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the pin cushion queen
Unregistered User
(10/25/04 3:20 pm)
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any idea about the bluebeard fairytale's film adaptations?
There are some literature and film interpretations of Bluebeard however I want to ask if anyone knows any more films containing about Blue Beard. It doesn't have to be obviously the adaptation it could be something like Terror in the Wax Museum reminding the same issue.
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Kel
Unregistered User
(10/25/04 9:39 pm)
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*subject*
I haven't seen any movies from Bluebeard, but there are a lot mentioned on the surlalune site:
http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/bluebeard/themes.html
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the
pin cushion queen
Registered User
(10/26/04 12:41 pm)
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bluebeard
Thank you. I saw the films on the site but they are usually in nstc format so i can't watch them. I am looking for other films that include bluebeard character or a locked, forbidden room. :\
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Terri Windling
Registered User
(10/26/04 11:19 pm)
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Re: bluebeard
"As early as 1901, George Méliès directed a silent film version titled Barbe Bleu, which manages, despite cinematic limitations, to be both comic and horrific. Other film treatments over the years include Bluebeard's Eighth Wife in 1938; Bluebeard in 1944; Richard Burton's Bluebeard in 1972, and Bluebeard's Castle, a film version of Bartok's opera, in 1992. Maria Tatar makes a case that Bluebeard's tale can be seen as a precursor of modern cinematic horror. 'In 'Bluebeard, as in cinematic horror,' she writes, 'we have not only a killer who is propelled by psychotic rage, but also the abject victims of his serial murders, along with a 'final girl' (Bluebeard's wife), who either saves herself or arranges her own rescue. The 'terrible place' of horror, a dark, tomblike site that harbors grisly evidence of the killer's derangement, manifests itself as Bluebeard's castle.' Marina Warner concurs. 'Bluebeard,' she notes, 'has entered secular mythology alongside Cinderella and Snow White. But his story possesses a characteristic with particular affinity to the present day: seriality. Whereas the violence in the heroines' lives is considered suitable for children, the ogre has metamorphosed in popular culture for adults, into mass murderer, the kidnapper, the serial killer: a collector, as in John Fowles's novel, an obsessive, like Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. Though cruel women, human or fairy, dominate children's stories with their powers, the Bluebeard figure, as a generic type of male murderer, has gradually entered material requiring restricted ratings as well.' "
(The above paragraph comes from an online article on the history
of the Bluebeard fairy tale: www.endicott-studio.com/rdrm/forblue.html.
Hope this helps.)
Edited by: Terri Windling at: 10/26/04 11:20 pm
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the
pin cushion queen
Registered User
(10/27/04 5:22 pm)
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Re: bluebeard
Thank you, your article about blue beard has been very helpful. Actually I never thought Hannibal Lecter as the Blue Beard before. That's exactly the kind of the film that I was looking for. :rollin
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Erin
Registered User
(11/4/04 2:05 am)
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Re: bluebeard
I've not seen it in years, so I'm not sure if it's entirely appropriate, but it seems like Night of the Hunter had a Bluebeard inspired character.
Edited by: Erin at: 11/4/04 2:06 am
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Erica Carlson
Registered User
(11/4/04 5:49 pm)
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Re: bluebeard
It might have been mentioned on one of the sites already listed, but Jane Campion's movie The Piano (1993) has several Bluebeard references and allusions in it.
Erica
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