"Do you hear a piteous wailing interspersed with threats of terrible vengeance?"
"Probably just the wind."
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@laughingacademy.bsky.social"Do you hear a piteous wailing interspersed with threats of terrible vengeance?"
"Probably just the wind."
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@laughingacademy.bsky.socialThe fact that neither Christine nor Raoul apparently gave any thought as to how they would find each other in the crowd of masked revelers is totally on brand for both of them
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@laughingacademy.bsky.socialIf the phrase "aroused by your purity" isn't a red flag, I don't know what is
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@laughingacademy.bsky.socialI know Hollywood loves movies about Hollywood, but really? For that screenplay?
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@laughingacademy.bsky.socialThis magenta tint certainly is a choice
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@laughingacademy.bsky.socialBoy, they put exactly zero effort into finding an actress who looks like Mary Philbin for this reenactment of #ThePhantomOfTheOpera
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@laughingacademy.bsky.socialRobert Evans as Irving Thalberg!
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@laughingacademy.bsky.social"Hazel, I wouldn't wish me on anybody."
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@laughingacademy.bsky.socialWhy the hell did he buy a house way the hell out in the middle of nowhere? She has no friends, no neighbors, no wonder she's climbing up the walls.
@laughingacademy.bsky.socialShe looks like she's having fun as the bookstore clerk who picks up Humphrey Bogart's Philip Marlowe in #TheBigSleep
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@laughingacademy.bsky.socialNarrator: The love interest is a girl he found as a baby and raised in the circus.
Me: 😲
Narrator: The actress was fourteen years old.
Me: 😬
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@laughingacademy.bsky.socialThere's a Lon Chaney collection from TCM Archives that includes this documentary with #AceOfHearts, #LaughClownLaugh, #TheUnknown (missing some footage that has since been rediscovered), and a reconstruction of #LondonAfterMidnight
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@laughingacademy.bsky.socialLook, obviously there are many other things that take priority...BUT, I find it astonishing that Lon Chaney has apparently NEVER been awarded a posthumous Academy Award for his contributions to the artform. If I'm wrong, please let me know
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