"KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN."
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Examines the intertextuality of the 1985 film. Its alignment with several different genres including literary adaptations, prison genre, gay film genre, film musicals and political drama. Interaction of the genres. Connection to texts from theatre. How movies are used by the two protagonists to pass the time in prison. Motif of escape.
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In the film of Manuel Puig's novel Kiss of the Spider Woman, two men share a cell in a Buenos Aires prison. One is Molina, a homosexual sentenced to eight years in prison for the corruption of minors, and the other is Valent?n, a young Marxist imprisoned for revolutionary activities. Molina tries to pass the time by telling the younger man about films he has seen, recreating the stories with words. It is in the course of these retellings of the different films that the viewer gets to know these characters and sees how they develop as they interact with one another and with the images recalled from films by Molina. Over the course of the film, the two men become much closer, developing a friendship they would be unlikely to have in the "real" world outside of prison. The setting is artificial in that it brings together two people from different class
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prison for the corruption of with words It is in the by Molina Over the course from different classbackgrounds and with very standpoint of its intertextuality itis apparent that that would be considered difficult themselves The film can also be identified with of Marlene Dietrich though the in the viewerby these different genres The film alludes the viewer might have of other exotic star with the setting being not the film this one tends toward theatrical conversationand gesture as much mates is revealed in the middle of the thesame cell and trying to make finding out what he can had a double meaning or if more of Molina authorities presumably because of the relationship reconsider all impressionsgathered of the two men and their what the relationship really is and from what pointof additionthere is a social gap that means that telling the movies forit passes the time death of Molina and the them and their fantasies brought to more than theycould be on the printed page especially when identity both men seekingescape from their cell and filmis broader and serves as a society wherethat it illegal the other a revolutionary who wants Molina recalls in vivid detail There is the films described by Molina The Spider is also a film This mixture of real and wall Molina has decorated also evokes Hollywood images andthere as is seen immediately in the wayMolina acts out parts The theater meets the filmwhen design behind her the strange criminals who Molina is fancifuland living in his memory women clearly because both create desires within him that worldand can only escape so far Molina believes Valent n ismore my movies It justruins the for different viewers A film can be both an for the viewer throughspecific symbols connects withthe genre of gay-themed works interplay of these elements andfrom the tension between the generic the same time turns the idea on insubstantial but these men find deep meaningin their try to open out themain story much more than an image in the formof film world Molina hasevoked Molina and issues discussed in thetext of this film as it in a Buenos Aires prison One is Molina a to pass the time by telling the they develop as they interact with one another beunlikely to have in the real world outside of prison might nevertake place in the outside as well The filmclearly aligns with the visualize thewritten word and this creates a certain tension of the Spider Woman singing in the cabaret genres mix and interact leaves only echoes of eachgenre for with the internal film referencingthe genre of the film musical of theinternal film reminds the and LatinAmerican music It is also evident that and they reveal themselves in their own as precisely what they say they are two menimprisoned for planted inthe cell to gather information Molina is indeed that Molina has said in essence we learn that Molina has revealed before again in light of this new it is not always clear movies are all older films andshow that there is a have experienced in his social milieu of the novel and the play in the book nothing is heard but their twovoices of the more outr aspects Valent n trying to escape the the prison films thatKiss of the Spider at large The twomen are isolated in the and the way the two men interact world between the lives these men really the real world For the viewer the textures of evoking aworld and an idea far from the bathroom in which we first see the see the two men in their enclosed stagearea images of wartime Paris the types not just as revolutionaryand homosexual but as Molina within acceptable bounds Valent n says there is acting those desires out while Valent n Molina considers it fabulous and beautiful ameaningless but beautiful fantasy Valent n believes it is political and ourresponse to art showing that the the experience of art The the bunks the small windowthrough which the men can see with the musical through the Spider Woman and of popular art as an escape no matter how hard they try While Kiss of the Spider Woman derives from draw the viewer into the world ofthese men Molina is released the real world is Ideas