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Official Great Works Draft (12 Viewers)

Going to go with another film here.

As I wrote in a different thread, I have seen three Akira Kurosawa films in my life. This is one of them.

24.17 Seven Samurai

Wakarimasu ka?

 
El Floppo said:
Fennis said:
Or you could vote thatguy should be on autoskip. Thats always entertaining.
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Shut the #### up. :hot:
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####er, #######, #####, ####,####, #### #### ####. you #######ETA: Removed pumpkins, mothers, and wrestling from my post to prevent an unwanted banning. Apologies to anyone insulted. Except Floppo, who as my nemesis deserves it.
 
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I'm just exhausted tonight, and I've had a little bit to drink, sorry. Give me about 5 minutes. Let's see what else I can #### up here...

 
thatguy said:
Fennis said:
Fennis said:
El Floppo said:
Fennis said:
Or you could vote thatguy should be on autoskip. Thats always entertaining.
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Shut the #### up. :popcorn:
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Mother ####er, #######, #####, ####,####, #### #### a pumpkin with your ####. you #######wrestling?
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I think I zoomed right past nemesis. :mellow:
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Might want to be careful. I've been banned for less.
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If I dont show up Krista has full control of Team Fennis. I'll edit and remove all refrences to pumpkins.
 
All right. I've done some stupid things before in this thread, but that really takes the cake. I wasn't joking around. Somehow in both instances I had a brain freeze; actually, it was from some time before. I keep a list of stuff that I want (like I suspect most of you do) and somehow I forgot to cross both of those off. Oh well.

So I will go in a different direction here. There has been a lot of great songs chosen in the last couple of rounds. But when it comes to the absolute greatest of all time, for me there is a certain jazz singer that stands above the rest, and a certain song that is her greatest work. It's been 68 years since this was first recorded, and it my opinion it still stands at the pedestal of popular music.

24.17 Billie Holiday- God Bless The Child

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqaFkC0EMmQ

 
since this is a draft for all time. The draft to end all drafts....ahem. Being that team guapo don't discriminate, we love our japanese friends from asia. and we love their classic work

24.18The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

It is sometimes called the world's first novel, the first modern novel, the first psychological novel or the first novel to still be considered a classic, though this issue is a matter of debate
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“ The Tale of Genji, as translated by Arthur Waley, is written with an almost miraculous naturalness, and what interests us is not the exoticism — the horrible word — but rather the human passions of the novel. Such interest is just: Murasaki's work is what one would quite precisely call a psychological novel. [...] I dare to recommend this book to those who read me. The English translation that has inspired this brief insufficient note is called The Tale of Genji. ”

—Jorge Luis Borges, The Total Library

The Tale of Genji is an important fictional work of Japanese literature, and numerous modern authors have cited it as inspiration. It is noted for its internal consistency, psychological depiction, and characterization. The novelist Yasunari Kawabata said in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech: "The Tale of Genji in particular is the highest pinnacle of Japanese literature. Even down to our day there has not been a piece of fiction to compare with it".

2000 yen note with The Tale of Genji and Murasaki Shikibu on the right corner



The Genji is also often referred to as "the first novel", though there is considerable debate over this — some of the debate involving whether Genji can even be considered a "novel". Some consider the psychological insight, complexity and unity of the work to qualify it for "novel" status while simultaneously disqualifying earlier works of prose fiction.[4] Others see these arguments as subjective and unconvincing. Related claims, perhaps in an attempt to sidestep these debates, are that Genji is the "first psychological novel", "the first novel still considered to be a classic" or other more qualified terms. Claiming that it is the world's first novel inevitably denies the claims of Daphnis and Chloe and Aethiopica in Greek, which Longus and Heliodorus of Emesa respectively wrote, both around the third century, and in Latin, Petronius's Satyricon in the first century and Apuleius's Golden ### in the second, as well as Kādambari in Sanskrit which author Bānabhatta wrote in the seventh century. (The debate exists in Japanese as well, with comparison between the terms monogatari — "tale" — and shōsetsu — "novel".)

The novel and other works by Lady Murasaki are standard staple in the curricula of Japanese schools. The Bank of Japan issued the 2000 Yen banknote in her honor, featuring a scene from the novel based on the 12th century illustrated handscroll.

Authorship

Murasaki Shikibu, illustration by Tosa Mitsuoki who did a series on The Tale of Genji (17th century)

The debate over how much of the Genji was actually written by Murasaki Shikibu has gone on for centuries and is unlikely to ever be settled unless some major archival discovery is made. It is generally accepted that the tale was finished in its present form by 1021, when the author of the Sarashina Nikki wrote a famous diary entry about her joy at acquiring a complete copy of the tale. She writes that there are over fifty chapters and mentions a character introduced near the end of the work, so if other authors besides Murasaki Shikibu did work on the tale, the work was done very near to the time of her writing. Murasaki Shikibu's own diary includes a reference to the tale, and indeed the application to herself of the name 'Murasaki' in an allusion to the main female character. That entry confirms that some if not all of the diary was available in 1008 when internal evidence suggests convincingly that the entry was written[5].

Yosano Akiko, the first author to make a modern translation of the Genji, believed that Murasaki Shikibu had only written chapters One to Thirty-three, and that chapters Thirty-five to Fifty-four were written by her daughter Daini no Sanmi. Other scholars have doubted the authorship of chapters Forty-two to Forty-four (particularly Forty-four, which contains rare examples of continuity mistakes).

According to Royall Tyler's introduction to his English translation of the work, recent computer analysis has turned up "statistically significant" discrepancies of style between chapters 45–54 and the rest, and also among the early chapters.[3] But this discrepancy can also be explained by a change in attitude of the author as she grew older, and the earlier chapters are often thought to have been edited into their present form some time after they were initially written.

One of the frequent arguments made against the multiple authorship idea is that the Genji is a work of such genius that someone of equal or greater genius taking over after Murasaki is implausible.
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24.19 - Portrait of Dr. Gachet (1st Version) - Vincent Van Gogh - Painting

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Interesting tidbit.....

The original version of this painting was sold by van Gogh's sister-in-law for 300 francs in 1897. Subsequently it was sold respectively to Paul Cassirer (1904), Kessler (1904), and Druet (1910). In 1911 the painting was acquired by the Städel (Städtische Galerie) in Frankfurt, Germany and hung there until 1933, when the painting was put in a hidden room. In 1937, it was confiscated by the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, an arm of the Nazi government that sought to rid pre-war Germany of so-called degenerate art. It came into the possession of Hermann Göring, who quickly sold it to a dealer in Amsterdam. The dealer in turn sold it to a collector, Siegfried Kramarsky, who brought it with him when he fled to New York, where the work was often lent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Kramarsky's family put the painting up for auction in 1990. The painting became famous on May 15, 1990, when Japanese businessman Ryoei Saito paid US$82.5 million for it at auction in Christie's New York, making it the most expensive painting in the world up to that time. Saito, the honorary chairman of Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Co. and then 75 years old, caused a scandal when he said he would have the Van Gogh painting cremated with him after his death. He later said, "What I really wanted to [express] was my wish to preserve the paintings forever." Saito, his aides explained, was using a figure of speech, and his threatening to torch the masterpiece was just an expression of intense affection for it. Later he said he would consider giving the paintings to his government or a museum. After his death in 1996, the exact location and ownership of the portrait had been shrouded in mystery. In early 2007, however, reports surfaced that the painting had been sold a decade earlier by Saito or his estate to the Austrian-born investment fund manager Wolfgang Flöttl. Flöttl, in turn, had reportedly been forced by financial reversals to sell the painting to parties as yet unknown.
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