

The original cinematic snake emoji dropped in 1911.
Directed by Louis Feuillade. Part of the 'Life As It Is' series.
Direction
Feuillade's proto-serial energy before Fantômas.
Acting
Silent film faces doing maximum heavy lifting.

Director
Louis Feuillade
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Feuillade's 'Life As It Is' series was essentially prestige moral panic content for bourgeois audiences.
The 'vipère' archetype in French cinema predates the femme fatale by decades and haunted the medium forever.