Stripper wearing pasties
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lousvr — 13 years ago(November 14, 2012 03:21 PM)
That scene with the young stripper haunts from the very 1st time i saw it The cheap muted trumpet, the quietness.. but this is an apparantly sweet young girl doing a muted non-erotic strip dance that the war had reduced people to realities of life ??.. But I'm hypnotized every time i see it..
And that's just one of a dozen scenes that can freeze my thinking.. -
jd-276 — 13 years ago(November 14, 2012 10:32 PM)
I was thinking of posting something about the music in that scene. As far as I can tell, it's the only piece - apart from the Baron's violin - which is not played on the zither.
I have always found that music laughably incongruous. It isn't even sympathetic to the dancer's movements. It sort of reminds me of something from a Laurel and Hardy gag. I think it's there because it sound cheap. Martins is feeling low and he's turning to the lower side of life for a while - getting drunk and hanging around in cheap bars. -
cowgoesmoo — 10 years ago(August 03, 2015 05:50 AM)
I've always thought that as well.
What hasn't been mentioned in this thread is, that after the scene of the stripper dancing, there is a short cut to the bar where four young-ish women are all looking in the same direction as Holly Martins. I'd always assumed they were prostitutes but they aren't dressed flashy or trampy like movie prostitutes are shown today. My thought was that these were "normal" women who had fallen to desperate circumstances. -
Naldoman — 9 years ago(February 04, 2017 09:06 PM)
I didn't assume they were prostitutes, just women who dance with a guy for a song for change. But since everyone is broke, no one is in the bar, especially that particular dive.
Still, $$$ gets you whatever.