Posts by andrew llewellyn
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I defy anybody, and I mean anybody, to watch Broken Blossom and not laugh at the acting
I took my girlfriend at the time, who'd never seen a real silent movie, to a screening in the 90s. She cried. Given that she's Chinese I thought she'd baulk at the casting of a white guy in the Chinese role, but she accepted that & was completely caught up in the emotion.
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I think you're not giving silent film enough props, Giovanni! There is some wonderfully subtle acting in silent movies, and it runs the gamut of human emotions and artistic endeavour...
Heh. I considered commenting on this - I have long thought that people's perception of silent movies stems from the old Mad Movies TV series - ie, stupid music & played at modern frames per second making it look like everything is speeded up.
Catch something like Broken Blossoms, in a good print, at the right speed & with live music, and prepared to be amazed at how sophisticated cinema was in 1919.
Sorry, I'll get back to pron now.
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Speaking of abs & things, did you see the almost transfixing movement of the stomach of one of the women's walkers? No idea who it was - but it caused a flurry of comments (from the womenfolk - the menfolk were dumbfounded) at home.
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Am I the only person horribly conflicted and (almost) thoroughly depressed by this topic?
In that you've finally found yourself discussing porn on an online forum? Yeah. Me too.
Heh - I 'm expecting Lisa Lewis to turn up any moment! (Um. here, not where I actually am at present. Just to clarify.)
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Did you mean, Young mens bodies being used by old men?
Well I was responding specifically to the suggestion that a woman might get fired up on fantasy & "use" a man's body. I mean, that would have been a dream friday night when I was in my 20s.
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If a woman uses sexual fantasy to become aroused and then has sex with her partner, do you view that the same way, as 'using his body'?
Oh say, I don't think this is a fair comparison, maybe it shows a fundamental difference between the sexes, but getting one's body "used" is the prime objective of many young (and possibly old) men.
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<sighs and pretends he got to be in the club too>
didn't you see that "..." that's it you're in. We're all in!
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Aw! Not fair on the formatting front. Not fair.
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@Andrew:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Riband_(disambiguation)</quote>
Yes, thanks for that Venetia - I was presuming he meant some form of "blue ribbon". SO glad I didn't make some unfair comment about sub editors.
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Feck. Epic link FAIL.
Ahem. Blue Riband?