Possessed Red Shoes!?!


I can't understand why there wasn't a sequel, where the evil red ballet shoes come back to life shortly after the final image of them being pointed towards the camera ....

The Evil Red Shoes 2, Return of The Evil Red Shoes, Revenge Of The Very Evil Red Shoes etc. etc.

And they missed a HUGE opportunity to have the audience COWERING in fear at the 3D image of the scary evil ballet shoes lunging out into the audience with a "YOU'RE NEXT!" image flashing up on the screen.

Of course, I realise that 3D cinema wasn't the "in" thing in the '40s, but if they could make the audience think a train on the screen was going to run them over in cinema's very early days, I'm sure they could have upped the ante & had the audience leaping back in fear lest they get kicked in the face by the ultra evil red ballet shoes.

And as someone said in another thread, they missed out on the "jump" scene by not including a shark or have her landing on the steam train's main rod & arabesque-ing (change for correct word) along it to safety (or getting it wrong because of the evil red shoes) & falling into a recently opened sinkhole or something equally nasty.

ps. I am messing about - I thought the film was GREAT and I (obviously) know nothing about ballet, other than it looks really painful. I only watched it to see if Robert Helpmann was going to do an early Child Catcher that he was so great at later in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

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Of course, I realise that 3D cinema wasn't the "in" thing in the '40s

3D cinema was first mooted in 1890. It was quite popular in the 1920s and again in the 1950s. This current wave of 3D films is just people jumping on the same old bandwagon. They're popular for a while each time they are brought back but then people get tired of actors pointing at the camera and throwing things towards the camera.

They're just a gimmick. They have severely reduced depth of field

Steve

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ps. I am messing about - I thought the film was GREAT and I (obviously) know nothing about ballet

You don't have to know anything about ballet to appreciate this film. It isn't really about ballet. It's about dedication to an art form, whatever the art form. The decision as to whether you should give up any idea of having a normal life for your art form, and whether it's worth dying for your art.

There was a scene that was ultimately cut from the film that showed Lermontov, Ratov, Ljubov (Massine) and the real costume designer Jacques Fath, all sitting around a café table planning the ballet. But then Powell & Pressburger realised that they didn't need to emphasise the collaborative nature, it's shown all through the film and it's shown by the film which is a collaboration between writer, director, producer, composer, designer, cinematographer and many others.

Steve

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There was The Red Shoes Diaries!

It's that man again!!

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OMG, the CCCBB child catcher actor is in this! I am not a fan of ballet so this never interested me but now I have to check it to see this guy.

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