Talk:A Dream of Passion

I removed the Stub status after I added a relatively detailed plot description. I'm still fairly new at this, so advice/recommendations are welcome. I'm assuming that I added enough to get it out of the stub category. MiloD (talk) 00:56, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Kathimerini newspaper scene

This doesn't belongs in the main article, but it's fascinating backstory to this scene.

After the disastrous publicity stunt, Maya drops off a bouquet of roses and a card at the prison for Brenda and then walks in central Athens (it looks like Syntagma Square). She looks at the newspapers on display at a kiosk—the newspaper To Vima has a large photo of Brenda yelling and the sensationalist headline "Medea versus Medea" ("Μήδεια κατά Μήδειας"). The camera moves past that and closes in on the newspaper I Kathimerini. The next scene is in the printing room of a newspaper—presumably I Kathimerini—where Maya is talking quite comfortably with a woman who must be the publisher about Brenda Collins' background. Soon they go to the publisher's spacious and elegant office, where Nora, an assistant (the publisher says to Maya that Nora is her "right hand"), is waiting with the files about the Brenda Collins case. The publisher and Maya then sit and talk about the case.

The publisher is not introduced by name. The publisher of I Kathimerini at the time was Helen Vlachos, and she was very well known. She had shut down her newspaper after the 1967 coup by the junta, which was a blow to the regime. She was later put under house arrest after, in an interview with an Italian newspaper, she said the leaders of the junta were "mediocre and colorless," and she called one of them a clown.

Vlachos escaped house arrest and fled to England, where she formed an alliance with other Greek expatriates who opposed the junta—including ... wait for it ... Melina Mercouri. Mercouri had been performing on Broadway in New York at the time of the coup. She immediately became a vocal opponent of the junta. The junta responded by seizing her property in Greece and revoking her citizenship.

So the Kathimerini scene is interesting. A nod to the connection between Mercouri and Vlachos? MiloD (talk) 13:11, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Plot

Note: This is the first time I've made such in-depth additions to a Wikipedia page, and first time working on a film article, so advice is welcome.

In my description of the plot, I focused on what puts Maya and Brenda together, because it seems that if you understand that, the rest of the film falls into place. The rest of the actual plot is a series of episodes that further one or more of the three main storylines. I left out the details of those episodes (even major ones) because it would require too much description. There are a number of them, most are fairly complicated and involve a variety of major and minor characters, etc. The power of all of these episodes is in their cumulative effect. MiloD (talk) 20:23, 12 April 2022 (UTC)