Richiepiep
Administrator
I still wonder if the final scene of the Water Park-babysitter episode is inspired by this French classic short from 1956 (!), Le Ballon Rouge (The Red Balloon) by Albert Lamorisse, the Frenchman who also happens to be the inventor of the game Risk, originally titled La Conquête du Monde.
Fragment from "Le Ballon Rouge" (1956):
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x58w6v_le-ballon-rouge_shortfilms
(The entire version of this extremely well-crafted and poetic movie (34 mins.) can be seen elsewhere on Dailymotion.com and Google Video)
It's not as far-fetched as it may seem: it won the 1957 Oscar for best screenplay (in the feature category!), and must have inspired whole generations of American schoolchildren (and traumatized some ) as thousands of prints were distributed to elementary schools across the country.
And a lot of reviewers have commented that in the movie, the balloons represent people's souls, which is made clearer at the end - and in MITM, it can't be a coincidence that the balloon appears, I reckon, when the babysitter dies (this is why I think she died, rather than just had a heart attack).
The kid (the director's son Pascal) looks a bit like Dewey too ...
Rich
Fragment from "Le Ballon Rouge" (1956):
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x58w6v_le-ballon-rouge_shortfilms
(The entire version of this extremely well-crafted and poetic movie (34 mins.) can be seen elsewhere on Dailymotion.com and Google Video)
It's not as far-fetched as it may seem: it won the 1957 Oscar for best screenplay (in the feature category!), and must have inspired whole generations of American schoolchildren (and traumatized some ) as thousands of prints were distributed to elementary schools across the country.
And a lot of reviewers have commented that in the movie, the balloons represent people's souls, which is made clearer at the end - and in MITM, it can't be a coincidence that the balloon appears, I reckon, when the babysitter dies (this is why I think she died, rather than just had a heart attack).
The kid (the director's son Pascal) looks a bit like Dewey too ...
Rich