Spot the Reference, Akt 14
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tutufansBleh, I can't even do penance properly. Fine. In exchange for abandoning this project for as long as I did, you get one episode per day for a week except yesterday.
The second season starts with this akt, and all the akts in the first season were linked to here. (If anyone's wondering why I'm bothering to link to posts that are just right below this one, it's because it'll be easier to get back to later on.)
So, without further ado, here's the next installment in this little communal exercise:
Subtitle: Blumenwalzer
Introduction:
Once upon a time, there was a man who died.
The prince and the raven from the man's story escaped from the story and fought. Their battle ended with the prince taking out his own heart and sealing away the raven by using its forbidden power.
The prince, who had lost his heart, met a duck in a certain town. Because of her love for the prince the duck turned into a princess and gathered together the lost shards of his heart. The prince gradually regained his feelings, and at long last, he was able to regain even the feeling of love.
And they lived happily ever after.
But did they really? After all, the princess is fated to turn into a speck of light the moment she tells the prince of her love for him.
Music:
Ahiru watches the Prince dancing: Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich: The Nutcracker: Act II, No.14 - Variation II “Dance of the Sugar Plum Faerie”
Ahiru dances with the Prince as a girl: same: Swan Lake: Act I, No.2 – Valse-Intrada (latter section)
Ahiru wakes up and remembers the fight with Kraehe for Mytho’s heart: same: same: Act II, No.10
Fakir keeps Ahiru from saying too much and distracts Mytho: Saint-Saëns, Camille: Carnival of the Animals: Hens and Roosters
Mytho speaks to Fakir of his desire to regain the rest of his heart: Wagner, Richard: Siegfried Idyll
Neko-sensei tells the story of his meeting with Meowzinsky: Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai: Scheherezade: Mvt 3 “The Young Prince and the Young Princess”
Disappearance of Meowzinsky’s shoes, beginning of Mytho’s problems: Wagner, Richard: Gotterdämerung: Music from Act III, Scene 2 - “Siegfried’s Death March”
Mytho tells Fakir about the destruction of Meowzinsky’s shoes, the Monster Raven speaks to Rue about the tainted Heart Shard, Mytho taunts Fakir: Mussorgsky, Modest (orch. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition: Gnomus
Ahiru climbs onto the roof, Mytho is taken by the Monster Raven’s will and throws himself from the window to frame Fakir, Tutu saves Mytho: Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich: The Nutcracker: Act II, No.13 – “Waltz of the Flowers”
In case anyone were wondering, the subtitle for this episode, Blumenwalzen, means "Waltz of the Flowers". Just so we're clear on that.
Mr. Meowzinsky is a reference to Vaslav Nijinsky.
I thought it was rather clever of them to have Duck dream of Fakir doing the pose of death early in the episode, that means we could recognise it when Mr. Cat does it after finding the ruined shoes later in the episode.
All in all, most of the references in this episode are to the first episode in the first season. The opening narration tells us of what has happened before, and sets the stage. Duck dreams of Mytho on the lake, the birds fly straight onto her, Fakir and Mytho talk in their bedroom, and Tutu saves Mytho while he's falling from the window.
It also shows just how much darker this season is going to be. In Duck's dream, Fakir does the pose of death. Rather than being emotionless, Mytho is showing a lot of creepiness - and he jumped from the window not to help someone, but, as we see later, to frame Fakir and get him out of the way.
Note how music from Scheherazade is being used when Mr. Cat is telling a story. In the first season, "The Aquarium" was usually used when someone was talking about something from the story. If I remember correctly, Scheherazade has largely taken over that role in this season. I tend to think of that as a sign that rather than looking in through the glass, the characters are taking a more active part in actually shaping the story, but I might be reading into things.
Then again, that's what this whole "Spot the Reference" thing was about - reading into things.
Take it away, Tutuistas!
The second season starts with this akt, and all the akts in the first season were linked to here. (If anyone's wondering why I'm bothering to link to posts that are just right below this one, it's because it'll be easier to get back to later on.)
So, without further ado, here's the next installment in this little communal exercise:
Subtitle: Blumenwalzer
Introduction:
Once upon a time, there was a man who died.
The prince and the raven from the man's story escaped from the story and fought. Their battle ended with the prince taking out his own heart and sealing away the raven by using its forbidden power.
The prince, who had lost his heart, met a duck in a certain town. Because of her love for the prince the duck turned into a princess and gathered together the lost shards of his heart. The prince gradually regained his feelings, and at long last, he was able to regain even the feeling of love.
And they lived happily ever after.
But did they really? After all, the princess is fated to turn into a speck of light the moment she tells the prince of her love for him.
Music:
Ahiru watches the Prince dancing: Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich: The Nutcracker: Act II, No.14 - Variation II “Dance of the Sugar Plum Faerie”
Ahiru dances with the Prince as a girl: same: Swan Lake: Act I, No.2 – Valse-Intrada (latter section)
Ahiru wakes up and remembers the fight with Kraehe for Mytho’s heart: same: same: Act II, No.10
Fakir keeps Ahiru from saying too much and distracts Mytho: Saint-Saëns, Camille: Carnival of the Animals: Hens and Roosters
Mytho speaks to Fakir of his desire to regain the rest of his heart: Wagner, Richard: Siegfried Idyll
Neko-sensei tells the story of his meeting with Meowzinsky: Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai: Scheherezade: Mvt 3 “The Young Prince and the Young Princess”
Disappearance of Meowzinsky’s shoes, beginning of Mytho’s problems: Wagner, Richard: Gotterdämerung: Music from Act III, Scene 2 - “Siegfried’s Death March”
Mytho tells Fakir about the destruction of Meowzinsky’s shoes, the Monster Raven speaks to Rue about the tainted Heart Shard, Mytho taunts Fakir: Mussorgsky, Modest (orch. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition: Gnomus
Ahiru climbs onto the roof, Mytho is taken by the Monster Raven’s will and throws himself from the window to frame Fakir, Tutu saves Mytho: Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich: The Nutcracker: Act II, No.13 – “Waltz of the Flowers”
In case anyone were wondering, the subtitle for this episode, Blumenwalzen, means "Waltz of the Flowers". Just so we're clear on that.
Mr. Meowzinsky is a reference to Vaslav Nijinsky.
I thought it was rather clever of them to have Duck dream of Fakir doing the pose of death early in the episode, that means we could recognise it when Mr. Cat does it after finding the ruined shoes later in the episode.
All in all, most of the references in this episode are to the first episode in the first season. The opening narration tells us of what has happened before, and sets the stage. Duck dreams of Mytho on the lake, the birds fly straight onto her, Fakir and Mytho talk in their bedroom, and Tutu saves Mytho while he's falling from the window.
It also shows just how much darker this season is going to be. In Duck's dream, Fakir does the pose of death. Rather than being emotionless, Mytho is showing a lot of creepiness - and he jumped from the window not to help someone, but, as we see later, to frame Fakir and get him out of the way.
Note how music from Scheherazade is being used when Mr. Cat is telling a story. In the first season, "The Aquarium" was usually used when someone was talking about something from the story. If I remember correctly, Scheherazade has largely taken over that role in this season. I tend to think of that as a sign that rather than looking in through the glass, the characters are taking a more active part in actually shaping the story, but I might be reading into things.
Then again, that's what this whole "Spot the Reference" thing was about - reading into things.
Take it away, Tutuistas!