Talk:Bluebeard's Castle
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The article makes reference to "the movie". Is there a standard movie version of the opera? Can a reference to that be added? --Malcohol 11:03, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
There is a movie version with Robert Lloyd & Elizibeth Laurence NVC Arts/Teldec. Unfortunatly it is only in the UK pal format. I ordered it from Amazon.UK.co 2 years ago but havn't yet transfered it to NTSC format. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364318/ I just checked again and it seems to out of print everywhere
- I have an NTSC original version of this... --Chinasaur 08:57, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
- Is it any good? --NicholasPrakash 03:13, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
- I really like it. The production is literal to the dialogue; rather than the doors and lights of the stage version, there are actual rooms and armor and a garden, etc. The exception is the first door, where as far as I can tell they just couldn't get the props together or something, so there's nothing in there (except for bleeding walls). The fifth door is kind of bizarre too. But the singing is good, orchestra is good, general ambiance is good, costumes are good, ending is really f'ing scary. Acting is no revelation, but it's fine. I don't really know what more you could do with these roles unless you were going to take the text very literally, which would also be weird. --Chinasaur 04:58, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
- Intresting I'm gonna have to transfer it to NTSC format and watch it. I'm kind of a film auteur myself and would love to do it as a movie. I would have about 1/2 hour of dialogue about a man who is in a catatonic coma as the dialogue then go into the opera as if it it was in his mind. It would be in the same vein as Das Cabinet des Doktor Caligari. Of course who would you cast as Bluebeard & Judith?NicholasPrakash 17:20, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
- I really like it. The production is literal to the dialogue; rather than the doors and lights of the stage version, there are actual rooms and armor and a garden, etc. The exception is the first door, where as far as I can tell they just couldn't get the props together or something, so there's nothing in there (except for bleeding walls). The fifth door is kind of bizarre too. But the singing is good, orchestra is good, general ambiance is good, costumes are good, ending is really f'ing scary. Acting is no revelation, but it's fine. I don't really know what more you could do with these roles unless you were going to take the text very literally, which would also be weird. --Chinasaur 04:58, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
- Is it any good? --NicholasPrakash 03:13, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
There is another version: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0239544/ but it is also out of print.
By the way the English translation of the opera is 'Duke Bluebeard's Castle'.--NicholasPrakash 14:46, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
I moved the following from the article, since it is an editorial interpolation:
- (Editorial comment by MH: the wives are not "amazingly" or "seemingly" alive; the doors represent the various aspects of Bluebeard's personality. The wives behind the seventh door are alive because they live in his memory, as all former lovers live in the memories of their partners.) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.179.89.49 (talk • contribs).
It may be a good idea to incorporate some of this into the article. A cite would be helpful. Antandrus (talk) 22:29, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
