File talk:Les Mots (video).jpg

This image doesn't fall under NFCC#8 because it contributes to help the reader to note the similarities between the music video and Théodore Géricault painting's, Raft of the Medusa (the painting is also added in the article). The article states :


 * Initially announced as an adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, the video was inspired by Le Radeau de la Méduse, a 1918 Théodore Géricault painting. Indeed, "the main colors of the video are similar to that in the painting : yellow, sunset, dark, warning of misfortunes. The anatomy of the two singers is filmed with realism and precision (details on the bodies' parts, focus on the grains of skin) and may refer to those of the shipwreckeds in the painting. Finally, the replicas of the raft and the sailing are very resembling".
 * According to Instant-Mag, "the video "Les Mots" - without real screenplay, but rather playing on the aesthetics of colors and the sensual bodies filmed - can be appreciated on two levels : the first, metaphorical (. ..), refers to the flow of life, its turmoil, its despair, its choices. The lovers are (...) in the "same boat", they "row". When Seal fell in the water, Mylène Farmer doesn't help or can't help him, all interpretations are free. The end of the video may also symbolize the grief, the loss and its ambivalence : Farmer lights a flame, then blows over, master of her own destiny and emotions". The journalist Caroline Bee considers the video deals about "the world of dream, with the ocean as a metaphor for life : the turmoil and the fullness, the danger and the calm".

Europe22 (talk) 17:17, 31 December 2008 (UTC)


 * For the second tag for speedy deletion added today, see my comment above. Europe22 (talk) 21:53, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Btw, after the first tag, I had already replied on this talkpage and I had left a message in the edit summary ("Shows the similarities with Théodore Géricault painting's Le Radeau de la Méduse (also added in the article) in which the video draws its inspiration + sourced => not falls under NFCC#8"). However, the same Wikipedian added the second tag without answering my comment, and yet this tag states : "uploader removed tag without any attempt to address the issue". I appreciate... (Sorry for my bad English!) :( Europe22 (talk) 01:50, 18 January 2009 (UTC)