[342] yet another theoretical movie review (black orpheus)

Aqui en la alcantarilla alquimica nos gusta ver peliculas culturales, leer y oir musica, mas el tiempo no da para poder hacer las actividades.  Muchas veces se decide ver las reseñas y criticas de una pelicula para tener una mejor idea de si vale la pena rentarla o comprarla en algun momento.  Esa es una reseña teorica de la pelicula.

Hace par de dias me ha llamado mucho la atencion el mito griego de Orfeo y Euridice.  Buscando una cancion (The Afterlife) tropece con una nterpretacion de Arcade Fire, un grupo indie que no ha pegado en Puerto Rico pero que siempre me ha llamado la atencion.  Para su cancion afterlife usaron el footage de una pelicula de Camus titulada Black Orpheus.  decidi indagar.

Primero el video de Arcade Fire:

 

Es una reinterpretacion del mito griego pero basado en el carnaval de Rio.  Tiene muchos elementos de Candomble y Santeria.  Tiene mucho del mensaje de la epoca.  Aqui dejo la reseña y trailer de Criterion:

 

http://www.criterion.com/films/344-black-orpheus

(sorry hay que ir a pagina para ver trailer)

 

http://www.stereogum.com/1531511/arcade-fire-afterlife/mp3s/       

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/black_orpheus/

http://entertainment.time.com/2013/10/29/brush-up-on-the-greek-myth-that-arcade-fire-is-singing-about/

http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/feature/brazil-orpheus.html

http://rock.rapgenius.com/Arcade-fire-afterlife-lyrics

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/21/arcade-fire-afterlife-video_n_4139415.html

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/10/21/arcade_fire_afterlife_even_more_disco_than_reflektor_listen_and_watch_video.html

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053146/

Sobre la mitologia del tema (

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Orpheus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus
The most famous story in which Orpheus figures is that of his wife Eurydice (sometimes referred to as Euridice and also known as Agriope). While walking among her people, the Cicones, in tall grass at her wedding, Eurydice was set upon by a satyr. In her efforts to escape the satyr, Eurydice fell into a nest of vipers and suffered a fatal bite on her heel. Her body was discovered by Orpheus who, overcome with grief, played such sad and mournful songs that all the nymphs and gods wept. On their advice, Orpheus travelled to the underworld and by his music softened the hearts of Hades and Persephone (he was the only person ever to do so), who agreed to allow Eurydice to return with him to earth on one condition: he should walk in front of her and not look back until they both had reached the upper world. He set off with Eurydice following, and, in his anxiety, as soon as he reached the upper world, he turned to look at her, forgetting that both needed to be in the upper world, and she vanished for the second time, but now forever.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurydice

http://www.mythweb.com/encyc/entries/orpheus.html

Reseñas Teoricas Previas

http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2011/07/194-theoretical-movie-review-wings-of.html

http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2012/01/232-another-theoretical-review-art-of.html

http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2013/10/332-el-santos-me-hizo-el-fin-de-semana.html

 

Orishas (previamente)

http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2011/05/180-exhibicion-en-linea-pintura-de.html

 

Comics relacinoados

http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2012/04/262-when-we-were-young.html

 

Bueno, una de dos.  Buscar donde la alquilen, si la veo en Best Buy o ver si puedo verlo por Netflix desde casa de mami...y en el interin escuchar canciones de Samba de la pelicula por youtube...

Churn out.

Update: La cancion the afterlife que buscaba era por Yacht:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmK3EnX8EQM
http://www.out.com/entertainment/music/2011/05/10/need-know-yacht

Baje la cancion por un website indie (no recuerdo cual) y me frustraba no saber quien era el grupo.  Asi el grupo no sea gran cosa.