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After hearing her repeated pleas, Juno (Hera) took pity on Halcyone and decided to inform her about her husband’s demise, by delivering a message to her during her sleep. To do this would require the intervention of other important gods. ” Iris immediately put on her robe of many colors and set out in search of the palace of the King of Sleep. The myth continues, telling us that “A mountain cave is the abode of the dull god Somnus, where clouds and shadows are exhaled from the ground, and the light glimmers faintly.

Halcyone’s story starts when her husband, King Ceyx, was grieving for his dead brother. Seeking solace from his unsettled psychological state, Ceyx decided to journey to consult the oracle of Apollo, the god of healing. When Ceyx told his wife Halcyone of his decision to set sail, Halcyone wrongly concluded that her husband wanted to go on a journey in order to avoid her. Halcyone said to Ceyx, “What fault of mine, dearest husband, has turned your affection from me? Where is that love of me that used to be uppermost in your thoughts?

Furthermore, most of the dream-themed silents were fewer than five minutes long and cannot be compared to the hour and one-half or two-hour feature length films that are currently customary. The question about whether or not Freudian dream theory was really responsible for film’s eventual emphasis on “montage” has been raised. To answer it, we can consider the case of Sergei Eisenstein, one of the century’s premiere filmmakers and a major voice in early film theory. The Lithuanian-born Eisenstein, who is best known for his Battleship Potemkin, touted the director ’s role in editing, cutting, and splicing.

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