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Music/JohnZorn, George Lewis and Bill Frisell released two albums, ''News for Lulu'' (1988) and ''More News for Lulu'' (1992), which featured Lulu from the film on the album cover.
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* CrappyHolidays: Christmas Eve is hardly a joyous affair for Lulu and Alwa, even before [[spoiler:Lulu gets murdered]].
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''Pandora's Box'' (''Die Büchse der Pandora'') is a 1929 German silent drama film, directed by G.W. Pabst and starring Creator/LouiseBrooks. It is widely regarded as one of the all-time classics of UsefulNotes/{{Weimar|Republic}} cinema, as well as the greatest role of Brooks's career.
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''Pandora's Box'' (''Die Büchse der Pandora'') is a 1929 German silent drama film, film directed by G.G. W. Pabst and starring Creator/LouiseBrooks. It is widely regarded as one of the all-time classics of UsefulNotes/{{Weimar|Republic}} cinema, as well as the greatest role of Brooks's career.
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G.W. Pabst had tried to borrow Brooks from Creator/{{Paramount}}, where she was under contract, but the studio had refused. Eventually Brooks broke her contract and went to Europe to make the movie. It briefly made her a star, and Pabst followed up with another film starring Brooks, ''Film/DiaryOfALostGirl''. However, she was blackballed in Hollywood and her career tanked in TheThirties. ''Pandora's Box'' is remembered today as one of the last great silent movies, with an attitude towards sexuality that was decades ahead of its time. It's one of the oldest movies listed in Danny Peary's book ''Literature/CultMovies''.
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G.W. Pabst had tried to borrow Brooks from Creator/{{Paramount}}, where she was under contract, but the studio had refused. Eventually Brooks broke her contract and went to Europe to make the movie. It briefly made her a an international star, and Pabst followed up with immediately cast her in another film starring Brooks, silent melodrama, ''Film/DiaryOfALostGirl''. However, she was After returning to Hollywood, however, Brooks's "difficult" reputation led to her becoming effectively blackballed in Hollywood and her career tanked in TheThirties.the [[TheThirties '30s]]. ''Pandora's Box'' is remembered today as one of the last great silent movies, with an attitude towards sexuality that was decades ahead of its time. It's one of the oldest movies listed in Danny Peary's book ''Literature/CultMovies''.
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''Pandora's Box'' (''Die Büchse der Pandora'') is a 1929 German silent drama film, directed by G.W. Pabst and starring Creator/LouiseBrooks. \n It is widely regarded as one of the all-time classics of UsefulNotes/{{Weimar|Republic}} cinema, as well as the greatest role of Brooks's career.
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Meanwhile Lulu has made friends with Dr. Schön's son Alwa, and Alwa's friend Countess Augusta Geschwitz, both of whom clearly have feelings for Lulu. Lulu is hired as a dancer in the musical show that Alwa is staging, but when Dr. Schön arrives with his fiancee, she refuses to dance. Dr. Schön tries to force her to perform, they kiss, and Charlotte sees them kissing. Lulu, triumphant, winds up marrying Dr. Schön herself -- but things do not turn out well.
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Meanwhile Lulu has made friends with Dr. Schön's son Alwa, and Alwa's friend Countess Augusta Geschwitz, both of whom clearly have feelings for Lulu. Lulu is her. She's hired as a dancer in the musical show revue that Alwa is staging, but refuses to go on when Dr. Schön arrives shows up with his fiancee, she refuses to dance. Dr. fiancée in tow. Schön tries to force her Lulu to perform, they kiss, and Charlotte sees them kissing. Lulu, triumphant, winds up marrying Dr. Schön herself -- herself... but things do not turn out well.
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''Pandora's Box'' (''Die Büchse der Pandora'') is a 1929 German silent film, directed by G.W. Pabst and starring Creator/LouiseBrooks.
The film centers around Lulu, a sexually uninhibited young woman in UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}}. Lulu is the mistress of newspaper publisher Dr. Ludwig Schön. Dr. Schön comes to tell her that they must break off their affair because he has gotten engaged to Charlotte von Zarnikow, the Minister of the Interior's daughter. Lulu refuses to accept this, but when Dr. Schön meets Schigolch, an unsavory old man who appears to be her old pimp, he stalks out of her apartment.
