Cultural References To Absinthe - Film

Film

• In the 1932 film entitled Grand Hotel starring Greta Garbo and John Barrymore, Joan Crawford orders and drinks absinethe at a Berlin bar.

• The 1994 film Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles makes references to absinthe twice. First, Louis is seen drinking absinthe in a bar before he becomes a vampire. Later, Claudia tricks Lestat into drinking the blood of two dead boys. Having recognized that something is wrong, Lestat asks Claudia whether she gave the boys absinthe. Claudia replies that she gave them Laudanum, which killed them but kept their blood warm.

• The 1995 film Total Eclipse begins with a scene in which a barman prepares absinthe for Paul Verlaine, played by David Thewlis.

• The 2001 film entitled Moulin Rouge! contains a scene prominently featuring Absinthe and the "green fairy", a hallucination supposedly caused by the drink (and, in this film's case, played by pop star Kylie Minogue and voiced by Ozzy Osbourne.)

• Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) featured absinthe as a key ingredient in Count Dracula's seduction of Mina Harker. The scene opens with the line "Absinthe is the aphrodisiac of the soul. The green fairy who lives in the absinthe wants your soul, but you are safe with me".

• From Hell (2001), is a film about Jack the Ripper where Frederick Abberline (Johnny Depp) is depicted drinking absinthe laced with Laudanum.

• In the 2004 film EuroTrip, characters Scott, Cooper, and Jamie drink absinthe while in a club. The drink is shown glowing an electric green, and its consumption causes hallucinations in some of these characters - one of which is a little green fairy (played by Steve Hytner).

• In the 2007 film Blood and Chocolate, Gabriel and several other Loup Garou consume absinthe in the bohemian manner at a popular Romanian bar that their pack frequents.

• The 2009 film Dorian Gray (2009 film) a glass of Absinthe with an Absinthe Spoon & a sugar cube on top of the spoon lies on the table while Dorian is having his painting done.

• The 2010 film Get Him to the Greek features a scene where the main character Aaron Green gets highly intoxicated on 20th Century absinthe.

• In the Swiss-German film Sennentuntschi (2010), the three farmers used absinthe to imagine a straw made sex doll come to life, which is based on real Alpine traditions.

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