After enduring many hardships in the first half of the film, the second half sees Thymiane gain the strength to reassert herself and take back control of her life. Thymiane is less in control of the men around her and much more dependent on them than they are on her. Whereas Lulu had men eating out of her hand, Thymiane is an innocent cast adrift in a hostile world.
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Thymiane also ends up working at the brothel, where she begins to rebuild her life and regain her self-esteem.Īs in Pandora’s Box, Brooks plays an outcast, but when the film begins, Thymiane is a world away from Pandora’s Lulu. Discovering that her baby has died, Thymiane wanders the streets in despair, until she eventually tracks down Erika, who is working in a brothel. Thymiane fights back against this oppressive regime and escapes from the school with her friend Erika (Edith Meinhard). Thymiane is forced to leave her home, give her baby away to a midwife and is then sent to a strict girl’s reform school, where the school’s Director (Andrews Engelmann) and his wife (Valeska Gert) subject the girls to relentless, regimented, military-like discipline. Reading Thymiane’s diary, her family discovers that Meinhert is the baby’s father, but neither Thymiane nor Meinhert want to marry each other. In Diary of a Lost Girl, Brooks plays Thymiane Henning, the innocent young daughter of a pharmacist (Josef Rovensky), who is seduced by her father’s lecherous assistant, Meinert (Fritz Rasp) and later gives birth to an illegitimate child. Brooks is principally known for her role in Pandora’s Box, but what many people may not know is that she quickly re-teamed with Pabst for this follow-up, the only other film they made together. Her iconic bobbed hairstyle, sexual confidence and defiant attitude imprinted itself on generations of cinephiles who also made films featuring strong, independent women, from Anna Karina in Jean-Luc Godard’s Vivre sa vie (1962) and Melanie Griffith in Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild (1986), to Uma Thurman in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994). Brooks’ unique look and style was brilliantly captured on film by Pabst, and Pandora’s Box cemented her screen persona and forever enshrined her in the annals of cinema history. Pabst as Lulu in the classic German silent film Pandora’s Box (1929).
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1 After leaving Hollywood in 1928, Brooks went to Germany and was cast by director G.W.
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If there ever was a face that you could say – without hesitation – the camera loved, it is the divine face of Louise Brooks.