Bach is sympathetic, but still has no intention of becoming a permanent fixture in Berlin, because look, Fritz, he has his own family drama going on and is going blind. Being nicely turned down in his request for adoption is still being turned down, and so Fritz is in an extra bitchy mood when coming across Amalie, dressed as a man, and Friedemann in the stables. Amalie - who looks great in Prussian uniform, so if anyone wants to know how Wilhelmine in the getaway sequence from "Fiat Justitia" would have looked, somewhat like this - wants to run away with Friedemann. Friedemann is somewhat more realistic and also, as he tells her, attached to his head and very aware how running away with royals adventures end in her family. They do still have sex and that's when Fritz makes his presence known:
Friedemann (off screen) protests he's not the guy to go steady with for a princess:
Profile shot:
Making out (Amalie is now wigless):
And Fritz shows up to tell her she'll never be a guy and a Princess of Prussia is a valuable commodity. Now remember, Fritz and Amalie suposedly looked a lot alike. In the rest of the movie, this isn't true for the actors, but here it just about works:.
And then we get the follow up where Fritz (jealous because old Bach cares more for his sons than him) disses Friedemann and invades his personal space, and Friedemann returns the favor by invading Fritz' personal space back and flirting with him to the point of an almost kiss which is when he smugly basically says "sorry, not interested, see ya" and leaves a fuming Fritz behind:
And now, near the end, the move to Sanssouci has happened. Now, remember how in "Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria", they used the ballroom from the Neues Palais as Fritz' audience room/office in one of the scenes with Fredersdorf? Here, they use one of the audience rooms as Fritz' bedroom for the scene in which he disses Goltz (while preparing to have his medical treatment, hence him lying semi-naked on the bed:
And lastly, as the Bachs (that is, JSB and Friedemann) are leaving Brandenburg, they encounter a new arrival en route in the very final scene, who is interrogated by the same customs officer who let them in:
I laughed at Voltaire showing up, though! He looks rather hilarious (just in terms of the expression on his face). And like mildred said his nose is great!
The Voltaire cameo at the very end of the film is hilarious, though not without dark subtext, as one of the themes is that Fritz, much as his longing for art and artists is real, can't help fucking these relationships up by being a despot (and a badly damaged by FW human being); earlier in the movie, he tells Bach he's expecting Voltaire and that he'll squeeze him like an orange etc., and one of the things Bach later says when declining to stay is that he'd rather not be squeezed like an orange. (Mind you, Bach didn't need the Voltaire quote to get that impression; there's son Carl Emmanuel, whose entry scene in the movie is like this:
Emmanuel: Your majesty, since I've just become a father, and I know you don't give bonuses for free, I thought I'd compose something special so you can pay me for that and I have some more money for the wife & kid?
Fritz: Yeah, no. Did I commission a composition? I did not. See you at the next concert.
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Mein Name ist Bach Revisited: Screencaps 2
Date: 2021-01-27 04:50 pm (UTC)Friedemann (off screen) protests he's not the guy to go steady with for a princess:
Profile shot:
Making out (Amalie is now wigless):
And Fritz shows up to tell her she'll never be a guy and a Princess of Prussia is a valuable commodity. Now remember, Fritz and Amalie suposedly looked a lot alike. In the rest of the movie, this isn't true for the actors, but here it just about works:.
And then we get the follow up where Fritz (jealous because old Bach cares more for his sons than him) disses Friedemann and invades his personal space, and Friedemann returns the favor by invading Fritz' personal space back and flirting with him to the point of an almost kiss which is when he smugly basically says "sorry, not interested, see ya" and leaves a fuming Fritz behind:
And now, near the end, the move to Sanssouci has happened. Now, remember how in "Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria", they used the ballroom from the Neues Palais as Fritz' audience room/office in one of the scenes with Fredersdorf? Here, they use one of the audience rooms as Fritz' bedroom for the scene in which he disses Goltz (while preparing to have his medical treatment, hence him lying semi-naked on the bed:
And lastly, as the Bachs (that is, JSB and Friedemann) are leaving Brandenburg, they encounter a new arrival en route in the very final scene, who is interrogated by the same customs officer who let them in:
Re: Mein Name ist Bach Revisited: Screencaps 2
Date: 2021-01-30 06:10 am (UTC)I laughed at Voltaire showing up, though! He looks rather hilarious (just in terms of the expression on his face). And like mildred said his nose is great!
Re: Mein Name ist Bach Revisited: Screencaps 2
Date: 2021-01-30 09:31 am (UTC)Emmanuel: Your majesty, since I've just become a father, and I know you don't give bonuses for free, I thought I'd compose something special so you can pay me for that and I have some more money for the wife & kid?
Fritz: Yeah, no. Did I commission a composition? I did not. See you at the next concert.