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I'm reading that Harold Lloyd thought that audiences could be "re-conditioned" to accept silent movies in general release (as opposed to art-house screenings). It never happened in his lifetime.
I think THE ARTIST was fluke of some kind. I haven't seen any mainstream releases of silent movies since. Unless there's some kind of queer disease that takes out sound-output devices of any kind, I don't think we'll see them again - which is too bad.
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Don't forget Mel Brook's Silent Movie, 1976.
And Coppola's restoration of Napoleon.
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Does anybody remember Spike Milligan's short in 'The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins', that wonderful comedy?
Seven directors and writers wrote seven scenarios to denote the seven deadly sins. Spike was assigning 'Sloth' and chose a B&W silent short format with tinkly ivories playing.
He played an old man in a dirty raincoat who sees an apple, Isaac Newton style, on a tree. We see him lust after the apple, then, being too lazy to climb the tree or fetch a ladder, he lies down under the tree and waits until the apple will fall into his open mouth.
He waits so long, like Rip Van Winkle, that he grows a long grey beard. The apple eventually falls on him and kills him, so old and frail has he become.
Succinct, funny Milligan genius.
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Aug 20, 2013 - 10:24 PM
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manderley
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Don't forget Mel Brook's Silent Movie, 1976.
And Coppola's restoration of Napoleon.
There was also THE THIEF, starring Ray Milland, in 1952.
And, Chaplin's silent, MODERN TIMES, made in 1936, was reissued by United Artists in the early 1960s to surprisingly good business. (.....With even a soundtrack album on United Artists records......)
I suppose Gene Kelly's INVITATION TO THE DANCE, finally released by MGM in 1956, was also a silent, in a way, too......
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..and there was THE TWILIGHT ZONE Season 3 episode of ONCE UPON A TIME starring Buster Keaton acting like Buster Keaton. Not quite silent but its pretty close. An original 'silent-style' score by William Lava.
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