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Old 18-09-2004, 02:32 PM
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I did the kiddie version - no nails, no brainwashing scenes - just action and fast dialogue.

Perhaps we had a singalong as well. wink [/b]
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You missed a great chance to scar them physchologically for life - but I suppose you can leave it to the school system to do that :)

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I note you are a fan ofthe great Buster Keaton. Do you think,like I do,he was better than Charlie Chaplin?
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Hi Marky!

I suppose the Keaton v Chaplin business comes down to personal taste, but for me there's no contest - Keaton wins, hands down!

I find Chaplin's style far too twee for my taste... in fact, I can't stand the way he begged for the audience's sympathy all the time, something that Keaton never did. I think all that sentimental pathos gives Chaplin's work a very dated look now; Keaton achieved plenty of pathos, but without a jot of sentimentality... one of the reasons, I think, why his work has stood the test of time so well... the other reason is that he's just bloody funnier than Chaplin by a million miles!

And Buster's wonderful face... the Great Stone Face - I think it's not, actually! Buster could convey more feelings and emotion by doing absolutely nothing with that amazing face than Chaplin could do with a dozen moustache-twitching, eyelash-batting coy looks to camera! And I love Buster's physical comedy... no-one could do a pratfall like Buster!

What's your fav Buster film, Marky? Mine's 'Steamboat Bill Jr'... I love the two supporting actors in that film too... big Scottie Ernest Torrence, who plays Steamboat Bill Snr, and Marion Byron, who plays Buster's girl - they're both wonderful and, in my opinion, the best supporting actors Buster ever had in his own films.

Getting carried away here, aren't I! So what's this got to do with 'Dr Terror's House of Horrors'? Sod all, actually - but it's not the first time a thread's gone seriously off-topic now is it? [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img]

By the way, Gibbie, re your forthcoming trip to Manchester... Freddy's probably the better one to ask about a trip to Liverpool as I haven't lived there for over 25 years! The only thing I would say is, if you go to Matthew Street to see The Cavern, you'll not be looking at the real thing - the original Cavern was on the other side of the street - unbelievably, it was demolished quite some time ago! Have a nice time while you're over here!
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my favourite Keaton film is The General. By the way,another wonderful silent comedy starred another underrated comedian Ben Turpin. It involved a polo match,and the ball was kicked off the pitch and landed in the basket of a bike,ridden by a happy go lucky,whistling cyclist,whose face turned to terror when he realised he was chased by horses full of enthusiastic polo players. A gem
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my favourite Keaton film is The General. By the way,another wonderful silent comedy starred another underrated comedian Ben Turpin. It involved a polo match,and the ball was kicked off the pitch and landed in the basket of a bike,ridden by a happy go lucky,whistling cyclist,whose face turned to terror when he realised he was chased by horses full of enthusiastic polo players. A gem
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Was Ben Turpin the one with the wonderful machine that served him breakfast in bed and he then went to work in a car with no engine that "hitched a ride" from other cars with a big magnet?

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No it wasn't Ben Turpin it was SNUB POLLARD who played the inventor with all the weird and wonderful gadgets.
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