The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon (1907)
Apr 8, 2024 22:34:28 GMT
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The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon (1907),
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès stars in this ten-minute French film as the Professor of Astronomy. Upon teaching his students of the impending total solar eclipse, they all rush to the observation tower to see the moon pass between the Earth and the sun. The splendor of the event is further amplified by a meteor shower and planets. The professor, so overcome with what he's witnessed, falls from the observation tower, but disaster is averted when he lands in a rain barrel.
Critics assert that the film is either a sexualized or homosexualized offering, based on the looks of anticipation and rapture on the faces of the sun and moon. My take on the film is that the looks are euphoric on a spiritual plane, purely a nonsexualized response to the grandeur of the celestial event.
Today, I was in the path of totality for the total solar eclipse which passed across the southern United States. It was stunning. My happiness at the sight could be expressed only by the tears which filled my eyes. It is beyond any mortal expression.
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès stars in this ten-minute French film as the Professor of Astronomy. Upon teaching his students of the impending total solar eclipse, they all rush to the observation tower to see the moon pass between the Earth and the sun. The splendor of the event is further amplified by a meteor shower and planets. The professor, so overcome with what he's witnessed, falls from the observation tower, but disaster is averted when he lands in a rain barrel.
Critics assert that the film is either a sexualized or homosexualized offering, based on the looks of anticipation and rapture on the faces of the sun and moon. My take on the film is that the looks are euphoric on a spiritual plane, purely a nonsexualized response to the grandeur of the celestial event.
Today, I was in the path of totality for the total solar eclipse which passed across the southern United States. It was stunning. My happiness at the sight could be expressed only by the tears which filled my eyes. It is beyond any mortal expression.