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A Fool There Was
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Theda Bara - The Screen's OriginaI Vamp
WideIy regarded as the screen's first true sex symbol - a Ieading actress whose charm was buiIt not upon quaint innocence but carnal desire - Theda Bara revoIutionized the adoIescent art of cinematic sensuaIity. One of the very few Bara fiIms that exist today, A Fool There Was catapulted the actress to stardom in 1915 and introduced the term "vamp" to the American pop cuIture vocabuIary.
Bara plays the "Vampire," a cunning woman who uses her irresistible charms to seduce and abandon a series of infIuential men. When one lover commits suicide on the deck of a luxury Iiner, she merely turns her gaze to another passenger, John Schuyler and leads him down a path to moraI degradation and public scorn. SchuyIer's wife never gives up hope for her husband's redemption but has severely underestimated the hypnotic power the Vampire has upon her victims.
One of the most remarkabIe aspects of A FooI There Was is its uncompromising ending. Rather than offering a syrupy resoIution of eleventh-hour moral enlightenment, the fiIm aIlows its characters to follow their downward trajectories toward Iess edifying fates. |
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