So In The 1960 Movie Adaptation Of Goethes PlayFaust, They Chose To Give The Devil Mephistopheles A Very

So in the 1960 movie adaptation of Goethe’s play “Faust”, they chose to give the devil Mephistopheles a very different look than how he’s usually portrayed.

Here are a few images of what Mephisto is usually shown as looking like:

 so just your very average looking devil/demon figure with a hat, you know?

But here’s what Mephisto looked like in the 1960 version:

I can’t describe how much I love this

Castle in the Air, 1928, M.C. Escher

A Song of Ladies ❧ Dacey Mormont

Dacey Mormont looked up at the sky. “I would sooner have water raining down on me than arrows.”

Catelyn smiled despite herself. “You are braver than I am, I fear. Are all your Bear Island women such warriors?”

“She-bears, aye,” said Lady Maege. “We have needed to be. In olden days the ironmen would come raiding in their longboats, or wildlings from the Frozen Shore. The men would be off fishing, like as not. The wives they left behind had to defend themselves and their children, or else be carried off.”

“There’s a carving on our gate,” said Dacey. “A woman in a bearskin, with a child in one arm suckling at her breast. In the other hand she holds a battleaxe. She’s no proper lady, that one, but I always loved her.” ― Catelyn V, A Storm of Swords.

Some nights I stay up (reading Ao3 fic)

Inspired by the amazing Hallelujah video, I have created… this.

I love this thank you so much for sharing!!!! Not only is this super interesting and important queer german history, but its also good to know that i had something going when first saw his Mephisto and my first thought was “drag queen” ;)

So in the 1960 movie adaptation of Goethe’s play “Faust”, they chose to give the devil Mephistopheles a very different look than how he’s usually portrayed.

Here are a few images of what Mephisto is usually shown as looking like:

so just your very average looking devil/demon figure with a hat, you know?

But here’s what Mephisto looked like in the 1960 version:

I can’t describe how much I love this