Showing posts with label silent. Show all posts
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Sunday, December 4, 2011

The Adventure of the Wrong Santa Claus

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This is another one of Edison's propaganda pieces against Tesla, isn't it?
And see images from the film in the current Weekly Prose.
"I thought you said we were getting a Barrymore for this movie!"
"Yeah, abou that..."
"Can this wait? I'm still getting the script from the Pictoral Review..."
"Shoot, I just cut my unemployment check in half!"
"a Christmas pasty?" So all their kids get for the holidays is a pie shell filled with meat and veggies?
"Don't read over my shoulder! You know that makes me nervous!"
"Well, of course I'll help them out! Who better to play Santa Claus than a skinny, greasy-haired dandy?"
"Have fun, I'm sick of slaving away for your 1% ass so I'm joining the Occupy Wall Street community..."
"Welcome to Shelves O' Random Crap, what can I help you find today?"
"S'alright?"
"S'alright."
"Whoops, this is our King Lear costume. Let me go back and get the Santa coat..."
"While I'm here, I'd also like to buy a washbasin and a lynched drum..."
"Ah, this must be Mrs. Randall's home in Oakville. See, it pays to read the title cards."
And he's greeted by the cast of Gosford Park!
Dammit, I HATE it when a movie drags the credits out through the entire opening sequence...
"Say the secret word and the main entree comes down."
"Now remember, Jimmy, what happened behind the tool shed is our little secret, right?"
Edision Pictures presents "A Date With Your Family"
No, that entrance wasn't suspicious enough. Try it with a black cloak and a mustache to twirl...
"Anybody seen my hat?"
"And then we got to go on a field trip to the textile mill to see the poor children get amputated! Yay!"
"Well, I'll just go asex-SIST! Assist your wife..."
"I'm not a burglar, I'm just looking for my hat. It was a nice hat, too..."
"Nice! Is the burglar over in the corner new, too?"
"Don't use the wardrobe, though. One of the kids went in there last week and came out claiming to be king of somewhere-or-another..."
"Now remember, Santa has to tell me I've been a VERY naughty girl..."
That's not Grace Randall, it's Amelia Earhart!
"He's going to be Santa? Well, I've been a VERY--"
"Wait your turn!"
"Look, I paid for the hour, I get first dibsies!"
"Dammit, that hat has to be around here somewhere..."
"I know, I'll hide in the garderobe!"
"Yyyyyyyep, still poncy!"
"Let's see, the g-string and the bit with the tassels should go on first..."
NO ONE will be seated during the thrilling unpacking scene!
"There's the corset, and the wedding veil, that should be everything..."
"Sit down, children, and I'll tell you all about my exciting adventures with Gertrude Stein..."
Dammit, they sold him the Dumbledore costume by mistake!
"Let's see...um, ho-ho-ha! No, that's not right, shoot..."
Why is that one kid wearing an origami swan on her head?
"There, now I can go back to finding my hat in peace!"
"I'll take this basket of goodies to Grandma's while I'm at it..."
"I'm not sure what she proposed is anatomically possible..."
"And this is how I danced with Alice B. Toklas..."
"Hmmm, maybe my hat is in one of these presents..."
The monster! He's stealing their Swiss Colony gift boxes!
Well, when you have cookies at every stop om your route, you've got to expect a sugar crash...
o/...You're a mean one, Mr. Generic Silent Film Villain...o/
