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'Tell Me A Movie'

posted 17 years ago by Zorro-3
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Valentin asked Luis to tell him a movie. At one point, Valentin understood the movie Luis was telling better than Valentin did. (A Brilliant plot/character development device, too. Showed that Luisk had a great memory, but that Valentin was the subtle thinker.)

The movie Luis was telling had something anti-semitic in it, because in the middle of the telling, Valentin interrupts and says, "They're anti-semitic!" Luis looks confused and says, "I don't know." Valentin is insistent that there's anti-semitism, resentful that it's there and bemused that Luis doesn't see it."

What movie was he telling? I see only "Cat People" in the referenced movies. Cat People wasn't anti-senitic was it?

[–] Zorro-3 17 years ago

Eureka! It's a Nazi propaganda film called "Her Real Glory."

[–] am_buglet_82 16 years ago

You mean that, in the movie, was a reenactment of a real movie?

-Amanda

"She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales in storybooks written by rabbits"

[–] the-pek 16 years ago

Not quite. It was a fictional plot device made up for the movie - you can see a lot of parallels with the main story.

[–] sdsungod 16 years ago

***WARNING***
***SPOILERS AHEAD***
***SPOILER ALERT!***
***YOU'VE BEEN WARNED***

The movie within the movie was not a real movie. It was fictional, because it had the same plot as the main movie. For example, the singer (who Molina considered to be most like himself) fell in love with a man, started to believe in his cause, and then got shot dead for it. The same thing happened to Molina, only the irony is that his own side (the revolutionaries) shot him when they saw he had been followed by police to make sure that he wouldn't talk.

"Enough of that technical talk, Foo!"