Copellia

[David Morris]

I guess the most important aspect of all of this neo-human engineering is
that deus ex machina. Even so benign a being as Slothrup might cost you
your balls.  The Creation often confounds The Creator, but only because of
the Creator's willfulness.  This is also the story of Faust:  willful self
creation via artificial means.  Both the same cautionary tale.

David Morris




On Tuesday, December 31, 2013, David Morris wrote:

> 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:
> HKAIFF 2009 - 複製人懷鄉曲 The Clone Returns Home - 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> 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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