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keeptomandcarryon:

courtyardhound:

TUMBLR I AM EXTREMELY DISAPPOINT HOW COULD YOU FAIL TO BRING TO MY ATTENTION THIS MUSIC VIDEO FOR THE SHERLOCK HOLMES HANS ZIMMER SOUNDTRACK FEATURING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, ROBERT DOWNEY JR BEING THE WORLD’S WEIRDEST PIANO PLAYER.

DISAPPOINT, TUMBLR. DISAPPOINT.

I DON’T KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON

BUT IT’S AMAZING

AND THERE’S RDJ AND A UKULELE AND THAT EXCELLENT LADY WHO PLAYS LOTS OF THINGS, OCCASIONALLY IN A BOX

No, musicians who worked on this score, thank you.

Just when I thought nothing could get more wacky or manic than the score itself.

Let My Home Be My Gallows — Hans Zimmer (with dialogue from Anthony Hopkins), Hannibal

Because of his avarice, and his betrayal of the emperor’s trust, Pier della Vigna was disgraced, blinded, and imprisoned. Dante’s pilgrim finds Pier della Vigna on seventh level of the Inferno, and like Judas Iscariot, he died by hanging. Judas and Pier della Vigna are linked in Dante by the avarice he saw in them. In fact, avarice and hanging are linked in the medieval mind. This was the earliest known depiction of the crucifixion, carved on an ivory box in Gaul about A.D. 400. It includes the death by hanging of Judas, his face upturned to the branch that suspends him. Here he is again on the doors of the Benevento Cathedral, this time with his bowels falling out. In this plate from the 15th Century edition of the Inferno, Pier della Vigna’s body hangs from a bleeding tree. I will not belabor the obvious parallel with Judas Iscariot, but Dante Alighieri needed no drawn illustration; it was his genius to make Pier della Vigna, now in Hell, speak in strained hisses and coughing sibilants, as though he is hanging still.

Avarice, hanging, self-destruction.”Io fei gibetto de le mei case.” I made my own home be my gallows.

A deliciously creepy art history lesson courtesy of Hannibal Lecter — my kind of Halloween music!