I just watched a video of his waltz being performed in Vienna by an orchestra for the first time (André Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra ) where Anthony Hopkins was in the audience - it was beautiful.
There is no replacement for actual work, actual diligence and intention COMBINED with Life Experience.
I knew before I knew, that he and Burton were entwined. Here it is. Both Welsh, both troubled boys, both almost swallowed by the system, yet saved by their own determination to exceed their birthright of ‘common toil.’
That era in Wales was soul crushing. The caste system of England subjected upon the territorial provinces, on themselves rich in culture and bounty, placed a ceiling above them. The fact of Hopkins’ influencers being Bacon and Freud reveal his own struggles with his inner and outer worlds. No youth goes for representation of such pain as a visual vocabulary without deeper inclination.
A whole generation, a centennial old, offers clues to how we can surface from our own storm. We could not know what it was like for these men raised in prohibitive social structures without the breadcrumbs left by their work. In particular with Hopkins, who gifts us with an entire map through sound, visual, performative arts—we have not only a richness of culture, but an opportunity of deciphering what it means to be a sensitive, present male showing strength in their vulnerability in spite of the patriarchal expectations and limitations they face. Unlike Burton (who one would have to think Hopkins was watching all the way into his demise) we have in Sir Anthony Hopkins a fully realized expanse. Here is a complete landscape of a journey, one taken in spite of rather than because of the ‘norms.’ We have much more to gleen from this formidable man. Thankfully he keeps giving. Hopefully more of us will keep listening, watching, processing and recognizing the gift he offers.
I just watched a video of his waltz being performed in Vienna by an orchestra for the first time (André Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra ) where Anthony Hopkins was in the audience - it was beautiful.
Wasn't it amazing! I watched it a few times and was captivated.
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There is no replacement for actual work, actual diligence and intention COMBINED with Life Experience.
I knew before I knew, that he and Burton were entwined. Here it is. Both Welsh, both troubled boys, both almost swallowed by the system, yet saved by their own determination to exceed their birthright of ‘common toil.’
That era in Wales was soul crushing. The caste system of England subjected upon the territorial provinces, on themselves rich in culture and bounty, placed a ceiling above them. The fact of Hopkins’ influencers being Bacon and Freud reveal his own struggles with his inner and outer worlds. No youth goes for representation of such pain as a visual vocabulary without deeper inclination.
A whole generation, a centennial old, offers clues to how we can surface from our own storm. We could not know what it was like for these men raised in prohibitive social structures without the breadcrumbs left by their work. In particular with Hopkins, who gifts us with an entire map through sound, visual, performative arts—we have not only a richness of culture, but an opportunity of deciphering what it means to be a sensitive, present male showing strength in their vulnerability in spite of the patriarchal expectations and limitations they face. Unlike Burton (who one would have to think Hopkins was watching all the way into his demise) we have in Sir Anthony Hopkins a fully realized expanse. Here is a complete landscape of a journey, one taken in spite of rather than because of the ‘norms.’ We have much more to gleen from this formidable man. Thankfully he keeps giving. Hopefully more of us will keep listening, watching, processing and recognizing the gift he offers.