Those guys need beaten half to death.
The scene with Rosen and Winzig? (Go back a page). I got letters demanding to know why I didn’t portray it, and then describing it in details.
It’s an old Hitchcock trick — set up the scene, then switch. The viewer’s mind will fill in all the details, more personally powerful than any director could manage. Works lovely with horror.
Goes back to ancient theater, when all the murders happened off stage, with much screaming. The Japanese do it with a splash of “blood” against a translucent curtain. You’ll see a version of it in Kurosawa’s Ran, as the vengeful woman is beheaded.
Got any ideas how this scene played out? Send me sketches….(see forum).
Edward Gorey wrote a pornographic book that left EVERYTHING to the reader’s imagination. The title is eluding me, but it worked perfectly.
That would be “The Curious Sofa.”
One good thing about actually showing a scene, though – you can add the silliest things like when she flashes a “peace” or is that an “a-okay” sign in panel 2 – right at that moment that’s a hysterical thing to show. Comedy gold like that only gets shown when its shown.
Thank you, Donna. Dave, I was taking the gesture as a V-for-Victory sign. Correct for the period, and hilariously appropriate.
No, Blackcatx3 has it right — it’s meant to be the V for Victory sign. Since Babette is occupied French and using it to Germans, and they know what it means, it’s even funnier.
Yup, small gestures can be shown in a single panel — large gestures, like a kiss that causes an emotional explosion, can be drawn as a fuse-point.