![]() Only, as we know, he’s too late, she’s dead. The young man, like Odysseus, is trying to make it back to his lover. He has been traveling from the gates of Cabra to his home, an unnamed town on the banks of the bitter sea. He is a smuggler, hurt on the run from the Guarda Civil. ![]() One of whom, the young man, is hallucinating because of his wounds. We are confronted with not one but two unreliable narrators. This is the most difficult part of the poem. There is also a gentle touch of Romeo and Juliet, they are star crossed lovers, in fair Andalusia where Federico lays his scene. The girl’s similarities with tragic figures Ophelia and Sappho are unlikely to be coincidental, Lorca loved Shakespeare and Ancient Greek literature. The balcony is the place where the girl waited for her lover, the male protagonist, to return to her, only he came back a little too late. The girl is not on the balcony, she is in the bitter sea where she dreams of the balcony. Her cold silver eyes cannot see anything, another clear indication of her death, as is the presence of the moon, who in Lorca often walks hand in hand with death. The refrain could represent many things but seems most likely to be the male protagonist pining for his dead lover, ‘Alive, how I want you alive’, he could be singing, but then it could just be the wind… The return of the famous refrain: “V erde que te quiero verde”, problematic in English as we don’t have a verb which combines love and desire. Later in the poem we learn her hair is naturally black, so the green sheen points to her death, as do her cold silver eyes. Here we are introduced to the female protagonist, who is apparently dreaming. Green, however, has many other connotations… More simply, green is Lorca’s favourite color (he uses it more than any other colour in his poetry, white second, blue third - count if you like!). Why green? ‘The Sleepwalking Ballad’ is loaded with symbols of death, so green, the colour of life would appear to represent a direct contrast. Nevertheless there is a fairly clear narrative in the poem which is not, always, hard to follow. ‘The Sleepwalking Ballad’ is a very mysterious poem, Lorca himself said it remained as much as mystery to him as to anyone else, indeed, a large part of its charm rests on its inexplicability. I am writing this not to place my ideas above anybody else's’, nor to suggest I am an expert, I am merely a Lorca devotee presenting a close reading of one of his poems. The Mad Doctor of Blood Island: Archival Interview with Co-Director Eddie Romeroīonus Disc: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD (in box set only)īeast of Blood Special Features:Ĭeleste and the Beast: An Interview with Celeste Yarnallĭr.What exactly happens in Lorca’s Sleepwalking Ballad? Tombs of the Living Dead: Interview with Pete Tombs, Co-Author of “Immoral Tales”Ī Taste of Blood: Interview with Critic Mark Holcomb Mad Doctor of Blood Island Special Features:Īudio Commentary with Horror Film Historians Nathaniel Thompson and Howard S. Beverly HillsĪlternate BRIDES OF BLOOD ISLAND Title Sequence and JUNGLE FURY Title Card Shermanīeverly Hills on Blood Island: Interview with Actress Beverly Powers a.k.a. Here Comes the Bride: Interview with Hemisphere Marketing Consultant Samuel M. Jungle Fury: Archival Interview with Co-Director Eddie Romero When the Bell Rings: Interview with Critic Mark HolcombĪudio Commentary with Hemisphere Marketing Consultant Samuel M. ![]() Terror Creature: Interview with Pete Tombs, Co-Author of “Immoral Tales” ![]() Shermanĭawn of Blood Island: Interview with Co-Director Eddie Romero Man Becomes Creature: Interview with Hemisphere Marketing Consultant Samuel M. Severin Films is now proud to present The BLOOD ISLAND Trilogy and its celebrated prequel, all featuring uncut scans from recently discovered film elements and oozing with all-new Special Features! And for more than fifty years, these four monster shockers from Filipino directors Gerry de Leon and Eddie Romero have stunned drive-in, grindhouse and VHS audiences, became the foundation of infamous exploitation distributors Hemisphere Pictures and Independent-International, and remain among the most insane/esteemed classics in horror history. They’ve been called “defiantly lurid” (), “delightfully depraved” () and “blood-soaked & naked broad-filled” ().
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