http://moviemorlocks.com/2007/03/30/shades-of-fuseli/ MovieMorlocks.com is the official blog for Turner Classic Movies (TCM). No topic is too obscure or niche to be excluded from our film discussions. And we welcome your comments on our blogs and bloggers. Mon, 21 May 2012 02:05:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2007/03/30/shades-of-fuseli/#comment-1961 Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:45:27 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/shades-of-fuseli/#comment-1961 It must have shocked hell out the pre-Victorians. Well, that was like shooting fish in a barrel.

]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2007/03/30/shades-of-fuseli/#comment-1959 Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:54:04 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/shades-of-fuseli/#comment-1959 Hey, I never noticed before but is that a "demon" horse in the upper left hand corner of the painting.  Talk about a being blungeoned metaphorically. A disturbing image all around which I am sure was the purpose.  It must have shocked hell out the pre-Victorians.

]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2007/03/30/shades-of-fuseli/#comment-1963 Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:07:00 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/shades-of-fuseli/#comment-1963 Astrid, locking down the meaning of a particular piece of art is always a tricky thing.  The artist can intend one thing and the viewer see another… who's right?  Who <i>should</i> be right?  I think the story goes that Fuseli was inspired to paint "The Nightmare" by bad dreams he experienced after eating roast beef before bedtime.  Certainly, the work (and its variations… he painted a couple different versions) draw a parallel between the sleeping woman and the imp crouched over her, watching/guarding/threatening her.  Many have drawn from these elements the interpretation that the imp represents a kind of bestial, hairy and (for the time) deviant sexuality forbidden to the woman in her waking hours.As for how the poster to THE NIGHT WALKER is related to the Fuseli painting… purely as a visual reference.  It's like the way the string music heard under the shower murder in PSYCHO has been endlessly sampled in horror movies since then… a really resonant horror trope (image, sound, sensation) lives forever.  I refer you to Medusa's recent post about monsters carrying women in the accepted over-the-threshold fashion.  Somebody did that once in film and it's become standard (monster) operating practice ever since.What comes around goes around.

]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2007/03/30/shades-of-fuseli/#comment-1960 Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:33:40 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/shades-of-fuseli/#comment-1960 can someone tell me what's the real meaning of the mary wollstonecraft piture at the top? because i think  that it has anything to do with  her, or how is THE POSTER WALKER relate it to her???…..

]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2007/03/30/shades-of-fuseli/#comment-1957 Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:01:30 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/shades-of-fuseli/#comment-1957 Hey, the poster for THE NIGHT WALKER made me want to see that William Castle movie so bad! Of course it couldn't live up to that poster! It also didn't have any of the typical Castle promotional gimmicks, did it? I guess that makes it an atypical Castle horror plus the fact that he managed to get formerly married couple Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor to star in it together.

]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2007/03/30/shades-of-fuseli/#comment-1958 Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:22:35 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/shades-of-fuseli/#comment-1958 Poet/artist  William Blake, who quarrelled with other artists, had fairly nice things to say about Fuseli—if you think "the only man that e'er I knew/ Who did not make me almost spew…" is complimentary. Fuseli lives on in movie art–that's great!

]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2007/03/30/shades-of-fuseli/#comment-1962 Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:22:33 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/shades-of-fuseli/#comment-1962 Poet/artist  William Blake, who quarrelled with other artists, had fairly nice things to say about Fuseli—if you think "the only man that e'er I knew/ Who did not make me almost spew…" is complimentary. Fuseli lives on in movie art–that's great!

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