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Awwwwwww .... I just finished watching The Shop Around The Corner on YouTube and awwwwwwwwwwwwww!!
It's so much much more awesome than You've Got Mail and I'm actually rather fond of that film. But this is just ah light years better. And since it's Ernest Lubitsch, I should have known it would be. The tightly located cosmos of bubbling tension and so many personal agendas clashing up against each other, every character wonderfully charming and real in their own way, and a totally prickly unromantic unlikeable and thoroughly adorable lead couple.
Even if I do find the pairing of Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan a little incestuous and icky cos ewww, in my mind they're totally siblings in-law. Well, cos he would already have been fast friends with Henry Fonda when Hank was married to Margaret Sullavan. Yeurk. *shudders*
But ahahahaha, so utterly hysterical, the twists and turns of their relationship and oh man, Frank Morgan always makes my heart clench. That man does bluster and pathos so well. Fantastic how real and yet beautiful Ernest Lubitsch manages to make his films. It all looks so wonderful that you know it was very very tightly controlled but yet the characters are so messy and flawed that you can't help but be totally persuaded it's all real.
And it was absolutely fascinating to see what Nora Ephron put into her screenplay for You've Got Mail, almost word for word, scene by scene, and where it totally deviated.
*sighs* I should own this film. Even if it is slightly icky.
It's so much much more awesome than You've Got Mail and I'm actually rather fond of that film. But this is just ah light years better. And since it's Ernest Lubitsch, I should have known it would be. The tightly located cosmos of bubbling tension and so many personal agendas clashing up against each other, every character wonderfully charming and real in their own way, and a totally prickly unromantic unlikeable and thoroughly adorable lead couple.
Even if I do find the pairing of Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan a little incestuous and icky cos ewww, in my mind they're totally siblings in-law. Well, cos he would already have been fast friends with Henry Fonda when Hank was married to Margaret Sullavan. Yeurk. *shudders*
But ahahahaha, so utterly hysterical, the twists and turns of their relationship and oh man, Frank Morgan always makes my heart clench. That man does bluster and pathos so well. Fantastic how real and yet beautiful Ernest Lubitsch manages to make his films. It all looks so wonderful that you know it was very very tightly controlled but yet the characters are so messy and flawed that you can't help but be totally persuaded it's all real.
And it was absolutely fascinating to see what Nora Ephron put into her screenplay for You've Got Mail, almost word for word, scene by scene, and where it totally deviated.
*sighs* I should own this film. Even if it is slightly icky.