#The Murders in the Rue Morgue

[clit-misto]

All the awards for Carla Gugino. I can’t fucking get over her sequence in The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Phenomenal. I haven’t been so excited about a scene, acting choices, direction and camera work for so long.

[mycasualjoys]

THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE Phillipe Huron | 1986

[aceredshirt13]

the virgin H. P. Lovecraft comparing a black guy to an animal in his gay necromancer story when being violently racist wasn’t even plot-relevant vs. the Chad Edgar Allen Poe, in his gay detective story eighty years earlier, having Dupin specifically state that the orangutan’s screeches weren’t any African or Asian language in what could otherwise have been the world’s easiest racist allegory

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Fritz Eichenberg - The murders in the Rue Morgue, 1944.

[derangedrhythms]

[...] to be enamoured of the night for her own sake [...]

Edgar Allan Poe, The Penguin Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe; from ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’

[of-fear-and-love]

The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1986 TV movie) aka Val Kilmer reminds George C. Scott what movie they're in

[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

[knockyasocksoff2022]

Imagine:

Poe's ability transports you into the book you're currently reading. (It can be a manga, graphic novel, or e/audio-book.) What do you do?

EX:

Ahh, I'm so screwed!

Eh, whatever.

This is nice, but I'd like to go home pls.

I like it better than reality. I'll stay.

[valkilme]

Val Kilmer as Philippe Huron

The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1986)

Posting Val Kilmer’s filmography in order

[fourorfivemovements]

Films Watched in 2023: 101. The Murders in The Rue Morgue (1986) - Dir. Jeannot Szwarc

[weirdlookindog]

Fritz Eichenberg (1901-1990) - The Murders In The Rue Morgue, 1944

[vavandeveresfan]

So I read "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" for the first time.

Why did no one ever tell me that Sherlock Holmes and Watson are totally inspired by this story?

Arthur Conan Doyle did say that he owed much to Edgar Allan Poe.

But he didn't say just how much he took from Poe.

Actually, Poe wouldn't have been gracious about it.

[mycasualjoys]

THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE Phillipe Huron | 1986

[rrcraft-and-lore]

I wish more people read old old OLD stories to learn where so many come from.

Like Zadig, by Voltaire. It led to the evolution of the detective novel/story. It also features an adaptation of The Three Princes of Serendip, a story out of Serendippo/Ceylon/Sri Lanka 3 princes features nesting stories. A serendipitous (where the word serendipity comes from) adventure. It's a picaresque before the word picaresque (from the Spanish, Picario), but anyways. It's shared/in conversation and evolutionary storytelling in action.

Zadig is believed to have inspired Poe with The Murders in the Rue Morgue.

But origins of this train begin in Sri Lanka.

A story about just a wild zany fun adventure of three princes. And this old story features a great deal of detective work and analytical thinking from the pov of the princes.

You've probably seen the inverse in popular media/games.

A murder happens, one of three brothers is blamed. You're asked to sus out who did it. Only here, they're asked to defend themselves after being blamed for stealing a camel they've never seen however, they are able to make deductions about the camel based on context clues in their environment, each prince having noted different things to help clue them in to the specifics about said camel, and unifying their findings. --the princes are later spared as someone else finds the camel wandering in the desert.

But yeah.

Storytelling (its history and traditions) is neat as fuck when you study it.

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Aubrey Beardsley - The murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe, 1895.

[vampyr-bite]

my favourite thing about the murders in the rue morgue is that one of the witnesses heard a literal orangutan screaming and thought it was a man speaking french