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The Shop Around the Corner is a romantic comedy produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart play two employees at a leathergoods shop in Budapest who can barely stand each other, not realizing they are falling in love as anonymous correspondents through their letters.
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Scrivimi fermo posta è una commedia romantica del 1940 prodotta e diretta da Ernst Lubitsch. Margaret Sullavan e James Stewart interpretano due commessi in un negozio di articoli di pelle a Budapest che non si sopportano, senza sapere che in realtà si stanno innamorando tramite le loro lettere in quanto corrispondenti anonimi.
Regia/Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch
Sceneggiatura/Screenplay by: Samson Raphaelson. Based on the 1937 Hungarian play Parfumerie by Miklós László
Montaggio/Edited by: Gene Ruggiero
Fotografia/Cinematography: William H. Daniels
Rotten Tomatoes: 100%
Metacritic: 96
IMDb: 8,1
Letterboxd: 4.1
Anno/Year: 1940
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The Shop Around The Corner (dir. Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
There might be a lot we don’t know about each other. You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.
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Classic Christmas Movies - Part I: It’s a Wonderful life, 1947; White Christmas, 1954; Miracle on 34th Street, 1947; The Shop around the Corner, 1940; The Bishop’s Wife, 1947; Holiday Affair, 1949; Christmas in Connecticut, 1945; Holiday Inn, 1942; The Man who came to dinner, 1942.
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Oh, my Dear Friend, my heart was trembling as I walked into the post office, and there you were, lying in Box 237. I took you out of your envelope and read you, read you right there.
(Quotes from “The Shop Around the Corner.”) (The “planet” quote seemed very fitting with the “Celestial Bodies” theme and it is one of my favorite lines in the film. Among many. It’s just a hell of a compliment.)
“The Shop Around the Corner” AU. (NOT “You’ve Got Mail” AU. VERY important distinction. No one puts the other’s store out of business in “The Shop Around the Corner,” because…ABSOLUTELY NO WAY would I fall in love with the person who put me out of business. I wouldn’t even want to be FRIENDS with that person. Like…Nora Ephron, your writing’s great most of the time, but…yeah, this 2-hour-long ad for AOL was not your finest.)
Hux and Rose are coworkers at a small shop. They’re also anonymous penpals. As coworkers, they hate each other. As penpals, they’re slowly falling in love.
The night Hux arranges to meet his penpal in person for the first time, he drags Ben with him, begs him to peek through the window of the café to look for a young woman with a copy of “Anna Karenina” with a red carnation as a bookmark. (Note: NOT a shout-out to Domhnall’s role in a film adaptation of “Anne Karenina.” That’s literally the book used in the film so I took a screencap b/c I wanted the flower in the book.)
Ben looks, and spots the young woman. Pauses. Confirms to Hux that, indeed, she’s very pretty. …bears something of a resemblance to Rose, actually. A comment that makes Hux frown, because what does Rose have to do with anything?
Ben: Well, if you don’t like Rose, I can tell you right now you won’t like that girl.
Hux: Why not?
Ben: Because it IS Rose.
Hux almost walks away. Leaves her there. But he goes in, tries to feel things out, tries to be cordial without letting on that he’s the penpal she’s waiting for. It goes…poorly. (Understatement, honestly. Look up the original scene, Margaret Sullavan is VICIOUS to James Stewart.)
So, to Rose, her penpal—her dear friend, as they call each other—never shows up. But Hux does. And then a while later, he stops by her apartment one day, when he learns she’s sick. He’s there to wish her well, make amends, hopefully become friends.
If you’ve seen this movie, or “You’ve Got Mail,” you know how it ends.
But also, this movie is JUST SO QUOTABLE. SO MANY AMAZING LINES.
“A very interesting mixture of poetry and meanness.” (preceded by Klara’s AMAZING takedown of Kralik).
“I think people who like to smoke candy and listen to cigarettes will love it.” (The whole musical cigarette/candy box scene is gold.)
“Psychologically, I’m very confused…but personally, I don’t feel bad at all.”
All of their letters to each other. “Are you tall? Are you short? Are your eyes blue? Are they brown? Don’t tell me. What does it matter so long as our minds meet?”
“Did you ever get a bonus? The boss hands you the envelope. You wonder how much is in it, and you don’t want to open it. As long as the envelope’s closed, you’re a millionaire.”
I implore you, GO WATCH “THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER.” It’s SO good.
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Oh. Also. This was the very first moodboard I made for this week. And the very first moodboard I made…well, ever. I feel like I improved the more moodboards I made, but I’ll let y’all be your own judge on that front. XD
