People coming. People going. Nothing ever happened.

Nat 2022-03-24 09:03:00

The Grand Hotel, the film of the 5th Academy Awards, staged a tragedy in the world, and the ending was quite light.
There are many things that left a deep impression on me in this film:
1. At 35 minutes and 58 seconds, as Jay Chou's fan girl, it just hit my little heart, and Jay Chou's "Qin Wound" appeared, only after checking the information Found out that it is Tchaikovsky's June Barcarole Op.37 No.6, which is also a popular knowledge.

2. Mrs. Greshinskaya, played by Garbo, I think the performance is very good. Although it is a bit exaggerated, doesn't the artist have these neurotic characteristics? I thought of Kimi Qiao Renliang, who just passed away recently. Artists may be under inhuman pressure. Artists want more applause from the audience. Lady Gresinskaya, she found love as a spiritual sustenance, and Kimi did not. So, I think that when she finds out about the Baron's death, she will eventually choose to die, just like Kimi.

3. So let's talk about the baron. Personally, I really like the character of the Baron. Handsome, dashing, gentlemanly, and flirtatious, if only he wasn't a thief, he was simply the perfect man. The baron and ballerina fell in love in one night. It's a little weird, but it actually shows up in the movie. At 41 minutes, the baron's gaze changed from looking down at Mrs. Greshinskaya, and even looking up slightly, which showed that the baron was really in love with this beautiful ballerina at this time. In the end, he became the ballerina's last straw, holding on tight.

4. Clinglan, the old genus of the capitalist Plessinger. I would like to put these two together and say that the typical feng shui takes turns. Clinglan is a little man who is afraid of death. In the last time of his life, he came to the Grand Hotel with the only money and squandered the last time. And Plessinger, I thought he was a decent German, a serious kind. But when he started using the liar for his own benefit, I knew he was on the verge of going bad. Sure enough, later, when he met Clinglan, he even said to a seriously ill patient that it was very interesting, a person who did not understand the suffering of civilians. Later, he betrayed his 28-year marriage and cheated on his stenographer. Commercial fraud, derailment, wrongful murder, and in the end, an attempt to put the blame on the mistress to make false testimony, a vicious capitalist completely appeared on the screen. As for Clinglan, I think the portrayal is closer to the little people themselves. A lifetime of trembling and diligence all his life is just an attempt to spend the last time of his life, and he himself has good intentions. It can be seen from his desire to help the baron who has been helping him. But, after all of this, after he had a shitty lot of money gambling, I wanted to make a question mark. It can be seen that at the end of the film, his attitude towards the driver is not very friendly. Just a guess, will he be the next Plessinger?

5. Another little character in the film, Miss Franmu, makes me wonder what to say. As a woman, she has a job and can support herself. But for the money, she first wanted to be with the Baron (maybe she really liked it) and then with Plessinger, but what puzzles me is that when she found out about the Baron's death, she was obviously very sad , why is it possible to be with the rich Klinglan all at once? It doesn't fit my definition of love at all.

6. The thing that staggers me the most is the doctor with few shots. People coming. People going. Nothing ever happened. Isn't life like this? Only those who have really experienced great winds and waves can see life so thoroughly. In fact, his words reminded me of the hospital. In real life, hospitals can really see through the warmth of the world. The doctor is so calm, I think it can be connected with his background, especially, he is also a field doctor. In a hospital bed, you don’t know whether the person in front of the bed you are living in has died or is cured and discharged from the hospital. In a hospital bed, patients come and go, and they come and go, the bed is still this bed, and it has not changed because of this. what.
No matter what happened, the earth went on as usual. As long as it's not the end of the world, it's all little things. For us, death is really the end. So, live well.

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Extended Reading
  • Betty 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    In the comparison of Joan Crawford, Garbo is really exaggerated and embarrassing, but she is too good-looking, and it is still a bit cute when she is contrived and crazy. But this big hotel looks bad inside and out.

