Fassbinder That's Fun?
Of course he does humiliate a woman - but overall this is light and fun and Fassbinder looks so young!
It's interesting to think that both Godard and Fassbidner got their start by making gangster films based on American cinema and went on to make some of the most political cinema there is - each going to extremes in their own ways:
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thank you for posting this! i had no idea this existed, and as someone who is just getting to know fassbinder, it is great to see something so early. thanks again!
Yea that's a neat little film. It was his second short after the equally enjoyable City Tramp. Fassbinder was pretty heavily influenced by Godard in general, especially in his earliest films. He of course quickly took this influence in quite different directions. I think Fassbinder was one of the few directors who has ever really "got" Godard and who has been influenced by him in more than surface ways. It's not so obvious here, of course, but a film like The Third Generation takes the more experimental aspects of Godard and really runs with them.
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