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The poet's cafe is a meeting place for young literary people, artists and hipsters who admire or jealous of Orpheus.
Orpheus was the official poet who became sacred and respectable by honor. On this day, his attention was attracted by a very noble woman called a princess. However, many young people and the drunk poet Sergey Fight fought. The princess tried to drag Segist out of the fight, but failed. The arrival of the police made the scene even more chaotic. During the escape, Segist was driven by two high-speed motorcycles. The person who appeared at the scene was injured.
The princess called Orpheus, she was going to send the young man to the hospital, and asked him to accompany her to the hospital to testify for her. But on the way, Orpheus found that the young man was dead and the car had left the city. The car was motorized. After the driver caught up, he stopped in front of a wooden house on the top of the mountain. Orpheus followed the princess, watched in astonishment as she woke up Segist, took him into the mirror of the room where they were, and then Disappeared. Orpheus hurried to follow them, but hit the glass and fainted.
When he woke up, he stayed alone on a remote mountain, and the wooden house was gone. Herbis, the princess's driver-the princess is actually death-was groggy in the car. He sent Orpheus back Home, Orpheus's wife Eritis is worried about his disappearance, and there are rumors that after the cafe accident, Orpheus made Segist disappear without a trace.
But Orpheus only thought about the strange phenomena he saw and the princess. He threw Eritis aside, went to the radio of the Herbis car to listen to the information, and anxiously searched for the secret.
When Orpheus was sent to the police station to answer the two charges against him, he met the princess, but he couldn't catch up with her no matter how hard he tried. He didn't know that the princess came out of the mirror in his room every night. Walked to him...Eritis was pregnant with a child. She was sad because of Orpheus' abandonment and decided to tell her pain to her former girlfriends and hate Orpheus' Bacchus Priestesses. But, on the road, the young woman was hit by a death motorcycle rider and was also taken into the mysterious world of death.
Orpheus learned about this through Herbis, and finally stopped listening to the information-it was sent by Segist-and followed Herbis with the help of gloves that would allow them to cross the mirror. , Entered the territory of the god of death. They passed through a dark area and finally arrived at the palace. The judgment of the gods believed that the god of death who did not act according to the order was guilty. All the secrets were revealed: the princess loves Orpheus, and Russia Albist fell in love with Eritis without knowing it.
Orpheus was allowed to understand his wife’s condition was never to see her again. Herbis helped them comply with the terms, but they quickly understood the difficulties. Eritis felt that she would never find Orpheus again. Love, so she forced her husband to watch her in order to die again. She finally succeeded and disappeared forever.
Almost at the same time, the poets and the priestess of the Bacchus broke into Orpheus' house and accused him of kidnapping their friend Segist. Herbis justified Orpheus, but With a gunshot, Orpheus fell down and was killed all at once. Death's motorcyclist squeezed into the police and helped Hurst put Orpheus into the princess's car.
Grim Reaper and Segist waited for them in the transition zone. However, the princess sacrificed her love to the love of the living, and ordered his assistants Hirst and Segist to save Orpheus and return Go to Eritis's side.
In the movie "Orpheus", the princess played by Maria Casares (note 1) does not represent the god of death, but the god of death of Orpheus. Each of us has our own god of death, from one of us. Take care of us at birth. This is not someone else’s god of death. We will see Orpheus’s god of death in particular surpassing her right, for overly human purposes, without hesitation in defying orders from the unknown.
In the film, the myth of Orpheus can be said to have become the myth of the poet. Twenty years ago, I gave the prototype of this myth in "Blood of the Poet". A poet also transcends the rules of the world, he and His Reaper meets in an unsatisfactory place where only tragedy can happen.
But we suspect that love can overcome some strange rules. Orpheus’s death made sacrifices (that is, Orpheus became an immortal), Orpheus-Eritis’s The hybrid forgets the conspiracy he suffered.
Orpheus’s lonely house constantly succumbed to the power of good and evil that surrounds it. Orpheus’s feeling that he didn’t go far enough in what he was doing prompted him to recklessly engage in the same way as magic. Dangerous behavior. This behavior deceived him, he was fooled.
A talking car, the driver Herbis, and certain fantasies of young people who seem to be rude and unfair are formed by the poet's side when he tries to break with the easy success. trap.
In the film, Oerteris is not a guardian angel, but a young college student who becomes an assistant to Orpheus’s death after suicide. Segist is another assistant, but the only purpose is to make Orpheus an assistant. Fusi was involved in the adventures of his Reaper's tactics. Everything was going on in this vague zone, this vacuum zone, where life stopped and death had just appeared.