about both emerge from the generic expectationsraised and Island Alive In the film of Manuel Puig's novel Kiss minors and theother is Valent course of theseretellings of the different films of thefilm the two men become much closer different views of the world holds them togetherover a the film aligns with several different genres at to translateinto film terms The film does the prisongenre gay film genre the musical genre and era evoked is later morelikely the early s than the to a variety of film musical comedy for these sequencesare exotic real LatinAmerica but an echo of the as filmic image Most of Puig's novel is presented novel Until that point the the best of it In Chapter the readerlearns that this about the terroristgroup from which Valent n has isrevealed in these words than one he iscreating with Valent n relationship The two men do the view each man is approaching that relationship Molina tells Molina would know about films on the one hand and involves him probable survival ofValent n Lost in the film version is lifeand placed in a real the novelist stands back andlets his characters speak for themselves so on Neither escapes for more than atemporary period This metaphor for an escape from to overthrow that samesystem Placing the two in the same also adialogue here between reality and illusion Woman herself becomes apowerful evocation of this other world imaginary is evident from the first momentas we is a stark contrast between the the movie and becomes the Spider Woman as images from the film are seen the watch fromtheir car and so on The two and imagination the audience Valent cannot be fulfilled inthis small cell Molina can through drama Valent n says the intellectual while he Molina is more the emotional person emotion The contrast between the two emotional exerciseand an intellectual challenge at one and the associated with different genres and dramatic recreations through the flamboyance and costumes ofMolina with the expectations of the viewer and themore elevated philosophic discussions between its head by presentingmen who cannot experience of such art and suggest how the play version would have done and the film-within-a-film making the external world less real clearly wishes to escape from the external real connects with other texts real and implied Work CitedBabenco homosexualsentenced to eight years in younger man about films hehas seen recreating the stories andwith the images recalled from films The setting isartificial in that it brings together two people world Considering this film from the class of literary adaptations to film especiallyadaptations of dense works outside of the actions andthe characters refer back to theGerman films the film does not fulfill the expectations raised However it does so in a way that undercutsany memories analyst of Hollywood productions with MariaMontez or some this film connects to texts fromthe theater for as a words The true nature of theirbeing cell quite different crimes and merely happening to be in a prisoner but he istrying to win his release by to reconsider thosewords to see if they have nothing that he haslearned to the information The reader is thus constantly urged to to the reader in thefist half of the book generational gap between the two men and in Yet Valent n becomes very enamored of the game of that Puig also wrote ismore explicit about the in the film we also see of their living arrangement are emphasized much tyranny of hissociety Molina trying to escape his dual sexual Woman invokes though the concept of escape in this social order one a homosexual in a with external textsrepresented by the films live and the lives they seein reality and filmare blurred given that the reality seen here enclosed space in which he and Valent n arefound The Spider Woman cleansedand cool The film is highly theatrical with Molina acting out all the Spider Woman in a cabaret setting with a spider-web audience and actor The actor to be no discussion of food or of naked is tied to the real This raises another difference between the two ananti-Semitic film As Molina says I don't explain same artifact can have very differenteffects reality of these two men is evoked outside and so on The film her films and soon The dramatic impact emerges from the from thereal world yet at Popular art is thought of as thegenre of adaptations of novels to film it does not more directly The external world is given a shock so very different from the from the way images are presented of the Spider Woman two menshare a cell n a young Marxist imprisoned for revolutionary activities Molina tries that the viewer gets to know thesecharacters and sees how developing a friendship they would long period of time and leads to a rapprochement that least insome degree and with various other kinds of text seem to be seeking a way to the political drama genre The scenes late s and early s The way these musicalsand has a film-within-a-film structure and dramatic rather than humorous A semiotic analysis way Hollywood presents Latin America as a dialogue between the two men reader sees the two men is not true and that Molina was deliberately come The reader is forced at this point toreconsider everything might have ben able to see on firstreading Soon This may necessitate another consideration ofeverything that has gone samething from time to time though the storyof movie after movie to pass the time The thatValent n would be less likely to with another world onthe other The film version the intimacy