Thanks for this! I'd love a lot more of your thoughts on this quirky film, beyond the couple's cultural impact. To me, it starts very similar to the Fred & Ginger movie (I think we both ranked it #7 out of the 10) and then veers off in a very Hollywood direction. Where the F&G movie gets dark, this gets silly. I'd love to hear more.
Good to hear from you again, Paul (I assume you are Paul). Yes, it does start of similiar, Irene wrote the books the F&G movie was based upon, and for most of the movie was on the set driving everyone crazy. As to the film itself, it is fairly well done for its time period, in the spacing between text screens and not running the video sections too long as was common earlier. I didn't want to like Irene because of her animosity towards Ginger later on, but she does very well and is prettier than I expected. I do not expect much from 1915 silents, at that point D.W. Griffith was leading the way with greatly improved products, with his "Intolerance" a quantum leap in quality for the medium. (and a totally insane movie in the money spent and the granduer of it all. If you have not, read up on this movie, what an amazing story. I will cover D.W. Griffith one day hopefully) I did not like when they decided to turn it into an action/adventure movie, just too silly. But nobody really knew how to do it yet, they were all experimenting. I would say overall a decent product for its time.
@@thedriveinmoviehistory5327 I love Intolerance. (The movie, that is.) But I have a real passion for the silent era in general - the German expressionist stuff, the American horror films, and obviously Chaplin and Keaton and Lloyd.
I do not share your love of the silents. I have many in my collection, and have watched them, and do truly appreciate what they were creating, the slow development of movies over time. Some I have enjoyed watching, but it is mostly, for me, a labor of love, to understand the early industry. I do agree some of the silent comediens did some excellent work. I also found great improvement in the 20's, seemingly always lead by D.W. Griffith. The truth is, I really need to do more research on the silents to form a final opinion.
Thanks for this! I'd love a lot more of your thoughts on this quirky film, beyond the couple's cultural impact. To me, it starts very similar to the Fred & Ginger movie (I think we both ranked it #7 out of the 10) and then veers off in a very Hollywood direction. Where the F&G movie gets dark, this gets silly. I'd love to hear more.
Good to hear from you again, Paul (I assume you are Paul).
Yes, it does start of similiar, Irene wrote the books the F&G movie was based upon, and for most of the movie was on the set driving everyone crazy. As to the film itself, it is fairly well done for its time period, in the spacing between text screens and not running the video sections too long as was common earlier. I didn't want to like Irene because of her animosity towards Ginger later on, but she does very well and is prettier than I expected. I do not expect much from 1915 silents, at that point D.W. Griffith was leading the way with greatly improved products, with his "Intolerance" a quantum leap in quality for the medium. (and a totally insane movie in the money spent and the granduer of it all. If you have not, read up on this movie, what an amazing story. I will cover D.W. Griffith one day hopefully) I did not like when they decided to turn it into an action/adventure movie, just too silly. But nobody really knew how to do it yet, they were all experimenting. I would say overall a decent product for its time.
@@thedriveinmoviehistory5327 I love Intolerance. (The movie, that is.) But I have a real passion for the silent era in general - the German expressionist stuff, the American horror films, and obviously Chaplin and Keaton and Lloyd.
I do not share your love of the silents. I have many in my collection, and have watched them, and do truly appreciate what they were creating, the slow development of movies over time. Some I have enjoyed watching, but it is mostly, for me, a labor of love, to understand the early industry. I do agree some of the silent comediens did some excellent work. I also found great improvement in the 20's, seemingly always lead by D.W. Griffith. The truth is, I really need to do more research on the silents to form a final opinion.