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The film is the Broadway adaptation of the play which opened in 1943 and ran for 503 performances. Both the musical and the film are based on Georges Bizet's opera Carmen which opened in Paris in 1875. I have seen the opera and I have the film on D.V.D. The basic story is the same. Carmen in both the opera and the musical sings the opening song warning that she falls in love very hard but falls out of love, so beware. The cast is all African American because during that period 1940s and 1954 producers would cast an interracial cast. The lyrics for the songs were written by Oscar Hammerstein. Because the cast was African American he wrote the opening song Dat's Love instead of That's Love. I find the insulting, but it was done a lot during the 1940s with Show Boat [Can't help loving Dat man of mine] and Cabin in the Sky. In the opera the opening song [same melody] is L'amour est un oiseau rebelled "[Love is a rebellious bird"] In Carmen Jones, she falls in love and out of love with the soldier Joe. In the opera, she falls in love and out of love with Don Jose. In the film, Carmen wants to go to the club Louie Paster. In the Opera, it's just Paster.

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This great presentation thank you for posting on TH-cam

Read: Style and Meaning: Studies in the Detailed Analysis of Film - Chapter 7 : Revisiting Preminger Bonjour Tristesse (2005 Manchester University Press)

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A very enlightening and clear presentation. Thank you! I learned a lot about the film.