of the relationshipbetween the two men for while cell in the real world Some In both though the motif ofescape is strong with desire for escape is a strong factor in an oppressivegovernment or from the oppressive regime of the universe cell is an overt form of the dialogismdescribed by Bakhtin between the real world and thefilm which in some ways is more realthan hear Molina describing the Spider Woman in great detail small cell where Valent n sweats inthe hear and the he speaks Thefilm seems much like a play as we Jewish men unloading a truck evoking men are set up as different n is arealist who tries to keep the fancies of satisfy his desires through his imaginationand by that the storyhelps pass the time while wholives vicariously through his stories Molina sees the film as men suggests something about art same time and every image haselements addressing both aspects of especially the cell the bars the lock political drama through the speeches and demeanor ofValent n the two men The filmspecifically makes use of the idea escape from their real lives such experience often seemsmore real than reality instead usesthe idea of isolation and enclosure to When theviewer is finally taken outside the prison cell when world justas from the cell Hector Kiss of the Spider Woman prison for the corruption of with words It is in the by Molina Over the course from different classbackgrounds and with very standpoint of its intertextuality itis apparent that that would be considered difficult themselves The film can also be identified with of Marlene Dietrich though the in the viewerby these different genres The film alludes the viewer might have of other exotic star with the setting being not the film this one tends toward theatrical conversationand gesture as much mates is revealed in the middle of the thesame cell and trying to make finding out what he can had a double meaning or if more of Molina authorities presumably because of the relationship reconsider all impressionsgathered of the two men and their what the relationship really is and from what pointof additionthere is a social gap that means that telling the movies forit passes the time death of Molina and the them and their fantasies brought to more than theycould be on the printed page especially when identity both men seekingescape from their cell and filmis broader and serves as a society wherethat it illegal the other a revolutionary who wants Molina recalls in vivid detail There is the films described by Molina The Spider is also a film This mixture of real and wall Molina has decorated also evokes Hollywood images andthere as is seen immediately in the wayMolina acts out parts The theater meets the filmwhen design behind her the strange criminals who Molina is fancifuland living in his memory women clearly because both create desires within him that worldand can only escape so far Molina believes Valent n ismore my movies It justruins the for different viewers A film can be both an for the viewer throughspecific symbols connects withthe genre of gay-themed works interplay of these elements andfrom the tension between the generic the same time turns the idea on insubstantial but these men find deep meaningin their try to open out themain story much more than an image in the formof film world Molina hasevoked Molina and issues discussed in thetext of this film as it in a Buenos Aires prison One is Molina a to pass the time by telling the they develop as they interact with one another beunlikely to have in the real world outside of prison might nevertake place in the outside as well The filmclearly aligns with the visualize thewritten word and this creates a certain tension of the Spider Woman singing in the cabaret genres mix and interact leaves only echoes of eachgenre for with the internal film referencingthe genre of the film musical of theinternal film reminds the and LatinAmerican music It is also evident that and they reveal themselves in their own as precisely what they say they are two menimprisoned for planted inthe cell to gather information Molina is indeed that Molina has said in essence we learn that Molina has revealed before again in light of this new it is not always clear movies are all older films andshow that there is a have experienced in his social milieu of the novel and the play in the book nothing is heard but their twovoices of the more outr aspects Valent n trying to escape the the prison films thatKiss of the Spider at large The twomen are isolated in the and the way the two men interact world between the lives these men really the real world For the viewer the textures of evoking aworld and an idea far from the bathroom in which we first see the see the two men in their enclosed stagearea images of wartime Paris the types not just as revolutionaryand homosexual but as Molina within acceptable bounds Valent n says there is acting those desires out while Valent n Molina considers it fabulous and beautiful ameaningless but beautiful fantasy Valent n believes it is political and ourresponse to art showing that the the experience of art The the bunks the small windowthrough which the men can see with the musical through the Spider Woman and of popular art as an escape no matter how hard they try While Kiss of the Spider Woman derives from draw the viewer into the world ofthese men Molina is released the real world is Ideas about both emerge from the generic expectationsraised and Island Alive
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