Re: VAMPYR: masterpiece of horror or pretentious and overrated?
Wich2 wrote:Well, if one likes something enough to do it, just about anything can be justified just about any way. That's why, as you said Craig, it's a gamble. The justification I'm referring to is...
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'Xactly! As they tell us about Retail, most purchases are based on emotion, with the rationalization after the fact.
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I think that's more true of a movie or book, because you can't absorb the length and breath of it at the point of purchase (if you've not seen it before). I makes me wonder what Dreyer thought he was...
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Here is an interesting essay: www.filmsufi.com>2009/10>vampyr
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>It's got to one of the first and few exercises not of "style over substance" but as style as substance.< Dreyer was not alone in that; it occurred in the Silent era.
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Sure, I suppose you could say something like Epstine's FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER fits the bill (though it has a more direct literary influence). I just feel Dreyer's full-on cinematic embrace of the...
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What about German Expressionism, Pulp?
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With something like CALIGARI for instance, you have a pretty linear thread, even the reveal at the end wouldn't be a turnabout had you not been lead along a pretty straight-forward path in the first...
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pulp novelties wrote:...I think viewing VAMPYR is a very different experience form German Expressionist films.Sure, but I got the impression you're suggesting VAMPYR was one of the first Art House...
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Koukol 5 wrote:pulp novelties wrote:...I think viewing VAMPYR is a very different experience form German Expressionist films.Sure, but I got the impression you're suggesting VAMPYR was one of the...
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We spread that "horror" umbrella pretty widely hereabouts, and I think that would include several others from this era.
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I know, but I still cling my assertion that most of what is regarded as "horror" pre-talkie is occasionally macabre melodrama and mystery with the seeds of what we would eventually call horror.
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Koukol 5 wrote:Fine.But that's just you.The most I can do is give my rationalization to illustrate where I'm coming from on this, most disagree with me and I'm used to that. I have no major argument...
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Casey62 wrote:I wonder how many here who criticize Gunzburg's performance would still do so if they didn't know that he wasn't a professional actor. As Dana Andrews says in NIGHT OF THE DEMON - "Maybe...
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There is hardly any spoken dialogue in VAMPYR; de Gunzberg's role basically requires him to be an observer, more specifically a voyeur of strange, supernatural events which may or may not be real....
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pulp novelties wrote:Casey62 wrote:I wonder how many here who criticize Gunzburg's performance would still do so if they didn't know that he wasn't a professional actor. As Dana Andrews says in NIGHT...
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He's probably the most conspicuous, in that he's something of the lead. Whatever that means in this case.
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Wich2 wrote: I just know that - for instance - if I was looking at a painting by Gauguin, and over in one corner there was a little palm tree that he had let a 5 year old niece fill in, I would notice...
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pulp novelties wrote:He's probably the most conspicuous, in that he's something of the lead. Whatever that means in this case. My point is that if using non-professionals in place of trained actors is...
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Wich2 wrote:I just know that - for instance - if I was looking at a painting by Gauguin, and over in one corner there was a little palm tree that he had let a 5 year old niece fill in, I would notice...
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