Comparing the Film Black Orpheus and the Original Greek Myth

The story of the movie "Black Opus" and the original Greek mythology "Orpheus and Oris" is a story that has been repeated many times over the years. It originated from Greek mythology and later became a movie called Black Orpheus. After reading the myth and seeing the movie it is easy to see that the difference between the two works is much larger than the similarity. These differences are not only in telling stories, but also in the description of the structure and role of events.

Orpheus (/ ɔːrfiəs, ɔːrfjuːs /; Greek:, ρφεύς, classical pronunciation: / or.pheú̯s /) is a legendary musician, poet and prophet of ancient Greek religion and myth. Some ancient Greek sources are aware of the origins of Orpheus' s "Thrace." His main story focuses on his ability to attract all living creatures and even stones in his music, he can not hear his sacred music, but his wife Eurydice in his hands I try to get back from the underworld. As a prototype of the inspirational singer, Orpheus is one of the most important people of Western culture that accepts classical myths, and is an artist and pop culture of countless kinds including poetry, movies, opera, music, paintings It is drawn.

Black Orpheus, internationally acclaimed in 1959, founded Greek mythology Orpheus and Oris in the slums of Rio de Janeiro during the carnival period. This is based on Brazilian writer Vinicius de Moraes' drama Orfeuda Conceição, but Moras condemned the movie by not claiming his work. In the movie, Orfeo is a dancer during the day of Samba School and a singer at night. Is Eurydice a simple country girl who came to town to escape a mysterious man? Is it the appearance of physical death? Who is chasing her. This movie was praised for its spectacular images, rich music, and depictions of African-American characters. At the same time it was criticized as drawing an exotic country and person for the lack of realism and the idea that poor black citizens who exported Rio did not do anything other than singing their concerns and doing nothing.

Black Orpheus was photographed by Marcel Camus in 1959 reproducing the myth of Orpheus and Olysses at the Rio Carnival and won a gold medal at the Cannes International Film Festival that year. A year later, he won the Palm Prize, Golden Globe Award and Oscar Best Foreign Language Award. When I revived in England in 2005, I wrote a very short comment, and to discover that innocent charm rather than being found in the surprising Samba style life when it was released I admired it. . "We went by taxi to the Revival Theater where the movie was being broadcast.This movie was made by various actors, mainly black and Brazilian actors, which were made in the 1950s. The story is simple: fate was singing a carefree dance guitar by a beautiful green hill and black and brown Brazilians in the glory of Technicolor held in the slums of Rio de Janeiro during more carnival. Feathery bird