Posted on 09/02/2021 8:24:56 AM PDT by Borges
Mikis Theodorakis, the renowned Greek composer and Marxist firebrand who waged a war of words and music against an infamous military junta that imprisoned and exiled him as a revolutionary and banned his work a half century ago, died on Thursday at his home in central Athens. He was 96.
The cause was cardiopulmonary arrest, according to a statement on his website. His family said in a statement read on Greek state television that his body would lie in state, and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis declared three days of national mourning.
Mr. Theodorakis was best known internationally for his scores for the films “Zorba the Greek” (1964), in which Anthony Quinn starred as an essence of tumultuous Greek ethnicity; “Z” (1969), Costa-Gavras’s dark satire on the Greek junta; and “Serpico” (1973), Sidney Lumet’s thriller starring Al Pacino as a New York City cop who goes undercover to expose police corruption.
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More evidence to support the truism that only the good die young.
So did he give up all of his royalties for his compositions to the state like a good little commie?
Marx: “God is dead.”
God: “Marx is dead.”
The only good Marxist…
Well, he wrote some good music.
He is kind of the opposite of an old man I once knew — an Albanian Communist who escaped to Greece when he wasn’t hanging enough “fascists” after WW2, took refuge in a church during the Greek civil war, and became a Christian.
His score for “Z” was riveting and drove the movie.
Never grief when a commie assumes room temperature.
Try to watch the film version of “Zorba the Greek” now. It’s awful - unwatchable. And the score sucks. This guy was a true no-talent who wrote one song - the Zorba dance that goes from very slow to very fast. That’s it. He built his career on being a loudmouth Marxist which, to me, means he was an anti-human scum and supporter of the most murderous ideology the world has ever known.
William Friedkin pretty much ripped off the look and feel of Z in “The French Connection”.
The guy is breaking plates in a small area in the street probably due to some regulation for the street-use permit; but in traditional Greek restaurants, the plates get tossed all over the floor!
Incidentally, Irene Papas is still alive and turns 95 tomorrow.
His music captures the essence of life, the love of family, of friends, of lovers, the sweet sorrow of love lost, the smell of the sea and the warmth of the sun. Above all else, his music expresses joy, a joy that overflows the heart and uplifts the soul.
Amazing!
Prayers for a deeply misguided soul.
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