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Silent movies and words
Mar. 13th, 2008 01:33 amI am so wiped out! But I've got to be up at 7am so I can't be too much longer on here. Thankfully there's not much to do for tomorrow.
I have finally discovered how to write interrobangs (see ‽). And I am excited. The code that works for me is #8253. If only the irony mark worked as well.
And speaking of language (somewhat), why do we pronounce "who" like that? The word "ho" and the "wh" sound, are nothing like all three letters put together. And why are "female" and "woman" used interchangeably, but not "male" and "man"?
As for silent movies, I always considered myself a Chaplin fan. I remember seeing one of his movies as a kid and thinking there was no way anyone could top him. And then later I heard about Buster Keaton and thought, "No way, Chaplin is so much better." I hadn't seen anything of Keaton's work before last week though. In my history of cinema class we watched Keaton's The Navigator and Chaplin's Easy Street. And well, Chaplin is funny. But Keaton was a genius. I highly recommend watching The Navigator. It's actually on YouTube, in seven parts.
And then I watched Chaplin. It's a no-brainer that I'm slowly becoming a Robert Downey Jr. fan. I had seen Chaplin when I was really young when it was on HBO while my friend Joshua was over at my house to play GI Joes or X-Men with me. We had just heard about Chaplin at the time so we decided to watch it. Apparently we didn't watch the whole thing, because I know I would've cried when they got to his elder years-- at least back then. But it's a good movie. A bit long and unnecessary at times, and it falls into the same biographical stereotypes as the other biographical movies do, but it's good. There's one scene when Chaplin picks up the first bit of film that he was filmed on off the cutting room floor and looks at it in the light, and that just melted me. I mean, it's the medium he'd come to be known for and here he was just a mistake in filming... and the way Downey Jr. played that scene so simply...
Anyway, there's a ton of people in the movie too, and it's hard to pay attention when I kept shouting, "MULDER! FOXY MULDER!" every time I saw Duchovny on screen. Mulder, Iron Man, Leeloo, Disney's Hades and a Blues Brother in a movie together. Also whatever happened to Moira Kelly? I loved that girl. (With Honors? Gorgeous movie.) And OMG, I forgot to mention Kevin Kline! As Douglas Fairbanks. sahsjkfsa I love Kline a bit more than need be.
And as luck would have it, I guess I'll be posting the ADIML entry tomorrow. Because now I have only five hours to sleep.
Lia
I have finally discovered how to write interrobangs (see ‽). And I am excited. The code that works for me is #8253. If only the irony mark worked as well.
And speaking of language (somewhat), why do we pronounce "who" like that? The word "ho" and the "wh" sound, are nothing like all three letters put together. And why are "female" and "woman" used interchangeably, but not "male" and "man"?
As for silent movies, I always considered myself a Chaplin fan. I remember seeing one of his movies as a kid and thinking there was no way anyone could top him. And then later I heard about Buster Keaton and thought, "No way, Chaplin is so much better." I hadn't seen anything of Keaton's work before last week though. In my history of cinema class we watched Keaton's The Navigator and Chaplin's Easy Street. And well, Chaplin is funny. But Keaton was a genius. I highly recommend watching The Navigator. It's actually on YouTube, in seven parts.
And then I watched Chaplin. It's a no-brainer that I'm slowly becoming a Robert Downey Jr. fan. I had seen Chaplin when I was really young when it was on HBO while my friend Joshua was over at my house to play GI Joes or X-Men with me. We had just heard about Chaplin at the time so we decided to watch it. Apparently we didn't watch the whole thing, because I know I would've cried when they got to his elder years-- at least back then. But it's a good movie. A bit long and unnecessary at times, and it falls into the same biographical stereotypes as the other biographical movies do, but it's good. There's one scene when Chaplin picks up the first bit of film that he was filmed on off the cutting room floor and looks at it in the light, and that just melted me. I mean, it's the medium he'd come to be known for and here he was just a mistake in filming... and the way Downey Jr. played that scene so simply...
Anyway, there's a ton of people in the movie too, and it's hard to pay attention when I kept shouting, "MULDER! FOXY MULDER!" every time I saw Duchovny on screen. Mulder, Iron Man, Leeloo, Disney's Hades and a Blues Brother in a movie together. Also whatever happened to Moira Kelly? I loved that girl. (With Honors? Gorgeous movie.) And OMG, I forgot to mention Kevin Kline! As Douglas Fairbanks. sahsjkfsa I love Kline a bit more than need be.
And as luck would have it, I guess I'll be posting the ADIML entry tomorrow. Because now I have only five hours to sleep.
Lia
