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[mmuk2004]

So many goodies to comment on. Will do later... But I must ask all of you to give The Shop Around the Corner another chance:


The Shop Around the Corner(1940) was directed by Ernst Lubitsch, the master of the genre of sophisticated comedies. Shop is a little different, it is a gentler romance, and yet the Lubitsch touch is evident,in the subtle details in this controlled comedy of manners. It is not witty or sparkling, but completely understated and I personally found it tremendously rewarding watching it the second time around. Watch it not just for the romance of Klara and Kralik which is framed by Lubitsch's gentle irony, but for all the supporting characters and their interactions. Schildkraut as the unctious Vadas, who everybody avoids, Pirovitch who has a family to support and who tries to avoid giving his opinion, Pepi the delivery boy who introduces himself as "liason person" to the doctor, and the wonderful Frank Morgan(the wizard of the Wizard of Oz) as the likeable, irascible store owner Hugo Matuschek. And as the movie is about a store, watch the comedy arising out of the scenes where the three main characters give their sales pitch. And as for the romance, pay attention to not just the zingers between the main characters but the comedy arising out of the idea of a romance of thoughts between them. I loved the scene where Kralik(James Stewart) is tells Bressart(Pirovitch) about the romance and compares his situation to that of a person about to open a Christmas check (that's the American spelling ). And the details...notice the look on Perovitch's face as he imagines the situation...

Here is a sample of the conversation:

P: Tell me who is the girl
K: YOu know that girl I was corresponding with?
P: O yes about the cultural subjects...
K: Well after a while we got on the subject of love. Naturally on a very cultural level...
P: Well, what else can you do in a letter?
K: She is the most wonderful woman in the world.
P: Is she pretty?
K: She has such ideas, and such a view point on things that she is so far above all the girls you meet today that there is just no comparison.
P: So she is not so very pretty...

Here is the scene:



And then there is so much more. It is about loneliness and about job uncertainties and it is a "Christmas" movie (It predates It's a Wonderful Life by six years) and then it has a wonderful ending that knits the romance, the spirit and the comedy together.


By the way, the British comedy, You are Being Served was inspired by this movie.

This post has been edited by mmuk2004: May 17 2009, 07:45 AM

[hildebrand]

So many goodies to comment on. Will do later... But I must ask all of you to give The Shop Around the Corner another chance:


The Shop Around the Corner(1940) was directed by Ernst Lubitsch, the master of the genre of sophisticated comedies. Shop is a little different, it is a gentler romance, and yet the Lubitsch touch is evident,in the subtle details in this controlled comedy of manners. It is not witty or sparkling, but completely understated and I personally found it tremendously rewarding watching it the second time around. Watch it not just for the romance of Klara and Kralik which is framed by Lubitsch's gentle irony, but for all the supporting characters and their interactions. Schildkraut as the unctious Vadas, who everybody avoids, Pirovitch who has a family to support and who tries to avoid giving his opinion, Pepi the delivery boy who introduces himself as "liason person" to the doctor, and the wonderful Frank Morgan(the wizard of the Wizard of Oz) as the likeable, irascible store owner Hugo Matuschek. And as the movie is about a store, watch the comedy arising out of the scenes where the three main characters give their sales pitch. And as for the romance, pay attention to not just the zingers between the main characters but the comedy arising out of the idea of a romance of thoughts between them. I loved the scene where Kralik(James Stewart) is tells Bressart(Pirovitch) about the romance and compares his situation to that of a person about to open a Christmas check (that's the American spelling ). And the details...notice the look on Perovitch's face as he imagines the situation...

Here is a sample of the conversation:

P: Tell me who is the girl
K: YOu know that girl I was corresponding with?
P: O yes about the cultural subjects...
K: Well after a while we got on the subject of love. Naturally on a very cultural level...
P: Well, what else can you do in a letter?
K: She is the most wonderful woman in the world.
P: Is she pretty?
K: She has such ideas, and such a view point on things that she is so far above all the girls you meet today that there is just no comparison.
P: So she is not so very pretty...

Here is the scene:



And then there is so much more. It is about loneliness and about job uncertainties and it is a "Christmas" movie (It predates It's a Wonderful Life by six years) and then it has a wonderful ending that knits the romance, the spirit and the comedy together.


By the way, the British comedy, You are Being Served was inspired by this movie.

Thanks Madhavi for describing it. I'll keep an eye out for it. I am told its better than its remakes. Your review confirms it!