#becket
They don’t get any more charismatic and legendary than him. Rest easy, Peter O'Toole. One of the great actors to ever live.
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Peter O'Toole, Richard Burton and Director Peter Glenville
on the set of Becket
Becket (1964)
directed by Peter Glenville
Richard Burton
as Thomas Becket
Peter O'Toole
as King Henry II
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ereini0n said: I thought brother Philip in ‘The Pillars of the Earth’ was rather good looking!
Hm, thanks for the heads-up, will have to go check out the situation there. There’s this thing about medievalists (or maybe it’s just me), but we sometimes feel like we have to act too cool for school when it comes to anything that purports to be from our period and happens to hit it big in pop culture. So my mom being all like ‘you study medieval churchy stuff, you should read Pillars of the Earth!’ meant I definitely wasn’t ever going to read Pillars of the Earth. Or watch the adaptation. So maybe I’m missing out on a few cute clerical types, but hey. My list was not, after all, exhaustive. For instance, I seem to also remember a kinda cute monk in the film version of “Becket,” and I’m sure I’m forgetting others.
…………..Okay, looked up this so-called Brother Philip. Definitely passable, definitely promising. ;) But now I find myself perplexed as to why there are monks in this at all. Is it not about building a cathedral? I figured they’d all be lay clergy (priests/bishops/canons and such), not monks.
King Henry II: “Forks?”
Thomas Becket: “Yes, from Florence. New little invention. It’s for pronging meat and carrying it to the mouth. It saves you dirtying your fingers.”
Henry: “But then you dirty the fork.”
Becket: “Yes, but it’s washable.”
Henry: “So are your fingers, I don’t see the point.”
