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marble falls

(62,394 posts)
1. Sure. Rub it in. If we'd have gotten the basic package or the $80 a month more package we could be watching our ...
Fri Jun 28, 2024, 05:15 PM
Jun 2024

... favorite movie.

They never show it on Amazon. Or Maltese Falcon, or the Big Sleep, or ......

marble falls

(62,394 posts)
3. Just a great movie that in ways echoes what we face with Mango Jebus. Just enjoy it twice as much as usual ...
Fri Jun 28, 2024, 05:21 PM
Jun 2024

... and we'll call it even!

a kennedy

(32,232 posts)
5. Absolutely love the scene where the French are singing their National Anthem and
Fri Jun 28, 2024, 05:50 PM
Jun 2024

she’s singing, and tears are streaming down here face. I just love that part, and the guests drowned out the Germans.

ificandream

(10,601 posts)
7. From IMDB trivia ... great note about that scene ...
Wed Jul 10, 2024, 03:18 PM
Jul 2024
During the scene in which the "La Marseillaise" is sung over the German song "Die Wacht am Rhein" ("The Watch on the Rhine&quot , many of the extras had real tears in their eyes as a large number were actual refugees from Nazi persecution in Germany and elsewhere in Europe and were overcome by the emotions the scene brought out. The scene was inspired by Jean Renoir's The Grand Illusion (1937), in which French soldiers in a German POW camp sing the song as a similar gesture of defiance. "La Marseillaise" was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by France against Austria and was originally titled "Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin" ("War Song for the Rhine Army&quot .


For this reason, this is one of my favorite scenes in the movie. When I saw it on the big screen a couple of years ago, I had tears in my eyes, too.



Update: Just watched the scene on YouTube. That one actress with the tears in her eyes gets me every time.
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