This short story is considered as the first
detective story which "changed the history of world literature"
(Meyers 1992).The story starts with the voice of the narrator who explain the
analysis of a game of chess, promising that this explanation is related with
the story. After that, he introduces C. Auguste Dupin, who comes from Paris and
comes to live together with the narrator in a nice house, where they only live
during the morning since in the night they go outside searching for
adventures.Dupin, after reading the newspaper, becomes interested on a murder
of a mother and a daughter which have taken place in Rue Morgue, and
Dupin, with the help of the narrator, collect information about the murder
with the neighbors' declarations. He becomes more and more interested in the
crime, and he decides visit the crime scene with his roommate after the
imprision of a man who was suspicious of commiting the crime with no evidence
against him.
Dupin concudes that the murder has been commited
not only by a human, but by an animal such an Ourang-Outang with the assistance
of a human. For that reason he puts an ad asking if anybody has lost this
animal. A sailor responds to the ad and meets with Dupin. He says that he is
the owner of the Ourang-Outang, and explains how the animal escaped from the
house with a razor and went to the house where the crimes were commited. Dupin
believes him and inform to the police about the declarations, closing the
case.This story is a really rare story which makes the readers being in doubt
during until the end of the story, guessing about who could commit the crime.
At the end these questions are solved, however the end is difficult to believe
making it a bit ambiguous. (themotionpictures.net "Poe vs. film:
The Murders in the Rue Morgue", 2012)
This story was adapted on a film in 1932,
Murders in the Rue Morgue. The setting is very similar to the one which appears
in the story, however in the plot there are big changes although it was obvious
inspired by Poe's story. For example, at the beggining of the film the chess
explanation is substituted by a scene of two couples visiting a carnival. In
the case of the figure of the narrator, in the film becomes a one more
character, and he is not interested on helping Duping to solve the crime. And
the crime is not commited by an animal, but the murder which Duping
investigates consists on the death of women who are injected ape's blood by a
doctor. The end of the film is also different, since Dupin instead of informing
about the case to the police, he kills the gorilla. The final is not so clear
as the one in Poe's story, but it is also a good and suspenful ending.It is
very difficult to compare both works, since they are really different, but both
are fantastic compositions.(imdb.com "El
doble asesinato en la calle Morgue")
Here you have the trailer of the film and the
link to the full film.
For further information:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023249/
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/poestories/section5.rhtml
Reference list:
Tmp, Lindsey. "Poe vs.
film: The Murders in the Rue Morgue". The Motion Pictures. Lindsey Tmp.
June 11,
2012. Web 18 May 2014. <http://themotionpictures.net/2012/06/11/poe-vs-film-the-murders-in-the-rue-morgue/>
My favorite moment is when the ape ir running over the roofs.
ResponderEliminarYes, I think that is one of the most awesome scenes of the film.
ResponderEliminarI am absolutely agree.However, the plot is not well represented at all.
ResponderEliminarWell, you are right. But you must connsider that this is a film adaptation, and the director structures the film in order to pleasure the audience, and maybe the plot of the book would not be so atractive for viewers as the one which he created for the film.
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