"I'll take this fruitcake too, in case I need a weapon in a pinch..."
"Ooooh man, whatever was in that eggnog was good shit!"
"This bites. I can't wait until they invent the 24-hour Christmas Story marathon..."
"I guess the intertitle was right; I AM locked in! Shoot..."
"I've got it! I'll write a sign that says 'Octavius miraculously escapes' and hold it up to the camera!"
Aaaand back to the incestuous dance party.
"Are you okay? We're still on for later, right?"
"God dammit, the dog piddled on the tree again!"
"Um, yeah, the dog did that..."
As a general rule, don't trust people who refer to themselves in the third person...
"Fear not, madam, I shall deploy my powers of dandydom and save the day!"
"I've got to find a bell to ring on a street corner, fast!"
Christmas comes to the set of Gangs of New York.
"Now to hitch a ride to the set of The Great Train Robbery, and I'm in the clear!"
D.W. Griffith's The Polar Express
He's a quick change artist!
Oh, this is the scene where he throws the Nazis off and then turns to the crowd and says "No ticket," right?
Just take our workd for it. There was an attempt, and it failed.
o/...I hear the sleigh a-comin', it's rollin' round the bend...o/
This was before they had lighting in movies...
"You gotta help me! Pitch is after me again and this time he's got a gun!"
This is going to end with one of them screaming "Shoot us both, Rudolph, it's the only way!" isn't it?
"Look, can't I just eat my Jimmy John's in peace?"
"Oh you are SO getting a lump of coal and a switch this year!"
He's trying to figure out a discreet way to ask for the latest issue of Hot Elf Girls...
"Hey, that was my lunch! First my hat, now this!"
"Come on, at least let me keep the bag of Doritos!"
Solomon would have just ordered the gift basket to be cut in two.
"The proper term is breast, thank you very much!"
Oh come on, all he did was ride down to the next train station and filched the guy's basket when he was distracted by the nudie mags. That's not exactly Sherlock Holmes-level detective work there...
"Christmas is saved! I've brought Quizno's for everybody!"
And after all this, that poor guy never found his hat. Well, at least he got a nice Santa costume out of the deal...
The first Bratz dolls were very different.
"And for you, young man, a replica of Leonardo's Horse!
"Okay, who ordered the Classic Italian on wheat?"
"It's toasted and everything! You shouldn't have!"
"Thanks, this is really good for my carpal tunnel..."
"Are you going to sex her up? Can we watch?"
"No, it's okay, go on with what you were doing. It's not anything we haven't seen a million times at the nickelodeon anyway..."
Damn, usually you have to wait to have your own kids to have this problem...
"If Grace won't let you do her up the backdoor, I'd be more than willing..."
"Don't worry, this will be much easier when they invent the Internet."
"Fifty cents says he fists her."
A fine wood varnish!
Helena Bonham-Carter in her private boudoir.
"Now, where were we? Ah yes, I was holding your arm out in a stiff passionless manner, like so...
Well, there was that incident with Psyche, but we'll let that pass.
"God dammit, you little pervs! Go watch Charlie Brown or something!"
These two kids later went on to write the Hays Code.
"There's a dime, it should keep you in candy for a month. Now beat it!"
A child's first extortion racket is such a magical thing...
"Dammit, who didn't put up the fourth wall?"
Hey, you've got the paragraph markings enabled on your credits!


