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Notes on a Scandal: friendship dangerous

Notes on a scandal. UK, 2006.

Director: Richard Eyre.

Screenwriter: Patrick Marber , drawing on a novel by Zoe Heller.

Cast: Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy, Andrew Simpson.

Thematic interest: obsession, pedophilia, lesbianism.

Synopsis:

After spending years at home raising their children, Sheba Hart searches work as an art teacher in a school. There you have it a little hard to get respect from the young students, but it helps out Barbara, one of the most veteran teachers. The two sisters are best friends until one night Barbara discovers Sheba having sex with Steven, a student of only 15.

Comment:

The comments Barbara notes in her diary and reads us show off his approach to his workmate much younger as a deliberate plan to conquer. Is attracted to her and never referred to Sheba as a friend or show empathy, but analyzes it in terms similar to how a scientist talk about the guinea pig in an experiment. So we know from the outset that the friendship is really a stalking: Barbara Sheba acts like a pederast with a child. You win your trust gradually, through small favors concerned until his victim is held captive in the spider web he has woven. Taking advantage of the secrets entrusted to the person harassed, the harasser's used to wrap a moral blackmail, emotional and sexual finally.

Throughout the film we sense, and later confirmed, that Barbara had the same pattern with his "friend" earlier, he had to leave his job to get rid of it. The stalker, who is not even able to take to herself that she is a lesbian and that their interest in their victims is basically sexual, is not able to have a heart to heart relationship with another person: their way of relating is always abuse, all the other despotic request without offering sincere feeling really no return. The result is an enormous solitude interrupted occasionally by these abusive relationships that invariably end badly, with serious damages of any kind to his victims, and also frustrating for herself, which of course at all times considered the other as the only guilty of these failures.

But Sheba meets turn quite a few conditions that make it easy prey for a vampire as Barbara. Greatly immature, he married his young college professor, which implies that we always had a fragile personality that requested the support of someone older. The past year has been stuck at home looking after their children make it even more naive and helpless when faced with a job and real life problems. Therefore

credible to begin a relationship with one of his students, unlike Barbara, Sheba does not use strategies to seduce or dominate someone younger, but it is the Otherwise, their lack of personality and maturity are not known to be above and cut the flirtations of a teenager. Barbara succeeds in full to see the passion of his companion a simple bourgeois romantic fantasy about a boy poor victim of a difficult family situation and a great talent to be discovered, when the reality is that Steven, the boy, is a perfectly normal teenager also normal with a family without money problems and no significant talent Sheba not only carried away, but keeps the relationship on a completely unconscious, not knowing what you want or think about the serious risks that entails.

The film does a wonderful portrayal of two protagonists, played by two actresses. However, the voice of Barbara newspaper is an underscore that simplifies and reduces unhealthy friendship story about genre conventions rather trite thriller without giving the viewer the possibility to realize itself obsessive personality Barbara. Scenes

Highlights:

• Believing Steven needs to be reinforced to take the course forward and touched by her family drama course, Sheba agrees to stay alone with him after class and give private lessons. Steven is one of those hints for extra classes.

• Sheba is aimed at all hurry to see the role of the college of his son, who has been preparing for a long time. Barbara has suddenly shattered by the death of his cat and requires you to stay with her, Sheba refuses and threatens to expose his partner what he knows about his relationship with the teen.

Anecdotes:

• won four Oscar nominations: for the two protagonists (although Cate Blanchett competed in the supporting actress category), the script and soundtrack . He was also a finalist for other awards, including BAFTA and Golden Globe undoubtedly the work of the actresses was the most valued of the film.

• was presented at the 2007 Berlin festival, which achieved an audience award.
  

• Among gay communities were hostile to the film criticism on the grounds that the script identified lesbians with psychological imbalance. About

director:

Born in the county of Devon (England) in 1943, Richard Eyre has a prestigious curriculum as director of theater and television, including Laurence Olivier award for his productions theater. In film has not been lavished much, got his first hit internacional en 2001 con Iris y ha conseguido repetirlo con Diario de un escándalo . Ahora mismo tiene pendiente de estreno The other man , su debut en Hollywood.

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The Blue Angel: the bane of men

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

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

director:

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.

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Married to: the second chance

Married to the mob. USA, 1988.

Director: Jonathan Demme

Screenwriters: Barry Strugatz and Mark R.

