Blow-Up (1966) David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, The Yardbirds, & Michelangelo Antonioni

<b>Book Vs. Movie: Blow-Up</b><br /><b>The Julio Cortazar Short Story Vs. the Michelangelo Antonio Movie <br /><br /><br />The Margos are feeling very mod today with this particular episode. We talk about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo_Antonioni" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Michelangelo Antonini</a>, one of the most revered directors of the 1960s &amp; 1970s, with a Palm d’Or, the Golden Lion, the Golden Bread, and the Golden Leopard among his film accomplishments. 1966’s Blow-Up is his biggest English language hit, and it captured the New Wave movement in modern filmmaking. </b><br /><b><br />The original story is from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Cort%C3%A1zar" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Julio Cortazar</a> in a short story titled “<a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/blow-las-babas-del-diablo-julio-cortazar-1959" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Las Babas del Diablo</a>,” written in 1959. The symbolism-heavy story is told with several unreliable narrators and the artist's relationship to their medium. Our protagonist is Roberto, a French-Chilean translator who loves photography and may or may not be connected to reality. He remembers watching a middle-aged woman in a park with a teenage boy. Is she procuring him for an older man? Roberto takes photographs and obsesses over the crime about to happen. </b><br /><b><br />The 1966 film (Antonioni’s first English-speaking production) follows Thomas <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0376101/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">(David Hemmings</a>,) a fashion photographer in demand who obsesses over antiques and modernism. The movie also stars<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000603/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Vanessa Redgrave</a> as a woman being photographed by Thomas in a clinch with an older man. She tries to seduce the roll of film from him after following him home. But he keeps the original and discovers, aft