The Periodic Table of Storytelling

I'm just going to repeat the title, people.

The Periodic Table of Storytelling

from the brilliant people at tvtropes.org

It looks like this, but it's interactive.

INTERACTIVE!

If you write

you really need to see this.

It's fun. It's clever.

It's uplifting.

It's also as humbling as a 

Mary Sue Litmus Test.

Did I mention that it's interactive?

Oh, and you can buy it as a poster.

That is all.

Fairy tales. The French do it better.

Yes, they do.

And you know it.

This is a French production of

Beauty and the Beast

from Christophe Gans

Apparently, it's not due to be released

in the USA,  but I'm sure a bit of 

Internet pressure will fix that.

Doesn't it look gorgeous?

Christophe Gans

 also brought us

Brotherhood of the Wolf.

Historic fiction! Fabulous costumes!

Wire-fighting Native Americans!

Harlots and assassins! Secret sects and an evil monster!

Tarot cards and incest and pretty horses!

You should see that!

What else is this cold spring for

but snuggling up, and watching glorious eye-candy?

You're digging in the wrong place.

If you're here for Holly Horrorland's 

Vampire Day Soiree,

you're in the wrong place.

You need to be here.

The gif of Morticia and Lurch dancing?

No reason...

Classical Movement

If you came here to view
B E A U T Y
the film has been taken down
while it is
being shown on the art film circuit.

There is a link to a brief clip,
to get the flavour of the whole piece,
at the end of this post.


 Thank you to Summer, of 

Dreamspirations Gallery

for sending this my way.

If I find a link to the entire piece
I will update this post.

Rino Stefano Taglialfierro

animated classical paintings

and linked them together,

with a loose narrative

and evocative music.

What starts out as sweet and dreamy,

 becomes intriguing and compelling;

the images shifting from 

innocence 

to 

eroticism,

 then to brutality

 and darkness.

If you have eight minutes
use the link

 and watch. 

B E A U T Y