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Thursday, July 1, 2010

The Wizard of Oz--1910

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Wonder how they'll handle the prison rape scene.
...Wow, the really early movies didn't have sound OR images!
Baum created a lot of controversy with the "donkey show" chapter.
"Not again! Boys, help me get Henry out of that costume and give him his meds."
Hi, Meets. I'm Diva the Magnificent Riffer.
I've never had pantomime cow milk before, is it any good?
"Wow, you can move!"
"No, you're just getting a buzz from Aunt Em's 'special' crop."
"Thank you! Now I will teach the citizens of Gotham City the meaning of fear!"
A turnstile? Is there a subway station in the cornfield?
"Come on, you're needed to present opposing arguments on Fox News!"
"Hey, wanna see my Gene Kelly impression?"
I see a scarecrow, a girl, and a couple pantomime animals, but no turkey.
No, bad cow! Someone get the hose!
Misunderstood Euphemism Theater Presents A Roll in the Hay
Remember kids, a pile of grass out in an open field is the safest place in a tornado!
Oh no, the Blob!
Only at Lakeside Amusement Park!
So in Kansas, "cyclone" means "partially cloudy with a light breeze." Must be a regional thing.
This was filmed before editors were invented.
And so Dorothy and her friends were whisked away to Oz by a magical dust bunny...
Lousy cheap sets.
By an IED!
So, Oz=Leftover set from Tarzan
Knock it off, Fiyero!
Back then you could just film your family goofing around on Halloween and Hollywood would buy it.
"This sucks. I thought at least there'd be little people or a dead witch or something to greet us..."
Puck went a little overboard on Bottom.
The witch is from Kenya?
o/...We represent the LGBT, the LGBT, the LGBT...o/
The Siamese Twin Ballet, ladies and gentlemen!
They had the uniforms left over from Alice in Wonderland.
Maybe the Wizard would stand a chance against the Witch if he trained his army in martial arts instead.
Tchaikovsky's Public Domain Suite #3
What does that say? Something about doing the mambo with Omega?
Keeping it up there won't make it more legible.
You know, you can turn the camera off while setting up your next shot...
"I meant to do that!"
"Ha, I am Momba the Witch come to assert my power over you!"
"I know, I read the intertitle."
He shouldn't have hired the Keystone Kops for his royal guard.
What a poof.
"That wasn't me, it was the beans you had for lunch and you know it!"
"Darn, I was sure a random forward somersault would come in handy..."
"Hey, cool! When did the Wizard get a zip line installed?"
"Did anyone catch what she was shrieking about defying gravity?"
And has him bless the rains down in Africa.
Eww, the trees are checking out Dorothy's ass!
Knock that off, you pervs! She's only...um...
"Come on, I levitated up here, it's impressive!"
"Please, I'm not facing you and I can see the wires."
Just what Dorothy needed: more pantomime animals!
"Don't worry, Dorothy, I'll distract them with my impression of a Benny Hill sketch!"
"Okay, just ignore me then! If you fall asleep in a poppy field, don't come crying to me!"
If she had a few more people in animal costumes, she could start a theme park.
Damn, it's gotten even harder to read!
Remember, this big official proclimation which is posted everywhere in the realm is TOP SECRET!
"Let's try it. How hard can murdering one witch be, anyhow?"
o/...We're off to the next random scene,
the next random scene in this film!...o/
"Hey, at least buy me a drink first!"
Of course there are still people who deny the theory of grateful.
"Look, it's one of those living statue guys! I'm gonna kick him in the shin!"
"And here's his tip basket! Swipe it, hurry!"
The animals are arguing over who gets to mark the Tinman.
The Tin Codpiece is kind of freaking me out.
"Thank you so much! Now my ax will taste blood again!"
"Say, we're dancing around randomly pretending to act out a classic fantasy novel. Want to join in?"
So, this movie is basically strange characters in random dance sequences. It's like Glee without Jane Lynch.
Again! Step-kick-kick-leap-kick-touch, again!
I think a few pages of "The Pied Piper of Hamlin" got mixed into the script.
