#hadestown clearly takes a lot of inspiration from black orpheus
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this is what kills me about black orpheus (1959, dir. camus) actually. because orfeu is familiar with the story of orpheus and eurydice. early on someone even makes a joke like "your name's orpheus? where's your eurydice?" he knows the story and he knows what it means to be orpheus. and then at the pivotal moment he looks anyway because after all he's orpheus and he can't not.
#'there was an orpheus before me and there may be another after i’m gone'#hadestown clearly takes a lot of inspiration from black orpheus#including this sort of manifestation of the iterative nature of reception through the cyclicality of the story#but the way black orpheus has *orpheus* know the story he is acting out and still turn-- yeah. it gets me.#(hadestown is a lot foggier with characters' awareness and no one anything like the kind of clarity of orfeu and eurydice in black orpheus)#mine#i raise my cup to him#the op made this post unrebloggable presumably bc it got an unmanageable amount of comments#were gonna sing it again
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