![]() ![]() There is Chuck D’s song “Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?” and Arcade Fire’s nod in “We Used to Wait” the entire poem has been set to music, by American composer John Craton. And, my personal favorite, Owen Wilson as Gil in Midnight in Paris, declares, “Prufrock is my mantra!” ( Annie Hall fans may see the continuity from Jeff Goldblum’s cry to his shrink over the phone, “I forgot my mantra!”) One could even view Allen’s To Rome With Love as an homage to the poem. I don’t want to look up at 50 and realize I measured out my fucking life with a coffee spoon.” In Love and Death (1975), one of Allen’s characters, pen in hand, cribs a few lines from the poem. ![]() In Celebrity (1998) Kenneth Branagh’s character agonizes, “I’m fucking Prufrock. He cited the poem in three pictures (two of which were released in the last decade). The auteur with the most prevalent Prufrock references: Woody Allen. ![]()
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