The Marx Brothers took the opposite approach, telling them to change the name of their town to keep from hurting their movie. Duck Soup e per tale motivo noto anche come Zuppa d'anatra o Zuppa d'anitra) è un film comico statunitense del 1933 diretto da Leo McCarey, e interpretato dai fratelli Marx. Zeppo's character remained Firefly's son until very late in production, finally becoming Bob Roland, his secretary; also, Mrs Teasdale's niece "June Parker" transformed into Vera Marcal, first introduced as Trentino's "niece" before ultimately becoming his companion.[11]. È il loro terzo film e il primo dove entrambi sono i protagonisti. I've always been on the fence about this one. The wealthy Mrs. Teasdale (Margaret Dumont) insists that Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho) be appointed leader of the small, bankrupt country of Freedonia before she will continue to provide much-needed financial aid. Variations of this phrase later became a frequently used catch-phrase for Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny in Warner Bros. Nel 1998 l'American Film Institute l'ha inserito all'ottantacinquesimo posto della classifica dei migliori cento film statunitensi di tutti i tempi,[2] mentre dieci anni dopo, nella lista aggiornata, è salito al sessantesimo posto. It was the last Marx Brothers film to feature Zeppo and the last of five Marx Brothers movies released by Paramount Pictures. "[37], Duck Soup is also frequently cited as a major influence of the comedic side of The Beatles,[38][39][40] and The Beatles themselves admitted that it was an inspiration for their film Help! I sold a code and two pairs o' plans! Hives, allora, si traveste da domestica facendosi soprannominare Agnese e Maltravers si finge proprietario. "[24], Most critics at the time disliked it because of its "dated" look at politics.

Christopher Null believes, "the send-up of Mussolini-types doesn't quite pan out. The "Sylvania theme", which sounds vaguely like "Rule, Britannia! Released theatrically by Paramount Pictures on November 17, 1933, it starred the "Four Marx Brothers" (Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo) and also featured Margaret Dumont, Louis Calhern, Raquel Torres and Edgar Kennedy. Method. Leo McCarey fu costretto a sopportare i capricci e le pretese autoritarie di tutto lo staff Marx (famiglia più gagman) riguardanti la gestione delle riprese e la scrittura della sceneggiatura.

[4][6] Film scholar Leonard Maltin had this to say in his book The Great Movie Comedians: As wonderful as Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, and Duck Soup seem today, some critics and moviegoers found them unpleasant and longed for the more orderly world of The Cocoanuts with its musical banalities. La comicità e l'ironia dei fratelli Marx erano troppo diverse per quelle dell'epoca, e quindi sorpresero il pubblico.[5]. Just before the Mirror Scene is the Radio Scene. Meanwhile, neighboring Sylvania is attempting to annex the country. Encouraged by this success, the studio suggested on August 2, 1932, that they rush out a follow-up. [11] The script was a continuation of Ruby and Kalmar's Firecrackers/Cracked Ice drafts, but contained more elements.

We were just four Jews trying to get a laugh. For a few seconds on-screen in the earlier scene, Chico's head is uncovered, revealing a wavy wig.

Max Linder included it in Seven Years Bad Luck (1921), where a man's servants have accidentally broken a mirror and attempt to hide the fact by imitating his actions in the mirror's frame. Duck Soup's script was completed by July 11. [6] This continued the "animal" titles of the Brothers' previous three films, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business and Horse Feathers. As a result, the two countries come to the brink of war. [3] The New York Post reported on May 17 that the Brothers would make a new comedy for Paramount, called Duck Soup. "Complete National Film Registry Listing | Film Registry | National Film Preservation Board | Programs at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress", "Twentieth-Century American Sublime" – Bloom's introduction to, "AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)", The Beatles' Help Movie is More Influential Than You Think, "The Dictator's too gentle, but Sacha Baron Cohen may have Duck Soup in him yet", "What Would the Smart Party Do? One possible reason for the film's lukewarm reception is that it was released during the Great Depression.

[31], In 1990, Duck Soup was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The musical introduction to Groucho's character is similar to those in Animal Crackers and Horse Feathers but it did not become closely associated with him as did "Hooray for Captain Spaulding" from Animal Crackers. Conversely, "to duck something" meant to avoid it. Later, Chicolini volunteers Pinky to carry a message through enemy lines; Firefly tells him, "[...] and remember, while you're out there risking life and limb through shot and shell, we'll be in here thinking what a sucker you are."

