{"id":494,"date":"2015-12-07T20:11:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T20:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smilingmadamebeudet.sac.lsa.umich.edu\/?page_id=494"},"modified":"2015-12-07T20:11:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T20:11:50","slug":"the-first-day-dream","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/smilingmadamebeudet\/theme-6\/the-first-day-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Escaping through a Daydream"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first daydream featured was of a shimmering, sunlit pond with long grasses and cattails. It occurs when Madame Beudet is at her piano, playing Debussy\u2019s third movement piece, “Jardins Sous La Pluie” (Gardens in the Rain) from\u00a0Estampes.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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A screenshot of Madame Beudet at the piano where the daydream begins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This impressionist piece relates to her daydream. The piece itself describes rain showers, wind blowing, and violent rainstorms in a garden (DuBose). The theme of the movement\u00a0mirrors her aggressive husband repressing her more fragile nature. She is repressed of a\u00a0calm, peaceful life she yearns for, and her reverie\u00a0fulfills her wishes of escape.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A screenshot of the first daydream sequence of Madame Beudet at the piano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Her repression is portrayed\u00a0through the daydream. She is dreaming of a scene that is\u00a0so simple in nature and in theory. Rather than being able to go outside, she is trapped inside the apartment. Her reality with her husband does not allow choices she would want to make, but in her daydream, she can escape. Dulac says that cinematic action allows this escape: \u201cThe action of cinema is elsewhere, in the domain of the unexpressive, the inexpressible, of the fantastic … the fantastic of the banal and the everyday. That which we each carry within ourselves\u201d (Musser 121). The action, in this case, is her playing the piano, triggering the interior thoughts. <\/span>In this daydream, viewers \u201c\u2026constantly experience her soul, her passions through her interiority\u201d (Musser\u00a0<\/span>122). This point sums up how viewers truly get to know Madame Beudet’s\u00a0desire for escape through her\u00a0demonstration of passionate piano playing.\u00a0Her interiority is outwardly shown to the viewers through Dulac’s portrayal of Madame Beudet’s daydream.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brooke Halsted<\/em><\/p>\n

Source Used:<\/span><\/p>\n

DuBose, Joseph. “Claude DeBussy.” ClassicalConnect.com<\/i>. Classical Connect, n.d. Web. 07 Dec. 2015.<\/p>\n

Musser, Charles. “The Clash between Theater and Film.” New Review of Film and Television Studies<\/i> 5.2 (2007): 111-34. Web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first daydream featured was of a shimmering, sunlit pond with long grasses and cattails. It occurs when Madame Beudet is at her piano, playing Debussy\u2019s third movement piece, “Jardins Sous La Pluie” (Gardens in the Rain) from\u00a0Estampes.\u00a0 This impressionist piece relates to her daydream. The piece itself describes rain showers, wind blowing, and violent … <\/p>\n

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