But in the later part, the old professor was expelled from the teaching position, forced to perform with the group, and even played a clown, and learned how to croak. He also had to watch his wife play eye to eye with others, cuddling and cuckolding himself, he decided to run away, even if he died, he would die on his own chair. And finally got it.
People of that era regarded this film as EROTICA, the soft kind, and MANN was very dissatisfied with the adaptation. Looking at it today, it is indeed not a good work by Sternberg. Of course, after he became a mainstream director in Hollywood, there were no films of special artistic value. Then what are you doing with this movie?
If it's a Calderonian morality drama, that could add to Jennings's role, make him die as memorable as the archduke in The Last Order, or add some inner monologue, let's It's good to understand what he thinks. If you want to make a commercial film that holds female movie stars, just cut Jennings' role in half. This black-and-white film of the 1930s is somewhere between the silent film and the sound film, blurred and bound. Sternberg's already mature silent film style was wiped clean.
Sternberg's film basically wanted to use the professor Jennings performed as the protagonist, and it was also tailor-made for Zhan. Zhan's fame in Ufa was well-known all over the world, and his "Tarduf" role is similar to the protagonist of this film. Wonderful. Sternberg tasted the sweetness of his collaboration with James in The Last Order in 1928. Not only was it a huge hit, but James also won an Oscar for best actor for the first time ever. He nodded at the college party. Two years later, Zhan did not let Sternberg down. In all fairness, his performance in this film was still excellent. The professor started out old-fashioned, stupid and pedantic, and gradually "enlightened" after contacting the Blue Angel. They went crazy, chased them, and even got fired because of them, and even proposed to Laura Laura seriously. Excitement - the pinnacle of life, begins to face the weight of life - boredom, remorse, humiliation - to the verge of madness. In the final scene, he dresses neatly, puts his hands on his cap, and flees back to school in the dark, like his Mephisto in Faust. Outstanding Jen. It just often makes Sternberg very big. People are so talented.
But the whole play did not save him, it is superficial, lacks psychological depth, superficial, and pays too much attention to picture composition and vanity. It has the same shortcomings as a lot of Sternberg's future movies. Of course, sometimes he plays better, and can lead to huge productions like "The Slutty Queen", but they are all mere flashy works.
Each of Sternberg's plays features a female doll, DeBlois from The Last Order, Feather from Underground, Catherine from The Slutty Empress, a prostitute from Shanghai Pose, Of course, the most famous one is the Blue Angel in this play. Sternberg never dreamed that Dedeley would take over all the limelight from Jennings and devalue the film as pornographic. What about the Blue Angels? But sell some funny smiles, show off your thighs, change some gorgeous costumes, that's all, what does it have to do with the spirit of Man's original work? Whether Sternberg accepts it or not, I would say that this is the result of his own self-immolation. Why is there so much emphasis on the Blue Angels scene? Great artists don't let them overcrowd the human eye. This metamorphosis was of Sternberg's own making.
The winner always belongs to the sexy actress.
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