Pasolini, Maria Callas - Medea (1969) 04/12

Go to part 5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YjhXoKDJ20

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• maria
• callas
• medea
• pier
• paolo
• pasolini
• euripides

[flouraki]

i loveeee maria callas, but Medea is nuts dude!!!!

[lostris01]

I understand her; what a way to really get him where it hurts; kill his kids. The coldest dish ever served!

[frankchute49]

de ella me gusta todo ...no le falta nada . viva MARIA CALLAS ..

[CorinaTag]

@flouraki I also love Maria Callas, flouraki. Haha, Medea is ... uf! But, Maria Callas in this film is fantastic

[CorinaTag]

I also love Maria Callas, flouraki. Haha, Medea is ... uf! But, Maria Callas in this film is fantastic

[teoge5]

maria callas is just amazing, but whole movie has nothing to do with historical Medea, kholkian (western Georgian) princes. Using Georgian music and Georgian land shaft and Georgian faces wood have created beter prototype of Medea

[gustopheles]

What I find bizarre is that this film was a commercial project, intended as a mainstream Callas vehicle during one of her breaks from singing. How can a film so obtuse, abstract and unusual have expected to be perceived as commercial?

[SanPedroMa]

@wattever333

She kills her brother and chops him up and throws the pieces on the ground so that her father who chases them will waste time picking up the pieces and burying them. This way they can escape.

[wattever333]

who does she kill at the end of this clip? her brother? a slave?

[vivahollywood]

(start w/ previous post!) now we try to analyse Medea's actions--she killed her brother to save her lover, (she commits several heinous crimes in the name of love--and later hatred--for Jason). but the murder of her sons is the only one that isn't abt revenge. she's actually *saving* them from a crueler death at the hands of her enemies....the Greeks would have understood this, even if they hated her. b4 Euripides' version, the sons were killed by the Korinthians

[vivahollywood]

black3window, I promise it would be easier to comprehend if you read the play first.  If I hadn't read it, then this film would be confusing to me, too.

You have to understand that Medea, in the days of Euripides (the original writer), would have been considered a villain of the worst kind by Greek audiences. It isn't until MUCH later that we try to explain or excuse her behavior...just as we don't offer a deep psychological evaluation of Cruella De Vil--she's simply evil.