Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Gordon's Alive?!
For Halloween, I decided to shed the ‘Quiet Guy’ image I’ve been been garnering around the College. Quiet Guys all end up doing something Horrible That No One ExpectsTM, so I figured it would be a good time to move out of the rut before someone expects me to go postal.
For Hallows Eve, I became the one person in the world that is never subdued….
Vultan, King of the Hawkmen!
Granted, my version of Vultan looks rather Roman, but it’s not like Vultan has been portrayed in any consistent manner over the years:
Traditional Alex Raymond Vultan.
Vultan of the Buster Crabbe serials.
Vultan, Brian Blessed-ized!
Modern Vultan.
The costume was open to interpretation. Many identified me as an avenging archangel ( most specifically, Ben Affleck in Dogma, Leonardo Dicaprio in Romeo and Juliet, a centurion, a gladiator, and, best of all, Trojan Man!
After lunch, I sojourned to Turlington Plaza, climbed atop a table, and proceeded to scream out the following stirring soliloquy that even silenced and, dare I say…humbled, our permanent professional Bible-Thumpers:
“Onward my Brave Hawkmen. Let this be known forever as Flash Gordon’s Day! Hawkmen sortie…..DIIIIVE!”
One of the biblical hecklers, awed by the acoustics, rejoined “That’s the way to do it!”
I then ran around to the hub for a second performance, where I was given a standing ovation and calls for encores.
I feel I reclaimed maybe a little of that regret for not performing in the Music Man fifteen years ago. Thanks, Brian Blessed, for giving me a VOICE. Onward, indeed.
Labels: Hooray for Hollywood, Science Fiction, Sheer Awesome
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