'
And Ahmed then says: "Make this easy for yourself."
(it then goes to a place card, ".....Tonight your kiss are free". I can't tell what he says, yet, when the scenes comes back from the place card.
side note:
[I have also determined that Ahmed after Yasmin says, "I hate you. I hate you. You-" something that starts with, "I'll remember that (something) ... making it up". I think he is saying, I'll remember that but it's time you start making it up.... basically saying it's time for him to get his revenge. Which I know doesn't ring right, but then taking into the tenderness of the scene before with them when Ahmed arrives to the ruins, Yasmin is behind a column and calls to him, ""Ahmed". But later says, "I don't even know your name". ... so reading all their lips is good for the curious but technical it might not make sense or that much sense to the story.]
Anyway, I just realized that is what he said, "make this easy for yourself" when I watched it last night and this tantalized me, and played through my thoughts a lot today. A lot! On the drive home I was enthusiastic about how fiction is just so magical. Rudy was not like Ahmed at all. He would never do anything like that to a girl, and I love that Rudy is not like Ahmed, but the sultry Ahmed in this fiction angle played by someone like Rudy so sexy and captivating, well, it's like magic, it just dazzles you. That is such an amazing thought to me today.
posted by Tea at
11:11 PM
