The Turn of the Screw (opera) composer conducting. Described as one of the most dramatically appealing English operas, the opera in two acts has a prologue and sixteen scenes, each preceded by a variation on the twelve-note 'Screw' theme. Typically of Britten, the music mixes tonality and dissonance, with Britten's recurrent use of a twelve-tone figure being perhaps a nod to the approach of Arnold Schoenberg. Thematically, the play gives a central role to a line borrowed from W. B. Yeats' poem "The Second Coming": "The ceremony of innocence is drowned." The opera was given its British premiere on 6 October 1954 by the Sadler's Wells
The Others (2001 film) too confident that style can substitute for substance." Although the film deals primarily with the spiritual interaction of ghosts with each other rather than with living humans, William Skidelsky of "The Observer" has suggested that it was inspired by the 1898 novella "The Turn of the Screw" written by Henry James. The Others (2001 film) The Others () is a 2001 horror film. It was written, directed, and scored by Alejandro Amenábar. It stars Nicole Kidman and Fionnula Flanagan. The film is partly based on "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James. The film won eight Goya Awards, including