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"Publisher Quirk Books and author Seth Grahame-Smith have come up with the best way to make a literary work more accessible since the creation of Classics Illustrated comic books: they’ve added “all-new scenes of bone crunching zombie action” to Jane Austen’s 19th century novel Pride and Prejudice. This new version, out in stores this May, is titled Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now With Ultraviolent Mayhem! And if you didn’t think it was a masterpiece before, chances are you will now. Could we do the same thing to classic films? Well, the technology to add extraneous enhancements to movies exists. Just check out The Curious Case of Benjamin Button for proof. But like Pride and Prejudice, we’d need to “enhance” films in the public domain if we wanted to get away with it. Fortunately, there are hundreds of such titles (
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"This is the first Buster Keaton film I've ever seen and I loved it. It was hilarious and some of his physical gags were jaw dropping in their danger and scope. Amazing to know he did them all himself. I liked the silent film style of acting. Nothing was really lost in translation. really large scale film. Interesting that it was a comedy set during the Civil War and the protagonist was on the South's side. Could you make a comedy were the protagonist was a Nazi??? "
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"After just seeing a movie that I feel doesn't deserve it's spot on the Sight and Sound list, here's one that definatley does. It's Buster Keaton's best film, the best Civil War film, and surely is one of the most perfect movies ever made. The film is based on William Pittenger's The Great Locomotive Chase, a nonfiction account of a real event during the Civil War (which Keaton, being illiterate, never read). Keaton stars as Johnnie Gray, a southern train engineer who is rejected from enlisting in the Confederate Army because he is considered to be more valuble on the railroad. This does not impress his girlfriend Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack) who refuses to see him until he is in uniform. A year later, a Union plot is hatched to still Johnnie's train and use it to destroy supply lines and launch a secret attack on Confederate forces. After the General is stolen, Johnnie follows in another train. What follows is one of the great technical acheivement in all of cinema... When it ... "
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""The General" is another one of those silent classics(like "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari") that seems to hold it's own 81 years after it's debut. I won't go in to the details of the plot, needless to say it's a slapstick comedy taking place during the United States Civil War(yes, other countries have had civil wars too).The comedic aspects of this film are great, and the slapstick works well. In fact, it tends to work better than most modern slapstick attempts. It's really simple stuff too, a guy falling through a hole in a bridge, or tossing a plank of wood over the train car he's trying to get it into. Yet it made me laugh out loud, which is something this movie should be proud of. The acting isn't really something you can comment on when it comes to silent films, because it's not like you can really get into a character if they have no voice right? So i'm going to avoid trying to comment on this for fear of being yelled at b ... "
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