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Post by Jem » 12 Oct 2007 21:24

A while ago I told Dust I would put a list together for him on some comedies which I really think are timeless. Here they are. What are other peoples?

'Duck Soup' - Leo McCarey (1933)
The Marx Brothers at their finest. Whenever bad mood hits, you can watch this film and just amaze yourself that just genius comedy existed so many years ago and in a time when things were starting to turn upside down.

'The great Dictator' - Charlie Chaplin (1940)
If Chaplin had known of the actual cruelties under the fascist regimes in Germany at the time he said he would have never made the film. So in all its irony, good that he didn't know. The true magic of the film lies in the conversion at its end into a really powerful message about universal love and peace and about the call to soldiers to never fight for tyranny.

'To be or not to be' - Ernst Lubitsch (1942)
A small Polish theater group tries to deal with the invasion of Poland by Hitler's forces. There is a terrible remake by Mel Brooks, which one should avoid.

'Bananas' - Woody Allen (1971)
Fielding Mellish tries to impress a left-wing girl in NY by fighting on the side of rebels in a small Banana republic, then gets installed as president.

'Love and Death' - Woody Allen (1975)
Funniest WA movie - it is a spoof on Russian novels. And you can laugh yourself silly even if you have not read any - it shows that the 70s were the best time for film. So much risk, so much reward.

'The Big Lebowski' - Coen Brothers (1998)
How can one describe that film?
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Post by Stormwern » 12 Oct 2007 22:04

All marx brothers movies are great. Some more than others, but all should be seen by everyone.

The full movie "night at the opera" is on youtube, my favourite max brothers movie too :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTHsqq-k ... ed&search=
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Post by Dust » 12 Oct 2007 23:53

Stormwern wrote:All marx brothers movies are great. Some more than others, but all should be seen by everyone.

The full movie "night at the opera" is on youtube, my favourite max brothers movie too :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTHsqq-k ... ed&search=
Hmm... I don't get it.

The Great Dictator was a bi fun tho (For non german speaking watchers: He's not really speaking german, ...) :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4nV7qTJlOI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHSqP4CydtM&NR=1
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Post by Jem » 13 Oct 2007 00:06

I think Youtube is nice, when you have seen the film before, but not a good high quality medium for first time seeing.

Marx Brothers movies are a bit of a victim of their time in that most of the films also have musical interludes (i.e. Zeppo), which are often not that funny (unless it's Chico on piano or Harpo on harp).
The Marx Brothers are pioneers of anarchistic humor. Best witnessed when the three core brothers (Chicho, Groucho, Harpo) interact. 'And 2 hard boiled eggs', 'there is no sanity clause', 'i'd rather dance with the cows until you came home', harpo cutting everything in Duck Soup, 'whatever it is, I'm against it'...
See the scene on the boat in the Night of the Opera (hardboiled eggs). You should get a full-screen good quality version its more enjoyable :)
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Post by Jem » 13 Oct 2007 00:09

Dust wrote:
Stormwern wrote:All marx brothers movies are great. Some more than others, but all should be seen by everyone.

The full movie "night at the opera" is on youtube, my favourite max brothers movie too :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTHsqq-k ... ed&search=
Hmm... I don't get it.

The Great Dictator was a bi fun tho (For non german speaking watchers: He's not really speaking german, ...) :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4nV7qTJlOI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHSqP4CydtM&NR=1
Did you watch the full film on Youtube???
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Post by Stormwern » 13 Oct 2007 00:16

I have all films except duck soup and go west.
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Post by Dust » 13 Oct 2007 00:20

Jem wrote:
Did you watch the full film on Youtube???
On it. 2/14 :)
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Post by Jem » 13 Oct 2007 00:20

Jem wrote:
Dust wrote:
Stormwern wrote:All marx brothers movies are great. Some more than others, but all should be seen by everyone.

The full movie "night at the opera" is on youtube, my favourite max brothers movie too :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTHsqq-k ... ed&search=
Hmm... I don't get it.

The Great Dictator was a bi fun tho (For non german speaking watchers: He's not really speaking german, ...) :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4nV7qTJlOI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHSqP4CydtM&NR=1
Did you watch the full film on Youtube???
Wow, they have so much on this:
Watch Love and Death's first 10 minutes:
Video quality is terrible, but the film is just incredible...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYRsH3hogXw
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Post by Jem » 13 Oct 2007 00:26

Dust wrote:
Jem wrote:
Did you watch the full film on Youtube???
On it. 2/14 :)
Try to get a full version. Youtube really disrupts the enjoyment and the quality lowers the experience...
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Post by Jem » 13 Oct 2007 00:47

Stormwern wrote:I have all films except duck soup and go west.
How can we get them to Dust :)
Copyrights should be expired, but the transfer maybe not.

Anyway, I am scared if Dust cannot laugh at Marx Brothers, but I think one first needs to experience them on a TV to know that they were the world's biggest comedic geniuses. Every comedian, every comic owes them.
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Post by Dust » 13 Oct 2007 01:01

I am not that much into comedies... 06/14 on the great dictator. Getting depressing... oh well :)
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Post by Dust » 13 Oct 2007 15:38

I think to be fun, a story or even a joke, has to somehow be tied into the life of the listener. It has to reference something known, offer a new view to it, maybe show it in a new context. It has to surprise.

My life is not that normal, so I think it is just natural that I don't find many conventional comedies that amusing :)

Well... I am not sure about that yet. Have to think more...
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