Fornits
General Interest => Let It Bleed => Topic started by: starry-eyed pirate on January 08, 2007, 11:59:59 AM
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I been watchin silent movies lately. I'm really gettin into them. They don't have a lot of explosions and stuff but they're still real intense. Often I notice there is an exaggerated style of acting to make up for the lack of a dialogue. I like to watch the Sunday Midnight feature on TCM. I turn off all the lights and get into it. Silent movies require quite an attention span, which I like. I like to concentrate my mind like that. And it aint like you can run to the kitchen for a snack cause there aint no dialogue to follow if you aint lookin. Now that's intense. These films are played commercial free.
Last nights feature was Le Terre(The Earth) which was filmed in France right after WW1(filming took place between '19-'21). The film had been lost for a while, but then was somehow found and restored. As I watched the film I thought it was the most perfect marriage of vision and sound. The film was all original but the soundtrack wasn't. The original soundtrack had apparently been lost for good. Uhh, so the restorers recorded a new soundtrack which remained loyal to the classical genre. So well done. The movie itself was so old but the music sounded so young and clean, but the melding was seamless! High art.
I was fascinated by the scene. The French countryside. The old village. the ancient farming techniques that were still in use in that part of France at that time. The harvesting of the wheat by horse and a simple wooden harvester. The threshin of the wheat.
Throughout the film I couldn't help lookin into each actors face to discern what I could of their own personal history. The Great War had just ended when the filming began. I wondered as I studied their faces what they had done during the war; if any of them were vets. What incredible memories were still fresh in their minds and what influences were still upon them. I am intrigued
Dig it man. The silent scene.
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Have you ever watched "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari"?
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No man. What's that ??
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It's this cool Silent film.... and it's German! :lol:
I just learned that someone did a remake of it; whatever. Some stills from the original:
(http://http://sophie-g.net/fav/movie/pct/calface.jpg)
(http://http://routt.net/Caligari/Cabinet/caligari1.jpg)
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Auh trippy cool man. Yeah. I'll keep my eyes open for it. Danke Frod.
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Man I wanta be a silent film star!!!! 8-)
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do you think they had silent porn? i mean isnt sound part of the fun? but then again you know they had to! sorry outta left field but a legitimate question lol....
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Probably not, but we could make some. :lol:
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I betcha there is.
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do you think they had silent porn? i mean isnt sound part of the fun? but then again you know they had to! sorry outta left field but a legitimate question lol....
Of course they did. There is even a fine product from Flynt Publications that has a regular feature called "Porn From The Past" where people get money by sending in old porn photos, some of which must be 100 years old. I'm pretty sure that porn was one of the first uses of film technology.
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Probably not, but we could make some. :lol:
Well now that could be fun but you'd have to be really really quiet! ha :D
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do you think they had silent porn? i mean isnt sound part of the fun? but then again you know they had to! sorry outta left field but a legitimate question lol....
Of course they did. There is even a fine product from Flynt Publications that has a regular feature called "Porn From The Past" where people get money by sending in old porn photos, some of which must be 100 years old. I'm pretty sure that porn was one of the first uses of film technology.
agreed hell porn has been around since they started drawing on cave walls so . lol :) just never seen one so was knda curious if it was a big thing considering the "era" of silent film or very hush hush, no pun intended lol :)
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I betcha there is.
me thinks you might be right wonder if there were many silent films with pirates ehehehe definitely sure there were some starry-eyed stars back then though :)
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Like everything else in this country, the film industry started out free...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan_and_His_Mate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan_and_His_Mate)
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Like everything else in this country, the film industry started out free...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan_and_His_Mate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan_and_His_Mate)
Think you might want to check your facts
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Tonights feature is "The Garden of Eden" from 1928.
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"The Garden of Eden" was a comedy. I know I haven't seen to many silent movies yet but I'm beginning to think that the silent genre(is that the word I'm searchin for ?) lends itself far better to drama and tragedy than comedy. I'll reserve my judgment for now in expectation of better sampling to come.
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I just watched The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1921) for the first time in many years the other night. What a trippy movie! I happened to notice it on the shelf while browsing at the library the other day and picked it up. Aside from its truly weird, non-euclidean stage set, the plot itself is great: a demented doctor and his sideshow "somnambulist" perpetrate a bunch of murders on an unsuspecting town. Good film score, too.
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Hey, there's a local station outta Pittsburgh that broadcasts the "It's Alive" show every saturday at midnight. It's a classic horror movie show hosted by a motley crue of freaks and scary lookin clowns and the professor MCsquared. It's great cause it's all local and they break up the movie with little comedic skits and such and all the commercials during the program are cheesy homemade deals, you know, for Ralph's Army Surplus and the like. I really like it. So anyway, they don't usually show silent movies, but I got lucky last night, they featured a silent documentary about the history of witchcraft from 1921 titled "Haxen" Man it was freakin intense. All the scenes of witches smearing the flyin ointment over their bodies, and riding their broom sticks over the medieval town by night, the demonic orgies on the mountaintop. Pretty wild.
Nothin in the world like a good ol' silent movie to watch late at night in the dark.
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Man!!! I'd like to find a way to tune into this station (aside from moving to Pittsburgh). That sounds great. I used to love the "Ghost Host" program that used to come on channel 45 every weekend, and that was just ordinary horror-flickaj. TV sure ain't what it used to be.....
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No it sure aint. The "It's Alive" show is a real throwback to the days before cable.
I just recently upped my cable. I wonder if TMC still plays the "Sunday Silent" at midnite. I'll try to stay awake tonight and find out.
Silent movies rule!
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do you think they had silent porn? i mean isnt sound part of the fun? but then again you know they had to! sorry outta left field but a legitimate question lol....
yup, they sure as hell did. way back as far as the Kinetoscopes. Ive seen some pretty hot victorian porn, it's pretty sweet. Some of them are just ladies taking their clothes off, but others show full blown penetration.
Silent porn is great, as I always mute my porn anyway. It does my job for me.
Not sure if you've seen metropolis yet, pirate, but that's pretty good. So was Birth of a Nation, the film singlehandedly responsible for reviving membership in the klan. (seriously). Nosferatu is a must, too.
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I just watched The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1921) for the first time in many years the other night. What a trippy movie! I happened to notice it on the shelf while browsing at the library the other day and picked it up. Aside from its truly weird, non-euclidean stage set, the plot itself is great: a demented doctor and his sideshow "somnambulist" perpetrate a bunch of murders on an unsuspecting town. Good film score, too.
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