RIP, muse of the silver screen.

[Emanuel]

On the day that marked 130 years since cinema first breathed in a Paris screening room, same day, her image still breathes it out.

Not just a star, but a force: the gaze that taught the camera desire, defiance, freedom.

Long after movements fade and reels decay, Brigitte Bardot remains the archetype—beauty that unsettled, presence that rewrote the frame.

[MrSMW]

Oh great; that means France will enter a state of 6 months mourning as they did when Jonny Halliday fell off his perch and even less will get done.

[BTM_Pix]

It’s a pity about the multiple convictions for inciting racial hatred.

 

[Django]

Indeed.. outside her 60s iconic stardom she's better known here in France for her far-right politics and weird animal activism. Most people I know were rolling their eyes yesterday rather than lighting candles!

[fuzzynormal]

I think Clara Bow was the first to teach the camera things with her gaze.  Especially desire.  Free desire.  Or was it defiant desire?  I forget.  😉 Also, the camera has a bad memory because it keeps getting re-taught all those things by different people. 

But I suppose being enamored by others is normal.  Celebrities exist for good reason.  Cultural context mixed with a harmonizing charisma.

Maybe it's not even the camera.  The story and image of Mona Lisa is still around in our collective consciousness.  The girl with the pearl earring.  How about Adele Bloch?  Or maybe if you'd rather consider the male rendered in a painting to think about ... well, again, the Mona Lisa ... ?

Regardless, legend has it that Anna Whistler was a right old twat.  Kicked a cat once and liked to slaughter chickens.

[Emanuel]

Right there ; ) There is the muse of the silver screen.

And the persona.

Under Carl Jung, the mask.

Archetypes.

:- )