At the risk of this blog is called "Marlene 24 times a day" (I stole the joke) Today I talk about Blue Angel, one of those movies that if not for a reputation of almost half a century would have to remove the first ten minutes of viewing.
To get in a situation, the film takes place in Germany in the last years of the Weimar Republic that governed Germany after World War I (1919-1933) The nation has played its identity and the discontent of the Germans made Hitler took power in 1933, making Germany a totalitarian country. In this dark climate of general discontent and confusion is a nightclub called The Blue Angel, where students teacher's words of Immanuel Rath (Emil Jannings ), which students call Unrat Professor (Professor garbage), (The original title of the novel by Heinrich Mann , novel on which the film is based) attend all evenings and see the number of the famous cabaret singer Lola-Lola (Marlene Dietrich ).
To get in a situation, the film takes place in Germany in the last years of the Weimar Republic that governed Germany after World War I (1919-1933) The nation has played its identity and the discontent of the Germans made Hitler took power in 1933, making Germany a totalitarian country. In this dark climate of general discontent and confusion is a nightclub called The Blue Angel, where students teacher's words of Immanuel Rath (Emil Jannings ), which students call Unrat Professor (Professor garbage), (The original title of the novel by Heinrich Mann , novel on which the film is based) attend all evenings and see the number of the famous cabaret singer Lola-Lola (Marlene Dietrich ).
Marlene Dietrich as Lola Lola - Falling in love again
Rath Professor attends The Blue Angel to catch students in the middle of crime scene but no resists the charms of Lola-Lola and when it sings its Falling in love again with the eyes of Professor Lamb slain, no turning back to Professor Rath. The hunter hunted, impeccable teacher advocate of decency, he said, lacks Lola falls in love with her.
professor's students mock him and the directors of the Lyceum where he teaches him fired. Professor Rath, despite everything, he married Lola, let education and goes on tour with the company of his famous wife, where he offered to play a clown.
But when Lola gets tired of it, follow its path and does not even care that her husband can see how she takes him to bed the man he wants. Professor Rath jealousy turn into madness. The final desvelaré you not, is breathtaking. At the end and the interpretation of Emil Jannings worth seeing the Blue Angel.
The movie became very famous for launching the careers of Marlene Dietrich (though not her first film). It was the first of the famous duo formed by actress and director Josef von Sternberg . Contrary to those that followed from it in the Hollywood period, The Blue Angel is not as luxuries or baroque embellishment Sternberg was still in its early expressionist and got a dark and disturbing film.
There is much symbolism in the film, for example, the scene where the stone figures are going to watch with each stroke, while the clock when students return to class, minimally-lit streets in the soft light of a lantern, odd shapes, grim ... An atmosphere consistent with the history of the collapse at the hands of Professor Lola-Lola.
Lola-Lola in addition to launching the careers of Marlene marked in a way the rest of papers that would play throughout his career, the prototype of the femme fatale. But I do not convince in the role of Lola. Perhaps the femme fatale image I have is another, perhaps is that the femme fatale of the 30's has little to do with the image that we could have now. The truth is I did not get see in it the famous myth of Lola.
professor's students mock him and the directors of the Lyceum where he teaches him fired. Professor Rath, despite everything, he married Lola, let education and goes on tour with the company of his famous wife, where he offered to play a clown.
But when Lola gets tired of it, follow its path and does not even care that her husband can see how she takes him to bed the man he wants. Professor Rath jealousy turn into madness. The final desvelaré you not, is breathtaking. At the end and the interpretation of Emil Jannings worth seeing the Blue Angel. The movie became very famous for launching the careers of Marlene Dietrich (though not her first film). It was the first of the famous duo formed by actress and director Josef von Sternberg . Contrary to those that followed from it in the Hollywood period, The Blue Angel is not as luxuries or baroque embellishment Sternberg was still in its early expressionist and got a dark and disturbing film.
There is much symbolism in the film, for example, the scene where the stone figures are going to watch with each stroke, while the clock when students return to class, minimally-lit streets in the soft light of a lantern, odd shapes, grim ... An atmosphere consistent with the history of the collapse at the hands of Professor Lola-Lola.
Lola-Lola in addition to launching the careers of Marlene marked in a way the rest of papers that would play throughout his career, the prototype of the femme fatale. But I do not convince in the role of Lola. Perhaps the femme fatale image I have is another, perhaps is that the femme fatale of the 30's has little to do with the image that we could have now. The truth is I did not get see in it the famous myth of Lola.
As said earlier, is a film that starts to get interesting when you go down the middle, but it's worth enduring a little at first to see the end.
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