Word: dead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speech, Virginia-born Jack Beal does not consider his pensive portrayals of present-day odalisques as outright fantasy. Rather, he says, they are a reaction against the ephemeral daydreams he spun as a child in the orphanages to which he was periodically committed because both his parents (now dead) were Faulknerian alcoholics. "Southerners," says he, "can be terribly hung up on fantasies." Schooled in painting at the Chicago Art Institute, Beal builds his compositions as carefully as any Abstractionist-and the sofa or chair in his pictures is as important as the figures. He lives five months of the year...
Nora stood against the wall adjacent to the fireplace. Tim was shooting Eleanora from Steven's point of view, just after he discovers her, his dead lover returned. Nora was beautiful. She wore a long red dress that complemented her long red hair. Everyone stared at her, but she could not tell. The lights on her were too bright...
Each light was in turn dismantled and packed up. With each dismantling, the room got darker. Tim sat on a bench next to the nearly dead fire. He looked at no one. He said nothing. He was totally in shadows...
...Eleanora, updated to the present from Poe, Tim has had to accept the supernatural element more than Poe did. Poe suggests that Eleanora's appearance from the dead came when the narrator (Steven in the movie) was hovering on the edge of total insanity. It was, perhaps, the power of his mental abberration that brought his lover back...
...though, firmly believes that "the girl comes back from the dead....It's not in any way a dream. I believe every second of it. On this level, one speaks in terms of the supernatural as one speaks in any terms...