''Pandora's Box'' (''Die Büchse der Pandora'') is a 1929 German silent film, directed by G.W. Pabst and starring Creator/LouiseBrooks.
The film centers around Lulu, a sexually uninhibited young woman in UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}}. Lulu is the mistress of newspaper publisher Dr. Ludwig Schön. Dr. Schön comes to tell her that they must break off their affair because he has gotten engaged to Charlotte von Zarnikow, the Minister of the Interior's daughter. Lulu refuses to accept this, but when Dr. Schön meets Schigolch, an unsavory old man who appears to be her old pimp, he stalks out of her apartment.
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''Pandora's Box'' (''Die Büchse der Pandora'') is a 1929 German silent drama film, directed by G.W. Pabst and starring Creator/LouiseBrooks.
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G.W. Pabst had tried to borrow Brooks from Creator/{{Paramount}}, where she was under contract, but the studio had refused. Eventually Brooks broke her contract and went to Europe to make the movie. It briefly made her a star, and Pabst followed up with another film starring Brooks, ''Film/DiaryOfALostGirl''. However, she was blackballed in Hollywood and her career tanked in TheThirties. ''Pandora's Box'' is remembered today as one of the last great silent movies, with an attitude towards sexuality that was decades ahead of its time. It's one of the oldest movies listed in Danny Peary's [[DannyPearyCultMoviesList book]] ''Cult Movies''.
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G.W. Pabst had tried to borrow Brooks from Creator/{{Paramount}}, where she was under contract, but the studio had refused. Eventually Brooks broke her contract and went to Europe to make the movie. It briefly made her a star, and Pabst followed up with another film starring Brooks, ''Film/DiaryOfALostGirl''. However, she was blackballed in Hollywood and her career tanked in TheThirties. ''Pandora's Box'' is remembered today as one of the last great silent movies, with an attitude towards sexuality that was decades ahead of its time. It's one of the oldest movies listed in Danny Peary's [[DannyPearyCultMoviesList book]] ''Cult Movies''.
book ''Literature/CultMovies''.
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* {{Blackmail}}: In Act 7, both the Marquis Casti-Piani and Rodrigo Quast threaten to turn Lulu over to the German police if she doesn't do as they ask (in the former case, allow herself to be sold to an Egyptian brothel owner, supposedly because the police won't look for her there; in the latter case, put up 20,000 francs for a new variety show).
* FromBadToWorse: The second half of the film shows Lulu's situation spiralling ever downwards.
** In Act 4, at the reception for her wedding to Dr. Schön, he finds her with Schigolch and Quast and draws a gun on them, then orders her to kill herself; in the ensuing struggle, she kills him instead, and she is found by Alwa and arrested.
** In Acts 5 and 6, she is convicted of manslaughter, and although Schigolch and Quast pull a false fire alarm and help her escape in the chaos, she is forced to flee the country with help from Alwa and the Countess. When their fellow train passenger, the Marquis Casti-Piani, recognises Lulu from a WantedPoster, he offers his silence if they'll accept his recommendation to hide on a floating gambling den instead of going to Paris.
** In Act 7, Alwa is trying and failing to raise money by gambling, while the Marquis tries to sell Lulu to an Egyptian brothel owner and Quast tries to {{Blackmail}} Lulu into getting Alwa and/or the Countess to bankroll his new revue, or he'll turn her in. Schigolch tries to help Alwa with a marked deck, but he is unmasked as a cheat, and after the Countess kills Quast on Lulu's behalf, Lulu, Alwa, and Schigolch flee to London.
** And by Act 8, Lulu has been reduced to prostitution while she, Alwa, and Schigolch live in poverty in a dirty London garret. On Christmas Eve, she entertains a client who turns out to be UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, and [[spoiler:although he is entranced by her beauty and decides not to kill her, he ends up changing his mind]].
** In Act 4, at the reception for her wedding to Dr. Schön, he finds her with Schigolch and Quast and draws a gun on them, then orders her to kill herself; in the ensuing struggle, she kills him instead, and she is found by Alwa and arrested.
