Duck Soup by J. Hoberman

Author:J. Hoberman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

Gloria Teasdale set Duck Soup in motion in the movie’s first scene and she has the last word as well. (Is it possible that this formidable female, mocked and harassed by the Four Brothers, is a stand-in for the even more formidable Minnie Marx?) The film critic Cecelia Ager famously suggested the erection of a monument to Dumont’s courage and steadfastness in the face of the Marx Brothers’ onslaught. Duck Soup is that monument. In the movie’s final desecration, she is not just womanhood, or propriety, but Nike, the Goddess of Victory, defaced.52

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