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Pandora's Box (1929)
Die Büchse der Pandora (original title)
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Writer: Frank Windekind (play)
Cast: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer
Genre: Drama
Silent Film
I love that scene where Lulu playfully climbs onto the lap of a man who she thinks is only out for a good time. She has so much youthful joy in her pretty little face, that it makes what happens next, so very memorable.
I really liked Pandora's Box, I don't have a complaint, not one. Louise Brooks was so perfect for this role and I read that the role almost went to Marlene Dietrich. Marlene is great, but I don't see her as Lulu. There's only one Lulu and that's Louise Brooks. She imbibes Lulu with unbridled energy and a real feeling of innocents. Which is odd as she's grown up in dance halls and so has seen and apparently done it all, and yet she's not jaded, nor does she willingly use her feminine charms to get what she wants. To me she's pure of soul as her intentions are altruistic.....Wow! I'm really thinking of Lulu like a real person, see that's how powerful of presences she had.
Pandora's Box (1929)
Die Büchse der Pandora (original title)
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Writer: Frank Windekind (play)
Cast: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer
Genre: Drama
Silent Film
"The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her."
I love that scene where Lulu playfully climbs onto the lap of a man who she thinks is only out for a good time. She has so much youthful joy in her pretty little face, that it makes what happens next, so very memorable.