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Post by novastar6 on Mar 24, 2017 20:00:35 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2017 20:24:03 GMT
What do you make of the final line?
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Post by johanwow on Mar 24, 2017 22:03:55 GMT
If there is one horror movie every horror buff should see I do think it's this one. Ok not everyone can focus on a silent with intertitles that moves rather slowly but the movie really isn't that long. What makes this such a great movie IMO: 1) the setting: it's German expressionism which is a perfect reflection of what was popular in art at the time 2) given it is a silent, gestures and facial expression were much more important than dialogues. That's one thing I love about silents. I don't think I could ever bare going through a talkie version of it. I love for example the silent dark house movie "The Cat and the Canary" a lot too. Than I saw the Bob Hope version late 30s. I was so annoyed the people couldn't shut their yap for a minute. And I didn't really like the changes they made to the story and characters. so in Caligari you just gottta look at Dr. Caligari and Cesare. They manage to be so creepy/mad by means of body language. 3) The story seems simple enough yet there is some psychological aspect to it with Dr. Caligari wanting to enter a patient in some kind of freak show hopefully to get answers for things he doesn't know (or does he do it for another reason?). The best part has to come though, with its twist ending. Were there earlier examples, I don't want to bet at it. Suddenly a movie like "The Sixth Sense" doesn't look that brilliant any more.
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Post by novastar6 on Mar 24, 2017 22:35:51 GMT
I saw this movie last October as part of TCM's horror marathon hosted by Ron Pearlman, it had been a few years since I'd seen it so I forgot that the whole movie was (SPOILER) the rambling of a madman. Which sadly did explain why the staff was so quick to believe Francis about the doctor, which before the twist I thought was a nice relief that they didn't shut that idea down with 'he's a brilliant doctor, he could never do such a thing'.
Now it's my understanding that this movie WAS remade, maybe more than once, I'm not sure, I've never heard of the remake version so can't comment. But my only thought is I wonder how a remake would be if they DIDN'T have that twist, and went with the idea the whole story is what actually happened.
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Post by Flynn on Mar 25, 2017 14:01:30 GMT
You know, I don't think I've made it all the way through it. I remember liking it, but I had to do something else, and I haven't come back to it.
Silent films, for me, are a bit like plays: you have to see them in their native environment for them to work. A filmed play doesn't work for me, and neither does watching a silent film on a TV. I have to be in a theater and have a musician in the room to enjoy a silent film.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2017 1:19:14 GMT
Good movie but I much preferred The Testament of Dr Mabuse.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2017 19:29:19 GMT
Good movie but I much preferred The Testament of Dr Mabuse. I hadn't heard of it. It sounds interesting.
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Post by novastar6 on Mar 26, 2017 20:58:51 GMT
Good movie but I much preferred The Testament of Dr Mabuse. I saw part of one of those movies, don't remember which one though, didn't get a chance to finish it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2020 6:38:04 GMT
It’s a bump!
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