this is my favorite movie of all time. no, it's not the best movie that I've ever seen. but it caters perfectly to every part of my being: i love new york city, i love billy wilder's writing, i love a good love story, and i love everything else in this movie. it's just so perfectly me.
I really enjoyed this movie and the two leads. There couldn't have been a better matched pair. Both Jack Lemmon and Shirley MaClaine are just terrific! 😎❤️
Love the way this clip ends - Baxter giving a black servant his beloved hat ("junior executive model") means he empathizes with him, after being a servant himself and it's a fine little comparison to Sheldrake giving the black man a coin (his attitude toward the servant) earlier in the movie. I'm giving the moment too much credits but it's got to be there for a purpose, plot wise.
This is a beautiful movie in every way. Easily one of my top 10, if not top 5, all-time. Thank goodness these are preserved - I'd rather watch this 5 times in a row than go pay good money to see "2012" or some other piece of crap. (in my opinion - to each their own, of course).
I just finished watching this movie. This has to be my tenth time watching this movie. I am so glad that I rented this. I may just buy this movie. The Apartment has to be one of my most favourite movies. I love Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLean.
I loved this movie, this was when the professional directors of billy wilder and actors and actresses .now a days it's celebrities that people do not know actors and actresses were well known in these days now no one knows who the celebrities are .
It comes from Baxter's neighbor, Dr. Dreyfus, who thinks Baxter has been taking advantage of Fran Kubelik, "be a mensch. You know what a mensch is? A human being!"
The character of Dr. Dreyfuss is a Jewish doctor and it is implied that he and his wife speak Yiddish, which is in large parts an old German dialect that Billy Wilder knew and brought with him to the US from Austria. The word "Mensch" encompasses and expresses so much more than the English words "human being". Yiddish was spoken by a large number of Jews in New York and throughout the US. Some Yiddish words found their way into mainstream American English. Many are still in frequent use in German speaking countries, too, few people there being aware that the words come from Yiddish, or "Jiddisch" to use the German spelling. Words like Mischpoke, Abzocker, Kaff, Techtelmechtel....and many, many, more.
this is my favorite movie of all time. no, it's not the best movie that I've ever seen. but it caters perfectly to every part of my being: i love new york city, i love billy wilder's writing, i love a good love story, and i love everything else in this movie. it's just so perfectly me.
I really enjoyed this movie and the two leads. There couldn't have been a better matched pair. Both Jack Lemmon and Shirley MaClaine are just terrific! 😎❤️
Love the way this clip ends - Baxter giving a black servant his beloved hat ("junior executive model") means he empathizes with him, after being a servant himself and it's a fine little comparison to Sheldrake giving the black man a coin (his attitude toward the servant) earlier in the movie. I'm giving the moment too much credits but it's got to be there for a purpose, plot wise.
This is a beautiful movie in every way. Easily one of my top 10, if not top 5, all-time. Thank goodness these are preserved - I'd rather watch this 5 times in a row than go pay good money to see "2012" or some other piece of crap. (in my opinion - to each their own, of course).
I just finished watching this movie. This has to be my tenth time watching this movie. I am so glad that I rented this. I may just buy this movie. The Apartment has to be one of my most favourite movies. I love Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLean.
This is one om my favorite movies , but the music theme is one of the best in movie history.(PL)
I loved this movie, this was when the professional directors of billy wilder and actors and actresses .now a days it's celebrities that people do not know actors and actresses were well known in these days now no one knows who the celebrities are .
This is a slice of life's ironies that I have seen first hand. Corporate evil.
Thanks….love love ❤️
Happy birthday to Shirley MacLaine 4 24. Every single woman owes you a thank you for your honest insightful performance in this film
Surely, they call her Shirley. Hotter than the sun back then.
@NormAppleton I am sure she would appreciate your comments. Did you think Jack Lemmon was acting or did he agree with you
60 years première NYC 15 jun 2020
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He decited to become a „Mensch“.
Interessting.
Why Billy Wilder used this german word in this important scene?
It comes from Baxter's neighbor, Dr. Dreyfus, who thinks Baxter has been taking advantage of Fran Kubelik, "be a mensch. You know what a mensch is? A human being!"
I lived in New York for many years. It's also quite a common word there.
The character of Dr. Dreyfuss is a Jewish doctor and it is implied that he and his wife speak Yiddish, which is in large parts an old German dialect that Billy Wilder knew and brought with him to the US from Austria. The word "Mensch" encompasses and expresses so much more than the English words "human being". Yiddish was spoken by a large number of Jews in New York and throughout the US. Some Yiddish words found their way into mainstream American English. Many are still in frequent use in German speaking countries, too, few people there being aware that the words come from Yiddish, or "Jiddisch" to use the German spelling. Words like Mischpoke, Abzocker, Kaff, Techtelmechtel....and many, many, more.
No brown nosing here! lol
@falldownhard Totally agree with you!
@funkbebe That's got to be the dumbest trolling I've seen in quite some time. Nice job.