Curiosity dealer Blackman Cruz is selling a pair of stately arm sconces carved from wood. (Thanks, Michael-Anne Rauback!)
Arm sconce
Curiosity dealer Blackman Cruz is selling a pair of stately arm sconces carved from wood. (Thanks, Michael-Anne Rauback!)
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Beauty and the Beast
Jean Cocteau would be proud. Now if I could only get those rubber gloves that let you walk through mirrors. Without smashing them, I mean.
Yes! Good Cocteau reference. No price listed on the site. That means I can't afford it.
I wikipedia'd Jean Cocteau and still didn't get the reference. What's this about Jean Cocteau?
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WANT! How much do they cost?
"Where is my beautiful beast??"
Tom: rent the movie-- it's excellent-- and you will find out.
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Fantastique! I wonder if the other one is the left arm?
Jean Cocteau's "Beauty & the Beast" had a gorgeous scene where Beauty is walking down a hallway lined with these, except they were folded to the wall until she approached, then they would swing out and light. Then, as she passed, they would fold back and go out.
#8 and #3, the other reference (moving thru a mirror) is from a different Cocteau fantasy flick. I think it was a variant of Orpheus but am not certain.
http://witneyman.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/beautyandthebeast_cc_03.jpg?w=400&h=310
http://witneyman.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/beauty-and-the-beast/
Thanks IGM
Always loved these. Bought two when they were released. Bummer the ex-wife got them.
http://www.doombuggies.com/spgm/index.php?spgmGal=Modern_Collectibles&spgmPic=0#spgmPicture
Part of me is a trifle miffed at having been beaten with references to Cocteau's "La Belle et le Bete." On the other hand, it's geat to see that so many others are aware of the film.
#10 - The Beast's glove allows Belle to "teleport" to where she wants to go. (I'm always blown away by the shot of her suddenly appearing on the wall of her father's room like a swiftly-blooming rose; the music is perfect). The mirror allows her to see the condition of those she loves (her ailing father, and later the ailing Beast). The mirror one walks through is (I think) a prop in Cocteau's "Orpheus." I haven't seen his three Orphic films as frequently as "Beauty & the Beast," though, so I could be wrong.
I remember when I first saw "B&tB" as a kid. As soon as I saw those living arm sconces, I knew I was watching something truly amazing.
It seems nobody was ever completely happy with the ending. The Beast-turned-Prince is too clean, and Belle switches from earnest to coy. Greta Garbo is reported to have complained, after seeing the film, "I want my Beast!" He's much more interesting as a brute who needs work.
But then, as I once said to my dear departed love, "Fairy tales are not about Prince Charming. Once the heroine marries him, the story ends."