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The Periwig-Maker

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The Periwig-Maker	comment	The Periwig-Maker is a 1999 animated short film (15 minutes) directed by Steffen Schäffler.It is Inspired by… Daniel Defoe's novel A Journal of the Plague Year. The setting is 1665-1666 London, during the "Great Plague", the last large outbreak of the Black Plague in London in which some 25% of the population died. The protagonist is a wig-maker who is essentially sitting out the plague in his house. His attention is drawn to an apartment above a bar across the street, which has been locked shut as was standard practice to contain the spread of plague. The wig-maker watches as a dead woman is taken out of the apartment, as her daughter, a little girl with flaming red hair, sobs with grief. The red-haired girl is immediately thrown back into her apartment and locked up. Later, she escapes—as seen by the wig-maker, who is still watching from across the street.Kenneth Branagh narrates, reading passages from Defoe's book.
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The Periwig-Maker / int_19da8a03	type	Incurable Cough of Death
The Periwig-Maker / int_19da8a03	comment	Incurable Cough of Death: Ambiguous, as the wig maker is actually still alive at the end of the cartoon. But the fact that he coughs as he is fashioning the dead girl's hair into a wig is certainly ominous.
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The Periwig-Maker / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
The Periwig-Maker / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: After all the credits roll, there is a quote from the diary of Samuel Pepys, whose diary included a first-hand account of the Great Plague. Pepys writes about how people are reluctant to buy wigs, because they wonder if the wigs might have been made from the hair of plague victims.
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The Periwig-Maker / int_52989fee	type	Narrator
The Periwig-Maker / int_52989fee	comment	Narrator: Kenneth Branagh reads passages from Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year. It is ambiguous how much of the narration is actually supposed to be the inner monologue of the wig-maker. The narration speaks of methods of avoiding the plague and makes some shrewd guesses about how microscopic "creatures" might be spreading the plague, but there is no direct reference in the narration to the story. Notably, the anonymous narrator of Defoe's book was a saddle-maker, not a wig-maker.
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The Periwig-Maker / int_7aba8180	type	Job Title
The Periwig-Maker / int_7aba8180	comment	Job Title: The protagonist is a wig-maker. This proves directly relevant to the ending.
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The Periwig-Maker / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
The Periwig-Maker / int_a7382a73	comment	Imagine Spot: The wig-maker has a vision of the little girl appearing in his shop, telling him that she has "the sickness" and she will die that night. Sure enough, the next day she's loaded onto the cart and thrown into the dead pit.
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The Periwig-Maker / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
The Periwig-Maker / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: The protagonist is a wig-maker. Is his attention drawn to the girl because of the tragedy of her fate? No, he wants her hair. At the end of the cartoon the wig-maker climbs into the dead pit, cuts the hair off the little girl's corpse, and makes it into a wig.
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The Periwig-Maker / int_b0ae741	type	The Black Death
The Periwig-Maker / int_b0ae741	comment	The Black Death: The Black Death is rampant in London. The sick are locked up in their homes and the dead are shoveled into pits.
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The Periwig-Maker / int_b1e81ef2	type	Dead-Hand Shot
The Periwig-Maker / int_b1e81ef2	comment	Dead-Hand Shot: The mother's arm flops out the shroud as she is tossed into the cart, causing the little girl to cry.
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The Periwig-Maker / int_bbb3a5a0	type	Splash of Color
The Periwig-Maker / int_bbb3a5a0	comment	Splash of Color: The film is actually in color, not black and white, but it is made with a Real Is Brown, drab, limited palette. This makes the girl's red hair stand out amidst all the other brown and gray.
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The Periwig-Maker / int_f67171cc	type	Empathy Doll Shot
The Periwig-Maker / int_f67171cc	comment	Empathy Doll Shot: The little girl's doll is knocked out of her hand when she is pushed away from the corpse cart carrying her mother. After the girl is again shut up inside, the camera shows the doll lying abandoned on the street.
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