The Bird with the Crystal Plumage Puns

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage was Argento’s directorial debut and it heralded a high level of studio uncertainty due to his reliance upon guerrilla filmmaking; a POV shot near the end of the film destroying a camera entirely justifying studio anxiety. Giallo as a genre gives an easy way to understand the history of socio-political changes within late 20th century Italy, and The Bird with the Crystal Plumage was no exception. Argento’s brutal script takes aim at the bourgeoise and the art world, while including themes of voyeurism and colonial presence of 20th century Italy. The decadence of the rich intrudes the plot through motifs like a sinister painting that acts as a clue, and the meticulously designed locations that put an empirical value on wealth. Argento’s presentation of artists and rich obsessives is a macabre swipe at the culture, illustrated by an eccentric artist side character who surrounds himself with cats that he feeds to the point where he deems them edible. They are disconnected from humanity and allows the weird world of Bird... to develop to extreme levels throughout the runtime.

As the bizarre elements of his surroundings, and the number of similar murders increase, Sam begins to question his recollection of the attack. Which builds to a conclusion that would have felt ridiculous in any other film but is held together by Argento’s confident direction. Despite the fact it was his debut, the film contains no compromise. Zachary Paul notes in an article for Bloody Disgusting that Bird... saw Argento go against tradition by implementing a shot list, which was completely against common practise at this time. (Paul, 2018) He believed his story had to be told in a tight, condensed fashion to capitalise on its complex story and to be correctly realised.

There is also a constant switch between humour and brutality that could have been jarring but instead plays into the twisted world the film creates. The plot revolves around themes of obsession and voyeurism, and as the viewer we take the place of the watcher and are presented a view of Italy that is overwhelming in its decadence but engrossing through its surreal nature. The cast of secondary characters are all eccentric caricatures, and chase scenes drenched in lurid yellows create a dreamlike turn to the horror elements. These would be presented time and again in the Giallo genre, and arguably more interestingly in Argento’s later wilder films, but it remains interesting to see what t

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Argento's first film

There's lots if birds with crow in their name. Mostly the smaller birds in genus Corvus.

It's the final fantasy questline where the bird gets bigger as the quest goes on, I thought my gear was really good before I left, but this thing hurt, is this quest supposed to be this hard?

Also, what's the best quests to farm for jewels>?

Thanks.