Hitler Book

[xoggoth]

More interesting artist than Churchill at any rate.

[thunderlizard]

I second The Great Dictator*. There's also a Don Delillo novel about a filmstrip of Hitler in his bunker doing a Charlie Chaplin impression - can't remember which one it is, maybe Mao II or Running Dog


"Hitler-Stalin: Parallel Lives" is a legendary & readable hatchet-job too.





*the Chaplin film, not the actual dictator.

[KathyWoolfe]

I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.

I think that Chaplin's films are quite entertaining but for that era in the history of film I prefer watching Buster Keaton. his antics and deadpan expression are priceless.

[Moose423956]

I think that Chaplin's films are quite entertaining but for that era in the history of film I prefer watching Buster Keaton. his antics and deadpan expression are priceless.

I think the most amazing thing was how they used to do their own stunts. Like the Keaton one where the house falls down and he's not hurt because he "goes through" an open window. Or Harold Lloyd hanging from a clockface. No CGI involved there.

Now someone will tell me it was all a myth.

[KathyWoolfe]

I think the most amazing thing was how they used to do their own stunts. Like the Keaton one where the house falls down and he's not hurt because he "goes through" an open window. Or Harold Lloyd hanging from a clockface. No CGI involved there.

Now someone will tell me it was all a myth.

Some of his more spectacular stunts - IMO - occured in his film "The General" where a lot of the action takes place on moving steam trains. To say that they were remarkable for that time is an understatement.

[rootsnall]

I think the most amazing thing was how they used to do their own stunts. Like the Keaton one where the house falls down and he's not hurt because he "goes through" an open window. Or Harold Lloyd hanging from a clockface. No CGI involved there.

Now someone will tell me it was all a myth.

It was all a myth !

To be honest I know bog all about it but I suspect the 'do their own stunts' was part of the publicity when selling the film at the time. If you were Keaton or Lloyd and running a business ( a real one ! ) why risk your neck needlessly if you could employ a bit of trickery instead.

[Churchill]

It was all a myth !

To be honest I know bog all about it but I suspect the 'do their own stunts' was part of the publicity when selling the film at the time. If you were Keaton or Lloyd and running a business ( a real one ! ) why risk your neck needlessly if you could employ a bit of trickery instead.

The film mentioned with the clock face that falls away from the wall employed a little trickery, directly underneath the clock face was a platform to catch said actor if anything went wrong. It was the camera angle that made it look spectacular(for those days...).

Keaton and Lloyd were involved in the early days of motion pictures. They developed many of the techniques used in later films.

[KathyWoolfe]

The trickery in the house thing being carefully measuring where the window would be...

Trigonometry would help here.

All you have to do is ask the nearest trigonom

[TimberWolf]

Trigonometry would help here.

Being short helps too.

[rootsnall]

The trickery in the house thing being carefully measuring where the window would be...

I would of gone for using a dummy for the frames in which the house is actually falling.