One of the films of my life (and I know of many) is undoubtedly Duck Soup (Leo McCarey / Marx Brothers 1933). Of all the Marx who filmed most of them great, Duck Soup may be the best. It was the last that rolled under the Paramount brand and the last in which the brothers worked together.
The film was a box office failure which caused the rupture of the producer group. Luckily the hosted the Metro, although further studies are required to include in all his later movies crazy romantic partners outside the world of Marx, thus ensuring a more mainstream audience but more numerous.
As comedians, they had never been taken very seriously by the critics but were comparable in their unclassifiable universe's greatest architects of surrealism. This may seem exaggerated but they stopped short of saying the prestigious British critic of the time, Patrick McKay that his art could be compared to that of Dalí, and as political essays and arms, Duck Soup surpassed the work of Ionesco and Beckett. Perhaps it happened.
Explain the argument Duck Soup is quite useless because the film is a succession of sequences, dialogues, pieces that bring together a comprehensive history logic. Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho) is housed in a small dictator country, Freedonia, wrapped in the multimillion-dollar fortune Mrs. Teasdale (Margaret Dumont, actress essential in almost all movies of the Marx).
There is a neighboring country, Sylvania, which wants to annex Freedonia and its ambassador hires Chico and Harpo as spies infiltrated. It is the excuse for a waterfall full of hilarious sequences ingenious wordplay, double meaning and full of deliriously absurd scenes. One of these sequences, including three hats (one of Chico, Harpo and another third of a city that sells trinkets with a cart), which forms a bundle of updates and exchanges Morrocotudo owners and heads, has passed every anthology of nonsense and absurdity.
so many sequences in other anthologies, Harpo, Groucho disguises himself and slips into the house of Mrs. Teasdale with intent to steal the jewels. Attempting to open the safe break a mirror in real time the incoming natural Groucho pissed off by the crash. Harpo is placed behind the broken mirror and Groucho led to believe that he is his own reflection imitating his every move
Groucho, pissed off, try to catch him in a fault and thus confirm their suspicions that Something fishy in this strange reflex, but Harpo perfectly mimics his every move. To make matters worse, Chico enters the room dressed with Groucho also formed a series of misunderstandings and absurdities absolutely absurd, and surreal buffs, by no less than three Groucho.
dialogs Duck Soup, brilliant in its sarcasm and intention, came to disturb the censorship of the time as the attitude of its main character, Rufus, utterly irreverent language which included games words, insults and abuse, led in all directions, especially the character of Mrs. Teasdale. There is an indescribable sequence in which the lady offers of marriage with phrases like "All I can offer is a roof" or "Are you a widow?. Would you let a lot of money her late husband?. Answer first to my second question. "
may Duck Soup has aged in accordance with what, but it is quite modern sequences. At times hilariously bizarre, as when Harpo shows a house with a dog tattooed on his stomach ... and the dog leaves the house and barks at the camera. From the Marx Brothers reinvented the structure of the comedy film, gender was never like before.
We have often wondered why this movie is called Duck Soup . Groucho explained: "If we make a delicious recipe, we take two turkeys, a duck, four cabbages, no goose and mix everything. After trying just want to make goose soup the rest of your life ". Absolutely Groucho.
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