#The Legend of 1900

[princessnamora]

Mélanie Thierry as Miss Padovan in The Legend of 1900 (1998)

[anonymousbug]

celebrating my return to tumblr with late birthday art for the rat, the brit, the orange himself — TIMOTHY SIMON ROTH🎂🎉🎈

here's the first version I made in 2021, three years later and i finally get the sequel out 😔✌️tim roth nation is where i will always belong🧡🐀🍊✨

[arcanespillo]

The Legend of 1900 —1998

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Seven Pounds (2008, Gabriele Muccino)

26/08/2024

[beeeeeta]

1900

[kissui-sami]

The Great War of Archimedes

Shin Godzilla

The Handmaiden

The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Legend of 1900

[env0]

I find it very funny that Tim Roth says in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, "I think I'll spend the rest of my life on boats" and 8 years later is cast lead role in The Legend of 1900 a movie about a man who is born on a ship, lives on a ship, and dies on a ship. Both are magnificent movies and if you haven't seen them I highly recommend it. Just *chef kiss* poetic cinema.

[nautilus1954]

[athlaros]

“Non era una di quelle persone di cui ti chiedi chissà se è felice quello. Lui era Novecento, e basta. Non ti veniva da pensare che c'entrasse qualcosa con la felicità, o col dolore. Sembrava al di là di tutto, sembrava intoccabile. Lui e la sua musica: il resto, non contava.”

Alessandro Baricco, Novecento.

[movietitleinferno]

The Legend of 1900 - 1998

[princessnamora]

Mélanie Thierry as Miss Padovan in The Legend of 1900 (1998)

[theyearpunkbroke]

danny boodman t.d. lemon nineteen hundred i’m thinking about u always bestie

[fuckyeahvanhalen86-95]

Say what you will about Roger Waters, but he’s not afraid of speaking his mind. The former Pink Floyd bassist and vocalist was never exactly shy of expressing his opinions and putting noses out of joint in the process (not least those of his ex-bandmates), but he’s become crankier and more outspoken as the years have gone by, as his controversial proclamations on everything from Israel to the Russian invasion of Ukraine prove.

Compared to that, putting the boot into AC/DC and Van Halen is relatively tame. Even so, there aren’t many people who would throw shade in the direction of two of rock’n’roll’s biggest sacred cows. Yet that’s just what Waters did when he appeared on The Joe Rogan Hour podcast in 2022.

Reflecting on his own musical tastes, Waters told Rogan: “[I’m] not really interested in loud rock ‘n’ roll, which some people are and they love it, but I couldn’t care less about AC/DC or Eddie Van Halen or any of that stuff.”

“It’s just, who? I don’t go, ‘Who?’ because obviously I know the name,” he continued. “And I’m sure Eddie’s brilliant and a great guitar player and wonderful. It just doesn’t interest me.”

All that fulminating has evidently affected his memory, because Waters had forgotten that the late Van Halen guitarist actually guested on one of his solo songs 23 years earlier.

Back in 1999, Waters appeared on the soundtrack of Italian arthouse movie La Leggenda del Pianista Sull'Oceano (released in the US as The Legend Of 1900). While the bulk of the soundtrack featured music from revered Italian composer Ennio Morricone, it also included the slow-burning Waters song "Lost Boys Calling" – his first new music since the Amused To Death album six years earlier.

And what makes this song significant? It features one Eddie Van Halen on guitar (billed as Edward Van Halen in the credits of the movie and on the accompanying soundtrack album). Though Waters’ forgetfulness may be forgiven, considering that Eddie’s tasteful, emotive shading and soloing are a world away from the fretboard fireworks he fired off with his regular band – ironically, he doesn’t sound a million miles away from Waters’ one time Floyd bandmate/antagonist David Gilmour.

Neither man has spoken much about the song, though the link appears to be the album’s producer Patrick Leonard, who worked with Waters on Amused To Death and, like Van Halen, was connected to the Jackson family – he played keyboards on the Jacksons’ 1984 reunion tour, while Eddie was responsible for the iconic solo on Michael Jackson’s 1982 hit "Beat It." Leonard was also reportedly onboard to produce the follow-up to 1998’s ill-fated Van Halen III album, and later played keyboards at a rare EVH solo show in 2006, which onlookers described as an “impromptu jam of rock fusion.”

"Lost Boys Calling" itself has been forgotten by all but the most devoted Waters and Van Halen devotees. And while it’s hardly up there with "Comfortably Numb" or "Ain’t Talkin’ ’Bout Love," it remains a fascinating curiosity in both men’s careers. Even if Roger Waters is unlikely to appreciate being reminded of it.

[nicknema]

And that’s how Danny Boodman T. D. Lemon 1900 was born

[the-evil-clergyman]

King Arthur's Tomb, from William Morris' The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems by Jessie M. King (1904)

[nautilus1954]

Favorite song that reminds you of Vincent, go

Hmmmm, that's a tough one.

If I were to make a guess, it would probably be the sound track to The Legend Of 1900, specifically 1900's theme.

I enjoy the violins in there in the beginning, somewhat defining his life as to how sad and unsure it was before his death. Then when we move on to where the tempo rises, we are introduced to the new Vincent, the demonic Vincent. He has the power to make things right, and though he's not entirely successful, he still trys.

And then THAT PIANO SOLO.

It comes in at such an unexpected moment, and completely changes the tone of the music. It's almost joyous. It shows that he can be a cheeky one, and always make good of the situation...

But then there's The Crisis.

It's another song from the movie, with the most interesting factor in the song being the main keys, which are sour notes. This shows that under that intact exterior, there is a broken interior. At times, he's still unsure of himself, and though he does a damn good job hiding it, it's still there, and with the ending notes being the same sour keys, we can imagine that it'll always be there. The scars that never heal.

If you haven't watched The Legend Of 1900, then I highly recommend it. The music and acting in it are beautifully orchestrated, and feel like the character Tim Roth plays in it has a bit of credit for making what Vincent is.

A young, confident lad who doesn't really understand the meanings of life. His whole persona screams Lost Boy. But he's still a brave, strong, and loving person.