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 03.16.05 - 12:55 am I could watch this scene over and over for hours, that's how good it was written and acted. "The Tomb of Ligeia" (1964- written by Robert Towne, directed by Roger Corman) starred Vincent Price as Ligeia's tormented husband, and is loosely based on a story by Edgar Allen Poe. (A church bell tolls while a coffin is carried into a cemetery by four men and followed by a fifth. A minister arrives as it is being placed above the grave.) Minister: You cannot bury her in consecrated ground- she was unchristian! Husband: (kneels down and gently strokes a small window above the face of his enchanting, lost beloved) This is my ground. Minister: It is the Lord’s ground. Husband: Then let the Lord refuse her. Minister: She will not rest with the Christian dead. Husband: She will not rest because she is not dead... (stands up and faces the minister) ...to me. And she will not die because she willed not to die. Minister: Is her will stronger than the Lord’s? Husband: (pulls out a small tattered book) These are her words. (reads) “Man need not kneel before the angels, not lie in death forever, but for the weakness of his feeble will”. Minister: Blasphemy! Husband: (snaps book shut) Benediction. Minister: Now hear mine- (fiercely stares the widower in the eye) She desecrates the earth in which she lies, and her will rots with her bones. Both are as damned and dead as the Devil’s soul. (Suddenly, a cat yowls and jumps onto the coffin, and the eyes of his beloved open. The widower rushes over, pushes the cat away, and opens the coffin lid. With anticipation, he feels her neck for a pulse. Crestfallen, he closes her eyes.) Husband: (softly) A nervous contraction, nothing more. (stands up, raises voice, and begins to smirk) Nothing more. So silent now? Then why don’t you speak? (gaze travels to each member of the party) Or you? Or you?! Pray, speak! ...Or has the cat got your tongue? (begins chuckling) Minister: (visibly unnerved, his eyes dart from the coffin to the widower several times) You must have met in hell. (Minister leaves. As the coffin is lowered into the ground, the camera pans to the headstone which reads, “Ligeia... Nor lie in death forever”. End of scene.) Back & Forth Previous Adventures of Doom! Villains need to eat too (unless they are robots, of course). - 11.27.05 Tips for making laundry easy. - 11.23.05 Detroit museums and baklava. - 11.20.05 My affair with the Scotch Craft Stick. - 11.18.05 |
