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The minute and hour hands are kissing
Hunter 2022-09-28 06:42:48
"It's twelve o'clock at midnight, and the minute hand and the second hand are kissing." For this movie, the future director Billy Wilder was still a screenwriter, but the lines that made people laugh one after another popped out one after another. The Soviet female commissioner played by Garbo reminds us of Billy's later American congresswoman in "Berlin Amour". It's just that Garbo's acting has left the heroine several blocks away. Maybe it's not an acting problem, it's a gas field! "Garbo laughed" is the propaganda copy of this play, and it turns out that the comedy performance of the goddess of tragedy has no sense of contradiction. The sudden burst of laughter in the workers’ dining room has been criticized for a long time. It did feel abrupt when watching the movie, but could Liu Bieqian, who has such an obvious bug habit controlling everything, be able to see, endure, and swallow it? ! Seek the guidance of the great God! ! As for the chimney-like hat, although it is ridiculously funny, it really adds a comedic effect. It is deeply suspected that it is deliberate. The three Soviet special investigators immediately reminded Billy Wilder of the same setting in "The Jade Girl", except that the latter was completely cartoonized and funny, completely funny clowns, unlike the former, which still retains cute qualities. . The protagonist Douglas' performances have always been compared with this, that, and this, but I think his performance is very attractive, it is that unreliable face that makes people fall into such an overwhelming feeling when it is affectionate.
Extended Reading
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Ninotchka: Must you flirt?
Leon: Well, I don't have to, but I find it natural.
Ninotchka: Suppress it.
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Ninotchka: I am a traitor. When I kissed you, I betrayed a Russian ideal. I should be stood up against the wall.
Leon: Would that make you any happier?
Ninotchka: Much happier!
Leon: All right.
[Walks Ninotchka over to the wall, puts a blindfold on her and pops open a cork of champagne]
Ninotchka: I have paid the penalty. Now, let's have some music!