Four Weddings And A Funeral Poem At Funeral. Funeral Blues or Stop all the clocks is a poem by W. The films success led Hugh Grant to international fame especially in the United States.
Funeral Blues also known as Stop all the Clocks is perhaps now most famous for its recitation in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral but its first audience encountered it as part of a play. You know theres nothing more off-putting in a wedding than a priest with an enormous erection yech. Ive read it here against an audio backdrop of When Darkness Falls by Secret Garden - which I felt made an evocative combination.
In 2016 Empire magazine ranked him 21 on their list of the 100 best British films.
It featured in the romantic comedy movie Four Weddings and a Funeral an appropriate choice as Auden was gay and the fictional funeral in the film was for a. Four Weddings And A Funeral is nowadays more closely associated with the TV series of the same name but for many it will always bring to mind the classic 1994 romantic comedy following the fumbling romantic antics of Hugh Grant and the heartwarming friendships he maintains along the way. Auden which first appeared in the 1936 play The Ascent of F6Auden substantially rewrote the poem several years later as a cabaret song for the singer Hedli AndersonBoth versions were set to music by the composer Benjamin BrittenThe second version was first published in 1938 and was titled Funeral Blues in Audens. In this scene of Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 John Hannah recites Funeral Blues by WH.