Burns Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell, Mercedes Ruehl

Subjects of interest: sexual liberation

If synopsis:

Angela, the wife of a gangster, is not happy with your life. Not interested in socializing with other women in the mob or by giving them the luxury of obscure origin money her husband earns. When he sleeps with his boss's mistress is murdered and in retaliation, Angela begins to consider changing lives, especially when Tony is haunted by the head of her late husband, and his zealous wife Connie, who thinks both are lovers. Almost by stealth, Angela gives her house to charity and moved to a small apartment in New York with her son, without thinking that you will not be so easy to get rid of the mob or Mike, an FBI agent to investigate whether the remains is still connected with them.

Comment:

Angela is going through a crisis. 's really ambitious person who does not fill the role at all in the mafia world is reserved for women, she is isolated and causes rejection of the circle that surrounds it, as the gangsters , as I often say, are a family and she, as the title of the film (which is married to the mob, married to the mob in the original) is married to all of them, not only with her husband. So ambition is crushed and dormant for comfort, the dullness and overprotective of their role as bourgeois housewife. The death of her husband breaks the only link that holds it in this world and throws to make the difficult decision to start afresh, leaving your child with an elegant house in the suburbs, installed on a floor uncomfortable and having to find work and struggle with public transport and cons of the big city, in exchange for one big advantage: to be free at last.

Freedom however is not so easy and the past of Angela will pursue; the film deals with the difficulties of a person to develop independent living and a break above that will not be easily understood by most people who actually dreams of a life similar to that of which she is fleeing. Jonathan Demme raised this situation in two of the 80 films, Something Wild , which is a man who decides to leave his life of yuppie, and Married to the Mob on a homemaker. Breaking the traditional roles, the man in Something Wild is passive and is a woman who drives him out of a life in which I was unaware, until know, of being trapped. Here, however, the protagonist is active and she chooses and decides to change his life. Meet a man, yes, but that's not going to be the cause but the consequence of a decision to change that she has made for herself. Jonathan Demme men need women, but women can be self-sufficient, have, though, to dare to be.

Like many good comedies, Married to the Mob works because it has all this background that could give a good game in a dramatic film. But Demme opted for a very unorthodox sense of humor and a mood of celebration and hedonistic ranging from the grotesque, almost in line with Almodóvar or John Waters, and comedy romantic, as we are in a story of boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy regains girl. Mike, the attraction that follows FBI agent Angela, is a kind of Mortadelo which adopts the most colorful costumes and appears in the most unexpected places. Even the film's violent scenes have a cartoon festive tone that makes this film one of the most characteristic, along with Desperately Seeking Susan, light and jovial spirit of the new wave in the 80 . Married to the Mob is a celebration of life. Scenes

Highlights:

• Angela looking for work in a fancy fast food. When trying on the uniform, the local director of the spy through the eye of a giant chicken drawn on the wall. Realizing frightened out of place wearing a jacket grotesque lion tamer.
  

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• off the bus and Mike has to follow. Unable to walk out the door because the bus is packed with people, open a trap door and out the roof. Then you have to jump from car to car to reach the sidewalk. What is unique about this scene is recorded in a single plane and you can see that it is the Matthew Modine who rolls without specialists of any kind.

• After spending a wonderful evening of dinner and dancing, Angela invites Mike to his apartment. Mike begins to massage her feet, to Angela, obviously pleased with these appointments, he escapes comment was not so much a man touch me below the waist ... When you realize what you said, it rises sharply, pulling the cup you're drinking and try to wipe Mike clothes touches the genitals in a slip too "Freudian."

• Angela is arrested by the FBI, which threatens to remove your child if you do not cooperate and deport the immigrant who has been working. Disgusted, she does not hesitate to tell the federal act like the mafia. The inspector stopped the points of difference: the mafia works under the orders of maniacs and psychopaths and the FBI under the President of the United States. The first level of the agent somewhat grotesque takes the viewer to share the opinion of Angela: not much difference between the two.

Anecdotes:

• a locker in the U.S. reached 20 million dollars, double its budget.

• All actors got rave reviews. Especially Dean Stockwell, who won multiple awards and an Oscar nomination Best Supporting Actor.

• The end credits of the film are interesting to watch because they include deleted scenes in the editing room. About

director:

Jonathan Demme born in New York in 1944. His film career is as eclectic as erratic, his name begins to ring with a thriller, Last Embrace (1979) and a dramatic comedy about Hollywood, Melvin and Howard (1980). His two comedies of the 80 Something Wild and Married to the Mob two very unorthodox films that tell stories of liberation staff, call the attention of moviegoers. Having devoted and win the Oscar Silence of the Lambs (1991) , the excellent thriller that is a new abrupt change of style in his career, Demme away from Hollywood for several years, probably unhappy with the many changes the production takes place in their project on AIDS, who becomes the commercial and decaffeinated Philadelphia (1993). Since then he has lavished little and movies, less personal than the old, have yielded more discreet.

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