Concerning the Fall of Man, Adam and Eve, Satan, and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden, literary masterpiece has made a substantial impact on popular culture.
As I'm particularly well-versed, you're in for a treat.
Paradise Lost
Title only.
No more no less.
As I'm particularly well-versed, you're in for a treat.
Paradise Lost
Title only.
No more no less.
Music
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| Cirith Ungol |
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| Delta Heavy |
My Last Regret is that Paradise Lost is a band, and also a track by Morgana Lefay.
Mixing it up, Paradise Lost, A Poem by John Milton features on The Used album Heartwork (ntbcw Carcass album of same name).
First off, it should be Beelzebub, answer'd and they invented bird armies.
What the fuck?
Also, the, failed and voice should be th', foyld and voyce respectively.
For some reason, they forgot 'Is this then worst,'
Perfect, apart from th'.
Film
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills is a true crime docudrama about the West Memphis Three and spawned two sequels - Revelations and Purgatory.
Organ harvesting horror Turistas (Tourists) was released in the UK and Ireland as Paradise Lost and romantic thriller Escobar uses poem as subtitle.
The point in all this?
Milton christened Satan as the Prince of Darkness.
Coincidence?
Finally, more subtitle shenanigans.
Christopher Lee reprised role from Dracula (1958) in Dracula: Prince of Darkness, but never uttered a word.
Why?
According to screen legend, it was because script was terrible, but screenwriter Jimmy Sangster disputed claim, stating "Vampires don't chat. So I didn't write him any dialogue."
We'll never know, but either story is plausible.
I know fangs and cape has always been called so, but did Bram Stoker take inspiration?
(Shrugs shoulders).
Mixing it up, Paradise Lost, A Poem by John Milton features on The Used album Heartwork (ntbcw Carcass album of same name).
Video games
Press release states that upcoming multi-format next gen mystery adventure involves a boy who while roaming a post-nuclear Polish wasteland, stumbles across a mysterious Nazi bunker.
Sounds very interesting.
Far Cry Instincts wasn't an arcade game, but Global VR based rail shooter on 2005 entry.
I wonder.
This is somewhat weird.
Developed and published by Turkish company Silicon Twins, Amiga game was released in 1991.
Oddity came on four floppies, in a nylon bag, with some photocopied pages and no box.
Description suggests bootleg, but...
Title sequence displaying ??? was a dig at local publishers who refused to take shit on, apparently due to cost implications.
Rumours allege drug fest sold over 100 copies.
Whatever, result was a shameless Shadow of the Beast clone.
Hilarious.
Loading screens display numerous quotes and translation issues.
It should be farewel (not a typo).
Press release states that upcoming multi-format next gen mystery adventure involves a boy who while roaming a post-nuclear Polish wasteland, stumbles across a mysterious Nazi bunker.
Sounds very interesting.
Far Cry Instincts wasn't an arcade game, but Global VR based rail shooter on 2005 entry.
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| Mega Man X8 End boss Lumines final move is... |
Developed and published by Turkish company Silicon Twins, Amiga game was released in 1991.
Oddity came on four floppies, in a nylon bag, with some photocopied pages and no box.
Description suggests bootleg, but...
Title sequence displaying ??? was a dig at local publishers who refused to take shit on, apparently due to cost implications.
Rumours allege drug fest sold over 100 copies.
Whatever, result was a shameless Shadow of the Beast clone.
Hilarious.
Loading screens display numerous quotes and translation issues.
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| Hail, Holy Light, Offspring of heaven first-born May I express thee unblamed? Since God is light, I am darkness !... Seek the light of chaos !...
- Satan-
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| Fairwell, happy fields, Where joy forever dwells. Hail, horrors! Hail, infernal world! And thou, profoundest hell, Receive thy new possessor; One who brings a mind Not to be changed by place or time. The mind is in its own place, And in itself can make a heaven of hell, A hell of heaven.
- Milton -
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Incidentally, A Heaven of Hell is the eighth episode of Season 2 of The Exorcist.
Awesome.
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| So Satan spake, And him Belzeebub thus answered: "Leader of those bird armies bright, Which but the omnipotent none Could have failed, If once they hear that voice, Their liveliest pledge Of hope in fears and terrors Heard so oft..." |
What the fuck?
Also, the, failed and voice should be th', foyld and voyce respectively.
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| We are decreed, reserved, And destined to eternal woe; Whatever doing What can we suffer more; What can we suffer worse?
