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* DramaticWind: [[spoiler:When Orpheus looks back, a dramatic wind springs up and signals Eurydice's disappearance]].
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* {{Ouroboros}}: The Underworld's logo is a snake eating its own tail.


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* SnakesAreSinister: Hades' club has an Ouroboros snake as a symbol, and both he and Aristaeus are associated with the snake that bites and kills Eurydice.
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* MatchCut: Aristaeus intruding on Orpheus is done by matching shots of Eurydice kissing him with shots of Aristaeus kissing him and switching between the two.
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''The Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice'' is a 10-minute short film in four parts made to promote the Gucci 2016 pre-fall fashion line. Based on the story of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Orpheus and Eurydice]], it sets the ancient tale in modern-day New York City. Music was done by Music/DevHynes of Blood Orange.

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''The Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice'' is a 10-minute short film in four parts made to promote the Gucci Pre-Fall 2016 pre-fall fashion line. Based on the story of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Orpheus and Eurydice]], it sets the ancient tale in modern-day New York City. Music was done by Music/DevHynes of Blood Orange.
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''The Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice'' is a 10-minute short film in four parts made to promote the Gucci 2016 fall fashion line. Based on the story of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Orpheus and Eurydice]], it sets the ancient tale in modern-day New York City. Music was done by Music/DevHynes of Blood Orange.

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''The Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice'' is a 10-minute short film in four parts made to promote the Gucci 2016 fall pre-fall fashion line. Based on the story of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Orpheus and Eurydice]], it sets the ancient tale in modern-day New York City. Music was done by Music/DevHynes of Blood Orange.
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* CruelTwistEnding: [[spoiler:Unlike most versions of the story, Orpheus and Eurydice both make it out...only for him to turn and lose her after the escape, as ExactWords is in play]].

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* CruelTwistEnding: [[spoiler:Unlike most versions of the story, Orpheus and Eurydice both make it out...only for him to turn and lose her after the escape, as ExactWords is are in play]].
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* MagicRealism: The film is set in a dreamlike reality where Aristaeus appears to displace Eurydice during her and Orpheus's kiss and may or may not turn into the snake that kills her, while [[spoiler:after Orpheus turns around, Eurydice vanishes into thin air]].

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* RuleOfSymbolism: Orpheus and Eurydice's wedding outfits both have snake patterns, foreshadowing the latter's death by snakebite.



* SymbolMotifClothing: Orpheus and Eurydice's wedding outfits both have snake patterns, foreshadowing the latter's death by snakebite.
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* GreenEyedMonster: Aristaeus watches Orpheus and Eurydice kiss and inserts herself in Eurydice's place.
* IfICantHaveYou: After Orpheus rejects Aristaeus, she kills Eurydice out of spite towards him.

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* GreenEyedMonster: Aristaeus watches Orpheus and Eurydice kiss and inserts herself in Eurydice's place.
place. When Orpheus rejects her, she kills Eurydice.
* IfICantHaveYou: After Orpheus rejects Aristaeus, Aristaeus's advances in favor of his wife, she kills Eurydice out of spite towards him.



* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Aristaeus and Hades, the two antagonists, dress exclusively in red and black. The snake that kills Eurydice is a red-and-black coral snake, and Hades' underground nightclub is lit in harsh red and blue light.

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* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Aristaeus and Hades, the two antagonists, dress exclusively in red and black. The snake that kills Eurydice is a red-and-black coral snake, and Hades' underground nightclub is lit in harsh red and blue light.light that blends to look black.

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* CruelTwistEnding: [[spoiler:Unlike most versions of the story, Orpheus and Eurydice both make it out...only for him to turn and lose her after the escape]].
* DontLookBack: Like the myth, Hades tells Orpheus he can't look back at Eurydice during his escape. [[spoiler:It turns out he can't look back at her ''at all'', and doing so after they've escaped sends her back]].

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* CruelTwistEnding: [[spoiler:Unlike most versions of the story, Orpheus and Eurydice both make it out...only for him to turn and lose her after the escape]].
escape, as ExactWords is in play]].
* DontLookBack: Like the myth, Hades tells Orpheus he can't look back at Eurydice during his escape. [[spoiler:It turns out he can't look back at her ''at all'', and doing so after they've escaped sends her back]].Eurydice back to Hades]].
* ExactWords: [[spoiler:Hades' conditions say Orpheus can never look back at Eurydice or she'll be lost to him forever. This doesn't only apply to their escape, as he turns when they're safely away and she vanishes]].
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Orpheus and Eurydice are happily married and spend their days together in wedded bliss, but trouble arises when the jealous Aristaeus makes a move on Orpheus. When he rejects her advances, she kills Eurydice with a snake and sends her to the Underworld, depicted as a seedy nightclub. Orpheus petitions Hades to let Eurydice go with his music, and he agrees on one condition: that he never look back at Eurydice, or she'll be lost forever.

