"Well, it was unprecedented. I wanted... *needed* to match his accomplishments, and so I resolved to apply antiquity's teaching to our world, *today*. And so began my path to conquest. Conquest not of men, but of the evils that beset them. "
-Adrian "Ozymandias" Veidt
And to remind any former Wildwood students....
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
.And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my works, Ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
.And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my works, Ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
4 comments:
Haha, I should've known you'd like Veidt. I think that poem is more or less permanently emblazoned onto our memories.
It's pretty crazy that I saw that in his frozen palace near the end. I fist pumped like three times when he was on screen.
"I want to go to there."
Funnay, Tim.
Yes, that poem will never leave my memory.
I heard from a few sources that Watchmen was...Kind of nasty and distasteful.
It's rated R for a reason. I knew what was coming so I could brace myself for it, but it's no more violent than Braveheart or the like (except the all nude character).
And on a matter of taste, the fact that it's not merely a superhero movie but also a character drama means that there will be both moral failings and problems because of it.
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