happy 50th wickermanniversary i was so overcome i had to fill up an a4 (open in new tab and zoom for details!)
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i doodled some of my fave christoper lees; alexander saxton, dracula, lord summerisle, henry baskerville and frankenstein's monster <3
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is lord summerisle the original tumblr sexyman? pls discuss
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you think lord summerisle doodled himself ritually carving out howies heart in his day planner. YES. his day planner. where he meticulously mapped every step of the plot. it’s got the Morrison tartan as endpapers.
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Rewatching The Wicker Man (1973), it's really striking to me how much the ritual is for Lord Summerisle's own benefit as much as anything else. In fact, I would argue that, in some sense, the sacrifice is for and to him (as he himself blurs the distinction in Aphrodite's case).
Just as the ritual is meant to appease both Nuada and Avellenau, both gods and men, both Lord Summerisle's hedonistic thirst for life and the people of the island's hunger for both produce and worship (Summerisle the man, the people of Summerisle, and the island of Summerisle itself), so too I think Lord Summerisle's motivation is double: both expediency and love. The film leaves it ambiguous whether he believes or not in what he preaches, and I think he does and does not. As a politician and a zealot, he believes in the way a really good actor has to believe in what he's doing, and he's both. Because he loves the drama of it most of all, I'd say, and the difference between a ritual and a play is so thin.
He loses himself in it! He does, and he looks so thrilled when he's singing and burning Howie. His hair flares out in a corona and he's wearing yellow and his head overlaps with the sun in one shot. The sacrifice is for himself because he's the sun.
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I think I could turn and live with animals. They are so placid and self-contained. They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins. They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God. Not one of them kneels to another or to his own kind that lived thousands of years ago. Not one of them is respectable or unhappy, all over the earth.
The Wicker Man (1973)
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am i the only one who thought Lord Summerisle and Miss Rose had a lil smth going on considering they sang a really bawdy song?
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I haven’t posted that picture of Christopher Lee as Lord Summerisle in ages.
An oversight I will now remedy.
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I do love me some good folk horror and The Wicker Man is definitely a good one! I like movies where everyone knows something is fucked up except the main character.
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My local art theater played The Wicker Man* tonight so I went in costume like it was Rocky Horror. Thrifted this afternoon - I think I may make a more screen-accurate dress if I go as Lord Summerisle to a horror convention, but I'm pretty happy with it for a last minute, cumulative $25 effort.
* the "final cut", which was exciting because I knew of it but hadn't seen it yet - very cool seeing an expanded version of a movie I already love on the big screen.
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