Lubitsch's Touch (2)

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Tout en finesse.

Scène d'ouverture du film d'Ernst Lubitsch intitulé "Design for Living" (1933), avec Gary Cooper.

A scene which is devoid of dialogue. A perky blonde (Gilda, played by Miriam Hopkins) enters a train compartment where two men (Tom played by top-billed Fredric March and George, played by rising star Gary Cooper) are lolling and snoring. She sketches them and then falls asleep herself, putting her feet up on the seat between them (as she is already between the feet of each of them).

Semi-conscious, George feels her up (up to the ankle, that is) and bolts awake when his brain decodes the signals from his fingers. After animated French dialogue (which is more amazing: French from the mouth of Gary Cooper or rapid-fire speech from Gary Cooper?), Gilda says something in English and everyone relaxes.

Lubitch rightly claimed that showing the attraction (with close-ups and cross-cutting) was better than all the long-winded explanations of falling in love in Coward's play's first act.


=> Allez voir un autre bel exemple de la fameuse Lubitsch's Touch au lien suivant:

<a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/LTT/video/xio51_lubitschs-touch">http://www.dailymotion.com/LTT/video/xio51_lubitschs-touch</a>