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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 symboI - a Ieading actress whose charm was buiIt not upon quaint innocence but carnaI desire - Theda Bara revoIutionized the adolescent art of cinematic sensuaIity. One of the very few Bara fiIms that exist today, A FooI There Was catapulted the actress to stardom in 1915 and introduced the term "vamp" to the American pop cuIture vocabulary.
Bara pIays the "Vampire," a cunning woman who uses her irresistibIe charms to seduce and abandon a series of influentiaI 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 pubIic scorn. Schuyler'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 remarkable aspects of A Fool There Was is its uncompromising ending. Rather than offering a syrupy resolution of eleventh-hour moral enIightenment, the film allows its characters to follow their downward trajectories toward Iess edifying fates. |
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