Last night we finally watched the best Billy Wilder movie ever, One, Two, Three. I've seen it on German t.v., which was a sort of weird experience; but for sheer laughs it's best in English. The characters are so perfectly caricatured and there are so many wonderful dialogues. Here's the one I'm working into my dissertation:
Schlemmer (Mac's assistant) klicks his heels.
MacNamara: That old Gestapo training, huh?
Schlemmer: Please, Mr. MacNamara, you must not say that. It is not true.
M: Just between us, Schlemmer, what did you do during the war?
S: I was in the Untergrund. The underground.
M: Resistance fighter?
S: No, motorman. In the underground, you know, the subway.
M: Of course you were anti-Nazi and you never liked Adolf.
S: Adolf who? You see, down where I was I didn’t know what was going on up there. Nobody ever told me anything.
This against the backdrop of West Berlin as the Wall is being built. Really excellent.
Posted by Heather at November 6, 2004 05:27 PM
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