Silent Films

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Anyone else on Wrong Planet like watching silent films? I love silent films because the storyline, the musical score, and the acting are pretty good even today. I also love how silent films don't rely on flashy special effects and overuse of action to tell their stories.

I always try to watch the Sunday night silent on TCM when they play one. I don't know why I like them but I do. I'm always up for watching something by Harold Lloyd, although in his case there is a lot of action, albeit campy.

I collect silent films on 8mm. I figure you really can't watch Charlie Chaplin on a TV, it's gotta be on a screen with a flickering projector for it to look right. None of the films I have come with music, so I just put anything on and it seems to work fine. Silent films are great since you can have a conversation and it won't take anything away from the movie. In the summer, I'll invite a few people over, set up the projector in the kitchen window facing the back yard, and hang a white bed sheet between two trees for a screen.

I like quite a few silent films, obviously Chaplin (esp. The Gold Rush) , but my favourite all time film is Nosferatu 1922. I also like Vampyr, The General, Metropolis, Der Golem, and a bunch of others.

I'm not sure that I need the flickering... I've watched the newly remastered versions of The General and Metropolis. I'm stunned at how good they look.

btw: I still like Moroder's colour-tinted, rock soundtracked version of metropolis.

and of course, Mel Brook's Silent Movie where the only word spoken is by Marcel Marceau, the mime.

Chaplin was very funny, only he could make the scene of a badly trained gas fitter blowing up a house full of people funny. Another good one of his was the golf balls with the explosive wedges to make them go further.

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I've, just in the last year or so, developed a big respect for any movies with as little dialogue as possible, so yes, I love silent movies =P
Metropolis is one my favorite movies of all time.

Buster Keaton was a true genius. His films still hold up, and if you watch closely the man never used a stunt double, when he took a fall he did it all himself. I've heard of a movie where he plays a game of baseball with himself playing every position. There's supposed to be one shot showing the field with him on each base, and as the pitcher. This was quite the accomplishment prior to digital effects.