Line #21 Film/MadamSatan


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:A divorce lawyer would have been cheaper than this.]]
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4	''Madam Satan'' is a 1930 musical comedy film, directed by Creator/CecilBDeMille.
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6	The absurdly rich Angela and Bob Brooks (their house has a pipe organ!) are experiencing marital difficulties. Angela believes that being married means one has to settle into a life of responsible domesticity, while Bob, for his part, misses the madcap Angela of old and their former passion. Bob, as a result, has taken a mistress.
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8	After finding out that her husband is cheating on her, Angela does ''not'' kick him in the balls and then head to Reno for a divorce. No, Angela comes up with an elaborate plan to seduce her husband and reignite the sparks in their marriage. A plan that involves a blimp, an elaborate masked ball on said blimp, and a masked Angela disguised as the scantily clad "Madam Satan". Really.
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10	Typical of the sex farces that were a hallmark of UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra. Atypical of the rest of [=DeMille=]'s career, as in years to come he would move away from comedies like this one, in favor of making big-budget spectacles.
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13	!!Provides examples of:
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15	* BeAWhoreToGetYourMan: Martha the maid expressly tells Angela this, saying "You must make yourself so attractive to him that he won't want to leave you." Then she sings a song about it. Angela eventually follows up on this advice, appearing half-naked at the ball as Madam Satan and enchanting her husband.
16	* BlatantLies: Bob and Jimmy's pathetic lies when they claim that the woman identified in the newspaper as "Mrs. Brooks" is actually Jimmy's wife.
17	* BodyPaint: A party guest called "Miss Victory" appears to be mostly clothed in body paint.
18	* DoubleEntendre: When a probing Angela asks Trixie's maiden name, Jimmy says "She hasn't been a maiden for a long time."
19	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: We learn all we need to know about Bob and his friend Jimmy when they show up at Bob's front door in the early morning, in tuxedos, drunk.
20	* FanserviceExtra: Lots of scantily clad ladies at the masquerade ball.
21	* GoldDigger: Trixie is totally in it for the money, as she makes clear to the two dudes who are her partners in a vaudeville act.
22	* HaveAGayOldTime:
23	** It's supposed to be a joke based on Madame Satan's atrocious faux-French pronunciation of "Bob."
24	--> '''Madame Satan''': Au revoir, Boob!\
25	'''Bob''': ''[irritated]'' Boob is right!
26	** "GAY PARTY IN PERIL WHEN BOLT HITS ZEP: ALL SAFE"
27	* InadvertentEntranceCue: There's a shot of a bunch of men in a spa. A man says "I come here to get away from women! It's the only place where they don't horn in!" Cue Trixie in her parachute crashing through the skylight.
28	* ItsRainingMen: A most unlikely ending in which all the guests at the ball have to evacuate via parachute when the blimp is struck by lightning and loses its moorings.
29	* MasqueradeBall: Jimmy stages an elaborate one on his blimp, which allows Angela to seduce Bob in her "Madam Satan" disguise.
30	* TheMistress: Bob's girlfriend Trixie makes the strategic error of using a card with her address on it to leave a note for Bob.
31	* SexlessMarriage: It would appear that Bob and Angela are no longer bonking.
32	--> '''Bob''': I crave warm affection, and all I get is frozen justice.
33	* SleepingSingle: Not an enforced trope in 1930, so here notable as it indicates the passionless state of the Brooks marriage.
34	* SplashOfColor: The blimp sequence was originally filmed in two-strip Technicolor, but the footage has been lost and the existing print is all black-and-white.
35	* TitleDrop: "Madam Satan" is Angela's alter ego.
36	* TwoActStructure: The first part is a standard, somewhat dull 1930 comedy of manners. The second part gets a lot weirder, after they get on the blimp and all the weird costumes come out.
37	* VerbalIrony: A lot of this when a frantically improvising Jimmy lies and tells Bob that the woman hidden under the blanket, who is actually Angela, is Jimmy's married girlfriend.
38	--> '''Bill''': Her husband must be a sap.\
39	'''Jimmy''': Yes, yes he certainly is.
40	* WorstNewsJudgmentEver: Angela finds out that Bob is cheating on her after reading a newspaper story about how "Mr. and Mrs. Brooks" were booked in night court for disorderly conduct.
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