After the success of The Red Shoes, a montage of 4 or 5 different ballets follow. Later, after Shearer leaves the troupe and is ready to return, Boris notes the one year anniversary of the debut of The Red Shoes. No ballet company could stage that many productions in that time span or would want to.
shareAll ballet companies DO stage at least 4 or 5 ballets in a year.
shareProducing 4 or 5 extravagant ballets in less than a year is far-fetched.
Here's another one. SPOILERS AHEAD. After Terry takes a brody onto the train tracks, Boris' announces to the audience that she will never dance again. But in the next scene, Terry is still laying on the tracks biding farewell to Marius. How did Boris know? Even Twitter doesn't work that quickly.
Have you never looked at the seasons being produced by the major ballet companies? Check out The Royal Ballet, Paris Opera, NYC Ballet, The Maryinski, etc. They all produce this number of lavish ballets every single season and have done for many years.
This is not only NOT unusual, it is absolutely standard procedure on an annual basis.
For example, it looks like the Royal Ballet has about 15 different productions scheduled for the 2015/2016 season. It's also important to distinguish between a new production/new ballet, such as the Red Shoes, and a ballet already existing in the company's repertoire. The former take a lot more time, expense and work than the latter.
shareThe Red Shoes was much more lavishly produced than any ballet I have ever seen. And that involves intricate direction. Multiply that by 4 or 5 productions, it would have been impossible to mount in a few short months especially with a new prima ballerina. The cost would have been staggering.
shareHere's another one. SPOILERS AHEAD. After Terry takes a brody onto the train tracks, Boris' announces to the audience that she will never dance again. But in the next scene, Terry is still laying on the tracks biding farewell to Marius. How did Boris know? Even Twitter doesn't work that quickly.
I don't think it would be "pointless" to remove a gravely wounded person from railroad tracks to make her as comfortable as possible. She was still conscious, remember.
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