[BRIEF NOTE] Munch's "The Scream"
Aug. 22nd, 2004 11:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldBy now, news of the theft of 19th century Norwegian painter Edvard Munch's famous painting "The Scream" has probably propagated far and wide.
I remember the first time I saw "The Scream." I was 9, and at a north shore Prince Edward Island trailer park. My father drove me and some of my friends to a neighbouring drive-in movie theatre, where we watched the first Batman movie. After inviting Vicki Vale to dinner at Gotham City's art gallery under false pretenses, the Joker gasses the denizens (save for Vicki, of course, who had been given a convenient gas mask) and enters the museum with his thugs. To the sound of Prince, they proceed to enthusiastically vandalize the works assembled there. Just as one of his subordinates swings a knife down against the canvas of "The Scream," Joker interrupts the weapon's arc with his cane. "I kinda like this one."
Here's hoping it gets returned shortly.
I remember the first time I saw "The Scream." I was 9, and at a north shore Prince Edward Island trailer park. My father drove me and some of my friends to a neighbouring drive-in movie theatre, where we watched the first Batman movie. After inviting Vicki Vale to dinner at Gotham City's art gallery under false pretenses, the Joker gasses the denizens (save for Vicki, of course, who had been given a convenient gas mask) and enters the museum with his thugs. To the sound of Prince, they proceed to enthusiastically vandalize the works assembled there. Just as one of his subordinates swings a knife down against the canvas of "The Scream," Joker interrupts the weapon's arc with his cane. "I kinda like this one."
Here's hoping it gets returned shortly.
