Perhaps my favorite scene in Under the Volcano comes when Geoffrey Firmin (played by Albert Finney), erstwhile British diplomat and full-time paramour of all things alcoholic, has passed out in the street of the Mexican town in which he lives. A fellow Englishman comes roaring up in a convertible and, finding his passage blocked by the insensate body, leaps out to investigate. Firmin awakens. Dirt smudged on his face and clothes disheveled from his long-ago abandonment of sobriety, he nonetheless leaps to his feet and insists that he's fine, simply splendid; he smites the fellow with his charm, commenting on the Oxford University tie the other man is wearing around his waist, matching him plummy tone for plummy tone. The driver of the convertible notes that he keeps a bottle in his car for emergencies, and Firmin gratefully downs the whole thing before bidding his fond farewell.
Hell is My Natural Habitat: "Under the Volcano"
Hell is My Natural Habitat: "Under the…
Hell is My Natural Habitat: "Under the Volcano"
Perhaps my favorite scene in Under the Volcano comes when Geoffrey Firmin (played by Albert Finney), erstwhile British diplomat and full-time paramour of all things alcoholic, has passed out in the street of the Mexican town in which he lives. A fellow Englishman comes roaring up in a convertible and, finding his passage blocked by the insensate body, leaps out to investigate. Firmin awakens. Dirt smudged on his face and clothes disheveled from his long-ago abandonment of sobriety, he nonetheless leaps to his feet and insists that he's fine, simply splendid; he smites the fellow with his charm, commenting on the Oxford University tie the other man is wearing around his waist, matching him plummy tone for plummy tone. The driver of the convertible notes that he keeps a bottle in his car for emergencies, and Firmin gratefully downs the whole thing before bidding his fond farewell.