Saturday 24 August 2013

Blancanieves and Music!

I put a load of music on my ipod bout a week ago, here's the ones i keep coming back to,

Evelyn Evelyn, You only want me 'cause... - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhhVlxYaqgA
Dylan, Let me die.. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVHOiJqUaGA
Nico, Innocent and vain - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jvr17J1Ln0
Laura Marling, I was an eagle - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg4FucEOfmU
The National, I nee - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMhMcXppqcc
Goat, Run to your mama - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0_dka3p-b0
The Dresden Dolls, Girl anachronism - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwgT-7z7-_8
Blind Willie Johnson, Nobody's fault but mine - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_o4omd8T5c

Now, Blancanieves.

 The greatest adaptation of Snow White I've ever seen, and the best family film since.. Spirited Away? Babe? Muppets Christmas Carol? no, better.. When you start comparing it to other family films you realise how light most of them are. This one is silent and black and white, I was sceptical of this at first because I don't understand why modern silent films have to be B&W and set in the 20's, let's have some colour and contemporary stories in silence please? But this suits the fairy tale aura of it. And it's dark, grim even. Most of the characters we're introduced to at the start are dead half way through, love goes unfulfilled, it has bullfighting, and the most problematic part of the Snow White story - the kiss by a suitable man (who's willing to take advantage of a sleeping girl) to wake her up - is given a lovely twist.