Since seeing nods to the landmark work in Martin Scorsese's Hugo,I've been meaning to see Georges Méliès A Trip to the Moon,but for some reason have never got round to it.After a wonderful day celebrating my dads birthday,I felt that it was the perfect time to go to the moon.
The plot:
Meeting up at the Astronomic Club, astronauts Barbenfouillis, Nostradamus, Alcofrisbas,Omega, Micromegas and Parafaragaramus decide to build a space ship in order to travel to the moon.Each play their part,they all build the spaceship and set off.Landing on the moon,the group starts making plans to leave their mark on it,but soon discover that the moon has other plans.
View on the film:
Showing the title to be much more than solely having the iconic shot of the moon "getting it" in the eye,writer/director and star Georges Méliès displays a creativity decades ahead of its time.Taking 3 months to shoot, Méliès makes every shot with a surrealist flourish leaping from spectacular in camera special effects moving the foundation of the Moon,to a tribe on the Moon showing who is in charge. Inspired by the work of Jules Verne & H.G. Wells,the screenplay by Georges Méliès blends the animated Sci-Fi thrills with a cleverly underlying satirical edge. Working as a anti-Boulangist satirical cartoonist before entering the movie world, Méliès takes a superb satirical shot at imperialism,as the inhibitions on the Moon rise up, and send the scientists on a trip to the earth.
The plot:
Meeting up at the Astronomic Club, astronauts Barbenfouillis, Nostradamus, Alcofrisbas,Omega, Micromegas and Parafaragaramus decide to build a space ship in order to travel to the moon.Each play their part,they all build the spaceship and set off.Landing on the moon,the group starts making plans to leave their mark on it,but soon discover that the moon has other plans.
View on the film:
Showing the title to be much more than solely having the iconic shot of the moon "getting it" in the eye,writer/director and star Georges Méliès displays a creativity decades ahead of its time.Taking 3 months to shoot, Méliès makes every shot with a surrealist flourish leaping from spectacular in camera special effects moving the foundation of the Moon,to a tribe on the Moon showing who is in charge. Inspired by the work of Jules Verne & H.G. Wells,the screenplay by Georges Méliès blends the animated Sci-Fi thrills with a cleverly underlying satirical edge. Working as a anti-Boulangist satirical cartoonist before entering the movie world, Méliès takes a superb satirical shot at imperialism,as the inhibitions on the Moon rise up, and send the scientists on a trip to the earth.