Don Quixote Update

Don Quixote embraces the eBook


"The great Don Quixote sits astride his charger, Rocinante, and has obviously stopped reading from those tasteless books printed on paper and bound in leather. Note that he appears to have switched to the eBook reader, Kindle, or such. No man should be seen living in the past, so he proudly, emphatically embraces the newest technology; the better to explore and discover the vast reaches of the world around him without lugging books...or weighing down his magnificent steed, or even life itself. Heavens no. Quixote is clearly shown here comparing the heavy tome under one arm with the devilish splendor of the much smaller, and smarter electronic device. What his trusted squire, Sancho Panza, may think we cannot tell from the statue."


This life-size statue of Quixote stands in the center of the lobby of the SunTrust Financial Centre building in Tampa's downtown.
 

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Don Quixote in the 20th Century (ca. 1905) (scroll down in link)

"The series of postcards closely follows the adventures of Cervantes’ Quixote, beginning with the gentleman reading too many books of chivalry in his study and proceeding through his many adventures to his death. In fact, the series takes part in a long tradition of illustrating the exploits of the hapless knight — see our essay “Picturing Don Quixote” by Rachel Schmidt for more on the book's iconography through the centuries."

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Don Quixote, Garrick Theatre review - riotous revival
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Sanch Panza (Rufus Hound) and Don Quixote (David Threlfall) set off on their adventures

"Don Quixote and his paunchy sidekick long ago escaped the pages of Miguel de Cervantes' novel. The image of the sad-faced knight on his bony nag Rocinante with his companion Sancho Panza atop his donkey are familiar in film, opera, paintings and everything from kitchen tiles to cartoons and furnishing fabric. The knight himself foretold their afterlife, predicting that his exploits would be memorialised in paintings and sculpture. These two - who never existed - may be the most recognisable Spaniards of all time."
 
I watched this strange film made by Orson Wells. It may be interesting saved for a time "when there's nothing good on".



Don Quixote is an unfinished film project produced, written and directed by Orson Welles. Principal photography took place between 1957 and 1969. Test footage was filmed as early as 1955, second-unit photography was done as late as 1972, and Welles was working on the film intermittently until his death in 1985. The film was eventually edited by Jesús Franco and was released in 1992. It did not include all the footage shot for the film and received mixed reviews.
 
RadishRose said:
I watched this strange film made by Orson Wells. It may be interesting saved for a time "when there's nothing good on".



Don Quixote is an unfinished film project produced, written and directed by Orson Welles. Principal photography took place between 1957 and 1969. Test footage was filmed as early as 1955, second-unit photography was done as late as 1972, and Welles was working on the film intermittently until his death in 1985. The film was eventually edited by Jesús Franco and was released in 1992. It did not include all the footage shot for the film and received mixed reviews.
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Thanks RR, I did read about that but didn't find the video. Might be fun to watch!
 
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“Hail, white-armed goddess, bright Selene, mild, bright-tressed queen!

And now I will leave you and sing the glories of men half-divine, whose deeds minstrels, the servants of the Muses, celebrate with lovely lips.”


This interpretation, illustration, is rather refreshing from the norm; as it deviates from the typical portrayal of women’s role in Don Quixote.

Cervantes exposes the raw truth of disparity between the sexes as being “less” than romantic; noting that men either lusted after, or deemed them as lowly chattel, and mere ornaments in need of rescue, which instituted a subjugated, inferior bias of the fairer sex.
 
“The quixotic world of women covers a broad spectrum of the society of his time that includes peasants, princesses, prostitutes, shepherdesses, duchesses, men disguised as women, serving wenches or landladies with beards.”

“The women who did have power, through their connections with a man of power were still limited. Their unique traits and ideals are what made them strong female characters, that did not become imprisoned to the standards society has set for them.

Even so, they still remain in a society of men that render them nearly powerless.”


The quixotic women are intelligent; they proved themselves supremely adaptable, transcending deep-rooted rigidity amidst male-driven society, in an unglamorous world forced upon them, and not of their making.

Which Cervantes beautifully conveys throughout his two novels.

“What is the main message of Don Quixote?

Considered a founding work of modern Western literature, the novels message that individuals can be right while society is wrong was considered radical for its day…”
 


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