00:00¿Puedo explicar lo que es Luegrich Touch?
00:05Luegrich Touch.
00:06Luegrich Touch.
00:07Yes.
00:08Well, if I could explain it, you know, this is like...
00:10Like, you know, if I knew the formula, you know...
00:15I would patent it, but nobody quite knows how to arrive at it, but...
00:20The best illustration, which I use when people ask me about...
00:25The Luegrich Touch.
00:26Now, if you have a class of students, a writer's letter...
00:30Or directors, and you say, I would like you to dramatize...
00:35The following situation, there is a king, and there's a queen.
00:40And there is a lieutenant.
00:42The king is played by George Barbier.
00:45He was a very opulent fat actor in his 60s.
00:50The queen is Una Merkel.
00:52She was very pretty then.
00:54And the adjutant...
00:55And the guy, the adjutant of the king, is Maurice Chevalier.
00:58Now, dramatize the situation...
01:00And that the queen has an affair with the lieutenant, and the king...
01:05The man's out.
01:06Now, do it...
01:07Do it your way.
01:08Do it any way you want to.
01:10And those hundred students, who are very good at comedy, very good...
01:14They're very imaginative...
01:15They go out, and they come back a week later, and they will all have...
01:20Good solutions.
01:21Good solutions.
01:22Amusing, maybe a little long, maybe...
01:25Maybe they are a little too explicit, maybe too sensible, but...
01:30Nobody...
01:31Nobody in the world could come up with a better solution than Mr. Lubitsch does.
01:35Here's his solution.
01:36And I'm putting now the opening scene in The Smiling Lieutenant.
01:40You open up in the bedroom of the king, Barbier.
01:44All right.
01:45And the queen.
01:46And...
01:47He's getting dressed.
01:48And his little...
01:49No...
01:50He's rubbing and tickling and saying it's all very sweet, and she's very nice to the king.
01:55Now, he leaves the bedroom.
01:57He's dressed.
01:58He leaves the bedroom.
01:59And as he...
02:00He see...
02:01And he got at the door...
02:02He got the door...
02:04What a...
02:05Soat, standing there and clicking his heels is Maurice Chevalier.
02:10And he's now watching the king, and the king is going down.
02:15Some steps. It's a long staircase that leads down from the bedroom of that palace.
02:20Boom, boom, boom, boom.
02:22Now we cut back to Mr. Chevalier and he sees...
02:25that the king is leaving, and he now enters the bedroom of the queen.
02:30The door is closed.
02:31You don't cut into the bedroom.
02:34Now...
02:35As the king is descending, Babier, he suddenly sees that...
02:40that he forgot the belt and the sword.
02:44He turns around...
02:45and he goes up the steps, back into the bedroom.
02:48Now we have a situation going on.
02:50Now he opens the door, goes in...
02:55The door closes.
02:55We are still outside.
02:56We're never inside.
02:58Now the king comes out and he's got the belt.
03:00And he's got the sword, right?
03:01And he is smiling.
03:02And now he's going down the step.
03:03Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
03:05And suddenly he tries to put it on.
03:07And it's not his belt.
03:08It's much too small for her.
03:10Now back he goes again, and now he finds him under the bed.
03:15But you see how he operates that thing, you know?
03:18It's all done with...
03:20It's a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a throwing it...
03:25away.
03:26So that is...
03:27that is the...
03:28the loop it starts with.
03:30So...
03:34...
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