#The Legend of 1900

[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🧡🐀🍊✨

[princessnamora]

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

[arcanespillo]

The Legend of 1900 —1998

[beeeeeta]

1900

[in-the-super-sargasso-sea]

Tim Roth - Behind the Scenes on The Legend of 1900 (1999) (x) (x) (x) (x)

[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.

[ztan-31]

mentally i'm still here

[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.

[nautilus1954]

[movietitleinferno]

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.

[reservoirblogs]

me: actually i didnt like the legend of 1900 that much, its exploration of music and of the artist is very shallow, and spends way too much time enamored by its own “deep” dialogue. also tim is shot with very harsh lighting and honestly looks really awkward half the time

also me: NINETEENHUNDRED MY LOVE MY SON MY CHILD

[that--funny--feeling]

"All that city... You just couldn't see an end to it. The end! Please, could you show me where it ends? It was all very fine on that gangway and I was grand, too, in my overcoat. I cut quite a figure and I had no doubts about getting off. Guaranteed. That wasn't a problem. It wasn't what I saw that stopped me, Max. It was what I didn't see. Can you understand that? What I didn't see. In all that sprawling city, there was everything except an end. There was everything. But there wasn't an end. What I couldn't see was where all that came to an end. The end of the world. Take a piano. The keys begin, the keys end. You know there are 88 of them and no-one can tell you differently. They are not infinite, you are infinite. And on those 88 keys the music that you can make is infinite. I like that. That I can live by. But you get me up on that gangway and roll out a keyboard with millions of keys, and that's the truth, there's no end to them, that keyboard is infinite. But if that keyboard is infinite there's no music you can play. You're sitting on the wrong bench. That's God's piano. Christ, did you see the streets? There were thousands of them! How do you choose just one? One woman, one house, one piece of land to call your own, one landscape to look at, one way to die. All that world weighing down on you without you knowing where it ends. Aren't you scared of just breaking apart just thinking about it, the enormity of living in it? I was born on this ship. The world passed me by, but two thousand people at a time. And there were wishes here, but never more than could fit on a ship, between prow and stern. You played out your happiness on a piano that was not infinite. I learned to live that way. Land is a ship too big for me. It's a woman too beautiful. It's a voyage too long. Perfume too strong. It's music I don't know how to make. I can't get off this ship. At best, I can step off my life. After all, it's as though I never existed. You're the exception, Max. You're the only one who knows that I'm here. You're a minority. You'd better get used to it. Forgive me, my friend. But I'm not getting off."

The Legend of 1900

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Seven Pounds (2008, Gabriele Muccino)

26/08/2024