Pandora's Box
Watched this recently on IFC, but was surprised that the opening credits were completely missing. Anybody know what happened? The horror element doesn't show up until the very end when temptress...
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I think the ripper element has wrongly led to the belief that Pandora's Box is thriller when it's more in the "Tragedy" vein. I believe the plot is a distillation of Berg's opera LULU, which has the...
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In fact, GW Pabst made not one, but two versions of "The Thee Penny Opera", this movie being one of the many pictures simultaneously filmed in different languages and using different casts... Both...
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Not really a horror, but certainly a precursor to Noir, where we have this woman causing the perdition of men due to her beauty or charisma. We even get an appearance by Jack the Ripper (or a similar...
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Great comments, Arminius.* That's my feeling, too: Pandora's Box can be reasonably understood as a link between German expressionism and film noir.*And again, I do hope you get that reference.
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Got it.It's funny to see this story play out with today's sensibility and absolutely missing out on some of the details. The guy is a newspaperman, (not historically the highest class of professions,)...
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hermanthegerm wrote: Citizen Kane also presents a similar situation, but based on William Randolph Hearst relationship to Millicent Hearst (was that considered a scandal at the time?)Hearst's scandal...
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But isn't Pandora's point more that Lulu is low class, more a 'disreputable,' nameless showgirl (like Millicent Veronica Willson), a kept woman, even a prostitute or former prostitute than an actual...
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hermanthegerm wrote: But isn't Pandora's point more that Lulu is low class, more a 'disreputable,' nameless showgirl, a kept woman, even a prostitute or former prostitute (like Millicent Veronica...
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