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"This blog entry is part of my “movie year countdown”. To read more about that check out my first Spout filmblog entry. Seven Years Bad Luck Max Linder was a silent film maker doing physical comedy type of films similar to Chaplin and Keaton but many years before either of them. His skill at physical comedy routines rivaled both of these silent film icons, and Chaplin often referred to Linder as his professor or his teacher. But Chaplin and Keaton were the ones to really find ultimate success. Linder started out in his native France, but didn't find too much success in the USA. It's very sad to discover these old film personalities and then subsequently discover their shocking demise. Linder and his wife made a suicide pact and unsuccessfully attempted to take their own lives once before ultimately being successful a year later. I've come across many instances of film personalities who have committed suicide in my
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"A Night at the Opera This film and Duck Soup often seem to be in competition for the best Marx Brothers movie. Duck Soup may be the more respected and satisfying (by most people and from my perspective as well) due to it's more grandiose subject of politics and war, but A Night at the Opera just may have slightly more laugh out loud moments. Although, it's very close! From the very first lines of the movie where Groucho as Otis B. Driftwood has been standing up Mrs. Claypool for lunch, the laughs just come nonstop. No one plays it better than Groucho. And when all three of them get together there's no stopping the laughs. And with most Marx brothers films you get a good taste of some decent music and signing as well. In the contest for the funniest and greatest comedy of all time, I think this is the greatest contender. Rating: 10/10 "
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"Duck Soup It seems like I watched two of my absolute favorite comedies back to back. The Naked Gun which I wrote about in my last post, and then Duck Soup. And to me these are some of the pinnacles of their own particular genres of comedy for their era. I think I was trying to show them off to my girlfriend. I purchased all of the Marx Brothers films from the two different studios they worked at when there was a sale on boxed sets at Borders a while ago. I'm making my way through them. I've seen all of their movies up through A Day at the Races before, but none after that. I've heard they go down hill after that. But if there is even one moment in any of those films that is as wonderful as any moment in Duck Soup, then they should be worth watching. As each brother is introduced I think you start to like the next one more than the last. And then one reappears again and becomes your new favorite. You have to fight over who is the best until they end up all dressed up like G ... "
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"I decided that I needed some good old-fashioned Vaudevillian humor and so dove into Universal’s collection of the first five Marx Brothers movies, The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers and Duck Soup. It’s funny every time I watch these, which I usually do as a mini-festival like this, that it’s Animal Crackers and Duck Soup that consistently work the best for me. Duck Soup has long been my favorite and there are great bits in the other films but Animal Crackers, it seems to me, is the best distilling of the Marx Brothers format that exists, especially when it comes to their interplay with Margaret Dumont and the entire notion of class divisions. Horse Feathers, on the other hand, is the one in this batch that I can never quite get my head around. While some truly classic moments have come out of this (swordfish in particular) it never jells for me as a whole the way the others do. It’s a slight ebb in the inspired genius between the first three movies ... "
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"Yeah of course i know "there aint no Sanity Claus" ,but ultimately "Duck Soup" still edges it as my fave',due to it's lack of Harp and Piano solo interludes... Also,the "All God's Chillen got guns" set piece ,STILL retains a genuine satirical value.Chris Morrell "
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Horse Feathers
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"Horse FeathersI looooooove the Marx Brothers. All their stuff gets top ratings from me, well all of them I've seen at least. I haven't gotten to the last few which I heard might not be as well. But Horse Feathers fits in just wonderfully amongst their best.Like usual hilarious wordplay and well played visual gags, especially on the football field. Football games always seem prime fodder for all kinds of visual gags. When they try to pull off Harpo's shirt and it just keeps getting longer and longer. It might be about the simplest, stupidest joke you could come up with, but it's absolutely side-splitting.I'm always surprised when I remember how short some of these movies are though. This one is only 1 hour and 8 minutes. And it's the same running time for my favorite of their movies, Duck Soup.Just one more thing, does anyone out there have any idea what the phrase "horse feathers" even means? Does it have anything to do with football? Or ... "
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"Bob at Forward to Yesterday informs us that yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the death of Groucho Marx. If you’d like to honor the godfather of motor-mouthed, self-reflexive comedy by watching Horse Feathers or Duck Soup, you need look no further than YouTube. I’ve embedded the speakeasy scene from the former above, and as a bonus, you get a chunk of Zeppo singing “Everybody Says I Love You.”
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"Even Though It a fairly old movie, Duck Soup was a great classical movie. Groucho Is hard not laugh at, Harpo dosent say a word yet is the funniest out of all the brothers and Chico, The Brooklyn Italian Reminds Me Of My GrandFather {Cant a reviwer make joke?}. Even if you like action, hard, hitting movies you will still love Duck Soup. "
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