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Post by BunnyWhit on Jan 28, 2024 21:07:39 GMT
Oh, for crying out loud -- the beautiful Elena Verdugo just got thrown to the wolf!
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Post by topbilled on Jan 28, 2024 21:09:19 GMT
After Strickland died, Ata earned a nursing degree, moved to the U.S. and found work for a doctor named Marcus Welby.
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 28, 2024 21:10:33 GMT
We live in a very different world, but you could understand the bride and groom annoyed with the wedding reception when there's pressing business to attend to.
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Post by topbilled on Jan 28, 2024 21:11:47 GMT
In real life one of Gaugin's Tahitian born children died shortly after birth, and it affected his painting.
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Post by topbilled on Jan 28, 2024 21:15:15 GMT
This is George Sanders' most profound look...
...so we know he is playing an artiste.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Jan 28, 2024 21:17:22 GMT
I was just thinking how much it looked like peel & stick facial hair. I hope it is a contrivance and not George's real beard/stache abilities.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Jan 28, 2024 21:18:15 GMT
What is the meaning of the sepiatone?
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Post by topbilled on Jan 28, 2024 21:19:02 GMT
Gaugin did not have leprosy.
He had syphilis. Again the production code interfered with the facts.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Jan 28, 2024 21:19:15 GMT
What is the meaning of the sepiatone? I have a theory on this, but I'll need to see more of the film to know it it's correct.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Jan 28, 2024 21:22:59 GMT
In 2014, forensic examination of four teeth found in a glass jar in a well near Gauguin's house threw into question the conventional belief that Gauguin had suffered from syphilis. DNA examination established that the teeth were almost certainly Gauguin's, but no traces were found of the mercury that was used to treat syphilis at the time, suggesting either that Gauguin did not suffer from syphilis or that he was not being treated for it.
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Post by topbilled on Jan 28, 2024 21:23:31 GMT
A leper never really changes his spots.
Or does he?
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 28, 2024 21:25:33 GMT
A leper never really changes his spots.
Or does he?
I groaned and chuckled at the same time.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Jan 28, 2024 21:27:08 GMT
Gaugin did not have leprosy.
He had syphilis. Again the production code interfered with the facts.
Tahiti became home to leper colonies in 1914 and remained so until 1974. Gauguin died in 1903. So the history comes close to really supporting this substitution, which is not always the case in films.
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Post by topbilled on Jan 28, 2024 21:28:03 GMT
Gauguin went to Tahiti in 1891 in search of new themes. Also to escape Europe. He felt that European civilization was artificial and spiritually bereft. His paintings in the South Seas indicate his post-Impressionist style. Gauguin liked using sinuous contours and intense colors to express joy and serenity.
Tahiti was Gauguin’s home for the last twelve years of his life. He once said he had been interested in depicting “a tropical sun that sets aglow everything around it.” That was how he understood the beauty of the Tahitian landscape…which he sought to put on canvas.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Jan 28, 2024 21:29:26 GMT
What is the meaning of the sepiatone? I have a theory on this, but I'll need to see more of the film to know it it's correct. Ok. Yeah. It's what I was thinking: Black and white in the beginning of the film during the time that Strickland is unhappy and yearning. Sepia when he is in a better place, Tahiti, and things are starting to come together for him. There is more color to his life, but not completely. Color for the fire behind the closing credit to support that "his life was now complete."
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