Word: huxleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transition of Aldous Huxley's short story, "The Gioconda Smile," into a motion picture, "A Woman's Vengeance," was effected only with a loss in subtle force equal to that suffered in the change of titles. But all of Huxley could not be distilled out fortunately, and that which remains raises the film far above the usual "psychodrama." His writing of the scenario produced dialogue more profound than that, ordinarily heard in film...
...Gioconda Smile" used a murder incident merely as vehicle to carry the usual Huxleyan theme that lives not lived on both the sensual and rational level fall short of fulfillment. As a result the characters were not rounded, but rather each represented a perversion from Huxley's "golden mean." To develop the movie out of such a story it became necessary to make al the characters just a bit more human than they had been originally. Thus the film lost some of the story's meaning as the murder plot became an end in itself...
...Woman's Vengeance. Jessica Tandy and Charles Boyer in Aldous Huxley's story of jealousy and murder (TIME...
...Woman's Vengeance. Jessica Tandy and Charles Boyer in Aldous Huxley's story of jealousy and murder (TIME...
...Woman's Vengeance. Jessica Tandy and Charles Boyer in Aldous Huxley's story of jealousy and murder (TIME...