Corraboration
May. 30th, 2006 12:47 pmThis morning I saw a moment of Bringing Up baby and was reminded of something I had noticed before but forgotten.
In the foyer of Hepburn's aprtment there is a large roundel showing the Nike of Samothrace, that is, a huge female angel half-clothed in diaphinous drapery, in profile in flight, carrying a small naked boy on her back.
As far as I know this was created for the film--certainly I've never seen it elsewhere; but who knows, it could be a copy of soemthing lurking in a corner of Caserta or Castle Howard. In any case it is hard to beleive that the film makers did not intend this image as a symbolic expression of the the central relationship in the film.
Nevertheless, I am still disposed to think that in regard to The Bride of Frankenstein I am hallucinating.
In the foyer of Hepburn's aprtment there is a large roundel showing the Nike of Samothrace, that is, a huge female angel half-clothed in diaphinous drapery, in profile in flight, carrying a small naked boy on her back.
As far as I know this was created for the film--certainly I've never seen it elsewhere; but who knows, it could be a copy of soemthing lurking in a corner of Caserta or Castle Howard. In any case it is hard to beleive that the film makers did not intend this image as a symbolic expression of the the central relationship in the film.
Nevertheless, I am still disposed to think that in regard to The Bride of Frankenstein I am hallucinating.