Two Oxford Views

The Divinity School and the chapel at Magdalen College

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Michael

Speaking of two views

In the process of cleaning house, which is kind of like a dirty oven with dog hair at the moment

I came across a set of three, great, Denzel Washington movies in one box that are all about fire

One of them is called Man on Fire, and it is directed by Ridley Scott’s brother, Tony Scott

My favorite of the three, though, is Courage Under Fire, which is directed by Edward Zwick

It seems to me that in our Western literary and filmic canon we have two heroic archetypes

The Man of peace who walks on water and the Man who confronts the burning bush

And we could make it three if we include the Madonna

I watched a movie the other night called Domino, in which Téa Leoni plays a woman “on fire”

It is technically superb, and the cute little Téa Leoni does an excellent job in her role

Tony Scott is a great director, but I found the movie Domino to be a little too much like propaganda

Trying to get us all revved up for coming war in the Middle East

Not the little one in the near term

Lewis

I wonder what the meanings of all of those sculptures are. In the divinity school photo there are 13 rows of 3 figures of men stacked on top of each other in the middle of far wall.
Amazing skill, all of it, but what did they intend us to think about it? What’s the message?