Orpheus

you the steam locomotive.

And I know that sounds ridiculous, but it was literally my two favorite movies when I was eight was Cocteau's Orphée and Truffaut's Jules and Jim.

Now, that's a very odd thing for an eight-year-old, but I grew up in New York City downtown.

My parents were like quasi-Bohemians.

So however, at the same time, I will, uh, I will, uh, I will point out that, um, uh, Christophe Gans' Beauty and the Beast does have some very Cocteau elements it...

But, but more like his other stuff, like his, you know, his o- you know, Cocteau's Orpheus, Blood of Poet.

You get what I'm saying.

There, there's a lot of elements from like his previous work instead of the, you know, Cocteau's own take on, you know, his own take on Beauty and the Beast.

Yeah.

I mean, I think, you know, the Orpheus movies are very much, you know, they, they feed into that same kind of stream, um, because they are also about, you know, wandering and they are about other spaces, you know, phantom spaces, and also using Cocteau's own biography as, uh, you know, the sort of breeding ground for w- w- recontextualizing myth.

Um, and, you know, again, wondering what the purpose of the cinema is, you know.

He and Buñuel were very much thinking about dream logic entering into the cinema.

... and influencing the real world.

Um, Orphee is, uh, Orphee, Orphee, is a 1950 French film.

Um-

Okay

like an antenna.

And you're just picking up signals, you know, and of course, his historical referent was Cocteau's famous movie, Orpheus.

That's the movie I'm thinking of.

Yes, I just couldn't remember the name.