History is weird.
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Is that a cowboy wearing sequin encrusted chaps?
and now a steampunk Cirque du Soleil? And some kind of radio god?
This whole sequence would slap so hard in a silent film.
I don't think I will win the film festival if I just clip out that dance number, put some rhythmic chanting under it, and throw a couple of titles on it, but I'd also be shocked if that wasn't the most visually interesting in the whole show.
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I don't think I will win the film festival if I just clip out that dance number, put some rhythmic chanting under it, and throw a couple of titles on it, but I'd also be shocked if that wasn't the most visually interesting in the whole show.
Yeah, I'm increasingly convinced there's a good movie hiding in here, but someone really should have Edited this thing.
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Yeah, I'm increasingly convinced there's a good movie hiding in here, but someone really should have Edited this thing.
Madam Satan's first appearance would probably be a little stronger if her vocal performance was three steps lower, that crazy soprano didn't survive well (is this a sound on disc film? Surely we're already in the era of sound on film?)
And, like, I hate a musical film so maybe I'm just biased. When she starts calling everyone out in that pseudo-russian accent, that's a much better scene than the whole musical number ahead of it.
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Madam Satan's first appearance would probably be a little stronger if her vocal performance was three steps lower, that crazy soprano didn't survive well (is this a sound on disc film? Surely we're already in the era of sound on film?)
And, like, I hate a musical film so maybe I'm just biased. When she starts calling everyone out in that pseudo-russian accent, that's a much better scene than the whole musical number ahead of it.
I also feel like her dress is supposed to imply that it's backless, but it's too easy to see the wrinkles and hems in the flesh-toned fabric. The whole thing would feel significantly more risque in lower resolution, or with different contrast/exposure.
In it's original theatrical run, it might have appeared to be a much different film.
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I also feel like her dress is supposed to imply that it's backless, but it's too easy to see the wrinkles and hems in the flesh-toned fabric. The whole thing would feel significantly more risque in lower resolution, or with different contrast/exposure.
In it's original theatrical run, it might have appeared to be a much different film.
Wow, that lightening strike was pretty good. This destruction sequence is surprisingly well done.
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Wow, that lightening strike was pretty good. This destruction sequence is surprisingly well done.
Goddamn it, I hadn't intended to watch this whole thing, but by the time I'd made it past the first half hour, the rest of it was genuinely pretty captivating.
I'm sure it's going to milk the last twenty minutes the same way it milked the first twenty, but I think I'll just finish it.
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Goddamn it, I hadn't intended to watch this whole thing, but by the time I'd made it past the first half hour, the rest of it was genuinely pretty captivating.
I'm sure it's going to milk the last twenty minutes the same way it milked the first twenty, but I think I'll just finish it.
Someone is carrying around a toy zeppelin filled with helium. That's adorable.
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Someone is carrying around a toy zeppelin filled with helium. That's adorable.
And now the band plays as the titanic sinks.
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And now the band plays as the titanic sinks.
The parachute sequence is absolutely too long, but it is genuinely really well done. The fact that it mostly exists to have an excuse to show a bunch of ladies with their skirts blowing in the wind is unfortunate considering the level of skill with which it was accomplished.
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The parachute sequence is absolutely too long, but it is genuinely really well done. The fact that it mostly exists to have an excuse to show a bunch of ladies with their skirts blowing in the wind is unfortunate considering the level of skill with which it was accomplished.
@ajroach42 I think you're understating the artistic value of ladies with their skirts blowing in the wind.