Der blaue Enge l. Alemania, 1930.
Director : Josef Von Sternberg
Guionistas: Carl Zuckmayer, Karl Vollmöller y Robert Liebmann, basándose en la novela de Heinrich Mann.
Intérpretes: Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings
Subjects of interest: discovery of sexuality
Synopsis:
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The severe teacher is alarmed to discover that their students attend in the evening a gambling den of dubious morality to hear sing Lola the showgirl. As he approached the local to scare young people go there, he can not avoid being lured to the charms of the singer.
Comment:
As is often the talk of old films, 
The Blue Angel is seen today, innocent and quite simple. But at the time strutting Marlene Dietrich wearing his underwear in the style of cabaret and women were something extremely shocking vulgar. Today it seems normal to see in the movies prostitutes, people who live on the street and all sorts of situations within the sordid environments in real life, but in 1930 the film was far more puritanical and this film was the most erotic you could imagine. In fact, the daughter of an era of relative permissiveness; few years later the censorship of Hollywood or other places and would not have consented. Professor Rath
appears to be a guardian of moral order and a man of convictions railways, but is not really a repressed that ignores what is life. When visiting the nightclub where Lola works to rescue their children from vice, has its first contact with the real world outside of books, his glaring weakness. Is captivated by the principles chicay all fall apart very quickly because they are based on reflection and experience, but only ignorance and prejudice. Their behavior shows that it is useless moralizing, Rath, in theory a great sage, is overwhelmed by the situation and has nothing to cling to the face for the first time in his life as a real conflict is to be loved.
What could have been a liberation,
a conscious decision to break with a life that no longer fills, it is not because there is such a decision is dismissed from his job for his licentious behavior and start a new life working in the mobile world and Lola night because he does not no other choice. So do not start a second life, as seen in other films discussed in the blog, but a free fall.
Rath is a pathetic character and worthy of pity at his own stupidity and lack of resources to deal with life, but from a conservative viewpoint, which is chaired by the film and probably would prevail for the director and for viewers of the day, the blame for their misfortune is the femme fatale who has seduced. Lola is always displayed as an object of desire and a male fantasy about what you want, and also what they fear in a woman, the script does not develop as a character, never know what you think or feel or we see more than a stereotype. Marlene Dietrich is precisely one of the top representatives in their films under the orders of Josef von Sternberg, this concept of woman-fetish, as misogynistic as attractive. Scenes
The Blue Angel is seen today, innocent and quite simple. But at the time strutting Marlene Dietrich wearing his underwear in the style of cabaret and women were something extremely shocking vulgar. Today it seems normal to see in the movies prostitutes, people who live on the street and all sorts of situations within the sordid environments in real life, but in 1930 the film was far more puritanical and this film was the most erotic you could imagine. In fact, the daughter of an era of relative permissiveness; few years later the censorship of Hollywood or other places and would not have consented. Professor Rath appears to be a guardian of moral order and a man of convictions railways, but is not really a repressed that ignores what is life. When visiting the nightclub where Lola works to rescue their children from vice, has its first contact with the real world outside of books, his glaring weakness. Is captivated by the principles chicay all fall apart very quickly because they are based on reflection and experience, but only ignorance and prejudice. Their behavior shows that it is useless moralizing, Rath, in theory a great sage, is overwhelmed by the situation and has nothing to cling to the face for the first time in his life as a real conflict is to be loved.
What could have been a liberation,
a conscious decision to break with a life that no longer fills, it is not because there is such a decision is dismissed from his job for his licentious behavior and start a new life working in the mobile world and Lola night because he does not no other choice. So do not start a second life, as seen in other films discussed in the blog, but a free fall. Rath is a pathetic character and worthy of pity at his own stupidity and lack of resources to deal with life, but from a conservative viewpoint, which is chaired by the film and probably would prevail for the director and for viewers of the day, the blame for their misfortune is the femme fatale who has seduced. Lola is always displayed as an object of desire and a male fantasy about what you want, and also what they fear in a woman, the script does not develop as a character, never know what you think or feel or we see more than a stereotype. Marlene Dietrich is precisely one of the top representatives in their films under the orders of Josef von Sternberg, this concept of woman-fetish, as misogynistic as attractive. Scenes
Highlights:
certainly most famous sequence is Marlene Dietrich film showing her stockings and suspenders while singing Falling in love again , the star of his song repertoire.
Anecdotes:
- There are two versions of the film to be shot simultaneously, one in English and one in German, a usual practice in the early years of talkies. In the actors speak English with a heavy German accent.
- This is the first major production of sound films in Germany.
- This film launched Marlene Dietrich as a star and erotic myth, besides being the beginning of a long series of works joint between actress and director Josef Von Sternberg. About
Josef Von Sternberg (Vienna 1894 - Hollywood 1969) was chosen to carry out The Blue Angel, the first major German sound film work, after the great success of his earlier silent film, The Last Command (1928). The rise to power of the Nazis made the decision to move to Hollywood with his muse and lover apparently Marlene Dietrich. They both carry out a series of films much appreciated by critics but which are too sophisticated for the American cinema of the time. Their insufficient blockbuster caused the decline of his career, which will continue to work much more routine. His fascination with the beauty and eroticism ambiguous Dietrich is evident in the six films they shot together. Links: IMDB
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