![]() ![]() Distressed, the Stones call their boss, Hades, who was also the Interesting Man. His singing begins to rouse the spirits of the dead. In the Underworld, the Stones hear Orpheus singing wordlessly as he approaches the gates. ![]() Orpheus resolves to find a way to get to the Underworld and bring Eurydice back. Eurydice begins to learn language again, word by word. The father reads to Eurydice from King Lear. Orpheus slowly lowers the collected works of Shakespeare into the Underworld on a string. The name “Orpheus” triggers something in Eurydice, and she begins to remember who she is. The father reads it and tells Eurydice it’s from Orpheus. In the Underworld, the father builds a room out of string for Eurydice. He writes her a letter but does not know how to get it to her. In the world above, Orpheus mourns Eurydice’s death. Her father tries to explain what has happened to her. When she steps out of the elevator, her father greets her. Inside the elevator, it rains on Eurydice. In the Underworld, three Stones-Little Stone, Big Stone, and Loud Stone-the obnoxious bureaucratic guardians of the land of the dead, explain that Eurydice has died, and that, as a dead person, she will lose her memory and all power of language.Įurydice arrives in the Underworld in an elevator. She falls down hundreds of stairs, into the Underworld, to her death. Eurydice tries to grab it and run away, but she trips. Eurydice realizes the situation she’s in and turns to leave. He claims to have a penthouse apartment.Īt his apartment, the Interesting Man gives Eurydice Champagne and puts on terrible mood music. At that moment, a mysterious, “interesting” man appears. When she is alone outside, Eurydice realizes how much she misses her deceased father and says that she’d always thought there would be “more interesting people” at her wedding. Eurydice says she’s feeling warm, and steps outside to find a drink of water. He laments that he doesn’t know how to get his letters to her.Īt their wedding, Orpheus and Eurydice dance. In the Underworld, Eurydice’s father writes her a letter, offering fatherly advice for her wedding day. But Orpheus surprises her he playfully ties a string around her finger to remind her of their love, and she realizes (a little late) that he’s tied it around her ring finger, and that it’s a proposal. Eurydice is frustrated that Orpheus’s mind always seems to be elsewhere. Orpheus and Eurydice, young and in love, are on a beach. ![]()
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