tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50729036669454163.post1871307203560449514..comments2024-02-24T19:35:48.123-08:00Comments on Lost in the Frame: The Woman in the WindowKasey Mohammadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13353259413006470925noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50729036669454163.post-57826617772438767672007-07-29T12:17:00.000-07:002007-07-29T12:17:00.000-07:00*SPOILER ahead for those who haven't seen the film...*SPOILER ahead for those who haven't seen the film*<BR/><BR/>Lang wrote an article for the <I>Penguin Film Review</I> in 1948 called “Happily Ever After”:<BR/><BR/>“I was chided by critics for ending it as a dream. I was not always objective about my own work, but in this case my choice was conscious. If I had continued the story to its logical conclusion, a man would have been caught and executed for committing murder because he was one moment off guard. Even were he not convicted of the crime his life would have been ruined. I rejected this logical ending because it seemed to me a defeatist ending, a tragedy for nothing, brought about by an implacable Fate – a negative ending to a problem which is not universal, a futile dreariness which an audience would reject.”<BR/><BR/>A bit of a far cry from the image we often have of Lang’s work as the ultimate cinematic embodiment of the ‘Destiny-Machine’!<BR/><BR/>Also interesting are the undeniable parallels with the similar ‘bracketing frame’ and ending Lang created for <I>The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari</I> 25 years prior (much to the chagrin of the two main screenwriters Carl Mayer and Hans Janowitz).girishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05079328617099035797noreply@blogger.com