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Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be

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The Copy Tells Us More About the Original Than It Can Tell About It

"There's a way in which the copy tells us more about theoriginal than the original can tell about itself," he says. "The comic apprehends what it apprehends, and ndand by bringing it to lightand and soro, what's funny is often that that you get the two things put side by side."

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