Film and Television Literature: Grand Hotel & the Baron

Sheila 2022-01-12 08:01:03

"Grand Hotel. People coming, going. Nothing ever happens." "Now I'm a gambler, running at large, like a happy pig, devouring everthing of life that pleases me. I really belong in jail." Kringelein: I know I oughtn't to presume, but I'm so grateful to you. It's been so marvelous. For the first time in my life, I've gambled and I've danced. You gentlemen can laugh, but for the first time in my life, I've tasted life! Life is wonderful, but it's very dangerous. If you have the courage to live it, it's marvelous. You don't know about that. You're healthy and happy. But I, believe me , if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life. It's a short life, but a gay one. Please, gentlemen, don't go, don't go. Come on. Drink to life, to the magnificent,dangerous, brief, wonderful life. And the courage to live it. "The music has topped. How quite it is tonight. It was never so quite in the Grand Hotel." "I don't believe it. He was a real gentleman . I know people." There's a Grand Hotel everywhere in the world. Grand Hotel. Always the same. People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.

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  • Grusinskaya: Can you imagine a hundred girls in the ballet school, each thinking she would become the most famous dancer in all the world? I was ambitious then. We were drilled like little soldiers. No rest, no stopping. I was little, slim, but hard as a diamond. Then I became famous and - But why am I telling you all this? Last night, I didn't know you at all. Who are you, really?

    Baron Felix von Geigern: What?

    Grusinskaya: I don't even know your name.

    Baron Felix von Geigern: [laughs] I am Felix Benvenuto Freihern von Geigern. My mother called me "Flix".

    Grusinskaya: [joyously] No! Flix! Oh, that's sweet. And how do you live? And what kind of a person are you?

    Baron Felix von Geigern: I'm a prodigal son, the black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.

  • Preysing: I don't know much about women. I've been married for 28 years, you know.