Re: "The Bride Wore Black"

[nbuchwa1@ix.netcom.com (Norman Buchwald)]

llovich@aol.com (Llovich) wrote:

>I need to preface this by saying that I can't access the Web right now to
>check the Garden ...

>I just finished watching a 1968 Francios Truffault film called "The Bride
>Wore Black," a Hitchcock hommage in which a woman (played by Jeanne
>Moreau) systematically kills the five men responsible for the death of her
>husband as the couple left the church after their marriage. She keeps a
>LIST wherein she ticks off the name of each man after she kills him in her
>revenge.

>Throughout the film, we see her huband die AGAIN AND AGAIN; however,
>Moreau does not feel good in her revenge.

Neither does the protagonist of "The Wedding List," I think.  She
speaks prolepitcally when she says "I'll (I will) feel good about my
revenge!"  The conclusion of the song doesn't seem to justify she's
happy or feeling good at all.  

As for your theory:  Well, the song did sound like a motion picture
(as a number of her songs does.  :)   )

>Also, to carry off one of the killings (of a visual artist), she poses as
>Diana (the Huntress) and kills him with an arrow. Do I need to tell you
>that there are numerous close-ups of her pulling the bow back with the
>frame "cutting" her face in half?

Are you referring to the cover of "Running Up That Hill" here?
Interesting.  Though this may be a stretch.

Reminds me of the excitement of my sources and analogues in Lit class.
:)  

The Storm

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