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Black Orpheus
The co-production film “Black Orpheus” was made in 1959. The director of the film was Marcel Camus. The film was a transformed version of a Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. The movie won many awards including Palme d’Or at Cannes film festival in 1959 and many more.
The plot of the story revolves around the main character Orpheus who is engaged to a girl, Mira, with whom he goes to get the marriage license. The clerk makes Mira jealous by hinting that Orpheus has relation with another girl. But they get license. When Orpheus gets back to home, he come to know that his neighbor Serafina’s cousin has been visiting him to save her life because the “Death” was after her.
In the movie, Death has a symbolic appearance (a man wearing skeleton dress). So he rescues her from the clutches of death. Orpheus plays guitar which impresses Eurydice. He tells the old Greek story on “Orpheus and Eurydice” (the actual mythological characters in the Greek legend to whom the recent time characters of Orpheus and Eurydice are relating themselves).
The pair falls in love with each other. But both are chased by Death and Mira. Both Mira and Death wanted to kill Eurydice Then there is the carnival festival where Eurydice who is disguised in the dress of Serafina who has gone to meet some one but wanted Eurydice to pretend to be Serafina so that nobody could feel her absence.
In the festival, Orpheus ‘is bent upon Eurydice (dressed as Serafina) to have dance with her rather than with Mira. When Eurydice’s real identity is disclosed, she has to pay the penalty again and runs for her life again both from Mira and Death. But she is killed by Orpheus accidently when he turns on the power and she is electrocuted. Death tells him that Eurydice is now his property. Then Orpheus manages to have contact with Eurydice’s spirit by using an old woman’s body. He wanted to see her but she told him not to look back other wise he will never see her again. But he sees and loses her forever.
Orpheus is then killed by Mira and it is where the film ends showing remake of the Greek mythology transformed in to recent times.
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Black Orpheus
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