I don't know what Taylor and I would do.I know it's not going to happen over night.but I am scared. Just think of all the things he would lose - puttsing in the garage, making things, reading the Bible, playing solitaire, everything in this life. I don't know what Dad would do if he lost his sight. Then I wrote this to Britton later that day:īritton - I wish you were here. So, we have a follow up appointment again in 3 months unless something occurs first. They cannot do laser surgery "until" the eye starts to blur. What Dad has to now watch for is any blurring that starts inthat left eye. Said he wanted to watch it more closely and had him make a 3 month appointment. Tufte noticed a bleeding blood vessel in the back of Dad's left eye. It is this symbol-laden character, who still resonates in today's society, that director Claire Duguet explores in the documentary Betty Boop For Ever, supported by the testimonies of Jeni Mahoney, the great-granddaughter of Max Fleischer, Chantal Thomas and Jean-Charles de Castelbajac.Just so you know: Three months ago during Dad's routine eye exam Dr. This recalled that she was the first heroine to raise the issue of sexual harassment in the entertainment industry, by slapping a crooked producer in a 1932 episode. So much so that in November 2017, when the Weinstein scandal erupted, The New Yorker featured her on the cover, facing a man with his back to the wall in an open bathrobe. But unlike the docile characters embodied on screen by Hollywood actresses, Betty Boop defended herself. This was what gave her strength, yet also what imprisoned her in an image of prejudice, perpetually hunted by malicious men who held a grudge against her body, at a time when the romanticization of forced relationships was rampant in the film industry. Which makes sense, given that she was a drawing. Like flappers, those young American girls who challenged social and sexual conventions, who went out alone, who drank, who flirted, Betty Boop didn't care how others looked at her. Never before seen on the screen.īetty Boop, musical short by Dave Fleischer "A Language of my own" (1935) © Lobster From flappers to feminism The cartoon is transgressive even in its soundtrack, with this "boop-oop-a-doop" borrowed from scat, and this music provided by black jazzmen like Cab Calloway or Louis Armstrong, projected on the front of the stage in front of a white audience. Just as women have just won the vote, she runs for president and wins. Like Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, Betty Boop is a pilot. Sexy, but not just that she is free, she has fun, she works. With her pin-up body and baby face that appeal to all generations, Betty Boop, born from the imagination of animator Max Fleischer, is above all a pioneer in the representation of the female character. Soon she became a woman, the first all-human cartoon heroine, the first to play the leading role in an animated series. In her first appearance, she adopted the features of a somewhat endearing bulldog.
In animated shorts, there was only one female figure: Minnie Mouse, the wise housewife mouse. On the screen, Hollywood actresses were beautiful, seductive, ideal for distracting male brains preoccupied with unemployment and the economy at half-mast. At the same time, talking movies took their first steps. In 1929, the stock market crash plunged the United States into the Great Depression. In Betty Boop For Ever, a comprehensive documentary for French channel Arte, director Claire Duguet Claire Duguet discusses the position of Betty Boop in popular culture, but also in the representation of feminist struggles.
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