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Literary Expressions Good morning!

Le Voyage dans la Lune. Literary Expressions Good morning! . Le Voyage dans la Lune.

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Literary Expressions Good morning!

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  1. Le Voyage dans la Lune Literary ExpressionsGood morning!

  2. Le Voyage dans la Lune • (France, 1902), the screen's first science fiction story, was a 14 minute masterpiece (nearly one reel in length (about 825 feet)), created by imaginative French director and master magician Georges Melies (1861-1938). • The silent film's plot, a light-hearted satire criticizing the conservative scientific community of its time.

  3. Melies wrote the whimsical script, acted in the film in the lead role, designed the sets and costumes, directed, photographed, and produced the film! • He hired acrobats from the FoliesBergere to play the lunar inhabitants named Selenites, and the scantily dressed assistants (or pages) who launched the cannon were dancers from the Châtelet ballet. • The image of the lunar capsule landing in the eye of the moon is a memorable sight and widely-recognized in cinematic history. • A Trip to the Moon is the first science fiction film, and utilizes innovative animation and special effects, including the iconic shot of the rocketship landing in the moon's eye.[1]

  4. Although most of the editing in A Trip to the Moon is purely functional, there is one unusual choice: • when the astronomers land onto the lunar surface, the "same event is shown twice, and very differently- • the first time it is shown crashing into the eye of the man in the moon; the second time it is shown landing on the moon's flat terrain. • The concept of showing an action twice in different ways was experimented with again by Porter in his film, Life of an American Fireman, released roughly a year after A Trip to the Moon.

  5. Editing was a new technique and in this film, editing was used to tell the story from two perspectives (the astronomers’ and the moon’s)

  6. Méliès had intended to release the film in the United States to profit from it; however, Thomas Edison's film technicians secretly made copies of it and distributed it throughout the country. Méliès never profited from it and eventually went broke.

  7. 1st Sci-Fi Filmsatirizing society • earliest examples of pataphysical film, while stating that the film aims to "show the illogicality of logical thinking.“

  8. Others still have remarked that the director, Georges Méliès, aimed in the film to "invert the hierarchal values of modern French society and hold them up to ridicule in a riot of the carnivalesque.“ • This is seen as an inherent part of the film's plot; the story itself pokes fun at the scientists and at science in general: upon traveling to the moon, these astronomers find that the face of the moon is, in fact, the face of a man, and that it is populated by little green men.

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