![]() Auguste Dupin (whose name Bale’s Augustus Landor partially evokes). With Poe playing the sidekick and Landor the enigmatic detective, the men form one of the core coordinates of modern detective fiction, which can be dated back to Poe’s groundbreaking 1840s trilogy of detective stories featuring his Sherlock Holmes prototype C. Standing on Poe’s shouldersīoth men are drawn together by a liking for drink and books as well the process Poe called “ratiocination” – a combination of scientific reasoning and intuition. Harry Melling – known to viewers as Dudley Dursey of the Harry Potter franchise – is uncannily brilliant as Poe, as if the iconic brooding photographs of the author have been brought to life. It can be seen, too, in cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi’s evocative palette, where the pale blue cloaks of the West Point cadets contrast with the monochrome winter setting.Ī drawn, bearded Bale is menacing as Landor, the bereaved detective called in to make sense of the case. The specific image of a pale blue eye is evoked by the seductive Lea Marquis’s (Lucy Boynton) eyes and the “piercing look” of detective Augustus Landor (Christian Bale). It concentrates on developing the whodunit, favouring loose Poe-esque tropes over overt clichés (though at one point a raven inevitably appears, croaking ominously).Ĭhristian Bale as Augustus Landor Harry Melling as Cadet Edgar Allen Poe. Bringing Poe to lifeįor the most part Netflix’s film sticks carefully to this brief. Crime serie based on the internationally best-selling novels by Jean-Luc Bannalec. The Pale Blue Eye’s themes indeed crop up repeatedly in Poe’s work: occult ritual and cryptograms, the border between sanity and insanity, the image of the beautiful dead woman – which Poe notoriously described as “the most poetical topic in the world”. Poe’s dishonourable time at West Point could lend itself to a more conventional biopic, but this would have missed what writer and director Scott Cooper is really interested in: “the themes that ultimately influence this young unformed writer to become the writer that he became”. ![]() ![]() Unwilling to continue his military career, he made sure he was court-martialed by neglecting his duty and disobeying orders then ensured dismissal was the only outcome by pleading not guilty. We know, for example, what really happened when Poe was at West Point in 1830. Auguste Dupin.Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, 1849. Along the way, he meets a young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling). Not much is known about Hamill’s role, other than that his character is “surprisingly at home in the shadows.” But he’ll be joined in the limited series by four more newly announced cast members: Carla Gugino, a veteran of Flanagan’s Netflix projects, in an undisclosed role Oscar nominee Frank Langella as Roderick Usher, the patriarch of the Usher dynasty Mary McDonnell ( Major Crimes) as Madeline Usher, Roderick’s twin sister and the hidden hand of the Usher dynasty and Carl Lumbly ( Alias) as Poe’s recurring detective C. As Christian Bale’s detective Augustus Landor investigates a series of gruesome murders at West Point Military Academy in 1830, he unravels a case that threatens his very soul not to mention his safety. Mit: Omar Sy,Ludivine Sagnier,Clotilde Hesme. Inspiriert von den Abenteuern Arsne Lupins beschliet der Meisterdieb Assane Diop, seinen Vater zu rchen, dem von einer reichen Familie groes Unrecht zugefgt wurde. ( The Fall of the House of Usher was itself a Poe short story first published in the 1800s.) 2021 Altersfreigabe: 12 2 Staffeln Dramen. Initially ordered at Netflix in October, The Fall of the House of Usher is described as “an epic tale of greed, horror and tragedy” that will serve as a “modern remix” of several Edgar Allan Poe works. The Flanagan-verse has added a certain Jedi to its ranks: Star Wars vet Mark Hamill has joined Mike Flanagan’s upcoming Netflix series The Fall of the House of Usher, the streamer confirmed on Thursday. Dupin appeared in two other Poe short stories: The Mystery of Marie Rogêt and The Purloined Letter.
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