`Dante`s Inferno`- Glossing Over Evil?????????!
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`Dante`s Inferno`- Glossing Over Evil?????????
Bryan Forbes gave the script to KR because he felt it wasn`t commercial and KR scoffed, `A man robbing his dead wife`s grave- not commercial???????????????????`
But Forbes was correct. He was also euphemistic.
DGR was, according to the film, a morbidly misogynistic man who tormented his mistress by refusing to marry and thus consummate the relationship- who putatively transmitted to her his own syphlitic state- who then had contact whence she was ill and when she conceived but could not carry abandoned her altogether. The film also depicts her as a (nice) bisexual: an impression to which she might have objected.
That KR turns this all into a bawdy piece of Victorian musical camp esteems the magic of cinema. It remains my favourite film. I love the contrapuntal quality....its `look` of great stills photography (KR was a stills photograher before becoming a filmmaker)....its silent film quality.
But essentially it is a lie. Bryan Forbes was right.
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Okkaaaayyy. . .are you like just ranting here??? I didn't watch Dante's Inferno; instead, I read it and it was a brilliant piece of work