** In Acts 5 and 6, she is convicted of manslaughter, and although Schigolch and Quast pull a false fire alarm and help her escape in the chaos, she is forced to flee the country with help from Alwa and the Countess. When their fellow train passenger, the Marquis Casti-Piani, recognises Lulu from a WantedPoster, he offers his silence if they'll accept his recommendation to hide on a floating gambling den instead of going to Paris.
** In Act 7, Alwa is trying and failing to raise money by gambling, while the Marquis tries to sell Lulu to an Egyptian brothel owner and Quast tries to {{Blackmail}} Lulu into getting Alwa and/or the Countess to bankroll his new revue, or he'll turn her in. Schigolch tries to help Alwa with a marked deck, but he is unmasked as a cheat, and after the Countess kills Quast on Lulu's behalf, Lulu, Alwa, and Schigolch flee to London.
** And by Act 8, Lulu has been reduced to prostitution while she, Alwa, and Schigolch live in poverty in a dirty London garret. On Christmas Eve, she entertains a client who turns out to be UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, and [[spoiler:although he is entranced by her beauty and decides not to kill her, he ends up changing his mind]].
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* TheVamp: Lulu uses her sexuality to manipulate Dr. Schön into marrying her instead of breaking off their affair to marry Charlotte, Alwa into helping her flee the country after she goes on the lam, and even the Countess, whom she strongarms into seducing (and killing) Rodrigo when he threatens to turn her in if she doesn't bankroll his new revue.
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* TheVamp: Lulu uses her sexuality to manipulate Dr. Schön into marrying her instead of breaking off their affair to marry Charlotte, Alwa into helping her flee the country after she goes on the lam, and even the Countess, whom she strongarms into seducing (and killing) Rodrigo Quast when he threatens to turn her in if she doesn't bankroll his new revue.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Lulu gets killed by Jack and Alwa descends into despair]].
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* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: The Countess is clearly in love with Lulu. This was a very early (probably the first) depiction of lesbianism in film.
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* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: The Countess is clearly in love with Lulu.Lulu and allows her to flee Berlin using her passport when she needs to escape a five-year prison sentence for manslaughter. This was a very early (probably the first) depiction of lesbianism in film.
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** Things look like they could turn around at the gambling ship when Alwa starts winning at the cards. But then he gets busted.
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* PovertyFood: In London, the protagonists are shown eating dried bread as a meal.
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* TheVamp: Lulu uses her sexuality to manipulate Dr. Schön, Alwa, and even the Countess, whom she strongarms into seducing a man.
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* TheVamp: Lulu uses her sexuality to manipulate Dr. Schön, Alwa, Schön into marrying her instead of breaking off their affair to marry Charlotte, Alwa into helping her flee the country after she goes on the lam, and even the Countess, whom she strongarms into seducing a man.(and killing) Rodrigo when he threatens to turn her in if she doesn't bankroll his new revue.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Invoked by Lulu when she seduces Dr. Schön at the theatre. Naturally, his fiancee walks in on the scene.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Lulu gets killed by Jack and Alwa descents into despair]].
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The film centers around Lulu, a sexually uninhibited young woman in Berlin. Lulu is the mistress of newspaper publisher Dr. Ludwig Schön. Dr. Schön comes to tell her that they must break off their affair because he has gotten engaged to Charlotte von Zarnikow, the Minister of the Interior's daughter. Lulu refuses to accept this, but when Dr. Schön meets Schigolch, an unsavory old man who appears to be her old pimp, he stalks out of her apartment.
Meanwhile Lulu has made friends with Dr. Schön's son Alwa, and Alwa's friend Countess Augusta Geschwitz, both of whom clearly have feelings for Lulu. Lulu is hired as a dancer in the musical show that Alwa is staging, but when Dr. Schön arrives with his fiancee, she refuses to dance. Dr. Schön tries to force her to perform, they kiss, and Charlotte sees them kissing. Lulu, triumphant, winds up marrying Dr. Schön herself--but things do not turn out well.
