Monday, July 16, 2007
Labels: Cinema, Clear, FeaturedIllustration
I woke up to The Dark of the Sun playing in my head and it brought me the sort of sweet morning inner smile I haven't woken up to in about three weeks. Fucking finally! Excuse my expletive, if only because it's out of pure relief and not frustration, for once recently, and nobody is more relieved that yours truly. This has been the toughest chapter change I can ever recall, and only the Third Perspective knows why. Whatever the reasons, I hope they resonated with me somehow and that I'm stronger for it. Hey yeah yeah. ¶ I love, like many others, Francis Ford Copolla's integration of religious and gangster imagery in the Godfather trilogy. Especially poignant is Baptism and Murder, a sequence near the end of The Godfather. It's not so much Good versus Evil that makes this sequence work even if it does trade on that battle. It's the directing and editing restraint that does most of the work here to pull back from the potentially destructive cliché. The sequence places us in the church with Michael as he renounces Satan in baptizing his nephew and then in calm cuts we bear witness to his murderous commands executed in rough and gross ways. It's nowhere near a depiction of glamour—a mistaken distinction between film depiction and what the film depicts—instead it's a restrained interplay between the daily grind of priests versus hitmen. Michael Corleone's character continues to live with me and remains quite possibly the most complex cinematic characters ever. I depict him here as he lies to Kaye about murdering his brother-in-law. "No," he lies, flatly, to her one chance at asking about his affairs. But not merely a monster, he commits evil acts to protect in ways he never wanted and yet he is too weak to understand his greater responsibilities. ¶ I took last week off the weekly Siteway drawing but now I'm back and feeling like myself again and ready for more. The office is coming together slowly but surely and in time I'll have some new pictures up on flickr. ¶ Until next time, I bid you good day from Chinatown.
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Antony Hare is a freelance illustrator whose work has appeared in publications including Esquire UK, Maisonneuve, Forbes, Annabelle Mann, The Improper Bostonian, Bon Appétit, the Globe and Mail, and National Post (for which he won a Silver Medal from the Society of News Design). His work is at the meeting point between portraiture and caricature. Antony is a member of the Society of Illustrators and works from his office in downtown Toronto. ¶ Learn more about Antony.
Siteway was launched in 1996. It is Antony Hare's personal web site and is affiliated only with him. It contains his gallery of illustrations and blog since 2000. His illustrations are available for sale and for licensing in film and advertising. Siteway World is Siteway, Phelts, Tonicville, and Coastalmatic. Siteway is updated every week, usually Tuesday, with a new feature illustration.
