Quoth the Raven Eat the Rich

Marco petrelli, Università di pisa

The fall of the House of Usher e il Poe in rivolta di Mike flanagan

Quoth the raven "eat the rich!"

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La famiglia Crain (due adulti e cinque bambini) vive ristrutturando vecchie ville. Mentre sono al lavoro su Hill House, cadono vittime di violenti fenomeni paranormali che segneranno drammaticamente le vite di ciascuno dei membri.Hugh: padreOlivia: madre,Steven: figlio maggiore, scrittoreShirley: figlia maggiore, impresaria di pompe funebriTheo: psicologa infantile, sensitivaNell: figlia minore ipersensibile, non supera mai i traumi di Hill HouseLuke: gemello di Nell, preda della tossicodipendenza

Il Dottor Montague, antropologo con un interesse nel paranormale, raccoglie tre volontari per un esperimento atto a dimostrare la presenza di forze sovrannaturali nella villa di Hill House, costrutita un secolo prima dal ricco eccentrico Hugh Crain, forse macchiatosi di violenze nei confronti della famiglia.Theodora: disinibita artista bohémienEleanor: ragazza fragile e repressa, costretta a badare alla madre malata.Luke: erede di Hill House, giovane ottimista e ironico

The Haunting of Hill House (2018)

The Haunting of Hill House (1959)

La trama principale è essenzialmente modellata su quella di "The Turn of the Screw", riprodotta senza divergenze radicali. Le numerose trame secondarie sono però ispirate (spesso solo blandamente) ad altri racconti gotici di Henry James.Ep. 1: "The Great Good Place"Ep. 2: "The Pupil"Ep. 3: "The two Faces"Ep. 4: "The Way It Came"Ep. 5: "The Altar of the Dead"Ep. 6: "The Jolly Corner"Ep. 7: "The Two Faces"Ep. 8: "The Romance of Certain Old Clothes"Ep. 9: "The Beast in the Jungle"

The Haunting of Bly Manor

16. “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt”17. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket18. Politian19. “Never Bet the Devil Your Head”20. The Journal of Julius Rodman21. “The Black Cat”22. “The Tell-Tale Heart”23. “The Pit and the Pendulum”24. “The City in the Sea”25. “Spirits of the Dead”26. “Lenore”27. “The Man that Was Used Up”28. “Some Words with a Mummy”29. “Landor’s Cottage”

1. “The Raven”2. “The Cask of Amontillado”3. “Metzengerstein”4. “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”5. “The Spectacles”6. “Tamerlane”7. “The Gold-Bug”8. “The Premature Burial”9. “Annabel Lee”10. “The Masque of the Red Death”11. “William Wilson” 12. “Morella” 13. “Berenice” 14. “Ligeia” 15. “The Purloined Letter”

Ep.8 "The raven"

Ep.2 "The masque of the red death"

Ep.8 "The raven"

Fonti principali degli episodiEp. 1: "A Midnight Dreary" ("The Raven"; "The Premature Burial")Ep. 2: "The Masque of the Red Death"Ep. 3: "Murder in the Rue Morgue" ("The Murders in the Rue Morgue")Ep. 4: "The Black Cat"Ep. 5: "The Tell-Tale Heart"Ep. 6: "Goldbug" ("William Wilson")Ep. 7: "The Pit and the Pendulum"Ep. 8: "The Raven" ("The Cask of Amontillado"; "The Fall of the House of Usher")

The Fall of the House of Usher

“the many who want, band themselves together against the few that possess; and the lawless appetite of the multitude for the property of others calls itself the spirit of liberty”

“As for Republicanism, no analogy for it could be found for it upon the face of the earth—unless we except the case of the ‘prairie dog,’ an exception which seems to demonstrate, if anything, that democracy is a very admirable form of government—for dogs”

“The Roman worshipped their standards; and the Roman standard happened to be an eagle. Our standard is only one-tenth of an Eagle—a dollar—but we make all even by adoring it with ten-fold devotion”

“more than in any other region upon the face of the globe, to be poor is to be despised”

[Poe’s] themes remain stunningly relevant and urgent today, so how can we take those stories—which are so familiar to so many people—and make them feel urgent and immediate today? [Poe] was a cog in the capitalistic wheel, frequently impoverished and sometimes forced to write not because he wanted to, but because he needed to financially. […] He had been chewed up by the machine of capitalism, and he viewed the society that rose around this machine with a searing contempt. […] What would this man have thought about our world today?

(2023)

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Eat the rich!