The Love Parade (1929) 9/10

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  • He made full use of both sound AND image, doing things either mediums couldn't do by themselves, but integrated together. In silent films, you can't tell musical or sound based jokes, and in the later days of movies, the filmmakers disregarded the pictures and just made "pictures of people talking." Lubitsch shows us the ideal.

  • At 3:18, the way the queen's sad reprise of her merry song from earlier in the film seques into the official song of the ceremony she is to attend is fucking GENIUS. And this was his FIRST sound film, in 1929?

    It's like a musical joke (but a dramatic and character based one, not humourous), which could never have been done in the days of silent films. I can't believe how far and above everyone else Lubitsch was.

  • This scene from 2:30 onwards is perhaps the best demonstration of 'nobles oblige' I've ever seen: it is the queen who is demonstrating her loyalty to her subjects by going to the opera when she would much rather be crying her eyes out. She has become the 'grenadier'.

  • This seems loosely based on events in the lives of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, who was a very able executive and adviser to the Queen. The story goes that they had an argument after which Albert locked himself in his room and refused to open the door. Victory came to the door and ordered him to open it. When he asked who was there, she answered "The Queen," and the door remained closed. After a long time she answered "your wife," the door was opened and she went in.

  • Poor guy... (for 8/10)

    So is this the first women's lib film?

  • Note at 6:23, that's Jean Harlow as an extra, in black at the left of the box.

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