Copellia

[David Morris]

P knows his Freud, and he knows opera.  He is well versed in automata and
Frankenstein, as well as the golem,  He hasn't done clones yet...

Clone Returns Home (2008)

http://variety.com/2008/film/reviews/the-clone-returns-home-2-1200472620/

Trailer:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1GNlba2ZIpI&app=m

On Tuesday, December 31, 2013, John Bailey wrote:

> Yeah, Coppelia is based on ETA Hoffmann's short story The Sandman,
> which was the major text Freud used to explore his theory of The
> Uncanny (and good stuff on voyeurism and castration). Very influential
> story and essay. Dunno if P read either but I've never been able to
> read V. without seeing them everywhere in the novel. V is the human
> who transforms themselves into an object, and makes real the horror
> implicit in the ballet (it's more obvious in the story, which doesn't
> have a happy ending.)
>
> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 9:12 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > Watching the movie Tetro, a scene from the ballet Copellia, the broken
> doll,
> > is portrayed. I'd never heard anyone mention the ballet in V. In light of
> > Copellia, which seems so obvious to be its reference.
> >
> >  http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copp%C3%A9lia
> >
> > Coppélia concerns an inventor, Dr Coppelius, who has made a life-size
> > dancing doll. It is so lifelike that Franz, a village swain, becomes
> > infatuated with it and sets aside his true heart's desire, Swanhilde. She
> > shows him his folly by dressing as the doll, pretending to make it come
> to
> > life and ultimately saving him from an untimely end at the hands of the
> > inventor.
>
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