Wednesday, August 29, 2007
A Rather Off Topic Question
I’ve a question about a magic castle. That is perhaps only a weak link to our present movie, but my question really picks up on kc’s question about the action effects in “The Lavender Hill Mob”. Has anybody seen Cocteau’s 1946 movie, “Beauty and the Beast”? Cocteau had some association with the Surrealists and in the magic castle in BB he said that he didn’t want to do “movie” special effects but instead wanted concrete surreal images. If you’ve seen the movie, what do you think of the effects?
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Oh gosh, I want to see "Beauty and the Beast." I peeked at your recent ratings on Filmaffinity and saw that you liked it. Plus, I like Cocteau.
Let me know what you think then.
The Criterion disk had two commentary tracks. The first seemed kind of dull, so I skipped to the second. He mentioned in passing two other treatments of “Beauty and the Beast” that were influenced by Cocteau: Tim Burton’s “Edward Scissorhands” and the Disney “Beauty and the Beast”. So I added those to Netflix.
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