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Anabel 2022-01-12 08:01:03
A Brief Reading of "The Grand Hotel"
"The Grand Hotel" is an enjoyable movie directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Greta Garbo and John Barrymore.
The following is from Baidu: The story happened in a big hotel in Berlin. That is the whole of Germany is surrounded by many people from different classes. Among them are the presying... -
Gust 2022-03-24 09:03:00
Mysterious Woman
Today I watched Grand Hotel, it is a timeless classic and has won the fifth Oscar Best Film. To be exact, I watched it intermittently while eating and on the road, except that Garbo is the highlight, the story is not too attractive. In 1932, China was in the midst of continuous war, and this white...
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Jaiden 2022-03-26 09:01:10
Recent favorites. The fates of five different characters in a luxury hotel are intertwined, but they are nothing but an insignificant scene in the bustling repertoire. There are industrial giants in financial trouble, bookkeepers who are dying of love and pleasure, stenographers who are young and beautiful for money, ballet actresses who want to die in decline, and barons who have to steal to survive. The profiles of the above characters are all told through the alternate horizontal conversation scenes at the beginning, and the specific scenes that follow reveal their personalities beyond their identities. Entrepreneurs who are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality are actually ruthless, greedy and lustful. Bookkeepers become sincere and brave in the determination and despair of death. Although stenographers bow down for five buckets of rice, they always stick to the bottom line of their hearts. The love creature of ballet actress has an almost lovely admiration. Vanity, the baron struggled repeatedly between reality and the way of a gentleman, and finally he would rather be broken. The film's high level of ensemble scheduling can be seen from the vividness of the characters, and the interaction between the bookkeeper and the baron is undoubtedly the most moving. Those who have really experienced life can't help but fall plum blossoms all over Nanshan for them.
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Orie 2022-04-24 07:01:17
The roles of Garbo and Crawford are typical, and the roles of the two Barrymores are interesting. But almost all of the characters' personalities are revealed by their lines, which makes the storyline too boring.
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Otto Kringelein: Mr. Preysing, I am not taking orders from you here.
Preysing: What is this insolence? Please go away.
Otto Kringelein: You think you have free license to be insulting? Believe me, you have not. You think you're superior, but you're quite an ordinary man. Even if you did marry money, and people like me have got to slave for you for 320 marks a month!
Preysing: Will you go away, please! You are annoying!
Flaemmchen: Mr. Preysing, please!
Otto Kringelein: You don't like to see me enjoying myself. When a man's working himself to death, that's what he's paid for. You don't care if a man can live on his wages or not.
Preysing: You have a very regular scale of wages, and there's the sick fund for you.
Otto Kringelein: [sarcastically] Oh, what a scale, and what a fund. When I was sick for four weeks, you wrote me a letter, telling me I'd be discharged if I was sick any longer. Did you write me that letter, or did you not?
Preysing: I have no idea of the letters that I write, Mr. Kringelein. I know that you're here in the Grand Hotel, living like a lord. You are probably an embezzler.
Otto Kringelein: [shocked] An embezzler?
Preysing: Yes, an embezzler!
Otto Kringelein: You will take that back, right here in the presence of this young lady! Who do you think you're talking to? You think I'm dirt? Well, if I'm dirt, you're a lot dirtier, Mr. Industrial Magnate Preysing!
Preysing: You're discharged! Get out!
Flaemmchen: You can't do that to him...
Preysing: Oh, I don't know the man. I don't know what he wants. I never saw him before.
Otto Kringelein: I know you! I've kept your books for you and I know all about you! If one of your employees was half as stupid in a small way as you are in a big way...
Preysing: [lunges for Kringelein] What do you mean
[tries to strangle him. When several people try to break them up, he finally lets go]
Preysing: You're discharged! You're discharged, you hear?
Otto Kringelein: Wait! You can't discharge me. I am my own master for the first time in my life. You can't discharge me. I'm sick. I'm going to die, you understand? I'm going to die, and nobady can do anything to me anymore. Nothing can happen to me anymore. Before I can be discharged, I'll be dead!
[laughs proudly]