G.W. Pabst had tried to borrow Brooks from Paramount, where she was under contract, but the studio had refused. Eventually Brooks broke her contract and went to Europe to make the movie. It briefly made her a star, and Pabst followed up with another film starring Brooks, ''Film/DiaryOfALostGirl''. However, she was blackballed in Hollywood and her career tanked in TheThirties. ''Pandora's Box'' is remembered today as one of the last great silent movies, with an attitude towards sexuality that was decades ahead of its time. It's one of the oldest movies listed in Danny Peary's [[DannyPearyCultMoviesList book "Cult Movies"]]
Meanwhile Lulu has made friends with Dr. Schön's son Alwa, and Alwa's friend Countess Augusta Geschwitz, both of whom clearly have feelings for Lulu. Lulu is hired as a dancer in the musical show that Alwa is staging, but when Dr. Schön arrives with his fiancee, she refuses to dance. Dr. Schön tries to force her to perform, they kiss, and Charlotte sees them kissing. Lulu, triumphant, winds up marrying Dr. Schön herself--but things do not turn out well.
G.W. Pabst had tried to borrow Brooks from Paramount, where she was under contract, but the studio had refused. Eventually Brooks broke her contract and went to Europe to make the movie. It briefly made her a star, and Pabst followed up with another film starring Brooks, ''Film/DiaryOfALostGirl''. However, she was blackballed in Hollywood and her career tanked in TheThirties. ''Pandora's Box'' is remembered today as one of the last great silent movies, with an attitude towards sexuality that was decades ahead of its time. It's one of the oldest movies listed in Danny Peary's [[DannyPearyCultMoviesList book "Cult Movies"]]
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The film centers around Lulu, a sexually uninhibited young woman in Berlin.UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}}. Lulu is the mistress of newspaper publisher Dr. Ludwig Schön. Dr. Schön comes to tell her that they must break off their affair because he has gotten engaged to Charlotte von Zarnikow, the Minister of the Interior's daughter. Lulu refuses to accept this, but when Dr. Schön meets Schigolch, an unsavory old man who appears to be her old pimp, he stalks out of her apartment.
Meanwhile Lulu has made friends with Dr. Schön's son Alwa, and Alwa's friend Countess Augusta Geschwitz, both of whom clearly have feelings for Lulu. Lulu is hired as a dancer in the musical show that Alwa is staging, but when Dr. Schön arrives with his fiancee, she refuses to dance. Dr. Schön tries to force her to perform, they kiss, and Charlotte sees them kissing. Lulu, triumphant, winds up marrying Dr. Schönherself--but herself -- but things do not turn out well.
G.W. Pabst had tried to borrow Brooks fromParamount, Creator/{{Paramount}}, where she was under contract, but the studio had refused. Eventually Brooks broke her contract and went to Europe to make the movie. It briefly made her a star, and Pabst followed up with another film starring Brooks, ''Film/DiaryOfALostGirl''. However, she was blackballed in Hollywood and her career tanked in TheThirties. ''Pandora's Box'' is remembered today as one of the last great silent movies, with an attitude towards sexuality that was decades ahead of its time. It's one of the oldest movies listed in Danny Peary's [[DannyPearyCultMoviesList book "Cult Movies"]]
book]] ''Cult Movies''.
Meanwhile Lulu has made friends with Dr. Schön's son Alwa, and Alwa's friend Countess Augusta Geschwitz, both of whom clearly have feelings for Lulu. Lulu is hired as a dancer in the musical show that Alwa is staging, but when Dr. Schön arrives with his fiancee, she refuses to dance. Dr. Schön tries to force her to perform, they kiss, and Charlotte sees them kissing. Lulu, triumphant, winds up marrying Dr. Schön
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* FixingTheGame: Alwa is getting cleaned out at the gambling table, so Schigolch gives him some cards to put up his sleeve. It works--until Alwa's caught.
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* FixingTheGame: Alwa is getting cleaned out at the gambling table, so Schigolch gives him some cards to put up his sleeve. Itworks--until works -- until Alwa's caught.
* FixingTheGame: Alwa is getting cleaned out at the gambling table, so Schigolch gives him some cards to put up his sleeve. It
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* TheFlapper: Lulu, with her short bob haircut, slinky dresses, and open sexuality, is a TropeMaker.
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