Question about the film "Black Book"

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This is a minor detail in the film but it bugs me.

In the scene in which Ellis/Rachel goes to a Nazi party with Muntze, she’s wearing a completely see-through dress with a slip underneath. This is okay so far – it’s evening, she’s dressed to entertain, fine. But then you see her working as a clerk in the Nazi headquarters and wearing the same dress. (I think this is to indicate that it’s the next day and she’s started working immediately.) Right. But…her dress is completely see-through. And no one is batting an eye. This would be highly inappropriate office wear in 2007 – I can’t imagine that in 1944 people would be okay with someone dressing like that to work. Even in the Nazi headquarters.

Am I wrong?

(I can’t find a picture of the transparent black over-dress thing, but this is a picture of the slip.)

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I noticed that, too. Er, I noticed the dress and, er, well, I noticed it.

:slight_smile:

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For a minute I wondered what SDMBer would watch a Brittany Murphy film. :smack: I also thought I’d completely misunderstood those trailers from a couple of years ago. Turns out I’m just a dork.

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I think it was to show that she only owned one dress, and while it was appropriate for her previous job, it’s less so for her new job.

And the dress is seethrough, but she’s wearing a “nude” slip beneath it.

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Nothing to add to the topic of the OP, but I wanted to chime in and say this is one really good movie… very worthy of Doper tastes. I’d highly recommend it.

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Yeah, there’s not really a “right answer” to my question, is there? :slight_smile: I was just so surprised that no one was paying any mind to a woman in a transparent dress, not even to leer at her. Maybe this was a subtle way to indicate not only that she owns only one dress and was ill-prepared, but that the Nazis are so debauched that this kind of thing doesn’t faze them a bit.

Anyway. A very good movie.

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I would. The minute she does a hardcore.

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As if the SDMB is some kind of bastion of good taste. And even if it were, Brittany Murphy has quite the respectable resume:

Sin City
Girl, Interrupted
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Clueless
Freeway

All good films, and she was good in all of them.

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Wouldn’t describe any of those as a “Britanny Murphy film”, though. Any movie with her in the lead role is usually a steaming pile. Just Married, Uptown Girls, Little Black Book.

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Oh, and sorry for the hijack! I put the actual movie under discussion into my Netflix queue, since it sounds like something I’d enjoy and had somehow flown under my radar until now.