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Monty Banks in FLYING LUCK demonstrating the cultural advantage wielded by Italians in silent film
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My conclusion from all of this is that we need to watch a lot more pre-1915 films.
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Good lord people, you do not have to hand it to BIRTH OF A NATION, you do understand that, right?
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GETTING GERTIE'S GARTER (1927) is a film that sounds spicy out of context-- a man tries to get a garter with his photo inside from his showgirl ex-- but the stage play was panned for being timid, mild, and decidedly unsexy. The film tries but it's all safe as milk.
(distant scraping sound) (grows louder) (I enter the room pushing a soapbox) (gets on) MOVIES HAVEN'T HAD AN ORIGINAL THOUGHT SINCE 1916 OR THEREABOUTS
British Person: CAN THEY MAKE 1900s CANNIBAL COMEDIES AGAIN, WE LIKE CANNIBAL COMEDIES This British person is correct!
People expect comedies to be hits with 1900s plots and they don't even choose the really unique plots. Remake THE ? MOTORIST in which a motoring couple run over a traffic cop and escape into outer space
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The 1900s-1910s had 1860s nostalgia HARD. The 1920s were all-in for 1880s-1900s nostalgia. Legal booze! Nobody had ever heard of a World War! After WWII, nostalgia for 1900-1913 was at its peak, before it was finally supplanted for the 1950s nostalgia craze of the 1970s.
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