I want to solve the problems that appeared beforehand and those that didn't appear beforehand. In short, freedom of will.
When I make a movie, I am sleeping and I am dreaming. Only the person in the dream, the place in the dream is important. Just like half asleep and half awake, it is difficult for me to contact other people. If you are alone While sleeping, another person walks into the room where he sleeps, then the person who walked in does not exist. He only returns to exist in the sleeper’s dream. Sunday is not a real rest for me. I try to make Dream again as soon as possible.
In my film, the god of death is not symbolically played by a young and elegant woman, but the god of death of Orpheus. Each of us has our own god of death, who takes care of us from the moment we are born. The Grim Reaper overstepped her power and became the Grim Reaper of Segist. When she asked Segist, "Do you know who I am?" Segist replied: "You are my Grim Reaper. "
Realism in unreality is always a trap. People can always tell me that this is possible or impossible. But do we understand the mechanism of fate? I just want to put this mysterious mechanism Become visible. Why did Orpheus's Grim Reaper wear this or that? Why is she riding in a Rolls-Royce car? Why is Herbis able to appear or disappear at will in some situations. In other situations. Under the rules of using people? Why these endless questions entangle thinkers from Pascal (note 2) to poets.
Any unusual phenomenon in nature confuses us and presents us with mysteries that sometimes cannot be solved. We have not really solved the secrets of ant nests, nor have we solved the secrets of honeycombs. The mimicry and spots of animals, conclusively It proves that their race has long been thinking about how to be invisible. We won't know more about it.
I wanted to easily touch on the most serious issues without empty talk. So the film became a detective film, with a mysterious side and a supernatural side.
I always like the dark moments at dusk, when this riddle appears in large numbers. I think the film can represent this situation well, provided that it does not make use of what people call the magic as much as possible. The more we are exposed to the mystery, the more realistic we are The radio in the car, the information with the password, the shortwave signal, the power failure, so many well-known factors, enable me to stay in reality.
No one would believe a poet made up by an author. So I need a poet singer in myths and legends, preferably a poet singer, the poet singer in Thrace. His adventure is so beautiful, there is no need to make up another one. . I render on this basis. What I do is just follow the rhythm of the myths. Due to the different narrators, over time, these myths will change. Racine and Molière have done even better. Direct antique. I always recommend imitating a model. People are evaluating poets from the perspective of injecting fresh blood into it because it is impossible to make it exactly the same.
Orpheus’s Grim Reaper and Ortres accused him of asking too many questions. From searching to understanding, this is a human quirk.
I want to adapt this beautiful myth of Orpheus to our time, just like I did to Tristan and Izer in "Return forever".
However, when adapting "Orpheus", I wanted to retain the magical atmosphere, which belonged to me only, and made "Blood of the Poet" and "Beauty and the Beast" successful in the United States.
The magical character Grim Reaper and her assistant Herbis will appear in front of the audience as an elegant woman and her driver. Grim Reaper (Princess)’s car, a car that can "talk" with the help of a radio, Will play a very important role. This can show the mystery of talking animals, and express this mystery in a form that we are familiar with.
Orpheus is a poet. But he received official courtesy, and his honour made literary colleagues look down upon him. At the beginning of the film (I insisted on using the amazing atmosphere of 1949), people were coldly It made him feel this. It was there that he first encountered the god of death (he didn't doubt her identity) in the form of an extremely elegant princess who interacted with the young avant-garde.
The film started as a detective film and maintained the style of this detective film throughout, so as to satisfy both those who only accept the film's own style and the broad audience who love the plot.
People will see in the movie (without relaxing the main line of the story and the main line of the myth), the characters appear in our world and another world: the middle ground between life and death, which was done before Christian Belar died. The overall setting of this zone. Orpheus’ pursuit of Eritis, Death’s pursuit of Orpheus, people in this world and people in another world are jealous; Orpheus goes to the dead to find My wife, once again lost her, in order to separate the couple, the god of death did what the other world did not order her to do; the other world warned the god of death; the god of death was judged, and she finally made sacrifices to separate the couple. Return to the other party, and was caught by the police in the region. All of the above completely unreal behaviors are linked together by the rigor of a realistic film. Every set of shots and every scene are comic and tragedy. The emergence of strange, or strange gags allows me to maintain my poetic style and never relax the lines that run through the story. This is necessary to arouse the audience's interest in the mediocrity that transcends their daily lives. Less.
("Film Digest" Issue 9, 1950)
Note 1 Maria Casares (Maria Casares: 1922-1996) is a French actress of Spanish origin.
Note 2 Pascal (Pascal: 1623-1662), French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher.
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