Gilda Film Analysis
February 21, 2008
English 350
Film Analysis of the Movie GILDA
The film, by Marion Parsonnet (and adapted by Jo Eisinger), was taken from an original story by E. A. Ellington. The movie was produced by Virgine Van Upp and Directed by Charles Vidor. The complex, eccentric, cynical tale was in keeping with the prevailing attitudes of the American post-war era, playing upon US political paranoia of German-Nazi war criminals that escaped and assumed new identities in South America. The film's themes include implied impotence, misogyny and homosexuality, although only suggested with liberal euphemisms and innuendo to bypass the Production Code. The semi-trashy crime drama is also known for the erotic strains of the strange, tawdry, aberrant romantic triangle (ménage a trios) between the three main characters.
The Scene
When Johnny escorts Gilda to her home from the casino in the wee hours of the morning, Ballin appears. [Throughout the scene, Ballin's black silhouette......
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