Jeg ønskede at skrive om en af mine yndlingsfilm, The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935). It is an adaptation of the novel by the same name, written by Baroness Orczy. Filmen (affiliate link) vedrører en engelsk jævnaldrende, der risikerer sit liv ved at gemme franske aristokrater fra guillotinen. The story is complicated by the fact the peer is married to a French woman, who was tricked into sending aristocrats to the guillotine.
Still from the Scarlet Pimpernel
Leslie Howard portrays the Englishman, Sir Percy Blakeney, and Merle Oberon plays his wife, Lady Blakeney, der ikke kender hendes mand er Scarlet Pimpernel. Citizen Chauvelin, portrayed by Raymond Massey, arrives from France to discover the identity of the Pimpernel. Chauvelin tricked Lady Blakeney into betraying her friends in the past and attempts to get his clutches into her again by threatening her brother Armand’s safety. I enjoy this movie for a number of reasons.
1) Hvad du ser, er ikke, hvad du får. The Pimpernel must use deception to successfully rescue the aristocrats so nothing is really as it seems. Du bliver ledt til at tro én ting, men at finde ud af en anden i slutningen af filmen.
2)
Den fungerende er fremragende. I en udveksling mellem Sir Percy og Chauvelin, Sir Percy, der fungerer som en fop gennem det meste af filmen, læser et digt, som han har skrevet om Pimpernel med Chauvelin. En af linjerne er “disse Frenchies søge ham hver hvor.” Chauvelin placidly reagerer, “Jeg kan lide det, Sir Percy. Particularly that those ‘Frenchies seek him every where’
part.”
Still from the Scarlet Pimpernel
3) Det er hjerner end råstyrke. Selvom Sir Percy er i stand til fysisk at forsvare sig, but Sir Percy is successful because of his ability to out think the enemy. I en scene, hans tilhængere ønsker at storme den franske garnison, men Sir Percy fortæller dem sådan handling vil gøre dem ubrugelige. De kunne vinde en kamp og tabe krigen.
It is a great movie running just about 90 minutter. Many of the DVDs leave out the scene between Sir Percy and his brother-in-law Armand, which is one of the keys to understanding Sir Percy and his motivation.
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