- Satan -
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| So spake the grisly terror, And in shape, So speaking and so threatening, Grew tenfold More dreadful and deform. On the other side, In his palace, Pandemonium, Satan stood unterrified Like a comet burned !... |
Film
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| Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Feature length sequel to 1967 TV episode Space Seed has Chekov and Terrell investigate Ceti Alpha V. Mini-library also contains Paradise Regained. |
Organ harvesting horror Turistas (Tourists) was released in the UK and Ireland as Paradise Lost and romantic thriller Escobar uses poem as subtitle.
Animated effort Mass Effect: Paragon Lost is set during the events of Mass Effect 2.
Subtitle obviously references work.
Paintings
Selection follows.
The illustrative genius of Gustave Doré steals the show.
John Milton (reincarnated)
Multiple entendres
And by pure coincidence, it's also an area in Fallout 3.
Pandæmonium
Hell's capital enjoys its fiery self.
Clutching at straws, but.
Salma Hayek in THAT costume...
Err, not attractive of course.
(Laughs).
Film quotes
Ready or Not
"Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce; to reign is worth ambition."
The Forgiven
"All is not lost; the unconquerable Will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and courage never to submit or yield."
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
The Crow
"Abashed the Devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is."
Seven
One of my all-time favourite films deserves a slice of visual pie.
Long Hard Road Out of Hell by Marilyn Manson and the Sneaker Pimps is derived from said line.
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven
Pushing play:
Little Nicky
Alien: Covenant
Animal Factory
The Devil's Advocate
Alita: Battle Angel
Pushing start:
And there's more.
Prince of Darkness was the second in John Carpenter's so-called Apocalypse trilogy.
It was preceded by The Thing (1982) and concluded with In the Mouth of Madness.
All our man needs is a host.
Paintings
Selection follows.
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| Paradise Lost - Alexandre Cabanel |
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| Adam and Eve in the Earthly Paradise - Johann Wenzel Peter |
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| The Shepherd's Dream - Henry Fuseli |
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| The Temptation and Fall of Eve - William Blake |
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| Satan, Sin and Death - William Hogarth |
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| The World Before the Flood - William Etty |
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| Satan and Beezlebub |
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| Satan, the Fallen Angel |
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| Sennacherib's Army is Destroyed |
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| The Fall of Man |
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| The Heavenly Hosts |
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| Lance Henriksen (Scream 3) |
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| Al Pacino (The Devil's Advocate) |
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| A Vampyre Story Amidst the books on display is Paradise Found. |
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| Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise |
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| Legion (2010) Diner it may be, but eatery Paradise Falls describes Satan's fall to Earth and the war between angels and humankind. |
Pandæmonium
Hell's capital enjoys its fiery self.
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| A fabulous piece by John Martin. |
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| 2.5D platformer also spawned a sequel. |
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| Emperor of Pandemonium (Final Fantasy II) |
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| Santanico Pandemonium (From Dusk Till Dawn) |
Err, not attractive of course.
(Laughs).
Film quotes
Ready or Not
"Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce; to reign is worth ambition."
The Forgiven
"All is not lost; the unconquerable Will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and courage never to submit or yield."
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
The Crow
"Abashed the Devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is."
Seven
One of my all-time favourite films deserves a slice of visual pie.
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| Note pinned on the wall behind the Gluttony victim's fridge reads: "Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light." |
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven
Pushing play:
Little Nicky
Alien: Covenant
Animal Factory
The Devil's Advocate
Alita: Battle Angel
Pushing start:
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| Darksiders Would you serve in Heaven, or rule in Hell? |
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| Deus Ex Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. |
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| Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne It's better to reign in hell than serve in heaven |
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| Sam & Max Hit the Road "Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven." |
Prince of Darkness was the second in John Carpenter's so-called Apocalypse trilogy.
It was preceded by The Thing (1982) and concluded with In the Mouth of Madness.
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| Deciphered text reveals green goo is the corporeal embodiment of Satan. |
Come on Kelly, don't be shy.
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| Now possessed by Satan, 'offspring' attempts to free 'Anti-God' from the Great Mirror. |
Milton christened Satan as the Prince of Darkness.
Coincidence?
Finally, more subtitle shenanigans.
Christopher Lee reprised role from Dracula (1958) in Dracula: Prince of Darkness, but never uttered a word.
Why?
According to screen legend, it was because script was terrible, but screenwriter Jimmy Sangster disputed claim, stating "Vampires don't chat. So I didn't write him any dialogue."
We'll never know, but either story is plausible.
I know fangs and cape has always been called so, but did Bram Stoker take inspiration?
(Shrugs shoulders).
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