| On Sep 4, 5:33 pm, Feuillade <Feuill... at (no spam) aol.com> wrote: Quote:Okay. Here's the question: Let's assume you had to choose one film -- just one -- that summed up Hollywood in the 1920s. Preferably a drama. And preferably on DVD. What film would you choose? I have to admit that I find this a little hard going. I have no idea what I would pick. Tom Moran What about Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse or the Sheik? These movies both have the fantasy, foreign locale, drama, dancing, smoldering eyes, etc., that seem to epitomize films in the 1920's. I am not saying that they are great films-just that a lot of the genre epitomizes the 20's. With the sheer volume of films made in the 1920's this is really a hard question to answer. You have the Colleen Moore film Flaming Youth that created aflapper rage-you have Keaton and Lloyd and the other comedy kings with their very physical escapades. You have Fairbanks with his big spectacle fantasy films. In all of them you see many glimpses of the society that existed then. In one of Lloyd's films the drug addict on the corner takes his syringe and get Harold's car going. All of the sheer exuberance of the drinking, partying, live for today forget about tomorrow attitudes touch a large number of the Hollywood films of that were produced at that time. If you watch close most of the films contain glimpses of the Hollywood of that time-the fashions, the dancing, the good-bad moral themes,the cars, homes, lifestyles... Oh well, I digress.... April |