That ten-minute conclusion, the duet plus the undanced music, is what Prokofiev, at the insistence of the theatre administrators on whom his ballet depended, removed, and replaced with the great, weeping finale — in which Romeo and Juliet do indeed die — so familiar to us now.
That ten-minute conclusion, the duet plus the undanced music, is what Prokofiev, at the insistence of the theatre administrators on whom his ballet depended, removed, and replaced with the great, weeping finale in which Romeo and Juliet do indeed die so familiar to us now.
The next morning, Hermóðr begs Hel to allow Baldr to ride home with him, and tells her about the great weeping the Æsir have done upon Baldr's death.
And certainly there would have been a great deal of weeping.
He spends a great deal of time weeping, his beard looks fake even if it is real and when he throws a bowie knife it doesn't look like the impact could puncture a croissant, much less a man's skull.
(It is home, among other things, to a great Little League, on whose fields there is, depending on how the games go, both weeping and rejoicing).
Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping... my mother weeping, my father wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat wringing her hands, and all our house in a great perplexity, yet did not this cruel-hearted cur shed one tear..
As a child, he used to "fantasise about these great old weeping willows"; since seeing the film his son, Vincent, three, refers to trees as his "brothers and sisters".
He would become a stranger to his base, an imposter in a technicolor weeping suit, a pretender to the emotional freak-outs of a greater man.
A photograph of a weeping I.D.F.
A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
