#rebecca is really one of the most interesting iterations of the bluebeard tale

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Rebecca (1940, dir Alfred Hitchcock) // Vievee Francis, "Apologia" (Excerpt) // Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

#THIS WAS THE POEM BTW. that no one asked for but I am offering regardless <3 <3 #''SHE LOOKED ALMOST TRIUMPHANT'' ! #rebecca #just gonna tag this under #web weaving #for organizational purpose #has anyone else been ruminating over this scene for years or has it just been me #she is constantly reminded of how different she is from rebecca (wrt beauty wit boldness etc etc) #but in retrospect with this confession rebecca's negatively perceived traits such as selfishness #are intended to be the unspoken additional differences maxim et al see between them #but then she hears maxim's confession and as the shock wears away-- she feels something akin to giddiness #selfishness one could say! #a triumph at last--right there in the chamber. it does feel like she's echoing rebecca a bit #(even if it is a hollow triumph imo) #and do I even need to go into fontaine's acting here. just so good #rebecca is really one of the most interesting iterations of the bluebeard tale #the last wife does still die in a sense. but it is alongside her bluebeard as a pair of unmoored ghosts #while the story remains forever enclosed in the first dead wife's fist #I'm now thinking about that rebecca fanfiction I wrote as a teenager where the first and second wife meet #and maxim just wasn't there lmao. shows my priorities #anyway i'm forever fascinated by both ladies in this story goodnight and thank you