what

[rushthatspeaks]

Let's all play Guess Who's In This Photo!

It was probably taken before 1920, is of a famous, controversial, and exasperating poet whom I find pretentious as hell and politically disastrous, and is not, I repeat not, in any way Johnny Depp.

Looking at the filename or the full URL is cheating.

... it's amazing how much he looks like Johnny Depp, isn't it.

Comments

[rydra_wong]

Looking at the filename or the full URL is cheating.

This is terribly unfair on those of us who are incapable of having text within our visual fields without reading it.

(... it's very unnerving, yes. Though at least the nose is wrong.)

[erika]

I was just thinking about that. I literally don't think I could NOT read text if my life depended on it.

[redbird]

I confirmed my guess by looking at the URL after opening the photo, but I guessed before looking at the URL or the photo: the description you gave here was sufficient, without the bit about Johnny Depp. (Just as well, I don't have good memories for what many actors look like.)

[msilverstar]

wow, pretty!!!

I opened it into a new tab where the title was right there in my face, so couldn't guess and wouldn't have known.

We were just watching the Lester Three and Four Musketeers, and he also looks like Simon Ward as Buckingham.

[movingfinger]

Well, the nose is kind of a giveaway there.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Looks like Ezra Pound from this angle... (but it's probably Johnny Depp).

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Why doesn't Johnny Depp make over-the-top historical movies about that sort of thing? Harumph.

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

Yes. Also Sean Penn.

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

It says "ezra pound.gif" in the tab at the top of the page. Otherwise, I would have guessed Robinson Jeffers.

Didn't Pound become a fascist or a raging anti-Semite or both of those things?

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Il Miglior Fabbro!

(And I didn't peek.)

"Come, let us feast our eyes."

Nine

[daharyn.livejournal.com]

Well, he had to get all the ladies somehow. His ABC of Economics and adoration of Mussolini weren't really drawin' 'em in, if you know what I mean.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear Ghu - does this mean that Johnny Depp will look like Ezra Pound when he's old? *laments*

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

I guessed from your description. I'd never seen a picture of the young poet before, as far as I know.

[cija.livejournal.com]

Oh pfft EP is sub-Skeet Ulrich at best. The poor man's poor man's Johnny Depp!

[larryhammer]

Possibly unfairly, I'd already seen a picture of Ezra from that era, if not that particular one. He did have some charisma, to get him through the batshit times.

---L.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Huh. And here I wondered how he was getting multiple ladies to visit him in prison, what with the being a fascist and writing impenetrable epic poetry.

[gwynnega]

Only it's not Ezra Pound, it's his friend Gaudier-Brzeska! I only know this because the book and movie about Gaudier-Brzeska (Savage Messiah) are huge favorites of mine...

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

He looks like Johnny Depp and Gary Oldman had a child together.

[rivenwanderer.livejournal.com]

He should be on My Daguerreotype Boyfriend (http://mydaguerreotypeboyfriend.tumblr.com/)