Yesterday here, having consideration of the Yeats poem (so scary!) -- I remembered the 1995 movie Nixon. This scene where Sam Waterston recites the poem -- he skips part of it, then finishes off with the ending... "slouching..."
In this scene I'm going to share, U.S. President Richard Nixon (Anthony Hopkins) and CIA Director Dick Helms (Sam Waterston) meet in Helms's office. They really spar: deal-making, lobbying, jostling... There's a moment with those flowers that is so spooky--and I'm not altogether sure if it's real or symbolic, and what it's supposed to mean... Intense.
And Waterston saying the poem from memory, to Pres. Nixon--what a voice! What an actor! What a scene!
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Nixon (1995) HQ "Do you ever think of death, Dick?"
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It's 10 minutes, 44 seconds.
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