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Year: 1
19th June 2006, 20:56
It's called Napoleon (1926) by Abel Gance (who plays the revolutionary Saint-Just). Well the movie is a lot more than just Napoleon. It has Danton, Marat, Robespierre, Couthon, Saint-Just and the Reign of Terror. The death-scene of Marat is so amazing and another scene where Robespierre, Saint-Just and Couthon are conversing in a room about their enemies is so dream-like bizarre. The film is almost 4 hours long. The film was originally longer (6 hours) but was cut by the capitalist board of directors. It has been restored by Francis Ford Coppola. Here are some clips:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search=abel...e=search_videos (http://www.youtube.com/results?search=abel+gance&search_type=search_videos)
Mariam
19th June 2006, 21:53
Are you addicted or what??
But you keep those good stuff coming and soon I'll be addicted too! :lol:
bezdomni
20th June 2006, 18:00
Charlie Chaplin has some pretty amazing movies. A lot of people suspected he was a communist, especially after he made The Great Dictator and Limelight.

My all-time favorite part of a Chaplin movie was from Limelight (I think that's the one it was), where he was walking down the street after he was released from the mental hospital for going crazy at work and a red flag falls off the back of a truck (literally), so he picks it up and starts waving it around hoping that the people in the truck will stop and pick it back up. Right around the time he started waving the flag around and walking forward, there's a huge worker's march coming right behind him...so it looks like he's leading the march waving the red flag around. The cops come and start beating him up and he goes back to the insane asylum. :lol:
Year: 1
20th June 2006, 19:00
Is that Limelight or Modern Times? I think it is the last. A lot of people mention that scene as being very memorable. I saw the one where Chaplin plays and makes fun of Adolf Hitler---The Great Dictator. Hitler, they say, watched the film a couple times apparently obsessed with it, the guy (Hitler) was insane.
bezdomni
21st June 2006, 08:39
Originally posted by Year: [email protected] 20 2006, 04:01 PM
Is that Limelight or Modern Times? I think it is the last. A lot of people mention that scene as being very memorable. I saw the one where Chaplin plays and makes fun of Adolf Hitler---The Great Dictator. Hitler, they say, watched the film a couple times apparently obsessed with it, the guy (Hitler) was insane.
Oh right! It was Modern Times.

Thanks for correcting me.

Awesome movie. He got a lot of criticism for that one.