1 James Cagney, the protagonist of Coca-Cola West Berlin branch manager Mike Ramallah, tried to throw half of the fruit on the face of the East German boy Otto. This scene was apparently against James Cagney himself in 1931. The starring classic robber film "The Public Enmemy" pays tribute. The difference is that in that film, Cagney really smashed his girlfriend in the face.
2 "Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?" James Cagney blurted out after learning that his boss's daughter was pregnant. It's a tribute again. The original source of this sentence is the classic robber film "Little Caeser" starring Edward G. Robinson, another greatest robber film star.
3 "Yes, We Have No Bananas", a song sung by the hotel band when James Cagney and three Soviet representatives met at the Grand Hotel. Billy Wilder obviously liked the sense of humor in this song, because in "Sabrina" (Dragon and Phoenix), Humphrey Bogart used his portable record player to soak Hepburn on the yacht and played this same song. Song.
4 "I wish I were in hell with my back broken", a line by James Cagney in the movie. Billy Wilder obviously liked this sentence too. He asked Humphrey Bogart to play in "Sabrina" (Dragon and Phoenix). ) Said the same thing.
5 It is still an article about James Cagney, who starred in a musical called "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (Song of Victory) in 1942, and won the Oscar for Best Actor for this film. The film describes the life of Broadway musician George M. Cohan, who wrote the famous song "Yankee Doodle Boy", and the song used by James Cagney to frame otto's cuckoo clock to tell the time is this song.
6 "Grand Hotel", a meeting place for James Cagney and three Soviet representatives in East Berlin.
7 "The Last laugh" (the humblest person), the fallen aristocrat who cleans the toilet in a high-end restaurant in the film is reminiscent of John Nings's role in "The Last Laugh".
8 In "Gone with the Wind", Mrs. McRamara called James Cagney to report that her boss' daughter Scarlett was missing. James Cagney asked angrily, where did she go? Mrs. Mcramara replied: How do I know that it is gone in the wind. (Gone with the wind)
9 "La Dolce Vita", when James Cagney tried to make otto a pseudo-noble, otto shouted angrily: "What is this, La Dolce Vita (sweet life)?"
10 "OTTO, The name is pronounced the same regardless of whether it is pronounced backwards or backwards. "Is old Billy deliberately making a joke about Otto Preminger, who was also exiled from Europe to Hollywood?
Two about Frank Sinatra
1 "Ring a Ding Ding", a famous piece by pop singer Frank Sinatra, this onomatopoeia line that Billy Wilder loves to use is vague and flexible. It is mostly used to express the joy and indulgence of men and women. It comes from the Soviet Union. When the three representatives saw James Cagney's sexy blonde secretary, they used "Ring a Ding Ding" to express their trivial joy. In "The Apartment", Shirley MacLaine also hummed "Ring a Ding Ding" semi-sarcastically, when at the end of the film Shirjuk hinted that she was going to Atlanta to open a house.
2 "The hell with Frank Sinatra", James Cagney said, "To hell with the revolution and to hell with Khrushchev!" Otto was impatient and had to say, Frank Sinatra, go to hell. Old man Billy, are you cursing or boasting.
3. About Coke
1. Why did you want to make a movie with the Coca-Cola Company as the background? Part of the reason is that when Billy Wilder was still at Paramount, he often talked to a Paramount company named Y. . Frank Freeman’s production clashes, and this producer is from Georgia, Aiheren boasted that he holds a lot of Coca-Cola stock, which gave Billy Wilder some inspiration.
2 Of course, Billy Wilder himself said this in an interview in 1974, "I just think Coca-Cola to be funny. And when I drink it, it seems even funnier to me."
3 Joan Crawford had called Billy Wilder during the filming of the film to protest against the filming of a film advertising the Coca-Cola Company. Joan Crawford himself was a member of the board of directors of PepsiCo. Therefore, to balance, Billy Wilder gave Pepsi the last shot of the film, James Cagney bought four bottles of Coca-Cola from the vending machine, and the last one was Pepsi.
Fourth, the
film about the Berlin Wall has a large number of shots passing through East and West Germany. Before the completion of the Berlin Wall, the Brandenburg Gate was the symbol that separated East and West Germany in the film. The Berlin Wall, which was quickly built on the night of August 13, 1961, happened to pass through the Brandenburg Gate. The film crew who discovered this fact the next morning had to move to Munich and set up a low-rise building using the parking lot of Bavaria Film Studios. The short version of the Brandenburg Gate was re-shot for the remaining crossing shots.
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