"Okay, enough goofing around, time to get down to business! You, run around in circles! You, point madly offstage like something interesting is happening! You, flail your arms a lot! Okay, go!"
o/...Let me entertain you, let me see you smile...o/
"Oh, we are going to ROCK the next season of Oz's Got Talent!"
o/...We're off to film more filler, more filler scenes with no sense!...o/
"....Shoot, I was hoping to get paired with the donkey."
Tonight the role of the Tin Man will be played by Oscar Wilde.
And the Sugar Plum Fairy!
WHOOPS, OUR MISTAKE, THIS IS BILL THE LIZARD FROM ALICE IN WONDERLAND. SORRY.
...
...
The house is staring at me....
"My enemies approach! Quick, summon the other flying mon--er, geck--whatever the Hell you are!"
They bought a fly rig, and dammit they're going to use it!
QUIT LOOKING AT ME! GAAAAAAH!!
The Tin Cosmo Kraemer!
So, their plan is to flail around randomly until the Witch submits?
"Who told you you could go around trying to kill folks, young missy! Come here, I'm gonna learn you some manners!"
*whistles* Okay, break it up, time out! Let's try to figure out what the plot is before filming the scene next time, okay?
BY...UM...LOOK, SHE JUST DID, OKAY?
The poor witch thought her giant egg cup would protect her.
"Oh no, I'm cross-fading! Cross-faaaadiiiiing..."
"Well, that was easy! She didn't even get a chance to lock our cages!"
Was it just me, or did anyone else see the chorus from Yeoman of the Guard run in and back out real fast?
"Can we leave the donkey here? Please?"
"Nope, still can't read it. It's like a pharmacist's scrawl."
AND GET TWO FOR ONE DRINKS AT THE OZDUST LADIES' NIGHT!
"Welcome to the Cathedral of a Child's Drawing of the Sun..."
"I'm sorry, miss, only service pantomime animals allowed inside."
Oh, just turn the handle! No need to make a big production of your job.
"Welcome to the backdr--er, Emerald City!"
Just because you can have extras in every scene doesn't mean you should.
"Remember to take off your shoes, remove your laptops from their cases and have all liquids in a ziploc baggie..."
"That's it, Earl, I'm gonna take that transfer to Cair Paravel."
The intertitles were run through Babelfish a few times.
"Okay, people, just like we rehearsed! o/...Throw up your hands, stick out your tush...o/"
He hired those guys cheap off Dr. Terwilliger.
"Welcome, welcome! I shake you warmly by the hand!"
Wait, let me see...oh, here it is, chapter 20: The Lion humped the Wizard's leg enthusiastically. Go figure.
"Okay, we give up: what the FUCK does this proclamation say?"
"Now, you are eighteen, right?"
"There's been some confusion about that..."
"Are you kidding? That crown would totally clash with my parasol!"
He's brainless, malleable, and easily to defeat in an argument. The perfect politician!
"My first act: death to the crows!"
"Now I can chase my real dream: Broadway!"
"Buh-bye! Sorry about running the country into the ground!"
"Wow, he can do a stop trick with the camera! He really IS a wizard!"
"Sorry, I forgot my wallet. I'm really off this time!"
And the Christ Lutheran Bible School cast of Noah's Ark takes up the rear.
He's the Gerald Ford of Oz!
Ray Bolger he's not. Not even Ray Romano.
He preens his plumage for several hours.
"Come on, work! What do I pay you ten cents a day for?"
"Union? I'm going to have to call in the Winkie Strike Busters!"
o/...We work hard, but who's complaining? Thanks to the ILG we're paying our way!...o/
This is why you don't hire Rockettes in your factories.
o/...That's how we stick it to the Man in the merry old land of Oz!...o/
"I'll show them! It's the fire hose when they come back!"
And Buffy and Cordelia.
"Anyone want a cast member from Watership Down?"
"I can't stop it, it's caught in the rigging offscreen! Goodbye, folks!"
"Oh no, that was my hashish stash! Waaaaait!"
And Toto and the Lion went to San Francisco where they were free to express their love...
"Don't worry, Dorothy, I'm sure the Wizard wouldn't leave without thinking of--oh dear..."
"Watch this, I'm gonna brain her with a sandbag..."
Is he mixing Cream of Wheat in his hat?
"We're off to Rohan! Bye!"
"Well, we had to justify the camel rental somehow..."
You know, I've always thought Oz needed more offensive racial caricatures.
"Let's dance! That always seemed to work before!"
And Dorothy was taken back home by...oh, let's say, Moe.


