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Response to Georges Méliès’s “A Trip to the Moon”
Question: Méliès (1861-1938) was a master of illusion. “For Méliès and his audiences, “the moon” isn’t merely a rocky orb in the sky that we can see most nights of the year, but a poetic concept, an unattainable dreamworld where any strange landscape or bizarre creature could be possible.” Elaborate on this point using the ideas of motif, symbolism, and illusion. Can you think of another film that is similar in its viewing of the moon?
Short essays, once again, are informal.
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Source: https://silentology.wordpress.com/2017/03/31/thoughts-on-a-trip-to-the-moon-1902/