In this era of short videos where embarrassment is rampant, exaggeration, distortion and ugliness are popular
1942 Lubitsch's comedy is really beautiful and elegant
The whole film is full of ingenious plots and lines, which are ingenious in words.
Feel free to raise chestnuts, take the whole generation
Scene 8_Mr. Tula pretending to be a professor
The real Professor Slinsky died. In order to successfully complete the task of destroying the documents, Mr. Tula pretended to be a professor and returned to the headquarters, but he did not expect that the real Nazi Colonel Haett was waiting for him, and he had just been left behind. Mrs. Tula here
Mrs. Tula recognized at a glance that the professor in front of him was actually his husband, and asked in a hidden tone:
Mr. Tula also replied with a hidden meaning:
The "dead" here actually contains the sentence "as good as dead" when he played Colonel Earhart, which seems to say "dead", but actually means "great, great dead", which feels like a natural language The words of circumstance also insinuated Mr. Tula's one-sided evil towards the Nazis in his heart.
Turning their heads, Mr. Tula and Erhart followed the conversation and said:
"I have something to do, drink champagne?"
"No thanks, I don't drink"
"cigarette?"
"No, I don't smoke"
"Just like our head of state!"
"Yes"
This sentence actually plays a role in paving the way for the real Earhart who will be ridiculed later. I believe that when Lubitsch dealt with this point, he first thought "I hope to use a sentence to express both Mr. Tula's understanding of Hitler when he played the Nazis, and to make the real Erhart feel stupid", I don't know how this is so powerful, it still takes time to digest
The next paragraph is even more exciting. Mr. Tula used the professor's point of view to expose the secret relationship between Mrs. Tula and the pilot.
"It's easy for me to know Ms. Tula, I just need to send a message to Tula, right?"
"Yes"
"You know, there's a young pilot who's a good friend of the Tulas...especially Ms. Tula, isn't it?"
"Yes, but he's not my special friend"
"It was a friend anyway and left a password message"
"Password information?"
"It's not like you think...Ms. Tula has nothing to hide from the Gestapo, but she hides a little secret lol. Her husband will kill her if she finds out."
From a Nazi point of view, Mr. Tula's words are very polite, and the above links are also very reasonable and normal exchanges.
But from the audience's point of view, Mr. Tula's sentence is expressing to Mrs. Tula that he has learned the truth, and there is a hidden anger attitude
This sense of contrast will make the audience feel that they are "eating melons", which is very interesting
The Nazi entourage told Mr. Tula to see the colonel immediately. Before leaving, Mr. Tula asked Mrs. Tula affectionately:
And Mrs. Tula's answer seems "ordinary", but it is extraordinarily true, which makes this truth feel a sense of joy:
See the joy?
The content structure of this sentence is - "show attitude", "excessive rhetorical questioning", "responsibility transfer", "topic transfer"
But there is absolutely no "head-on answer to the question"
This conversational structure can be seen everywhere in life - when a person is unwilling to face issues for which they are responsible
The absurd thing is that this structure is subtly taking effect everywhere in life.
In life, we look at this kind of thing, it is an attitude; when in a work of art, it seems to be able to open the third eye to see the truth of things, and feel "comedy".
This is the experience that comes naturally when the height of "comedy" reaches the height of "art":
Art comes from life, but it is higher than life
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