However, in the seemingly safe woods, a captivatingly eerie and haunting dream sequence will condemn our hero in a profound and almost mystical twenty-year slumber. A frame narrative by Geoffrey Crayon introduces a tale found in the papers of the fictional historian Diedrich Knickerbocker: the story of Rip Van Winkle, a. In a humorous context, Rip Van Winkle deals with issues of politics, as he shows how the American Revolution changed one small village, and gender issues. Rip Van Winkle takes place in a small village in the shadow of the great Kaatskill (Catskill) Mountains. In a pleasant village near New Yorks Katskill mountains lived a colonial Anglo. Incorporating strong elements of ingenious stage tricks and theatrics, mechanical devices, cinematic special effects, and gradual dissolves between tableaux to move from stark reality to rich phantasmagoria, the unsuspecting Rip's ordeal begins shortly after his escape to the mountains to flee the local authorities' wrath. The story of Rip Van Winkle is set during the American Revolutionary War. In this loose adaptation of American writer Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" original story and French composer Robert Planquette's famous 1882 operetta, the indefatigable director, Georges Méliès, unfolds an enchanting woodland fantasy in seventeen vibrant scenes. Pioneer filmmaker Georges Melies tells his version of the famous Washington Irving story of a man who takes a nap and wakes up 20 years later.
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