Strange and hard to replicate pleasures: When you've got an old silent film playing, but also just your own music in the background, and somehow A Sailor-Made Man from 1921 and Bei Bei & Shawn Lee's Into The Wind from 2010 just perfectly sync up.
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Strange and hard to replicate pleasures: When you've got an old silent film playing, but also just your own music in the background, and somehow A Sailor-Made Man from 1921 and Bei Bei & Shawn Lee's Into The Wind from 2010 just perfectly sync up.
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Strange and hard to replicate pleasures: When you've got an old silent film playing, but also just your own music in the background, and somehow A Sailor-Made Man from 1921 and Bei Bei & Shawn Lee's Into The Wind from 2010 just perfectly sync up.
Also, at least so far this is very fun and thus far not even racist. One of my favourites so far, the incredibly gay and gay The Wild Party (1929) managed to be okay for almost the entire runtime and then they crammed all the racism into the very last five minutes! We'll see how this one fares.
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Also, at least so far this is very fun and thus far not even racist. One of my favourites so far, the incredibly gay and gay The Wild Party (1929) managed to be okay for almost the entire runtime and then they crammed all the racism into the very last five minutes! We'll see how this one fares.
Movies before the Hays Code are sort of a delight. It seems they have simultaneously not invented being gay and also not being mad about being gay. There's just scantily clad women hugging and petting each other's hair, a full complement of sailors dancing together in pairs on the deck of a ship. The wildest things people say to each other. "Oh, I don't have any need for men. I love you more than I love anyone!"
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Movies before the Hays Code are sort of a delight. It seems they have simultaneously not invented being gay and also not being mad about being gay. There's just scantily clad women hugging and petting each other's hair, a full complement of sailors dancing together in pairs on the deck of a ship. The wildest things people say to each other. "Oh, I don't have any need for men. I love you more than I love anyone!"
Ah yes, there's the racism. Got into about halfway through the movie before they got to it, but here we are again. Oh, silent films, you're wonderful and you're such shit both at the same time.
They were made with enough skill on what amounts to a tin of herring by today's technological standards that they still stand up to the test of time enough that you can enjoy them almost a 100 years later... But oh gods the racism!
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Ah yes, there's the racism. Got into about halfway through the movie before they got to it, but here we are again. Oh, silent films, you're wonderful and you're such shit both at the same time.
They were made with enough skill on what amounts to a tin of herring by today's technological standards that they still stand up to the test of time enough that you can enjoy them almost a 100 years later... But oh gods the racism!
If nothing else, silent movies have also taught me that both audacity and parkour are time honoured means of confounding and escaping the constabulary, and that's kind of beautiful.
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