Waiting For Godot
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I thought Godot was around the "It was his sled!" level of pop culture now. My personal favorite is when Elmo played Godot.
Have never heard that before (obviously), but thanks for sharing, it's pretty interesting. While clearly from that Godot can't BE God, I do stand that the plays theme of spending a life waiting for something can be linked to God and Christianity, but as a lesser idea rather than a central one.RC1138 said:
Ah I see... Although even with this new knowledge that you have supplied me with, I still don't see the hilarious side of what I'm guessing was the proposed joke. Though I thank you for the information. [sub]And just so you know I did momentarily wonder if the comic may have been slightly related to Laser-Face Godot.Uszi said:
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Fah, I don't know about all of you, but I am still waiting for Tim Burton's adaption of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead", staring Johnny Depp as both Rosencrantz AND Guildenstern.
I think I've got it.
Tim Burton will put Johnny Depp as the title/main character of anything, even if said character never appears.
Tim Burton will put Johnny Depp as the title/main character of anything, even if said character never appears.
*shrug*
I get the joke. It's clever, in its own abstract way. The poster shouldn't say that Depp is going to play Godot, though. He could easily be one of the two that are waiting. Maybe he and Bonham Carter are sitting around waiting for a Tim Burton adaptation that isn't several notches off of the 'needless' meter. They really would be waiting forever for that one, or, at least, present day cinema suggests that they would be.
The idea that Burton would give Depp a role that isn't supposed to appear, and then shoehorn it in is perfectly valid, though, so I suppose it's an acceptable interpretation. (Godot being an absurdist play, I believe there should be many different interpretations of this drawing, and therefore challenge people to come up with more).
Interesting work, my friends. Next time make some mention of The Blacks, though. Genet's works generally offer a little more in the way of the fixed-yet-open-interpretation that really good absurdist theater needs than Beckett's do.
I get the joke. It's clever, in its own abstract way. The poster shouldn't say that Depp is going to play Godot, though. He could easily be one of the two that are waiting. Maybe he and Bonham Carter are sitting around waiting for a Tim Burton adaptation that isn't several notches off of the 'needless' meter. They really would be waiting forever for that one, or, at least, present day cinema suggests that they would be.
The idea that Burton would give Depp a role that isn't supposed to appear, and then shoehorn it in is perfectly valid, though, so I suppose it's an acceptable interpretation. (Godot being an absurdist play, I believe there should be many different interpretations of this drawing, and therefore challenge people to come up with more).
Interesting work, my friends. Next time make some mention of The Blacks, though. Genet's works generally offer a little more in the way of the fixed-yet-open-interpretation that really good absurdist theater needs than Beckett's do.
That would be nice, but unlikely if pursuing an English degree. I would occasionally read a dozen plays a semester and only see one or two. It only got really annoying on plays wherein the sets were important and we had to visualize where everything was to make plot points.Farther than stars said:
