Just watched Cabaret, ....powerful stuff...

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I know this film came out way back in the early 70's, but I just saw it for the first time. I'm impressed.
That ending! ....A drum-roll as the camera pans across a mirrored-wall relecting the audience image....then a cymbal crash as the camera stops on the relected image of two arm-bands with the Swastika.
....then complete silence as the credits roll.
That simple ending scene...about 2-mins. or so...conveys as sense of impending doom & dread more so than some movies can at two hours or more. I don't know if that ending was Bob Fosse's idea..but whoever's it was is a film-making genius.

Russ

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Topic - Just watched Cabaret, ....powerful stuff... - RC 06:31:14 02/12/05 (4)

Yes, I still recall that scene, few films like that, - Ole Lund Christensen 15:04:52 02/12/05 (0)

Cabaret was the perfect marriage of artists.....Fosse.... - TWB 12:22:27 02/12/05 (0)

The only musical I can stomach . . . Joel Grey fantastic . . . * - mr grits 08:49:44 02/12/05 (1)

I used to say the same thing... - tunenut 12:12:07 02/12/05 (0)

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