Reading Notes: Peter Brook-Mahabharata, Part B
After everything, we open with Krishna appearing and saying that the kingdom needs a good and just king. The Pandavas are sent away to live in a different kingdom. They're to build a dazzling city. They are starting to be sent along the path to war.
They go to visit the city, and it's designed by Maya the great architect. They're stumbling around, he's made a fool of. You almost feel bad for him, if he wasn't plotting to kill everyone and cause chaos. They start plotting to take Yudhistera's kingdom away from him. He loves gambling, but he doesn't know how to gamble properly. So they invite him to a game of dice.
Duryodhana is always angry, he is resentful of the Pandavas, he feels second-best because his father was born blind. He has a long talk with Bhisma abou how whatever happens at the game, he must not interfere. And so the game begins. There is a whole spill about how there's no cheating involved...
His oppenent keeps winning. It's terrible to watch because Yudhistira doesn't know when to stop. I want to scream at him "NO!" while he slowly gambles away his kingdom. Eventually he gives away his kingdom in a mad scramble. Then he gambles his brothers. He gambles away himself. Finally, he gambles away Draupadi. Poor Druapadi is yanked by the hair to the center of the palace where everyone is. She gives everyone a stern talking too. Draupadi gives a terrible vow, that she will wash her hair in Dushasana's blood. And Duryodhana will have death come for him in the thigh.
Drithirstra gives Draupadi two favors, and she uses them to gain her husband's freedom. She goes with them. They are called back to one final round of dice, and there they are sent into exile. Amba finds them, and she asks Bhima to fight Bhisma, which is where I end this part of the film.
They go to visit the city, and it's designed by Maya the great architect. They're stumbling around, he's made a fool of. You almost feel bad for him, if he wasn't plotting to kill everyone and cause chaos. They start plotting to take Yudhistera's kingdom away from him. He loves gambling, but he doesn't know how to gamble properly. So they invite him to a game of dice.
Duryodhana is always angry, he is resentful of the Pandavas, he feels second-best because his father was born blind. He has a long talk with Bhisma abou how whatever happens at the game, he must not interfere. And so the game begins. There is a whole spill about how there's no cheating involved...
His oppenent keeps winning. It's terrible to watch because Yudhistira doesn't know when to stop. I want to scream at him "NO!" while he slowly gambles away his kingdom. Eventually he gives away his kingdom in a mad scramble. Then he gambles his brothers. He gambles away himself. Finally, he gambles away Draupadi. Poor Druapadi is yanked by the hair to the center of the palace where everyone is. She gives everyone a stern talking too. Draupadi gives a terrible vow, that she will wash her hair in Dushasana's blood. And Duryodhana will have death come for him in the thigh.
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| Draupadi giving her vow. |
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