One specific gag from the original, the constant singing of the Freedonian national anthem, was spoofed in particular with a Perry Como caricature.

Breaking with their usual pattern, neither Harpo's harp nor Chico's piano is used in the film, although Harpo briefly pretends to play harp on the strings of a piano, strumming chords in accompaniment to a duck-shaped music box that is playing. The Crossword Solver finds answers to American-style crosswords, British-style crosswords, general knowledge crosswords and cryptic crossword puzzles. Una guardia forestale voleva costringere Hives e Maltravers ad arruolarsi per spegnere degli incendi e i due scappano finendo in una casa dove il proprietario e i domestici non ci sono (questi ultimi partono all'insaputa del proprietario). Lo stravagante antimilitarismo della pellicola fu riscoperto dal pubblico e assunse un profondo significato negli anni sessanta, all'epoca dei movimenti di protesta contro la guerra del Vietnam. In my write-up, of course, I argue that even if the Marxes didn't intend any deeper significance, one still exists that its longevity has created.

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"[44] The Nashville Scene detected "an echo here of that funniest of xenophobe-baiting funnies, Duck Soup. Il film è un sottile apologo sulla tragicomicità della guerra e sull'ipocrisia di coloro che ne sono ispiratori: i tanti primi ministri e capi di Stato. [2] During late 1932 and early 1933, Groucho and Chico were also working on Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel, a radio show written by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman; there was even, at one time, talk of casting the two as their radio characters for the new film[12] (an idea that was eventually used in the later Marx Brothers film The Big Store). "[45] The Rolling Stone claimed that Baron Cohen's film "dodges soothing convention and ultimately merits comparisons to The Marx Brothers' Duck Soup and Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator. Technically it is the only musical number in the Marx Brothers' films to feature all four of the brothers. Chicolini and Pinky join Firefly and Bob Roland in anarchic battle, resulting in general mayhem. Harpo responds by stepping knee-deep into Kennedy's lemonade tank, where he imitates a stereotypical Italian grape-crushing peasant; this drives off Kennedy's waiting line of customers. The Marx Brothers' previous film, Horse Feathers, had been Paramount's highest-grossing film of 1932. Alla sua uscita, La guerra lampo registrò uno scarso successo commerciale. Three days later The New York Sun reported that Duck Soup would start filming in June. [12] In The Marx Brothers Encyclopedia, Glenn Mitchell says that "the first script's content is difficult to determine".[13]. List of National Film Registry (1988–2003). Another potentially sensitive moment in the film — Groucho's punchline, "and that's why darkies were born", a dated reference to a popular song from the '30s — is also still intact.[4]. Sure enough, Pinky is wandering out on the front lines wearing a sandwich board sign reading, "Join the Army and see the Navy." This scene has been imitated many times; for instance, in the Bugs Bunny cartoon Hare Tonic,[6] the Mickey Mouse cartoon Lonesome Ghosts, The Square Peg (1959), The Pink Panther (1963), the Tom and Jerry cartoon Cat and Dupli-cat (1967) and Big Business (1988). We got guns, Part of the charm of the Marx Brothers is that it's impossible to know where they’re channeling. Questa casa si dà in affitto. Universal Home Video released Duck Soup on DVD, unrestored but uncut, as part of a six-disc box set The Marx Brothers: Silver Screen Collection, which includes also the Brothers' other Paramount films, The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, and Horse Feathers. In February, Paramount announced that the title had been changed to Grasshoppers[6] ("because animal stories are so popular"), and that filming was set back to February 20. "[7] Fellow film critic Roger Ebert believed, "The Marx Brothers created a body of work in which individual films are like slices from the whole, but Duck Soup is probably the best. Hives e Maltravers, dopo aver conosciuto meglio gli sposi, danno la casa in affitto e stanno per andarsene.

The possibility of new contextually obtuse editing is bad enough. In another scene, the film pokes fun at the Hays Code. I'm gonna walk all over the battlefield, Due to the code, a man and woman could not be shown in bed together.

Audiences were taken aback by such preposterous political disregard, buffoonery, and cynicism at a time of economic and political crisis. [11] Grover Jones was also reported to have contributed to the first draft by Ruby and Kalmar. Adding to the international friction is the fact that Firefly is also courting Mrs. Teasdale, and, like Trentino, hoping to get his hands on her late husband's wealth.