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  • Shosanna and Marcel's love and devotion to each other is clear in every scene they share together and many where they're apart.
    • When Shosanna is taken away by Hellstrom, she looks toward the entrance of the theater where Marcel has just gone, realizing that she may never see Marcel again and that he may never know what happened to her.
    • Shosanna, under her alias of "Emmanuelle", coolly tells Landa that Marcel's "the best" when Landa spouts off casual racism toward him and questions his skill as a projectionist.
    • The very fact that Marcel calls Shosanna by her real name shows how much she trusts him.
    "Because you love me. And I love you. And you're the only person on this earth I can trust."
    • Shosanna sneaks Marcel a glass of champagne from the Nazi party and playfully twirls for him in her red party dress before they burst into giggles. Despite all the horrors of their life circumstances, they can still bring out some lightness in each other, which makes their tearful, wordless final goodbye all the more heart-wrenching.
    • Marcel's last scene, smiling softly at Shosanna's face on the screen while burning a theater full of Nazis to the ground. Whether he realizes it or not, Shosanna's already dead, but Marcel allowed her to have one hell of a last laugh.

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