Seuss commented on his use of dreaming in a memo to the film's producer, Stanley Kramer. Sets enhance the effect with impossibly high Bauhaus buildings which Bartholomew must scale on a flimsy ladder to escape music prison. is a tyrant with allusions to the Nazis (the film was made right after WWII) but also more generally embodying the terrifying power an unjust adult may easily hold over a child. The waking-life Terwilliker is only mundanely authoritarian and insensitive, but Bartholomew goes to sleep and a dream encompasses most of the duration of the film. Terwilliker to supervise endless practice. The widowed mother of Bartholomew is determined her son must learn to play the piano. Seuss' first live-action movie-filmed with actors rather than animation, but his trademark combination of whimsy and dark themes is easily recognizable. POWER OF DREAMS, Part III: SACRED SLEEP (1994) POWER OF DREAMS PART II: THE CREATIVE SPIRIT (1994) POWER OF DREAMS, Part I: THE SEARCH FOR MEANING.(1994) LINKED: THE DREAM-CREATIVITY CONNECTION (2010) JOURNEY INTO THE NIGHT-SLEEP AND ITS SECRETS (1997) WILD STRAWBERRIES (Smultronstället) (1957)ĪPPOINTMENT WITH THE WISE OLD DOG: DREAM IMAGES IN A TIME OF CRISIS THE SLEEPING BEAUTY/LA BELLE ENDORMIE (2010) INSTITUTE BENJAMENTA, OR THIS DREAM CALLED HUMAN LIFE (1996) GOODNIGHT MOON AND OTHER SLEEPYTIME TALES (2000) DREAMS: CINEMA OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS (2010)ĮTERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (2004)įINAL FANTASY - THE SPIRITS WITHIN (2001)
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