"Offenbach's Le Voyage Dans la Lune " Topic
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| Tango01 | 05 Nov 2014 10:15 p.m. PST |
"Conventional wisdom and the majority of literature has held that Georges Méliès' 1902 cinematic epic A Trip to the Moon was a co-adaptation of Science Fiction's two founding authors, Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. From Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and Round the Moon, Méliès inherited the means of getting his explorers to the moon and back again. From Wells, he obtained the idea of descending into the moon's interior to discover a race of Selenite aliens. Increasing familiarity with the films of Méliès imparts a distinct impression, however. This impression is that the fist auteur of cinema considers himself one link in the great chain of French art and culture. For long-form subjects he consistently turns to French authors like Verne and Perrault, and if not authors, then historical subjects like Joan of Arc. Nested within A Trip to the Moon, or Le Voyage Dans la Lune in its native French, are references to writers like Voltaire and Camille Flammarion. Odd, then, that he should suddenly turn to an English author for inspiration. Stranger yet when one discovers that his film was not the first work of French popular entertainment to go by the title Le Voyage Dans la Lune!…"
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