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Orpheus and Eurydice are happily married and spend their days together in wedded bliss, but trouble arises when the jealous Aristaeus makes a move on Orpheus. When he rejects her advances, she kills Eurydice with a snake and sends her to the Underworld, depicted as a seedy nightclub. With his music, Orpheus petitions Hades to let Eurydice go with his music, go, and he agrees on one condition: that he never look back at Eurydice, or she'll be lost forever.

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* GenderFlip: Aristaeus is a man in mythology, but is a woman in the film.

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* GenderFlip: Aristaeus is a man in mythology, but is a woman in the film.film, and her affections are shifted from Eurydice to Orpheus.
* GreenEyedMonster: Aristaeus watches Orpheus and Eurydice kiss and inserts herself in Eurydice's place.



* KarmaHoudini: Unlike the myth, where Aristaeus was punished by losing his bees (in essence, his livelihood), Aristaeus gets no comeuppance for tempting Orpheus and killing Eurydice.

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* KarmaHoudini: Unlike the myth, where Aristaeus was punished for his role in Eurydice's death by losing his bees (in essence, his livelihood), this Aristaeus gets no comeuppance for tempting Orpheus and killing Eurydice.

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Orpheus and Eurydice are married and spend days together in wedded bliss, but trouble arises when the jealous Aristaeus makes a move on Orpheus. When he rejects her advances, she kills Eurydice with a snake and sends her to the Underworld, depicted as a seedy nightclub. Orpheus petitions Hades to let Eurydice go with his music, and he agrees on one condition: that he never look back at Eurydice, or she'll be lost forever.

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Orpheus and Eurydice are happily married and spend their days together in wedded bliss, but trouble arises when the jealous Aristaeus makes a move on Orpheus. When he rejects her advances, she kills Eurydice with a snake and sends her to the Underworld, depicted as a seedy nightclub. Orpheus petitions Hades to let Eurydice go with his music, and he agrees on one condition: that he never look back at Eurydice, or she'll be lost forever.


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* RescuedFromTheUnderworld: After Aristaeus kills Eurydice, Orpheus heads to Hades' underworld nightclub to rescue her. [[spoiler:They make it out, but turning back at ''any'' point makes him lose her]].
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''The Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice'' is a 10-minute short film in four parts made to promote the Gucci 2016 fall fashion line. Based on the story of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Orpheus and Eurydice]], it sets the ancient tale in modern-day New York City. Music was done by Music/DevHynes of Blood Orange.

Orpheus and Eurydice are married and spend days together in wedded bliss, but trouble arises when the jealous Aristaeus makes a move on Orpheus. When he rejects her advances, she kills Eurydice with a snake and sends her to the Underworld, depicted as a seedy nightclub. Orpheus petitions Hades to let Eurydice go with his music, and he agrees on one condition: that he never look back at Eurydice, or she'll be lost forever.

The film can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5Mli5mEbx4 here]].

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!!This film contains examples of:
* CruelTwistEnding: [[spoiler:Unlike most versions of the story, Orpheus and Eurydice both make it out...only for him to turn and lose her after the escape]].
* DontLookBack: Like the myth, Hades tells Orpheus he can't look back at Eurydice during his escape. [[spoiler:It turns out he can't look back at her ''at all'', and doing so after they've escaped sends her back]].
* GenderFlip: Aristaeus is a man in mythology, but is a woman in the film.
* IfICantHaveYou: After Orpheus rejects Aristaeus, she kills Eurydice out of spite towards him.
* KarmaHoudini: Unlike the myth, where Aristaeus was punished by losing his bees (in essence, his livelihood), Aristaeus gets no comeuppance for tempting Orpheus and killing Eurydice.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Aristaeus and Hades, the two antagonists, dress exclusively in red and black. The snake that kills Eurydice is a red-and-black coral snake, and Hades' underground nightclub is lit in harsh red and blue light.
* SettingUpdate: From Ancient Greece to modern-day New York City, with modern fashions to match.
* SilenceIsGolden: The only spoken words in the entire film are when Hades lays out his conditions; all the rest is in silence to let the music and visuals tell the story.
* SymbolMotifClothing: Orpheus and Eurydice's wedding outfits both have snake patterns, foreshadowing the latter's death by snakebite.
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