mysterious doors
The month of January is named after the god Janus, the god of the bridges and above all the doors (Latin Ianua, port). This god had a double-ended, because the doors to get out but you can also enter.
course, the symbol of the door is widely distributed and used in all cultures. A door closed or even sealed means the physical or mental inability to access a site.
The month of January is named after the god Janus, the god of the bridges and above all the doors (Latin Ianua, port). This god had a double-ended, because the doors to get out but you can also enter.
course, the symbol of the door is widely distributed and used in all cultures. A door closed or even sealed means the physical or mental inability to access a site.
Poets Greeks and Romans, and later the medieval troubadours, gave birth to a true gender literature in which the poet turned to the door begging her to open for him to reach his beloved.
are numerous, including the Holy Doors that are open on special occasions, symbolically to emphasize the ability to access a new spiritual condition.
Initiates and wizards, however, speak of the existence of real magic doors that would give access to fantastic places if you know the right formula to open them.
Sometimes the discovery is by chance, as in the story Ali Baba, who listened to the words "Open Sesame" which opened the door to a magical cave full of treasures accumulated forty ferocious bandits.
Even in our area is full of caves of this kind. It is said that Angera there is a cave where once every hundred years would open a door that gives access to the world of fairies.
And there you can choose between two magic items, a cowbell and a bag of abundance always full of gold coins, pure love of a beautiful woman asleep.
Knocking on the doors of Paradise
In 1964, when he came For a Fistful of Dollars Sergio Leone westerns changed the genre forever. The cowboys were not più cavalieri senza macchia e senza paura. Avevano perso per sempre il loro Eden e si aggiravano brutti, sporchi e cattivi in un mondo senza eroi.
Il compito di dare una risposta americana agli “spaghetti western” fu assunto da Sam Peckinpah, il più cattivo ed allucinato dei registi americani dell’epoca. Nel 1969 firmò Il mucchio selvaggio una delle più violente pellicole del genere, in cui usò in abbondanza la tecnica del rallenty per sottolineare le scene più forti.
Nel 1973 Peckinpah diresse Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid . La storia è quella di due personaggi reali, diventati vere leggende del vecchio West: lo sceriffo Pat Garret has to stop the bloody escape of a young outlaw who had been friend, Billy, 21 years and 21 murders.
For the soundtrack was proposed to the director, singer Bob Dylan in Peckinpah had a good opinion. It is said that one evening the director, sitting on the veranda of his house in Mexico, asked Dylan to let him see what he could do with a guitar. Hearing him sing "Bloody Sam", as it was called, began to cry. Dylan was hired and was even given a small part in the film.
The set of Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid however, was not at all easy. Someone described him as a real field of battle not only for strange incidents that afflicted the set several times forcing you to turn many scenes, but also for the continuous clashes between the director and production, to the point that came out in theaters a film re-edited by the producers. For this reason the film was almost incomprehensible, until fifteen years later the mystery was cleared with the rediscovery of the edited version of Peckinpah.
Dylan also had its problems. To realize the music he was joined Jerry Fielding, who had very conservative views on what should have been the true music of a western movie and openly despised the work of Dylan. At one point Dylan Fielding challenged to write a new piece for the scene of the death of a sheriff. When Dylan played the first notes of the song that describes sheriff knocking at the gates of heaven , Fielding saw the emotion of those who were listening and understood to have lost.
Dylan's song is considered one of the 500 greatest songs of all time and has had several versions. In 1987, coinciding with the rediscovery of the original film of Peckinpah, Guns N 'Roses transformed into an intense rock ballad.
Tonight, in the mystery shop, listen Knockin 'on Heaven's Door by Bob Dylan .
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