Orpheus and Eurydice Save Each Other

Following up my most successful video essay so far with a deep dive into religious thought applied to Moulin Rouge, I'm sure this will do numbers.

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SECTIONS
0:00 - Intro: An Old Song
10:20 - Verse 1: Beauty
23:36 - Verse 2: Pain
37:05 - Verse 3: Descent
48:27 - Verse 4: Choice
1:01:22 - Verse 5: Death
1:14:39 - Verse 6: Life
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SOURCES
BOOKS
-Eliade, Mircea. “A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries” (1978)
-Eliade, Mircea. “A History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 2: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity” (1982)
-Mitchell, Anaïs. “Working on a Song: The Lyrics of Hadestown” (2020)
-Plato. “Phaedras”
-Plato. “Symposium”

FILM
-Funeral Parade of Roses (1969), dir. Toshio Matsumoto
-Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), dir. John Cameron Mitchell
-Loving Vincent (2017), dir. Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman
-Moulin Rouge (1952), dir. John Huston
-Moulin Rouge! (2001), dir. Baz Luhrmann
-My Fair Lady (1964), dir. George Cukor
-O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), dir. Joel and Ethan Coen
-Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), dir. Céline Sciamma
-Titanic (1997), dir. James Cameron

SHOWS
-30 Rock, “Grandmentor” (2012) dir. Beth McCarthy-Miller
-The Fairly OddParents, “Channel Chasers” (2004) dir. Butch Hartman
-The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo, “Episode 2” (2016) dir. Brian Jordan Alvarez
-Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, “Art Class & Lost and Found” (2006) dir. Savage Steve Holland

STAGE
-Hadestown, Anaïs Mitchell
-Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Steven Trask & John Cameron Mitchell

VIDEOS
-“‪@theartassignment‬
--The Myth of the Tortured Artist, The Myth of the Tortured Artist
--The Truth of the Tortured Artist, The Truth of the Tortured Artist

PUBLICATIONS
-Bittencourt, Ela. (2020, June 23). Portrait of a Lady on Fire: Daring to See. Criterion Collection.  https://www.criterion.com/current/pos...
-Clark, Nick. (2024, January 25). Anaïs Mitchell on her musical Hadestown: “I worked on it so long I was afraid I’d never make another record.” Evening Standard. https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/th...

MUSIC
-Respighi, "Fontane di Roma"
-Vivaldi, "Four Seasons"
-‪@EJMInstrumentals‬
-𝗢𝗿𝗽𝗵𝗲𝘂𝘀 𝗢𝗱𝘆𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘆 - 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 ...