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5] Stanley Cavell, Contesting Tears, University of Chicago Press,1996 p109;George M Wilson, Narration in Light, Johns Hopkins UniversityPress,1986, p125.6] Cavell, 1996, p817] Ophuls' brilliance of craft shows in the way he gives us our firstsight of Lisa, dwarfing the actress's height by framing her face at thebottom of the window through which she gazes into the removals van.8] And attempting to manage a cigarette. This opening shotestablishes smoking as a motif. Throughout the dialogue theforeground of the image is dominated by the white-gloved hand inwhich the one of Stefan's friends nearest the camera holds acigarette. Thereafter few of the men of the film are without somethingto smoke in their hands or in their mouths. (John the manservant andLisa's young Lieutenant in Linz are the notable exceptions.)Cigarettes recur through the film as emblems of enslavement andunfulfilled appetite. At the start Stefan is a chain smoker. By the endhe seems to have found something to displace the habit. It is possiblethat the smoking motif was Ophuls's way of implicating himself withthe men of the film and specially with Stefan. To judge fromphotographs Ophuls was quite a smoker and according to a numberof reports he was quite a womaniser.9] I am adopting 'Staircase One' and 'Staircase Two' to identify thefirst and second of the repeated pair because it would be a distortinginaccuracy to describe them as the first and second of the staircaseshots. It is a vital fact that Staircase One is already the repetition of afamiliar setting.10] For the record, their song is 'Nur für Natur' from the operetta 'DerLustige Krieg' (The Merry War) by Johann Strauss II - worthspecifying in order to correct a misunderstanding propounded byVirginia Wright Wexman and taken up by Susan M. White in her book'The Cinema of Max Ophuls' (Columbia U.P., 1995), that the film'contains not a single word of German'. Both writers give a lot ofweight to this strange assertion. The film presents a riotouspatchwork of languages and accents, and it incorporates plenty ofGerman words. There may be food for thought in the choice of aGerman word for fire - 'brand' - as the surname for Lisa's Stefan.11] Of course it would have been a formidable task to find somethingfor her to say that would not have caused an explosion at the BreenOffice, but Ophuls and Koch were equal to formidable tasks.Udskriv denne artikelGem/åben denne artikel som PDF (? Kb)Gem/åben hele nummeret som PDF (??? Kb) forrige side | næste side16:9, september 2003, 1. årgang, nummer 3til toppen | forsiden | tidligere numre | om 16:9 | kontakt | copyright © 2002-2003,16:9. Alle rettigheder forbeholdes.