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El Puente de Waterloo (Waterloo Bridge) es un remake de 1940 remake sobre el film homónimo de 1931.

La película fue realizada por la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, dirigida por Mervyn LeRoy y producida por Sidney Franklin and Mervyn LeRoy. El guión, de S. N. Behrman, Hans Rameau yGeorge Froeschel, estaba basado en un popular drma de Broadway creado por Robert E. Sherwood. La música es de Herbert Stothart y la fotografía de Joseph Ruttenberg. Los protagonistas de Waterloo Bridge son Robert Taylor y Vivien Leigh, esta última en su primera película tras el clamoroso éxito de Gone with the Wind, traducida en España como Lo que el viento se llevó.

La trama se corresponde con un sencillo cuento de amores ganados y perdidos. El film cuenta la historia de una bailarina de ballet y un oficial del ejército británico que tienen un encuentro casual en el puente de Waterloo. Este encuentro inicial ocurre durante un ataque aéreo de los alemanes sobre Londres durante la Primera Guerra Mundial.

Waterloo Bridge fue un éxito en los cines y fué nominado a dos oscars (mejor música para Herbert Stothart y mejor fotografía). También es considerada su favorita por los dos principales actores.

Contenido [hide]

* 1 Sinopsis * 2 Trivia * 3 Enlaces

[edit] Sinopsis

La Segunda Guerra Mundial acaba de estallar, un oficial se detiene en el puente de Waterloo y comienza a recordar. La película realiza un flashback tiempo atrás hasta los días de la Primera Guerra Mundial con el joven soldado Roy Cronin (Robert Taylor) quien se asoma por las barandillas del puente. Una alarma suena indicando la proximidad de un ataque aéreo y un grupo de chicas discuten sobre qué hacer. Se vuelven hacia Roy Cronin y le preguntan. Él les dice que busquen un refugio. Una de las chicas del grupo, Myra Lester (Vivien Leigh), cae su monedero a la calzada y cuando lo está recogiendo y se libra por poco de ser atropellada gracias a su amuleto. Roy la reprende y cuando se desata el bombardeo ambos corren buscando un refugio subterráneo.

Once in the underground, Roy and Myra talk together and Myra invites Roy to her ballet performance. Roy declines, stating he has a dinner with a colonel, and expresses his regret. They part as Myra gives him her good luck charm. However, he dismisses the colonel's dinner and attends the performance. Afterwards, he sends a note to Myra asking her to dinner. The note is taken by Madame Olga Kirowa (Maria Ouspenskaya). Madame Kirowa orders Myra to write Roy a note declining the invitation. Meanwhile, Roy is waiting anxiously for word and, receiving the letter, begins to walk dejectedly away. However, Kitty (Virginia Field) stops him and arranges the date for Myra.

Myra and Roy spend a pleasant evening together, ending with a kiss. As they part, Roy explains he is to return to the battle-front. The following day, Myra, dejected, looks out her rainy window and sees Roy standing beneath it. She runs to him and the two agree to marry. She does not attend her ballet performance. Instead she farewells Roy, and is dismissed from the ballet. Kitty also quits the ballet.

Myra and Kitty rent a small apartment and Myra receives flowers from Roy. Myra meets Roy's mother (Lucile Watson) and, while waiting, she reads in the paper that Roy has been killed. She faints and later behaves apprehensively and impudently towards Roy’s mother. His mother leaves a distressed Myra who goes back to her apartment. Myra grows depressed and Kitty buys her medicine with income she earnt as a prostitute. Kitty lies to Myra and tells her that she has been working as a performer. Myra attends the performance of the play in which Kitty is supposedly acting, and comes back to the apartment, asking questions about the play. Myra then confronts Kitty. Kitty confesses and Myra, too, becomes a prostitute as a means of coping with their financial circumstances.

Myra works at Waterloo Station and, in the midst of attempting to pick up potential customers, sees Roy coming from the train. He greets her warmly and takes her to lunch where she acts strangely towards him. He assumes their engagement will go on as planned and Myra accepts his offer after his questions on whether or not she has moved on. The two go to his home in Scotland where she again meets his mother. His mother apologizes for leaving Myra at the restaurant as she had not known that Roy was "dead". Myra and Roy’s mother become friends. Myra dances at a ball and speaks with Roy's uncle who tells her they are a proud and esteemed family, the Cronins, and that a sweet ballerina will be the perfect wife for Roy. Myra feels guilty and speaks with his mother, telling her the truth of her position. Myra then decides she can no longer carry on her facade. Roy sees her one last time and tells her of his excitement, before returning her good luck charm, stating that now that they will be married it doesn't matter which one of them has it.

Myra leaves and Roy, frantic, looks for her. He recruits Kitty's help and she takes him to Myra's haunts. He soon learns of her double life, but he still wishes to marry her and continues searching frantically for her. Myra, meanwhile, is on Waterloo Bridge and, seeing an approaching convoy of army ambulances, commits suicide by walking into the path of the ambulances.

The film cuts back to Roy, years later, standing on the bridge, holding the good luck charm, and reminiscing of a love lost.

[edit] Trivia

* The film capitalized on Leigh's success the previous year in Gone with the Wind. Taylor had no trouble with her receiving top billing and was eager to show his audiences that he was more than the suave and youthful lover as he had played in such films as Camille and Three Comrades. (Courtesy TCM)

* Leigh wanted Laurence Olivier for the role of Roy Cronin and was quite peturbed at Robert Taylor instead receiving the part, although she had enjoyed him on the set of A Yank at Oxford. She wrote to then-husband Leigh Holman, "Robert Taylor is the man in the picture, and as it was written for Larry, it's a typical piece of miscasting. I am afraid it will be a dreary job..." (Courtesy TCM)

* Taylor's impressive performance as the dynamic lover Roy Cronin proved to his critics and Leigh that he could in fact act. He later said of it, "It was the first time I really gave a performance that met the often unattainable standards I was always setting for myself." Of Leigh Taylor said, "Miss Leigh was simply great in her role, and she made me look better." (Courtesy TCM)

* Of all her films, Leigh stated this one was her favorite. Taylor also felt this to be his personal favorite.

[edit] Popularity in China

Poetically transcribed as 魂断蓝桥 in Chinese, the film is extremely popular in China. University students hold regular viewings, for example. Possible explanations for this include it is one of the first batch of western films that were introduced to Chinese audience in the early 80s followed by the economic reform, and a plot and ending that the Chinese audience find familiar.

[edit] External links

* Waterloo Bridge at the Internet Movie Database