Capítulo II _ Cinema - Cinema

O Anjo Azul: do fim do Expressionismo à influência da Paramount – um filme de Josef von Sternberg

Sérgio Bordalo e Sá
Instituto de Etnomusicologia – centro de estudos em música e dança | pólo da Faculdade de Motricidade Humana da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
AVANCA | CINEMA 2020
N.º 11 (2020)
Publicado 2020-10-14
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Resumo

“The success of the film will depend on the naked thighs of Miss Dietrich”. This was the answer that Heinrich Mann gave to Emil Jannings, when he asked the novelist if he had liked his performance. Made in 1930 and directed by Josef von Sternberg, The Blue Angel will always be remembered in the history of cinema as the movie in which the myth of Marlene Dietrich was born. However, its merits go well beyond this fact. The Blue Angel is the prototype of a hybrid film, made in Germany by an Austrian settled in America since he was a young boy, having been influenced not only by the American studio production, but also by the German Expressionism, through Max Reinhardt. A director whose cinema Nöel Simsolo compares to tapestry, in which all the elements are always necessary and important, with the supremacy of the décor because everything that appears on the screen becomes it. More than a motion picture that marks the end of an era, that of the German silent cinema, or the German Expressionism, more than a ‘foreign’ production of Paramount, The Blue Angel is above all a film by Josef von Sternberg, a point of arrival and a point of departure for all the marvels to come.

Palavras-chave Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich, Expressionism, German Cinema, Paramount.
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