  • Rigoberto 2022-03-23 09:02:47

    Great hotel, people come and go, everything is business as usual. The next tenant won't know what happened to the house he lives in, like no one can tell what he will meet tomorrow, meet love, meet luck, or some people will never see the sun tomorrow. Garbo is too beautiful, she looks innocent like a girl in the forest who doesn't eat fireworks, not to mention the ultimate killer like a ballet tutu! Miss Crawford is not aggrieved, only a typewriter [manual smile]

Grand Hotel quotes

  • Dr. Otternschlag: And what do you do in the Grand Hotel? Eat. Sleep. Loaf around. Flirt a little, dance a little. A hundred doors leading to one hall. No one knows anything about the person next to them. And when you leave, someone occupies your room, lies in your bed... that's the end.

  • [first lines]

    Senf: [talking on the phone in a phonebooth at the Grand Hotel after a brief scene of operators at the switchboard] Hello? Hello? Hello, is that the clinic? Uh this is Senf; the head porter, Grand Hotel. How's my wife? Is she in pain? Isn't the child coming soon?... Patience? Would you have patience?

    Otto Kringelein: [in the next phonebooth] Uh this is Otto Kringelein. I-i-is that you Heinrich? Oh Heinrich listen, I've got to talk very quickly - with every minute costs two Marks ninety. Y-ya know that will I made before I had my operation? Well I want you to tear it up... Huh? W-e-I came to Berlin to see a great specialist about that old trouble of mine; y-you know Heinrich, i-it's pretty bad. Uh he says I haven't long to live... I say he says I won't live much longer!... No, it isn't nice to be told things like that. You plague and bother and save and all of the sudden you're dead. I want to get something out of life! Listen Heinrich, I'm *never* going back to Frieveshof, *never*. I-I'm staying here at the Grand Hotel; it's the most expensive hotel in Berlin. Y-eh all the best people stay here, even our big boss Preysing is staying here. I'm going to tell him someday just exactly what I think of him.

    Preysing: [in the next phonebooth] Hello? Hello, miss? This is General Director Preysing. I want my home in Frieveshof, please. Hurry, yeah... Hello! Hello. Is that you mama? How are da children? What news have you found at da factory dear?... Ya. Is your papa there?... Good. Hello papa, is that you?... Ya. The conference with the Saxonia company's set for tomorrow morning papa... Ya, ya. If the merger does not go through, ve are in very bad shape papa... Ya, ya. Everything depends upon news from Manchester! If the deal with the Manchester Cotton Company does not go through, we are facing a very bad situation papa.

    Suzette: [in the next phonebooth] I'm Suzette - Suzette: Madam Grusinskaya's maid. Madam will not dance today. No she will not go to the rehearsal; she did not sleep all night. There is something preying on her mind... No, I give her a tablet of degranol. She is sleeping now.

    Baron Felix von Geigern: [in the next phonebooth] This is Baron von Geigern. Look here, I need money or I can't stay at this hotel much longer. Well I've layed the groundwork, know the exact position of her room, and I've made friends with her ballet master Pimenov.

    Otto Kringelein: [back in his phonebooth, sincerely] Listen Heinrich, I've taken all my savings - everything; and I'm going to enjoy spending it, *all* of it. I-it's terribly expensive here Heinrich, oooohh but it's wonderful!

    Senf: [back in his phonebooth, nervously] I can't, I'll lose my job! It's like being in jail.

    Preysing: [back in his phonebooth, adamantly] Rely on me papa. I will make this merger go through, I never fail.

    Suzette: [back in her phonebooth, frantically] Oh poor Madam, her mind is tortured. I'm afraid she will...

    Baron Felix von Geigern: [back in his phonebooth, slyly] I don't need advice, thanks very much; I need money.

    Otto Kringelein: [back in his phonebooth, excitedly] ... music all the time - oh it's wonderful.

    Dr. Otternschlag: [sitting in a chair in the lobby smoking a cigar] Grand Hotel: people coming, going... nothing ever happens.

    [the scene fades out]