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Trouble in Paradise (1932) dir. Ernest Lubitsch

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December 1947: Arabs Burn U.S. Embassy; Lubitsch Dies at 55

December 1947: Arabs Burn U.S. Embassy; Lubitsch Dies at 55

Note: This is an encore post from 2005 and originally appeared on the 1947project.

Ernst Lubitsch dies at his home in Bel-Air. He is 55.

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A tip from (Ernest) Lubitsch: Let the audience add up two plus two. They’ll love you forever.

Billy Wilder, From Conversations with Wilder by Cameron Crowe

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To be or not to be?

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Billy Wilder's Tips for Writing

The audience is fickle.

Grab ‘em by the throat and never let ‘em go.

Develop a clean line of action for your leading character.

Know where you’re going.

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.

A tip from Lubitsch: Let the audience add up two plus two. They’ll love you forever.

In doing voice-overs, be careful not to describe what the audience already sees. Add to what they’re seeing.

The event that occurs at the second act curtain triggers the end of the movie.

The third act must build, build, build in tempo and action until the last event, and then -

- that’s it. Don’t hang around.

Via Conversations with Wilder

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 The inspiration for The Shop Around the Corner came from Ernest Lubitsch's memories of working in his father's Berlin shop as a young boy. At the premiere of the film Lubitsch remarked, "I have known just such a little shop in Budapest...The feeling between the boss and those who work for him is pretty much the same the world over, it seems to me. Everyone is afraid of losing his job and everyone knows how little human worries can affect his job. If the boss has a touch of dyspepsia, better be careful not to step on his toes; when things have gone well with him, the whole staff reflects his good humor."