>>5390111hehe, Wachowski Jupiter Ascending unsubtle politics, Baudrillard from the Matrix and CGI storytelling attempts.
I did lose it during that part of Jupiter Ascending when Cat Man Space Warrior explains to Toilet Cleaner Girl, did you know about bees? Bees prove that you are a Space Empress!
Then I am reminded of Cymbeline in Shakespeare, it has some inevitable Wachowski cross-dressing Imogen / Innogen girl boy scenes, there is only one decapitation, one attempted rape and it has a happy ending so of course the play is already terrible and ruined.
But at one point - I must emphasise how random this is, it is completely random - JUPITER APPEARS WITH SOME GHOSTS here are the exact words: (not invented at all)
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Jupiter descends in thunder and lightning, sitting upon an eagle. He throws a thunderbolt. The ghosts fall on their knees
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He gives the ghosts a tablet which they lay upon Posthumus’ breast
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And so away. No farther with your din Express impatience, lest you stir up mine. Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline.
He ascends into the heavens
SICILIUS
He came in thunder. His celestial breath
Was sulphurous to smell. The holy eagle
Stooped, as to foot us. His ascension is More sweet than our blest fields. His royal bird
Preens the immortal wing and claws his beak
As when his god is pleased.
ALL THE GHOSTS Thanks, Jupiter.
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So the question is, how many of you have watched Jupiter Ascending (do not do this) and made this connection to Cymbeline and Shakespeare?
