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Ep 31 - Milton's Paradise Lost (Book I)

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Film Review - Paradise Lost Incessantly

Milton has an extreme cinematic quality extremely filmic extremely visual pre pre-film but i think filmmakers and those who are trying to learn the art of cinematography can do much worse than to read paradise lost incessantly. We sympathize with people in pain we sympathize with the vulnerable and the underdog and satan is the ultimate underdog here hurled over the heavenly battlements and he doesn't want to be vanquished though in pain vaunting allowed but racked with deep despair. There's a poeticism to his authorities to his references to these classical illusions there's a poeticisms there but this is the cinematic quality when he describes satan him happily slumbering on the Norway foam.

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