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Sunday, November 29, 2009

Charles Dickons [sic] "A Christmas Carol" Silent Film

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Wait, I wasn't finished reading that!
Something I've never understood about this story -- why is he clocking in at 6:25PM?
"What the hell did you do to my chair, you sick f***?!"
"It's always been like that."
"What, covered in bologna? Crocket, sometimes I think you're mentally unhinged."

"Cratchet, sir."
"Pardon, sir, I wonder if we could interest you in a tenor piece?"
"Oh, you do 'I Like Big Butts' and 'Papa Don't Preach'..."
"No, I'm sorry, good night."

"We also do 'I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper'!"

"No. Out."
"Bitch."

HIS NEPHEW BRINGS ALONG A COUPLE OF TEENAGE PROSTITUTES, BUT NO PART OF SCROOGE IS SWAYED BY THE GESTURE

"D'we still get paid, guv?"

SCROOGE DOES, HOWEVER, SNEAK A WELL-TIMED PEEK DOWN THEIR NEGLIGEES

"You're not gay, are you?"

"No!"

"Oh well, more for me..."
"Put those away! Strumpets."
"F*** are you going, Crumpet?"
"Cratchet, sir. Home."
"Lazy, lazy, Cricket."
"Didn't you get here ten minutes ago, sir?"
"Eh mon, you got any of de ganja?"
"Der ain't no jammin' in death, mon."
"I think you should become Stephen Douglas, like me."
Scrooge is taking the whole "ghost" thing rather well, on the whole.
"Are those... my commemorative plates?"
"The hell are you doing with my commemorative plates, man?"
"What, you just figured, I'm dead -- hell, I'll take his Arsenal commemorative plates?!"
"The hell is wrong with you, man?!"
"You're a sack of cheese-eating sh*t and you always were a-"
"The spirit warning has been terminated due to Terms of Haunting violations."
Just... sort of an omnibus Spirit of Christmas then?
"Remember this? This is the scene with your sister, that just about every version but the Muppets' cuts out."
*crash!*
"Wasn't that lame? Here's another..."
"Hurry up, the bland people are here!"
"Nice to meet you, I'm Mrs. bland-"
"Awfully bland to meet you-"
"You remember the blands-"
"Bland! How the bland are you-?"
"Bland meeting you here-"
"Everyone! Let's have an awfully bland time!"
"How's about a bland game-?"
"Oh, what a blandulous idea-!"
"Blandly now, everyone-"
"I think I've never had such a bland time-!"
"Bland 2 3, step 2 3-"
"Bland a bland to the bland bland bland-"
Easy there, Scrooge.
"Fresh horrors await!"
"Remember that time you forgot to give a thumble back to your mother?"
"What a little c*ntbag you were."
It could do all right, judging by that room.
"THOMAS EDISON! You have been called to see the wrongs of your ways this night."
"Couscous anyone?"
"To Ebenezer Scrooge! May he someday remember my name."
(They're not fighting. They're just having a loud, invectives-laden "discussion.")
"Fine, something more neutral then..."
"To lesbians!"
You okay here spirit? You need a breather, or...?
Oop! He pocketed it. Did you see that? It takes a skilled magician to pull that off.
"Hey, um... how much for your daughter, for the night?"
"What?"
"Your daughter. You know. How much?"
"SHE IS NOT FOR SALE! (Fifteen shillings. Twenty for special service.)"
"I can't afford that!"
"Well then. I guess it's another night of stereoscopic erotica for you."
"Stop adjusting yourself."
"Yes!"
"All my rock star fantasies come true!"
"And that concludes our program this evening. We hope you have found moral salvation. Good night."
Um... I...? My..?
First word... Sounds like...?
Ooh. Ghost shagged off before the end of her shift. Bosses are gonna chew her ass out for this one.
"Hi. I'm Maybel. I guess I have to finish this sh*t off. How far did Carol get with you?"
"That's your death. Did she get this far?"
"I need... an answer. Yea or nay?"
*sigh*
"Screw it. Here you go."
How did Woodstock get a job carving tombstones?
"No touchy."
"Lets burn this one down first."
Charles Dikon-San's
A KABUKI CAROL
"Shut up!"
*thump*
*thump*
*ka-thump ka-thump ka-thump*
*thump! thump! thump! thump!*
*thumpa-thumpa-thumpa-thumpa-thumpa-thumpa-thumpa-thumpa-thumpa-thumpa-thumpa-thumpa-thumpa-thumpa-thumpa-thumpa-thumpa-thumpa-thumpa!*
*THAAAAAAAAAA-ump*
*thump*
"Actually, I'm going the same way. Let's split a carriage."
On the back:


Too bad you're not my business partner. SUCK IT! HA!
E. Scrooge.

"Oy luvs a man oow's loaded, Oy does!"
"Quick threesome, then on to Boob Clutchhitter's house!"
"Boy we're poor."

"We're so poor, aren't we?"
"Mommy! It's the man dad says molests children!"
"Crunket! Bluncket!"
"Cratchet, sir."
"Lunkhead, I won't stand for this ass-slap anymore!"
"What ass-slap, sir?"
"This ass slap! Ha!"
"Oh f***! You should have seen your face, Ratchet!"
"Batsh*t wants to brain me? HA!"
"But anyway, Crotchtit, I've got ghosts watching me so I'm going to raise your salary... a shilling a week. But you'll be paying more into your health plan."
"And here's a vulture I ran over on the way here. Enjoy."
Glitching! God bless us everyone, it's out of control!




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